Accounts.

I. STat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 9. Sir Robert Rich, Sir Thomas Clarges, Paul Foley, Robert Austen, Sir Matthew Andrews, Sir Benjamin Newland, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Sir Peter Colliton, and Robert Harley, or any Five or more of them, shall be Commissioners for taking the Accounts of the Publick Revenues of the Crown, which were in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Fifth Day of November 1688. or since, or shall be before the Power for taking these Ac­counts be determined, and of all Arrears thereof; and of all Moneys then and before the determination of the said Power, in the Hands of the Receiver General, or Cashiers of the Cu­stoms, Excise or Hearth-money, and of the Sum of 412925 l. 14 s. 6 d. Granted by an Act of the First Session of the late Par­liament, Entituled, An Act for the Granting a present Aid to Their Majesties, and of the Money paid or payable by an Act, Entituled, An Act for raising Money by a Poll, and otherwise, towards the Re­ducing of Ireland; and by one other Act, Entituled, An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions, concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue; and by one other Act, Entituled, An Act for the Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the Pound, for one Year, for the necessary defence of the Realm; and of one other Act, Entituled, An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors; and one other Act, For Appropriating cer­tain [Page 2]Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for His Majesties Expedition into the Kingdom, and for other Uses; and of one other Act of the Second Session of the same Parliament, Entituled, An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions, concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue; and of one other Act, Entituled, An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of two Shillings in the Pound for One Year; and of one other Act of the same Session, Entituled, An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an additional Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for One Year; and of one Act, Entituled, An Act for Charging and Col­lecting the Duties upon Coffee, Tea and Chocolate, at the Custom-house; and of one other Act, Entituled, An Ast for Review of the late Poll, granted to Their Majesties, and for an additional Poll towards the Re­ducing of Ireland; and by one other Act, Entituled, An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise, towards the Reducing of Ireland, and Prosecuting the War against France; and by one other Act, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties for their Lives, and the Life of the Survivor of them, certain Imposi­tions upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors; and one other Act, Entitu­led, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchan­dizes Exported and Imported; and by one other of this Session, Entituled, An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. and by one other Act, Entituled, An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale and other Li­quors, during the space of One Year; and by one other Act, En­tituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures, and upon all wrought Silks, and several other Goods and Merchandize, to be Imported af­ter the 25th Day of December 1690. and by one other Act, En­tituled, An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned, for the Laying several Duties upon Wines, Vinegar and Tobacco, and of all Prizes taken since the said Fifth Day of November, and of Money paid for the same to any Person Autho­rised to receive it, or otherwise; and of all the Crown-Lands, First-fruits and Tenths of the Clergy, Wine-licences, Fines, Forfeitures, and of all other Branches of the Revenue, and all Publick Money whatsoever, that hath arisen since the said Fifth Day of November; or shall arise before the determination of the Power hereby Granted; and how, and by, and to whom the same hath been disposed or paid; and for taking Accounts of all Their Majesties Stores, Provisions, and Habiliments of War by Land and Sea; and to set down what numbers of Ships, Yachts or Boats, were on the said Fifth Day of November, or at any time since; and what Sums of Money, Provisions, Victuals, S [...]oes, &c. have been provided or paid since the said Fifth Day of November, or shall be provided and paid, towards the Pay­ment or Maintenance of the Land Forces in England or Ireland, [Page 3]or elsewhere, or their Forces by Sea, and the numbers of them respectively; and towards the Building, Repairs or Setting out of any Ships or Navies since the said Fifth Day of November, and before the determination of the Power aforesaid.

II. The Auditor of the Receipt in the Exchequer, and the Clerk of the Pells there, and all other the Officers of the Ex­chequer, and the Receipt thereof, the Secretary and Treasurer at War, Muster-master and Pay-master of the Land Forces in England and Ireland, all Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnance, all Officers and Keepers of Their Majesties Stores and Yards, and all Persons employed as Com­missioners, in and about the Treasury, or the Management, Or­dering, Paying or Receiving of Their Majesties Treasure, Re­venue, Provisions or Stores of War, and all Persons whatsoever, whom the said Commissioners, or any Five of them, shall think fit to Examine, are hereby required to observe such Orders, as they or any Five of them shall, by writing under their Hands, Di­rect and Ordain, for and touching the taking of the said Ac­counts.

III. The said Commissioners to sit in the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster or where they think fit, with or without Adjournment, and to send their Precepts for Persons, Books, Papers and Records, and to Administer an Oath for the better discovery of the Truth of the Inquiries by them to be made; and all Bayliffs, Constables, Sheriffs and other Officers, are here­by required to obey and execute their Precepts; and the said Commissioners, or any Five of them, may Employ such Clerks, Messengers and Officers as they think fit, and give them an Oath for their faithful Demeanour; which Clerks and Officers shall take nothing for their Service, but such Salary as the Commissio­ners shall direct.

IV. Two of the said Commissioners first named in this Act, before they enter upon the Execution thereof, shall take an Oath before the Chancellour of the Exchequer, or the Master of the Rolls, in these words; viz.

I A. B. do Swear, that according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge, I shall Faithfully, Impartially and Truly demean my self in Examining and Taking the Accounts of all such Sum or Sums of Money and other things, brought or to be brought before me, in Execution of one Act, Entituled, An Act for Appointing and En­abling Commissioners to Examine, Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom, according to the Tenour and Purport of the said Act.

V. And every other of the said Commissioners shall take the said Oath before the said two Commissioners.

VI. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, shall cause to [Page 4]be paid such Sums of Money, not exceeding 2000 l. to such Persons as the said Commissioners, or any Five of them, shall direct, to be employed in the Payment of Clerks, Messengers and other Officers, and in defraying other necessary Charges; the same to be Accounted for by him to whom it is paid, according to the course of the Exchequer; and the said Commissioners shall from time to time, if required, and at the end of their Pro­ceedings, by virtue of this Act, give an Account thereof in writing, under Five or more of their Hands and Seals, to the King and Queen, and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting.

VII. All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exche­quer, as formerly, this Act notwithstanding.

VIII. The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year, from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer.

IX. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein.

X. The said Commissioners, or any Five or more of them, shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign, for Repairing the Fleet, and how the same hath been disposed of.

XI. This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissio­ners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse, or expended for secret Service.

XII. Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath, of Pensions, Salaries, and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament.

XIII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges, Kt. Sir Peter Colliton, Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland, Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews, Kt. Paul Foley, Esq and Robert Harley, Esq or any four, or more of them, are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown, and all other Accounts, which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine, Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom, were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted; and the said Act is hereby revived, and shall be in force from the 24th. of April next, to the 25th. of April, 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named, or any four or more of them: And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks, and other Charges, as the said Act directs, and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissi­oners hereby constituted, as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named: and the Commissioners hereby constituted, shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue, and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th. day of November 1688. and the 25th. day of April, 1694 [Page 5]not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act, or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Raising Money by a Poll, &c.

Admiralty.

I. Sat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities, Jurisdictions, and Powers, which by Act of Parliament, or other­wise, are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England, for the time being, have always appertained to, and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty, as if they were Lord High Admiral.

II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders, by Courts Martial, to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, shall before any proceeding to Tryal, take this Oath, to be admini­stred by the Judge Advocate, or his Deputy; viz.

You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you, between our Sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queens Ma­jesties, and the Prisoner to be tryed.

So help you God.

Bails.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench, or any two of them, whereof the Chief Justice to be one, for the Court of Kings Bench, and the Judges of the Common-Pleas, or any two of them, whereof the Chief Justice to be one, for the Court of Common-Pleas, and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer, or any two of them, whereof the Chief Baron to be one, for the Court of Exchequer, may by Commis­sions under the Seals of the said respective Courts, from time to time Impower such Persons, other then common Attorneys and Solicitors, as they shall think fit, in all and every the Counties of England and Wales, and Town of Berwick, to take such Recognizances of Bails, as any Persons shall be willing to make before them, in any Action or Suit depending, or to be depending in the said Courts, in Manner and Form as the Justi­ces and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same. Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively; who, upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof, shall receive the same, upon payment of the usual Fees: Which Recognizance shall be of like effect, as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Ba­rons: For taking which Recognizances, the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more.

II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules [Page 6]for the justifying such Bails, as to them shall seem meet, so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts (unless they live in London or Westminster, or with­in ten Miles thereof) to justifie themselves, but the same is here­by directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners.

III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances, which shall be transmitted and received, as aforesaid, (without Oath) upon payment of the usual Fees.

IV. Persons representing or personating others before any im­powered by this Act to take Bails, shall be adjudged Felons.

Beer, &c.

I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June, 1689. any Person may ship off with­in any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law, and at the com­mon Keys, and within the usual hours of Excise, to be Ex­ported into Foreign Parts, in the presence of a sworn Of­ficer to be appointed by the Farmers, &c. of Excise, within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd, any strong Ale, strong Beer, Cyder, or Mum, paying Custom for the same, after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun, and no other Duty: Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off, to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise, where the Entry thereof shall be made; who are hereby required to make Allowance, or repay the Excise of the Beer, Ale, Cyder, or Mum so Exported, to the Brewer or Maker thereof, within one Month after such Exportation, de­ducting Three pence per Tun, for the Charges of their Officers.

II. If any Merchant, Master of Vessel, or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped, to be laid on Land, or put into any other Vessel, within England, Wales, or the Town of Berwick, he shall forfeit the same, and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed, or put on Board any Vessel, the one Moiety to the King and Queen, the other to the Informer. And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the Customs, shall charge every Master of any Vessel, in his Victualling Bill, with so much Beer, Ale, Cyder, or Mum, and no more, as such number of men use to spend in such Voyages; the Excise whereof to be recovered according to the Laws established.

III. The said Rate of One Shilling the Tun for Beer, &c. Exported, shall be levied and paid under such Rules and Penal­ties, and for such time, and in such manner as by the Laws of Tonnage and Poundage are ordained.

IV. No Mum Imported during the continuance of this Act, shall have any part of the Custom or Excise repaid upon Ex­portation.

Butter and Cheese.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 7. After any Factor or Buyer hath bought Butter or Cheese, and approved the same, the Sel­ler shall not afterwards be chargeable with any Penalties in the Act of the 14 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for Reforming Abuses in Weighing and false Packing of Butter.

II. Such Factor or Buyer shall set his Seal, or Mark, or Name at length on the Cask in which such Butter is; and in case the same be afterward exchanged or opened, and the Cask changed, or bad Butter pack'd up, and mix'd with good, or any Fraud be committed by the Seller, the Offender, being convicted up­on Oath before one or more Justices of Peace, or upon his own Confession, shall forfeit Twenty Shillings for every such Ferkin and Offence, to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods, restoring the Overplus, after Charges defrayed. And Constables of Parishes, and Chief Constables of Hundreds are hereby authorized to levy the same by Warrant under Hand and Seal of such Justice or Justices.

III. Warehouse-keepers, Weighers, Searchers, or Shippers of Butter and Cheese, in any Port within this Kingdom, shall receive all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them, for any Cheesemonger free of the City of London, or any other making the said Commodities, and take care thereof, till the same can be shipped, and shall ship it successively, as it comes to their hands, on the next Vessel that shall come to lade Butter and Cheese for London (Except the Owners order the contrary) and shall receive of the Owners Two Shillings and Six pence for every Load, and no more, and so proportionably. And if any such Persons, or their Servants shall refuse to receive such Goods, or to take due care thereof, or to ship them successively, as afore­said, they shall forfeit, being convicted in manner aforesaid, for every Ferkin of Butter, Ten Shillings; and for every Weigh of Cheese, Five Shillings, to be levied, as aforesaid.

IV. Warehouse-keepers, Weighers, &c. shall keep Books, and enter therein all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them as it comes, with the time when received, the quantity and and Owners Name; and when the Goods are shipp'd off, shall make Entries of the time when shipped, the Master's Name, the Vessels Name, and to whom consigned: Which Book shall be open for all Persons to see and search gratis. And if any Ware­house-keeper, &c. shall not keep such Book, or not make Entries, as aforesaid, or undue Entries, or refuse in the day-time to pro­duce the Book to be searched, such Offenders, being convict in manner aforesaid, shall forfeit for every Firkin of Butter Two Shillings and Six pence; and for every Weigh of Cheese, Two Shilling and Six pence, and for every other the aforesaid Offences, [Page 8]Two Shillings and Six pence to be levied, as aforesaid; and for want of Goods to levy the Penalty, the Justice, before whom such Conviction shall be made, may commit the Offender to Goal, till the Penalties be satisfied.

V. If Masters of Vessels coming to lade Butter and Cheese, or their Servants, refuse to take on Board any such Butter and Cheese as shall be tendred to be shipped by any such Warehouse-keeper, &c. before their Vessels be laden, they shall forfeit, being con­vict, as aforesaid, for every Firkin of Butter so refused, Five Shil­lings, and for every Weigh of Cheese, Two shillings and Six pence, to be levied, as aforesaid.

VI. One half of the Forfeitures within this Act, to go to the Poor of the Parish, and the other half to the Informer.

VII. This Act shall not exclude Cheesemongers free of the City of London, from sending their own Vessels, or such as they shall hire for their own Goods.

VIII. Nothing in this Act shall extend to the Counties of Che­ster and Lancaster, nor to the County of the City of Chester.

IX. Persons aggrieved by the Determination of any Justice of Peace, may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions, whose Determination shall be final: The Person appealing first giving to the Party accused, a Bond of Twenty Pounds Penalty, with one or more Sureties, to the liking of the Justice of Peace, to pay such Costs as shall be allowed, in case the Appellant be not re­lieved, the said Costs to be paid within a Month after the deter­mining the Appeal.

Cattel.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M, cap. 8. It shall be lawful for any Persons, native or foreign, at any time to ship, and transport into any part of the World in Amity with Their Majesties, Beef, Pork, or Hogs-flesh, Butter, Cheese, or Candles, free from any Custom or Imposition whatsoever.

Chancellor.

I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 21. Commissioners to be appointed to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being, may use and exercise all and every the same and like Offices, Authority, Jurisdiction and Execution of Laws, and other Cu­stoms, Priviledges, Emoluments, and Advantages, which the Lord Chancellor of England, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, of right ought to use, have and execute, as belonging to their Of­fices, or otherwise, and shall have and take place next after the Peers of this Realm, and Speaker of the House of Commons, un­less any of them shall happen to be a Peer, and then to take place accordingly.

[Page 9] II. Any one Commissioner may hear Motions, and give Orders touching Interlocutory Proceedings, so as such one Commissio­ner in the absence of the others, shall not make Decrees, or put the Great Seal to any thing, unless there be two present.

III. The nominating and appointing of the Custos Rotulorum in all Shires and Counties, shall be as is directed by a Statute made in the 37 year of K. Hen. 8.

IV. The Custos Rotulorum, or other person to whom of right it doth belong, shall from time to time nominate and appoint the Clerk of the Peace.

V. If any Clerk of the Peace shall misdemean himself in his Office, the Justices of Peace in their General Quarter-Sessions, or the Major part of them, upon Complaint in Writing exhibited against him, may upon Examination, and due Proof thereof, suspend or discharge him: And in such case the Custos Rotulorum, or other person to whom of Right it shall belong, shall appoint another person residing within such County, &c. to be Clerk of the Peace in his room; and in case of neglect or refusal to make such Appointment before the next General Quarter-Sessions after such refusal, the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Ses­sions may appoint one.

VI. Provided always, that he shall be liable to all the Penalties, Conditions, &c. hereby mentioned and expressed, and may be discharged by the said Justices, as aforesaid.

VII. No Custos Rotulorum, or other person to whom it doth, or shall belong to nominate a Clerk of the Peace, shall s [...]ll the said Place directly or indirectly, upon the Penalty that every Custos Rotulorum, or other person so selling, and every Clerk of the Peace so buying, shall be disabled to hold their Places, and forfeit double the Value of what shall be so given or taken, to be recovered by him or them that will sue for the same, to their own use, by any Action of Debt, Suit, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of Their Majesties Courts at Westminster.

VIII. Every Clerk of the Peace, before he enters upon his Of­fice, shall in open Sessions take this Oath, viz.

I A. B. do swear, That I have not, nor will pay any Sum or Sums of Money, or other Reward whatsoever, nor have given any Bond, or other Assurance to pay any Money, Fee, or Profit directly or indirectly to any person or persons whomsoever, for such Nomination or Appointment.

So help me God.

IX. Nothing in this Act shall relate to the Clerk of the Peace for the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster.

X. This Act to commence from the 1st. day of May 1689.

Churches.

I. Sat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 12. Where any Churches have been, or shall be united by virtue of an Act made in the 17th. year of the Reign of the late K. Charles the Second, and one of them at the time of such Union was, or hereafter shall be demolished, in such case whenever the Church to which the Union was, or shall be made, shall be out of Repair, or want decent Ornaments, the Parishioners of the Parish, whose Church shall be down or de­molished, shall pay towards the Charge of such Repairs and Or­naments, in proportion, as the Archbishop or Bishop that shall make such Union, shall direct; and for want of such Direction, shall bear one third part of the Charge.

Clergy.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M c. 9. Such as shall rob any person, or feloniously take away Goods being in a Dwelling-house, the Owner or other person being there, and put in fear, or shall rob any Dwelling house in the day time, any Person being therein, or shall be accessary to any of the said Of­fences, or to break any Dwelling-house, Shop, or Warehouse thereunto belonging, or therewith used, in the day time, and feloniously take away Money or Goods to the value of 5 s. though no person be therein, or shall counsel, hire or com­mand any person to commit any Burglary, being thereof attaint­ed, or being indicted thereof, shall stand mute, or will not di­rectly answer to the Indictment, or shall peremptorily challenge above 20 Jurors, shall not have the Benefit of their Clergy.

II. Persons indicted of any offence, for which by virtue of any former Law they are excluded from Clergy, if convicted by Ver­dict or Confession, shall not be admitted to the Benefit thereof, if they stand mute, or will not answer directly to the Felony, or shall challenge peremptorily above 20.

III. Persons indicted for stealing any Goods in any County, and thereof convicted, or standing mute, or not answering di­rectly to the Indictment, or challenging peremptorily above 20, shall be excluded from the Benefit of their Clergy, if it appear upon Evidence, that the said Goods were taken in any other County, in such manner, as if the said persons had been convicted by a Jury there, they should have lost the Benefit of their Clergy.

IV. Persons buying, or receiving stolen Goods, knowing them to be stolen, shall be deemed Accessaries to the Felony after the Fact.

V. If any persons shall steal any Chattels, &c. which by Con­tract or Agreement they are to use, or shall be let to them in Lodgings, such stealing shall be adjudged Larceny and Felony.

[Page 11] VI. If a Woman be convicted of an Offence, for which a man might have the Benefit of his Clergy, upon her Prayer to have the Benefit of this Statute, Judgment of Death shall not be given against her, but she shall suffer the same punishment that a man should suffer, viz. shall be burnt in the Hand, and farther be kept in Prison, not exceeding a year.

VII. A Transcript certified by the Clerk of the Crown, of the Peace, or of the Assizes, containing the Tenor of the Indict­ment, and of the persons having had the Benefit of his Clergy, or of this Act, to the Judges or Justices in any other County, shall be a sufficient proof that such persons hath had the Benefit of his Clergy, or of this Act.

Coals.

I. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 7. An Act made in the 16th and 17th. years of the Reign of the late K. Charles II. for Regu­lating the Measures and Prices of Coals, is hereby revived and continued from the 1st. day of December, 1690. for the space of 7 years, and from thence to the end of the next Session of Par­liament.

II. Owners of Vessels English built, and belonging to the Sub­jects of England, whereof the Master is an Englishman, Trading with Coals to and from Newcastle, or the Parts adjacent, or to Wales, to London, or any part of England, may navigate their Vessels with as many Foreign Seamen as the Master or Owners shall think fit, during the present War, any thing in an Act made in the 12th. year of K. Charles II. Entituled, An Act for Encouraging and Encreasing Shipping and Navigation, to the con­trary notwithstanding.

Continuance.

I. Stat. 4. & 5. W. & M. cap. 24. Entituled, An Act for Pro­viding Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance, shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing.

II. An Act, Entitused, An Act for encouraging of Coynage, made in the 18th Year of King Charles. 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King, Entituled, An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage, shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692, and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing.

III. An Act made in the 2 [...]th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King, Entituled, An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty, shall be in force, and is hereby made perp [...]tual.

IV. All Officers, to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer, shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats, take this Oath, viz.

You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered, [Page 13]are trult and carefully made up and examined, and that all Fines, Issues, Americaments, Recognizances, and Forfeitures, which were Set, Lost, Imposed, or Forfeited, and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer, are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contain­ed: And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made, without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge, Omis­sion, Misnomer or Defect whatsoever.

So help you God.

Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Admi­nister.

V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King, Entituled, An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England, and for Regulating the Plantation Trade, shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King, Enti­tuled, An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer, shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

VII. Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King, Entituled, An Act to revice an Act, Entituled, An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others, and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal, with some Al­terations and Additions, was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James, Enacted, to be in force for Se­ven years, and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament; The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

VIII. An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled, An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield, and elsewhere, together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof, That the said Act should not extend to Sales­men or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders, shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

IX. An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll, and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom, (except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture) shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland [Page 14]into the Port of Exeter, any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

XI. An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled, An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, as to all Parts (other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted) shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

XII. An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled, An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong, shall be perpetual.

XIII. And further, Executors and Administrators of Execu­tors, or Administrators of Right, who shall waste or convert to their own Use, the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate, shall be chargeable, as their Testator or Intesta [...]e should or might have been.

XIV. If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony, for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy, and hath once had, or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament, E [...]ed, A [...] Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders, and to being others to punishment, and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony, such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act.

XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February, 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

XVI. An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled, An Act for preventing a­buses in Printing Seditions, Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlees, and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses, shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of [...]arliament.

XVII. All Jurors (other then Strangers upon Tryals per medie­tatem linguae) return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench, Common-Pleas or Exchequer, or before Justices of Assize, or Nisi prius, Oyer and Terminer, Goal-delivery, or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England, shall have in their own Name, or in Trust for them, within the same County, 10 l. a year at least, above Reprizes, of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands, or of Lands in ancient Demesne, or in Rents, in Fee-simple, or Fee­tail, or for their own or some other Persons Life. And in every County of Wales, such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least, as aforesaid. All which Persons having such Estates, are hereby made liable to serve, as aforesaid. If any be return'd of lesser Estate, it shall be good cause of Challenge, and the Party re­turn'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge, or upon his own [Page 15]Oath. Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues, making default, be sa­ved, but by special Order of the Court, or Judges, for some rea­sonable Cause proved upon Oath: And the Ven. fac. for Impan­nelling Juries in England, shall run thus; viz.

Rex, &c. praecipimus. &c. quod Ven. fac. coram, &c. duodecim libe­ros & legales homines de vicineto de A, quor' quilibet habeat decem Librat. terrae, tenementor' vel reddit' per annum ad minus, per quos, &c. & qui nee, &c.

and the residue after the ancient manner, and the Writs for Re­turning Juries in Wales, shall be in like manner, altering only the Word decem for sex. And Sheriffs, Coroners, and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person, not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year, as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned, the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties.

XVIII. No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty, or their Mini­sters, shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them, unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least be­fore the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance; nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Ju­ror Summoned or Return'd, on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties.

XIX. Saving to all Cities, Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors, in such manner as hath been accustomed.

XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England, who shall have 5 l. a year, above Reprizes, and within Wales 3 l. a year.

XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatso­ever, upon the Account of any Tales return'd, upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence, the one Moity to the Prose­cutor, and the other to Their Majesties.

XXII. No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis & Juratis shall be granted, unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true.

XXIII. So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Ju­rors, to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

Corn.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley, Winchester Measure, shall be at 24 s. per Quarter, or under; Rye at 32 s. per Quarter, or under; and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter, or under, in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales; Mer­chants and others, who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping, the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners, being Their Majes [...]ies [Page 16]Subjects, any sorts of the Corn aforesaid, to Export the same be­yond Sea, shall bring Certificates under their Hands, containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped, to the Persons ap­pointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port, and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath, and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person, in [...]00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped, and so proportionably, that the said Corn, dangers of the Seas excepted, shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea, and not be landed in England, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey or Berwick, shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs, as aforesaid, for every Quarter of Barley or Malt, ground or un­ground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye. 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom, nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported. And upon Certifi­cate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea, or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place, that such Corn was there Landed, or upon Proof by Credible Persons, that such Corn was taken by Enemies, or Perished at Sea, the Examination and Proof there­of being left to the Receivers of the Customs, the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled: And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed, as paid to Their Majesties.

Courts.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Stss. 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. En­tituled, An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Do­minion and Principality of Wales, It is Enacted, That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales, and the Matches of the same, with all Offi­cers, Clerks and Incidents thereunto, in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed; Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions, such Causes or Matters as be, or hereafter shall be, Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty, as heretofore hath been accustomed and used; Be it Enacted, that the said Clause be Repealed, and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away.

II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales, shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits, to be Sheriffs of the same, and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum, that Their Majesties may ap­point one of them to be Sheriff for that year.

III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error, as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8.

[Page 17] IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the ma­king this Act.

Crown-Office.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 22. No Corporations, Lords of Manors or others, having Grants by Charter or other good Con­veyances, who have Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench, shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner. And if any Corpora­tions, Lords of Manors or others, have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods, Deodands and other Forfei­tures, they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Char­ters or Grants, but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods, Deodands and Forfeitures and no more; for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee, and no more; and from and after such Enrolment, they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inqui­sition.

II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees, after such Enrolment, he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved, the Sum of 5. l.

III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty men­tioned in this Act, for issuing Process against any persons, who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods, &c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court, nor against any Devisee, who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise, nor against any Heir, who shall not Inrol his or her Right by de­scent, and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court, nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands, shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser, Devisee or Heir.

IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter, before Conviction, there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation, bearing the same Teste and Return, to the Sheriff of the County, City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Pro­ceedings are mentioned to inhabit, according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof.

V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Par­liament.

Customs.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament, as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts, by way of Excise, upon Coffee, Chocolate and Tea, shall cease and determine, and is hereby Repealed.

II. And be it farther Enacted, that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned, shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries, Tea in the Leaf, and Cacao-nuts, and upon Cho­colate ready made, and according to the Proportions herein af­ter mentioned, besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house, viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Impor­ted, containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Up­on every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts, containing as aforesaid, 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea, 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate, 5 s. and so proportionably.

III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land, the Duties not paid, or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy, with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there, nor agreed with for the same in the Custom­house, they shall be forfeited, the one Moiety to Their Maje­sties, the other to the Informer. This Act to continue for Five years and no longer.

IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositi­ons by this Act appointed, who shall within Six Months after Importation, again transport the said Goods or any part thereof, shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid, of so much of the said Goods, as they shall export.

