ANNO PRIMO REGINAE ELIZABETHE. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the xxiij of januarie, in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith. etc. And there prorogued till the xxv of the same month, and then and there holden, kept, and continued, until the dissolution of the same, being the eight day of May then next ensuing, were enacted as followeth. (⸫) 1559.   

❧ The Table.  
AN act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction, over the state Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. Cap. i An act for the uniformity of common prayer and service in the Church, and the administration of the Sacraments. Cap. two. An act of recognition the Queen's highness title, to the imperial crown of this Realm. Cap. iii An act for the restitution of the first fruits and tenths, and rents reserved nomine decime, and of parsonages impropriate to the imperial crown of this Realm. Cap. iiii. An act whereby certain offences be made treason. Cap. v. An act for the explanation of the statute of seditious words and rumours. Cap. vi. An act to revive a statute made in the xxiii year of the reign of king Henry the eight, touching the conveying of Horses, geldings, and Mares into Scotland. Cap. seven. An act touching Shoemakers and curriers. Cap. viii. An act touching Tanners, and the selling of tanned leather. Cap. ix. An act that the carrying of leather, tallow, or raw hides out of the Realm for merchandise, shallbe felony. Cap. x. An act limiting the times for laying on land merchandise, from beyond the seas, and touching customs for sweet wines. Cap. xi. An act against the deceitful using of linen cloth. Cap. xii. An act for the shipping in English bottoms. Cap. xiii. An act for the continuance of the making of Woollen cloth in divers Towns in the County of Essex. Cap. xiiii. An act that timber shall not be felled to make coals for the burning of iron. Cap. xv. An act to continued the act made against rebellious assembles. Cap. xuj. An act for the preservation of spawn and fry of fish. Cap. xvii. An act for the continuance of certain statutes. Cap. xviii. An act of a Subsidy of Tonnage and Pondage. Cap. xix. An act of a Subsidy, and two fifteens and tenths, granted by the Temporalty. Cap. xx.   


❧ An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the state Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign power repugnant to the same. ¶ The first Chapter.  
Most humbly beseech your most excellent Majesty, your faithful and obedient subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this your present parliament assembled, that where in time of the reign of your most dear father of worthy memory King henry the eight, diverse good laws and statutes were made and established, as well for the utter extinguishment and putting away of all usurped and foreign powers and authorities out of this your Realm, & other your highness dominions & countries, as also for the restoring and uniting to the imperial Crown of this Realm, the ancient jurisdictions, authorities, superiorities, and pre-eminences to the same of right belonging and appertaining, by reason whereof, we your most humble & obedient subjects, from the xxv year of the reign of your said dear father, were continually kept in good order, and were disburdened of divers great and intolerable charges & exactions, before that time unlawfully taken, and exacted by such foreign power and authority as before that was usurped, until such time as all the said good laws and statutes, by one act of Parliament made in the first and second years of the reigns of the late king Philippe and Queen Marie, your highness sister, entitled, An act repealing all statutes, articles, and provisions made against the sea apostolic of Rome, since the twenty year of king Henry the eight, & also for the establishment of all spiritual & ecclesiastical possessions & hereditaments conveyed to the laity, were all clearly repealed & made void, as by the same act of repeal more at large doth and may appear. By reason of which act of repeal, your said humble subjects were eftsoons brought under an usurped foreign power & authority, and yet do remain in that bondage, to the intolerable charges of your loving subjects, if some redress (by authority of this your high court of parliament, with th'assent of your highness) be not had and provided.  
May it therefore please your highness, for the repressing of the said usurped foreign power, and the restoring of the rights, jurisdictions, and pre-eminences appertaining to the Imperial crown of this your Realm, that it may be enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that the said act made in the said first and second years of the reigns of the said late king Philip & Queen Marie, and all and every branch, clauses, and articles therein contained (other than such branches, clauses, and sentences, as hereafter shallbe excepted) may from the last day of this Session of Parliament, by authority of this present Parliament, be repealed, and shall from thenceforth be utterly void, and of none effect.  
And that also for the reviving of divers of the said good laws & statutes made in the time of your said dear father, it may also please your highness, that one act and statute made in the xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, entitled, An act that no person shallbe cited out of the dioceses where he or she dwelleth, except in certain cases. And one other act made in the xxiiii year of the reign of the said late king, entitled, An act that appeals in such cases as hath been used to be pursued to the sea of Rome, shall not be from henceforth had ne used, but within this Realm. And one other act made in the xxv year of the said late king, concerning restraint of payment of annates and first fruits of Archbyshopprickes and bishoprics to the sea of Rome. And one other act in the said, xxv. year, entitled, An act concerning the submission of the Clergy to the kings Majesty: and also one act made in the said xxv year, entitled, An act restraining the payment of annates, or first fruits to the Bishop of Rome, and of the electing and consecrating of archbishoprics, and bishops within this Realm. And one other act made in the said xxv year, entitled, An act concerning the exoneration of the kings subjects from exactions & impositions heretofore paid to the sea of Rome, & for having licences & dispensations within this Realm, without suing further for the same. And one other act made in the xxvi year of the said late king, entitled, An act for nomination and consecration of Suffragans within this Realm. And also one other act made in the xxviii year of the reign of the said late king, entitled, An act for the release of such as hove obtained pretended licences and dispensations from the sea of Rome, and all and every branches, words, and sentences in the said several acts and statutes contained, by authority of this present Parliament, from and at all times after the last day of this session of Parliament, shallbe revived, and shall stand & be in full force and strength, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes. And that the branches, sentences, and words of the said several acts, and every of them, from thenceforth shall and may be judged, deemed, and taken to extend to your highness, your heirs and successors, as fully and largely as ever the same acts, or any of them did extend to the said late king Henry the eight, your highness father.  
And that it may also please your highness, that it may be enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that so much of one act or statute made in the xxxii year of the reign of your said dear father king Henry the eight; entituled, An act concerning precontracts of marriages, and touching degrees of consanguinity, as in the time of the late king Edward the sixth, your highness most dear brother, by one other act or statute was not repealed. And also one act made in the xxxvii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, entitled, An act that doctors of the Civil law, being married, may exercise Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and all and every branches, and articles in the said two acts last mentioned, and not repealed in the time of the said late king Edward the sixth, may from henceforth likewise stand, and be revived, and remain in their full force and strength, to all intentes and purposes: any thing contained in the said act of repeal before mentioned, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And that it may also please your highness, that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all other laws and statutes, and the branches and clauses of any act or statute repealed and made void by the said act of repeal, made in the time of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, and not in this present act specially mentioned and revived, shall stand, remain, and be repealed, and void, in such like manner and form, as they were before the making of this act: any thing herein contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And that it may also please your highness, that it may be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that one act and statute made in the first year of the reign of the late king Edward the sixth, your majesties most dear brother, entituled, An act against such persons as shall unreverently speak against the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, commonly called the Sacrament of the altar, and for the receiving thereof under both kinds, and all and every branches, clauses, and sentences therein contained, shall and may likewise from the last day of this Session of Parliament, be revived, and from thenceforth sha' and may stand, remain, and be in full force, strength, and effect, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, in such like manner & form, as the same was at any time in the first year of the reign of the said late king Edward that vi any law statute, or other matter to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And that also it may please your highness, that it may be further established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that one act and statute made in the first and second years of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, entituled, An act for the reviving of three statutes, made for the punishment of heresies, and also the said three statutes mentioned in the said act, and by the same act revived, and all and every branches, articles, clauses, and sentences, contained in the said several acts or statutes, and every of them, shallbe from the last day of this Session of Parliament, deemed, and remain utterly repealed, void, and of none effect, to all intentes and purposes: any thing in the said several acts, or any of them contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And to the intent that all usurped and foreign power and authority, spiritual and temporal, may for ever be clearly extinguished, and never to be used or obeyed within this Realm, or any other your majesties dominions or countries: may it please your highness, that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no foreign prince, parson, prelates, state, or potentate, spiritual or temporal, shall at any time after the last day of this Session of Parliament, use, enjoy, or exercise, any manner of power, jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence, or privilege, spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm, or within any other your majesties dominions or countries, that now be, or hereafter shallbe, but from thenceforth the same shallbe clearly abolished out of this realm, & all other your highness dominions for ever: any statute, ordinance, custom, constitutions, or any other matter or cause whatsoever to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And that also it may likewise please your highness, that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities, and pre-eminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority, hath heretofore been, or may lawfully be exercised or used, for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order, and correction of the same, and of all manner errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities, shall for ever, by authority of this present Parliament, be united and annexed to the imperial Crown of this Realm. And that your highness, your heirs and successors, kings or Queens of this realm, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, by letters patents under the great Seal of England, to assign, name, and authorize, when & as often as your highness, your heirs or successors shall think meet and convenient, and for such and so long time as shall please your highness, your heirs or successors, such person or persons being natural borne subjects to your highness, your heirs or successors, as your Majesty, your heirs or successors shall think meet, to exercise, use, occupy, and execute, under your highness, your heirs and successors, all manner of jurisdictions, privileges, and pre-eminences, in any wise touching or concerning any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within these your realms of England and Ireland, or any other your highness dominions or countries, and to visit, reform, redress, order, correct, and amend all such errors, he resies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts, and enormities whatsoever, which by any manner spiritual or ecclesiastical power, authority, or jurisdiction, can or may lawfully be reformed, ordered, redressed, corrected, restrained, or amended, to the pleasure of almighty God, the increase of virtue, and the conservation of the peace and unity of this Realm: and that such person or persons so to be named, assigned, aucthorized, and appointed by your highness, your heirs or successors, after the said letters patents to him or them made and delivered, as is aforesaid, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, and of the said letters patents, under your highness, your heirs or successors, to exercise, use, and execute all the premises, according to the tenor and effect of the said letters patents: any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And for the better observation and maintenance of this act, may it please your highness that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every archbishop, bishop, and all and every other ecclesiastical person, and other ecclesiastical officer and minister, of what estate, dignity, pre-eminence, or degree soever he or they be, or shallbe, and all and every temporal judge, justicer, Mayor, and other lay or temporal officer and minister, and every other person having your highness fees or wages within this Realm, or any your highness dominions, shall make, take, and receive a corporal oath upon the Evangelist, before such person or persons as shall please your highness, your heirs or successors, under the great Seal of England, to assign and name, to accept and take the same according to the tenor and effect hereafter following: that is to say, I.A.B. do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queen's highness is the only supreme governor of this realm, & of all other her highness dominions & countries, aswell in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal, and that no foreign prince, parson, prelate, state, or potentate, hath or aught to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm, and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authorities, and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the Queen's highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, privileges, pre-eminences, and aucthoties, granted or belonging to the Queen's highness, her heirs and successors, or united and annexed to the imperial crown of this Realm, so help me God, and by the contents of this book.  
And that it may be also enacted, that if any such archbishop, bishop, or other Ecclesiastical officer or minister, or any of the said Temporal judges, justiciaries, or other lay officer or minister, shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take or receive the said oath, that then he so refusing, shall forfeit & loose only during his life, all and every Ecclesiastical and Spiritual promotion, benefice, & office, and every temporal and lay promotion and office, which he hath solely at the time of such refusal made: and that the whole title, interest, and incumbency, in every such promotion, benefice, and other office, as against such person only so refusing, during his life, shall clearly cease, and be void, as though the party so refusing were dead. And that also all and every such person and persons, so refusing to take the said oath, shall immediately after such refusal, be from thenceforth during his life, disabled to retain or exercise any office, or other promotion, which he at the time of such refusal hath jointly, or in common with any other person or persons: and that all and every person and persons, that at any time hereafter shallbe preferred, promoted, or collated to any archbishopric or Bishopric, or to any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical benefice, promotion, dignity, office, or ministry, or that shallbe by your highness, your heirs, or successors, preferred or promoted to any temporal or lay office, ministry, or service within this realm, or in any your highness dominions, before he or they shall take upon him or them to receive, use, exercise, supply, or occupy any such archbishopric, Bishopric, promotion, dignity, office, ministry, or service, shall likewise make, take, & receive the said corporal oath before mentioned, upon the Evangelist, before such persons as have or shall have authority to admit any such person to any such office, ministry, or service, or else before such person or persons, as by your highness, your heirs or successors, by commission under the great Seal of England, shallbe named, assigned, or appointed, to minister the said oath. And that it may likewise be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any such person or persons, as at any time hereafter shallbe promoted, preferred, or collated to any such promotion Spiritual, or Ecclesiastical benefice, office, or ministry, or that by your highness, your heirs or successors, shallbe promoted or preferred to any temporal or say office, ministery, or service, shall and do peremptorily and obstinately refuse to take the same oath so to him to be offered, that then he or they so refusing, shall presently be judged disabled in the law, to receive, take, or have the same promotion spiritual, or ecclesiastical, or the same temporal office, ministery, or service within this realm, or any other your highness dominions, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes.  
