Taxes. fame, That the feveral acts herein after mentioned, made or mentioned to be made upon or fince the twenty-fifth day of April in the twelfth year of his faid Majefty's reign, by his faid Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords and commons affembled at Westminster upon the faid twenty-fifth of April, and there continued until the twenty-ninth day of December then next following, and then diffolved; which faid acts are herein after particularly mentioned and expreffed by the feveral and refpective titles following; that is to fay, (2) one act, intituled, An act for the raising of feventy thousand pounds for the fur12 Car.2.c.29. ther supply of his Majefty; (3) and one other act, intituled, An act for the confirmation of marriages; (4) and one other act, intiAnniversary tuled, An act for a perpetual anniversary thanksgiving on the twentythanksgiving. ninth day of May: (5) and all and every the claufes, fentences 12Car. 2.c. 14. and articles in them and every of them contained, fhall be and hereby are ratified and confirmed, and enacted and declared to have the full force and strength of acts of parliament, according to the tenor and purport thereof, and fo fhall be adjudged, deemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and as if the fame had been made, declared and enacted by authority of this present parliament. Marriages. 12Car. 2. c. 33. 16Car. 1. c.11. CAP. XII. An act for explanation of a claufe contained in all of par- WHEREAS advice. not taken a. advice and confent of the lords and commons in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority thereof, That neither the faid act, nor any thing therein contained, doth or fhall The ordinary take away any ordinary power or authority from any of the faid power of arch arch-bishops, bishops, or any other person or persons named as bishops, &c. aforefaid, but that they and every of them exercifing ecclefiafti-way. cal jurisdiction, may proceed, determine, fentence, execute and exercise all manner of ecclefiaftical jurisdiction, and all cenfures and coercions appertaining and belonging to the fame before the May ufe ec making of the act before recited, in all caufes and matters be- clefiaftical ju longing to ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, according to the King's rifdiction. majefty's ecclefiaftical laws used and practifed in this realm, in as ample manner and form, as they did and might lawfully have done before the making of the said act. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That The ftat. 16. the afore recited act of decimo feptimo Caroli, and all the matters Car. 1. c. 11. and clauses therein contained (excepting what concerns the high all, except repealed as to commiffion-court, or the new erection of fome fuch like court what concerns by commiffion) fhall be and is hereby repealed, to all intents the high com and purposes whatfoever; any thing, claufe or fentence in the miffion court. faid act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. III. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That neither Provifo. this act, nor any thing herein contained, fhall extend or be conftrued to revive or give force to the faid branch of the faid ftatute made in the faid first year of the reign of the faid late Queen Elizabeth, mentioned in the faid act of parliament made in the faid feventeenth year of the reign of the faid King Charles, but that the faid branch of the said statute made in the faid firft, Eliz. c. 1 year of the reign of the faid late Queen Elizabeth, shall standi. 18. and be repealed in fuch fort as if this act had never been made. 12 Rep. 26. IV. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted, That it Provifo touchfhall not be lawful for any archbishop, bishop, vicar general, ing the oath chancellor, commiffary, or any other fpiritual or ecclefiaftical ex officio. 1 Mod. 185. judge, officer or minifter, or any other perfon having or exercifing fpiritual or ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, to tender or adminifter unto any perfon whatfoever, the oath ufually called the oath ex officio, or any other oath whereby fuch perfon to whom the fame is tendred or adminiftred may be charged or compelled to confefs or accuse, or to purge him or herself of any criminal matter or thing, whereby he or she may be liable to any cenfure or punishment; any thing in this ftatute, or any other law, cuftom or ufage heretofore to the contrary hereof in any wife notwithstanding. V. Provided always, That this act, or any thing therein con- Provifo not to tained fhall not extend or be conftrued to extend to give unto give any other any archbishop, bishop, or any other fpiritual or ecclefiaftical jurisdiction to judge, officer or other perfon or perfons