V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves and Mace, in any English Ships (One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English) from any parts beyond the Seas, paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates; so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Far­mers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof, with the Name of the Ship and Master, and the place where they intend to Import the same, and taking a Licence under their Hands, or of any Three of them, for the Lading and Importing thereof, as afore­said; which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward.

I. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament, do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign, by an Act, Entituled, A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage, &c. according to the Rates therein mention'd, and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed, (other then such con­cerning [Page 19]which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament) and pray that it may be Enacted, and be it En­acted, that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years, from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act, and an Order of the House of Commons, made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto, for settling Officers Fees, Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor, then Speaker, shall be of force during the said Four years.

VII. An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled, An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Ma­jesties Customs and Susidies; and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign, Entituled, An Act for preventing Frands, and re­gulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs; and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign, Entituled, An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel, and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign, Entituled, An Act for taking off Aliens Du­ties upon Commodities of the Growth, Product and Manufacture of the Nation, and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign, Entituled, An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade, and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled, An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage, shall be in force during the said Term of Four years.

VIII. Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts, which were intended to be perpetual.

IX. It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Cre­dit of this Act any Sums of Money, not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole, at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent af­ter, 7 l. per Cent.

X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continu­ance of this Act, there shall be continued within London an Of­fice for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby Gran­ted, into which all such Moneys shall be paid, of which the Re­ceiver General shall separate and keep apart Three parts (the whole in Four to be divided) which shall remain from time to time, after Payments made thereout, by virtue of any Laws now in force upon Debentures for Goods Reshipt, or Corn Exported, or discounts upon Bonds, and of Allowances for dammaged Goods and Bills of Portage; and the Comptroller General of the Customs, shall keep a distinct Account of the said Three parts; to which Accounts all Persons concern'd may have free Access, without Fees; and the Receivers shall weekly on Wednesday, unless it be a Holy-day, and then the Day after that is not a Holy-day, pay the said Three parts into the Receipt of the Exchequer, apart from other Moneys.

XI. And there shall be provided in the Exchequer in the Of­fice [Page 20]of the Auditor of the Receipts, one Book, in which such Moneys shall be Entred apart, and all Persons Lending Money upon the Credit of this Act, shall have a Tally of Loan Struck, and an Order for Repayment, bearing Date with the Tally, In which Order there shall be a Warrant for Payment of Interest, according to the Rates aforesaid, to be Paid every Three Months: such Orders to be Registred in Course without prefe­rence, and all Persons shall be paid in Course as their Orders stand Entred; and the said Money shall not be divertible to a­ny other Use, Intent or Purpose. And if the Receiver Gene­ral, do not pay in the said Moneys as aforesaid, or misapply any Part thereof, he shall forseit his Office, and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust, and shall pay the Value of the Sums misapplied to him that will sue for the same. No Fee, Reward or Gratuity shall be demanded or taken, for providing or ma­king any such Registers, Entries, View or Search, in or for Payment of Money Lent, or the Interst, by any of Their Maje­sties Officers, their Clerks or Deputies, on pain of payment of treble Damages to the Party grieved, and Costs of Suit; and the Officer taking or demanding any such Fee, shall lose his Place; and if any undue preference be made in point of Re­gistry or Payment, the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case, to pay the Value of the Debt, Dama­ges and Costs to the party grieved, and shall be forejudged his Place, if an Officer, and if a Deputy or Clerk, shall be for ever uncapable of it. And if the Auditor shall not direct the Or­der, or the Clerk of the Pells Record, or the Teller make Pay­ment, according to each Persons Order, they shall be adjudged to forfeit, and their Deputies and Clerks herein offending, to be liable to such Action, Damages and Costs, as aforesaid: All which Penalties and Forfeitures to be Recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, &c.

XII. If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for Payment bear Date, or be brought the same day, it shall be no undue prefe­rence which is Entred First, so all be entred the same Day. Nor shall it be any undue preference to direct, record, and pay sub­sequent Orders of Persons that come and demand their Money, and bring their Orders, before others that do not come to de­mand theirs, so as there be so much Money left as will satisfie precedent Orders (Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time that the Money is kept in Bank for them.)

XIII. Moneys due by Virtue of this Act, after Order Entred in the Register, may by Endorsement be transerr'd, and the Assignee may in like manner Assign toties quoties: but such En­dorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt, and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of the Register for Orders.

[Page 21] XIV. Stat. 2. W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 4. There shall be paid to Their Majesties and Their Successors, for the several Merchan­dizes hereafter mentioned, over and above the Duties already imposed, the farther Duties following, viz.

XV. For Calicoes and other Indian Linen, and for wrought Silks, and other Manufactures of India and China (Except Indi­go) imported between the 25th of Decemb. 1690. and the 10th of Novemb. 1695. 20 l. for every 100 l. value; and for wrought Silks imported within that time, from any other place, 10 l. for every 100 l. value; and for Raw-Silks imported within that time from China or the East-Indies, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

XVI. For all Linen imported within that time from places whence it may be imported (other then Linen of the Manufacture of the Spanish Netherlands or United Provinces, not Exceeding an Engl. Ell and half quarter in breadth) one Moiety above what is already imposed: And for Linen of the Manufacture of the Spanish Netherlands or United Provinces, of the breadth of 2 Ells or upwards, and under 3 Ells, as much more as is now charged; and of the breadth of 3 Ells or upwards, treble as much as is now charged.

XVII. For Deal-Timber, and all other Wood imported with­in that time from any part of Europe, except Ireland, 10 l. for every 100 l. value, above what is now charged.

XVIII. For every Tun of Hemp-Seed, or other Seed-Oyl im­ported within that time, 8 l. and so proportionably for greater or lesser quantities.

XIX. For every hundred Weight of Hops, containing 112 pounds, imported within that time, 20 s. above what is now charged, and so in proportion.

XX. For every 100 Weight of Pepper, containing 112 pounds, 28 s. above the charge in the Book of Rates, and so in proportion, one third part to be paid down, and Bond to be given for the payment of the Remainder at Twelve Months end, or else to discount 10 per Cent. for present payment.

XXI. For every 100 l. value of Grocery Wares and Drugs (other then Pepper, Liquorice, Currans, Sugar, Tobacco, Mace, Cinnamon, Nutmegs and Cloves) 10 l. For every 100 pound of Currans, 5 l. above the charge in the Book of Rates, and so in proportion.

XXII. For every Tun of Iron (except Bushel Iron) import­ed in any other Vessel then English built, and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners are English, 33 s. And for every Tun of such Iron imported in Vessels English built, and so navigated, 23 s. and so in proportion.

XXIII. For Foreign Iron-Wire (except Card-Wire, an [...] Wire smaller then Fine and Superfine, and Wooll-Cards, or o [...] he Wares made of Iron-Wire) for every 100 Weight, con [...] aining 112 pounds, 22 s. 6 d. and so in proportion: Whic [...] [Page 22]of Iron-Wire (except, as aforesaid) it shall be lawful to import during the time aforesaid. For Steel-Wire imported, 14 s. for every 100 Weight, containing, as aforesaid. For every Iron Pot, and Iron Kettle imported, 1 s. 3 d. For every small Back for Chimneys, 1 s. 2 d. for every large Back, 2 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Rod-Iron, containing 112 pound, 5 s. and so in proportion: for every 100 weight of Frying-pans, containing as aforesaid, 4 s. and so in proportion: for every 100 weight of Steel, containing as aforesaid, 5 s. 6 d. and so in proportion: for every 100 weight of Anvils, containing as aforesaid, 9 s. 3 d. and so in proportion: for every hundred of single white or black Plates, 4 s. 4 d. and so in proportion: For every hundred of double white or black Plates, 8 s. 8 d. and so in proportion: for every Harness­plate, or Iron double, 1 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Iron drawn or hammered, less then three quarters of an Inch square, and all other Iron Ware manufactured, containing as aforesaid, 5 s. Provided that no manufactured Iron Ware hereby charged to pay by the Piece or Hundred weight, shall be liable to pay by the Tun. And for every 100 weight of Brass, Latten, or Copper-Wire, containing as aforesaid, 15 s. and so in proportion.

XXIV. For every Last of Hemp-seed, Cole-seed, and Rape-seed, 4 l.

XXV. For all Yarn of Flax or Hemp, other then Cable-Yarn, an additional Duty of as much as is now charged in the Book of Rates; for every 100 weight of Cable-Yarn, 5 s. and so in pro­portion.

XXVI. For all manufactures of Glass (except Rhenish and Mus­covia Window-glass) 3 s. for every 20 s. value above what is al­ready charged.

XXVII. For every 100 weight of Molosses, containing as a­foresaid, imported from any other place then the English Planta­tions in America, 8 s.

XXVIII. For every 100 weight of Tallow, containing as afore­said, 5 s. and so in proportion: for every 100 weight of Tallow-Candles, containing as aforesaid, 10 s. and so in proportion.

XXIX. For every pound of Bever-wooll cut and comb'd (ex­cept Wooll comb'd in Russia, and imported thence in English Vessels) 15 s.

XXX. For every Barrel of Pot-ashes, containing 200 weight neat, 8 s. and so in proportion.

XXXI. For every 100 weight of Cordage ready wrought, con­taining as aforesaid, 5 s. and so in proportion.

XXXII. For every Tun of Olive-Oyl imported, 4 s. and so in proportion.

XXXIII. For every Ream of Royal Paper, 2 s. of Blue Paper, Demy Paper, and painted Paper, 1 s. 6 d. for every Bundle of Brown Paper, 2 d. and for all other Paper, as much more as is now charged in the Book of Rates.

[Page 23] XXXIV. For every 100 weight of Liquorice, containing 112 pounds, 18 s. and so in proportion: for every such 100 weight of Liquorice Powder, 1 l. 17 s. 4 d. for every pound weight of Juice of Liquorice, 1 s. and so in proportion.

XXXV. For every 100 weight of Barilla or Saphora, contain­ing 112 pound, 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion.

XXXVI. For every 100 weight of Sope, containing as afore­said, 10 s. and so in proportion.

XXXVII. For all Earthen Ware, not mentioned in the Book of Rates, 2 s. 6 d. for every 20 s. value.

XXXVIII. For every 100 weight of Starch, containing, ut supra, 20 s. and so in proportion.

XXXIX. For every 100 weight of Allom, containing, ut supra, 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion.

XL. For every 100 weight of Brimstone, containing, ut supra, 4 s. 8 d. and so in proportion.

XLI. For every 100 weight of Tin, containing, ut supra, 30 s. and so in proportion.

XLII. Where any Duties upon Goods and Merchandize here­by granted, are to be levied according to the value, the value shall be taken according to the Books of Rates, if such Goods are particularly there rated; if not, the value shall be taken by the Importers Oath; the Duties hereby imposed, not to be reckon'd into the value.

XLIII. For all additional Duties hereby imposed, the Impor­ter giving security, shall have 12 Months time (where the same is not otherwise limited) for payment thereof by four quarter­ly payments; or upon present payment shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated him: And if such Goods or Merchandize be again ex­ported within a Twelve Month, the additional Duty shall be re­paid, and Security vacated.

XLIV. The Duties hereby imposed, shall not affect such foreign Stores as have been sold for the use of the Navy, by Contract with the Navy-board, or Commissioners for the victualling, be­fore the 15th day of November 1690.

XLV. The Duties hereby imposed, shall be raised, collected and paid in manner and form, and by such Rules, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, Anno 12 Car. 2. and the Rules and Orders there­unto annexed.

XLVI. Any persons may advance Money to Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act, at 8 l. per Cent. for forbearance, and no more.

XLVII. All Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act, shall be registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys payable upon any other Branch of the Revenue. And they that lend Money on the Credit of this Act, shall have Tallies of Loan struck for the same, and Orders for repayment, [Page 24]bearing date with their Tallies; in which Orders there shall be Warrants for payment of Interest at the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum, to be paid every Three Months; such Orders to be registred in course, without preference: And all persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders stand entred. No Fee, Reward, or Gratuity shall be taken for providing or making any such Registers, Entries, View or Search in or for payment of Money lent, or the Interest, by any of Their Majesties Officers, their Clerks or Deputies, on pain of payment of treble Damages to the Party grieved, with Costs of Suit; and the Officer demand­ing any such Fee, shall lose his place. And if any undue prefe­rence be made in point of Registry or Payment, the Party offend­ing shall be liable by Action of Debt, or of the Case, to pay the va­lue of the Debt, Damages and Costs to the Party grieved, and shall be fore-judged his Place or Office.

XLVIII. If several Tallies of Loan, or Orders for payment, bear date, or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Re­ceipt, it shall be no undue preference which he enters first, so he enters all the same day.

XLIX. Nor shall it be interpreted any undue preference, if the Auditor direct, and the Clerk of the Pells record, and Tellers pay subsequent Orders of persons that come and demand their money, and bring their Orders, before others that do not come to demand theirs, so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders.

L. Moneys due by virtue of this Act, After Order entred in the Register, may by Endorsement of the Order, be assigned and transferred; and the Assignee may in like manner assign, and so toties quoties: But such Endorsement must be notified in the Of­fice of the Auditor of Receipt, and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of Register for Orders.

LI. Sat. 2. W. & M. Sess. 2. cap 5. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar, granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the late King James II. shall be continued from the 23th of June. 1693. until the 24th of June, 1696. and the said Act, and all Clauses therein, shall be of force until the said 24th of June, 1696.

LII. And the Rates and Duties for all sorts of Tobacco granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the said K. James, shall be continued in like manner: And the said last mentioned Act shall be of force till then.

LIII. Provided that this Act shall not extend to repeal or al­ter an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign, En­tituled, An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France.

LIV. It shall be lawful to advance, as well upon the securi­ty of this Act, as upon the security of the said two former Acts, (from and after the payment of the Sum of 600000 l. to the [Page 25] States General of the United Provinces) any Sum or Sums of Mo­ney at the Interest of 8 l. per Cent.

LV. All Monies, &c. as in Paragraph 47.

LVI. If several Tallies, &c. as in Paragraph 48.

LVII. Nor shall it be, &c. as in Paragraph 49.

LVIII. Moneys due, &c. as in Paragraph. 50.

LIX. Nothing in this Act shall extend to defeat or obstruct the Provision made by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign, for payment of Wages due to the Servants of the late K. Charles II. in such manner as by the said Act is directed.

LX. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 5. There shall be paid to Their Majesties over and above the Duties already payable:

LXI. For every 100 l. value of Amber Beads imported after the 1st day of March, 1692. and before the 1st of March, 1696. 20 l. for Amber rough, 10 l. for every 100 l. value: for Am­ber-Oyl, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXII. For Anchovies, the little Barrel not exceeding sixteen pounds of Fish, for every 100 l. value, 5 l.

LXIII. For Wood, Weed, or Sope-Ashes 6 s. the Last.

LXIV. For Barbers Aprons and Cheques, 8 d. the Piece.

LXV. For every 100 weight of Battery, Bashrones or Kettles, containing 112 pounds, 5 s.

LXVI. For every such 100 weight of Mettle prepared for Bat­tery, 5 s.

LXVII. For every such 100 weight of Books unbound, 4 s.

LXVIII. For Lamp-black, 20 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXIX. For Boutel Reins, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXX. For every Gross of Bracelets or Neck laces of Glass, 2 s. 6 d.

LXXI. For Brass wrought, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXII. For Buckrums, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXIII. For Hair-buttons, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXIV. For Bristles drest and undrest, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXV. For every pound of Bacon, 4 d.

LXXVI. For Calves Skins, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXVII. For Carpets, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXVIII. For every Gross of Catlings and Lutestrings, 18 d.

LXXIX. For Scotch Coals, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXX. For every 1000 of walking Canes, 25 s.

LXXXI. For Canes called Rattans, 5 s. the 1000.

LXXXII. For every 100 weight of Cast-Copper, containing 112 pounds, 7 s. 6 d.

LXXXIII. For every 100 weight of Copper, part wrought or raised, containing 112 pounds, 12 s. 6 d.

LXXXIV. For every such 100 weight of Copper fully wrought, 17 s. 6 d.

LXXXV. For Coral Beads, and all polish'd Coral, 20 l. for eve­ry 100 l. value.

LXXXVI. For all Manufactures of Cotton only (Except Di­mity) not brought from East-India or China, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXXVII. For every 100 l. value of Couries, 10 l.

LXXXVIII. For Elephants Teeth, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

LXXXIX. For Flax rough, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

XC. For Flax dressed or wrought, 15 l. for every 100 l. va­lue.

XCI. For every 100 l. value of Tow, 5 l.

XCII. For every Yard of Flannel, 2 d.

XCIII. For every Yard of Frieze, 3 d. 2 q.

XCIV. For every 100 l. value of Furs, 5 l.

XCV. For Gold and Silver Thread and Wire, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

XCVI. For every pound of Goats Hair, called Carmenia Wooll, 4 d.

XCVII. For every pound of Goats Hair of any other sort, 2 d.

XCVIII. For Hides of all sorts, drest and underst, except Buff and Losh, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

XCIX. For every Buff-hide, 2 s.

C. For every Losh-hide, 1 s.

CI. For Hemp rough, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CII. For Jewels and pretious Stones, 20 s. for every 100 l. value, upon the Importer's Oath, in lieu of all Duties now pay­able for the same.

CIII. For every pound of Indico of foreign Plantation, not be­ing of the Growth of any the Dominions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England, 4 d.

CIV. For every pound of Indico of the Growth of our own Plantations, 2 d.

CV. For all Iron, Iron-pots, Kettles, &c. and all other Iron Wares imported from Ireland, the same Duties as are laid on Iron, and Iron Wares imported from any foreign Part, by an Act of the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures, &c.

CVI. For Latten shaven, black Latten and round Bottoms, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

CVII. For Leather of all sorts, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CVIII. For all Lime and Lemmon-Juice, 20 l. for every 100 l. value.

CIX. For Litmus, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CX. For all Lapis Calaminaris, 20 s. for every Tun.

CXI. For Madder, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXII. For Orchal, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

[Page 27] CXIII. For Pintadoes, not brought from East-India or China, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXIV. For Pitch, not being of the Product of the Dominions or Plantations of the Crown of England, or Scotland, one Moie­ty more then is charged in the Book of Rates.

CXV. For all sorts of Plate of Silver, gilt or ungilt, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXVI. For Rice, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXVII. For Rosin (except French Rosin) not being of the Product or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scot­land, 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXVIII. For every Weight of Salt (except such as shall be used in curing Fish) 5 s.

CXIX. For Silk thrown of all sorts, in the Gum, 5 l. for eve­ry 100 l. value.

CXX. For every pound of Silk wrought, other then Ala­modes and Lutestrings, 2 s. more then the same is already charged in the Book of Rates, or by an Act in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods, &c.

CXXI. For Silk-ferret or Floret, one Moiety more then the same is charged with in the Book of Rates.

CXXII. For Skins of all sorts, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXIII. For all Tarr, not being of the Product of the Do­minions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scot­land, one Moiety more then is charged in the Book of Rates.

CXXIV. For Ticks and Tickings (except Scottish) 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXV. For every dozen pounds of Thread Outnel, 4 s.

CXXVI. For all Tapistry and Dornix (except such as are ma­nufactured in, or brought from the French Kings Dominions) 10 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXVII. For unwrought Inkle, one Moiety more then what is now paid for the same.

CXXVIII. For all Pan-tiles, 8 s. the 1000.

CXXIX. For Dying-wood (except Red Wood from Guinea, Drugs and Logwood) 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXX. For Bees-wax, 5 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXXI. For every Tun of French Wine, 8 l. above all Duties already charged.

CXXXII. Upon all French Goods and Merchandize (except Wine, Brandy, Salt and Vinegar) 25 l. for every 100 l. va­lue.

CXXXIII. For Alamodes and Lutestrings, 15 l. for every 100 l. value.

CXXXIV. For Latten, Brass, or Copper-wire, 6 s. 6 d. the 100 Weight, containing 112 pounds.

CXXXV. For Goods not particularly rated in the Book of [Page 28]Rates, paying Duty at value, 5 l. for every 100 l. value, upon the Importer's Oath, according to the Direction of the Book of Rates (except such Goods as are particularly charged by this Act, or an Act of this Parliament, Entituled, An Act for Grant­ing to Their Maj [...]sties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods, &c.

CXXXVI. For every Gallon of Strong Water, Aqua vitae, or Brandy, commonly called Single Brandy, to be paid by the Im­porter, before landing, 2 s. above the Duties at any time before the Second year of Their Majesties Reign, payable for the same.

CXXXVII. For every Gallon of Strong Waters, Spirits or Brandy, above Proof, called Double Brandy, to be paid as afore­said, 4 s.

CXXXVIII. Two Clauses in an Act made the Second year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Additional Duties upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for Four Years, &c. concerning Single Brandy, Spirits, or Aqua vitae, and Brandy, Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof, shall from the 1st day of March. 1692. be repealed.

CXXXIX. The Rates and Impositions hereby imposed, to be raised (except where it is otherwise hereby directed) according to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, and the Directions there­unto annexed, or any other Laws now in force relating to the Customs.

CXL. The several Rates and Duties upon Single and Double Brandy, shall be levied according to the Directions of an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled, An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, &c. and of another Act in the 15th year of His Reign, Entituled, An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise, &c. or of any other Law in force relating to the Excise.

CXLI. The Importers giving Security at the Custom house, shall have a Twelve Months time for paying the Additional Duties hereby imposed by 4 quarterly Payments; and for ready Money shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated: And if such Goods be again ex­ported within a Twelve Month by any Merchant English, or with­in 9 Months by Strangers, the Duty shall be repaid, or the Secu­rity vacated, for what shall be exported, all Brandy excepted.

CXLII. The Duties hereby charged upon Amber-Beads, Am­ber rough, Coral-Beads, and polished Coral, and all Couries, to be repaid to the Merchant exporting the same, within 3 years after the Importation thereof.

CXLIII. No Brandy shall be imported in any Vessel not containing 60 Gallons at the least, on pain of forfeiting the same, or the Value, one half to Their Majesties, and the other half to the Informer.

CXLIV. The Officers concerned in levying the Duties arising by this Act, shall keep a separate Account thereof, and pay the [Page 29]same in specie into the Exchequer weekly; and upon neglect or refusal, shall forfeit their Places.

CXLV. During the continuance of the said Act, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods, &c. the Sum of 5 l. only shall be paid for every 100 l. Value of Raisins above the Rates thereon charged in the Book of Rates, and 50 s. for every 100 l. Value of Currans above the Rates in the Book of Rates (any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding) the same to be Collected, as by the said Act is directed.

CXLVI. No piece of Calico Imported during the continu­ance of the said last recited Act, of the breadth of One yard and a quarter, shall exceed in length Ten yards; and no Piece above that breadth shall exceed Six yards; and Pieces exceeding those lengths, shall be Rated according to the length of Ten yards, and Six yards for each Piece, and pay in that proportion according to the Sum rated in the Book of Rates, and the Sub­sidy and additional Duty shall be Collected and Paid accord­ing to that Admeasurement.

CXLVII. Linen of Prussia, Polonia, or any part of the East Countrey (except Russia) above the breadth of three quar­ters and half a quarter of a yard, shall pay as broad Germany Linen, and whited Hinderlands from the same Countries, under that breadth, shall pay as narrow East Countrey Linen.

CXLVIII. During the continuance of an Act made in the First year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for charg­ing and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee, &c. at the Custom-house, there shall be paid to Their Majesties for every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported 56 s. and no more; and for every Pound of Cocao Nuts Imported from any of our own Plantations 6 d. and no more, and from any other Countries 8 d. and for every pound of Tea, Imported from whence it Lawfully may, 1 s. and no more; and for every pound of Chocolate 1 s. and no more; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

CLXIX. The Duties hereby charged upon Coffee, Cocao Nuts, Tea and Chocolate, to be paid over and above the Duties Charged upon them in the Book of Rates.

CL. No Foreign Alamodes and Lutestrings shall be Imported after the 25 day of March 1693. but upon notice first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs, of the Quality and Quantity, Marks, Numbers and Package thereof, with the Name of the Ship and Master, and the Place where they intend to import the same, and taking a licence from the said Commissio­ners or Farmers or any Three of them, for the Lading and Importing thereof; which Licence shall be Granted without Fee; the said Goods Imported without such Notice and Licence shall be Forfeited, one Moiety to Their Majesties, and the other Moiety to him that will seize or sue for the same.

[Page 30] CLI. Officers of the Customs for passing any Debenture for Repayment of the Duties to be paid back on Exportation, ac­cording to this or any other Act, shall only receive such Fees as were payable for Debentures, for the Repayment of the half Subsidy, according to the Book of Rates, and no more; nor shall any Fee be taken for any Oath to be Administred at the Custom­house upon this Act.

CLII. The Act made in the 3d Year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositi­ons upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors for one year, so far as it re­lates to Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, and leaving true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges, with the Penalties relating thereunto, shall from the First Day of March next be revived, and continue during the continuance of this Act, and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament.

CLIII. It shall be Lawful to Lend and Advance to Their Ma­jesties upon the Credit of this Act, any Sum or Sums not exceed­ing in the whole 510000 l. and to receive for forbearance 8 l. per Cent. per Aanum.

CLIV. Officers concerned in Levying the Duties arising by this Act, shall keep a separate account thereof, and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer every Wednesday, unless it be a Holyday, and then the day after; and upon neglect or re­fusal shall incur the Penalties, &c. that other Officers of the Exchequer before mentioned shall be liable to; which Moneys shall be applied to the Uses mentioned in this Act.

CLV. Out of the Money which shall be paid into the Ex­chequer upon Loan or otherwise, by Virtue of this or any other Act of this Session of Parliament, for Granting Aids and Sup­plies, &c. (other then an Act, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound, &c.) the Sum of 1226516 l. shall be Appropriated for the payment of Officers and Seamen, and for Stores, Provisions and Victuals for the Navy, and to the Expences of the Ordnance in respect to Naval Affairs, and other necessary Uses for the Navy. And if any Officer belonging to the Revenue, Exchequer, Navy or Ordnance, wittingly divert any Part of the Money hereby Ap­propriated to any other purpose, he shall lose his Place, and be disabled to execute any Office whatsoever.

CLVI. The additional Duties imposed by this Act, shall not affect such Foreign Stores, as have been sold to the use of the Navy, by Contract with the Navy-board before the First of January 1692. so as a Certificate be given by the Commissioners of the Navy, that such Stores have been so Contracted for; and so as the Importer make Oath of the Truth of the Contract, and that he will deliver them into their Majesties Stores accordingly.

[Page 31] CLVII. Commissioners and Patent-Officers, their Deputies, Clerks and Servants, who have or shall have any Imployment about the Customs, shall before the 19th Day of April next, or at their admissions hereafter, take their Oaths for the true Exe­cution to the best of their Knowledge and Power, of their se­veral Trusts and Employments, and that they will take no Re­ward or Gratuity but their respective Salaries, and what is or shall be allow'd them by the Crown, or the Regular Fees Estab­lished by Law for any Service done, or to be done in the Exe­cution of their Employments.