And that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons temporal, suing livery, or oustre le main, out of the hands of your highness, your heirs or successors, before his or their livery or oustre le main sued forth and allowed, and every temporal person or persons, doing any homage to your highness, your heirs or successors, or that shallbe received into service with your highness, your heirs or successors, shall make, take, and receive the said corporal oath before mentioned, before the Lord chancellor of England, or the Lord Keeper of the great seal for the time being, or before such person or persons, as by your highness, your heirs, or successors shallbe named and appointed to accept or receive the same. And that also all and every person and persons taking orders, and all and every other person and persons, which shallbe promoted or preferred to any degree of learning in any University within this your Realm or dominions, before he shall receive, or take any such orders, or be preferred to any such degree of learning, shall make, take, and receive the said oath by this act set forth and declared, as is aforesaid, before his or their Ordinary, Commissarie, chancellor, or vicechancellor, or their sufficient deputies in the said University.  
Provided always, & that it may be further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person having any estate of inheritance, in any temporal office or offices, shall hereafter obstinately and peremptorily refuse to accept and take the said oath as is aforesaid, and after at any time during his life shall willingly require to take and receive the said oath, and so do take and accept the same oath before any person or persons that shall have lawful authority to minister the same: that then every such person immediately after he hath so received the same oath, shallbe vested, judged, & deemed in like estate and possession of the said office, as he was before the said refusal, and shall and may use and exercise the said office, in such manner and form as he should or might have done before such refusal: any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And for the more sure observation of this act, and the utter extinguishment of all foreign and usurped power and authority, may it please your highness, that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, dwelling or inhabiting within this your Realm, or in any other your highness Realms, or Dominions, of what estate, dignity, or degree soever he or they be, after th'end of xxx days next after the determination of this session of this present Parliament, shall by writing, printing, teaching, preaching, express words, deed, or act, advisedly, maliciously, and directly affirm, hold, stand with, set forth, maintain, or defend the authority, pre-eminence, power, or jurisdiction Spiritual or Ecclesiastical, of any foreign Prince, Prelate, Parson, State, or Potentate whatsoever, heretofore claimed, used, or usurped within this Realm, or any Dominion or Country, being within or under the power, dominion, or obeisance of your highness: or shall advisedly, maliciously, and directly put in ure, or execute any thing for the extolling, advancement, setting forth, maintenance, or defence of any such pretended, or usurped jurisdiction, power, pre-eminence, or authority, or any part thereof: that then every such person & persons, so doing and offending, their abettors, aydours, procurers, & counsellors, being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted, according to the true order and course of the common laws of this Realm, for his or their first offence, shall forfeit and loose unto your highness, your heirs & successors, all his and their goods and cattles, aswell real as personal. And if any such person so convicted or attainted, shall not have, or be worth of his proper goods and cattles to the value of. xx.li. at the time of such his conviction or attainder: that then every such person so convicted and attainted, over and beside the forfeiture of all his said goods and cattles, shall have and suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year, without bail or mainprize. And that also all and every the benefices, prebends, and other ecclesiastical promotions and dignities whatsoever, of every spiritual person so offending, and being attainted, shall immediately after such attayndour be utterly void to all intentes and purposes, as though the incumbent thereof were dead, and that the patron and donor of every such benefice, prebend, spiritual promotion, and dignity, shall and may lawfully present unto the same, or give the same, in such manner and form, as if the said incumbent were dead. And if any such offender or offenders, after such conviction or attainder, do eftsoons commit or do the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted and attainted, as is aforesaid: that then every such offender and offenders, shall for the same second offence, incur into the dangers, penalties, and forfeitures, ordained and provided by the statute of provision and praemunire, made in the xvi yere of the reign of king Richard the second. And if any such offender proffendours, at any time after the said second conviction and attayndour; do the third time commit and do the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted and attainted as is aforesaid: that then every such offence or offences, shallbe deemed and adjudged high treason, and that the offender and offenders therein, being thereof lawfully convicted and attainted, according to the laws of this Realm, shall suffer pains of death, and other penalties, forfeitures, and losses, as in cases of high treason by the laws of this Realm.  
And also that it may likewise please your highness, that it may be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons, shallbe molested or impreached for any the offences aforesaid, committed or perpetrated only by preaching, teaching, or words, unless he or they be thereof lawfully indicted, within the space of one whole year next after his or their offences so committed. And in case any person or persons, shall fortune to be imprisoned for any of the said offences committed by preaching, teaching, or words only, and be not thereof indicted within the space of one half year, next after his or their such offence so committed and done: that then the said person so imprisoned, shallbe set at liberty, and be no longer detained in prison for any such cause or offence.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend to repeal any clause, matter, or sentence contained or specified in the said act of Repeal, made in the said first and second years of the reigns of the said late king Philippe, and Queen Marie, as doth in any wise touch or concern any matter or cause of praemunire, or that doth make or ordain any matter or cause to be within the case of praemunire, but that the same, for so much only as toucheth or concerneth any case or matter of praemunire, shall stand and remain in such force and effect, as the same was before the making of this act: any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend or be prejudicial to any person or persons for any offence or offences committed or done, or hereafter to be committed or done, contrary to the tenor and effect of any act or statute now revived by this act, before the end of xxx days next after th'end of the session of this present Parliament: any thing in this act contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And if it happen that any year of this Realm, shall fortune to be indicted of, and for any offence that is revived or made praemunire, or treason by this act, that then he so being indicted, shall have his trial by his peers, in such like manner and form, as in other cases of treason hath been used.  
Provided always, and be it enacted as is aforesaid, that no manner of order, act, or determination, for any matter of religion, or cause Ecclesiastical, had or made by the authority of this present Parliament, shallbe accepted, deemed, interpretate, or adjudged at any time hereafter, to be any error, heresy, schism, or schismatical opinion: any order, decree, sentence, constitution, or law, whatsoever the same be to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such person or persons to whom your highness, your heirs or successors, shall hereafter by letters patents, under the great seal of England, give authority to have or execute any jurisdiction, power, or authority Spiritual, or to visit, reform, order, or correct any errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, or enormities, by virtue of this act, shall not in any wise have authority or power to order, determine, or adjudge any matter or cause to be heresy, but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered, or adjudged to be heresy, by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four general counsels, or any of them, or by any other general counsel, wherein the same was declared heresy, by the express & plain words of the said Canonical Scriptures, or such as hereafter shallbe ordered, judged, or determined to be heresy, by the high Court of Parliament of this Realm, with the assent of the Clergy in their convocation: Any thing in this act contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enucted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shallbe hereafter indicted or arraigned for any the offences made, ordained, revived, or adjudged by this act, unless there be two sufficient witnesses or more, to testify and declare the said offences, whereof he shallbe indicted or arraigned. And that the said witnesses, or so many of them as shallbe living, and within this Realm at the time of the arraignment of such person so indicted, shallbe brought forth in person, face to face, before the party so arraigned, and there shall testify and declare, what they can say against the party so arraigned, if he require the same.  
Provided also, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, shall hereafter happen to give any relief, aid, or comfort, or in any wise be aiding, helping, or comforting to the person or persons of any that shall hereafter happen to be an offender in any matter or case of Primunire or treason, revived or made by this act: that then such relief, aid, or comfort given, shall not be judged or taken to be any offence, unless there be two sufficient witnesses at the lest, that can and will openly testify and declare, that the person or persons that so gave such relief, aid, or comfort, had notice and knowledge of such offence committed and done by the said offender, at the time of such relief, aid, or comfort, so to him given or ministered: any thing in this act contained, or any other matter or cause to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And where one pretenced sentence hath heretofore been given in the consistory in Paul's, before certain judges, de legate, by the authority Legantine of the late Cardinal Poole, by reason of a foreign usurped power and authority, against Richard Chetwod Esquire, and Agnes his wife, by the name of Agnes Doodhul, at the suit of Charles Tyrrell gentleman, in a cause of matrimony solemnized between the said Richard & Agnes, as by the same pretenced sentence more plainly doth appear, from which sentence the said Richard and Agnes have appealed to the court of Rome, which appeal doth there remain, and yet is not determined: May it therefore please your highness, that it may be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if sentence in the said appeal, shall happen to be given at the said court of Rome, for and in the behalf of the said Richard and Agnes, for the reversing of the said pretenced sentence, before the end of three score days next after the end of this Session of this present Parliament: that then the same shallbe judged & taken to be good and effectual in the law, and shall, and may be used, pleaded, and allowed in any court or place within this Realm: any thing in this act, or in any other act or statute contained to the contrary, notwithstanding. And if no sentence shallbe given at the court of Rome in the said appeal, for the reversing of the said pretenced sentence, before the end of the said three score days, that then it shall and may be lawful for the said Richard and Agnes, and either of them, at any time hereafter to commence, take, sue, and prosecute their said appeal from the said pretenced sentence, and for the reversing of the said pretenced sentence within this Realm, in such like manner & form as was used to be pursued, or might have been pursued within this realm, at any time since the xxiiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, upon sentences given in the court or courts of any Archbishop within this Realm. And that such appeal as so hereafter shallbe taken or pursued by the said Richard Chetwood and Agnes, or either of them, and the sentence that herein or thereupon shall hereafter be given, shallbe judged to be good and effectual in the law, to all intentes and purposes: any law, custom, usage, canon, constitution, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that where there is the like appeal now depending in the said court of Rome, between one Robert Harcourt, Merchant of the Staple, and Elizabeth Harcourt, otherwise called Elizabeth Robins of the one party, and Anthonye Fydell, Merchant stranger, on the other party, that the said Robert, Elizabeth, and Anthonye, and every of them, shall and may for the prosecuting & trying of their said appeal, have and enjoy the like remedy, benefit, and advantage, in like manner and form as the said Richard and Agnes, or any of them, hath, may, or aught to have and enjoy: this act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.   

An Act for the uniformity of Common prayer, and service in the Church, and the administration of the Sacraments. The ii Chapter.  
WHere at the death of our late Sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, there remained one uniform order of common service & prayer, and of the administration of Sacraments, rites, & ceremonies in the Church of England, which was set forth in one book, entitled, The book of common prayer, & administration of Sacraments, and other rites & ceremonies in the Church of England, authorized by act of parliament, holden in the fift and sixth years of our said late Sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, entitled, An act for the uniformity of common prayer, and administration of the Sacraments: the which was repealed and taken away by act of Parliament in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Mary, to the great decay of the due honour of God, and discomfort to the professors of the truth of Christ's religion.  
Be it further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that the said statute of repeal, and every thing therein contained, only concerning the said book, and the service, administration of Sacraments, rites, & ceremonies, contained, or appointed in or by the said book, shallbe void and of none effect, from & after the feast of the Nativity of. S. john Baptist next coming: And that the said book, with the order of service and of th'administration of Sacraments, rites, and ceremonies, with the alteration and additions therein added and appointed by this statute, shall stand, and be from and after the said feast of the Nativity of. S. john Baptist, in full force and effect, according to the tenor and effect of this statute: any thing in the aforesaid statute of repeal to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And further be it enacted by the Queen's highness, with th'assent of the lords and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that all and singular ministers in any Cathedral or parish church, or other place within this Realm of England, Wales, and the marches of the same, or other the Queen's dominions, shall from and after the feast of the Nativity of saint john baptist next coming, be bounden to say and use the Matins, Evensong, Celebration of the lords Supper, and administration of each of the sacraments, and all their common and open prayer, in such order and form as is mentioned in the said book so authorized by parliament, in the said .v. and vi years of the reign of king Edward the sixth, with one alteration or addition of certain lessons to be used on every Sunday in the year, and the form of the tyranny altered and corrected, and two sentences only added in the delivery of the Sacrament to the communicants, and none other, or otherwise. And that if any manner of Parson, Vicar, or other whatsoever Minister, that aught, or should sing or say common prayer, mentioned in the said book, or minister the Sacraments, from and after the feast of the Nativity of. S. john Baptist next coming, refuse to use the said common prayers, or to minister the Sacraments in such Cathedral or parish Church, or other places, as he should use to minister the same, in such order and form as they be mentioned and set forth in the said book, or shall wilfully or obstinately, standing in the same, use any other rite, ceremony, order, form, or manner of celebrating of the lords supper, openly or privily, or matins, evensong, administration of the Sacraments, or other open prayers then is mentioned and set forth in the said book (Open prayer in & throughout this act, is meant that prayer which is for other to come unto, or hear, either in common Churches or private Chapels, or Oratories, commonly called the service of the Church) or shall preach, declare, or speak any thing in the derogation or depraving of the said book, or any thing therein contained, or of any part thereof, and shallbe thereof lawfully convicted, according to the laws of this Realm, by verdict of twelve men, or by his own confession, or by the notorious evidence of the fact, shall loose and forfeit to the Queen's highness, her heirs and successors, for his first offence, the profit of all his spiritual benefices or promotions, coming or arising in one whole year next after this conviction. And also that the person so convicted, shall for the same offence, suffer imprisonment by the space of vi months, without bail or maynepryse. And if any such person once convict of any offence concerning the premises, shall after his first conviction eftsoons offend, and be thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convict, that then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year, and also shall therefore be deprived, ipso facto, of all his spiritual promotions, and that it shallbe lawful to all patrons or donors of all and singular the same spiritual promotions, or of any of them, to present or collate to the same, as though the person or persons so offending were dead. And that if any such person and persons, after he shallbe twice convicted in form aforesaid, shall offend against any of the premises the third time, and shallbe thereof in form aforesaid lawfully convicted, that then the person so offending, and convicted the third time, shallbe deprived ipso facto, of all his spiritual promotions, and also shall suffer imprisonment during his life. And if the person that shall offend, and be convicted in form aforesaid, concerning any of the premises, shall not be beneficed, nor have any spiritual promotion, that then the same person so offending and convict, shall for the first offence suffer imprisonment during one whole year next after his said conviction, without bail or mayneprise. And if any such person, not having any spiritual promotion, after his first conviction, shall eftsoons offend in any thing concerning the premises, and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convicted, that then the same person shall for his second offence suffer imprisonment during his life.  
