How Penfions shall be paid. Arreas of 2 & 3 P. & M. C. 4. What Vicarages not to pay Fut fruits What Parfonages. 26 H. 8. c. 3. Charge upon ing Haif a Year alter Avoidance. XXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid Feaft of St. Michael the Archangel Taft paft, and fo from thenceforth from Time to Time, the faid Penfions, Annuities, Rents, Corodies, Fees and other yearly Payments, fhall be paid and payable only by our faid Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and Succeffors, at the Receipt of the Exchequer, or in fuch other Places, as the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors fhall appoint, to all and every Perfon and Perfons that ought to have and enjoy the fame, in fuch Sort, Order and Form, as the fame fhould or ought to have been paid and payable, in cafe the faid Act now repealed had never been had ne made; any Thing therein, or elfe in this Act contained to the contrary thereof, in any wife notwithstanding. XXVIII. And be it further enacted by Authority aforefaid, That all and fingular Incumbents, Proprietaries, Tenants, Farmers, Leffees and Occupiers of the Premiffes or any Part thereof, their Heirs, Executors and Affigns, which the faid First Day of this prefent Parliament were behind, or in any Arrearages of and with the Rents, Farms, Tenths or other Revenues, Profits or Duties, by them or any of them due and payable, for or by Reason of the Premiffes or any of them, fhall, and may be by the Authority of this Act feverally chargeable, accountable and anfwerable to the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, in and at the faid Court of the Exchequer, of and for the fame Arrearages and Duties as other Accomptants be and fhall be in the fame Court; any Thing in the faid Act now repealed, in this Act, or any other Matter or Caufe to the contrary thereof, in any wife notwithstanding. XXIX. And yet nevertheless the Queen's most excellent Majefty, at the humble Requeft of her faid Subjects, of her abundant Grace and Bountifulness, is pleafed and contented that it be enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and fingular Vicarages not exceeding the Yearly Value of Ten Pounds after the Rate and Value upon the Records and Books of the Rates and Values for the Firft-fruits and Tenths now remaining in the Exchequer or that shall hereafter come and remain in the fame Court; and also all and fingular Parfonages not exceeding the Yearly Value of Ten Marks after the like Rate and Valuation, and the Incumbents thereof and of every of them, their Executors, Adminiftrators, Succeffors and Sureties and every of them, from the faid Feaft of St. Michael the Archangel laft paft, fhall be free and clearly discharged and acquitted for ever againft the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, of and from the faid Firft-fruits; any Thing in the faid Act of Firft-fruits and Tenths made in the faid Six and twentieth Year of the Reign of the faid late King Henry the Eighth, or in this Act of Repeal or any other Act or Acts before recited to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding, [See 56 Ann. c. 24.] XXX. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority Incumbent live aforefaid, That if any Incumbent of any fuch Promotion Spiritual as is aforefaid, charged or chargeable to the Payment of the faid Firft-fruits, happen to live to the End of One Half Year next after the laft Avoidance of the fame Promotion Spiritual, fo as he hath received, or without Fraud or Covin might lawfully have received or enjoyed, the Rents or Profits of that Half-Year, and before the End of the other Half-Year then next following thall hap pen to die or to be lawfully evicted, removed or put from the faid Promotion Spiritual by Judgment in any Action at the Common Law, without Fraud or Covin, that then every fuch Incumbent, his Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators and Sureties fhall be charged and chargeable but only with the Fourth Part of the Firstfruits due to be paid for fuch his Promotion, and with no more of the faid Firit-fruits; any Thing in this Act contained, or any Bond or Writing to be made for the Payment of the faid Firstfruits, or any other Matter or Caufe to the contrary notwithftanding. XXXI. And if it fhall happen any fuch Incumbent to live by the Living a whole Space of One whole Year next after the laft Avoidance of the fame Year, &c. Spiritual Promotion, and after and before the End of One Half Year then next following fhall fortune to die, or to be lawfully evicted, removed or put from the faid Promotion Spiritual by Judgment in any Action at the Common Law, without Fraud or Covin, that then every fuch Incumbent, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Sureties fhall be charged and chargeable but only with the Moiety and One-Half of the First-fruits due to be paid for fuck his Promotion Spiritual, and with no more of the fame First-fruits; any Thing in this Act contained, or any Bond or Writing obligatory to be made for the Payment of the fame First-fruits or any other Matter or Caufe to the contrary notwithstanding. XXXII. And if it fhall happen any fuch Incumbent