CLVIII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 15. The several Imposi­tions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar, Granted by an Act made the First year of the late King James 2d, Entituled, An Act for Granting His Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines, and Vine­gar Imported between the 24th of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. Which by an Act of this present Parliament was conti­nued from the said 24th of June 1693. to the 24th of June 1696. shall be farther continued until the 24th of June 1698.

CLIX. The Rates, Duties and Impositions for Tobacco Grant­ed by an Act in the 1st Year of the Reign of the said late King James 2d, Entituled, An Act for Granting to His Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar Imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. which said Act (as concerning Impositions upon Tobacco only) by an Act of this present Parliament, was farther continued unto the 24th day of June 1696. shall be continued from the said 24th day of June 1696. to the 24th of June 1698.

CLX. The Additional and other Impositions and Duties upon several sorts of Goods and Merchandize, Granted by an Act of this present Parliament in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures, and upon all wrought Silks, &c. to be Imported after the 25th day of Decemb. 1690. and which were to have continuance to the 10th day of Novemb. 1695. shall be continued from the 9th day of November 1695. to the 10th day of November 1697.

CLXI. Any Persons may advance Moneys upon the Security of this Act, not exceeding in the whole 500000. l. and to have any Sum for forbearance, nor exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum.

CLXII. There shall likewise be paid to Their Majesties 5 l. for every 100 l. of the Joynt-Stock of the East-India Compa­ny, the said Stock being valued at 744000 l. The same to be paid by the Governour and Treasurer of the Company by Four Quarterly Payments, the First on the 25 of March 1693. and to be deducted upon the next Dividend.

[Page 32] CLXIII. And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the A­frican Company, as the Number of Shares are now reckoned, there shall be paid to Their Majesties the Sum of 20 s. by the Gover­nour and Treasurer of that Company by Four Quarterly Pay­ments, the First to be made on the said 25th of March 1693. and to be deducted as aforesaid.

CLXIV. And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the Hudson's-Bay Company, as the number of Shares are now reckon'd, there shall be paid the Sum of 5 l. by the Governour and Trea­surer of that Company ut supra. And for default of Payment at the Days and Times aforesaid, the Charter of such Company respectively shall be void.

CLXV. From and after the Sixth Day of April 1693. none shall be admitted to swear to a Debanture for any Duties to be drawn back upon Re-exportation, but he who is the true Ex­porter, as being either Interested in the Goods, or Employed by Commission.

CLXVI. All Persons who by way of Insurance or otherwise, shall undertake to deliver any Goods Imported from beyond Sea, without paying the Duties payable for the same, or any Prohibi­ted Goods, and shall deliver, or cause to be delivered the same as aforesaid, knowing thereof, and all their Abbettors, shall for every such offence forfeit 500 l. above the Forfeitures to which they are already liable.

CLXVII. And all who shall agree to pay any Money for the Insu­ring or Conveying any Goods Imported, without paying the Duties, or any Prohibited Goods, or shall receive such prohibited Gods, or such other Goods, before the Duties are paid, knowing thereof, shall also Forseit for every offence 500 l. the one Moiety of the said Forfeitures to Their Majesties, and the other to the Informer.

CLXVIII. And if the Insurer or Manager of such Fraud be the Discoverer, he shall not only keep the Insurance Money given him, and be discharged of the Penalties to which he is liable, but shall have one half of the Penalties imposed upon the Parties making such Insurance or Receiving the Goods, as afore­said; and in Case no Discovery be made by the Insurer, and the Party Insured shall make discovery thereof, he shall recover back his Praenium, and have One Moiety of the Forfeitures im­posed upon the Insurer, and be discharged of the imposed upon himself.

CLXIX. The said Penalties and Forseitures to be Recoverable according to the Course of the Court of Exchequer, as other Penalties in like Cases are Recoverable.

CLXX. No Penalty hereby inflicted to be recoverable, un­less presented within Twelve Months after the Fact Com­mitted.

CLXXI. All Duties whatsoever that shall accrue to Their Ma­jesties at the Custom-house after the 25th day of March 1693. [Page 33]for Prize-Goods, shall be applied entirely to the Credit of an Act of Parliament, made this Session, Entituled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon se­veral Goods and Merchandize, for the Prosecuting the present War a­gainst France, Any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Deer. Stealers.

I. Stat. 3. & 4. W. & M. cap. 10. If any Persons shall un­lawfully Course, Hunt, Take in Toyles, Kill, Wound, or take away any Red or Fallow Deer in any Forest, Chase, Pur­lieu, Paddock, Wood, Park or other Ground inclosed, where Deer are or shall be usually kept, without the consent of the Owner, or Person entrusted with the Custody thereof, or be aid­ing therein, and shall be Convicted by Confession, or the Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace of the County where the Offence shall be Committed, or the Party Apprehended, within a Twelve-month after the Offence done, they shall For­seit for every such Offence 20 l. and for every Deer wounded, taken or killed 30 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, by Warrant from the Justice before whom the Conviction shall be made; the One third Part to the Informer, the other third Part to the Poor of the Parish, where the Offence shall be Committed; and the other third to the Owner of the Deer. And for want of a Distress, they shall be Imprisoned a year, and set in the Pillory an hour, on some Market-Day, in the Town next adjoyning to the Place where the Offence was Committed, by the Chief Officer of such Market Town, or his under Officers.

II. Constables, Head-boroughs and Tythingmen, by a Justi­ces Warrant, may Enter and Search, as for Stolen Goods, the Houses and other Places of suspected Persons; and if any Veni­son or Skins of Deer or Toyles be found, shall carry such Of­fender before a Justice of Peace; and if he do not give a good Account how he came by them, and in some convenient time produce the Party of whom he bought them, or prove such Sale upon Oath, he shall be Convicted of such Offence, and be sub­ject to the Penalties hereby inflicted for killing a Deer.

III. The Constable or other Officer or Persons prosecuting may detain such Offenders in Custody, if they do not presently pay the Moneys due by the Conviction, till a Return may be made of the Warrant for Distress, such Detainer not exceeding Two days.

IV. Owners of any such Deer, or any acting under them, may resist such Offenders, and be Indemnified, as if such Fact had been Committed in an ancient Chase or Park.

[Page 34] V. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other proceeding upon this Act, unless the Party Convicted shall before it be Allowed, become bound to the Prosecutors in 50 l. with Sureties to be approved by the said Justice, to pay within a Month after the Conviction confirm'd, or a procedendo Granted, their full Costs to be ascertain'd upon Oath.

VI. No Offender Punished by Virtue of this Act, shall incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence.

VII. Persons prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, may Plead the general Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence.

VIII. If any Person shall in the night time pull down or de­stroy or cause to be pull'd down or destroyed the Pails or Walls of any Park, Forest, &c. or other Ground inclosed, where Red or Fallow-Deer shall be kept, such Persons being Convicted by Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace, shall by such Justices Warrant suffer Imprisonment for Three Months.

Distresses.

I. Sat. 2. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 5. After the First Day of June 1690. where any Goods or Chattels shall be distrained for Rent, reserved and due upon any Demise, Lease or Contract, and the Tenant or Owner of the Goods shall not within Five days after such Distress and Notice thereof (with the cause of such taking) left at the Mansion-house, or other most notorious Place of the Premisses charged with the Rent, Replevy the same, the Person distraining may with the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of the County, or with the Constable of the Hundred, Parish or Place where, &c. who are hereby required to assist, cause the Distress to be appraised by Two sworn Appraisers (whom such Sheriff, &c. shall swear to Appraise them truly, according to the best of their Understanding, and after such Appraisement may Sell the same, towards the satisfaction of the Rent, and the Charges of the Distress and Appraisement, leaving the Overplus, if any be, in the hands of the said Sheriff, &c. for the Owners Use.

II. It shall be Lawful to Distrain for Rent arrear, as aforesaid, any Sheaves or Cocks of Corn, or Corn loose or in the Straw, or Hay in any Barn or Granary, or upon any Hovel, Stack or Rick or otherwise; and to lock up and detain the same in the Place where it shall be found, till it be Replevied, as aforesaid; and in default thereof, within the time aforesaid, to Sell the same after Appraisement, as aforesaid; so nevertheless that it be not removed to the damage of the Owner, but kept where it shall be found and seiz'd, as Impounded, till it be Replevied, or Sold.

III. Upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods Distrained [Page 35]for Rent, the Person grieved shall have a special Action upon the Case, and Recover treble Damages and Costs of Suit, against the Offenders, or against the Owners of the Goods, if they come to his Use or Possession.

IV. If any such Distress and Sale, as aforesaid, shall be made, where there is no Rent due, the Owner of the Goods Distrained, may by Action of Trespass, or upon the Case against the Per­sons distraining, Recover double the Value of the Goods Di­strained, with full Costs of Suit.

Game.

I. STat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 23. All Laws and Statutes in Force, for the better Preservation of the Game of this Kingdom, and every Clause and thing therein not hereby Altered or Repealed, shall be duly put in Execution.

II. Constables, Head-boroughs and Tything men, by a Justice of Peace his Warrant, may and are Required to enter into, and search (in such manner as by An Act for the more effectual Disco­very and Punishment of Deer-stealers, made in the Third and Fourth Year of Their Majesties Reign is provided, in Case of Venison or Skin of any Deer or Toyles) Houses of Suspected Persons not qualified; and in Case any Game shall be found, the Offen­der shall be carried before a Justice of Peace; and if he do not give a good Account how he came thereby, or produce the Party of whom he bought it in some convenient Time, or some Credible Person to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof, he shall be Convicted of such Offence by the said Justice, and Forfeit for every Hare, Partridge, &c. or other Game, any Sum not under 5 s. and not exceeding 20, One Moiety to the Informer, and the other to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence was Committed, to be Levied by Distress and Sale of his Goods, rendring the Overplus; and for want of a Distress shall be Com­mitted to the House of Correction for any time not exceeding a Month, nor less then Ten days, there to be Whipt and Kept to Labour. And if any Person not qualified by Law, do keep or use any Bows, Greyhounds, Setting-dogs, Ferrets, Coney­dogs, Hays, Lurchers, Netts, Tunnels, Low-bells, Hare-pipes, Snares or other Instruments for destruction of Game, and shall be Convicted as aforesaid, he shall be subject to the Pains and Penalties aforesaid. And if any Person so Charged, shall not before the same Justice give such Evidence of his Innocence, as aforesaid, he shall be Convicted thereof in like manner as the Person First Charged therewith is hereby directed to be, and so from person to person, till the First Offender be disco­vered.

III. Lords of Manors and other Royalties, or any Authori­zed by them, shall and may Oppose and Resist such Offenders in the Night time, within their respective Manors and Royalties, as if such Fact had been Committed in any ancient Chase, Park or Warren Enclosed.

IV. No persons whatsoever shall after the 25th day of March 1693. keep any Net, Angle, Leap, Piche, or other Engine for taking Fish (other then the Makers and Sellers thereof, for their better convenience in the Sale thereof, and other then the Owner or Occupier of a River or Fishery) And Owners or [Page 54]Occupiers of Rivers and Fisheries, and such as they shall Au­thorize, may seize and keep to their own Use any such Engine which shall be found used by, or in the possession of any Per­son whatsoever, fishing in any River or Fishery, without the consent of the Owner or Occupier. And also any Person what­soever. Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of a Justice of Peace, may search the Houses and other Places of Per­sons Prohibited and Suspected to have in their Custody any such Engines, and the same to seize and keep to their own use, or to destroy.

V. This Act shall not extend to abridge Fishermen or their Apprentices, Lawfully Authorized to Fish in Navigable Rivers or Waters, with Lawful Nets and Engines.

VI. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other Proceeding concerning any matter in this Act, unless the Parties against whom such Conviction shall be, shall before the Allowance thereof become bound to the Prosecutor in the Sum of 50 l. with Sureties to be Approved of by the Justice or Ju­stices of Peace, before whom such Offender was Convicted, to pay to the Prosecutor within a month after such Conviction Confirm­ed, or Proceedendo Granted, their full Costs and Charges to be ascertain'd upon Oath.

VII. Offenders Punished by force of this Act, shall not incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence.

VIII. Persons prosecuted at Law for any thing done in pursu­ance of this Act, may Plead the General Issue, and give this Act or any other special Matter in Evidence; and if the Verdict pass for the Defendants, or the Plaintiffs become Non-suit, or suffer a discontinuance, the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs.

IX. If any inferior Tradesman, Apprentice, or other dissolute Person, shall Hunt, Hawk, Fish or Fowl (unless in Company with the Master of such Apprentice qualified by Law) they shall be subject to the Penalties of this Act, and may be sued for Trespass in coming upon any persons Ground; in which Suit the Plaintiff shall recover his Damages and full Costs.

X. For the better preserving the Red and Black Game of Growse, commonly called Heath cooks or Heath-colts, no per­son whatsoever on any Mountains, Hills, Heaths, Moors, Forests, Chases or other Wasts, shall burn, between the Second Day of February and the Twenty fourth of June, any Grig, Ling, Heath, Furz, Gross or Fern, on pain of being Committed to the House of Correction for any Time, not exceeding a Month, nor under Ten Days, there to be Whipt and kept to hard Labour.

Gold and Silver.

I. Sat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 30. Whereas by a Statute made in the 5th Year of King Henry the Fourth, It was Enacted, That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver, or use the Craft of Multiplication; and if any the same do, they should incur the pain of Felony, Be it Enacted, that the said Branch, Article or Sentence be Repealed.

II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals, and otherwise Im­proving them and their Ores, shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys, and no otherwise; and that the Place hereby Appoin­ted for the disposal thereof, shall be the Mint in the Tower of London; where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted.

III. No Mine of Copper, Tin, Iron or Lead, shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine, though Gold or Silver may be Ex­tracted out of the same.

Government.

I. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government. EXP.

II. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government.

III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after, by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council, Signed by Six of the Council, for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practi­ces, may be detained in Custody, without Bail or Main-prize, till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council, Signed by Six, till the said 23d of October.

IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act, and of all other Sta­tutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects.

V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament.

VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment, shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart, and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant; and no Warrant not so Entred, and Signed and Kept, shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act.

[Page 56] VII. Stat. 2. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as of­ten as His Majesty shall be absent out of England, It shall be Law­ful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government, in the Names of both Their Majesties, for such time only, during Their Joint Lives, as His Majesty shall be absent out of England.

VIII. Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty, during such absence, from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government; and neither the passing this Act, nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence, shall Dissolve this present Parliament, or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty; nor avoid any other Act of Government ex­ecuted, or to be execured by him.

IX. Provided, That as often as His Majesty shall return into England, the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Go­vernment, shall be in His Majesty only.

Hair-Buttons.

I. STat. 4. & 5. W. & M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair, nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever, shall be Imported or Bartered, Sold or Exchanged, on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported, Bartered, Sold or Exchanged, and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d, Entituled, An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace, Cut-work, Imbroidery, &c. One Moiety to Their Majesties, and the other to the Informer.

II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions, shall have the same Authority and Power, to issue their War­rants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever, that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk.

Hearth-Doney.

I. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May, in the 13th year of King Charles 2d, Entituled, An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity; And an­other Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament, in the 15th year of the said King's Reign, Entituled, An Additio­nal Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money; And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign, Entituled; An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money, by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty, are hereby Repealed and made Void.

[Page 57] II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Le­vying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money, which shall grow due on the 25th of March, 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts.

High-ways.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways, not hereby altered or repealed, shall be put in Execution.

II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly, unless that day be Sunday, and then on the 27th day, the Constables, Headboroughs, Tything-men, Churchwardens, Surveyors of the High-ways, and Inhabitants in every Parish, shall assemble, and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants, who have an Estate in Land in their own Right, or their Wives, of 10 l. per annum, or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses, Lands, &c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be, and if not, then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants, and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose, on the third day of January next following, or within Fifteen days after: For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions, and to give notice to the Constables, Headboroughs, &c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same; and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, they shall nominate One, Two, or more, to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division, or for any Hamlet, Pre­cinct, Town, &c. of and in the same, for the year ensuing. Which Nomination shall by the Constables, &c. be notified to the persons nominated, within six days, by serving them with the Warrants, or leaving the same, or a Copy thereof at their Houses: And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office, they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof, by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace; which Warrant the Justices are required to make upon the Information of One Credible Witness upon Oath; the Moiety of such Forfeiture to the Informer, the other to go towards the Repairing of the High-ways; and in such case the Justices shall nominate some other fit Persons to perform the Office, who shall, upon like notice, take upon them the Office under the same Penalty: And Constables, Headboroughs, &c. or some of them, who shall not return such Lists of Names, every one of them so neglecting, shall forfeit 20 s. to be levied in the manner, and imployed to the Uses aforesaid.

[Page 58] III. No Persons shall lay in any High-way not 20 Foot broad, any matter whereby the same may be obstructed or annoyed, on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed, as aforesaid.

IV. If any Timber, Stone, Hay, Straw, Stubble, or other Matter for making Dung or on any other Pre [...]ence, shall be laid in any such High-way, the Possessors of the Lands next adjoyning, shall remove and dispose of the same to their own Use: And if they neglect to clear the way, or to cleanse their Ditches, &c. ad­joyning thereunto, or to cause the earth taken thereout, to be carried away, and to lay sufficient Trunks or Bridges where there are Cart-ways into the said Grounds, by the space of Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors, they shall sorfeit 5 s. for every such Offence, to be levied and disposed as a­foresaid.

V. No tree, Bush, or Shrub shall be permitted to grow in any High way, not 20 Foot-broad, but shall be cut down by the Owner of the Land where it stands, within Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors, on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed, as aforesaid.

VI. The Possessors of Lands adjoyning to High-ways, not 20 Foot broad, shall keep their Hedges pruned right up from the Roots.

VII. Surveyors appointed, as aforesaid, shall within Fourteen days after their Acceptance of this Office, and so from time to time, every Four Months, view the Roads, Water-courses, Bridges, Cawseys, &c. within the Parish, &c. where he is a Sur­veyor, that are to be repair'd by the Parish, &c. and present upon Oath in what Condition they find them, to some Justice of Peace, or to incur the same Penalty, as if they had refused to execute the Office, unless they have some reasonable Excuse to be allowed of by Two Justices of the Peace: And what Defaults they shall find, they shall the next Sunday after Sermon ended, give publick notice of, in the Parish-Church; and if the same be not amended within Thirty days after, such Surveyors shall within Thirty days amend the same, and dispose of the Annoyances for the Repair of the High-ways, and shall be reimbursed their Charges by the party who should have done the same: And in case of refusal by the Party to pay such Charges, the Surveyors shall apply themselves to a Justice of Peace, and upon Oath be­fore him made of notice to the Defaulter given, as aforesaid, the Surveyors shall be repaid such Charges as the Justice of Peace shall think reasonable, to be levied, as aforesaid.

VIII. The Justices of Peace shall once in Four Months hold a Special Sessions, and summon thereunto all the Surveyors of the High-ways, and declare to them what they are obliged to do by Virtue of this, or any former Act: After which the Survey­ors shall make a Presentment to them upon Oath, of the state of the High-ways within their respective Parishes, &c. and [Page 59]what Offences and Neglects any are guilty of: And before any Surveyor be discharged of his Office, he shall at some such Spe­cial Sessions give an Account upon Oath, of all Money that has come to his hands, which ought to be imployed in amending the High-ways, and how it has been disposed; and if any re­main in his hands, he shall deliver it to the next Surveyors, or in case of Failure, shall forfeit double the Value, to be levied and disposed as aforesaid.

IX. Surveyors neglecting their Duty in any thing required by this Act, shall forseit for every Ofence, 40 s., to be levied and disposed as aforesaid.

X. If any Justice of Peace shall neglect or refuse to do what this Act requires, he shall forfeit 5 l. one Moiety to the Prose­cutor, the other to be imployed for the Amendment of the High-ways, where the Person who sues shall inhabit, to be re­covered in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, &c.

XI. Surveyors of the High-ways, where the Ditches and Drains already made, are not sufficient to carry off the water, may make new ones through the Lands adjoyning, and keep them open, and come upon the Grounds with Workmen for so doing.

XII. Upon notice given by the Surveyors to the Justices at their Special Sessions, and Oath made of what Sums they have expended in Repairing the High-ways, the Justices, or any Two of them may by Warrant cause an equal Rate to be made to reimburse them, where they are forced to lay out their Money, according to the Methods prescribed in an Act made the 43 of Eliz. Entituled, An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Ringdom; and if any refuse to pay what shall be assessed on him, the Surveyors shall levy the same by Distress or Sale of Goods.

XIII. No Fine, Issue, Penalty, or Forfeiture for not amend­ing High-ways, shall be returned into the Exchequer, or other Court, but shall be levied into the hands of the Surveyors to be applied towards the Amendment of such High-ways: And if any such Fine, &c. imposed on any Parish, &c. for not repairing the High-ways, shall be levied on one or more of the Inhabitants, upon Complaint to the Justices of the Peace at their Special Ses­sions, they, or any two of them may by Warrant cause a Rate to be made to reimburse them, which the Surveyors shall levy and pay within a Month after the making thereof.

XIV. The Surveyors shall make every Cart-way leading to any Market-Town Eight Foot wide at least, and as near as may be, level.

XV. Inhabitants within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, Brew­ers, Scavengers, and others imployed in carrying away the Dirt and Soil of the Streets, &c. may use any Cart, Carr, or Dray, with Wheels shod with Iron, and narrower then 6 Inches in [Page 60]the Fellies, and drawn with more then Two Horses, any Act, Law, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

XVI. Where the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions shall be satisfied, that the High-ways, &c. cannot be sufficiently amended without the help of this Act, Assessments upon Persons usually rateable to the Poor shall be made, and le­vied by such Persons, and in such manner, as the Justices at such Sessions shall direct and appoint; the Money to be raised, to be imployed according to their Orders for repairing the High-ways, &c. The said Assessments, if not paid within Ten days after Demand, to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, rendring the Overplus, Charges deducted.

XVII. No such Assessments to be made in any one year, shall exceed 6 d. in the Pound of the yearly Value of Lands, &c. nor of 6 d. for 20 l. in personal Estate.

XVIII. If any Persons find themselves aggrieved by such As­sessments, or any Act by the Justices of Peace, the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions, shall take order therein, which shall conclude all Parties.

XIX. None shall be punished for any Offence against this Act, unless he be prosecuted within six Months after the Offence committed; nor shall any person punished by Virtue of this Act, be punished for the same Offence by Virtue of any former Law.

XX. No Horse-cawsey shall be under Three Foot in breadth.

XXI. The Justices of Peace for Middlesex, may at their Quar­ter-Sessions make Rates for paving Kensington, in such manner as is directed by an Act made in the second Year of Their Majesties Reign, for Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and West­minster.

XXII. All matters concerning High-ways, &c. shall be de­termined in the County where they lie, and not elsewhere; and no Presentment, Indictment, or Order made by Virtue of this Act, shall be removed by Certiorari out of the County.

XXIII. The Justices of Peace of every County, at their Quar­ter-Sessions after Easter, yearly, shall assess the Prices of all Land-Carriage of Goods to be brought into any place within their Jurifdictions, by any common Waggoner or Carrier; and shall certifie such Rates to the Mayors, or other chief Officers of every Marke [...]-Town; and Waggoners or Carriers taking more then what shall be so assessed, shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l. to be levied by Distress and sale of Goods, by Warrant of Two Justices, to the Use of the party grieved.

XXIV. In Actions commenced against any persons authorized to put this Act in Execution, the Defendants may plead the Gene­ral Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit, or forbear prosecution, or discon­tinue, or a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover his double Costs.

[Page 61] XXV. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 9. The Toll mentioned in the Act made in the 15th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled, An Act for Repairing the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford, Cambridge and Huntington; And in an Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the said late King, for Continu­ance of the said Act, to be taken at Wades Mill in Hertford-shire, shall be revived, and taken again in the manner by the said Acts mention'd, for Fifteen years, the Moneys thereby arising, to be employed according to the Tenor of the said Acts.

XXVI. Provided, that if the said High ways before the end of Fifteen years be in sufficient Repair, and an Adjudication be made thereof at the Assize or General Quarter-Sessions of the County, as is provided by the said Statute of 16 and 17 Car. II. the said Toll shall from thenceforth cease.

XXVII. The several Officers and Persons impowered by the said former Acts, so far as relates to the County of Hertford, shall have the like Powers by Virtue of this Act; and all Clauses in the said Acts concerning the Collecting, Paying, Ingaging or Ac­counting for the said Toll, shall by Virtue of this Act be renewed, and put in Execution, as if here again repeated.

High-way-men.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 8. Every Person who shall ap­prehend one or more High-way-men, and prosecute them till they be convicted, shall have from the Sheriff of the County, where such Conviction shall be, without paying any Fee, 40 l. within a Month after such Conviction, and Demand thereof made, by Certificate under the Judges Hand, before whom such Conviction shall be; and if any Dispute arise between the persons apprehending such Felons, touching their Right to the said Re­ward, the Judges certifying, shall in their Certificate direct the Reward to be paid amongst them in such Proportion, as they shall think reasonable: And if any such Sheriff shall die or be removed before the end of the Month, the Reward being unpaid, the succeeding Sheriff shall pay it within a Month after Demand and Certificate, as aforesaid. The Sheriff in case of Default of payment, shall forfeit double the Sum he ought to pay, to the Persons to whom the Reward is due, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, &c. with treble Costs of Suit.

II. If any person shall happen to be killed by such High-way-man, endeavouring to apprehend him, his Executors or Administrators (upon Certificate under Hand and Seal of a Judge of Assize for the County, or of two next Justices of Peace) shall receive the said Sum of 40 l. and in Failure of payment, shall re­cover double the Sum, with treble Costs of Suit, as afore­said.

[Page 62] III. The Sheriffs to be Allowed the said Sums of 40 l. upon their Accounts, without Fee or Reward.

IV. If upon the Account of any Sheriff there shall not be sufficient in his Hands to Reimburse him, the same shall be Paid by the Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Revenue of the Crown, upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe.

V. Persons Apprehending or Convicting such Robbers, as a farther Reward, shall have their Horses, Furniture, Arms, Mo­ney and other Goods taken with them. Provided, that this Clause shall not take away the Right of any Persons, from whom the same were before Feloniously taken.

VI. If any Persons out of Prison shall Commit any Robbery, and shall afterwards discover Two or more Robbers, who have or shall Commit any Robbery, so as Two or more of them shall be Convicted, such discoverer is hereby [...]ntituled to Their Ma­jesties Pardon; which shall likewise be a good bar to any Appeal.