aforefaid, any power any archor authority to exercife, execute, inflict or determine any eccle- than they had bishop, &c. fiaftical jurifdiction, cenfure or coercion, which they might not by law before by law have done before the year of our Lord one thousand fix the year 1639. C3 hundred The King's fupremacy in ecclefiaitical matters. Canons ecclefiaftical. EXP. Shipping. Wool, &c. hundred thirty-nine; (2) nor to abridge or diminish the King's majesty's fupremacy in ecclefiaftical matters and affairs, nor to confirm the canons made in the year one thousand fix hundred forty, nor any of them, nor any other ecclefiaftical laws or canons not formerly confirmed, allowed or enacted by parliament, or by the established laws of the land, as they flood in the year of our Lord one thousand fix hundred thirty-nine. CAP. XIII. An act for the vefting of the arrears of the excife and new impoft in his CAP. XIV. An alt for confirming an act, intituled, An act for encouraging and increafing of fhipping and navigation, and feveral other alls both publick and private mentioned there in. WHEREAS during the late difficulties and exigencies of affairs in the abfence of his most excellent Majefty, and in reference to his return from beyond the feas into these his Majesty's dominions, the lords and commons being affembled at Westminster the five and twentieth day of April in the twelfth year of his Majefty's reign, were from thence, and after his Majesty's return, continued until the nine and twentieth day of December then next following, and now last past, and then diffolved by his Majefly; in which time feveral acts were paffed by his Majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the faid lords and commons affembled as aforefaid, which being of necessary use, are fit to be continued and confirmed, although the manner of the faid affembling, enforced by the difficulties and exigencies aforesaid, which then lay upon the nation, is not to be drawn into example: II. Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords and commons in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That all and fingular the acts made or mentioned to be made by his faid Majefty, by and with the advice or confent of the lords and commons, upon or fince the faid five and twentieth day of April, herein after particularly mentioned and expreffed (That is to fay) (2) one act, intituled, An att for the encouraging and increafing of shipping and navigation ; (3) one other act, intituled, An act for prohibiting the exportation of wool, wool-fells, fullers-earth or any kind of fcouring-earth. (4) 12Car. 2.c. 32. one other act, intituled, An act impowering the mafler of the rolls 12Car. 2.c. 36. for the time being, to make leafes for years, in order to new-build the old houfes belonging to the rolls: (5) one other act, intituled, An 12Car. 2. c.34 act for prohibiting the planting, fetting or fowing of tobacco in EngUfury. land and Ireland: (6) one other act, intituled, An act for restraining the taking of exceffive ufury one other act, intituled, An 12Car. 2. c. 6. att for the prefent nominating of commiffioners of fewers: (8) one other act, intituled, An act for the incorporating of the mafter and wardens of the company of haberdashers, London, to be governors of the free fibool and almhoufes in Newport in the county of Salop, of Leafes. Tobacco. 12Car. 2.c. 13. Sewers. Poor. Not printed. the foundation of William Adams, and for fettling of lands and poffeffions on them for maintenance thereof, and other charitable ufes : (9) and all and every the clauses, fentences and articles in them and every of them contained, fhall be and hereby are ratified and confirmed, and enacted and declared to have the full force and ftrength of acts of parliament, according to the tenor and purport thereof, and fo fhall be adjudged, deemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and as if the fame had been made, declared and enacted by authority of this prefent parliament. CAP. XV. An act declaring the pains, penalties and forfeitures impofed upon the eftates and perfons of certain notorious offenders excepted out of the act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion. The manors, lands and hereditaments, chattels real and other things of Ifaac Ewer, Sir John Danvers, Sir Thomas Maleverer, William Purefoy, John Blakiflon, Sir William Conftable, Richard Dean, Francis Aleyn, Peregrine Pelham, John Moore, John Aldred alias Alured, Humphry Edwards, Sir Gregory Norton, John Venn, Thomas Andrews, Anthony Stapley, Thomas Horton, John Fry, Thomas Hammond, Sir John Bouchier, William lord Mounfon, James Challoner, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir James Harrington, John Phelps, Robert Wallop and Sir Arthur Haflerig, be forfeited. The