to live to Living a Year the End of One whole Year and an Half next after the laft Avoid. and a Half, &c. ance of fuch Promotion Spiritual, and after and before the End of Six Months then next following fhall fortune to die, or to be lawfully evicted, removed or put from the faid Promotion Spiritual by Judgment in any Action at the Common Law, without Fraud or Covin, that then every fuch Incumbent, his Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators and Sureties fhall be charged and chargeable but only with Three Parts of the First-fruits of the fame Promotion Spiritual, in Four Parts to be divided, and with no more; any Thing in this Act contained, or any Bond or Writing obligatory had or made for the Payment of the faid First-fruits or any other Matter or Caufe to the contrary notwithstanding. XXXIII. And if it shall happen any fuch Incumbent to live to Living Two the End of Two whole Years next after the laft Avoidance of whole Years the fame his Promotion Spiritual, and not to be lawfully evicted, after, &c. removed or put from the fame Promotion Spiritual as is aforefaid, that then fuch Incumbent, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Sureties fhall content and pay to our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Succeffors, the whole Firft-fruits due to be paid for the fame Promotion Spiritual, according to the Eftatute aforefaid. [As to Bonds for fecuring thefe Payments, 2 & 3 Ann. c. 11. 66.7 XXXIV. Provided alfo, and be it enacted, That all Grants, Grants made to Immunities and Liberties given to the Universities of Cambridge the Universities, and Oxford, or to any College or Hall in either of the faid Univer- &c. fities, and to the Colleges of Eaton and Winchester, and unto every or any of them, by our late Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth, or any other the Queen's Highness Progenitors or Predeceffors, or by Act of Parliament, for or touching the Release or Difcharge of the faid Firft-fruits and Tenths, or any Part abereof, fhall be always and remain in their full Strength and Vir K 3 tue: Chapel of St. for. Leafes for Years, tne: And that all fuch lawful Conveyances and Affurances in the Law as were had or made before the Making of this Act, to either of the faid Univerfities of Oxford or Cambridge, or to any College or Hall within any of them, by what Name or Names foever they or any of them be incorporated or named, of any of the faid Parfonages or Benefices impropriate, or of any Part of the fame, or of any Patronages, for the Maintenance of Students or Learning, fhall be as good and effectual in the Law to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, as though this Act had never been made. XXXV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Dean and Canons of the Free Chapel of St. George the Martyr, within the Caftle of Windfor, and all the Poffeffions and Hereditaments of the fame Free Chapel, Deanry and Canons, by whatfoever Name or Names they be incorporated or known, fhall be exonerated, and fhall ftand for ever difcharged of the Tenths and Firft-fruits before mentioned; any Thing in this Act, or any other Act or Statute before mentioned, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. XXXVI. Provided alfo, and be it enacted, That all Leafes or Three Lives. made before the xx. Day of December laft paft, for xxi. Years, or Three Lives at the moft, by any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, being lawfully feized of or in any of the faid Parfonages impropriate, or of or in any other the Premifes, wont, commonly, to be let or fet to Ferm, then being out of Leafe, or whereof there was not, at the Time of the making of the faid Leafe or Leafes, any former Leafe to endure above One Year then to come at the moit, and upon which new Leafe or Leafes the cld yearly Rent accuftomarily wont to be paid for the fame, by the Space of Twenty Years laft paft Lefore the making of fuch Leafe or Leafes, or more yearly Rent is referved and payable during the faid Term; and all other lawful Grants by them or any of them heretofore made of any Office or Offices in old Time wont commonly to be granted; and all Gifts and Grants of any Parfonage or Parfonages impropriate, heretofore belonging to the Archdeaconry of Wells in the County of Somerfet, or to the Incumbent of the fame Office or Dignity, or to the Incumbent of the fame lately given and reftored, fhall be as good and effectual in the Law, as though this Act, or any Thing contained therein, had not been had or made. Grants of Offices wont to be granted. Archdeacon of Wells chary ed XXXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforewith Faft-fruits. faid, That the faid Archdeaconry, and all Rectories and Spiritual Promotions given, affigned, limited or appointed to the fame, and all and every Incumbent and Incumbents which hereafter shall be prefented, collated, preferred and admitted unto the faid Archdeaconry, and the Rectories and Spiritual Promotions thereunto limited and appointed, or appertaining and belonging, fhall ftand, remain, and be charged and chargeable with the Payment of the Firft-fruits and Tenths for the fame to