Informations.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 18. The Clerk of the Crown of the King's-Bench, shall not without express Order in o­pen Court, Receive or File any Information for Trespasses, Bat­teries and other Misdemeanours; or issue any Process thereupon, before he shall have taken, or shall have delivered to him a Re­cognizance from the Informer, with the Place of his Abode, Title or Profession, to be Entred to the Person Prosecuted, in 20 l. Penalty, to Prosecute with Effect, and abide by such Order as the Court shall direct; which Recognizance the Clerk of the Crown, or a Justice of Peace of the Place, where the Cause of any such Information shall arise, may take, and the Clerk of the Crown shall Enter the same upon Record, and File a Memo­randum thereof in some publick Place in his Office, that all per­sons may resort thereunto without Fee. And if the persons, a­gainst whom such Informations shall be exhibited, appear and plead to Issue, and that the Prosecutor shall not at his own Charge, within a year after Issue joyned, procure a Tryal; or if upon such Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant, or the Informer procure a noli prosequi to be Entred, the Court shall award the Defendant Costs, unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed, shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record, that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information. And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed, the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Re­cognizance to compel the payment thereof.

II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court [Page 63]for any thing (except Treason or Felony) shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same, but may appear by At­torney and Reverse the same without Bail, except where Spe­cial Bail shall be Ordered by the Court.

III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum, the Sheriff who hath taken him (in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court) may take an At­torneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him, and to Reverse the Outlawry, and thereupon may discharge the Defen­dant; and where Special Bail is required, the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond, with one or more Sureties, in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required, and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ, and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court, and after such Bond taken, may discharge him.

IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utla­gatum, shall not be able within the return of the said Writ, to give Security, whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following, to Reverse the Outlawry, &c. the Sheriff may dis­charge him.

V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney, commonly called the Ma­ster of the Crown-Office.

VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm, all Pleas to Informations shall stand, without calling the Defen­dants to plead anew, unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise.

Ireland and Irish-men.

I. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland, and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom, being of the Protestant Religion, who is or shall be presented, &c. to any Benefice or Promotion in Eng­land, shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promoti­on in Ireland; but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland, so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles.

II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here, shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open, and furnished with Protestant Judges, resign his Benefices and Preferments here, and give notice there­of to the Patrons, the same shall be void, and the Patrons may Present or Collate again.

III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice, &c. here, shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths.

IV. Stat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 9. The persons now or [Page 64]of late Assembled at Dublin, without any Authority derived from Their Majesties, calling themselves a Parliament, were not, nor are a Parliament, but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly; and all Acts and Proceedings, whatsoever Made, Done or Pas­sed in the said pretended Parliament, shall be adjudged null and void; and no Act, Statute, Judgment, Outlawry, Decree, Sen­tence, Order or other Proceedings, since the 13th Day of Fe­bruary 1688. Had, Made, Passed, Pronounced or Done, or to be Had, Made, Passed, Pronounced or Done, by any persons what­soever, by colour of any Commission, Writ, Power or Authority in Ireland (other then such as have been, or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties) shall be of any Force or Effect.

V. All Cities, Boroughs and Towns, and all Bodies Corpo­rate, Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland, are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes, as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto, Scire facias, &c. on any Proceedings, Judgments or Executions thereon, or any New Charter, Grant, Commissi­on, or any Surrender, or other Acts since that time to the con­trary notwithstanding. All which Writs, Suits, Proceedings, Judgments, Seizures, Executions, Charters, Grants, Com­missions and Surrenders, are hereby declared Void.

VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion, shall be liable to any Loss, Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate, Office, Person or otherwise, by reason of their absence out of Ireland, at any time since the 25th of December, 1685. or for Non-pay­ment of Rent, or any other Duty due to Their Majesties, or the Crown, out or by reason of any Lands, Tenements, Rectories, Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Maje­sties to be Reduced to Their Obedience.

VII. The Protestants of Ireland shall be, and are hereby Re­stored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal, in such manner as they, or those under whom they Claim, had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved, may be pro­ceeded against, as in a Case of a forcible Detainer.

VIII. Stat. 3. & 4. W. & M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland, shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by vir­tue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute, for so much as concerns the said Oath, are hereby Repealed.

IX. The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned, and such others as were Required by the said Act, or any other Statute made in Ireland, to take the said Abrogated Oath, before such Persons, and in such Court as is hereafter expressed, viz. Archbishops and Bishops, and others, [Page 65]of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there, and others having any Promotion, Office or Employment Eccle­siastical, Civil or Military, or receiving any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown, or being Master, Governor, Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin, or Master of any Hospital or School, or Barrister at Law, Clerk in Chancery, Attorny or Professor of Law, Phy­sick or other Science, residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof, in Hillary-Term next, in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there, between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon; and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance, at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside, between 9 and 12, before the 25th of July next, and shall make, subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned; all which to be put upon Record, paying 1 s. And Archbishops, Bishops, and others, having any Ecclesiastical Promotion, or being a Lecturer or Curate, neglecting so to do, shall be ipso facto de­prived, and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where; and others having any Office, or receiving any Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, as aforesaid, or being Master, Governor, &c. and others aforesaid, neglecting so to do, shall be ipso facto adjudged incapable to enjoy any such Office, Pay, Salary, Fee or Wages, Mastership, Governors Place, Headship, Fellowship, Employ­ment, or any Matter aforesaid of Profit appertaining thereun­to; and such Office and Place shall be adjudged void.

X. Barristers at Law, Attornies, Clerks and Officers in Chancery, and other Courts, and their Deputies, or that shall Practise as such in Ireland, after the last day of Hillary-Term next, shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the said Declaration in the Kings Bench at Dublin before they be admitted to exercise any Place or Office, or to Practise or Plead in any Court; and all Persons that after the first day of March next, shall be admitted into any Office or Employment, or come into any Capacity, by reason of which they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths, shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration hereby appointed, at such times, and before such Persons as they ought to have taken the said former Oath, by virtue of the said Act.

XI. No Person that is or shall be a Peer of Ireland, shall Vote or make his Proxy in the House of Peers, or sit there during any Debate; nor shall any Member of the House of Commons vote or sit there during any Debate, after the Speaker is chosen, unless he first take the said Oaths, and make, sub­scribe and repeat this Declaration; viz. I A. B. do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God, profess, testifie and declare, That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body [Page 66]and Blood of Christ, at or after the Consecration thereof by any Per­son whatsoever; and that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other Saint, and the Sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are Superstitious and Idolatrous. And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess, testifie and declare, That I do make this Declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the Words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by Protestants, without any Evasion, Equivoca­tion or mental Reservation whatsoever, and without any Dispensation already granted me for this purpose from the Pope, or any other Au­thority or Person whatsoever, or without Dispensation from any Per­son or Authority whatsoever, or without believing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man, or absolved of this Declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should dispense with, or annul the same, or de­clare that it was null and void from the beginning.

XII. Which said Oaths and Declaration shall in the next and every Parliament in Ireland, be made and subscribed be­tween 9 in the Morning and 4 in the Afternoon, by the Peers, at the Table in the middle of the House, before they take their Place, and whilst a full House is present, and their Speaker in his Place; and by the Members of the House of Commons at the Table in the middle of their House, when a full House is sitting, with their Speaker in his Chair, in such method, as each House is called over; during which time all Business to cease, and the Clerks are to Record the same, taking of every Member of each House 1 s.

XIII. Peers and Members of the House of Commons, Bar­risters at Law, Attornies, Clerks or Officers in Chancery, or other Courts, and Deputies in any Office, offending contrary to this Act, shall be disabled to hold any Office or Place of Profit, or Trust Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military there or here, or in any of their Majesties Islands or Plantations, and shall be dis­abled to sit in Parliament, or make a Proxy, or to sue at Law or in Equity, or to be Guardian or Executor or Administrator, or to take a Legacy or Deed or Gift, and shall forfeit 500 l. to be recovered by them that will sue for the same.

XIV. The Oaths required to be taken by this Act, are these, viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary.

So help me God.

I A. B. do swear, That I do from my Heart abhor, detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical, that damnable Doctrin and Position, That Princes excommunicated and deprived by the Pope, or any Au­thority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no Fo­reign [Page 67]Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm.

So help me God.

XV. This Act shall not extend to any now Chaplain, Secre­tary or Attendant to any of their Majesties Ambassadors, En­voys or Ministers in any foreign Courts, or Preacher to any Eng­lish Factory, or to any Chaplains in their Majesties Service by Sea or Land out of Ireland, so as they take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the said Declaration within three months after their return; nor to any Protestant now in Office or Place of Trust or Profit out of Ireland or England, who shall return into Ireland and take the same before the 25th of De­cember 1692. in the Kings Bench there the next Term after their arrival there.

XVI. Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, and others, having any Ecclesiastical Office or Promotion, or being a Le­cturer or Curate there, that shall be in England the first day of Hillary-Term 1691. shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the end of the said Term in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench here, and again, before the 25th day of July 1692. in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench there, as aforesaid; and if they neglect or refuse so to do, they shall be ipso facto deprived, and become incapable to be Lecturers or Curates any where; and all other the Persons above mentioned, who shall be here on the first day of the said Hillary-Term, shall take the said Oaths, and make and subscribe the said Declaration in Chancery or the Kings Bench in England, or elsewhere, shall be adjudged ipso facto incapable and disabled to hold and enjoy such Office, pay, &c. Imployment, or any part of them, which taking the said Oaths, &c. in England, shall be as effectual as if they had taken the same in Ireland.

XVII. This Act shall not extend to disable any Persons, who on the third of October 1691. were residing in Lymerick, or in any Garrison then in the possession of the Irish, or any Officers or Souldiers then in Arms by virtue of any Com­mission from the late King James, or any commissioned Of­ficers then in their Majesties Quarters, that did belong to the Irish Regiments then in being, or were then treated with, or who were not Prisoners of War, or who had not then taken Protection, and have since submitted to their Majesties Obe­dience, from using their Profession, or calling of Barrister at Law, Clerk in Chancery, Attorny or Practiser of Law or Physick.

XVIII. Provided that every such Barrister at Law, &c. who shall claim any benefit hereby, to be exempt from [Page 68]taking the said Oaths, &c. shall make out his claim thereto, according to the qualifications herein before expressed, before the Court of Kings Bench in Ireland, on or before the last day of Michaelmas-Term next, for the recording whereof 1 s. shall be paid and no more, and in default of such claim to be excluded.

XIX. If any Person before he have taken the said Oath in the Kings Bench in Ireland, or at the General Quarter-Ses­sions in the place where he inhabits, and procured the same to be recorded, and obtain'd a Certificate thereof, shall practise his Calling or Profession, he shall forfeit 500 l. to such as will sue for the same, and be uncapable to use or exercise such Profession or Calling.

XX. Two or more Justices of the Peace, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall direct their Warrants to any Consta­ble, Tythingman, or other Officer, to summon any Person of eighteen years of Age or upwards, to appear before such Ju­stices to the Oath above-mentioned to be faithful, &c. and for want of appearance, having no lawful let, or in case of appearing and refusing to take the said Oath, the Justices shall commit such Persons to the common Gaol or House of Correction for three months, unless they shall pay down any Sum not exceeding 40 s. as the Justices shall require, which Mony shall be paid to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish or Place where the Offender last in­habited; and after the three months ended, two or more Ju­stices shall direct their Warrant to summon such Offender be­fore them to take the said Oath; and for want of appear­ance, or in case of refusal to take the said Oath, he shall be committed, as aforesaid, for six months, unless he pay down what Sum the Justices shall require, not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. to be disposed as aforesaid; and unless he become bound with two Sureties, to appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery, and in the mean time to be of the Good Behaviour; and in case of refusal, at the Assizes or General Gaol-delivery, such Offender shall incur a Premunire, unless such Offender be a Feme Covert, who upon such refusal shall be commit­ted only to the Common Gaol, till she takes the said Oath.

XXI. It shall be sufficient for Quakers producing a Cer­tificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Con­gregation to which they belong, to make and subscribe the following Declaration, viz.

I A. B. do sincerely promise, and solemnly declare before God and the World, That I will be true and faithful to King William and Queen Mary.

And I do solemnly profess and declare, That I do from my Heart, &c. verbatim, as in the Oaths afore-mentioned.

[Page 69] XXII. But no Quakers shall thereby be capable of holding any Office, Imployment, Salary, &c. whereunto any Person taking the said Oaths, &c. shall or may be entituled.

XXIII. This Act shall not be dispensed with by any Warrant or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or Ireland, but such Dispensations shall be null and void.

Iudicial Proceedings.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 4. Whereas the Term of St. Hill. 1688. could not be kept; Be it enacted, That all Pleas, Writs, Bills, Actions, Suits, Plaints, Process, Precepts or other Things whatsoever, that were returnable or had day or days in the Chancery, Kings Bench, Common Pleas or Exchequer, in Oct. Hill. Quind Hill. Crast. Pur. or Oct. Pur. last past, or at any day certain after any of the said Returns, shall stand and be revived, and are hereby continued and adjourned to the Return of Quind. Pasch. next ensuing; and Parties that had day at any time in Hill. Term, shall appear on the said Return of Quind. Pasch. under the same Penalties that might have incurr'd for not appearing in Hill. Term, if it had been held.

II. Writs of Error upon Judgments in the Kings Bench, returnable, or upon which day was given in the Exchequer Chamber at any time in Hill. Term, and all Proceedings there­upon, shall be revived and adjourn'd to the 20th day of Apr. 1689. and all Parties are to appear then under the same Penal­ties that would have incurred, if they had made default in Hill. Term.

III. Writs of Error upon Judgments in the Court of Ex­chequer, upon which day was given before the Lord Chan­cellor, and the Lord Treasurer in Hill. Term, and Proceedings thereupon, shall be revived and adjourn'd to the 23d day of Apr. 1689. and all Parties are to appear then under the same penalty that would have incurr'd, if they had made any default in Hill. Term, &c.

IV. Fines upon which Proclamation ought to have been made in Hill. Term, shall be good, as if such Proclamation had been made; and if the fourth and last Proclamation was to have been made in Hill. Term, the five years shall be ac­counted from the 12th day of Febr. 1688.

V. Where any Judgment was by Warrant of Attorny to have been entred in Hill. Term, the same may be entred in Easter Term, if the Parties be then living.

VI. Any Persons before the 17th day of Apr. 1689. may prosecute any Precept, Writ, mean Process or Execution, re­turnable in the said Courts on some return or day in Easter-Term next; and the said Writs in the Kings Bench, Com­mon Pleas and Exchequer shall be dated on the day they are [Page 70]actually sued out, which Writs and Process shall be good, notwithstanding the want of any Original Writ or being attested.

VII. It shall be lawful before the said 17th day of April to prosecute any Writ of Habeas Corpus in Civil Causes, to be dated as aforesaid, returnable immediately before any of the Justices of the Kings Bench, Common Pleas or Barons of the Exchequer, who may proceed thereupon as if the said Term of St. Hill. had been kept.

VIII. All Pleas, Writs, Bills, Actions, Suits, Plaints, Pro­cess, Pleadings, Proceedings, Indictments and Informations, Causes and Things whatsoever, pleaded, returned, depending or being in the Court of the Dutchy-Chamber at Westminster, in the Great Sessions of Wales, or in the Courts within the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster or Durham, or in any other Court of Law or Equity, upon the 11th day of De­cember 1688. shall be continued and revived, and may be proceeded upon, without any continuance or adjournment.

IX. Persons that since the said 11th day of December 1688. and before the 13th day of February following, have commit­ted any Murder, Manslaughter, Burglary, Perjury or For­gery, or any other Crimes for which they were in custody, or stood upon Bail on the said 13th day of February shall be proceeded against as if the said Crimes had been committed before the said 11th day of December; and all Persons for any Matter arisen since the said 11th day of December, and before the said 13th day of February shall be liable to any Action; and it shall be sufficient in all Indictments and Informati­ons for any such Crimes, and in all Actions and Declarati­ons for any such Cause, to alledge the Year of our Lord, in­stead of the Year of the King; and in such Indictments, In­formations or Actions, wherein Conclusions used to be con­tra Pacem Domini Regis, to conclude contra Pacem Regni; and Indictments for Felonies committed within that time shall be good, having the words contra Pacem Regni, though the words Domini Regis Coronam & Dignitatem be omitted.

X. Recognizances, Statutes and Obligations made since the said 11th day of December, and before the said 13th day of February, in the Name of and to the late King James II. shall be good, and may be sued in their Majesties Names; and all Persons, who were bound by Recognizance to the said late King, to appear in the Court of Kings Bench, at any time in Hill. Term, or at the next Assizes, Oyer and Terminer, Ge­neral Gaol-delivery, or of the Peace, shall be obliged to ap­pear in the said Court of Kings Bench on the first day of Easter-Term 1689. and at the next Assizes, Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, &c. under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Recognizance, &c.

[Page 71] XI. Writs and Process issuing out of any of the Courts of Westminster, as of Mich. Term 1688. that have been exe­cuted before they were returnable, and all Bills, Plaints, Judg­ments and Proceedings in any Inferior Court, and Executions thereupon since the said 11th day of December, and before the said 13th day of February shall be good, as if the said late King had continued so.

XII. Bail Bonds taken by Sheriffs, &c. though not law­fully qualified since the first day of November 1687. and Re­cognizances of Bail taken since the said 11th day of December before any Person, who upon the first day of December last, was Justice of the Kings Bench, Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer shall be good, and may be inroll'd in Easter-Term 1689. and all Commitments to prison on any Writ or Process, by the said Judges since the said 11th day of December shall be good in Law.

XIII. No part of the time from the 10th of December 1688. until the 12th of March 1688. shall be accounted as part of the six months, from the time of the avoidance of any Church in which any Person is bound to bring his darrein Presentment or Quare impedit, or as any part of the time in which any Person by virtue of any Statute of Limitation ought to bring his Action.

Iudgments.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 20. The Clerk of the Es­soins of the Court of Common Pleas, every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench, and the Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer, shall before the end of every Easter-Term put into an Alphabetical Dogget by the Defendants Names, a particular of all Judgments for Debt by Confession, non sum Informatus or nihil dicit entred in the said respective Courts of the Term of St. Hillary preceding, containing the Names of the Plaintiffs and Defendants, their Places of Abode, Title, Trade or Profession (if any such be in the Record) and the Debt, Damages and Costs recovered thereby, and where the Actions were laid and the Number-roll of the Entry thereof; and every Clerk of the Judgments, and other Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas and Kings Bench, shall within ten days before the said time, bring to the Clerks of the Doggets, Notes in Writing of all the Judgments by them entred of the said Term of St. Hillary upon Verdicts, Writs of Enquiry, Demurrer and every other Judgment for Debt or Damages in all things as aforesaid; and that the Clerk of the Judgments and every other Clerk of the Exche­quer, shall within the time aforesaid, bring unto the Master of the Office or Pleas, the like Note in Writing of all the [Page 72]like Judgments by him entred, to the end they may be re­spectively entred; and the respective Officers and Clerks shall before the last day of the Term of St. Michael, make the like Doggets, containing all Judgments of the Terms of Easter and Trinity, in all things, as aforesaid; and before the last day of every Hillary-Term, the like Doggets of Judgments in Michael­mass-Term; The said Doggets to be kept in Books in Parch­ment, to be searched and viewed by all Persons at reasonable times, paying for every Terms search 4 d. and no more, on pain that every Clerk of the Essoins of the Court of Com­mon Pleas, Clerk of the Doggets of the Kings Bench and Master of the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer, and every Clerk before-mentioned, shall for every Term in which he shall neglect his Duty, forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Party grieved, and the other moiety to the Prosecutor.

II. No Judgment not doggetted as aforesaid, shall affect any Lands as to Purchasers or Mortgagees, or have any pre­ference against Heirs, Executors or Administrators in the ad­ministration of their Ancestors, Testators or Intestates Estates.

III. The Plaintiffs in every of the said Judgments shall pay to the Clerks of the Judgments, for every Judgment en­tring 4 d. over and above the Fees now due.

IV. This Act to continue for one year from the 25th day of March 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

Leather.

I. STat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 23. Whereas an Act made in the 20th year of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act [Page 73]for giving liberty to buy and export Leather and Skins tanned or dressed, was revived by another Act made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled, An Act for reviving a former Act for exporting Leather, which Act will expire at the end of this Sessions. Be it enacted that the said two Acts be revived and continue in force from the end of this Ses­sion of Parliament for seven years, and from thence to the end of the Session of Parliament then next ensuing.

II. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 33. Every Hide, Skin or Piece of tanned Leather, shaved or liquored, and well cur­ried according to the Statute of 1 Jac. 1. shall be adjudged to be the made Ware and Manufacture of the Currier, and sub­ject to the view, search and seizure of the Master of the several Mysteries of the Cordwainers, Curriers, Girdlers and Sadlers of the City of London, or the major part of them, as by the said Statute is provided, and shall be liable to be seiz'd and subject to the same Penalties, as other Wares insufficient­ly made of tanned Leather are liable and subject by the said Statute.

III. Nothing in this Act shall give any Power to the Ma­ster and Wardens of the Company of Curriers to search or seize any Leather, Hide or Skin, but such as shall be cur­ried in London, or within three Miles thereof, by some Mem­bers of their own Company, nor in any other Place, but the open Market-place, or in the Shops, Houses or Ware-houses of such Curriers.

IV. All Persons whatsoever dealing or working in Leather, may buy all sorts of Red tann'd Leather in any open Fair or Market, curried or uncurried, the same being first search't and seal'd according to Law, and may sell the same again in their Shops, or convert it into other made Ware.

V. Any Persons may buy or sell Leather, Hides or Skins by weight.

London.

I. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 8. Whereas a Judgment was given in the Kings Bench in Trinity-Term, in the 35th Year of King Charles II. in a Quo Warranto against the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London, that the Franchise of the said City should be seiz'd into the Kings Hands as for­feited, which Proceedings were illegal and arbitrary; Be it enacted, That the said Judgment and every other Judgment given or recorded in the said Court, for seizing the Franchise of the said City into the Kings Hands be revers'd and made void, and Vacats entred upon the Rolls.

II. The Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of London to re­main a Body Politick by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty [Page 74]and Citizens of the City of London, &c. without any Seizure or Forejudger of the said Franchise, &c. upon pretence of any Forfeiture or Misdemeanor done or to be done, and to have and enjoy all their Rights, Charters, &c. which they law­fully had at the time of the recording or giving the said Judgment.

III. All Charters, Letters Patents, &c. for incorporating the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City or any of them, and all Charters, &c. concerning any of their Liberties, &c. Lands and Tenements, &c. Rights, Title or Estates made since the said Judgment by the late King Charles II. or King James II. are hereby declared void.

IV. Yet no Recoveries, Verdicts, Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Inquisitions, Indictments, Presentments, In­formations, Decrees, Sentences, Executions, nor any Plaints, Process or Proceedings in Law or Equity, had in any Court within the said City or Liberties thereof, since the said Judg­ment, shall be avoided for want of any legal Power in such as acted as Judges or Officers belonging to the same.

V. This Act shall not extend to discharge any Persons from any Penalties for not duly qualifying themselves to act upon such Charters, Grants or Commissions.

VI. All Officers and Ministers of the City, that right­fully held any Office or Place therein, or in Southwark, when such Judgment was given, are hereby confirmed, as fully as they held them then; except such as have voluntarily surrendred, or been removed for just cause; and Persons admitted since the said Judgment, into any Office or Employment within the said City, upon the death, surrender or removal, as aforesaid, of the former Officers, are hereby confirmed, as if they had been admitted therein according to ancient Custom.

VII. Leases and Grants of Lands and other things, be­fore the said Judgment belonging to the City, made since the said Judgment, by the said late King Charles II. or King James II. or any taking upon them to be Trustees for the City, upon pretence of any Commission from either of the said late Kings, being made for a just and valuable considera­tion, and whereupon the accustom'd yearly Rent or more hath been reserved, shall be good upon the Terms therein con­tained, and the Commonalty and Citizens shall have all be­nefit and advantage thereof.

VIII. All Judgments, Decrees and Sentences obtain'd by any Persons taking upon them to be Trustees, as aforesaid, concerning any Interests belonging to the City, shall stand in force and be prosecuted and executed by and to the use of the City; and all Persons natural-born Subjects or Denizens, that have been admitted into the Freedom of the City since the said Judgment shall be free thereof, as if admitted before.

[Page 75] IX. The present Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberlain and Com­mon Council shall continue till new Elections, and the Per­sons to be elected sworn; the Election of a Mayor, Sheriffs and Chamberlain, to be on the 26th day of May 1690, and of the Common Council on the 10th day of June 1690. Per­sons so elected to continue till the usual time of electing such Officers according to usage, and from thence to continue for the year ensuing.

X. If the Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberlain and Common Council shall not be elected as aforesaid, the Mayor, Sheriffs, Chamberlain and Common Council, which were in being at the time of the said Judgment, shall be and continue in those respective Offices, till new Elections be made according to ancient usage.

XI. All Persons so to be restored and continued, shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths, the next Term after such restitution, under the Penalties and Disabilities in the said Act provided.

XII. The Mayor, Sheriffs and Chamberlain so to be elect­ed, shall be sworn in usual manner, on or before the 20th day of June next.

XIII. The several Companies and Corporations of the City, shall stand and be incorporated by such Names and in such manner as they were at the time of such Judgment given, and are hereby restored to the Lands, &c. Rights and Liber­ties which they lawfully had then: And all Surrenders and Charters for new incorporating any of them, and concern­ing any of their Liberties granted by either of the said late Kings since the said Judgment, shall be void; but no Person shall be prosecuted for any thing by him lawfully done in pursuance of such Charters, &c.

XIV. Provided that all Leases, Terms and Estates granted by any of the said Companies since the said Judgment, for just and valuable considerations, and whereupon the accu­stomed yearly Rents, or more are reserved, shall be of force, as if they had been granted by the said several Companies, as hereby restored; and the said Companies shall have all bene­fits and advantages thereof.

XV. Persons since the said Judgment admitted into the Freedoms or Liveries of the said Companies, according to the Custom of the City, shall enjoy the Rights and Priviledges of a Free-man and Livery-man.

XVI. This present Act shall be reputed a General and Publick Act of Parliament, of which all Judges in all Courts shall take notice, as if it were a Publick Act relating to the whole Kingdom.

[Page 76] XVII. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 8. From the 15th day of Dec. 1690. All Persons within the Parishes within the Week­ly Bills of Mortality in Middlesex and Westminster, and the Liber­ties thereof, and in Southwark, or in any Streets, &c. com­priz'd in the said Weekly Bills, and in Kensington, shall on every Wednesday and Saturday sweep and cleanse all the Streets, &c. before their Houses, &c. that the Dirt may be ready for the Scavenger, on pain to forfeit 3 s. and 4 d. for every neglect; and none shall lay or suffer to be laid any Sea-Coal Ashes, Dust, Dirt, &c. in any open Street, Lane or Alley before their own Houses, or any publick Places, on the Penal­ty of 5 s. and none shall lay any Ashes, Dirt or Soil before the Houses or Walls of any Persons Inhabitants of the City, Parishes or Places aforesaid, or before any Church, Church-yard Wall, or any of their Majesties Palaces or Places; or shall throw or cause to be thrown into any Common Shewer or High-way within the Parishes and Places aforesaid, or any private Vault of any of the said Inhabitants, any noysome thing whatsoever, but shall keep the same in their respective Houses, Yards or Back­sides, till the Scavenger or other Officer come to take them away, on pain to forfeit 20 s. for every such Offence.

