CHAPTER XIII . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,236.3) An Act for restraining the takeing of Excessive Usury . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,236.4) Forasmuch as the Abatement of Interest from Ten in the Hundred in former times hath beene found by notable experience beneficiall to the Advancement of Trade and Improvement of Land~ by good Husbandry with many other considerable advantages to this Nation , especially the reduceing of it to a nearer proportion with Forraigne States with whom wee traffique , And wheras in fresh memory the like fall from Eight to Six in the Hundred by a late constant practise hath found the like Successe to the generall contentment of this Nation as is visible by severall Improvements . And whereas it is the endeavour of some at present to reduce it backe againe in practice to the allowance of the Statute still in force to Eight in the Hundred to the great discouragement of Ingenuity and industry in the Husbandry Trade and Commerce of this Nation . Bee it for the Reasons aforesaid Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestye and the Lord~ and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That noe person or persons whatsoever from and after the twenty ninth day of September in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty upon any Contract shall from and after the said twenty $ninth of September take directly or indirectly for Loane of any $Money Wares Merchandice or other Commodityes whatsoever above the value of Six Pound~ for the Forbearance of one Hundred Pound~ for a Yeare , and soe after that Rate for a greater or lesser Summe or for a longer or shorter time , And that all Bond~ Contracts and Assurances whatsoever made after the time aforesaid for payment of any principall or money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Usury , wherupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six pound~ in the Hundred as aforesaid shall be utterly void , And that all and every person and persons whatsoever which shall after the time aforesaid upon any Contract to be made after the said twenty nineth day of September take accept and receive by way or meanes of any corrupt Bargaine Loane Exchange Cheivesaunce Shift or Interest of any Wares Merchandise or other thing or things whatsoever , or by any deceitfull way or meanes or by any covin , engine or deceitfull conveyance for the forbearing or giveing day of payment for one whole yeare of and for their Money or other thing above the Su~me of Six pound~ for the forbearing of One hundred pound~ for a yeare , and soe after that Rate for a greater or lesser Summe or for a longer or shorter Terme shall forfeit and loose for every such offence the treble value of the Moneyes Wares Merchandize and other things soe Lent Bargained Sold Exchanged or Shifted ; (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,236.6) And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every Scrivenor and Scrivenors Broker and Brokers Sollicitor and Sollicitors Driver and Drivers of Bargaines for Contracts who shall after the said twenty nineth day of September take or receive directly or indirectly any Summe or Summes of Money or other reward or thing for Brokage Solliciting Driving or Procureing the Loane or forbearing of any Summe or Summes of Money over and above the Rate or Value of five shillings for the Loane , or of one hundred pound~ for a yeare and soe rateably , or above twelve pence for $the making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loane , or for forebearing thereof , or for any Counterbond or Bill concerning the same shall forfeite for every such Offence twenty pound~ and have Imprisonment for halfe a yeare ; The one moyety of all which forfeitures to be to the King our Soveraigne Lord His Heires and Successors , And the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in the same County where the severall Offences are committed and not elsewhere by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information , in which noe Essoigne Wager of Law , or protection to be allowed . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,237.8) CHAPTER XXX . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.11) An Act for the Attainder of severall persons guilty of the horrid Murther of his late Sacred Majestie King Charles the first . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.12) In all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majestie Your Majestyes most dutyfull and loyall Subjects the Lord~ and Commons in Parliament assembled That the Horrid and Execrable Murder of Your Majestyes Royall Father our late most Gratious Soveraigne Charles the First of ever blessed and glorious memory hath beene committed by a party of wretched men desperately wicked and hardened in their impietie , who haveing first plotted and contrived the ruine and distruction of this excellent Monarchy , and with it of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which had beene soe long protected by it and flourished under it , found it necessary in order to $the carrying on of their pernitious and traiterous designes to throw downe all the Bulwarks and Fences of Law , and to subvert the very being and constitution of Parliament that soe they might at last make their way open for any further attempts upon the Sacred person of his Majestie himselfe , And that for the more easy effecting thereof they did first seduce some part of the then Army into a compliance and then kepte the rest in subjection to them partly for hopes of preferment and cheifely for feare of looseing their imployments and arreares untill by these and other more odious arts and devices they had fully strengthened themselves both-5 in power and faction , which being done they did declare against all manner of Treaties with the person of the King even then while a Treaty by advice of both Houses of Parliament was in being remonstrate against the Houses of Parliament for such proceedings , seize upon His Royall person while the Commissioners were returned to the House of Parliament with his Answere , and when his concession had beene voted a ground for peace , seize upon the House of Commons seclude and imprison some Members force out others and there being left but a small remnant of their owne Creatures not a tenth part of the whole did seeke to shelter themselves by this weake pretence under the name and authoritie of a Parliament , and in that name laboured to prosecute what was yet behinde and unfinished of their long intended Treason and Conspiricie , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.14) To this purpose they prepared an Ordinance for erecting a prodigious and unheard of Tribunall which they called An High Court of Justice for tryall of his Majestie (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.15) and haveing easily procured it to passe in their House of Commons as it then stood moulded ventured to send it up from thence to the Peeres then sitting who totally rejected it , whereupon their rage and fury increasing they presume to passe it alone as an Act of the Commons and in the name of the Commons of England , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.16) and haveing gained the pretence of Law made by a power of their owne makeing pursue it with all possible force and cruelty untill at last upon the thirtyeth day of January One thousand six hundred forty and eight His Sacred Majestie was brought unto a Scaffold and there publiquely murthered before the Gates of his owne Royall Palace , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.17) And because by this horred {COM:sic} action the Protestant Religion hath