And it is ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons whatsoever, after the said feast of the Nativity of saint john Baptist next coming, shall in any interludes, plays, songs, rhymes, or by other open words, declare or speak any thing in the derogation, depraving, or despising of the same book, or of any thing therein contained, or any part thereof, or shall by open fact, deed, or by open threatenings, compel or cause, or otherwise procure or maintain any Parson, Vicar, or other Minister in any Cathedral or parish Church, or in Chapel, or in any other place, to sing or say any common or open prayer, or to minister any Sacrament, otherwise, or in any other manner & form then is mentioned in the said book, or that by any of the said means shall unlawfully interrupt, or let any Parson, Vicar, or other Minister in any Cathedral or Parish Church, Chapel, or any other place, to sing or say common and open prayer, or to minister the Sacraments, or any of them, in such manner and form, as is mentioned in the said book: that then every such person being thereof lawfully convicted, in form abovesaid, shall forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady, her heirs and successors, for the first offence, a hundredth marks. And if any person or persons, being once convict of any such offence, eftsoons offend against any of the last recited offences, and shall in form aforesaid be thereof lawfully convict: that then the same person so offending and convict, shall for the second offence forfeit to the Queen our Sovereign Lady, her heirs and successors, four hundredth marks. And if any person, after he in form aforesaid, shall have been twice convict of any offence concerning any of the last recited offences, shall offend the third time, and be thereof in form abovesaid lawfully convict: that then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles, and shall suffer imprisonment during his life. And if any person or persons, that for his first offence concerning the premises shallbe convict in form aforesaid, do not pay the sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction, in such manner and form as the same aught to be paid, within vi weeks next after his conviction: that then every person so convict, and so not paying the same, shall for the same first offence, instead of the said sum, suffer imprisonment by the space of vi months, without bail or mainprize. And if any person or persons, that for his second offence concerning the premises, shallbe convict in form aforesaid, do not pay the said sum to be paid by virtue of his conviction, and this statute, in such manner & form as the same aught to be paid, within vi weeks next after his said second conviction: that then every person so convicted, and not so paying the same, shall for the same second offence, in the steed of the said sum, suffer imprisonment during xii months, without bail or mayneprise. And that from and after the said feast of the Nativity of. S. john Baptist next coming, all and every person and persons, inhabiting within this realm, or any other the Queen's majesties dominions, shall diligently and faithfully, having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent, endeavour themselves to resort to their parish Church or Chapel accustomed, or upon reasonable let thereof, to some usual place where common prayer and such service of God shallbe used, in such time of let upon every sunday, and other days ordained and used to be kept as holy days, and then and there to abide orderly and soberly, during the time of the common prayer, preachings, or other service of God, there to be used and ministered, upon pain of punishment by the censures of the Church, and also upon pain that every person so offending, shall forfeit for every such offence. xii.d. to be levied by the Churchwardens of the parish where such offence shallbe done, to those of the poor of the same parish, of the goods, lands, and tenements of such offender, by way of distress. And for due execution hereof, the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the lords temporal, and all the commons in this present parliament assembled, doth in God's name earnestly require & charge all the Archbyshopes, bishops, & other Ordinaries, that they shall endeavour themselves to the uttermost of their knowledges, that the due and true execution hereof, my be had throughout their diocese and charges, as they will answer before God, for such evils & plagues wherewith almighty God may justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesome law. And for their authority in this behalf, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and singular the same Archbishops, Bishops, and all other their officers exercising Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, aswell in place exempt, as not exempt, within their diocese, shall have full power and authority by this act, to reform, correct, and punish by censures of the Church, all and singular persons which shall offend within any their jurisdictions or diocese, after the said feast of the Nativity of. S. john Baptist next coming, against this act and statute: any other law, statute, privilege, liberty, or provision, heretofore made, had, or suffered to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And it is ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every justices of Oyer and determiner, or justices of Assize, shall have full power and authority in every of their open and general Sessions, to inquire, hear, and determine, all and all manner of offences, that shallbe committed or done contrary to any article contained in this present act, within the limits of the Commission to them directed, and to make process for the execution of the same, as they may do against any person being indicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted thereof.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Archbishop and Bishop, shall or may at all time and times, at his liberty and pleasure, join and associate himself by virtue of this act, to the said justices of Oyer and determiner, or to the said justices of Assize, at every of the said open and general Sessions to be holden in any place within his diocese, for and to the inquiry, hearing, and determining of the offences aforesaid.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the books concerning the said Services, shall at the costs and charges of the parishioners of every parish, and Cathedral Church, be attained and gotten before the said feast of the Nativity of Saint john Baptist next following, and that all such parishes and Cathedral Churches, or other places, where the said books shallbe attained and gotten before the said feast of the Nativity of Saint john Baptist, shall within three weeks next after the said books so attained and gotten, use the said service, and put the same in ure, according to this act.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shallbe at any time hereafter impeached, or otherwise molested, of, or for any the offences above mentioned, hereafter to be committed or done contrary to this act, unless he or they so offending be thereof indicted at the next general Sessions to be holden before any such justices of Oyer and determiner, or justices of Assize, next after any offence committed or done contrary to the tenor of this act.  
Provided always, and be it ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and singular Lords of the Parliamenet, for the third offence above mentioned, shallbe tried by their peers.  
Provided also, and be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Mayor of London, and all other Majors, Bailiffs, and other head officers, of all and singular Cities, boroughs, and Towns corporate, within this Realm, Wales, and the marches of the same, to the which justices of Assize do not commonly repair, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, to inquire, hear, and determine the offences abovesaid, and every of them, yearly within xu days after the feast of Easter, and S. Michael th'archangel, in like manner and form as justices of Assize and Oyer and determiner may do.  
Provided always, and be it ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and singular archbishoprics and bishops, and every of their Chancellors, Commissaries, Archdeacon's, & other Ordinaries, having any peculiar Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, aswell to inquire in their visitation, Synods, and elsewhere within their jurisdiction at any other time and place, to take accusations & informations of all and every the things above mentioned, done, committed, or perpetrated, within the limits of their jurisdictions and authority, & to punish the same by admonition, excommunication, sequestration, or deprivation, and other censures and process, in like form as heretofore hath been used in like cases by the Queens Ecclesiastical laws.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that whatsoever person offending in the premises, shall for their offences first receive punishment or the Ordinary, having a testimonial thereof under the said Ordinaries Seal, shall not for the same offence eftsoons be convicted before the justices. And likewise receiving for the said first offence punishment by the justices, he shall not for the same offence eftsoons receive punishment of the Ordinary: any thing contained in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the Church, and of the ministers thereof, shallbe retained and be in use, as was in this Church of England, by authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of king Edward the vi until other order shallbe therein taken by the authority of the Queen's Majesty, with the advise of her Commissioners appointed and authorized under the great Seal of England for causes Ecclesiastical, or of the Metropolitan of this Realm. And also that if there shall happen any contempt or irreverence to be used in the ceremonies or rites of the Church, by the misusing of the orders appointed in this book: the Queen's Majesty may by the like advise of the said Commissioners or Metropolitan, ordain and publish such farther ceremonies or rites, as may be most for the advancement of God's glory, the edifying of his Church, and the due reverence of Christ's holy Mysteries and Sacraments.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws, statutes, and ordinances, wherein or whereby any other Service, administration of Sacraments, or common Prayer, is limited, established, or set forth to be used within this Realm, or any other the Queen's dominions or countries, shall from henceforth be utterly void, and of none effect.   

An act of Recognition the Queen's highness title to the imperial Crown of this Realm. The three Chapter.  
AS there is nothing under God (most dread Sovereign Lady) where we your most humble, faithful, and obedient subjects, the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, have, may, or aught to have more cause to rejoice, then in this only, that it hath pleased God of his merciful providence and goodness, towards us and this our realm, not only to provide, but also to preserve and keep for us, and our wealths your royal majesty, our most rightful and lawful Sovereign liege Lady and Queen, most happylye to reign over us, for the which we do give and yield unto him from the bottoms of our hearts, our humble thanks, laudes, and praises: Even so there is nothing that we your said subjects for our parties can, may, or aught towards your highness, more firmly, entirely, and assuredredly in the purity of our hearts think, or with our mouths declare and confess to be true, then that your Majesty our said Sovereign Lady is, and in very deed, and of most mere right aught to be by the laws of God, and the laws and statutes of this Realm, our most rightful and lawful sovereign liege Lady & Queen: and that your highness is rightly, lineally, and lawfully descended, and come of the blood royal of this realm of England, in and to whose princely person, and the heirs of your body lawfully to be begotten after you, without all doubt, ambiguity, scruple, or question, the imperial & royal estate, place, crown, and dignity of this realm, with all honours, styles, titles, dignities, regalities, jurisdictions, & pre-eminences to the same now belonging and appertaining, are and shallbe most fully, rightfully, really, and entirely invested, and incorporated, united, & annexed, as rightfully, and lawfully, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as the same were in the said late king Henry the eight, or in the late king Edward the vi your highness brother, or in the late Queen Marie your highness sister, at any time since the act of parliament made in the xxxv year of the reign of your said most noble father king Henry the eight, entitled, An act concerning the establishment of the king's majesties succession in the imperial crown of this realm. For which causes, we your said most loving, faithful, & obedient subjects, representing the three estates of your realm of England, as thereunto constrained by the law of god and man, except we should overmuch forget our duties to your highness, and to the heirs of your body lawfully begotten, can no less do, but most humbly beseech your highness, that by th'authority of this present parliament, it may be enacted, established, and declared, that we do recognize, acknowledge, and confess the same your estate, right, title, and succession, as is aforesaid, to be in and to your highness, and the heirs of your body to be begotten, thorowoutly, and in the whole, and in every part thereof, in such manner & form as before is mentioned, declared, or confessed, and thereunto most humbly & faithfully we do submit ourselves, our heirs & posterities for ever. And further do make our most hearty & humble petition unto your highness, that it may please the same, not only to accept this our said recognition, but also our faithful promises, that we, according to our duties, shall and will stand to assist and defend your royal Majesty, and the heirs of your body to be begotten, being Kings and Queens of this Realm, and your said rights, and titles in & to the said imperial estate, place, crown, and dignity in all things thereto belonging, at all times to the uttermost of our possible powers, and therein to spend our bodies, lands, and goods, against all persons whatsoever, that any thing shall attempt to the contrary.  
And that it may be enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that aswell this our declaration, confession, & recognition, as also the limitation & declaration of the succession of the imperial crown of this realm, mentioned and contained in the said act made in the said xxxv year of the reign of your said most noble father, shall stand, remain, and be the law of this realm for ever. And that all sentences, judgements, & decrees, had, made, declared, set forth, published, and promulged, and also as much of every clause, article, branch, matter, or thing, contained and expressed in any act or acts of parliament, as be in any thing repugnant, contrary, or derogatory to this our said confession, declaration, and recognition, or to any part or parcel thereof, or contrary to the said limitation of the succession of the imperial crown, established and made by the said act in the said xxxv. year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight (by whatsoever power or authority the same been, or have been had or made) shallbe utterly frustrate, void, and of none effect: and also shall and may be canceled, defaced, and put in perpetual oblivion at your highness will and pleasure, as if the same had never been had, made, declared, set forth, published, or promulged.   

An act for the restitution of the first fruits and tenths, and rents reserved nomine dicime, and of parsonages impropriate to the imperial crown of this Realm. The four Chapter.  
