gracious message fent to the commons assembled in parliament, to fig nify his pleasure, either to agree to a regulation of it, or to the taking it wholly away, as should be thought moft convenient by the faid commons. And whereas upon mature deliberation, the faid commons do find, That the faid revenue cannot be fo regulated, but that it will occafion many difficulties and questions, and that it is in itfelf not only a great oppreffion to the poorer fort, but a badge of flavery upon the whole people, expofing every man's house to be entred into, and fearched at pleasure by perfons unknown to him. II. We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects the commons, being filled with a most humble and grateful fenfe of your Majesty's unparallelled grace and favour to your people, not only by restoring their rights and liberties which have been invaded contrary to law, but in defiring to make them happy and at eafe, by taking away fuch burthens as by law were fixed upon them, by which your Majefty will erect a lafting monument of your goodness in every houfe in the kingdom; do most humbly beseech your Majefty, That the faid revenue of bearth-money may be wholly taken away and abolished. III. And be it enacted by the King and Queen's most excel- The acts estalent majefties, by and with the advice and confent of the lords blifhing chimfpiritual and temporal, and commons in this prefent parliament ney-money repealed. affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That an act made in the parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May in the thirteenth and fourteenth year of the reign of his late Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the establish 13 & 14 Car.2. ing an additional revenue upon his Majefly, his heirs and fucceffors, c. 10. for the better fupport of his and their crown and dignity; and another act made in the fecond feffion of the faid parliament in the fifteenth year of his faid late Majesty's reign, intituled, An 15 Car.2. c.13. additional act for the better ordering and collecting the revenue arifing by hearth-money; and another act made in the fixteenth year of the reign of his faid late Majefty, intituled, An act for collecting 16 Car. 2. c. 3. the duty arifing by hearth-money, by the officers to be appointed by bis Majefty; and all and every the articles, claufes and things in the said several acts contained, fhall be, and are hereby wholly repealed and annulled, and utterly made void, and are hereby enacted and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes whatfoever. IV. Provided always, and be it declared and enacted, That Hearth money nothing in this act contained, fhall be taken or conftrued to hin- due next der or prejudice the collecting, levying, answering or paying the March exfaid revenue arifing by hearth-money, which fhall grow due on cepted. the five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand fix hundred eighty nine, and all arrears of the faid duty which now are due and payable by the said acts; but that all and every the powers, clauses, articles and matters in the faid former acts, fhall continue and remain in force for the collecting, levying and recovering of the faid duty of hearth-money fo growing due on the faid five and twentieth day of March one thousand fix hundred eighty nine, and all the arrears of the faid duty already due, as by the faid acts they might have been col lected lected levied and recovered, if this act had not been made, and no otherwise. CAP. XI. An act for the explaining and making effectual a statute made in the firft 1 Jac. 2. c. 16. year of King James the Second, concerning the haven and piers of Great Yarmouth. Perfons ex porting corn at fuch a rate fhall have a reward. Rates of corn, The mayor's power given to the bailiffs. All officers may execute the powers thereby given. Money to be paid to persons appointed by the bailiffs, &c. CAP. XII. An act for the encouraging the exportation of corn. Forafmuch as it hath been found by experience, that the exporta tion of corn and grain into foreign parts, when the price thereof is at a low rate in this kingdom, hath been a great advantage not only to the owners of land, but to the trade of this kingdom in general. II. Be it therefore enacted by the King's and Queen's most excellent majesties, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and of the commons, now afsembled in parliament, and by the authority of the fame, That when malt or barley, Winchefter measure, is or fhall be at four and twenty fhillings per quarter, or under; rye at two and thirty fhillings per quarter, or under; and wheat at eight and forty fhillings a quarter, or under, in any port or ports of this kingdom or dominion of Wales; every merchant or other perfon, who fhall put on fhip-board in English shipping, the master and two thirds of his mariners at leaft being their Majefties fubjects, any forts of the corn aforefaid, from any fuch ports where the rates shall not then be higher than as aforefaid, with intent to Exporter gives export the faid corn to parts beyond the feas: Every fuch mercertificate of chant or other person shall bring a certificate in writing under quantity, and his or their hands, containing the quantity and quality of corn bond to ex port. See farther fo fhipped, to the farmers, commiffioners, collectors, or other perfons appointed, or to be appointed, for the time being, to collect the duties and rates arifing by cuftoms within any fuch port, and upon proof made of any fuch certificate by one or provifions re- more credible