received the greatest wound and reproach and the people of England the most insupportable shame and infamy that it was possible for the enimies of God and the King to bring upon us whilst the Fanatick Rage of a few Miscreants who were as farr from being true Protestants as they were from being true Subjects stand~ imputed by our Adversaries to the whole nation , We therefore your Majestyes said dutyfull and loyall Subjects the Lord~ and Commons in Parliament assembled doe hereby renounce abominate and protest against that Impious Fact , the execrable Murther and $unparreled Treason committed against the Sacred person and life of our said late Soveraigne Your Majestyes most Royall Father , and all proceedings tending thereunto , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.18) And doe beseech Your most Excellent Majestie that it may be declared , And be it hereby declared That by the undoubted and Fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome , neither the Peeres of this Realme nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament or out of Parliament , nor the people collectively or $representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had hath have {COM:sic} or ought to have any coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realme , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.19) And for the better vindication of our selves to posteritie , and as a lasting Monument of our otherwise inexpressible detestation and abhorrency of this villanous and abominable Fact We doe further beseech Your most Excellent Majestie that it may be Enacted , And bee it hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lord~ and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That every thirtyeth day of January unless it falls out to be upon the Lord~ day and then the day next following shall be for ever hereafter sett apart to be kepte and observed in all the Churches and Chappells of these Your Majestyes Kingdomes of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwicke upon Tweed and the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey and all other Your Majestyes Dominions as an Anniversary day of Fasting and Humiliation to implore the mercy of God that neither the guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood , nor those other sinns by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hand~ of cruell and unreasonable men may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,288.20) And whereas Oliver Cromwell deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased John Lisle William Say Sir Hardresse Waller Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whalley William Heveningham Isaac Pennington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Milington Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Tichborne Owen Rowe Robert Lilborne Adrian Scroope John Oakey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Hollond Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvey Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downes Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwell George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Daniell Blagrave Thomas Waite John Cooke Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniell Axtell are notoriously knowne to have beene wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing that traiterous Murther of His late Majesty for which the said Sir Hardresse Waller Thomas Harrison William Heveningham Isaac Pennington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Tichborne Owen Rowe Robert Lilborne Adrian Scroope John Carew John Jones Henry Smith Gregory Clement Edmond Harvey Thomas Scot John Downes Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Waite John Cooke William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francies Hacker and Daniell Axtell have already received their tryall at Law and by Verdict , or their owne Confession have been convicted , and by Judgement of Law thereupon had doe now stand duely and legally attainted , of whom , ten persons that is to say Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroope John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement John Cooke Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniell Axtell have most deservedly suffered the paines of death and beene executed according to Law and the said John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michaell Livesey John Oakey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner Miles $Corbert William Cawley Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniell Blagrave Andrew Broughton and Edward Dendy are fled from Justice , not dareing to abide a Legall Tryall May it therefore please Your Majestie that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That the said Oliver Cromwell deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased shall by vertue of this Act be adjudged to be convicted and attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes as if they and every of them respectively had beene attainted in their lives , And alsoe that John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whally John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michaell Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles $Corbert Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniell Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy and every of them stand and be adjudged and by Authority of this present Act convicted and attainted of High Treason , And that all and every the Mannours Messuages Land~ Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fees Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for yeares Chattells reall and other things of that nature whatsoever they be of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michaell Livesey John Oakey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles $Corbert Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniell Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroope John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cooke Daniell Axtell Sir Hardresse Waller William Heveningham Isaac Pennington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Tichborne Owen Rowe Robert Lilborne Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downes Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Waite which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the five and twentyeth day of March in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto Your Majestie Your Heires and Successors and shall bee deemed vested and adjudged to be in the actuall and reall possession of Your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found , And alsoe that all and every the Good~ Debts and other the Chattells personall whatsoever of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride whereof at the time of their respective deathes they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed in Law or Equity , and all the Good~ Debts and other the Chattells personall whatsoever any of them the said John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Oakey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroope John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters $John $Cooke $Francis $Hacker Daniell Axtell Sir Hardresse Waller William Heveningham Isaac Pennington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Tichborne Owen Rowe Robert Lilborne Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downes Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte whereof upon the Eleaventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty nine they or any of them or