IN their most humble wise beseechen your most excellent Majesty, your faithful and humble subjects, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons of this your Realm in this present Parliament assembled, that where in the Parliament of your most noble father of famous memory king Henry the eight, holden at Westminster upon prorogation the third day of November, in the xxvi year of his prosperous reign, it was enacted, ordained, and established by th'authority of the same parliament amongst other things, that his highness, his heirs & successors, kings of this Realm, should have & enjoy from time to time to endure for ever, of every person and persons, which at any time after the first day of january than next ensuing, should be nominated, elected, prefected, presented, collated, or by any other means appointed to have any archishopric, bishopric, Abbacye, monastery, Pryorye, College, Hospital, Archdeconry, Deanerye, Provostshyp, Prebend, Parsonage, Vicarage, chantry, Free Chapel, or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual, within this Realm or else where, within any of the king's dominions, of what name, nature, or quality soever they were, or to whose foundation, patronage, or gift soever they did belong, the first fruits, revenues, and profits, for one year of every such Archbyshopryke, bishopric, Abbacie, Monastery, Pryorye, College, Hospital, Archdeaconry, Deanery, Provostshyppe, Prebend, Parsonage, Vicarage, chantry, Free Chapel, or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual aforenamed, whereunto any such person or persons should after the said first day of january be nominated, elected, prefected, presented, collated, or by any other means appointed. And that every such person and persons, before any actual or real possession, or meddling with the profits of any such archbishopric, bishopric, Abbacy, Monastery, College, Hospital, Deanery, Provostshyp, Prebend, Parsonage, Vicarage, chantry, Free Chapel, Pryorye, or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual, should satisfy, content, and pay, or compound, or agreed to pay to the king's use, at reasonable days, upon good sureties, the said first fruited and profits for one year. And it was further enacted by authority aforesaid, that the first fruits of benefices, before that time accustomed to be paid to the bishop of Norwiche within his Diocese, and to the Archdeacon of Rychemonde within his Archdeaconrye, or any other person or persons within this Realm, or any other the king's dominions, should from the said first day of january, cease and be extinct, and no longer be paid but only to the kings highness, his heirs and successors, in such form as is before mentioned. And further it was enacted by authority aforesaid, that the kings Majesty, his heirs, and successors, for more augmentation and maintenance of the royal estate of his imperial crown, should yearly have, take, enjoy, and receive, united and knit to his imperial crown for ever, one yearly rend or pension, amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues, rents, farms, tithes, offerings, emoluments, and of all other profits, aswell called spiritual as temporal, appertaining or belonging, or that from thenceforth should belong to any Achebyshoprike, bishopric, Abbacye, monastery, priory, Archdeaconry, Deanerye, Hospital, College, House Collegiate, Prebend, Cathedral Church, Collegiate Church, Conuentual Church, Parsonage, Vicarage, Chantry, Freechappel, or other benefice, or promotion spiritual, of what name, nature, or quality soever they were, within any diocese of this realm, or in Wales, the said pension or annal rent, to be yearly paid for ever, to the said late king, his heirs & successors, at the feast of the Nativity of our Lord God, and the first payment thereof to begin at the feast of the Nativity of our Lode God, which should be in the year of our Lord god, a thousand, five hundred, thirty & five, & to be paid yearly by such as should be appointed to have the collection thereof, before the first day of April next following, after the said feast of the Nativity of our Lord God, as in the said act more plainly it doth appear. And where also one other act was made & established in the said Parliament, the said xxvi year, that no farmer of spiritual persons, should be compelled or charged to pay for their leassours first fruits or yearly pension for the tenth granted unto the kings highness, notwithstanding any covenant, contract, bond, or other thing made to the contrary, as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also at one other session of the same parliament, holden by prorogation at Westminster, in the xxvii year of the reign of your said father, one other act was made and established, that the kings spiritual subjects, should be deducted and allowed of the tenth of their spiritual promotions, for that first year for which they should pay the first fruits, as in the said act also more at large appeareth. And where also in one other Parliament of the said late king, holden at Westminster, in the xxviii year of his reign, amongst other things it was enacted and ordained, that the year in which the first fruits of every benefice and spiritual promotion should be paid, should begin and be accounted immediately after the avoidance thereof. And that the tithes, commodities, revenues, casualties, and profits thereof (chantries only except) in the time of vacation, should belong and afferre to the next incumbente, towards the payment of the first fruits, as by the same act more at large appeareth. And where also in one other Parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster, in the xxxii year of the reign of the said late king, one act was made and established, that bishops upon their accounts, of, and for the said yearly tenth, should be discharged by their oaths of payment of such sum or sums of money, of the said annal rent, or tenth, as they could not lawfully levy, and also an order appointed how the king should be answered of the tenth of any benefice & spiritual promotion, omitted in the original or former certificate of benefices and spiritual promotions, made in the Exchequer, as by the same act last mentioned more at large appeareth. And where also in the same session and Parliament holden in the said xxxii year of the reign of your highness said noble father, and by authority of the same Parliament, one court was erected, established, and made, for the better answering of the said first fruits and tenths unto the king, called the court of first fruits and tenths, as in the same act of erection thereof more fully appeareth. And where also in the same session and Parliament one other act was made, whereby the Bishop of Norwich for the time being (being before that discharged from the collection of the tenth within his diocese) should be charged and chargeable for ever, for, and with the collection of the same tenth within his diocese, & make payment thereof, as other Bishops should or aught to do within their diocese, as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also in one other Parliament of the said late king, holden at Westminster upon prorogation, in the xxiiii year of his reign, one act was establised and made concerning Collectors and Receivers, to make payment of their receipts within three months next after the same should be due, and paid to the kings use, under certain penalties therein expressed, as by the same act more at large appeareth. And where also in the same Session and Parliament it was enacted and established, that the new erected Bishops, of Chester, Gloucester, Peterborough, Bristol, Oxford, and their successors for ever, should pay their tenths reserved upon their letters patents, or their several erections, only in the said court of the first fruits & tenths for ever, as by the same act more at large appeareth. And where also in the Parliament of the said late king, holden at Westminster in the xxxvii year of his reign, one act entitled, An act for the union of Churches, not exceeding the value of. vi.li. was established and made, wherein is contained a saving to the king of the first fruits and tenths of all Churches and Chapels, not exceeding the value of. vi.li. that then were, or from thenceforth should be united and consolidate in one, as in the same act and saving more largely appeareth. And where also in the Parliament of your highness dearest brother of worthy memory king Edward the sixth, holden at Westminster upon prorogation, in the second year of his reign, one act was made, that by the certificate of the Bishop of any diocese within this Realm, or any of the dominions of the same, of recusaunce or none payment of any tenth of any benefice or spiritual promotion, the incumbente should lose but the benefice or promotion only, as by the same act more plainly appeareth.  
And where also in one other Parliament of the said late king Edward, hold at westminster in the seventh year of his reign, one act was made and established, declaring how and in what sort the under Collectors of the tenth in every diocese, appointed by the Bishop, should be bound to discharge the Bishops of that collection, and a longer day given for the payment of the tenth: and how the king should be answered of the tenth for the time of vacation of every benefice and spiritual promotion, and that the patents of the collection of tenth, should be good only during the incumbentes of the grauntours, as in the same act more at large is contained. And where also in the second session of Parliament of our late sovereign Lady Queen Marie your majesties dearest sister, holden at Westminster in the first year of her reign, one act was made and established, whereby full power and authority was given and appointed unto her highness at her will and pleasure, to altar, change, unite, transport, dissolve, or determine, aswell the said court of first fruits and tenths, as the court of augmentations of the revenues of the kings crown, and other courts therein expressed, and to reduce the same courts, or any of them, into one, two, or more court or courts, or to unite and annex the said courts, or any two or more of them, together, or to any other of her majesties courts of records, as to her it should be thought most convenient & best, for the better, sure, and more speedy answering of her yearly revenues, casualties, and profits, then answerable in the said courts, or any of them, as in the same act more at large is expressed: by vigour and authority of which act, the said late Queen by her graces four several letters patents, whereof two bear date the xxiii day of january, in the first year of her reign, and the other two the xxiiii day of january in the same year, did not only dissolve, determine, and extinguish the said courts commonly called and entitled, The court of augmentations and revenues of the king's crown, and, The court of the first fruits and tenth, and the jurisdiction and authority thereof: but also did unite, transpose, and annex the said courts of augmentations and revenues of the kings crown, and of the first fruits and tenths so dissolved, to the said court of the Exchequer, there to be and continued as a member and parcel of the same court of the Exchequer: and did appoint all and singular the revenues, casualties, profits, and hereditaments then answerable in the said courts, to the order, rule, survey, and governance of the said court of the Exchequer, there to be answered and accounted for ever, in such order, manner, and form, as in the said later letters patents, and in two Schedules unto the said letters patents annexed, is mentioned and declared, as by the tenor and purport of the said letters patents and Schedules, signed with her highness hand, more plainly may appear. By reason of all which said premises, not only the said perpetual revenues of the first fruits and tenths, granted by the said act in the xxvi year of the reign of your highness most noble father, in augmentation & maintenance of the crown of this Realm, but also the tenths or yearly rents reserved nomine decime, by any letters patents, of your said noble father, sithence the said xxvi year of his reign, and of your said dearest brother and sister, or of any of them, made to any Bishop, and his successors, or to any Cathedral Church, Deane and Chapter, College, or any other Ecclesiastical and Spiritual person or persons, or corporations, and their Successors for ever. And also all and every the rents, revenues, issues, and profits, of all and singular Rectories, personages, and benefices impropriate, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits, and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual to the same belonging, being in the hands and possession of your said dearest sister, at the said xxiiii day of januarie, were ordered, answerable, and accounted for in the said court of the Exchequer, and were therein well and justly answered and paid unto her highness use and behoof, like as the same had been unto the said two noble kings, her said father & brother, by the space of twenty years, without grief or contradiction of the Prelates and Clergy of the Realm, to the great aid, relief, and supportation of the inestimable charges of the Crown of this Realm, which daily since the time of the making of the said first act, have increased and grown more and more. Which thing although the said late Queen might and did manifestly feel & perceive to be most true: yet she upon certain zealous and inconvenient respects, not sufficiently, nor politicly enough weighing that matter, nor having due consideration and regard to the maintenance, and upholding and good continuance of the state of the Imperial Crown of this Realm in succession, which rather needed an augmentation, than any diminution, procured and willed an act of Parliament, to be made and provided in the second and third years of the reign of king Philip her late husband and her, that all payments of the said first fruits, should from thenceforth cease and be clearly extinct and determined for ever. And that aswell all the said benefices and spiritual promotions, as the possessors, owners, and incumbentes thereof, and their successors, should from and after the viii day of August, in the said second and third years, and so from thenceforth at all times for ever, be clearly exonerate, acquitted, & discharged, against the said late king Philip & Queen Marie, her heirs, and successors, of and from the payment and payments of all and every the said first fruits, in as ample and large manner and form, as they were before the making of the said act, of the first and original grant thereof, in the said xxvi year of the reign of the said late king your noble father, and as though the same had never been had ne made. And further, that neither the said perpetual pension, annual rent, or tenth, granted by the said first act of the xxvi year of the said noble king Henry: nor also the said several annual rents, or tenths, reserved nomine decime, by and upon the said several letters patents, of the said late King and Queen, made to spiritual persons and corporations as is aforesaid, or any of them, from and after the feast of S. Michael Tharchangell then last passed, should any more be paid or payable unto the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, her heirs, or successors, but that aswell all the said Archbyshoprickes, bishoprics, and other benefices, dignities, Deans, and Chapters, Colleges, Corporations, and Spiritual promotions aforesaid, as also the possessors, owners, proprietaries, and incumbentes of the same, and their successors, from and after the said feast of S. Michael Tharchangel, should be clearly exonerate, acquitted and discharged of, and from the payment thereof, against them, and the heirs, & successors of the same late Queen for ever. And furthermore, that the said late king Philip & Queen Marie, her heirs, or successors, from and after the said feast of S. Michael Tharchangell, should not receive, perceive, take, and enjoy any the issues, revenues, profits, or commodities of the said rectories, personages, benefices, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, or of any of them, or of the reversion or reversions of them, or any of them: but in and by the said act, the same late king and Queen, clearly gave over, renounced, and relinquished aswell the said rectories, personages, benefices, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, and every of them, and the reversion and reversions of them, and every of them, and all their right, title, use, interest, and demand of, in, or to the same, from them, and the heirs, and successors of the said late Queen for ever, as also the said perpetual pension, annual rent, and tenth, and also the said yearly rents, reserved nomine decime, upon the said several letters patents, and all their right, title, and interest, which they or either of them, or the heirs or successors of the said late Queen, had or might have had, in or to the same. The same yearly pension, tenths, yearly rents, parsonages, emoluments, and profits, to be perceived, taken, received, counted, employed, used, and disposed by the late reverend father in God Reginald Poole, late Cardinal and Legate, and such other persons as he should name and appoint, and such other as been specially limited in the said act, to and for certain uses, purposes, and intentes mentioned in the same act, with divers provisions, and a saving in the same expressed and contained, as by the same more at large appeareth. We your said humble and obedient subjects, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this your present Parliament assembled, calling to our remembrance the huge, innumerable, and inestimable charges of the royal estate, and imperial Crown of this Realm, and how the same is left unto your Majesty, at this your first entry thereunto, greatly diminished, aswell by reason of the said act made in the said second and third year of the reign of the said king Philip and Queen Marie, as otherwise, do conceive at the bottom of our hearts great sorrow and heaviness, as subjects careful for their natural and liege Sovereign Lady, upon whom dependeth the surety, worldly joy, and wealth of us all: and being no less affected towards your majesties most royal person, and the preservation and maintenance of the same, and of the estate and succession of your majesties said Crown, than