XVIII. The respective Church-wardens, and the House-keepers and other Keepers of White-hall, Somerset-house, St. James's-house and St. James's-Park, and the Guard-houses and Stables, &c. And the Ushers, Porters or Keepers of Courts of Justice, and other publick Places, shall suffer the like Penalties for Offences or Neglects done or suffered before any such Places.

XIX. None shall hoop, wash or cleanse any Vessels in any the said Streets, Lanes or open Passages; nor shall set any Dung, Soil, Rubbish or empty Coaches to make or mend, or rough Timber or Stones to be sawn or wrought, on the penalty of 20 s. for every Offence.

XX. The Rakers, Scavengers, &c. shall every day in the Week, except Sundays and Holydays, bring Carts, and by a Bell or otherwise give notice of their coming, and carry away the Dirt, &c. daily, on pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Offence or Neglect.

XXI. Open Streets, Lanes and Allies now paved, shall be kept so at the Charge of the Inhabitants; and where Houses are unoccupied, at the charge of the Owners, that is to say, every Housholder or Owner to amend the Streets, &c. be­fore his own House, &c. on pain to forfeit 20 s. for every Perch or Rod, for every Default, and of 20 s. a Week for every Week after, till the same be amended.

XXII. One or more Justices of the Peace may view and inspect new ways made or to be made; and if they find them fit to be paved, shall certifie the same to the next Gene­ral Quarter-Sessions, where the Justices of Peace shall take such [Page 77]order for paving them as they shall think fit; and Owners and Inhabitants of Houses now built, or hereafter to be bullt adjoyn­ing to any new Streets or Ways adjudged to be paved or amen­ded, pave with Stone or Gravel, or otherwise amend the Ground before their Houses and Buildings to the middle of the Way, and in default thereof shall forfeit 40 s. for every Perch not paved or amended, and the like Sum for every Week till it be paved, &c. and when paved, the like Sum as those that shall not pave or repair open Streets, &c. by virtue of this Act.

XXIII. Such ancient Streets, Lanes and Allies as by Cu­stom or Order have been repaired in any other order or man­ner, shall hereafter be paved and maintained, as heretofore hath been used.

XXIV. Within the Parishes of St. Anne and St. James with­in the Liberty of Westminster, Scavengers shall be chosen as by the said Acts is directed; and the Assessments for Sca­vengers and such like Officers, shall be assessed and raised ac­cording to the Custom of the said City, where it is not otherwise provided by the said Acts; and the Receivers of such Monies to be accountable as by the said Acts, or other­wise by Law new Houses now or hereafter to be built, with­in the said Limits and Parishes, shall pay proportionable with others; and in all other Places and Parishes aforesaid, upon every Munday or Tuesday in Easter-week the Constables, Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the High-ways, calling such Parishioners as are usually present at chu­sing Parish Officers, shall appoint two Tradesmen of their Parish to be Scavengers for the next Year, and till others be chosen, who within seven days after their election and notice thereof, shall take the Office upon them, on pain to forfeit 10 l. for every refusal; and in case of refusal, others shall be chosen within seven days, who shall take upon them the Of­fice under the same Penalty; the said Penalties to be paid to the Surveyors of the High-ways, and imployed towards the repairing the same, and to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by Warrant from a Justice of Peace; and for want of a distress or non-payment within six days after demand and notice left at the Offenders House, the Offender to be com­mitted till payment.

XXV. Within twenty days after the Election of the Sca­vengers, the Constables, Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the High-ways, calling to them the Inhabitants, as aforesaid, shall settle a Tax, according to a Pound-rate, for the next Year, which being allowed by two Justices of the Peace, shall be quarterly paid by the Inhabi­tants upon demand; and in case of refusal shall be levied by distress and sale of Goods, and for want of a distress, by impri­sonment till payment, if the Offender be not a Peer.

[Page 78] XXVI. The Mony yearly assessed and collected for clean­sing the Streets shall be yearly accounted for by the Scavengers, to two or more of the next Justices of Peace within twenty eight days after the Election of new Scavengers, and what remains in their Hands shall be paid over to their Successors; and two such Justices may commit Scavengers refusing to ac­count, till they make a true account and pay over, as aforesaid, what remains in their Hands.

XXVII. The Scavengers shall have liberty by order of the Justices at their Petit Sessions, or any two of them, to lodge their Dirt, &c. in such vacant and publick Places near the Streets as shall be thought convenient, giving satisfaction to the Owners; and in case of unreasonable Demands, the Justices shall moderate the same; and Persons aggrieved by any Tax made by virtue of this Act, or by the determina­tion of the Justices, &c. may have recourse to the General Quarter-Sessions, whose determination therein shall be final.

XXVIII. And whereas there are many common High­ways in the said Parishes, which cannot be sufficiently sup­ported without the help of this Act, Be it enacted, That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands, &c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor, shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their Quarter-Sessions shall direct, and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction, towards the sup­porting such High-ways; such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods, in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand, rendring the overplus, Charges deducted.

XXIX. No such Assessments to be made in any one Year, shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands, &c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate.

XXX. New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes, shall be subject to the Com­missioners of Sewers; and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers, and alter or take away any Nu­sances therein, and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes.

XXXI. Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, whose Houses adjoyn to the Street, from Michaelmas to Lady­day, yearly, shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark, till twelve a Clock at night, on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default, except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps, to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace.

XXXII. Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, between the last [Page 79]of August and the first of June, shall weigh 56 pounds at least; and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth, shall weigh 60 pounds; and being old Hay of any former years growth, shall weigh 56 pounds; the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight, to forfeit for every Truss 18 d.

XXXIII. No Persons shall suffer their Waggons, Carts, &c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Morta­lity loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold, from Michaelmas to Lady-day, after two a Clock in the Afternoon, nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock, on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence.

XXXIV. Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid, within their respective Limits, may upon their own View, Confes­sion of the Party, or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath, convict Persons of the said Offences; one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor, and the other to the Prose­cutor; and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Ju­stice of Peace, one half to the relief of the Poor, and the other half, if for a default of payment, towards the repair­ing and cleansing the Streets, to be paid to the Scavengers, to be imployed to that use, or otherwise to the relief of the Poor, as aforesaid; all the said Penalties to be levied by di­stress and sale of Goods, by a Justices Warrant to the Con­stable, &c. and for want of a distress, or in case of non-pay­ment within six days after demand, or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House, by the Constable, &c. the Offender, not being a Peer, shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment.

XXXV. The Wheels of Carts, Carriages or Drays within the said Places, where the Streets are paved, shall contain six Inches in the Felley, and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work, nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side. Owners of Carts, &c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth, or shod with Iron, or drawn with above two Horses, as aforesaid, shall for­feit 40 s. for every time such Cart, &c. shall be used, for the Uses, and to be levied, as aforesaid.

XXXVI. This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places, or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets.

XXXVII. No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets, where the Houses are contiguous, upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish: And Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Beadles, Headboroughs and Tything­men, may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London, or any Justice of Peace of the place, search for [Page 80]Swine, and drive them away to sell, the Mony to be deli­vered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish, for the use of the Poor.

XXXVIII. The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof, shall be managed ac­cording to the ancient usage of the City.

XXXIX. The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view, in the General Quarter-Sessions, make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof; and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same, not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence, to be paid to the Chamber­lain of London for the use of the City.

XL. In Actions, &c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II, Entituled, An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London, or this Act, the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give the said Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit, or suffer a Discontinuance, or a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover treble Costs.

XLI. The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerken­well-Green to St. Johns Street, shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act.

Papists.

I. STat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 9. The Lord Mayor of London for the time being, and every Justice of Peace of London, and for Westminster and Southwark, and of the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent and Sussex within their re­spective Limits, shall cause to be brought before him every Person, not being a Merchant Foreigner within the said Cities, or within ten miles of the same, as are reputed to be Papists, and tender them the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of 30 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government, &c. And if any such Person, after refusal to make and subscribe the same, shall continue to be within the said City or Cities, or within ten miles di­stant from the same, he or she shall forfeit and suffer as a Popish Recusant convict.

II. The Justices of Peace shall certifie the Subscriptions taken before them by virtue of this Act, and the Names of Refusers upon tender, under their Hands and Seals, into the Court of Kings Bench the next Term, or else at the next [Page 86]Quarter-Sessions; and if Persons so refusing and certified, shall not within the next Term or Sessions after such refusal, appear in the Court of Kings Bench or Sessions, and in open Court make and subscribe the said Declaration, and in­dorse his so doing upon the Certificate, they shall be ad­judged from the time of such their refusal, as Popish Recu­sants convict.

III. This Act shall not extend to such as use any Trade or Manuel Occupation; nor to such as within six months before the 13th of Febr. 1688. had their places of abode within the said Cities, or ten miles compass, not having any place of abode elsewhere, so as before the said first day of August 1689. they certifie their Names, Additions and Places of Abode at the Sessions of the Peace to be held for the said respective Cities, Counties or Places; the Clerk of the Peace to take but 2 d. for the entry of such Name, Ad­dition and Place of Abode.

IV. Nothing in this Act shall have any effect upon such Foreigners, as are or shall be menial Servants to Ambassadors or Publick Agents.

V. Foreigners, Servants to the Queen Dowager, are like­wise excepted, not exceeding the number of thirty at any one time.

VI. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 15. It shall be lawful for any two or more Justices of the Peace, who shall know or suspect any Person to be a Papist, or shall be so informed, to tender to such Person the Declaration expressed in an Act of Parliament made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government, &c. And if such Person shall not make and subscribe the said Declara­tion, or shall refuse to appear upon notice left at his Place of Abode by any Person authorized in that behalf, by War­rant under the Hands and Seals of the said two Justices, such Person shall be liable to all the Penalties, Forfeitures and Dis­abilities herein after mentioned.

VII. The said Justices of the Peace shall certifie the Name, Sirname and usual Place of Abode of Persons so refusing or neglecting, and of all who shall make and subscribe the said Declaration, at the next General Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the Shire, Riding, &c. for which they shall be Justices, to be there Recorded, &c.

VIII. No Papist or reputed Papist, so refusing or making default, shall keep in his House or elsewhere at his disposition, any Arms, Weapons, Gun-powder or Ammunition (other than such as shall be allowed him by order of a General Quarter-Sessions for the defence of his House and Person) and any two or more Justices of the Peace may from time to time, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals authorize [Page 87]Persons in the day-time, with the assistance of the Constable or his Deputy, Tythingman or Headborough, to search for Arms, &c. in the House, Custody or Possession of any such Papist or reputed Papist, and seize the same for their Maje­sties use, and shall at the next General Quarter-Sessions deliver them in open Court for the use aforesaid.

IX. Every Papist or reputed Papist, who shall not within ten days after such refusal or making default as aforesaid, discover and deliver to some Justice of the Peace all Arms, Weapons, Gun-powder or Ammunition whatsoever, which shall have in his House, or elsewhere, or shall hinder any Persons authorized to search as aforesaid, to search and seize the same, shall be committed to the Common Gaol by War­rant of any two Justices of Peace, for three months without Bail or Mainprize, and shall forfeit the said Arms and pay treble the value of them to the Kings use, to be appraised by the Justices of Peace at their next General Quarter-Ses­sions.

X. Persons concealing or privy to the concealing of such Arms, or that shall hinder any Persons authorized as aforesaid, in searching for and seizing the same, shall be committed to the Common Gaol, by Warrant as aforesaid, for three months without Bail or Mainprize, and shall forfeit the treble value of the said Arms to their Majesties, &c.

XI. If any Persons shall discover any concealed Arms, &c. belonging to any refusing or making default, as afore­said, so as the same may be seized, the Justices of Peace up­on delivery of the same at the General Quarter-Sessions shall allow as a Reward for such discovery the full value of the Arms, &c. so discovered, the Sum to be by the said Justices of Peace at their Sessions, and to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods, rendring the overplus above the Sum assessed, and the Charges of the Distress to the Owner.

XII. Persons having refused or made default, as aforesaid, who shall afterward in open Court at the General Quarter-Sessions, where their refusing or making default shall be cer­tified, make and subscribe the said Declaration, and take the Oaths contained in an Act made in this Parliament, En­tituled, An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Par­liament, shall from thenceforth be discharged of and from all Disabilities and Forfeitures, which for the future they might be liable to for such refusal or default.

XIII. No Papist or reputed Papist so refusing or making default, shall after the 15th of May, 1689. keep in his posses­sion or to his use any Horse or Horses above the value of 5 l. to be sold; and any two Justices of the Peace may from time to time by Warrant as aforesaid, and with the assistance afore­said, [Page 88]authorize any Persons to search for and seize such Horses as aforesaid to their Majesties.

XIV. Persons concealing or aiding in the concealing any such Horses, shall be committed by Warrant, as aforesaid, for three months without Bail or Mainprize, and shall for­feit treble the value of such Horses, to be settled, as afore­said.

XV. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 17. Whereas in an Act of this Parliament, Entituled, An Act for the amoving Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and West­minster, &c. the County of Sussex is by mistake inserted for the County of Essex, Be it enacted, That the Powers and Authorities by the said Act given to the Justices of the Peace of the County of Sussex, be extended to the County of Essex, and the Justices of Peace of the said County of Essex.

XVI. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 26. Persons refusing or neglecting to repeat and subscribe the Declaration men­tioned in one Act of this present Parliament, Entituled, An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists, when tendred by two or more Justices of the Peace, or forbearing to appear before them upon notice given, as the said Act directs, and shall thereupon have their Names and Places of Abode certified and recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions, as by the said Act is appointed, shall be disabled to make any Presentation, Collation, Nomi­nation or Donation, or grant of any avoidance of any Be­nefice or Ecclesiastical Living, as if such Person were a Popish Recusant convict; and the Chancellors and Scholars of the two Universities respectively, shall have the Presentation, No­mination, &c. of and to every such Benefice, &c. being within their respective Counties, Cities and other the Places and Limits mentioned in the Act of the third of King James I. Entituled, An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants, as in and by the said Act is di­rected and appointed.

XVII. Persons seiz'd or possess'd of any Advowson, right of Presentation, Collation, &c. to any such Ecclesiastical Living, Free-School or Hospital, in trust for any Papist or Popish Recusant convicted or disabled according to the intent of the said Act of 1 Jac. 1. or of this Act, shall likewise be dis­abled to present, nominate or collate to any such Ecclesia­stical Living, &c. or to grant any avoidance thereof; and the Chancellors and Scholars of the Universities respectively, shall have such Presentations, &c. as they should have in case such Recusant convict or disabled were seiz'd or pos­sess'd thereof; and if any Trustee, Mortgagee or Grantee of any avoidance, hereafter present, &c. or cause to be present­ed, [Page 89] &c. any Person to any such Living, Free-School, &c. whereof the Trust shall be for a Recusant convict or dis­abled, without giving notice in Writing to the Vice-Chan­cellor of the University, to whom such Presentation, &c. shall belong, according to the intent of this Act, within three months after the avoidance, he shall forfeit 500 l. to the respective Chancellors and Scholars of either University, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Informa­tion, &c.

XVIII. Provided that the said Chancellor and Scholars shall not present or nominate any person that shall then have any Benefice with cure of Souls; but that such Presentation shall be void.

XIX. Provided that if any person so presented, &c. to any Benefice with cure, shall be absent from the same above sixty days in one year, that such Benefices shall be void.

XX. Provided nevertheless, That if any such person shall at the General Quarter-Sessions, where his Name is recorded, repeat and subscribe the said Declaration, and take the Oaths contained in an Act of this Parliament, Entituled, An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, &c. he shall be discharged from the said Disability, and be enabled to make such Presentation, &c. as if this Act had not been made.

Pardon.

I. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 10. All Subjects of this Realm of England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick, All Bodies Politick and Corporate, Cities, Burroughs, Shires, Ri­dings, Hundreds, &c. shall be pardoned and discharged of and from all Treasons, Felonies, Misprisions of Treason, Trea­sonable or Seditious Words or Libels, Misprisions of Felony, seditious and unlawful Meetings, Offences of Premunire, Ryots, Routs, Offences, Contempts, Trespasses, Entries, Wrongs, Deceits, Misdemeanors, Forfeitures, Penalties and Sums of Mony, pains of Death, pains Corporal and Pecuniary, and of and from all Things, Causes, Quarrels, Suits, Judg­ments and Executions, not hereafter excepted, which by their Majesties in any wise can be pardoned before the 16th day of May 1690.

II. All their Majesties Subjects and Bodies Corporate, may by themselves, their Deputies or Attornies, plead this for any thing hereby pardoned or discharged without any Fee or other Thing, paying to any person for writing or entry of the Judgments or other Cause concerning such Plea, Writing or Entry, but only 16 d. to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter the same.

III. This Pardon to be expounded most beneficial and avail­able to the Subject.

[Page 90] IV. If any Officer or Clerk of any of their Majesties Courts shall after Easter-Term next, make out any Process, whereby any of the Subjects or Bodies Corporate aforesaid, may be inquieted for any thing hereby pardoned; or if any Sheriff, Escheator or their under Officers levy or with-hold any thing discharged by this Act, they shall pay to the party grieved treble Damages and Costs of Suit; and forfeit to their Majesties 10 l. for every such Offence, and such Process to be void.

V. Except Treasons and other Offences against the King and Queens persons or either of them, and all Conspiracies and Confederacies against their Majesties most Royal Persons: And all Treasons committed in Ireland, or any Parts beyond the Seas since the 13th day of Febr. 1688. And all Offences in forging and counterfeiting the Great or Privy Seal, Sign Ma­nuel or Privy Signet, or of Monies; and all Offences of un­lawful diminishing Monies; and all Misprisions and Conceal­ments of the Treasons above excepted, and abetting, aiding, com­forting and procuring the same.

VI. And except all Murthers, Petit Treasons and wilful Poysonings, and the Accessaries thereunto.

VII. And except Robberies and Pyracies upon the Seas, pro­curing and abetting such Offenders, and receiving them or Goods taken by Pyracy.

VIII. And except all Burglaries and breaking into and steal­ing out of any Dwelling-houses in the day, and Accessaries thereunto.

IX. And except Robberies of Churches, and Robberies committed on the High-way.

X. And except Buggery with Mankind or Beast, and Rapes of Women.

XI. And except the wilful taking away or marrying any Maid, Widow or Damsel against her will, or the assent of her Parents or Guardians, and Accessaries thereunto.

XII. And except all Offences of Perjury and Subornation of Witnesses, and of forging and counterfeiting Deeds, Writ­ings or Records; or Examinations of Witnesses, tending to bring any Persons in danger of Life, and all procuring or counselling the same.

XIII. And except all Offences committed in any Forest since the 13th day of Febr. 1688.

XIV. And except Forfeitures now due, or which may be be due to their Majesties by reason of any Offence, &c. con­trary to any Statute (other than using a Trade without ser­ving seven years) or contrary to the Common Law; and whereof any Action, Bill, Plaint or Information within six days next before the day of holding this present Parliament, viz. the 20th day of March 1689. hath been commenced in any [Page 91]of their Majesties Courts at Westminster, and is there depend­ing; or whereupon any Verdict, Judgment or Decree is al­ready given or entred; or whereof their Majesties have made any Assignment before the said 16 day of May.

XV. And except all Proceedings concerning High-ways and Bridges, and Issues return'd upon any such Process since the 20th day of March. 1679.

XVI. And except all Offences in imbezeling and purloin­ing their Majesties Goods, Monies, Chattels, Jewels, Armor, Munition, Stores, Naval Provisions, Shipping, Ordinance and other Habiliments of War; and all Offences in conveying to the French King any Naval Stores or contraband Goods.

XVII. And except all Conditions and Covenants, and all Penalties, Titles, &c. accrued to their Majesties by the breach of them.

XVIII. And except all Offences of Incest, Simony and Di­lapidations, for which any Suit is, or was depending the first day of this Parliament.

XIX. And except Adultery, and other Enormous Crimes by Persons in Holy Orders, punishable in Ecclesiastical Courts.

XX. And except First-fruits and Tenths, Pensions, Pro­curations, Synodals and other Payments out of any Ecclesia­stical Benefice; other than Tenths due out of small Livings not worth 30 l. a year improved value, and which shall be so certified by the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualties be­fore the last of Michaelmas-Term; but this Act shall not dis­charge Bishops from answering any of the said Arrears by them received.

XXI. And except the Monies and Duties following, and Concealments thereof, viz. of any Custom or Subsidy, Excise, Hearth-mony, Imposition upon Wine or other Liquors, Duties arising by Wine-licences, or the Post-office, or any other Duty due to their Majesties by Act of Parliament, and Forfeitures for non-payment thereof, and Misdemeanors in Ministers con­cerning the same.

XXII. And except all taking from their Majesties, or the late King Charles II. or King James II. Goods forfeited for Treason, Petit Treason, Murder or Felony; or the Issues and Profits of Lands of Traitors or Felons attainted; or of the Possessions of any Bishoprick, the Temporalties whereof up­on the 20th day of March 1679. were or ought to have been in their Hands; and except all Arrears of Rent due from any Farmer of any part of the Revenue, and of Fee-farms and other Rents.

XXIII. And except the accounts of Collectors, Commis­sioners or Receivers of any Subsidy, Custom, Tunnage and Poundage, additional Duty, Prize Goods, or other things grown due since the 25th of March 1673. and of all other Ac­countants [Page 92]to their Majesties, in respect of any receit or other charge grown since the said 25th day of March, and all untrue Accounts made since then.

XXIV. And except Recognizances and other Securities given by any Accountant in the Exchequer, and their Sureties; and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony.

XXV. This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance, &c. not yet forfeited; nor any forfeited Recognizanc, &c. where­of the Farmers of the Excise, or any part of the Revenue, ought to receive benefit; nor any Debt due by Recognizance, &c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties, which hath been seiz'd in Aid; nor any Debt, whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made, upon which any thing is, or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid; nor to dis­charge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Maje­sties by any Statute, which Forfeitures, &c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt; or have been install'd or any seizure made for them, upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March.

XXVI. But all Recognizances, &c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place, or not keeping the Peace, or not being of the Good Behaviour, are discharged, except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner.

XXVII. And except all Issues, Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March, being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament; and all Issues, &c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March, affeered, taxed, estreated or entred se­verally touching any one or more Persons, joyntly or seve­rally, above 6 l. and except Issues, Fines, &c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament.

XXVIII. But all other Fines, as well pro lic. concord. as others, set or entred before that time; and Issues and Amer­ciaments, as well real as others, set or entred before the time aforesaid, and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated, whether turn'd into Debt or not, and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament, shall be discharged; yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines, &c. already estreated out of the Ex­chequer, and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands, shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office, as hath been accustomed; and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants, upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines, &c. as are pardoned, shall have their Petition al­lowed without Fee.

[Page 93] XXIX. This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons, who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold, when King Charles I. was murther'd.

XXX. Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices, or to serve in Parliament, &c. to persons disabled by any other Laws.

XXXI. Nor shall this Act discharge any person, who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Of­fice, is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name.

XXXII. And except all persons attainted by Act of Parlia­ment, or otherwise, for any Rebellion, levying of War, or any Conspiracy thereof, in any of their Majesties Dominions; and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason, Petit Treason, Murder, wilful Poysoning or Burglary.

XXXIII. And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever.

XXXIV. And except persons who after conviction or at­tainder for any Felony, have desired to be transported.

XXXV. And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penal­ties imposed on them by any subsequent Act.

XXXVI. And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.

XXXVII. And except William Marquiss of Powis, Theophi­lus Earl of Huntington, Robert Earl of Sunderland, John Earl of Melfort, Roger Earl of Castlemain, the Lord Thomas Howard, Na­thaniel Lord Bishop of Durham, Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Da­vids, Henry Lord Dover, William Molineux, Sir Edward Hales, Sir Edward Herbert, Sir Francis Wythens, Sir Richard Holloway, Sir Edward Lutwich, Sir Richard Heath, Sir Thomas Jenner, Sir Roger l'Estrange, Sir Nicholas Butler, Edward Petre, Thomas Tin­desley, — Townly, Rowland Tempest, Edward Morgan, Obadiah Walker, Robert Brent, Richard Graham, Philip Burton, Robert Lundy, Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased.

XXXVIII. And also except all Offences committed by Je­suits and Romish Priests, contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth, Entituled, An Act against Jesuits, Seminary Priests, and other disobedient Persons; and except all Con­victions of Popish Recusants.

XXXIX. No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any per­son Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd, unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail, where the Law requires it, and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any [Page 94]Outlawry after Judgment, till satisfaction or agreement with the party.

XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue, and give this Act in Evidence.

XLI. This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown, as against their Majesties them­selves.

XLII. Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties, or adhering to their Enemies, since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next, or sooner, if required, take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same, viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary.

So help me God.

Parliament.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of Fe­bruary following, are the two Houses of Parliament, to all intents and purposes, notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form; and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation, shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February.

II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Per­son and Government, by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament, and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegi­ance and Supremacy, or either of them, by any Member of either House of Parliament, with relation to their sitting and voting there, are hereby repealed.

III. And the taking the Oaths herein after mentioned, and the making and subscribing the Declaration in the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. mentioned, by the Members of each House, from and after the first day of March next, shall be effectual, as if the said Oaths of Alle­giance and Supremacy, had been taken, &c. And in all future Parliaments the Oaths herein after mentioned, and the said Declaration shall be taken, made and subscribed by every Member of either House, as the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the said Declaration by the said Act of the [Page 95]30th year of King Charles II. are appointed to be taken, to enable them to sit and vote in Parliament.

IV. The Oaths above appointed by this Act to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, are these, viz.

I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary.

So help me God.

I A. B. do swear, That I do from my Heart abhor, detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical, that damnable Doctrin and Position, That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any Au­thority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever. And I do declare, That no Fo­reign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Power, Jurisdiction, Superiority, Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm.

So help me God.

V. This present Parliament may be dissolved after the usual manner, as if summoned by Writ.

VI. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 7. Whereas the late Lord-Wardens of the Cinque-Ports have claim'd a Power of no­minating and recommending to each of the said Cinque-Ports, the two ancient Towns and their Members, one person whom they ought to elect as a Member of Parliament; be it de­clared and enacted, That all such Nominations and Recom­mendations were and are contrary to the Laws and Constitu­tions of this Realm, and for the future shall be so deemed, and they are hereby declared to be void.

Poor.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 11. The Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, (except what relates to the Corporations therein mentioned) which was revived and continued with Alterations by an Act made in the first year of the late King James II. shall be in force from the first day of March 1691.

II. The forty days continuance of a person, intended by the said Acts to make a Settlement, shall be accounted from the publication of a notice in writing, which he or she shall deliver of the House of his or her Abode, and number of his or her Family, to the Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor, which shall be read immediately after Divine Service, in the Church or Chappel of the Place on the next Lords Day [Page 96]where there shall be Divine Service in the same; the Church­warden or Overseer to Register such notice in the Book kept for the Poors Accounts.

III. No Souldier or other Person in their Majesties Service, by delivery and publication of notice as aforesaid, unless they be dismist the Service.