person or perfons upon their oaths, which oaths lating bereto, 2 the faid commiffioners or other perfons are hereby authorized Geo. 2. c. 18. and required to adminifter, and upon bond given by every fuch merchant, or other perfon, in the fum of two hundred pounds at the leaft for every hundred tons of corn so shipped, and fo proportionably, that the faid corn (danger of the feas excepted) fhall be exported into parts beyond the feas, and not be again landed in the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed: Reward paid Every fuch merchant fo fhipping off any of the aforefaid corn, to the exporter and giving certificate and bond, as aforefaid, fhall have and by the collec- receive from fuch farmers, commiffioners, collectors, or other perfons in any port refpectively, where the fame corn fhall be See farther pro- fo fhipped, for every quarter of barley or malt, ground or unvifions as to ground, two fhillings and fix pence; for every quarter of rye, malt, by 5 Ann. 6. 29. 1. 15. & ground or unground, three Chillings and fix pence; for every tors. છે. quarter quarter of wheat, ground or unground, five fhillings: Which 13 Annæ, stat. fum or fums every fuch commiffioner, farmer, or other perfon, are hereby authorized and required, upon demand by fuch exporter, to make prefent payment of accordingly, without taking or requiring any thing for cuftom, or any fee or reward for corn fo laden to be exported, or for fo much grain as shall be exported, in any fhip wherein any other goods fhall be shipped; any law, ftatute, or ufage in any wife to the contrary notwithstand ing: And upon certificate returned under the common feal of Exporters the chief magiftrate in any place or places beyond the feas, or bond how dif under the hands and feals of two known English merchants up- Further procharged. on the place, that fuch corn was there landed, or upon proof by vided for by credible perfons, that such corn was taken by enemies, or pe- 12 & 13 W. 3. rifhed in the feas, the examination and proof thereof being left c. 10. to the judgment of fuch commiffioners, farmers, collectors, or other perfons; which proof being made, or certificate delivered to fuch perfon or perfons refpectively, as took bond, as aforefaid, the faid bond fhall be delivered up to fuch importer or his order, to be cancelled, without any fee for the fame: Collectors alAnd the monies by any fuch commiffioners, farmers, collectors, lowed the mo or other perfon, fo paid in obedience to this act, fhall be ac- ney in their cepted of in his or their accounts, as fo much paid to their accounts. Majefties, and he and they is and fhall be discharged therefore accordingly. CAP. XIII. An act for raising money by a poll, and otherwife, towards the reducing EXP. of Ireland, An act for preventing doubts and questions concerning the collecting the, publick revenue. EXP. CAP. XV. An alt for the better fecuring the government by difarming. papifts and reputed papifts. FOR OR the better fecuring of the government against papists and reputed papists: tender decla II. Be it enacted by the King's and Queen's most excellent Two justices majefties, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpi- of peace may ritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament ration of 30 affembled, and by authority of the fame, That it fhall and may Car. 2. to pabe lawful for any two or more juftices of the peace, who thall pitts, &c. know or fufpect any perfon to be a papist, or shall be informed For Scotland, that any perfon is, or is fufpected to be a papift, to tender, and Jee 1 Geo. 1. they are hereby authorized and required forthwith to tender to f. 16. fuch person so known or fufpected to be a papist, the declaration fet down and expreffed in an act of parliament made in the thirtieth ftat. 2. c. 20. year of the reign of the late King Charles the Second, inti- 30 Car. z. stat. tuled, An act for the more effectual preferving the King's perfon and 2. c. 1. vernment, by difabling papifts from fitting in either house of parliament, to be by him made, repeated, and fubfcribed: And if Penalty upon fuch perfon fo required fhall refuse to make, repeat, and fubfcribe retufers. the faid declaration, or fhall not make, repeat, and fubfcribe the Justices of the faid declaration, or shall refufe or forbear to appear before the faid juftices, for the making, repeating, and fubfcribing the faid declaration, upon notice to him given or left at his ufual place of abode, by any perfon authorized in that behalf, by warrant under the hands and feals of the said two juftices, fuch perfon from thenceforth fhall be taken to be, and is hereby declared to be, liable and fubject to all and every the penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities hereafter in this act mentioned. III. And be it hereby further enacted, That the faid juftices peace fall cer- of peace fhall certify the name, furname, and ufual place of tify the fubfcribers and abode of every perfon, who being required, fhall refufe or nerefufers to the glect to make, repeat, and fubfcribe the said declaration, or to feffions. Refufer shall Two juftices of peace may appear before them for the making, repeating, and subscribing the faid declaration, as alfo of every perfon, who fhall make, repeat, and fubfcribe the faid declaration, at the next general quarter feffions to be holden for the thire, riding, divifion, or liberty, for which they shall be juftices of the peace, to be there recorded by the clerk of the peace, or town clerk, and kept amongst the records of the faid