were the first grauntours of the said first fruits and tenths towards your highness most noble father, and his said royal estate, at the time of their said grant to him thereof made, do account of very right and good congruence no less than our most bounden duty, to move your highness, and therewith most humbly to beseech the same: that the great disherison and decay committed and done to the crown and estate royal of this your Realm, and the succession thereof by reason of the said act made in the said second and third years of the reign of the said king Philip and Queen Marie, may at this Parliament be reformed and avoided, and that with your highness favour and royal assent it may be enacted, ordained, established, and provided by authority of this Parliament, in manner and form hereafter ensuing: That is to say, that the said act made in the second and third years of the reign of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, and all articles, clauses, and sentences therein contained, shallbe form and after the first day of this present Parliament, utterly and clearly repealed, made void, and of no force ne effect: and all authorities and liberties granted, limited, and appointed in & by the said act to the said late Cardinal Poole, or made or derived, by force, strength, or colour of the same act, by or from the said late Cardinal, to any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, to cease and be utterly void and determined: and that the said first fruits, and all payments thereof, from and after the said first day of this Parliament, shallbe revived, and have their being and continuance again, and be deemed and adjudged to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, in the Queen's highness most royal person, her heirs, and successors, and united and annexed to the imperial crown of this Realm, of and in such like, and the same estate, interest, title, quantity, sort, degree, and condition, and in as ample and beneficial manner and form, as the same was or were in the person or possession of the said late Queen Marie, at and before the said eight day of August, in the said act of extinguishment mentioned and expressed: the same act of extinguishment, or any letters patents, or any other matter or thing had, done, or suffered by the said late Queen, to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding. And also that aswell so much of the said perpetual and annual tenth, and pension, granted by the said act made in the said xxvi year of the reign of the said late king henry the eight, as also so much of the said yearly rents reserved upon the said several letters patentes nomine decime, and also so many of the said rectories, personages, and benefices, impropriate, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, and the reversion and reversions thereof: and all rents, emoluments, and profits incident to the same, as were in the hands and possession of the said late Queen Marie, at and before the said viii day of August, shall from the said feast of. S. Michael Tharchangell last passed, be bestead, adjudged, and deemed, actually and really in the seasme and possession of our said sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, her heirs, and successors, to all intentes, constructions, & purposes, of and in such like and the same estate, interest, order, degree, quality, sort, and condition, and as fully, holy, largely, and beneficially, as the same were in the seasme and possession of the said late queen Marie, at and before the same eight day of August. And that aswell the said first fruits and tenths, and the order thereof, as also the said annual rents reserved nomine decime, and the said rectories, personages, benefices, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, and every of them, and the reversion and reversions of them, and of all rents and profits unto the same, or any of them incident or belonging, shallbe within the said order, survey, rule, and governance of the said court of Thexchequer, in every degree, sort, and condition, as they were (at and) before the said eight day of August: the said act made in the said second and third years, or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding. And that so much of all and every the said acts and statutes first recited, or of any other act or statute, touching or concerning the order, levying, true answering and payment or qualification of the said first fruits and tenths, and of the said rectories, personages, and benefices improprietate, and of the rents, revenues, emoluments and profits thereof, and of all other the premises, and also the charge, discharge, or alteration of them, or any of them, or any matter or thing in any wise sounding or tending thereunto, which were standing, and being in force, effect, and vnrepealed at and before the said eight day of August (except only the said acts of the erections of the courts of augmentations and first fruits and tenths) shallbe, remain, and continue in their full and perfect strengths and forces, and be observed and put in due execution, according to the tenors and purportes of the same, and every of them. And that the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, by authority of this present Parliament shall from the said first day of this present Parliament, have, hold, possede, and enjoy for ever the advowsons, gifts and patronages of all vicarages belonging or incident to any of the said rectories, and personages impropriate, in the same sort, quality, condition, and degree, to all intentes and purposes, as the same were in the person and possession of the said late Queen mary, at and before the said eight day of August: any thing or act done by the same late Cardinal, or any grant or grants by letters patents made by the said late Queen mary, of the said advowsons and patronages, or any of them, to any ecclesiastical or spiritual person or persons, or any spiritual corporation, to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Saving to all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, and their heirs, executors, successors, and assigns, and every of them, other than such persons as be mentioned and named in any letters patents, made by the said Queen Marie, the said viii. day of August▪ or at any time sithen, or claiming only by or under th'authority, and strength of the same act or letters patents or any of them, all such right, title, interest, estate, offices, leases, grants, annuities, pensions, fees, corrodyes, rents, and other yearly profits and commodities, as they or any of them aught or should have had perceived, or enjoyed, of, in, or by reason of any the personages, rectories, or of any other the premises, in case the said former act now repealed, and this present act of repeal had never been had ne made: any thing in the same acts, or either of them contained, or sounding to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that from and after the said feast of saint Michael Tharchangell last passed, and so from thenceforth from time to time, the said pensions, annuities, rents, corrodies, fees, and other yearly payments, shallbe paid and payable only by our said sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors, at the receit of the Exchequer, or in such other places as the Queen's Majesty her heirs, and successors shall appoint, to all and every person and persons, that aught to have and enjoy the same, in such sort, order, and form as the same should or aught to have been paid and payable in case the said act now repealed had never been had ne made: any thing therein, or else in this act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that all and singular incumbentes, proprietaries, tenants, farmers, leases, and occupiers of the premises, or any part thereof, their heirs, executors, and assigns, which the said first day of this present 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 premises, or any of them, shall & may be by the authority of this act, severally chargeable, accountable, and answerable to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, in and at the said court of the Exchequer, of and for the same arrearages and duties, as other accomptauntes be and shallbe in the same court: any thing in the said act, now repealed in this act, or any other matter or cause to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And yet nevertheless the Queen's most excellent Majesty, at the humble request of her said subjects, of her abundant grace and bountifulness, is pleased and contented that it be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and singular 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 first fruits and tenths, now remaining in the Exchequer, or that shall hereafter come and remain in the same court, and also all and singular parsonages, not exceeding the yearly value of ten marks, after the like rate and valuation, and the incumbentes thereof, and every of them, their executors, administrators, successors, and sureties, & every of them, from the said feast of S. Michael Tharchangel last passed, shallbe free and clearly discharged, and acquitted for ever, against the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, of and from the said first fruits: any thing in the said act of first fruits and tenths made in the said xxvi year of the reign of the said late king henry the eight, or in this act of repeal, or any other act or acts before recited to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any Incumbent of any such promotion spiritual, as is aforesaid, charged or chargeable to the payment of the said first fruits, happen to live to th'end of one half year next after the last avoidance of the same promotion spiritual, so 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, than next following, shall happen to die, or to be lawfully evicted, removed, or put from the said promotion spiritual, by judgement in any action at the common law, without fraud or covin: that then every such incumbent, his heirs, executors, administrators, and sureties, shallbe charged and chargeable but only with the fourth part of the first fruits due to be paid for such his promotion, and with no more of the said first fruits: any thing in this act contained, or any bond or writing to be made for the payment of the said first fruits, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding. And if it shall shall happen any such incumbent to live by the space of one whole year next after the last advoidaunce of the same promotion spiritual, and after before the end of one half year than next following shall fortune to die, or to be lawfully evicted, removed, or put from the said promotion spiritual, by judgement in any action at the common law, without fraud or covin: that then every such incumbent, his heirs, executors, administrators and sureties, shallbe charged and chargeable but only with the moiety and one half of the first fruits due to be paid; for such his promotion spiritual and with no more of the same first fruits: any thing in this act contained, or any bond or writing obligatory to be made for the payment of the same first fruits, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding. And if it shall happen any such incumbent to live to the end of one whole year and a half, next after the last avoidance of such promotion spiritual, and after and before the end of six months then next following shall fortune to die, or to be lawfully evicted, removed, or put from the said promotion spiritual, by judgement in any action at the common law, without fraud or covin: that then every such incumbent, his heirs, executors, administrators, and sureties, shallbe charged and chargeable but only with three parts of the first fruits of the same 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 said first fruits, or any other matter or cause to the contrary, notwithstanding. And if it shall happen any such incumbent to live to the end of two whole years, next after the last avoidance of the same his promotion spiritual, and not to be lawfully evicted; removed, or put from the same promotion spiritual as is aforesaid, that then every such incumbent, his heirs, executors, administrators, and sureties, shall content and pay to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, and successors, the whole first fruits due to be paid for the same promotion spiritual, according to the statutes aforesaid.  
provided also, and be it enacted, that all grants, immunities, and liberties, given to the Universities of Cambridge, and Oxford, or to any College or Hall in either of the said universities, and to the Colleges of Eton and Winchester, and unto every or any of them, by our late Sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, or any other of the Queen's highness progenitors or predecessors, or by act of Parliament, for or touching the release or discharged of the said first fruits and tenths, or any part thereof, shallbe always and remain in their full strength and virtue: and that all such lawful conveyances and assurances in the law, as were had or made before the making of this act, to either of the said universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or to any College or Hall within any of them, by what name or names soever they or any of them be incorporated or named, of any of the said personages, or benefices impropriate, or of any part of the same, or of any patronages, for the maintenance of students, or learning, shallbe as good and effectual in the law, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as though this act had never been made.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Dean and Canons of the free Chapel of S. George the Martyr, within the Castle of Windsor, and all the possessions and hereditaments of the same free Chapel, deanery, and Canons, by whatsoever name or names they be incorporated or known, shall be exonerated, and shall stand for ever discharged of the tenths and first fruits before mentioned: any thing in this act, or any other act or statute before mentioned to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided also and be it enacted, that all leases made before the twenty day of December last passed, for xxi years, or three lives at the most, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, being lawfully seized of, or in any of the said personages impropriate, or of, or in any other the premises wonted commonly to be let, or set to farm, then being out of lease, or whereof there was not at the time of the making of the said lease or leases, any former lease to endure above one year then to come at the most: and upon which new lease or leases, the old yearly rend, accustomably wont to be paid for the same, by the space of twenty years last before the making of such lease or leases, or more yearly rent is reserved and payable during the said term, and all other lawful grants, by them or any of them heretofore made of any office or offices, in old time wonted commonly to be granted: and all gifts and grants of any parsonage or personages impropriate, heretofore belonging to the Archdeaconry of Welles, in the County of Somerset, or to the incumbent of the same office or dignity, or to the incumbent of the same lately given and restored, shallbe as good and effectual in the law, as though this act or any thing therein contained had not been had or made.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Archdeaconry, and all Rectories and spiritual promotions, given, assigned, limited, or appointed to the same, and all and every incumbentes and incumbent, which hereafter shall be presented, collated, preferred, and admitted unto the said Archdeaconry, and the Rectories and spiritual promotions thereunto limited and appointed, or appertaining and belonging, shall stand, remain, and be charged and chargeable with the payment of the first fruits and tenths for the same to the Queen's highness, her heirs, and successors, in such like manner and form as other spiritual promotions, and the incumbentes of the same, be and shallbe charged and chargeable by this act, or by any other act or statute before specified.  
Provided always and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that so many of the said Rectories, personages, and benefices impropriate, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits, and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual, and every of them, and the reversion and reversions of them, and all rents and profits unto the same or any of them incident or belonging, as were at and before the said eight day of August in the hands or possessions of the said late Queen Marie, and within the survey, rule, & order of the court of the Duchy of Lancaster, shall be again within the order, survey, rule, and government of the said court, in such and the same manner and form, to all intentes and purposes, as they were at and before the said eight day of August, in the said second and third years of the reign of the said late king and Queen: any thing in this act, or in the said act of the same late king and Queen to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the th'authority of this Parliament, that no person or persons presented, instituted, or inducted, at any time sithence the first day of this present Parliament, or that shall be presented, instituted, or inducted on this side the feast of the Nativity of S. john Baptist next coming, to any the said spiritual or ecclesiastical promotions, chargeable to or with the payment of the first fruits or one years profits of such promotion, shall incur any penalty or forfeiture, by entering into any of the said spiritual or Ecclesiastical promotions, or by taking the profits thereof, for the non payment or not compounding of or for the first fruits thereof, so that he or any other for him, shall or do compound for the same first fruits, according to the true meaning of the statute, before the said feast of the Nativity of S. john Babtist: any thing in this act contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend to charge any hospital founded and used, and the possessions thereof employed to and for the relief of poor people, or any School or Schools, or the possessions or revenues of them, or any of them, with the payment of any tenths or first fruits: any thing in this act before mentioned to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.   