IV. Church-wardens or Overseers refusing to read, or cause to be read such notice, as aforesaid, (upon proof thereof by two Witnesses upon Oath before a Justice of Peace) shall for­feit 40 s. to the use of the party grieved, to be levied by di­stress and sale of Goods by Warrant of a Justice of Peace to the Constable; and for want of a Distress, shall be com­mitted to Gaol for a month; and if any Church-warden or Overseer shall neglect or refuse to Register such notice, as aforesaid, they shall forfeit 40 s. to be levied as aforesaid; and for want of a Distress, shall be committed as afore­said.

V. If any person coming to inhabit in any Town or Parish, shall on his own account execute any Publick annual Office, or charge in the same during a year, or pay his share towards the publick Taxes or Levies of such Town, &c. he shall be adjudged to have a legal Settlement without notice in Writing delivered, &c.

VI. If any unmarried person not having Child or Children shall be lawfully hired for a Year, such Service shall be deemed a good Settlement without notice, &c.

VII. Being bound Apprentice and inhabiting in a Town or Parish, shall be adjudged a good Settlement.

VIII. Persons agrieved by the determination of any Ju­stices of the Peace, may appeal to the next Quarter-Sessions, who shall finally determine the same.

IX. If any person be removed by virtue of this Act from one place to another, by Warrant of two Justices of Peace, the Church-wardens or Overseers of the place to which he shall be removed, shall receive him, and in case of refusal (upon proof by two Witnesses upon oath before a Justice of Peace of the County, Riding, &c. to which he shall be removed) shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the Poor of the Parish from which he shall be removed, to be levied by di­stress and sale of Goods, &c. by Warrant of a Justice of Peace of the County, &c. to which he shall be removed, to the Constable of the place where such Offender dwells; and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for forty days.

X. Persons agrieved by the Judgment of the said two Justices may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions of the place from which the said person was removed.

[Page 97] XI. There shall be kept in every Parish, at the Parish Charge, a Book or Books, wherein the Names of persons re­ceiving Collections, shall be registred, with the time when they were first admitted to have relief, and the occasion of their necessity; and yearly in Easter-Week, or oftner, the Pa­rishioners shall meet and have such Books produced before them, and the persons receiving Collections shall be called, and the reasons of their taking relief examined, and a new List be made and entred of such as they shall think fit to allow to receive collection; and no other shall be allowed to receive Collection, but by Authority under the Hand of a Justice of Peace residing in the Parish, and if there be none, in the Parts next adjoyning, or by order of the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions, except in cases of Pestilential Diseases, Plague or Small-pox, in respect of Familes infected only.

XII. In all Actions to be brought in the Courts at West­minster, or at the Assizes, for Monies mis-spent by the Church-wardens or Overseers, the Evidence of the Parishioners (other than such as receive Alms) of the Parish where the Defen­dants are Inhabitants, shall be taken and admitted.

Prisoners.

I. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 15. All persons in pri­son upon the 28th day of November 1690. for Debt or Damages, or upon any Action, or mean Process for Debt, Account or Tres­pass upon the Case, or who may have Judgments entred upon Record against them, or are charg'd in Execution, or impri­son'd upon Attachments for Debt, or upon Outlawries for Debt, or upon any Process in Law or Equity, for Debt, Da­mages or Costs only, who shall take the Oath mentioned in the Act of 22 and 23 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for the Re­lief and Release of poor distressed Prisoners for Debt, and the Oath in this Act following, shall be released in manner and form as is mentioned in the said Act, and in one other Act made in the 30th year of the said late King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for the farther relief and discharge of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt.

II. Justices of Peace, who pursuant to the said Acts, or to this present Act, shall make any Order for the discharge of any poor Prisoner for Debt, shall cause to come before them any Sheriff, Gaoler or Keeper of Prison, where such Prisoners are, and administer to them this Oath, viz. I A. B. do swear that J. S. was really and truly my Prisoner, in my custody, without any fraud or deceit in me, or by any other to my knowledge, at or upon the 28th day of November 1690.

So help me God.

[Page 98] III. If any Sheriff, Gaoler, &c. refuse to appear and take the said Oath, he shall forfeit to such Prisoner so about to be discharged, the value of the Debt for which he is imprison­ed, to be recovered by Action of Debt in any their Majesties Courts of Record; and if any such Sheriff, Gaoler, &c. shall forswear himself, he shall suffer as a person convicted of per­jury.

IV. Prisoners taking the benefit of this Act, and taking the Oath in the first recited Act mentioned, shall also before such Justice or Justices by whom such Oath is to be given, take this Oath, viz. I A. B. do swear, That on the 28th day of November 1690. I was actually a Prisoner in the custody of the Gaoler or Keeper of D. Prison in the County of C. at the Suit of J.S. without my consent or procurement, or by any Fraud or Collusion; whatsoever.

So help me God.

V. Such Prisoners forswearing themselves, besides the pe­nalties now in force against persons convicted of Perjury, shall suffer seven years imprisonment.

VI. This Act shall not extend to persons in Execution for a Fine impos'd for any Offence.

VII. Taking the Oaths and giving the Creditors notice as by this Act is required, in all other things for the dis­charge of any poor prisoner, it shall be observed in form and method as is directed by the two before mentioned Acts.

VIII. None shall have the benefit of this Act, who shall stand charged with more than 100 l. principal Mony or Da­mages, or who shall stand charged with any Debt to their Majesties.

IX. Notwithstanding the discharge of such Prisoners, Judg­ments against them shall be good in Law against their Lands and Goods; their wearing Apparel, Bedding for them and their Familes, and Tools for their Trade, &c. only ex­cepted.

X. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 21. If any Defendants taken or charged in custody upon any Writ or Writs, out of any of the Courts at Westminster, and detained for want of Sureties for their appearance, the Plaintiffs may before the end of the next Term after such Writ or Process shall be returnable, declare against such Prisoners in the Court out of which the Writ shall issue, and cause a Copy thereof to be de­livered to such Prisoners, or the Gaoler in whose custody he shall remain; to which if the said Prisoners shall not appear and plead, the Plaintiff shall have Judgment, as if they had appeared and refused to answer or plead.

XI. In all Declarations against Prisoners detained by vir­tue of any Process out of the Kings Bench, it shall be al­ledged [Page 99]in custody of what Sheriff, Bailiff, &c. such Prisoners are at the time of such Declaration, which allegation shall be as effectual as if such Prisoners were in the custody of the Marshal or the Marshalsey, &c.

Prizes.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 4. An Act for preserving two Ships lading of Bay-Salt taken as Prize for the benefit of their Majesties Navy.

Religion.

I. SEat. Anno 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 18. Neither the Statute made in the 23th year of Queen Elizabeth, En­tituled, An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience; nor that of the 29th of the said Queen, Entituled, An Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23th year of the Queens Majesties Reign; nor that Clause of a Statute made in the first year of the said Queens Reign, Entituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Com­mon Prayer, &c. whereby all persons are required to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel, or some usual place of Com­mon-prayer, &c. Nor the Statute made in the third year of the Reign of King James I. Entituled, An Act for the better discovering and repressing Popish Recusants; nor that other Statute made in the same year, Entituled, An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants; nor any Statute made against Papists or Popish Recusants, (except the Statute made 25 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants; and except the Statute made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled, An Act for the more effectual pre­serving the Kings Person and Government, &c.) shall be construed to extend to any persons dissenting from the Church of Eng­land, that shall take the Oaths mentioned in a Statute made this Parliament, Entituled, An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this Parliament, and shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act to prevent Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament, which Oaths and Declaration the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions are hereby required to administer, and thereof to keep a Register; no Fee or Reward to be paid above 6 d. for such Entry, and that but once; nor above the farther Sum of 6 d. for a Certificate thereof.

[Page 100] II. Persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to Conviction of Recusancy, that shall take the said Oaths men­tioned in the said Statute made in this Parliament, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, in the Court of Ex­chequer, or Assizes, or General Quarter-Sessions, &c. to be thence certified into the Exchequer, shall be discharged from all Penalties, &c. incurred by any the aforesaid Statutes.

III. All persons that shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration, shall not be liable to any penalties mentioned in an Act of the 35th of Queen Elizabeth, Entituled, An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience; nor in an Act made in the 22th year of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles; nor shall be prosecuted in any Ecclesiastical Court for not conforming to the Church of England.

IV. Provided always that if any Assembly of Persons dis­senting from the Church of England, shall be had in any place for Religious Worship, with the Doors locked, barred or bolted, the persons that shall be at such Meetings shall receive no benefit from this Law.

V. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any Persons from paying Tithes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister, nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court, or elsewhere, for the same.

VI. If any person dissenting from the Church of England, shall be chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office, and shall scruple to take it upon him in regard of the said Oaths, or any other thing required by Law, such person may execute his Office by a Deputy that shall comply with the Laws in that behalf; such Deputy to be allowed and approved as such Officer himself should have been.

VII. No person dissenting from the Church of England in Orders, or pretended Orders, nor any Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants, that shall make and subscribe the Declaration, and take the Oaths aforesaid, at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the Parts where he lives, and shall declare his approbation of, and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in a Statute made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, except the 34th, 35th and 36th Articles, and these words of the 20th Article, viz. [The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and Au­thority in Controversies of Faith, and yet] shall be liable to any of the Pains or Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inhabiting in Corporations, nor the Penalties mentioned in the said Act of the 22th of the said Kings Reign, for preaching at any Meeting for exercise [Page 101]of Religion; nor to the penalty of 100 l. mentioned in an Act made in the 13th and 14th of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for the uniformity of Publick Prayers and administration of Sacraments, &c. for officiating in any Congregation allowed by this Act.

VIII. The making and subscribing the said Declaration, and taking the said Oaths, and making the Declaration of ap­probation and subscription to the said Articles, shall be re­corded at such Quarter-Sessions, for which 6 d. shall be paid and no more.

IX. Such persons shall not preach in any place, but with Doors not locked, barred or bolted.

X. And whereas some dissenting Protestants scruple the Baptizing of Infants; Be it enacted, That every person pre­tending to Holy Orders, who shall subscribe the said Articles of Religion, except before excepted, and also except part of 27th ARticle touching Infant-Baptism, and shall take the Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, as aforesaid, shall enjoy all the Priviledges, Benefits and Advantages which any other dissenting Minister might enjoy by virtue of this Act.

XI. Ministers, Preachers or Teachers of Congregations that shall take the Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid, and subscribe such of the Articles of the Church as are hereby required, shall be exempt from serving upon Juries, or from being chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office, or any other Office in any Hundred, Shire, City, Town, &c.

XII. Every Justice of Peace may require any person that goes to any Meeting for exercise of Religion to make and subscribe the said Declaration, and take the said Oaths or Declaration of Fidelity hereafter mentioned, in case such per­son Scruple the taking an Oath, and upon refusal shall com­mit such person to prison, and certifie his Name at the next General or Quarter-Sessions; and if upon a second tender at next General or Quarter-Sessions he refuse as aforesaid, he shall be recorded and taken for a Popish Recusant convict.

XIII. And whereas there are other Dissenters who scruple the taking any Oath, such persons shall make and subscribe the said Declaration, and this Declaration of Fidelity, viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World, That I will be ture and faithful to King William and Queen Mary; And I do solemnly promise and declare, That I do from my Heart abhor, detest and renounce as Impious and Hereti­cal, that damnable Doctrin and Position, That Princes excommuni­cated or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects, or any other what [Page 102]soever. And I do declare. That no Foreign Prince, Person, Pre­late, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Power, Juris­diction, Superiority, Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiri­tual within this Realm, and shall subscribe a profession of their Christian Belief in these Words, viz. I A. B. profess Faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for evermore; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be given by Divine Inspiration, which Declarations and Sub­scriptions shall be recorded at the General Quarter-Ses­sions; and Persons making and subscribing the two De­clarations and Profession aforesaid, shall be exempted from the penalties of the Laws against Popish Recusants or Pro­testant Non-conformists, and from the penalties of an Act made in the 5th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, En­tituled, An Act for the assurance of the Queens Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions, by reason of their refu­sing to take the Oath mentioned in the said Act; and from the penalties of an Act made in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles II. Entitutled, An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers, refusing to take lawful Oaths; and enjoy the Benefits, Priviledges and Advantages which other Dissenters ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act.

XIV. Persons refusing to take the said Oaths, when tendred, shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the said two Declara­tions, though required by a Justice of Peace, at a General o [...] Quarter-Sessions, unless within 31 days after such tender of the Declarations to them, they produce two Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dis­senter, or a Certificate under the Hands of four Protestants, who are conformable to the Church of England, or have taken the Oaths, and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid, and a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which he belongs, owning him to be one of them.

XV. Till such Certificate or Witnesses be produced, the Justice of Peace shall take a Recognizance with two Sureties, in 50 l. for producing the same; and for want of security, shall commit him to prison, till he produces the same.

XVI. All the Laws made for frequenting Divine Service on the Lords-day, shall be still in force against all persons, ex­cept they come to some Assembly of Religious Worship, al­lowed by this Act.

XVII. This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Re­cusants, nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity.

[Page 103] XVIII. If any persons after the 10th day of June come in­to any Church, Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act, and disturb the same, or misuse the Teacher, upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace, they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions; and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions, shall forfeit 20 l.

XIX. No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allow­ed by this Act, till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess, or the Arch-deacon, or to the Justices of Peace at the General or Quarter-Sessions, and registred or recorded there respectively, and a Certificate thereof given without Fee, &c.

Revenue.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchan­dise, and the several Impositions, Duties and Charges upon Liquors, Manufactures and other Things; and all and sin­gular the Revenue and Revenues, except Hearth-mony, other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings, or either of them, which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last, and all Arrears of the same, shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689.

II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons, of whom they re­ceived or collected the same; to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties.

III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized, and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law, concerning the Customs or Excise, or relating to the Transportation of Wool, or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods, incurred since the 11th day of December, and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself, as by the Attorny General, in manner and form as if such Seisures, Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr.

IV. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament, made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. En­tituled, An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and [Page 104]the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease, to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion, and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct; and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act, and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James, the one entituled, An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other, An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens, and all East-India Linnen, and several other Manufactures of India, and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs, and on all other wrought Silks; and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parlia­ment, Entituled, An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts; in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation, in such manner as his Majesty shall direct, and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland, and other Charges of the War against France.

V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties, that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint, and other persons concerned, may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer.

VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants, but to such as before the first day of February next, shall have taken the Oaths, and made and sub­scribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament, Entituled, An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Su­premacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths, at the General Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside, and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace.

VII. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 3. An Act for pre­venting all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue. Exp.

Rights and Liberties.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spi­ritual and Temporal, and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the Estates of the [Page 105]People of this Realm, did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight, present unto their Majesties, then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, being present in their proper Persons, a certain De­claration in Writing, made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following, viz.

Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors, Judges and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom;

By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with, and sus­spending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without consent of Parliament.

By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates, for hum­bly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power.

By issuing, and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal, for erecting a Court called, The Court of Commissi­oners for Ecclesiastical Causes.

By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative, for other time, and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.

By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace, without consent of Parliament, and quartering Soul­diers contrary to Law.

By causing several good Subjects, being Protestants, to be dis­armed at the same time, when Papists were both armed and employed, contrary to Law.

By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Par­liament.

By prosecutions in the Court of Kings Bench, for Matters and Causes cognizable only in Parliament; and by divers other arbitrary and illegal Courses.

And whereas of late years partial, corrupt and unqualified Per­sons have been returned and served on Juries in Trials, and particu­larly divers Jurors in Trials for High-Treason, which were not Free­holders.

And excessive Bail hath been required of Persons committed in cri­minal Cases, to elude the benefit of the Laws made for the Liberty of the Subjects.

And excessive Fines have been imposed.

And illegal and cruel Punishments inflicted.

And several Grants and Promises made of Fines and Forfeitures before any Conviction or Judgment against the Persons upon whom the same were to be levied.

All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes, and Freedom of this Realm.

And whereas the said late King James II. having abdicated the Government, and the Throne being thereby vacant,

His Highness the Prince of Orange, (whom it hath pleased Al­mighty God to make the Glorious Instrument of delivering this King­dom from Popery and Arbitrary Power) did (by the Advice of the Lord Spiritual and Temporal, and divers Principal Persons of the Commons) cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants; and other Letters to the several Coun­ties, Cities, Universities, Boroughs and Cinque-Ports, for the choosing of such Persons to represent them, as were of Right to be sent to Par­liament, to meet and sit at Westminster, upon the two and twentieth day of January, in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight, in order to such an establishment, as that their Religion, Laws and Liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted; up­on which Letters Elections having been accordingly made,

And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com­mons, pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this Nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their Ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, declare,

That the pretended Power of suspending of Laws, or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority, without consent of Parliament, is il­legal.

That the pretended Power of dispensing with Laws, or the Execu­tion of Laws by Regal Authority, as it hath been assumed and ex­ercised of late, is illegal.

That the Commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other Commissions and Courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.

That levying Mony for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of Prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.

That it is the Right of the Subjects to petition to the King, and all Commitments and Prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.

That the raising or keeping a standing Army within the King­dom in time of Peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against Law.

That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by Law.

That Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free.

That the freedom of Speech, and Debates or Proceedings in Parlia­ment, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parliament.

That excessive Bail ought not to be required, nor excessive Fines im­posed, nor cruel and unusal Punishments inflicted.

That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned, and Jurors which pass upon Men in Trials for High-Treason ought to be Free­holders.

That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of parti­cular Persons before Conviction, are illegal and void.

And that for redress of all Grievances, and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the Laws, Parliaments ought to be held frequently.

And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the Premisses, as their undoubted Rights and Liberties; And that no Declarations, Judgments, Doings or Proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said Premisses, ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into Consequence or Example.

To which demand of their Rights, they are particularly encouraged by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange, as being the only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein.

Having therefore an intire Confidence, That his said Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by him, and will still preserve them from the Violation of their Rights, which they have here asserted, and from all other Attempts upon their Religion, Rights and Liberties;

The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons assembled at Westminster do resolve,

That William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be and be declared King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the Crown and Royal Dig­nity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions, to them the said Prince and Princess, during their Lives, and the Life of the Survivor of them; And that the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in, and executed by the said Prince of Orange, in the Names of the said Prince and Princess during their joynt Lives; and after their deceases, the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Princess; And for default of such Issue, to the Princess Anne of Denmark, and the Heirs of her Body; and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the said Prince of Orange.

And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, do pray the said Prince and Princess to accept the same accordingly.

And that the Oaths hereafter-mentioned be taken by all Persons of whom the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy might be required by Law instead of them; and that the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy be abrogated.

I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be Faithful, and bear true Al­legiance to their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY.

So help me God.

I A. B. do swear, That I do from my Heart Abhor, Detest and Abjure, as Impi­ous and Heretical this damnable Doctrin and Position, That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or mur­dered by their Subjects, or any other what­soever.

And I do declare, That no Foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate, hath, or ought to have any Iurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence or Authority Ec­clesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm.

So help me God.

Upon which their said Majesties did accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of the Kingdoms of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, according to the re­solution and desire of the said Lords and Commons, contained in the said Declaration.

And thereupon their Majesties were pleased, That the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, being the two Houses of Parliament, should continue to sit, and with their Majesties Royal Concurrence, make effectual Provision for the Settlement of the Religion, Laws and Liberties of this King­dom, so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted; to which the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons did agree and proceed to act accordingly.

Now in pursuance of the Premisses, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, for the ratify­ing, confirming and establishing the said Declaration, and the Ar­ticles, Cla [...]ses, Matters and Things therein contained, by the force of a Law made in due form by Authority of Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted, That all and singular [Page 109]the Rights and Liberties asserted and claimed in the said De­claration, are the true, ancient and indubitable Rights and Liberties of the People of this Kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed and taken to be; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid, shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said Declaration; and all Officers and Ministers whatsoever, shall serve their Majesties and their Successors according to the same in all Times to come.

And the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, seriously considering how it hath pleased Almighty God, in his marvellous Providence, and merciful Goodness to this Na­tion, to provide and preserve their said Majesties Royal Per­sons most happily to Reign over us upon the Throne of their Ancestors, for which they render unto him from the bottom of their Hearts their humblest Thanks and Praises, do truly, firmly, assuredly, and in the sincerity of their Hearts, think, and do hereby recognize, acknowledge and declare, That King James II. having abdicated the Government, and their Majesties having accepted the Crown and Royal Dignity, as aforesaid, their said Majesties did become, were, are, and of Right ought to be, by the Laws of this Realm, our Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, in and to whose Princely Persons, the Royal State, Crown and Dignity of the said Realms, with all Honours, Stiles, Titles, Rega­lities, Prerogatives, Powers, Jurisdictions and Authorities to the same belonging and appertaining, are most fully, right­fully and intirely invested and incorporated, united and an­nexed.

And for preventing all Questions and Divisions in this Realm, by reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown, and for preserving a certainty in the Succession thereof, in and up­on which the Unity, Peace, Tranquility and Safety of this Nation doth, under God, wholly consist and depend, The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do beseech their Majesties, that it may be enacted, established and declared, That the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms and Dominions, with all and singular the Premisses thereunto belonging and appertaining, shall be and continue to their said Majesties, and the Survivor of them, during their Lives, and the Life of the Survivor of them; and that the entire, perfect and full exercise of the Regal Power and Government, be only in, and executed by his Majesty, in the Names of both their Majesties during their joynt Lives; and after their deceases, the said Crown and Premisses, shall be and remain to the Heirs of the Body of her Majesty; and for default of such Issue, to Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of [Page 108] [...] [Page 109] [...] [Page 110] Denmark, and the Heirs of her Body; and for default of such Issue, to the Heirs of the Body of his said Majesty; and there­unto the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, do in the Name of all the People aforesaid, most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their Heirs and Posterities for ever; and do faithfully promise, That they will stand to, maintain and defend their said Majesties; and also the Limi­tation and Succession of the Crown herein specified and con­tained, to the utmost of their Powers, with their Lives and Estates against all Persons whatsoever, that shall attempt any thing to the contrary.

And whereas it hath been found by Experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant King­dom, to be governed by a Popish Prince, or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist, the said Lords Spiritual and Tem­poral, and Commons, do farther pray that it may be en­acted, That all and every Person and Persons that is, are or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold Communion with the See or Church of Rome, or shall Profess the Popish Religion, or shall Marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever uncapable to inherit, possess or enjoy the Crown and Government of this Realm, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belong­ing, or any part of the same, or to have, use or exercise any Regal Power, Authority or Jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such Case or Cases, the People of these Realms shall be, and are hereby absolved of their Allegiance; and the said Crown and Government shall from time to time descend to, and be enjoyed by such Person or Persons, being Protestants, as should have inherited and enjoyed the same, in case the said Person or Persons so reconciled, holding Com­munion, or Professing or Marrying, as aforesaid, were natu­rally dead.

And that every King and Queen of this Realm, who at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom, shall on the first day of the meet­ing of the first Parliament, next after His or Her coming to the Crown, sitting in His or Her Throne, in the House of Peers, in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein as­sembled, or at His or Her Coronation, before such Person or Persons who shall administer the Coronation Oath to Him or Her, at the time of His or Her taking the said Oath, (which shall first happen) make, subscribe and audibly repeat the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament.

But if it shall happen that if such King or Queen upon His or Her Succession to the Crown of this Realm, shall be under [Page 111]the Age of twelve years, then every such King or Queen shall make, subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declaration at His or Her Coronation, or the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament, as aforesaid, which shall first happen after such King or Queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years.

All which their Majesties are contented and pleased, shall be declared, enacted and established by Authority of this pre­sent Parliament, and shall stand, remain, and be the Law of this Realm for ever; and the same are by their said Ma­jesties, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assem­bled, and by the Authority of the same, declared, enacted and established accordingly.

And be it farther declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after this present Session of Parlia­ment, no dispensation by Non obstante of or to any Statute, or any part thereof, shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of no effect, except a Dispensation be allowed of in such Statute; and except in such Cases as shall be speci­ally provided for by one or more Bill or Bills to be passed du­ring this present Session of Parliament.

Provided that no Charter or Grant, or Pardon granted be­fore the three and twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty nine, shall be any ways impeached or invalidated by this Act, but that the same shall be and remain of the same force and effect in Law, and no other than as if this Act had never been made.

Silk.

I. STat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 9. The throwing of Silk is not a Manufacture within the Intention of the Act of 12 Car. 2. for encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Navigation. And no thrown Silk of the product of Turkey, Persia, East-India or China, or any other Place (except of the production of Italy, Sicily or Naples, and imported in Vessels navigated as the said Act directs, and brought from some Port of the Countries, of which they are the production, and which shall come directly by Sea) shall after the 25th of May 1690. be imported into England, Wales, Jersey or Guernesey or the Town of Berwick, on pain to forfeit the same; one moiety to their Majesties, and the other to the Informer.

II. Yet this Act shall not extend to any thrown Silk of the production of Italy, Sicily or Naples, that shall be im­ported otherwise than by this Act is directed, before the first [Page 112]day of September 1690. and which shall be proved by Oath of the Owner or his Agent, to have provided and bought by his Order from England in some part of Italy, Sicily or Naples before the first day of June 1690. which Oath any two Com­missioners of the Customs may administer.

III. And no thrown Silk laden in India, Persia or China, to be imported hither on or before the 20th day of September 1690. shall be liable to any Forfeiture, by virtue of this Act.

Symony.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 16. After the Death of a Person Symoniacally promoted to any Benefice or Ecclesiasti­cal Living, the Offence or Contract of Symony shall neither by way of Title in Pleading or in Evidence to a Jury, or otherwise be alledged or pleaded to the prejudice of any Patron innocent of Symony, or of his Clerk, upon pretence of Lapse, or otherwise, unless the Person symoniacally pro­moted, or his Patron were convicted of such Offence at the Common Law, or in some Ecclesiastical Court in the life-time of the Person symoniack.

II. No Leases really and bona fide made or to be made by any Person symoniacally promoted, for good and valuable con­sideration to any Person not being privy to, or having no­tice of such Symony, shall be impeached or avoided by reason thereof.

Souldiers.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 5. An Act for punishing Officers or Souldiers, who shall mutiny or desert their Maje­sties Service. Exp.

II. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 4. An Act for punishing Officers or Souldiers, who shall mutiny or desert their Maje­sties Service, and for punishing false Musters. Exp.

III. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 6. An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers, who shall mutiny or desert their Maje­sties Service, and for punishing false Musters. Exp.

IV. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 13. From and after the 10th day of March 1692. every Person being mustered in Pay, as an Officer or Souldier in the Army, who shall before the first of March 1693. cause or joyn in any Mutiny or Sedition in the Army, or desert the Service, shall suffer Death, or such other punishment as a Court-Martial shall inflict; or be­ing a Souldier listed in any Regiment, Troop or Company, shall list himself in any other Regiment, &c. without a [Page 113]Discharge from his Officer, shall suffer Death, or such other Punishment as aforesaid.