goods, &c. of which William lord Mounson, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir James Harrington, John Phelps and Robert Wallop, were poffeffed the 11th of February 1659, forfeited and vefted in his Majefty. Provifo for conveyances and affurances, &c. made bona fide, before the 29th of September. Conveyances and affurances made before the 25th of April 1660. So as they be enrolled in the exchequer before the first of January 1662. William lord Mounfon, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir James Harrington, Robert Wallop and John Phelps, degraded. William Mounfon, Henry Mildmay, James Harrington, Robert Wallop and John Phelps, fhall be drawn to Tyburn as perfons executed for treafon. Provifo for executors of the faid perfons and legacies. Provifo for Sir William Lewes. Provifo for Rachel Powre. Provifo for Barrington Bourchier. EXP. A STAT. II. CTS made at the fecond meeting in this prefent parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, Anno Dom. one thousand fix hundred fixty-one, and there continued until the twentieth of December, and from that day adjourned unto the feventh of January next enfuing, as followeth. W САР. І. An alt for the well-governing and regulating of corporations. HEREAS questions are likely to arife concerning the validity of elections of magiftrates, and other officers and members in corporations, as well in respect of removing Jome, as placing others, during the late troubles, contrary to the true intent and meaning of their charters and liberties: (2) and to the end that the fucceffion in fuch corporations may be most probably perpetuated in the hands of perJons well-affected to his Majesty and the established government, it be C 4 ing Commiffions ing too well known, that notwithstanding all his Majefty's endeavours and unparalleled indulgence in pardoning all that is paft, nevertheless many evil spirits are still working: II. Wherefore for prevention of the like mischief for the time to come, and for preservation of the public peace both in church and state, be it enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, affembled in parliament, and by the authority of the fame, That commiffions fhall before the twentieth day of February next, be iffued forth under the great feal of England, unto fuch perfons as his Majefty fhall appoint for the executing of the powers and authorities herein after expreffed: and that all and every the perfons to be named commiffioners in the faid commiffions refpectively, fhall by virtue of this act be commiffioners respectively, for and within the feveral cities, corporations and boroughs, and cinque ports, and their members, and other port-towns within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, for which they fhall be respectively nominated and appointed. Corporation III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That charters faved, no charter of any corporation, cities, towns, boroughs, cinque ports, and their members, and other port-towns in England or Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, thall at any time hereafter be avoided, for or by reafon of any act or thing done, or omitted to be done, before the first day of this prefent parliament. Magiftrates to IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That take and fub- all perfons who upon the four and twentieth day of December one fcribe to cer- thousand fix hundred fixty and one, fhall be mayors, aldermen, tain oaths. recorders, bailiffs, town-clerks, common council-men, and other persons then bearing any office or offices of magiftracy, or places, or trufts, or other imployment relating to or concerning the government of the faid refpective cities, corporations and boroughs, and cinque ports and their members and other porttowns, fhall at any time before the five and twentieth day of March one thoufand fix hundred fixty and three, when they Oaths of alle- fhall be thereunto required by the faid refpective commiffioners giance and fu- or any three or more of them, take the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and this oath following: Premacy. The oath to be taken. Repealed by V. A. B. do declare and believe, That it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King: and that I do abhor the traiterous pofition of taking arms by his authority against his perfon, or against thofe that are commiffioned by him: So belp me God. VI. And alfo at the fame time fhall publickly subscribe, beGeo. 1. c. 6. fore the faid commiffioners or any three of them, this following 2. The declara tion to be fub. scribed. x declaration : 1 A. B. do declare, That I hold that there lies no obligation upon me or any other perfon, from the oath commonly called, The folemn + Refraid ng 521C 6 бы league |