An act whereby certain offences be made Treason. Chapter uj  
WHERE in the Parliament holden at Westminster the xii day of November, in the second year of the reign of the late Queen Marie, sister unto our most gracious Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is, there was one act or statute made for the better surety and preservation of the said late Queen, entitled, An act whereby certain offences be made treasons, as by the same act more at large doth appear. And for as much as the very words and sentences of the said statute, do extend no further but unto the said late Queen Marie, and the heirs of her body, therefore if any such like offences as be mentioned and contained within the said statute, should hereafter happen to be committed against our said Sovereign Lady that now is, there were no due remedy, or condign punishment provided for the same.  
In consideration whereof, and to th'intent that the malice of wicked and evil doers may the better be restrained by thextending of the effect and benefit of the matters contained in the said statute, to our most dear Sovereign Lady that now is, and for the more surety and preservation of her highness royal estate, be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, & by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons after the first day of May next to come, do maliciously, advisedly, and directly, compass or imagine to deprive the Queen's Majesty that now is, or the heirs of her body to be begotten, being Kings or Queens of this Realm, from the style, honour, & kingly name of the imperial Crown of this Realm, or from any other the Realms and dominions unto our said Sovereign Lady appertaining and belonging, or to destroy the Queen's Majesty that now is, or any the heirs of her body, being Kings or Queens of this Realm, or to levy war within this Realm, or within any the marches or dominions to the same belonging, against the Queen's Majesty that now is, or any the heirs of her body, being Kings or Queens of this Realm, or to depose the Queen's Majesty that now is, or any the heirs of her body, being Kings or Queens of this Realm, from the imperial crown of the Realms and Dominions aforesaid, and the same compasses, or imaginations, or any of them, maliciously, advisedly, & directly shall or do utter by open preaching, express words or sayings: or if any person or persons, after the said first day of May next coming, shall maliciously, advisedly, and directly say, publish, declare, maintain, or hold opinion, that the Queen's Majesty that now is, during her life, is not, or aught not to be Queen of this Realm, or after her death, that the heirs of her highness body, being kings or queens of this realm, of right aught not to be kings or Queens of this Realm, or that any other person or persons, other than the Queen's highness that now is, during her life, aught to be king or queen of this realm, or any other the Realms or dominions aforesaid, or after her death, other than the heirs of her body, being kings or queens of this Realm, as long as any of her said heirs of her body begotten shallbe in life, of right aught to have & enjoy the imperial crown of this Realm, or any the realms & dominions aforesaid: that then every such offender, being thereof duly convicted or attainted by the laws of this Realm, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors, and all and every their comforters, knowing the said offences, or any of them, to be done, and being thereof duly convicted or attainted, as is abovesaid, for his or their such offence, shall forfeit and loose to the Queen's highness, her heirs and successors, all his & their goods and cattles, and the whole issues and profits of his and their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, for term of the life of every such offender or offenders, and also shall have and suffer during his and their lives perpetual imprisonment.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every ecclesiastical person, being convicted or attainted in form aforesaid, for every such his offence, shall immediately and presently upon such attainder had, be judged & remain in the law to all intentes, deprived from all his benefices and promotions spiritual or ecclesiastical, in such manner and form, that it shallbe lawful for every patron, founder, or giver thereof, to present immediately after such attainder had, some one other to the same, as though the said offender or offenders were deceased.  
And if any person or persons, being hereafter convicted or attainted of any the said offences, in form aforesaid committed, shall after his or their conviction or attayndour eftsoons commit or perpetrate any of the said offences in form aforesaid, that then every such second offence or offences, shallbe deemed and adjudged high treason, and the offender or offenders therein, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors, and all and every their aydours, and comforters, knowing the said offences, or any of them to be done, being thereof convicted or attainted, according to the laws and statutes of this Realm, shallbe judged and deemed high traitors, and shall suffer pains of death, and loose and forfeit all their goods, cattles, lands, and tenements, to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, & successors, as in cases of high treason by the laws of this Realm, at this day of right aught to be lost and forfeited.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or person, at any time after the said first day of May next to come, by any writing, printing, overt deed, or act maliciously, advisedly, and directly, do affirm that the Queen's Majesty that now is, aught not to have & enjoy, the style, honour, and kingly name of this Realm, or that any person or persons, other than the Queen's Majesty that now is, aught to have or enjoy the style, honour & kingly name of this Realm, or that the Queen's Majesty that now is during her life, is not, or aught not to be Queen of this Realm, or after her death, that the heirs of her highness body being Kings or Queens of this Realm, of right aught not to have & enjoy the imperial crown of this realm, or that any person or persons other than the Queen's majesty that now is, during her life, or after her death other than the heirs of her body begotten, being kings or queens of this Realm, as long as any of her said heirs of her body shallbe in life, of right aught to have and enjoy the imperial crown of this Realm, that then every such offence and offences shallbe adjudged high treason, and the offender and offenders therein, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors, and all and every their aydours and comforters, knowing the said offences or any of them to be done, being thereof lawfully convicted or attainted by the laws of this Realm, shallbe deemed and adjudged high traitors, and shall suffer pains of death, and loose and forfeit all their goods and cattles, lands and tenements to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, as in cases of high treason by the laws of this Realm, at this day of right aught to be lost and forfeited.  
Saving to every person and persons bodies politic and corporate their heirs and successors (other than the offenders and their heirs, and such person and persons as claim to any of their uses) all such rights, titles, interests, possessions, leases, rents, reversions, offices, and other profits, which they or any of them shall have at the day of the committing such treasons, or at any time afore, in as large & ample manner, as if this act had never been had nor made.  
Provided always, and be it declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that concealment, or keeping secret of any high treasons, be deemed and taken only misprision of treason, and the offenders therein to forfeit & suffer, as in cases of misprision of treason hath heretofore been used: any thing above mentioned to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also that if it shall fortune hereafter any of the peers of this Realm, to be indicted of any the offences made treason, or misprision of treason by this act, that then the same peers or peer so being indicted, shall be put to answer to every such indictment before the high Steward of England for the time being, and to have his and their trial of all his and their peers, and to receive and have such like judgement upon the same trial of his or their peers, or make open confession of the same offence or offences, as is used in other cases of high treason.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shall in any wise be impeached for any of the offences abovesaid committed, only by open preaching or words, unless the offender or offenders be thereof indicted within six months next after the same open preaching or words: any thing mentioned in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that the counsellors, procurers, comforters, and abettors mentioned in this act, for his or their first offence, shall suffer like punishment, penalty, and forfeiture, as is contained in this act against the principal offenders for their first offence, and none other: and that the counsellors, procurers, comforters, & abettors, for his or their second offence, shall sustain like punishment, penalty, & forfeiture, as is contained in this act, against the principal offender or offenders, for their second offence, & none other.  
Provided always, & be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shallbe hereafter indicted or arraigned for any offence or offences made treason, or misprision of treason, by this act, unless the same offence & offences of treason & misprision of treason aforesaid, be proved by the testimony, deposition, & oath of two lawful and sufficient witnesses, at the time of his & their indictment, which said witnesses also at the time of the arraignment of the party so indicted (if they be then living) shallbe brought forth in person before the party so arraigned face to face, and there shall avow and openly declare all they can say against the said party so indicted, unless the said party so indicted, shall willingly without violence confess the same.   

An act for the explanation of the statute of seditious words and rumours. ¶ The .v. Chapter.  
WHERE in the Parliament holden at Westminster, the xxi day of November, in the first & second years of the reigns of the late king Philip and Queen Marie (sister unto our Sovereign Lady the Queen's highness that now is) & there continued and kept, until the xvi day of januarie than next ensuing, there was one act or statute then and there made, entitled, An act against seditious words & rumours, which act was then made to endure to the end of the next Parliament: and after in the next parliament holden at Westminster the xxi day of October, in the second and third years of the reigns of the said late king and queen, and there continued until the ix day of October than next following, the said statute was then further continued until the last day of the next Parliament: and after in one other Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty day of januarie, in the fourth and fifth years of the reigns of the said late king and queen, and there continued until the vii day of March, than next following, the said act and statute was then and there further continued, revived, and enacted, to stand and be in full force and strength, unto the last day of the next Parliament: in which act (amongst other things) certain punishment is provided for such persons as should maliciously utter or speak any false, seditious, and slanderous news, rumours, or tales of the said late king and queen, as by the same act and statute more at large it doth and may appear.  
And for as much as the said act and statute sithen the making thereof hath been proved to be a very good and necessary law, for due correction and punishment of such light and evil disposed persons, as most seditiously did spread abroad very false and slanderous rumours and tales, to the great disturbance of the common tranquillity of this Realm: and for that it is doubtful whether the said statute, and the words and sentences of the same, extend any further, then only to the said late king and queen, and whither the same statute give any remedy against such persons as shall maliciously utter or speak any false, seditious, and slanderous rumours, news or tales, against our Sovereign Lady the queen's highness that now is, or not. For remedy whereof, and for a plain declaration and explanation of the said former act: be it therefore declared, ordained, & enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that the said act and statute made in the said first and second years of the reigns of the said late king and Queen, and continued as is aforesaid, and all and every branch, article, words, sentences, clauses, provisions, and things therein contained, shall from henceforth by th'authority of this present parliament, be expounded, judged, taken and deemed in all things to extend to the Queen's highness that now is, as fully and largely, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as though the same act had by express words extended to the heirs & successors of the said late Queen: any question, ambiguity, or doubt, grown, risen, or made, or hereafter happening to grow, rise, or to be moved to the contrary in any thing, notwithstanding. And that all & every person & persons, which hereafter shall malitously utter or speak any false, seditious, or slanderous news, rumours, sayings, or tales, of the Queen's highness that now is, or of the heirs of her body, being kings or queens of this Realm, or shall commit or do any the offences expressed in the said act, against our said Sovereign Lady the Queen that now is, or the heirs of her body, being kings or queens of this realm, & being thereof convicted or attainted according to the form and order in the said former act expressed, shall from henceforth incur such pains and penalties, and have such and the same trial, judgement, and punishment for the same offences, as in the said act is limited and appointed, and according to the form, tenor, and effect of the same act, and none otherwise.   

An act to revive a statute made in the xxiii. year of the reign of king Henry the viii. touching the conveying of Horses, geldings, and Mares into Scotland. The. seven. Chapter.  
WHere in the Parliament holden at London the third day of November▪ in the xxi year of the reign of the late King of most worthy memory King henry the eight, and from thence adjourned and prorogued to Westminster, and there continued by divers prorogations, until the xu day of january in the xxiii year of the reign of the said late king, amongst other things there was one act or statute made, whereby the selling, exchanging, or delivery of any horses, geldings, or mares into Scotland, by any English man, should be felony, which act or statute is entitled, An act that no English man should cell, exchange, or deliver, to be conveyed into Scotland, any horse, gelding, or mare, without the kings licence, as by the same act and statute more at large it doth and may appear. And although the same statute was a very good and necessary law for the maintenance of the strength of this Realm, and for the due preservation of the state of the same, yet the said statute by certain acts repeal made, aswell in the time of the late king Edward the sixth, as also in the time of the late queen Marie, was by certain general words repealed and made void, by reason whereof, divers wicked and evil disposed persons, have of late time for their own private gain, conveyed divers horses, geldings, and mares out of this realm into Scotland, to the great strength and boldening of the Scottish, and much to the detriment & hindrance of this realm.  
Wherefore be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that the said act & statute made in the said xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, and all and every branch, sentences, articles, words, matters, and clauses therein contained, shall from the first day of May next coming, stand, remain, and continue in full force and strength, to all intentes and purposes, as fully and as holy as ever the same was at any time heretofore: any act or statute of repeal, or any other matter or cause whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.   

An act touching Shoemakers and Curriours. The eight Chapter.  
WHere at a parliament holden at Westminster upon prorogation the xu day of April, in the sixth year of the reign of our late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, brother to the queens majesty, it was enacted amongst other things, against regrators of tanned Leather, that no person or persons, of what estate, degree, or condition so ever he or they be, shall buy, engross, or cause to be bought or engrossed, any kind of tanned Leather, to the intent to cell the same again, saving, only Sadlers, Gyrdlers, Cordwainers, and all other artificers, which shall make thereof any kind of wares to be sold, as by the same act more plainly at large may appear: which act was in the Parliament holden at the Westminster the second day of April, in the first year of the reign of our late sovereign lady Queen Marie, repealed, made void, and of none effect: and one other act was then made, entituled, touching the buying and currying of Leather, the repealing of which act, as experience hath sithen taught us, hath brought shoes, boots, males, saddles, and all other kind of wares made of tanned Leather, to great & unreasonable prices to the undoing of a great number of the Queen's majesties poor subjects.  