V. Their Majesties or the General of their Army, may grant Commissions to any Lieutenant-General or other Of­ficers, not under the Degree of a Field-Officer or Comman­der in Chief of a Garrison, to call and assemble Courts-Mar­tial. No Court-Martial that shall have Power to inflict punish­ment as aforesaid, to consist of fewer than thirteen, whereof none to be under the Degree of a Commission Officer, and the President not to be under the Degree of a Field-Officer, or the Commander in Chief of the Garrison, where the Offender shall be tried.

VI. No Field-Officer shall be tryed by any under the De­gree of a Captain; And such Courts-Martial shall have power to administer Oaths to Witnesses.

VII. Nothing in this Act shall exempt any Officer or Souldier from the ordinary Process of Law; nor shall extend to concern any the Militia Forces of this Kingdom.

VIII. This Act to be in force till the first of March 1693. and no longer.

IX. Every Officer present at Trials of Offences that may be punished by Death, shall take this Oath, viz. You shall well and truly try and determine, according to your Evidence, the Matter now before you, between our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties, and the Prisoner to be tryed. So help you God. No sentence of Death shall be given unless nine of the thir­teen present concur. And if there be a greater number present, Judgment shall pass by the Concurrence of the greater part so sworn, such greater part not being less than nine. No Proceedings, Trial or Sentence of Death shall be had or given, but between the hours of eight in the Morning, and one in the Afternoon.

X. If any shall make or procure to be made false Certi­ficates to execute Souldiers for absence from any Muster or other Service, they shall forfeit 50 l. and to be cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Imployment.

XI. Officers making salse Musters, and Commissaries, Mu­ster-Masters and other Officers, allowing the Muster-Roll, wherein such false Muster is contained, or a duplicate there­of, upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Court-Martial, shall be cashiered and disabled to hold any Civil or Military-Office or Imployment, and forfeit 100 l.

XII. Commissaries and Muster-Masters, upon any Muster to be made, shall by a convenient time before, give notice to the Chief Magistrate of the place where the Souldiers shall be quartered, who are required to be present at such Musters, and assist in the discovery of any false Muster. Commissaries and Muster-Masters neglecting to give such notice, or refusing [Page 114]the assistance of such Chief Magistrate, shall forfeit 50 l. and be discharged from his Office; and no Muster-Roll shall be allowed, not signed by such Chief Magistrate.

XIII. If any Person shall be falsly mustered, or offer him­self so to be, upon Oath thereof made before the next Ju­stice of Peace by two Witnesses, or upon Certificate under Hand of the Commissary of the Musters, or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid, made to such Justice, shall be committed to the House of Correction for ten days, and have his Ear cut off by the Gaoler or Keeper thereof. If any Person lend a Horse to be mustered, not belonging to the Troop, such Horse shall be forfeited to the Informer, if it belong to the Per­son lending; if not, the Lender shall forfeit 20 l. upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace.

XIV. The said Forfeiture to be to the Informer, to be paid out of the Arrears of such Officers Pay as shall so of­fend, upon Conviction before a Court-Martial, by Order of the said Court to the Pay-Master, if such Officer have any Arrears; and if there be no Arrear, the Court-Martial shall give order to seize such Officers Goods and sell them, ren­dring the overplus; and if he have no Goods, he shall be sent to the Common Gaol, to remain there six months; and the Court-Martial shall discharge such Informer, if he be a Souldier, from any farther Service, if he demand it.

XV. If any Pay-Master, Clerk or Agent of a Regiment, Troop or Company, shall for a month detain the Pay of any Officer or Souldier (Cloaths and other Allowances deducted) or if any Officers shall refuse to pay each Common Souldier their respective Pay, when due, if themselves have received it, at the rate of 17 s. 6 d. a Week for a Corporal or light Horse, 14 s. a Week for a Trumpeter and private Trooper, 8 s. 2 d. a Week for a Dragoon, 7 s. a Week to a Sergeant, 5 s. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer, and 4 s. a Week to each private Souldier of the two Regiments of Foot-guards, and 6 s. a Week to each Sergeant, 4 s. 6 d. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer, and 3 s. a Week for each Foot Soul­dier in the Army; and over and above the said 3 s. a Week, shall at every two Months end account for 6 d. a Week to each Foot-Souldier, upon proof thereof before a Court-Mar­tial, as aforesaid, such Pay-Master, &c. shall be discharged from his Employment, and forfeit 100 l. to the Informer, to be raised, as aforesaid, and be disabled to hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment; and the Informer, if a Souldier, shall be discharged of any farther Service, if he de­mand it.

XVI. The commanding Officer of every Troop or Com­pany at Musters, shall bring a Certificate of the Names of such as are sick, or have leave to be absent, of such as are [Page 115]dead or deserted since the last Muster; and if such Certificate prove false, the Officer signing it, shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters.

XVII. If any Officer shall Muster any Officers Servant, or any Person by a wrong Name knowingly, upon conviction thereof before a Court-Martial, he shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters.

XVIII. During the continuance of this Act, Constables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs and other Chief Magistrates of Cities, Towns and Villages, may Quarter and Billet Officers and Souldiers in Inns, Livery-Stables, Ale-houses, Victualling-houses, Houses selling Brandy, Strong-waters, Sider or Me­theglin by retail to be drunk in their Houses, but in no private Houses. Nor shall more Billets be ordered than there are effective Souldiers present to be quartered. If any Magistrate shall Billet any Officer or Souldier in any private House, with­out consent of the Occupier, such Occupier shall have his Remedy at Law to recover his Damage sustained thereby. And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Souldiers otherwise than is hereby allowed, or shall use Me­nace or Compulsion upon any Civil Officers afore-mention'd, to deter them from performing their Duty herein, upon conviction by the Oaths of two Witnesses before two or more Justices of Peace, and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate, who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court-Marshal, such Officer shall be taken to the ipso facto cashiered, and disabled to hold any Military Employment.

XIX. Officers and Souldiers so billetted, shall pay such reasonable prices as shall be appointed by the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions; and the Justices of Peace are re­quired to set Rates for Provisions for one or more Nights in their marching, and for the first Night only in Places appointed for their Residence.

XX. Officers taking Mony for excusing quartering, shall be cashiered and made incapable of any Military Employ­ment.

XXI. From and after the 10th of March 1692. no Pay-Master or other Officer shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier, which shall grow due after the said 10th day of March, other than the usual Deductions for Cloathing, and the 12 d. in the pound to be disposed as their Majesties think fit, and one days Pay in the Year for the use of Chelsey-Colledge.

XXII. This Act shall be read at the Head of every Regi­ment, Troop or Company at every Muster, that no Souldier may pretend Ignorance.

[Page 116] XXIII. Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence-Mony for Regiments, Troops or Companies, shall upon the receipt of every Sum, give notice to all Inn-keepers and other Persons where Officers and Souldiers are quartered, and appoint them to repair to their Quarters at such times as they shall ap­point for distribution thereof, which shall be within four days after they have received it, and such Inn-keepers and other Persons shall be paid off what Debts are owing to them before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed to the Officers or Souldiers.

XXIV. Provided such Debts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse under the Degree of a Captain, for Dyet and small Beer, Hay and Straw, per diem 2 s. and for such a Commission Officer of Dragoons, 1 s. and 6 d. nor for such a Commission Officer of Foot, 1 s. and if such Officers shall have a Horse or Horses, for each Horse 6 d. per diem, nor for one Light-horse-mans Dyet and small Beer, and Hay and Straw per diem, 1 s. nor for one Dragoon 9 d. nor for a Foot Souldiers Dyet and small Beer 4 d. and if any Officer shall not give notice as aforesaid, and upon producing such Ac­counts, pay the same; upon Oath made thereof by two Wit­nesses at the next Quarter-Sessions, the Pay-masters of their Majesties Forces are hereby required, upon Certificate of the said Justices of the Sums due upon such Accounts, and the Persons to whom owing, to satisfie them out of the Ar­rears due to such Officer, on pain to lose their Places, and to be disabled to hold them for the future. And if there be no Arrear, the Pay-masters shall deduct what they shall pay pursuant to such Certificate, out of the next Pay or Subsi­stence-Mony of the Regiment to which such Officer belongs; and such Officer shall be ipso facto cashiered; and when the Subsistence due to any Officer or Souldier shall by any ac­cident not be paid, or such Officer or Souldier shall neglect to pay the same, so the Quarters cannot be paid, as this Act directs; and where any Souldiers shall be upon their March, so as no Subsistence can be remitted them, every such Officer before departure out of his Quarters, where such Regiment, &c. shall remain for any time whatsoever, shall make up the Account as this Act directs, with those with whom they have quartered, before he leave that Quarter, and give the said Certificate to the Person to whom such Mony is due, with the Name of such Regiment, &c. to be transmitted to the Pay-master, who shall make payment thereof, to the end the same may be applied to such Regiment, &c. under pain as is before directed for non-payment of Quarters.

XXV. No Commistary shall muster any Forces within westminster or Southwark, and Liberties thereof, but in the [Page 117]presence of two Justices of Peace, not being Officers in the Army, under the afore-mentioned penalty.

XXVI. This Act shall extend to Jersey and Gernesey as to mustering and paying.

XXVII. Cloaths, Arms and Accoutrements of War be­longing to Horse, Foot and Dragoons, who receive English pay, shall be bought in England, Wales or Barwick; and Of­ficers offending therein shall be cashiered.

XXVIII. The Commissary General of the Musters, or his Deputies, shall upon every Muster close the Muster-Rolls up­on the place the same the Muster is taken, and return one of the Rolls in Parchment to the Pay-master General the next day after, if in London or within twenty miles distance; and if at a farther distance, by the next Post, on pain of losing their Im­ployments.

XXIX. Justices of Peace required by Order of his or her Majesty, shewn to them by any Officer of the Regiment, &c. then marching, shall issue out their Warrants to the Con­stables, &c. to make such provision of Carriages as is men­tioned in the Warrant, allowing sufficient time, that the Neighbouring Parts may not always bear the Burthen; and the Officer demanding such Carriages, shall pay to the Con­stable, to whom the Warrant is directed 8 d. for every mile any Waggon with 5 Horses shall travel loaden; and 8 d. for every mile any Waggon with 6 Oxen, or 4 Oxen and 2 Horses shall trevel loaden; and 6 d. a Mile for a Cart with 4 Horses, and so in proportion; and if any Officer shall constrain any Carriage to travel more than one days Journy, or not dis­charge them in due time for their return, or shall suffer his Souldiers or Servants (except sick and wounded) or any Women to ride in such Carriage, or shall force any Con­stables, &c. by Threats to provide Saddle-horses, or shall force Horses from the Owners, he shall forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence, proof thereof being made upon Oath before two Justices of Peace, who are to certifie the same to the Pay­master General, who shall pay the said Sum of 5 l. accord­ing to the appointment of such Justices, and deduct it out of such Officers Pay.

XXX. If any Officer, Military or Civil, hereby authori­zed to quarter Souldiers, shall quarter the Wives, Children or Maid-servants of Officers or Souldiers in any House, against the Owners consent, the Offender, if any Officer or Souldier of the Army, shall upon proof thereof made to the Commander in Chief of the Army, or the Judge Advocate, be cashier'd; if a Civil Officer, he shall forfeit 20 s. to the Party grieved, upon proof made to the next. Justice of Peace, to be levied by distress and sale of Goods, rendring the overplus.

XXXI. If any Officer or Souldier shall without leave of [Page 118]the Lord of the Mannor under Hand and Seal, take or de­stroy any Game, and shall be convicted thereof upon Oath before a Justice of Peace, he shall forfeit, if an Officer, 5 l. to be distributed among the Poor of the Parish; and every Officer commanding in Chief, shall forfeit for every such Offence committed by any Souldier under his Command, 10 s. to be distributed as aforesaid; and for default of pay­ment within two days after Conviction, and Demand there­of made by the Constable or Overseer of the Poor, the Of­ficer so refusing or neglecting is hereby declared to have for­feited his Commission; and his Commission is hereby made null and void.

XXXII. An account of all Monies due according to the Muster-Rolls to every Regiment, shall be made upon the first day of July 1693. or six days after, between the Pay-master General and the Colonel of every Regiment, or his Agent, authorized to receive the Pay thereof from the first of March 1692. to the last of April 1693. and so from time to time, when four Months become due, an Account shall be stated for the two preceding Months; such Accounts being perfect­ed, to be registred in the Pay-Office, and subscribed by the Pay-master or his Deputy, and the Colonel or his Agent, and Duplicates given to the Colonel, &c. without Fee, who shall deliver to each Captain an account of so much as appertains to him and his Troop, &c. and the Ballance which shall re­main, and all other Monies then due to each Regiment, shall be paid to such Colonel, &c. when their Majesties shall di­rect. The Pay-master General or any Colonel offending here­in, shall forfeit 100 l. for every Offence to him that will sue for the same; and his Deputy or any Agent of a Regiment, offending in the Premises, upon proof thereof at a Court-Martial, shall lose his Place.

XXXIII. No Warrant to take off the respits from any Muster-Rolls shall be allowed by any Pay-master, unless coun­tersigned by the Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Lord High Treasurer.

Suits.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 8. Whereas about the time of his Majesties enterprize for delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power, and in Aid of the same, divers Lords, Gentlemen and others did act as Lieutenants, Deputy-Lieutenants, Justices of the Peace, or other Officers, though not sufficiently authorized thereunto, and did ap­prehend and put in custody some suspected Persons, and seize and use Horses, Arms and other Things, and entred into the Houses and Possessions of several Persons, and quartered Soul­diers there; and since their Majesties happy Accession to the [Page 119]Crown, by reason of the Wars and Tumults occasioned by their Enemies, divers like Matters and Things have been done, all which were necessary in regard of the exigency of pub­lick Affairs; Be it enacted, That all Prosecutions whatsoever, and Judgments had thereupon, if any be, for any of the Pre­misses, or any Matter or Thing advised, commanded, appoint­ed or done in order to the bringing their Majesties to this Kingdom, or for their Service, or for the Safety of the Go­vernment, are hereby discharged and made void; and if any such Prosecution shall be, the Party prosecuted may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff become non-suit, or sorbear Prosecution, or suffer a Discontinuance, or if a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover his double Costs.

II. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 13. All personal Actions, Suits, Indictments, Informations, and other Prosecutions for apprehending and imprisoning suspected Persons, and seizing and using Horses and Arms, and causing the greatest part of the Militia of this Kingdom to be raised and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places for their Majesties Service and the Safety of the Kingdom, in pursuance of Orders from the Privy Coun­cil, in this present year 1690. about the time that the Coasts of this Kingdom were invaded by the French, be and are hereby discharged and made void; and if any Suit hath been or shall be prosecuted, the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff become non-suit, or forbear Prosecution, or suffer a Discontinuance, or a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover his double Costs.

III. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 19. Whereas in this pre­sent year 1692. there were great Preparations for an Inva­sion intended from France, the Lords of the Council, and others by their Authority having imprisoned several suspected Per­sons, and seized Horses and Arms, and caused some part of the Militia to be raised, continued and maintained, other­wise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places, that the Parties concerned in those Proceedings in that extraodinary juncture, may be indemnified; Be it enacted, That all Prosecutions whatsoever by reason of the Premisses, be discharged and made void; And if any Action or Suit hath been or shall be commenced or prosecuted for the same, the Person so sued may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit, or forbear Prosecution, or suffer a Discon­tinuance, [Page 120]or that a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover his double Costs.

Taxes.

I. STat. 1. W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 3. An Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties. Exp.

II. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 13. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll, and otherwise, towards the reducing of Ireland.

III. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 20. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms.

IV. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 31. An additional Act for the appointing Commissioners for the executing an Act of this present Parliament, Entituled, An Act for a Grant to their Majesties, of an Aid of twelve pence in the pound, for one year, for the necessary defence of their Realms.

V. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 1. An Act for grant­ing to their Majesties an Aid of one shilling in the pound for one year.

VI. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 5. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an additional Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year.

VII. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 7. An Act for review of the late Poll granted to their Majesties, and for an additional Poll towards the reducing of Ireland.

VIII. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 2. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll, and otherwise, towards the reducing of Ire­land, and prosecuting the War against France.

IX. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 1. A [...] Act for grant­ing an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. Exp.

X. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings, towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France.

XI. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 6. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year, for the carry­ing on a vigorous War against France.

XII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 1. An Act for grant­ing to their Majesties an Aid of four shillings in the pound for one year, for carrying on a vigorous War against France.

[Page 121] XIII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 14. All Persons who were not at all, or not fully and duly assessed according to the intent of an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament, Entituled, An Act for raising Mony by a Poll, &c. shall be assessed and taxed, as they ought to have been by the same.

XIV. In order whereunto such as are or shall be qualified to act as Commissioners for putting in execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, Entituled, An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the pound, &c. shall be Commis­sioners for executing this Act, within their several Divisions, and shall have and execute the like Powers, Rules and Dire­ctions, as the Commissioners had or ought to have executed by virtue of the said Poll-Act; And all Persons concerned in the assessing, collecting, receiving or paying any Monies by virtue of this Act, shall have the like Benesits, and be subject to the like Penalties, in case of neglect or resusal, to pay the Sums assessed, or to perform their Duties as in such case any Person by virtue of the said Poll-Act, ought to have or be sub­ject to.

XV. Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia, having Estates of such value as ought to find or contribute to a Horse, shall pay for such Estates, although they be not actually charged to find or contri [...]ute to find a Horse, &c. And all who at the time of the Execution of the said Poll-Act were or had been Justices of Peace, Sheriffs or Deputy-Lieutenants, or who were appointed Commissioners by vir­tue of the said Act, being worth 300 l. and were not assessed 20 s. quarterly, shall pay after that rate, or so much as with what they have paid will make up 20 s. quarterly. In like manner Clergy-men having in Estate Ecclesiastical or Tem­poral or both 60 l. per annum shall pay after the same rate; and in all other things the said Act shall be fully executed.

XVI. The respective Commissioners shall meet on the 4th of April 1693. and the said Sums shall be assessed and paid to the Receivers of the Counties on or before the 24th day of June 1693. and answered into their Majesties Exchequer on or before the 12th day of July 1693.

XVII. If upon the return of the Duplicates it shall appear that the said Sums of Mony do not amount to 300000 l. their Majesties may borrow by way of Loan any Sum or Sums, which together with the amount of what shall be levied by virtue of this Act, shall not exceed in the whole 300000 l. which Sum or Sums shall be charged upon the credit of their Majesties Exchequer in General, and Tallies of Loan and Orders for repayment shall be levied, which Or­ders shall be assignable.

[Page 122] XVIII. Every Sum and Sums so to be borrowed, with Interest not exceeding 8 l. per Cent. to be paid every three months, shall be payable to the Lenders out of any the next Aids or Supplies to be granted to their Majesties in Parlia­ment, and shall be transferred thereunto as soon as such Aid shall be granted; and in case no such Aid or Supply shall be granted before the second day of February 1693. then such Sum or Sums shall be paid to the Lenders out of any of their Majesties Treasure, not already appropriated by Act of Parliament.

XIX. Whoever shall refuse to take in payment crack't Mony, being the currant Coin of this Kingdom, shall for every such Offence forfeit 5 l. and be liable to such other Punishments, as by any Law may now be inflicted for such Offences.

XX. Every Receiver-General appointed by the said Poll-Act, shall prepare a Duplicate in Parchment of the whole Sum charged in any of the Parishes and Places, whereof he is Receiver General, to be subscribed by two or more of the Commissioners, and return it into the Exchequer before the last day of Easter-Term next, with a Schedule containing the Names, Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their Collection, that hath not paid; and every Re­ceiver General not making such returns, except the same have been returned pursuant to the said Poll-Act, shall forfeit 50 l. and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust in their Majesties Service.

XXI. No Fees shall be taken by any Officer of the Ex­chequer, or in any Office wherein any Receiver General is concerned, in taking out his Commission, passing his Ac­counts, taking out his Quietus for receiving or paying any Mony granted by this or any other Act of this Parliament, for Aids to their Majesties, but such ancient Fees as shall be allowed by the Barons of the Quoif; and the said Barons shall deliver a Table of the Fees by them allowed, to the Lords and Commons in Parliament at the next Session.

Trade and Commerce.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. cap. 34. From the 24th day of August 1689. No Goods or Commodities of the Product or Manufacture of the Dominions of the French King, or made of or mixed with any such Goods or Commodities, shall during three years, or before the end of the first Ses­sion of Parliament after such three years expired be imported into England, Ireland, Wales, Berwick, or the Isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, or the Isle of Man; and all Importa­tions, vending or uttering of any French or other Commo­dities, [Page 123]contrary to this Act, are hereby declared to be a common Nusance; and the Commodities so imported, may be seized by any Person and carried into their Majesties Ware­house of the Port or Place where they are seized, or to the Ware-house of the next Port, Member or Creek to the place of Seizure; and Persons claiming the same, shall ten­der good Security to answer the Penalties of this Act, and to make their claim within twenty days after seizure, to the Collector or Customer, or his Deputy where there is no other Collector established, or to the Commissioners of the Custom in time of vacation, or within ten days in Term-time, by delivery of a Bill to such Officer, subscribed with his Name, Addition and Place of Abode, with the particulars of the Goods claimed, and the date of the Claim, and the Names of his Sureties, they being worth 500 l. a-piece at least, and to give Bond to their Majesties in double the value of the Goods, and the Penalties in this Act, to answer the value of the Goods and other the said Penalties, and after such Security given, the Claim and Sureties Names, and the Sum and date of the Bonds to be registred and subscribed by the Claimer, Collector or Customer, to whom such Bill shall be delivered; and for want of giving Security and making Claim, as aforesaid, the Goods shall be adjudged to be imported contrary to this Act, and be forfeited, and with­in seven days after such default, shall be destroyed, as here­after is appointed; but if such Security be given and Claim made, as aforesaid, an Information shall the next Term or sooner be exhibited in the Exchequer; and no Writ of De­livery or Restitution shall be granted till the Cause be de­termined by the Verdict of a Jury, to be returned by the proper Officers in the presence of a Commissioner of the Cu­stoms in London, and of the principal Officer in any Out­port, which Jury upon the taste or view of the Goods, o [...] upon proof, shall judge the quality and value thereof, and whether imported contrary to this Act, and in what Vessels imported, and by whom imported or sold, and in whose custody they were when seized; and if the Jury shall find that they were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions, or mixt with any Goods of such Product or Manufacture, then all such liquid Commodities shall be adjudged to be staved and spilt, and other Commodities to be publickly burnt in the presence of one of the Sheriffs of London, in the Port of London, and of the chief Magistrate in any other Port, who are required to be present and assist­ing in the destruction thereof, and to view, taste and ex­amine them according to the first Entry made in the Ware­house-Book, and to join with the Collector, &c. who are also required to be present at the destruction thereof, in a [Page 124]Certificate, to be entred in the said Book, of the day of the de­struction thereof; no Persons to take away or save any of the said Commodities, on pain to forfeit 40 s. above the value of the said Goods.

II. Importers thereof shall forfeit the full value, accord­ing to the Rates hereafter mentioned; and Persons in whose custody they shall be found, when seiz'd, or who shall sell or retail them, shall for the first Offence forfeit the value thereof, as aforesaid; and for the second Offence double the value, and be disabled to bear or execute any Office or Em­ployment relating to the Customs, or any part of the Re­venue, or any other Office whatsoever; and if any such Com­modities, imported contrary to this Act, shall within the time aforesaid, upon any pretence, be sold, retailed or utter­ed, or be found within England, Ireland, &c. any Persons may seize them, and like Information and Judgment for destruction thereof, shall be had and given as aforesaid.

III. They in whose custody such Goods shall be found, shall incur the Forfeitures and Penalties aforesaid; and if any dispute or doubt shall arise whether the said Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Domi­nions, or imported contrary to this Act, the proof shall lie on the Importer, Claimer, Vender, &c. and not on the In­former; and if any Informer shall by Fraud or Collusion desist or delay Prosecution, he shall forfeit 500 l. All Of­ficers belonging to the Customs, and all Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and other Officers, are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act: No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs, shall sign, suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order, for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act, to any Person, or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses, there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act; nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs, by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order, take up or deliver any the said Goods, or suffer them to be carried to any other place, than one of the Kings Ware-Houses, there to remain, as aforesaid; And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses, shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more prin­cipal Officers of that Port, whereof the Collector, Customer or Customers Deputy to be one, and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package, and the quality and quantity of the said Goods, and the time when brought in, and of their de­livery out of the said Ware-houses, shall by special dire­ction of the Commissioners, or other Chief Officers of the Customs, be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose, and for entry of Claims, which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid, after condemnation, at the delivery [Page 125]of them out to be destroyed, and compared with the first Entry, to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment; and if any such be found, the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book, by the principal Officer of the Port, not having charge of the Ware-house, and Copies of the Entries, Examinations and Claims, and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods, shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs, with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports, of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London.

IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses, till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them, otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same, or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby.

V. If any Person not being a known Merchant, Vintner or Shop-keeper, shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohi­bited, they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid, suffer twelve months Imprisonment.

VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture, in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported; and every Bark, Lighter, or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore, shall be forfeited, and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage, or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy, &c. to be put on Shore, shall for­feit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant, and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses, shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months; and Seamen, Watermen, Car­men and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water, shall upon examination and proof, as aforesaid, be subject to like Im­prisonment, or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion; and the Carts, Teams, Carriages, Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance, may be seiz'd and stay'd, and upon proof before Justice of Peace, by the Oaths of two Witnesses, that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported, they shall be forfeited, the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish, the other to his use that shall seize the same; and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden, with any the said Commodities, shall after the said 24th day of August unship, or wittingly suffer to be un­shipt any the said prohibited Goods, either at Sea, or in any Harbor, Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid, he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment, as aforesaid.

[Page 126] VII. No Brandy, Aqua-vita, Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever, shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands, on pain to forfeit the fame, and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported.

VIII. The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned, as followeth, viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably: Other Commodities aforesaid, that are valued in the Book of Rates, shall be esteemed according to their value there; and the Prices of Commodities not rated there, shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause, or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions; and in case of Condemnation by default, the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate, or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought.

IX. Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction, to be Owners.

X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties be­fore mentioned and not before disposed of, shall be divided into three parts, two thirds to their Majesties, and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same; the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties, and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners.

XI. No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods, till security given to the satis­faction of the Collector, to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer, or which the Owner, Importer or Possessor thereof, is, shall or may be liable to by this Act.

XII. If any Person belonging to the Customs shall con­nive at the Importation of any the said Commodities, he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid, but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties, and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust.

XIII. Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer, may take a Constable, or other publick Officer, and in the day-time enter into any House, Shop, Cellar, Ware-house, &c. and in case of resistance, may break open Doors, Trunks or other Package, to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities.

[Page 127] XIV. The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid, may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing, trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties, or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs; and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting this Act in execution, may plead the General Issue, &c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution, or become non-suit, or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them, the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs.

XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited, shall be imported from Guernesey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man into England, Ireland, Wales or Berwick, under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act.