any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either-11 in Law or Equity shall bee deemed and adjudged to be forfeited unto and are hereby vested and putt into the actuall and reall possession of Your Majestie without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,289.21) Provided allwayes and be it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That noe Conveyance Assurance Grant Bargaine Sale Charge Lease Assignment of Lease Grants and Surrenders by Coppy of Court Roll Estate Interest Trust or limitation of any Use or Uses of or out of any Mannors Land~ Tenements or Hereditaments not being the Land~ $nor $Hereditaments of the late King Queene or Prince or of any Arch Bishops Bishops Deanes {TEXT:Deanes_Deanes} and Chapters , nor being Land~ nor Hereditaments sold or given for the delinquency or pretended delinquency of any person or persons whatsoever by vertue or pretext of any Act Order Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance since the First day of January One thousand six hundred forty and one , nor any Statute Judgement or Recognizance had made $acknowledged or suffered to any person or persons Bodyes Pollitique or Corporate before the twenty ninth day of September One thousand six hundred fifty nine by any of the Offenders before in this Act mentioned or their Heires , or by any other person or persons claiming by from or under them or any of them other then the wife or wives childe or children heire or heires of such person or persons or any of them for money bona fide to them or any of them paid or lent , nor any conveyance assurance grant or estate made before the twenty fifth of Aprill One thousand six hundred and sixtie by any person or persons to any of the Offenders aforesaid in Trust and for the benefit of any other person or persons not being any of the Offenders aforesaid or in trust for any Bodyes Pollitique or Corporate shall be impeached defeated made void or frustrated hereby or by any of the Convictions and Attainders aforesaid but that the same shall be held and enjoyed by the Purchasers Grantees Lessees Assignes Cestuy que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heires Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not beene made , and as if the said Offenders had not beene by this Act , or by any other course or proceedings of Law convicted or attainted soe as the said Conveyances and all and every the Grants and Assurances which by vertue of this Act are and ought to be held and enjoyed as aforesaid shall before the First of January which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two be entred and enrolled of Record in His Majestyes Court of Exchequer and not otherwise Any thing in this Act herein before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,290.22) Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and singular the Mannours Land~ Tenements and Hereditaments which at any time heretofore were the Land~ and Possessions of Henry late Marquesse of Worcester and Edward now Marquesse of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert Sonne and Heire Apparent of the said Edward Marquesse of Worcester or any of them whereof or wherein the said Oliver Cromwell or any other person or persons in trust for him or to his use , or any other the persons attainted by this Act or otherwise , or any person or persons in trust for them or any of them had or claimed or pretended to have any Estate Right Title Possession or Interest at any time before or since the decease of the said Oliver Cromwell shall be and hereby are vested and setled in , and shall be held and enjoyed by the said Marquesse of Worcester and the said Henry Lord Herbert in such manner and forme and for such Estate and Estates with such Powers and priviledges as they formerly had in the same respectively , Any thing in this present Act contained , or any Act Conveyance or Assurance heretofore made or acknowledged by the said Edward Marquesse of Worcester and Henry Lord Herbert or either of them unto the said Oliver Cromwell , or any other person or persons in trust for or to the use of the said Oliver Cromwell , or any Act or Conveyance made or done by the said Oliver Cromwell or by any in trust for him to any person whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,290.23) Saveing alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodyes Pollitique and others their respective Heires Successors Executors and Administrators all such Right Title Interest in Law and Equity which they or any of them have or ought to have of , in , to or out of any the Premisses not being in trust for any the said Offenders nor derived by from or under the said Offenders since the twenty fifth day of March which was in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty six , And that they the said person and persons Bodyes Pollitique and other their respective Heires Successors Executors and Administrators and every of them in all and every such case where his and their Entry was lawfull upon such Offender or Offenders or the Heires or Assignes of such Offender or Offenders in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March One thousand six hundred forty & six or at any time since may without Petition Monstrans de droyt Ouster le maine or other Suite to His Majestie enter on the Premises in His Majestyes Possession , or in the possession of His Successors and Patentees their Heires or Assignes in such manner to all intents as he or they might have done on the possession of the said Offenders their Heires or Assignes in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March or at any time since Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,290.24) Provided alsoe That all and every person and persons which have received any of the Rents or meane proffitts of in or out of any the Land~ Tenements and Hereditaments Chattells reall or Possessions of any the Offender or Offenders in this Act mentioned before the Eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and have paid or accompted for the same before the said Eleventh day of February 1659 {COM:sixteen_words_from_'and'_to_'1659'_interpolated} . unto the said Offender or Offenders or their Assignes , or to any claiming from or under them shall be clearely and for ever acquitted and discharged of and from the same against the Kings Majestie His Heires and Successors Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,290.25) Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawfull to and for Richard Ingoldsby to retaine and keepe or otherwise to sell and dispose all and singular the Good~ and Chattells formerly belonging to Sir Hardresse Waller in the Kingdome of Ireland untill two thousand pound~ for which the said Richard Ingoldsby in the yeare One thousand six hundred fifty eight stood joyntly bound with the said Sir Hardresse Waller unto James Brookes of the Citty of Yorke Alderman , and was then counter secured by a Judgement upon his Land~ , and since by a Deed of Bargaine and Sale of the said Good~ and Chattells in Ireland be fully paid together with the Interest thereof , he the said Richard Ingoldsby accounting for and paying the full overplus thereof if any shall be unto our Soveraigne Lord the King , Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,290.26) CHAPTER V . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,308.29) An Act against Tumults and Disorders upon p~tence of p~paring or p~senting publick Petico~ns or other Addresses to His Majesty or the Parliament . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,308.30) Whereas it hath beene found by sad experience that Tumultuous and other Disorderly solliciting and procuring of Hands by private persons to Petico~ns Complaints Remonstrances & Declarations and other Addresses to the King or to both or either Houses of Parliament for alteraco~n of matters established by Law redresse of p~tended grievances in Church or State or other publique Concernments have beene made use of to serve the ends of Factious & Seditious persons gotten into power to the violation of the publique Peace and have beene a great meanes of the late unhappy Wars Confusions and Calamities in this Nation For p~venting the like mischeife for the future Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the first of August One thousand six hundred sixty and one solicite labor or procure the getting of Hands or other consent of any persons above the number of twenty or more to any Petico~n Complaint Remonstrance Declaraco~n or other $Addresses to the King or both or either Houses of Parliament for alteraco~n of matters established by Law in Church or State unlesse the matter thereof have been first consented unto and Ordered by three or more Justices $of that County or by the Major part of the Grand Jury of the County or division of the County where the same matter shall arise at theire publique Assizes or Generall Quarter Sessions or if arising in London by the Lord Maior Aldermen and Commons in Common Councell assembled And that no person or persons whatsoever shall repaire to His Majesty or both or either of the Houses of Parliament upon p~tence of presenting or delivering any Petico~n Complaint Remonstrance or Declaraco~n or other Addresses accompanied with excessive number of people not att any one time with above the number of ten persons upon pain of incurring a penalty not exceeding the su~m of One hundred pounds in money and three months Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for every offence which offence to be prosecuted at the Court of Kings Bench or att the Assizes or Generall Quarter Sessions within six moneths after the offence committed and proved by two or more credible witnesses . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,308.32) Provided alwaies That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to extend to debar or hinder any person or persons not exceeding the number of Ten aforesaid to present any publique or private Greivance or Complaint to any Member or Members of Parliament after his Election and during the continuance of the Parliament or to the Kings Majesty for any remedy to bee thereupon had nor to extend to any Address whatsoever to His Majesty by all or any the Members of both or either Houses of Parliament during the sitting of Parliament but that they may enjoye theire freedome of Accesse to His Majesty as heretofore hath beene used . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,308.33) CHAPTER XVIII . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,410.36) An Act against exporting of Sheepe Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay and Tobacco pipe Clay . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,410.37) Whereas against the Lawes of this Kingdome great number of Sheep and great quantities of Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay are secretly exported transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales the Towne of Berwicke upon Tweed and Kingdome of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Forreigne parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like dayly to encrease if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein . Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person or persons shall from and after the First day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly export transport carry or convey or shall cause to be exported transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the First day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdome of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdomes or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Sheepe or Wool whatsoever of the breed or growth of the Kingdomes or Dominion aforesaid or any Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdomes of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Sheep Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to export transport carry or convey the same or to cause the same to bee exported transported carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdomes of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwicke upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdome of Scotland or into any Forreign parts that then every such Offence shall be adjuged Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,410.39) And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every owner of any such Ship or other Vessell and every owner of every Horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Sheepe Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly ayding assisting or consenting thereunto and alsoe every Master and Mariner of or in such Shipp or other Vessell wherein any such Sheep Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and alsoe every Factor or Servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Survyor or other Officer or Person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto shall be and shall be adjudged and taken to be a Felon and every Offender or Offenders therein being duly convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,410.40) And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every offence which shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be enquired of and heard examined tried and determined in the County where such Sheepe Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so packed loaden or laid on board as aforesaid or else in the County where such Offender shall happen to $be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had beene wholly done and committed in the same County (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.42) Provided alsoe that every Baron and other Peer of this Realm which shall be indicted or accused as principall or accessary {COM:sic} in or to any offence made Felony by this Act shall have his her or theire Tryal by his her or theire Peeres as in cases of Felony att Common Law (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.43) Provided alwaies and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall att any time hereafter be impeached for any offence made Felony by this Act unlesse such person or persons shall be thereof indicted within the space of one yeare next ensuing such offence committed (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.44) And for as much as great quantities of Wooll Woollen Yarn and Woolflocks are close packed and pressed togeather with Scrues and other unlawfull Engines into Butts Pipes Hogsheads Chests and other Cask and Vessells and into Sacks Baggs and other Wrappers made of Wool or Linnen and under colour of Bales Sacks Baggs Packs and Cask of other Goods and otherwise great quantities of the same are daily loaden on board of Ships or other Vessels and soe are carryed conveyed exported and transported out of the Kingdomes Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid and alsoe great quantities are daily carried and laid at or neere the Coasts of the Sea or some navigable Rivers into Storehouses and Barnes and by night are laid on board of Shallops and other Vessells belonging to Aliens and so carried and exported out of the Kingdomes Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of August no person or persons shall presse together with any Scrues Presses or other Engines into any Sacke Pack Bagg or other Wrapper or shall put presse pack or stean any Wooll