For reformation whereof, be it ordained, enacted; & established, by the Queen's Majesty, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the foresaid statute made in the vi year of the reign of the said late king Edward the sixth, and entituled, against all regrators of tanned Leather, and every article, branch, sentence, and clause therein contained, shallbe revived and stand in effect from the first day of April next coming, in as full force, strength, and effect, as though the foresaid act made in the second day of April, in the first year of Queen Mary's reign, touching the buying and currying of Leather, whereby the said former act is repealed, had never been had or made.  
And be it also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said statute and act made in the first year of Queen Mary's reign, sister to the Queen's Majesty, entituled, An act touching the buying and currying of Leather, and every branch, sentence, and article therein contained, shall from the said first day of April not stand, but be utterly repealed, and be of no force nor strength: any clause, sentence, or article therein contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that when and as often as any Shoemaker or his deputy doth bring any Leather sufficiently tanned, to any curryour to be curried (delivering sufficient liquor for well dressing of the same) the same shallbe by every such Curryour well and sufficiently curried and made ready for the Shoemaker, within the space of five days in summer, that is to say: from the first day of March to the last day of September. And also in like manner within the space of ten days in winter, that is to say from the first day of October, unto the last day of February, upon pain to forfeit to the party grieved, for every hide not curried and dressed in manner & form aforesaid, the sum of ten s.  
Provided further, that this proviso shall not extend to bind any Curriour to dress any leather, which by doing his best is not able to dress within every of the times aforesaid, but shall extend to all such Leather as he conveniently may dress, after the common rate of the dressing.  
And be it also enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that no person or persons, using or occupying the feat and mystery of Shoemakers, shall from henceforth work or make any boots or shoes of neats Leather, that shallbe mingled, made or wrought with any other Leather, but only neats Leather of itself, unless it be in the hems or lining of boots, shoes, or slippers, and that they shall put in all and every boots, shoes, or slippers, made of neats Leather, innersoles made of wombs, which shallbe well & truly tanned and curried, and also all such other boots, shoes, and slippers, as shallbe made of dry neats Leather, or calves Leather, not to be mingled with any other kind of leather (saving in the soles) but only of itself, unless it be in hems or lyninges of the same: that is to say, neats leather of itself, & calves leather of itself, upon pain of forfeiture of all such boots, shoes, & slippers made so to the contrary.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the one moiety of all such forfeitures afore named, shallbe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, and her highness heirs: and the other moiety to him or them that seize or first sue for the same penalties in any the Queen's majesties courts of record, by action of debt, bill, complaint, information, or otherwise, wherein no wager of law, essoign, protection, or injunction, shallbe admitted or allowed for the defendant in that behalf.   

An act touching Tanners and the selling of tanned Leather. The ix Chapter.  
FOR sundry good causes and considerations, be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that no person or persons, having lands, tenements, or rents of estate of inheritance, or for term of life, to the clear yearly value of. x.li. or above, except such person and persons as have any tanhouse, and doth occupy the mystery of tanning at this present, and except an apprentice and other brought by and taught, or to be brought up and taught as a covenant servant, or hired for that purpose by the space of four years in the mystery or craft or tanning of Leather, shall use or have profit, gain, or commodity, of or by the said mystery or craft of tanning of Leather, after the feast of S. Michael th'archangel next coming, upon pain of forfeiting of all such Leather so to be tanned, or the just value thereof.  
Also be it further enacted, that from and after the feast Saint Michael th'archangel, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God M.d.lx no person or persons shall use or exercise the feat, craft, or mystery of tanning of Leather, or shall by any means receive any profit, gain, or lucre by tanning of Leather, but only in a City, Borough, Town corporal, or market town, where sellers shallbe usually appointed, except he or they have been apprentice exercised & brought up, as is aforesaid, in the said craft and mystery, by the space of four years at the lest, and also excepted the son or heir & wife of every such Tanner, to their own use and uses, upon pain of forfeiture of all the Leather so tanned contrary to this act, or the value thereof.  
And be it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons whatsoever, shall after the first day of May next coming, buy bargain, bespeke, or take promise of bargain of or for any raw Hide, or calves skin, but of, or for such and the same, as shall be present in fair or market then to be sold, ne they shall put or cause to be put to sale any kind of tanned Leather, read, & unwrought in any place within this Realm, other then in open market or fair, in the place therefore commonly accustomed, and therefore prepared, upon pain of forfeiture for every hide. iii.s.iiii.d. for every dozen of calves skins. iii.s.iii.d. and the Hide or Hides and Leather in any otherwise sold or bought, or the value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person whatsoever, shall or may after the feast of S. Michael th'archangel next coming, buy, bargain, bespeke, or take promise of bargain, of or for any tanned Leather unwrought as is aforesaid, but only such person or persons as have been, be, or shallbe brought up in cutting of Leather into made wares, and do will and shall work and convert the same into Leather, cut into made wares wrought, upon pain of forfeiture of the Leather so bought, bargained, or bespoke, or the value thereof. And where as at a Parliament holden at Westminster upon prorogation, the second and third years of the reign of king Edward the sixth, brother to the queen's highness, amongst other things in an act, entitled, An act for true currying of Leather, upon divers good considerations, it was enacted that every Tanner shall cut of every womb of every Ox hide, six inches broad, and of every steer hide five inches broad, and of every Cow hide eight inches broad of assize in the narrow place, as by the said act more at large appeareth: Sithence which time the greedy and unsatiable covetousness of many of the Tanners have been such, to defraud the said good and godly act, that they will not cut of the wombs of the Hides, nor bring them to the market to be sold, so that the Cordwainers can not have wombs to put into the inner soles of boots, shoes, stertovopes, and slippers, according to the tenor of the said statute in that case provided: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's royal Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that all and every person and persons, that doth occupy, or shall hereafter occupy the tanning or barking of any Ox, steer, or Cow hide or hides, to be converted for sole Leather, for or in the name of sole Leather, now commonly called backs, shall cut or cause to be cut of every such Ox, steer, or Cow hide or hides, that shallbe tanned or wrought for sole Leather, commonly called backs, two pieces, which is now called wombs, of every such hide or back that shallbe wrought, barckte, or tanned for backs, upon pain of forfeiting of every such hide or hides, back or backs so tanned or wrought, the wombs being not cut of. vi.s.viii.d. for every hide.  
And be it also further enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that every Tanner or Tanners, or any other person or persons that occupieth, or hereafter shall occupy the mystery of tanning of Leather, and that shall cut of, or cause to be cut of those two pieces above named, called wombs, shall begin upon the two hinder shanks of every such hide, and there cut two pieces, and so cut throughout alongst the belly to the foreshanks, and there to cut of both the foreshankes, and those two pieces so called wombs, to be well and truly tanned, after the manner of inner sole leather, and to contain of good and dry tanned leather, six inches broad of assize in the narrowest place, according to the size of the standard in the Exchequer when they be tanned or put to sale, or offered to be sold, promised, or bargain made, upon pain of forfeiture of. iii.s.iii.d. for every womb being cut less than so many inches broad of assize in the narrowest place, as above said.  
And be it further enacted, that every Tanner or other person that occupieth, or hereafter shall occupy the mystery of tanning of Leather, which after the feast of the birth of our Lord jesus Christ next coming, shall put to sale, or offer to be sold in any fair or markets, any back or backs, shall bring at the self same time to the fair or markets, where he or they shall put such back or backs to sale, for every back, the two forenamed pieces called wombs, there to be sold with the backs, or otherwise as the fair or market shall him best serve, so that they be sold in the open market; upon pain of forfeiture of every such back or backs so brought to be sold, or offered to be sold, or the value thereof, not having the wombs there in the open market or fair as is abovesaid.  
Be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shall after the first day of May next coming, sell, or cause to be sold any manner of Leather (clout leather sold in small pieces only excepted) except he or they register, or cause to be registered the said Leather, and every part and parcel thereof, upon pain of forfeiture of the value of the leather so bought and not registered, and also the buyer to forfeit the said Leather so bought and not registered, as is aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted that such person or persons as are, or hereafter shallbe assigned or appointed searchers, sealer or sealer's of tanned Leather, by virtue of any act or statute heretofore, or hereafter to be made, shall keep one book or register, to enter all such bargains as shallbe made for leather, hides, or skins (clout leather sold in small pieces only excepted) by any person or persons, during and by all the time of the fair or market, and shall enter all such bargains, being thereunto required by the buyer or the seller, taking for his or their pain and travail therein to be taken: and for the registering thereof, of the seller of every dicker of Leather so entered one penny, for every six dozen of calves skins one penny, and so after the rate, and no more or greater sum or sums of money to be paid for entering of the same, upon pain of forfeiture, for not entering and registering as is aforesaid, for every dicker of Leather. 3s. iii d. for every dozen of calves skins. iii.s.iiii.d. & so after the rate. And where also one other act, entitled, An Act for true tanning of Leather was made at a Parliament of the said king Edward holden upon prorogation at Westminster, the fourth day of November, in the second year of his most gracious reign, which act was made to endure unto the end of the next Parliament then following, and after the same act was revived at one other Parliament holden at Westminster the first day of March, in the vii year of the reign of the same king Edward the sixth, to continued till the last day of the next Parliament then following: and after the same act was continued in the second & last session of our Sovereign Lady Queen Marie, holden upon prorogation at Westminster the thirteen day of October, in the first year of her grace's reign, to continued till the last day of the next Parliament then following, which being expired and the same act never since continued, his force and efficacy is ended. And for as much as the said act is good and beneficial for the common wealth of this Realm: be it therefore enacted, ordained, and established by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said act made in the second year of the said king Edward the sixth, and all words, clauses, articles, and provisions in the same, (except these words, Ash bark, Tap wort, Meal or Culuer dung) shallbe revived, continued, stand, and endure in his full force and strength, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, and that no Tanner in or about the tanning of any Leather, shall use or exercise any other kind of stuff, but only ash bark, Oak bark, Tap wort, Meal lime, or Culuer dung.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that th'one moiety of all such forfeitures aforenamed, shallbe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, and her highness heirs, or successors, and tother moiety to him or them that seize or first we for the same penalties in any of the Queen's majesties courts of record, by action of debt, bill, complaint, information, or otherwise wherein no wager of law, essoign, protection, or injunction, shallbe admitted or allowed for the defendant in that behalf.   

An act that the carrying of Leather, Tallow, or raw Hides out of the Realm for merchandise, shallbe felony. ¶ The ten Chapter.  