XVI. None shall sell at, or demand a greater price for any French Wines, or so reputed, or other Wines mixt with French Wines, after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart, and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart, and no more, on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer, and 10 l. for the second, and every other Offence, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, &c.

XVII. After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter, and sealed according to the Statute, on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence, to the Informer, to be recovered as afore­said.

XVIII. If any Merchant, Vintner, Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail, shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine, or shall utter Wine corrupted or adul­terated, they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence, the one moiety to their Majesties, and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or In­formation, &c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment.

XIX. Stat. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Ma­nufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise, contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France, to be admitted to an Entry, or to be embezil'd and not stav'd, spilt, burnt or destroy'd, as the said Act directs, he shall for­feit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties, the other to the Informer, and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue.

[Page 128] XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles, or by any other Retail­measure, not made of Pewter, and seal'd according to Law, any Wines or other Liquor, or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed, and shall be con­victed by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace, being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed, they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence, which, if not paid upon demand, shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods, by such Justices Warrant to the Constable, Headborough, &c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer; and for want of a distress, the Of­fender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty, and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was.

XXI. Offenders punished by virtue of this Act, shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence; and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Pro­ceedings by virtue of this Act.

XXII. Persons resisting, abusing, beating or wounding an Officer, Informer or other Person impowred hereby, or such as shall act in their Aid, shall by the next Justice of Peace, or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter­Sessions, where they shall be punished by Fine, not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them.

XXIII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next, and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act.

XXIV. And be it enacted, That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named, and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or en­denizend, who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Mer­chants of London, trading to Greenland, and shall have a common Seal, and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Suc­cession, so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute.

XXV. The said Company, during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock, shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land [Page 129]Seas, and in all Seas and Places whatsoever, except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in Ame­rica, without interruption or disturbance, any Law, Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

XXVI. A Governor, Deputy-Governor and sixteen Com­mittees shall be elected as followeth, who shall have the ma­nagement and direction of the said Trade.

XXVII. A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided with­in ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons, or any three of them, in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next, by the Persons above-named, or the Survivors of them, the said Joint-Stock, which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Sub­scriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l.

XXVIII. All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons be­fore-named, or the major-part of them shall appoint, one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe, and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor, and Court of Commit­tees, so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May.

XXIX. Defaulters in payment, shall after such default, have no other advantage by such Subscription, than in pro­portion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid; and farther, shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in, to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in.

XXX. Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named, shall call a Court of all the Subscribers, and others, who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock, who shall meet and chuse one fit Per­son, having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards, and paid in one fourth part thereof, to be the Governor; and another Person so qualified to be Deputy-Governor; and sixteen others having subscribed each 500 l. or upwards, and paid in a fourth part, to be Committees; the said Governor, Deputy-Go­vernor and Committees to continue in Office till the 20th of Octob. 1694.

XXXI. Every Governor and Deputy-Governor, before they be admitted to the execution of their Offices, shall take this Oath, viz. You swear, That you shall assist, and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland, and the Priviledges of the same, having no respect to your self, in derogation, hinderance or pre­judice of the good Government, Order and Common-weal thereof: The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of [Page 128] [...] [Page 129] [...] [Page 130]this Company, and which are not repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom, you shall uprightly and duly execute according to the knowledge thereof; And to every Person you shall minister upright Justice; And you shall not engage or oblige the said Company in any wise, as Governor or Deputy-Governor of the said Company, without agreement and consent of the Court of Committees of the said Company.

So help you Almighty God.

XXXII. And every one of the sixteen Committees shall take this Oath, viz. You shall swear to be faithful and true during the time of your Place of Trust, as one of the Committees of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland, and their Successors; The good Estate of the Adventurers in this pre­sent Joynt-Stock you shall favour and affect, and the Priviledges granted unto them (to your Power) endeavour to maintain and preserve: You shall be careful to see and provide that an equal and indifferent Hand be carryed in the Government of the Com­pany, and in the Affairs thereof, to all the Adventurers that shall adventure or put in Stock; and that an equal division from time to time be made to all the Adventurers, according to the proportion of their several Stocks duly paid in.

So help you God.

XXXIII. No Persons who shall subscribe or have less in the Stock than 500 l. shall have any Voice at a General Court of the Company; every Person subscribing or having 500 l. in the Stock, shall have one Vote; and such as subscribe or have 1000 l. shall have two Votes, and no more, though they subscribe more than 1000 l.

XXXIV. All Persons subscribing or paying in any Mony, shall be admitted into the Freedom of the Company gratis, and shall take this Oath before the Governor or Deputy-Go­vernor, or any five of the Committees, viz. You shall swear, That you will assist, and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London, trading to Greenland: The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of this Company, which are not repugnant to the Laws of this King­dom, You shall according to your knowledge thereof, uprightly and duly keep and obey.

So help you God.

XXXV. The Governor or Deputy-Governor, or any five of the Committees for the time being, shall before the said 20th day of Octob. 1694. between the 1st and the 20th of the said Month, and so annually call a General Court of all the Members of the said Company, who shall have subscribed 500 l. and paid in according to the directions of this Act, [Page 131]and shall have taken the Oath of Admission to elect a Go­vernor, Deputy-Governor, and sixteen Committees for one year next ensuing; and if any of them happen to die with­in the year, the Governor or Deputy-Governor, or five of the Committees may call a General Court to chuse another in his place during the remainder of the year.

XXXVI. The Governors, Deputy-Governors and Com­mittees shall also take the Oaths appointed to be taken in lieu of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, by an Act in the first year of their Majesties Reign: The first Gover­nor to take the said Oaths hereby appointed to be taken by the Governor, before the Persons above-named, or nine of them; the first Deputy-Governor to take his Oaths before the first Governor; and the first sixteen Committees to take theirs before the first Governor or the first Deputy-Governor; and every succeeding Governor shall take the said Oaths before the last preceding Governor, or any five or more of the last pre­ceding Committees; and every succeeding Deputy-Governor before the Governor, or in case of his death and absence, be­sore any five of the last preceding Committees; and every Member of the succeeding Committees, before the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being, or any five or more of the last preceding Committees.

XXXVII. After the said 20th of May next, the said Ge­neral Courts shall be summoned by the Governor or De­puty-Governor, or five of the Committees; at all which Courts, the Governor, or in his absence the Deputy-Gover­nor shall be present, and in case of equality of Votes, shall have a casting Vote.

XXXVIII. All Members having the Sum of 500 l. in the said Stock, or having subscribed 500 l. and paid in ac­cording to the directions of this Act, may assemble them­selves at a General Court, timely notice being given, and make By-Laws as to them, or the greater part of them shall seem meet, for the good Government of the said Company, and of all Persons employed in their Ships and Voyages, and for the preservation and improvement of the said Trade, which By-Laws shall be duly kept and observed under the Pains and Penalties therein limited, so as they be not con­trary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm, nor to any Regulations made by this Act.

XXXIX. No private Contract for the sale of any Goods, shall be made by the said Company to any Member thereof; but all Goods belonging to the Company shall be sold pub­lickly by Inch of Candle, once a year at least, of which Sales publick notice shall be given three Weeks before on the Royal Exchange, and no Lot shall be exposed to sale of more than 300 l. value in the allotment; and Monies arising by [Page 132]the sale of the said Companies Goods, shall be applied to the advantage of the Joint-Stock, and of the Persons therein con­cerned, according to their proportions therein, and not to the private advantage of any particular Person.

XL. Dividends of the Profits to be made in Mony only.

XLI. Persons interested may transfer their Shares to Sub­jects born, Persons naturalized or endenizen'd; such Assign­ments to be entred in the Books of the Company, which Books for assigning shall lie open for the view of all Persons concerned; all other Assignments to be void, except Devises by Will, or where part of the Stock shall come to a Person as Executor or Administrator.

XLII. No Persons shall agree for, bargain or fell any greater part of the said Stock, than such Sum only as they shall be possessed of bona fide, and have standing in their own Names in the Companies Books.

XLIII. All Agreements, Contracts, Bargains or Sales for any part of the said Stock, not executed within ten days after such Agreement, &c. shall be void.

XLIV. Vessels employed by the said Company for catch­ing Whales, and truly belonging to England, Wales or Ber­wick, whereof the Masters shall be English-men, and inha­biting within the said Places, until the first of Octob. 1697. if navigated during their Voyages with one third of English Mariners at the least, shall pay no other Custom for Oyl, Blubber and Fins imported, than if they had been navigated with three fourths of Mariners English; provided such Ves­sels proceed on their Voyage from England, Wales or Berwick, and were victualled for the same in some of those Places, to be attested by the Collectors of the Ports where they were victualled.

XLV. The said Joint-Stock to continue, and the said Com­pany to have and enjoy the said Trade from the first day of October 1693. for fourteen years, and no longer.

XLVI. This Act declared to be a Publick Act, and that it shall be taken notice of in their Majesties Courts accord­ingly.

XLVII. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 25. An Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign, Entituled, An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France; and another Act made in the second year of their Reign, Entituled, An Act for the more effectual putting in execution, An Act Entituled, An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France, shall continue in force during three years from the end of this Ses­fion of Parliament, and from the expiration of those three years to the end of the next Session of Parliament, if this War with France shall so long last.

[Page 133] XLVIII. All Vessels with their Ladings, and all Goods and Merchandizes that shall be taken or seized as Prize, shall be brought into some Port of this Kingdom, and before break­ing of Bulk put into the possession of the Commissioners for Prizes, their Officers or Agents, who with two or more such Persons as the Officers or Mariners of the respective Ships shall intrust, and such as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs are to preserve the same till they be adjudged Prize, except where it shall appear to the Judge of the Admiralty that the Goods are perishable, in which case the Judge shall take Bail for them, yet so as to be subject to sale and distribution, as is provided by this Act.

XLIX. Notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts, or either of them, if any Goods prohibited to be imported, shall bona fide be taken as Prize, and so adjudged, the Com­missioners for Prizes, &c. shall cause them to be entred, and landed, and brought into their Majesties Ware-house to be safely kept till they be sold, as is hereafter directed.

L. After such Goods, &c. shall be adjudged Prize, they shall as soon as conveniently may be, be sold by the Com­missioners for Prizes, &c. in the presence of such as shall be entrusted by the Commissioners of the Customs, and the Owners, Officers and Mariners of such Ship of War, pub­lickly by Inch of Candle, publick notice being given fourteen days before of the quantity and quality of the Things to be sold, and of the time and place of Sale.

LI. Out of the proceed of such Sale, their Majesties Duties being deducted, the neat proceed, in case such Prize were taken by a Private Man of War, shall be divided into five parts, four parts to be answered to the Persons interested in the Privateer; and the fifth to their Majesties, and the Ship or Vessel, with its Furniture, shall be enjoyed by the Persons in­terested in the Privateer; and in case such Prize be taken by any of their Majesties Ships, the neat proceed shall be di­vided into three parts, one third whereof to be answered to the Commander, Mariners and Seamen taking the same, ac­cording to the Custom of the Sea for sharing Prizes, or to such Orders as have or shall be made by their Majesties.

LII. Provided that one third part thereof be distributed among the Ships Crew, one third part to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy, for the Relief of sick and woun [...] Mariners, and the Widows, Children and impotent Pare [...] [...] of Persons slain at Sea in their Majesties Service, [...] the other third part to the use of their Majesties; a [...] case such Prize be taken by any Merchant Ship en [...] in their Majesties Service, the proceed thereof sh [...] [...] vided into three parts, one third part to the C [...] [...] ficers and Mariners taking the same, one third [...] [Page 134]use of their Majesties, and one third to the Treasurer of the Navy for the purposes aforesaid.

LIII. If any who shall take such Prize or Prizes, imbezil or conceal any part of such Goods or Merchandize, or put the same on Shore in any other place than their Majesties Ware-houses, they shall lose their share thereof, upon proof made by one or more Witnesses upon Oath, before the Commissioners of the Customs in the Port of London, (if such Offence be committed within the said Port, or within the view and knowledge of any Officer of the Customs belonging thereunto) and before the Chief Magistrate of the Place, in the presence of the Chief Officer of the Port, in any other Port; one moiety of such Wares to be to the use of the Informer, and the other part to the use of their Maje­sties.

LIV. Seamen and others concerned in any Prize, shall be permitted to see and puruse the Accounts of any Prize, with­out paying any other Fee than 1 s. for one Account at one time.

LV. If any Ship or Goods of the Product or Manufa­cture of the Dominions of the French King, shall be taken by any Privateer by Collusion, upon proof made thereof in the Court of Exchequer or Commission of Admiralty, they shall be adjudged lawful Prize, one moiety thereof to their Ma­jesties, and the other moiety to him that shall discover the same; and the Bond given by the Captain of such Privateer is hereby adjudged to be forfeited: If such Ships or Goods shall be taken by Collusion, by any Man of War, the Com­mander shall forfeit 1000 l. one moiety to their Majesties, and the other to the Discoverer; and such Commander shall forfeit his Command or Imployment, and be uncapable of any Office under their Majesties during seven years, and such Vessel and Goods shall be adjudged good Prize to their Ma­jesties.

LVI. In all cases where such Prize shall not be taken by any Private Man of War, one tenth part thereof after dedu­ction of their Majesties Customs, and before any division of the proceed thereof, shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy, and by him kept apart, to be disposed of by Warrant from the Commissioners of the Admiralty, or Lord High Admiral, for Medals, and other Rewards for Officers and Sea­men, who shall do any extraordinary Service.

LVII. In case any Man of War or Privateer take or de­stroy any French Man of War or Privateer, they shall receive for every Piece of Ordinance in any Ship so taken or de­stroyed, 10 l. to be paid by the Commissioners for the Prizes, out of their Majesties share of Prizes.

[Page 135] LVIII. Provided that if the Commissioners do not pay the same, or give a Bill payable out of the first Monies that shall come to their Hands, by three days after the same ought to be paid, and demand thereof made, free of all Charges and Deductions, such Commissioners shall be un­capable of any Office in their Majesties Service for the future.

LIX. The shares, proportions and rewards given by this Act to Commanders, Officers and Seamen, shall be in lieu of all Shares in Prizes taken in Fight, and otherwise, during this War; any thing in an Act made in the 13th Car. 2. Entituled, Articles and Ordinances for the regulating and Go­vernment of their Majesties Navy, Ships of War and Forces by Sea, or any Declaration or Order of their Majesties to the contrary notwithstanding.

LX. If any Person shall imbezil any thing whatsoever upon or above the Gun-Deck, or in any other place, in any Ship taken or seiz'd on as Prize, or retaken from the Enemy, he shall forfeit his share and reward hereby allowed him; and if he be an Officer he shall forfeit for every such Offence 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties, the other to him that will sue for the same, and shall be uncapable of any Office or Employment under their Majesties for seven years.

LXI. Ships taken as Prize within the Streights of Gi­braltar, may be carryed into Cadiz or Alicant, or Messma or Naplet, and be put into the possession of such as shall be au­thorized by their Majesties to receive and preserve the same till by the Court of Admiralty of England they be adjudged lawful Prize, or otherwise legally disposed of, the Captors being hereby required to transmit with all speed the Papers taken therein, or attested Copies thereof to the said Court.

LXII. Ships taken as Prize in America may be carried in­to any of their Majesties Ports there, and put into the pos­session of the Chief Governor, to be kept as aforesaid, till they be disposed of by such as shall be lawfully commissioned in that behalf.

LXIII. Ships taken in any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, may be carried into the Port or Place where any Eng­lish Factory is established, and put into the possession of the Chief Person of the Factory, to be kept as aforesaid, till con­demnation by such as shall be commissioned in that behalf.

LIV. Where any Vessel shall be taken as Prize by a Pri­vateer, in which Vessel there shall be no Goods of the growth or manufacture of the Dominions of the French King, then after condemnation and payment of Customs and other Du­ties, the Persons interested in such Privateer shall have the whole to their own use, without deduction for Tenths, or any other part to their Majesties, or the Lord High Admiral.

[Page 136] LXV. Where any Vessel shall be taken within any of their Majesties Ports, Rivers or Havens by any Privateer, such Prize shall belong to their Majesties, as a Perquisite of the Admiralty of England, and the Captors to have such part thereof as their Majesties shall think fit to allow.

LXVI. If any Vessel taken as Prize, or any Goods there­in, shall appear to belong to any of their Majasties Subjects, continuing under their Majesties Protection and Obedience, which were before taken by their Majesties Enemies, and re­taken, such Vessels and Goods, and every such part thereof belonging to their Majesties Subjects, shall be restored by Decree of the Court of Admiralty to the former Owners, they paying in lieu of Salvage, if retaken by a Man of War, an eighth part of the value, which Salvage shall be answer­ed to the Captains, Officers and Seamen in the said Man of War, to be divided as in this Act is directed touching the share of Prizes belonging to them, where Prizes are taken by any of their Majesties Ships of War; and if taken by a Privateer or other Vessel, after having been in possession of the Enemy twenty four hours, an eighth part of the value; if above twenty four hours, and under forty eight, a fifth part; if above forty eight hours, and under ninety six, a third part; if above ninety six hours, a moiety; all which Pay­ments to any Privateer or other Vessel, to be made without deduction; and if such retaken Ship shall appear to have been set forth by the Enemy as a Man of War, the former Pro­prietors shall pay the full moiety of the true value for Salvage.

LXVII. If any Vessel whereupon Wool is laden to be transported, contrary to Law, be taken by any Privateer, on proof thereof in the Exchequer, the Persons interested in the Privateer shall have a moiety of the Vessels and Goods, and their Majesties the other moiety.

LXVIII. The Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall express all things by this Act directed to be observed concerning Prizes, &c. in the Instructions by them to be given to Captains and Commanders of their Majesties Ships of War, and to Commanders of Privateers.

LXIX. All Goods of the growth or manufacture of France, imported and seized, shall be sued for and prosecuted in the Exchequer, in manner and form as is provided by an Act made in the 14th year of King Charles II. Entituled, An Act for preventing Frauds in his Majesties Customs, two thirds there­of to be to the use of their Majesties, &c. (they defraying the Charges of the Prosecution) and one third to the Prosecu­tor, and no composition to be made for their Majesties part; such Goods to be secured and sold as Prize Goods are appoint­ed by this Act to be secured and sold.

[Page 137] LXX. If the Commissioners of the Prizes or of the Cu­stoms, shall detain the Shares belonging to Persons interest­ed in Privateers two days after the same ought to be paid, and demand thereof made, free from all Deductions, except for Ware-house-room, and 2 l. per Cent. for all other Charges, they shall forfeit double the Sum so detained.

Treason.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 13. If during the pre­sent War with France, any Persons shall send, load, trans­port or deliver, or cause to be sent, loaden, &c. to or for the Use of the French King, or any of his Subjects residing in his Dominions, any Arms, Ordinance, Powder, Bullets, Pitch, Tar, Hemp, Masts, Cordage, Iron, Coals, Lead or Salt-Peter, such Offenders shall be adjudged Traytors.

II. If any during this War shall send, load, &c. to the use of the French King, or any of his Subjects, residing, &c. any Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever, other than the Goods herein before particularly mentioned, they shall incur a Premunire.

III. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 10th of March 1691. without their Majesties Licence, voluntarily go, or imbark in any Vessel, with an intent to go into any the Domi­nions of the French King, he shall be adjudged to be guilty of High-Treason.

IV. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 25th of March 1692. voluntarily come or return from any of the French Kings Dominions in Europe, into England, during the said War, without leave obtain'd, they shall be kept in Prison without Bail or Mainprize during their Majesties pleasure, for any time not exceeding twelve months.

Tythes.

I. Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 3. All Persons that shall sow, or cause to be sown any Hemp or Flax, shall pay to every Parson, Vicar or Impropriator of the Parish or Place, for every Acre so sown, pulled or drawn, an annual Sum not exceeding 4 s. before it be carried off the Ground, and so proportionably; for the recovery of which, such Parson, &c. shall have the common and usual Remedy.

II. This Act shall not charge any Lands discharged by any modus d [...]cimandi, ancient Composition, or otherwise.

III. This Law to continue for seven years, and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament.

Wills.

I. Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. cap. 2. From and after the 26th day of March 1693. Persons inhabiting, or who shall have any Goods within the Province of York, may by their last Wills dispose of all their Personal Estate as they shall think fit; and their Widows, Children and other Kindred, shall be barred to claim any part of the Personal Estate in other manner than as by their Wills shall be appointed.

II. This Act shall not extend to the Citizens of the Cities of York and Chester, who are or shall be Freemen of the said Cities, inhabiting within the same, or the Suburbs thereof at the time of their death.

Wool.

I. Stat. 1 W. & M Sess. 1. cap. 32. Owners of Wool or their Agents, that shall at any time carry, or cause to be carried any Wool to any Port or Place on the Sea-Coasts, to be conveyed to any other Port or Place in England, Wales or Berwick, from whence the same may be transported into Foreign Parts, shall first cause a due entry thereof to be made at the Port from whence it shall be intended to be conveyed, containing the Weights, Marks and Numbers there­of, before they carry it within five miles of any such Port or Place; or else such Wool found, and the Beasts and Car­riages conveying it shall be forfeited; and the Persons con­veying, driving or abetting the same, shall forfeit and suffer as by the Laws and Statutes now in force against the expor­tation of Wool.

II. The forgoing Clause shall not extend to hinder any Person from carrying their Wool from the place of Shear­ing, to their own Dwelling-house, &c. though within five miles of the Sea, so as within ten days after Shearing, and before they otherwise dispose of the same, they certifie un­der their Hands to the Officers of the Customs in the next Port, the quantity thereof, viz. the number of the Fleeces and where housed, and do not remove the same, without first certifying the Officer of the next Port under their Hands of their intention to remove it, three days at least before such removal; the said Officers to keep and register such Certificate; but Persons neglecting to certifie, as afore­said, or removing their Wool before such Certificate of their intention, shall be liable to the Penalties of the former Clauses.

[Page 139] III. Cocquets for carrying Wool from any Port in Eng­land, Wales or Berwick, shall be written upon Paper, and sign'd by three Chief Officers of such Port at least; and Certificates of landing them again at any other of the said Ports, or from Ireland, shall be so sign'd; and all such Wool, both at ship­ping and landing shall be weigh'd in the presence of the said Officers, giving such Cocquets and Certificates; and the Weight, Marks and Numbers of such Wool shipped and landed, shall be expressed in both Cocquet and Certificate.

IV. Officers not observing the Directions of this Act, shall be adjudged Abettors of the Transportation, and suffer the Penalties contain'd in the Statutes of the 12th and 14th years of King Charles II. against Transportation of Wool.

V. No Wool shall be shipt from Ireland, but from Dublin, Waterford, Youghall, Kinsale, Cork and Drogheda, nor imported from thence, but into Leverpool, Chester, Bristol, Minehead, Barn­staple, Bidford and Exeter.

VI. For the better execution of this and other Acts against the Exportation of Wool, Sir Tho. P. Lord Mayor of London, Sir H. G. Baronet, Sir P. W. Kt. Sir B. N. Kt. Sir J. M. Kt. Sir P.R. Kt. Sir R.D. Sir W.P. Kt. and Bar. Sir H.A. Bar. Sir W.A. Kt. Sir R. N. Sir J. F. W. H. J. S. J. S. F. O. J. P. R. B. W. C. E. M. Esquires, S. H. W. H. Senior, J. P. J. V. J. G. B. C. Gentlemen, Mr. M. of Horton, Sir T. S. Bar. W. D. Esq J. A. of Woley Esq Sir W. L. Sir J. P. Kt. Sir B. A. Bar. Sir R. J. Kt. Sir J. L. Kt. Sir G. R. Kt. Sir S. D. Kt. Sir T. V. Kt. N. T. W.H. T.C. W.G. H.S. S.M. J.S. T.F. A.M. W.C. T.H. T.S. W. J. Esquires, P. S. H. C. J. D. R. S. D. P. T. C. P. B. J. P. R. H. J. B. J. H. E. B. N. B. W. S. B. J. D. J. A. J. T. T. P. P. H. N. J. P. M. F. W. S. J. K. Senior, J. M. Junior, W.W. J.Y. R. F. J.L. T. P. W.B. J.U. J. S. J.M. or any five or more of them, are hereby authorized for put­ting this and other the said Laws in execution, and by their Substitutes to be appointed under the Hands and Seals of five or more of them, to seize all Wools, Woolfels, and other Things above-mentioned, which shall be endeavoured to be exported contrary to this Act, and to prosecute Offenders against this or any the said Laws.

VII. Owners of Ships, Masters or Mariners knowing of the Exportation of any Sheeps-wool, Wool-fells, Mortlings, Shorlings, Yarn made of Wool, Wool-flocks, Fullers-earth or Tobacco-pipe Clay, contrary to the meaning of this Act, that shall within three months after their knowledge there­of, or after their return into England, Ireland, Wales or Ber­wick, give the first Information thereof, and by whom, where and in what Vessel, upon Oath before any of the Barons of the Exchequer in England or Ireland, or any three of the Com­missioners appointed by this Act, or the Head-Officer of the [Page 140]Port, where they shall first arrive, and shall be ready to justifie and prove the same, shall not be subject to the Penal­ties of this or any other Act, for the said Offence, but shall recover and receive such benefit and advantages as are appoint­ed by any precedent Act.

VIII. The Powers given to the said Commissioners shall not hinder any Persons lawfully authorized from seizing Wool, or prosecuting Offenders against this or any former Act.

IX. If any Prosecution shall be against any Person for what he shall do in pursuance of this Act, he may file a Common Bail, or enter into a Common Appearance, and plead the General Issue, and give this Act in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff be non-suit, or discontinue, or a Verdict pass against him, or Judgment upon a Demurrer, the Defendant shall recover treble Costs.

X. A Register shall be kept at the Custom-house, London, of all Wool imported from Ireland; and of all Wool sent from one Port to another in this Kingdom; the Weights and Num­bers, Ship, Masters Name, Owners Name, and to whom consigned: This Act to continue for three years, and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

XI. Any Persons may buy Cloth, Stuffs, Stockings or other Woollen Manufactures, and export the same, paying the usual Customs.

XII. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to avoid the Charters granted to the Levant, Eastland, Russia or African Companies.

XIII. It shall be lawful to transport from Southampton only, for the use of the Inhabitants of Guernsey, Jersey, Alder­ney and Sark, 1000 Tods of unkemb Wool for Guernsey, 2000 for Jersey, 200 for Alderney, and 100 for Sark, more than by the Act made in the 12th year of King Charles II. is pro­vided for, the same to be done according to the Directions, and under the Penalties therein appointed and inflicted; and on the farther Penalty of 20 l. for every Tod of Wool and forfeiture of the Wool it self (one half to the King, one Quarter to the Informer, and one Quarter to the Poor of the said Islands) in case of transporting or attempting to transport any of the said Wool from the said Islands, for every Offence therein; and that every Person so offending, shall after the first Offence be incapable of any Grant of any Wool from the said Port of Southampton, nor ever after have any Warrant granted him for that purpose; the said Penalties to be recovered by him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, &c.