whatsoever or any Yarn made of Wooll into any Butt Pipe Hogshead Chest or any other Cask or Vessell upon any pretence whatsoever or shall carry or lay or cause to be carried or laid at or neare the Shoar or Coasts of the Sea or of any navigable River or into any House or Place near adjoyning thereunto any such Wooll Woolflocks or Yarn made of Wooll with intention to export transport carry or convey the same out of the Kingdomes of England or Ireland Town of Berwick upon Twede or Dominion of Wales into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any foreign parts under the penalty of the losse and forfeiture of all such Wooll Woolflocks and Yarn made of Wooll as shall be so packed or pressed or put or laid into Cask or carried or laid near to the Sea shoar or to any navigable River as aforesaid or the value thereof (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.45) And whereas great quantities of Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay is dayly carried and exported under the colour of Tobacco pipe Clay Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Tobacco pipe Clay shall from and after the First day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two be exported transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdome of England Town of Berwick upon Twede or after the First Day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of or from the Kingdome of {COM:twenty_words_from_'after'_to_'of'_interpolated} Ireland or the Dominion of Wales into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any forreign parts or into any port or place out of the Kingdomes or Dominion aforesaid under the penalty of three shillings for every pound of Tobacco pipe Clay which shall be exported or transported contrary to this Act . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.46) And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two no Packs Sacks Bags or Caske of any Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco pipe Clay shall be laid or loaden on any Horse Cart or other Carriage whatsoever or shall be carried or conveyed by land to or from any place or places within the Kingdom of England Town of Berwick or Dominion aforesaid nor after the First day of January One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Kingdome of Ireland but in the day time and att seasonable houres that is to say from and after the First day of March to the Nine & twentieth day of September yearely between the houres of Foure of the Clock in the Morning and Eight of the Clock in the Evening and from the Nine and twentieth day of September to the first day of March yearly between the houres of Seven of the Clocke in the Morning and Five of the Clock in the Evening under the penalty of the losse and forfeiture of all such Goods or the value thereof the one moiety of all which forfeitures mentioned in this Act to be to the use of the King His Heires and Successors and the other moyetie to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.47) Provided neverthelesse That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to repeal disanul and make void any the Penalties Clauses or Provisoes mentioned in one Act of this present Session of Parliament made against the Transportation of Wooll Woolfels Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth or to the prohibiting of the loading on board of any Ship or Vessel of any Weather Sheep Wooll Woolflocks or other Goods menco~ned in this Act that by the aforesaid Act is permitted to be loaden on board of any Ship or Vessel for the necessary use or provision of such Ship or Vessel as aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,411.48) Provided alwaies That if any Owner of any Ship or Vessel or any Master or Mariner knowing of such Transportation of such Sheep Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco pipe Clay shall within three monthes next after the knowledge therof or after his returne into the Kingdom of England or Ireland or into the said Town of Berwick or Dominion of Wales aforesaid give the first information bona fide before any of the Barons of either of the Courts of the Exchequer in England or Ireland for the time being or before the Head Officer of any Port where he shall first arrive upon his or theire Oath of the number and quantity of the Goods mentioned in this Act so carried conveyed & transported and by whom where and in what Shipp or Vessell and afterwards shall be ready upon reasonable warning by Processe to justifie and prove the same that then such Owner or Owners Master Mariner and Mariners shall not be punished for Felony by vertue of this Act but shall nevertheless be subject to all other penalties and forfeitures in this or any other Act contained for the Offence aforesaid (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,412.50) and all such Exportation Transportation carrying or conveying of any the Goods Wares or Comodities in this Act mentioned is hereby declared and adjudged to be a common and publicke Nusance (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,412.51) And for the better execution of this Act be it further enacted That all Justices of Assize Justices of Goal {COM:sic} Delivery and Justices of Peace shall enquire of all the premisses in theire General Quarter Sessions and heare and determine the same and that all Maiors Bayliffs and other Head Officers of Cities Burroughs and Towns not having Jurisdiction to try Felony shall enquire of all and every Offence within this Act not made Felony and heare and determine the same . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,412.52) CHAPTER III . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.55) An Act for the returning of able and sufficient Jurors . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.56) For the returning of more able and sufficient Jurors for Trialls hereafter to be had betweene party and $partyes and for reformation of abuses in Sheriffes and other Ministers , who for reward doe oftentimes spare the ablest and sufficientest , and returne the poorer and simpler Freeholders lesse able to descerne the Causes in question , and to beare the charges of appearance and attendance thereon , Bee it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryalls per medietatem lingue who are to be returned for the Tryalls of Issues joyned in any of $his Majestyes Courts of Kings Bench , Common Pleas or the Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Goale Delivery or Generall or Quarter Sessions of the Peace from and after the Twentyeth day of Aprill which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five in any County of this Realme of England shall every of them then have in their owne name or in trust for them within the same County Twenty pounds by the yeare at least above reprizes in their owne or their wives right of Freehold Lands or of auntient Demeasne , or of Rents in Fee , Fee taile , or for Life , And that in every County within the Dominion of Wales , every such Juror shall then have within the same eight pounds by the yeare at the least above reprizes in manner aforesaid , All which persons haveing such Estate as aforesaid are hereby enabled and made lyable to be returned and to serve as Jurors for the Tryall of Issues before the Justices aforesaid , Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.58) And if any of a lesse Estate and value shall be respectively returned upon any such Jury or Tales in defaulte of such Jurors it shall be a good cause of Challenge , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.59) and the party returned shall be discharged upon the said Challenge , or his owne Allegation and Oath thereof . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.60) And that noe Jury mans Issues makeing Defaulte shall be saved but by speciall Order of the Judge or Judges before whom the Issue is to be tryed for some just and reasonable Cause proved upon Oath before the same Judge or Judges (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.61) And all such Issues shall be duely estreated and levyed , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.62) And that the Writt of Venire facias which from and after the aforesaid time shall be awarded and directed for the impannelling of Juryes in Cases aforesaid within any County of England shall be in this Forme Rex &c . p~cipimus &c quod venire fac~ cora~ &c duodecim liberos et legales homines de vicineto de A Quorum quilibet habeat viginti libras terre tenementoru~ vel reddit~ per annu~ ad minus per quos &c et qui nec , &c , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.63) And the residue of the said Writt shall be after the auntient manner . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.64) And that those Writs which shall be awarded and directed for returning of Juryes within the Dominion of Wales shall be made in the same manner altering onely the word Viginti into Octo , and that upon every such Writt and Writts of Venire facias the Sheriffe Coroner or other Ministers of each respective County in England and Wales unto whom the makeing of the Pannell shall appertaine shall not returne in any such Pannell any person unlesse he shall then have Twenty Pounds or Eight pounds respectively by the yeare at least as aforesaid in the same County where the Issue is to be tryed upon paine to forfeite for every person being returned in any such Pannell that shall not then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively as is aforesaid the summe of Five pounds to His Majestie His Heires and Successors , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.65) And for the better enableing the Sheriffe of every County to know the value of the Estates of such persons as are by the true intent and meaning of this Act to be returned for Jury men , Bee it further enacted That every Sheriffe shall on the First day of every Generall Quarter Sessions yearely held next after the Feast of Easter deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Justices of Peace sitting at the same Sessions the Names of all persons of such Estates as are by the true meaning of this Act to be returned for Jury men , to the end the Estates of such persons may be enquired after , and such persons approved of by the said Justices of Peace or the greater number of them then present to be persons of such Estates to be returneable for Jury men for the yeare then next ensuing , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.66) And the said Justices shall have power to add such persons haveing Estates of the respective values before mentioned as they shall finde to be ommitted by the Sheriffe among the Names by him delivered , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,553.67) and such competent number and noe more of such persons as aforesaid shall be returnable to serve of Juryes for the yeare next ensueing as the said Justices or the greater number of them as aforesaid shall thinke fitt , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.68) And that noe Sheriffe shall incurr the penaltie aforesaid for returning any of the persons soe approved or added by the Justices in case his Estate fall out to be of lesse value then aforesaid . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.69) And it is further enacted That noe Sheriffe or Bayliffe of any Liberty or Franchise or any of their or either of their Ministers shall returne any such person or persons as aforesaid to have beene summoned by them or any of them unlesse such person or persons shall have beene duely summoned by the space of six dayes at the least before the day on which they ought to make their appearance , And have left with or for such persons in writeing the Names of all the Partyes in those Causes wherein they are to serve as Jurors , nor shall directly or indirectly take any money or other reward to excuse the appearance of any Juror by them or any of them to be summoned or returned upon paine to forfeite for every such Offence the summe of Ten pounds , saveing to all Cittyes and Townes Corporate their auntient Usage of returning Jurors of such Estate and in such manner as heretofore hath beene used or accustomed (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.70) And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That from henceforth upon Writts of Venire facias issued out and returned within the County Pallatine of Lancaster as of the same Assizes wherein the Issues are said to be joyned Writts of Habeas Corpora or Distringas shall be sued out like as is used in all other Countyes within this Kingdome returnable at the then next Assizes , And the Sheriffe thereupon to returne such Issues as is or ought to be done by the said Sheriffes of the said other Countyes and those Issues to be duely estreated as above is provided , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.71) And the better to cause and bring Jurors to appeare upon Tryalls at Assizes within the said County Pallatine of Lancaster Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Sheriffe of the same County Pallatine of Lancaster for the time being shall from henceforth cause twelve good and lawfull men soe qualifyed as before in this Act is appointed out of every of the six Hundreds within the said County Palatine to be duely summoned or warned ten dayes at the least before the begining of every Assizes to be and appeare the first day of the then next Assizes and there to attend dureing the same Assizes to performe their duty and service to the Court as Jurors or Jury-men in such Causes betweene Party and Party wherein they shall be respectively returned and impannelled upon paine that every of them that shall make defaulte to appeare and attend at and dureing the said Assizes to forfeite Ten pounds to the use and behoofe of the Poore of the Towne where such person or persons soe makeing defaulte doth inhabit and live , the same to be levyed recovered and had in such manner and wayes as other Issues of Jurors use to be levyed . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.72) Provided That this Act shall continue and stand in force for the space of Three yeares and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parlyament and noe longer . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,554.73) CHAPTER II . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.76) An Act against importing Cattell from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas and Fish taken by Forreigners . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.77) Whereas by an Act of this present Parlyament entituled An Act for the encouragement of Trade amongst other things some Provision was made for the preventing of comeing in of vast Numbers of Cattell whereby the Rents and Values of the Land of this Kingdome were much fallen and like dayly to fall more to the great Prejudice Detriment and Impovrishment of this Kingdome which neverthelesse hath by experience beene found to be ineffectuall and the continuance of any Importation either-5 of the Leane or Fatt Cattell dead or alive herein after specified not onely unnecessary but very destructive to the welfare of this Kingdome Bee it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parlyament assembled That such Importation from and after the second day of February in this present yeare One thousand six hundred sixty and six is a publique and common Nusance and shall be soe adjudged deemed and taken to be to all intents and purposes whatsoever , And that if any great Cattell Sheepe or Swine or any Beefe Porke or Bacon excepte for the necessary Provision of the respective Shipps or Vessells in which the same shall be brought not exposeing the same or any part thereof to Sale shall from and after the said second day of February by any wise whatsoever be imported or brought from beyond Seas into this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweed That then it shall and may be lawfull for any Constable Tythingman Headborough Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poore or any of them within their respective Liberties Parishes or Places to take and seize the same and keepe the same dureing the space of Eight and forty houres in some publique and convenient place where such Seizure shall be made within which time if the Owner or Owners or any for them or him shall make it appeare unto some Justice $of $the $Peace of the same County where the same shall be soe seized by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Justice of Peace is hereby impowered and required to administer That the same were not imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after excepted after the said Second day of February Then the same upon the Warrant of such Justice of Peace shall be delivered without delay But in defaulte of such Proofe and Warrant then the same to be forfeited , One halfe $thereof to be disposed to the use of the Poore of the Parish where the same shall be soe found or seized the other halfe to be to his or their owne use that shall soe seize the same . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.79) And for the better encouragement of the Fishery of this Kingdome Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any Ling , Herring , Codd or Pilchard fresh or salted , dryed or bloated or any Salmons Eeles or Congers taken by any Foreigners Aliens to this Kingdome shall be imported uttered sold or exposed to sale in this Kingdome That then it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons to take and seize the same , The one halfe thereof to be disposed of to the use of the Poore of the Parish where the same shall be soe found or seized , the other halfe to his or their owne use which shall soe seize the same . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.80) Provided alwayes That noe thing in this Act shall be construed to hinder the Importation of Cattell from the Isle of Man in this Kingdome of England soe as the number of the said Cattell doe not exceede Six hundred Head yearely And that they be not of any other Breed then of the Breed of the Isle of Man And that they be landed at the Port of Chester or some of the members thereof and not elsewhere (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.81) This Act to continue untill the end of seaven yeares and from thence to the end of the first Session of the next Parlyament . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,597.82) CHAPTER IX . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.85) An Act for reliefe of Poore Prisoners and setting of them on worke . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.86) Whereas there is not yet any sufficient Provision made for the Releife and setting of worke of poore and needy persons comitted to the Co~mon Goale for Felony and other misdemeanors who many times perish before their Tryall , and the Poore there living idlely and unimployed become debauched and come forth instructed in the practice of Thievery and lewdnes For remedy whereof Bee it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie with advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Co~mons in this present Parlyament assembled and by Authoritie of the same That the Justices of the Peace of the respective Countyes at any their Generall Sessions or the major part of them then there assembled if they shall finde it needfull soe to doe may provide Stocke of such Materialls as they finde convenient for the setting poore Prisoners on worke in such manner and by such wayes as other County charges by the Lawes and $Statuts of the Realme are and may be leavyed and raised ; And to pay and provide fitt persons to oversee and to sett such Prisoners on worke , and make such Orders for Accompts of and concerning the premises as shall by them be thought needfull , and for punishment of negclects and other abuses and for bestowing of the Proffitt ariseing by the labour of the Prisoners soe sett on worke for their Releife which shall be duely observed and may alter revoke or amend such their Orders from time to time . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.88) Provided that noe Parish be rated above Six pence by the weeke towards the premisses haveing respect to the respective values of the severall Parishes . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.89) And whereas sometimes by occasion of the Plague and otherwhiles by the great number of Prisoners great and infectious Diseases have happened among the Prisoners whereby it hath come to passe sometimes that the Judges Justices and Jurors have upon occasion of their Attendance at the Tryall of Prisoners beene infected and many of them dyed thereof and sometime such Infection hath spread in the Country For some Remedy therein Bee it by the same Authority enacted That any Sheriffe of the respective Countryes haveing the Custodie of the Goale or such persons who have the Custodie of the Goale with the advice and consent of three or more Justices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum may if they shall on inquiry or information finde it needfull upon emergent occasions in the respective Countryes provide other safe places for the removall of sicke or other persons from and out of the ordinary and usuall Goales the same places to be used and imployed for the reception and custodie of Prisoners to be by or according to their Order or Orders kepte ordered disposed and conveyed to the places appointed for the Goale delivery in such and like manner as such Prisoners ought to be kepte ordered disposed and conveyed in and from the Co~mon Goales by the Lawes and Statutes of the Land , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.90) Provided noe such place be made use of for the purposes aforesaid against the good and free will of the Owners thereof . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.91) Provided alsoe and bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Maior Bayliffe and other Head Officer or any other person and persons who have and hath the Custodie of the Co~mon Goale within any Corporation of this Kingdome and Dominion of Wales shall by and with the advice of three or more Justices of Peace within the said Corporation whereof one of them be of the Quorum in time of Infection have the like power and authoritie for removeing his and their Prisoners into some other convenient place within their Jurisdiction as to them shall seeme fitt dureing the time of Infection , And alsoe to raise a Stocke after the same rates and proportions as is herein before allowed to and for the severall Countyes $of this Kingdome (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,613.92) Provided alsoe and bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid as followeth viz That whereas there is already provided a strong and sufficient Messuage in the Parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle neer the Citty of Exon for the purpose aforesaid and One thousand pounds more by certaine Trustees upon Proposalls and Agreements made by them with certaine Gentlemen Justices of