feffions. IV. And for the better fecuring their Majefties perfons and keep no arms. government; be it further enacted and declared, That no pa→ pift or reputed papist, so refusing or making default, as aforefaid, fhall or may have or keep in his houfe, or elsewhere, or in the poffeffion of any other person to his ufe, or at his difpo fition, any arms, weapons, gunpowder, or ammunition (other than fuch neceffary weapons, as fhall be allowed to him by order of the juftices of the peace, at their general quarter sessions, for the defence of his houfe or person) and that any two or more justices of the peace, from time to time, by warrant under their hands and feals, may authorize and impower any perfon or perfons in the day-time, with the affiftance of the conftable or his deputy, or the tythingman, or headborough, where the fearch fhall be (who are hereby required to be aiding and affifting herein) to fearch for all arms, weapons, gunpowder, or ammunition, which shall be in the houfe, cuftody, or poffeffion of any fuch papift or reputed papist, and feize the fame for the use of their Majefties, and their fucceffors; which faid juftices of the peace fhall from time to time, at the next general quarter feffions to be held for the county, riding, divifion, or liberty, where fuch feizure fhall be made, deliver the faid arms, weapons, gunpowder, and ammunition, in open court, for the ufe aforefaid. feize arms. arms. V. And be it further enacted, That every papift, or reputed Penalty upon refufer for not papift, who fhall not, within the space of ten days after fuch redifcovering or fufal or making default as aforefaid, difcover and deliver, or cause hindring the to be delivered, to fome of their Majesties juftices of the peace, fearch for his all arms, weapons, gunpowder, or ammunition whatsoever, which he fhall have in his houfe or elsewhere, or which fhall be in the poffeffion of any person to his ufe, or at his difpofition, or fhall hinder or difturb any perfon or perfons, authorized by warrant under the hands and feals of any two juftices of the peace, to search for and feize the fame, that every fuch perfon fo offend ing, ing, contrary to the statute in this behalf made, shall be committed to the common gaol of the county or place where he shall commit fuch offence, by warrant under the hands and feals of any two juftices of the peace, there to remain, without bail or mainprize, for the space of three months, and fhall also forfeit and lofe the faid arms, and pay treble the value of them to the ufe of their Majefties, and their fucceffors, to be appraised by the juftices of the peace, at the next general quarter feffions to be held for the faid county, riding, or divifion, to their Maje* fties and their fucceffors. concealers of arms. VI. And be it further enacted, That every person who fhall Penalty upon conceal, or be privy, or aiding, or affifting to the concealing, or who knowing thereof, fhall not discover or declare to fome of their Majesties juftices of the peace, the arms, weapons, gunpowder, or ammunition of any perfon fo refufing, or making default, as aforefaid, or fhall hinder or difturb any person or perfons, authorized as aforefaid, in searching for, taking, and feizing the fame, shall be committed to the common gaol of the county or place where he shall commit fuch offence, by warrant under the hands and feals of any two juftices of the peace, there to remain without bail or mainprize for the space of three months; and fhall also forfeit and lose treble the value of the faid arms to their Majefties and their fucceffors. VII. And be it further enacted, That if any perfon or per- Reward to dif fons fhall discover any concealed arms, weapons, ammunition, coverer of refufers arms. or gunpowder, belonging to any refufing or making default as aforefaid, fo as the fame may be feized as aforefaid, for the ufe of their Majefties and their fucceffors, the juftices of the peace, upon delivery of the fame at the general quarter feffions as aforefaid, fhall have power, and they are hereby required, as a reward for fuch a discovery, by order of feffions, to allow to him or them a fum of money, amounting to the full value of the arms, weapons, ammunition, or gunpowder fo difcovered; the faid fum to be affeffed by the judgment of the said juftices at their faid feffions, and to be levied by diftrefs and fale of the goods of the perfon offending against this act, rendring the overplus which fhall arise by fuch fale, above the faid fum fo allowed, and above the neceffary charges of taking such distress, to the owner. VIII. Provided always, That if any perfon, who fhall have Refusers subrefufed or made default as aforefaid, fhall defire to submit and fcribing the conform, and for that purpose shall present himself before the declaration, penalty dif juftices of peace, at the general quarter feffions to be holden for charged. the county, riding, divifion, or liberty, where his refufal, or making default, as aforefaid, fhall be certified as aforefaid, and fhall there in open court make, repeat and fubfcribe the said declaration contained in the said act, made in the said thirtieth year of the reign of the faid late King Charles the Second, and take the feveral oaths contained in an act made in this prefent parliament, intituled, An act for removing and preventing all questions Supra, c. s. and difputes concerning the affembling and fitting of this prefent parliament; he fhall from thenceforth be discharged of and from all difabilities and forfeitures, which he might or fhould be liable VOL. IX. C te |