the Queen's Highrefs, her Heirs and Succeffors, in fuch like Manner and Form as other Spiritual Promotions, and the Incumbents of the fame, be and shall be charged and chargeable by this Act, or by any other Act or Statute before fpecified. Benefices, &c. within the Order of the Duchy Court. XXXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That so many of the faid Rectories, Parfonages and and Benefices impropriate, Glebe Lands, Tithes, Oblations, Penfions, Portions, and other Profits and Emoluments Ecclefiaftical and Spiritual, and every of them, and the Reversion and Reversions of them, and all Rents and Profits unto the fame or any of them incident or belonging, as were at and before the faid Eighth Day of Auguft in the Hands and Poffeffions of the faid late Queen Mary, and within the Survey, Rule and Order of the Court of the Duchy of Lancafter, fhall be again within the Order, Survey, Rule and Government of the faid Court, in fuch and the fame Manner and Form to all Intents and Purposes, as they were at and before the faid Eighth Day of Auguft in the faid Second and Third Years of 2 & 3 P. & M. the Reign of the faid late King and Queen; any Thing in this c.4 Act, or in the said Act of the fame late King and Queen, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. Perfons prefented to a Benefice before the Feast of St. John the XL. Provided also, That this Act, or any Thing therein con- The Revenues tained, shall not in any wife extend to charge any Hofpital founded of Hospitals and and ufed, and the Poffeflions thereof employed, to and for the Re- Schouls. lief of poor People, or any School or Schools, or the Poffeffions or Revenues of them or any of them, with the Payment of any Tenths or Firit-fruits; any Thing in this Act before mentioned to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. CA P. V. An Act whereby certain Offences be made Treafon. "IF any Perfon fhall compafs or imagine to deprive the Queen or "the Heirs of her Body to be begotten, being King or Queen of "this Realm, from the Stile or Kingly Name of the Crown of this "Realm: Or to deftroy the Queen or any the Heirs of her Body, "being King or Queen: Or to levy War against the Queen, or any "the Heirs of her Body within her Dominions: Or to depofe the "Queen or any of the Heirs of her Body, &c. from the Imperial "Crown of this Realm, and the fame Imaginations fhall utter by open Words, &'c. Or fhall publifh, and directly fay, That the Queen, during her Life, is not, or ought not to be Queen: Or "that after her Death, the Heirs of her Body ought not to be King or Queen: Or that any other Perfon ought to be King or Queen, fo long as any of the Heirs of her Body fhall be "in Life: Then fuch Offender fhall forfeit to the Queen all "his Goods and Chattels, and the Profits of his Lands during "his Life. And if any Perfon or Perfons fhall by Writing, Printing, Overt-Deed or Act, commit any of the Offences afore"faid, it shall be adjudged High Treafon. EXP. 66 CA P. VI. An Act for the Explanation of the Statute of feditious Words 1 & 2 P. & M. CAP. VII. 23 H. 8. c. 15. An A&t to revive a Statute made in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, touching the conveying of Horfes, Geldings and Mares into Scotland. [Repealed, 4 Jac. 1. c. 1.] CAP. VIII. An A&t touching Shoemakers and Curriers. [Repealed, 5 Eliz. c.8. § 1. which Aa (together with the prefent) is repealed, 18 Eliz. c.9. §1. 1 Jac. 1. c. 22. § 58. & c.25. $47. See Note to 2 & 3 E. 6. c.9.] CAP. IX. An Act touching Tanners, and the felling of Tanned Leather. 6 E. 6. c. 15.] САР. Х. An Act that the carrying of Leather, Tallow or Raw Hides, < CA P. XI. An Act limiting the Times for laying on Land Merchandize from beyond the Seas, and touching Customs for Sweet Wines. 6 OST humbly fhewing befeechen your Highnefs, your MLords and Commons in this prefent Parliament affembled, That where the Sums of Money paid in the Name of Customs and Subfidies of Wares and Merchandizes, tranfported out, and brought into this your Highnefs Realm of England, by any Merchant, Stranger or Denizen, is an ancient Revenue annexed and united to your Imperial Crown; and hath in the Time of King Edward the Third, and other your most noble Progenitors, amounted to great and notable Sums of Money, till of late Years many greedy and covetous Perfons, refpecting more their private Gain and Commodity than their Duty and Allegiance, or the common Profit of the Realm, have and do daily, as well by conveying the fame their Wares and Merchandizes out of Creeks and Places where no Cuftomer is refident, as alfo by or through the Negligence or Corruption of the Cuftomer, Searcher or other Officer, where they be refident, as by divers other fraudulent, • undue and fubtile Practices and Devices, convey their Goods and • Merchandizes as well brought from the Parts beyond the Sea, as tranfported out of this your Realm of England, without Payment or agreeing for the Payment of the Culloms and Subfidies therefore due; whereby the yearly Revenue aforefaid is very much impaired and diminished, to the great Lofs and Damage of your Highnefs, and to the great Burden and Charge of your |