the Peace for the County of Devon who have alsoe provided One thousand pounds more in order to purchase Lands of Inheritance for the good purposes hereafter mentioned Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said two thousand pounds be laid out in purchase of Lands of Inheritance by Order of the Generall Sessions of the Peace hereafter at any time to be held in the name of such persons as by such Order shall be appointed Item That the said House with the Grounds therewith enclosed be had and used as a Common Goale and Workehouse for the said County in manner as is after expressed Item That an Overseer be therein placed by like Order , and by like Order be removeable from time to time which Overseer shall have the charge custodie and government of the Prisoners to him committed according to this Act , and shall have Fifty pounds per annum dureing the execution of his Office and ten pounds per annum for his Deputie but shall therefore take noe Fees for receiving delivering or doeing any other service relateing to the Prisoners from or of any the said Prisoners Item That the said Justices by like Order from time to time shall and may by approbation of the Ordinary provide and appoint some meete and discreete Minister to reade Divine Service according to the Orders of the Church of England unto the Prisoners at least Fower dayes in the weeke that is to say on the Lords day , each Wednesday and each Friday and Saturday and oftner if the said Justices shall appoint and to take paines in instructing them each Lords day at the least for which they may allow him thirty pounds per annum or after that rate , the rest of the Proffitts to be for repairing the House and towards finding a Stocke for to sett the Prisoners on worke , Item That any person charged with such offence onely for which Goale is allowable if soe be he be needy and indigent and not $like to maintaine himselfe in Goale may by Warrant of the Justice of the Peace to whom Jurisdiction in that behalfe appertaineth be committed to the said Worke house in order to his Tryall (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.93) and if any person shall be co~mitted to the ordinary Goale who shall be or become soe indigent he may by Warrant of three Justices of $the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum be removed from the ordinary common Goale to the said House , All which Prisoners soe co~mitted or removed shall be in the custodie of the Overseer and be ordered and demeaned in the said House and conveyed to the Session or to the Goale delivery by like Warrant way and meanes as the Prisoners in other Goales by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme are to be ordered and demeaned . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.94) And because the said Workehouse is distant from the ordinary Common Goale , the Prisoners by order from the Sessions or Goale delivery may in order to their Tryalls be removed to the Common Goale to be the more ready for their Tryalls . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.95) Item That the said Overseer shall give Security for the Stocke and be lyeable to such Regulations and Orders for Accompts and otherwise as the Sessions shall from time to time make for setting the poore Prisoners on worke there which shall be obeyed and observed that a convenient Stocke be from time to time raised at the Charge of the County . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.96) Item That the said Justices in the County of Devon may putt in ure all the powers in this Act as other Justices may in any other County by vertue thereof . Saveing to the Kings Majestie his Heires and Successors and to every other person and persons and their Heires Successors Executors and Administrators all Rights Titles Claimes and Demands whatsoever into or out of the said Messages and Premises as if this Act had never beene made . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.97) CHAPTER X . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.99) An Act extending a former Act concerning Replevins and Avowries to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.100) Whereas by an Act of Parliament entituled An Act for the more speedy and effectuall proceeding upon Distresses and Avowryes for Rents Provision is made where any Plaintiffe shall Nonsuite before Issue joyned in any Suite or Replevin by Plaint or Writt lawfully returned removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parlyament assembled That the said Act and all the Powers and Provisions thereby made for causes of Replevins depending in His Majestyes Courts of Wesminster {COM:sic} shall be extended and be of the same force and efficacy in all causes of Replevin which are or shall be depending in His Majesties Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Lancaster , the Courts of the Great Sessions of His Majesties Principality of Wales the Court of Great Sessions or Assizes for the County Palatine of Chester and the Court of Co~mon Pleas for the County Palatine of Durham as fully and as amply for and dureing the continuance of the said Act as if the said Courts had beene mentioned therein . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.102) CHAPTER XI . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.104) An Act for Redresse of Inconveniences by want of Proofe of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves , upon whose Lives Estates doe depend . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.105) Whereas diverse Lords of Mannours and others have used to grant Estates by Copy of Court Roll for one two or more life or lives according to the Custome of their severall Mannours and have alsoe granted Estates by Lease for one or more life or lives , or else for yeares determinable upon one or more life or lives And it hath often happened that such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have beene granted have gone beyond the Seas or soe absented themselves for many yeares that the Lessors and Reversioners $can $not {TEXT:cannot} finde out whether such person or persons be alive or dead by reason whereof such Lessors and Reversioners have been held out of possession of their Tenements for many yeares after all the lives upon which such Estates depend are dead in regard that the Lessors and Reversioners when they have brought Actions for the recovery of their Tenements have beene putt upon it to prove the death of their Tennants when it is almost impossible for them to discover the same , For remedy of which mischeife soe frequently happening to such Lessors or Reversioners Bee it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Co~mons in this present Parlyament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That if such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have beene or shall be granted as aforesaid shall remaine beyond the Seas or elsewhere absent themselves in this Realme by the space of seaven yeares together and noe sufficient and evident proofe be made of the lives of such person or persons respectively in any Action commenced for recovery of such Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners in every such case the person or persons upon whose life or lives such Estate depended shall be accounted as naturally dead , (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.107) And in every Action brought for the recovery of the said Tenements by the Lessors or Reversioners their Heires or Assignes , the Judges before whom such Action shall be brought shall direct the Jury to give their Verdict as if the person soe remaining beyond the Seas or otherwise absenting himselfe were dead . (STAT-1660-E3-P2,5,614.108)