WHERE at this present time tanned Leather, hides, and Tallow, and all things thereof made, is grown and come unto such high and excessive price, as the like within the time of man's memory hath not been seen within this Realm, by reason that divers and sundry covetous and greedy persons now of late, having more regard unto their own singular lucre's and gains, then unto the maintenance and preservation of the common and public weal of this the Realm of England, have contrary to the laws and statutes of this Realm, conveyed, or caused to be conveyed out of the same, unto the parties beyond the seas, there to be uttered by way of merchandise, such great store and plenty thereof, that the same Leather, hides, and Tallow, is more plentiful, and to be had better cheap there, then here within this Realm, to the great hurt, hindrance, and damage of all the Queen's most loving subjects.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that no person or persons, whatsoever he or they be, stranger or Denizen, from and after the first day of june next coming, shall ship, convey, or abet, procure, or cause to be shipped or conveyed, in, or to any Ship, Boat, or other vessel, in, or upon the sea, or in, or upon other Haven, River, Creke, or place within this Realm of England, or Wales, or other the Queen's dominions, any manner of Leather tanned or untanned, or any salt, or untanned Hides, or any Leather called Backs, or sole Leather, or any Tallow, to th'intent to transport or carry the same into any the parties beyond the sea, there to be uttered, bartered, or sold by way of merchandise, upon pain that every such offender, shallbe deemed, adjudged, and taken to be a felon for every such offence. And that every person and persons, being after the said first day of june lawfully attainted, by the due order of the common law of this realm, before such as shall have power and authority to hear and determine felonies by the common law, shall for every such offence suffer such pains of death, & forfeitures of goods and cattles, as he or they should have done, if he or they had been lawfully attainted for any offence being felony by the common law of this Realm: And also shall forfeit to the Queen's highness, her heirs, and successors, all his or their lands, tenements, & hereditaments, during the life of every such offender only. And for the better execution of this law, and for the meeting with the offenders therein: Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every offence or offences, committed or done by any person or persons, contrary to this act, from and after the said first day of june next coming, shallbe inquired of, tried, determined, and judged in such County of this Realm, or other the Queen's dominions, as shallbe next adjoining to the place where any such offence shallbe first committed: any jurisdiction, authority, or usage to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall in any wise extend or be interpretated to make any corruption of blood of any such offender, or of any heir of any such offender, but that every heir and heirs, of every such offender and offenders, in any of the cases aforesaid, & also the wife of every such offender, shall have after the death of every such offender or offenders, like title, interest, benefit, profit, commodity, action, and advantage, as they or any of them should have had, if any such offence, conviction, or attainder had not been had ne made: saving to all & every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, their heirs and successors, and the heirs and successors of every of them, other than all and every such offender and offenders, which shallbe convicted or attainted by any such offence, all such right, title, interest, rents, leases, commons, profits, commodities, advantages, and hereditaments, whatsoever they be, as they or any of them might or aught to have had, in, or to any manors, lands, tenements, rents, pensions, services, hereditaments, or other things whatsoever, or in, or to any part or parcel thereof, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as he or they should have had, if such attainder had never been had ne made: anything in this act contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not be hurtful nor prejudicial to any Captain of any Ship in the time of war, being in the retinue and service of the Queen's Majesty, or her heirs, or successors, nor to any owner or master of any Ship, nor to any other being the Queen's subject, and travailing to any foreign parts beyond the sea, for the having carrying, and taking with him or them in time aswell of war as of pieces of any Hides, Leather, or Tallow, for their necessary uses about their ship or ships, so that it be not to be uttered beyond the seas, by any fraud or covin, by way of merchandise: this act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act, or the effect and substance thereof, shallbe openly read, published, or declared, at every quarter Sessions, and at every let or law-day, by the justices that shall give the charge at the Sessions, and by the Steward of the let or law-day, in his charge when he keepeth the let or law-day. This act to endure from the said first day of june, and to continued the space of five years: and from thence unto the end of the next Parliament, after the said five years.   

An Act limiting the times for laying on land Merchandise from beyond the seas, and touching Customs for sweet wines. The xi Chapter.  
Most humbly the wing, beseechen your highness, your Lords, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, that where the sums of money, paid in the name of Customs, Subsidies, of wares and marchaundizes transported out, and brought into this your highness Realm of England, by any merchant stranger, or denizen, is an ancient revenue annexed & 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 persons, respecting more their private gain and commodity, than their duty and allegiance, or the common profit of the Realm, have and do daily aswell by conveying the same their wares and marchaundizes out of creeks and places where no customers resident, as also by or through the negligence or corruption of the customer, searcher, or other officer, where they be resident, as by divers other fraudulent, undue, and subtle practices and devices, convey their goods and merchandises, aswell brought from the parties beyond the sea, as transported out of this your Realm of England, without payment, or agreeing for the payment of the customs and subsidies therefore due: whereby the yearly revenue aforesaid, is very much impaired and diminished, to the great loss and damage of your highness, and to the great burden and charge of your loving subjects, who by occasion thereof have of late years been more charged with subsidies, and payment for the supplement of the said loss and damage, than else we should have been.  
That it may therefore be enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that it shall not be lawful to or for any person or persons whatsoever, from and after the first day of September next coming, to lad, or put, or cause to be laden, or put, of, or from any Wharfe, Key, or other place on the land, into any ship, vessel, Crayer, lighter, or Bottom, any goods, wares, or merchandises whatsoever, (fish taken by your highness subjects, only excepted) to be transported into any place of the parties beyond the sea, or into the Realm of Scotland, or to take up, discharge, and lay on land, or cause, or procure to be taken up, or discharged out of any Lighter, ship, Crayer, vessel, or Bottom, being not in a lecke, or wrack, and laid on land, any goods, wares, or merchandises whatsoever (fish taken by any of your highness subjects, and salt only excepted) to be brought from any the parties beyond the sea, or the Realm of Scotland, by way of merchandises, but only in the day light, that is to say, from the first of March, until the last of September, betwixt the sun rising, and the sun setting, and from the last of September, until the first of March, between the hours of seven in the morning, and four at the after noon, and in, and upon some such open place, Key, or Wharfe, places, Keys, or Wharfes, as your highness, your heirs, or successors, shall on this side the said first day of September therefore assign and appoint by virtue of your highness commission or commissions, within your grace's port of London, Southampton, Bristol, Westchester, Newcastle, and the suburbs of the same, and every of them, and in some open place, Key, Wharfe, places, Keys, or Wharfes, in all other Ports, Creeks, Havens, or Rhodes, (Hul only excepted) where a Customer, controller, and searcher, of such Ports, Havens, Creeks, or Rhodes, & every of them, or the servants of any of them, have by the space often years last passed been accustomably resident, or hereafter shallbe resident, upon pain of forfeiture of all such goods, wares, or marchaundizes so laden and discharged contrary to the true meaning of this act, or the value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons, after the said day, shall receive or take into any ship, Crayer, or other vessel, any goods, wares, or merchandises (except before excepted) to be transported into any place beyond the sea, or into the Realm of Scotland, by way of merchandise, nor shall discharge and say on land, out of any shypye, Crayer, or other vessel, any goods, wares, or merchandise (except before excepted) being brought from any place beyond the sea, or out of the Realm of Scotland, by way of merchandise, in any other place or places, or at any other hours or times, then is before limited and appointed, upon pain that the owner and owners, master and masters, or other person or persons, which shall take charge or guiding of any such ship, Crayer, or vessel, or of the merchants goods, during and for that voyage, shall forfeit & loose for every such offence. C. pound, of lawful money of England.  
And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that no master Shypper, or Purser, or other person or persons taking charge of the voyage, or of the merchants goods, shall after the said day receive or take into any Ship, Crayer, or other vessel, any goods, wares, or merchandise (except before excepted) to be carried or transported into any of the parts beyond the sea, or into the Realm of Scotland, before he shall have signified to the Customer of the port where he ladeth, & other officers there, in the open custom house, if any such be there, or else where, the said officers, their deputies or servants, or any of them, be or shallbe usually resident, that he intendeth to lad, and to what place he intendeth to pass, nor shall after his or their full lading departed out of the port, Creeks, or stream where he shall so lad, before he do in like manner signify unto the Customer, and other officers as is aforesaid, of his lading, and what merchants and other persons shall have lading with him, or in his ship, crayer, vessel, or bottom: and further truly do answer to such questions as shallbe ministered to him or them by the customer or other officer, concerning such wares and marchaundizes as he shall have laden, being examined upon his or their oath, or otherwise in the open custom house, or otherwise, as is aforesaid, upon pain to forfeit for every such default, not truly advertising nor answering, as is aforesaid, a hundred pound.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no owner, master, purser, or other person, taking charge of any ship, crayer, vessel, or bottom, wherein any goods, wares, or merchandises (except before excepted) shallbe laden and brought, from any the parties beyond the sea, or the Realm of Scotland, shall, after the said day, discharge into any lighter, or bottom, and lay on land, or procure, cause, or willingly suffer to be discharged into any lighter or bottom, and to be laid on land, out of such ship, crayer, vessel, or bottom, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, before such owner, master, purser, or other person or persons, taking charge of the ship, crayer, bottom, or vessel, or the merchants goods, for that voyage, shall have signified and declared to the customer, or other officer of the port, haven, or creak, where he arriveth, the names of every of the merchants, or laders, and shall have truly answered to such questions and interogatories, touching or concerning such goods, wares, or merchandise, as shallbe then laden in any such ship, vessel, or bottom, as shallbe to him ministered by such customer or other officer, openly in the custom house, or in such other places as is aforesaid, upon his or their oath, if need so require, upon pain that every master, purser, or other person or persons, taking charge of such ship, crayer, or other vessel for that voyage, shall forfeit and loose for every such default, not truly advertising nor answering as is aforesaid, an hundredth pound.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the said day, no person, denizen, ne stranger, do take upon him to enter, or do, or cause to be entered into the books of any customer, or other officer or officers of any port or haven within this Realm, or his or their deputy or deputies, servant or servants, any manner goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, coming or brought into your highness Realm, from any the parts beyond the sea, or from the Realm of Scotland, or going, or to be transported out of the same your highness Realm, into any the parts beyond the sea, or into the Realm of Scotland, in the name or names of any other person or persons, than the very true owner or owners of the same goods, wares, or merchandises, being not sold, bargained, or contracted for, to or with any person or persons, before such entre, or before the arrival of such goods, wares, or merchandise, in the parts beyond the sea, upon pain of forfeiture of the value of the goods so entered.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any wharfinger, crane keeper, searcher, lighter man, weighter, or other officer, pertaining to the subsidy, custom, or custom house, do at any time after the said day, consent or know any offence or thing to be committed or done contrary to the true meaning of this act, or any article therein contained, and do not within one month next after knowledge thereof had, disclose the same to the chief customer or other officer of the port, where or within whose office or charge any such offence shallbe committed or done, or else to the Lord Treasurer, Chancellor, under Treasurer, or one of the Barons of the Exchequer, or the attorney general for the time being, shall for every such concealment, or not disclosing such offence, as is aforesaid, forfeit & loose a hundredth pound of good and lawful money of England.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the customer of Hull shall have a servant or deputy continually resident at the city of York, and every other customer, controller, and searcher of every port, shall from and after the day aforesaid assigned and appointed to and in every of the places above mentioned, and in all and every port, creak, or Road, where the servant, or any of them have been continually resident by the space of ten years, or hereafter shallbe, as is aforesaid, one able and sufficient deputy, or servant, at the least, and that aswell all and every of the customers, controllers, and searchers, as all and every his or their deputy and deputies, servant and servants, shall from time to time, do his and their diligent attendance, at the hours, times, and places afore appointed, aswell in the custom house, as else where, as it shallbe most expedient and convenient, for the speedy dispatch of the merchant, and his goods, wares, and merchandise, and for the due execution of this Act, in such things as to him or them shall appertain, without concealment or consenting to any thing or things which may be to the hurt or damage of your highness, your heirs, or successors, in the just answering of your highness due customs and subsidies, upon pain that every such customer, controller, and searcher, shall forfeit and loose for every offence by him or them committed or done, his or their several office or offices, and an hundredth pound of lawful money of England: the moiety of all which forfeiture shallbe to your highness, your heirs, and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same, in any your highness courts, wherein no essoign, protection, wager of law, or injunction shallbe admitted and allowed.  
And where of late years there hath been much greater quantity of sweet wines brought into this Realm, then in time paste hath been accustomed, which been also brought from the same place where the wine commonly called Maluesey is brought, and is of the same nature of grape, and nevertheless, either by negligence, ignorance, or corruption of the officers, there hath not been such custom and subsidy received for the same, to the use of your highness, and your progenitors, as is due, and aught of very right to be paid for such sweet wines, coming through the strayghtes, commonly called the straights of Marrocke, otherwise, Mallegaye, to the great loss and hindrance of your highness, and the burden of us your loving subjects.  
For the avoiding of all ambiguities and doubts, and to th'intent the officers may more certainly know what they aught to receive for such kind and nature of merchandise: be it enacted and declared by this present act, and by the authority aforesaid, that like custom and subsidy is of very right to be paid, and shall from henceforth be paid, for such sweet wines as is aforesaid, as is and hath been accustomed to be paid for Malueseyes: any negligence, none payment, usage, or custom to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding. Saving to all and every Lord Marcher, and other person and persons whatsoever, body politic and corporate, all and every such right, title, and interest, as they or any of them have, and of right aught to have in the payment or having of any franchise, liberty, custom, and subsidy, or any of them: any thing in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shallbe lawful to ship, lad, and transport into the ports beyond the sea, all manner of corn, and grain, out of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and either of them, at such places as heretofore hath been accustomed, and between the hours in this act appointed, when the same corn and grain shall not exceed the several prizes mentioned in the statute made in the fifth and sixth year of our late Sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, entitled, An act against regrators, forestallers, and engrossers, the customs and subsidies therefore due, being well and truly paid: any thing in this act, or any other act or statute to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this act, nor any thing therein contained, be not prejudicial or hurtful to the Isle of Anglesey, the shires of Carnarvan, and Flint, in North-wales: but that the inhabitants thereof, and every of them, may receive, lad, and discharge, according to their old ancient uses, customs, or liberties, granted to them, or any of their predecessors, by the late king of famous memory king Henry the eight, or any other his progenitors: so that they, and every of them, pay the customs and subsidies that shallbe due, and discharge and load within the times and hours before mentioned: any thing in this present act to the contrary, notwithstanding.   

An Act against the deceitful using of linen Cloth. The xii Chapter.  
WHere certain evil disposed and deceitful persons, using to buy and engross into their hands great store of linen cloth, do use to cast the pieces of cloth over a beam or piece of timber, made for their purpose, and do by sundry devices rack, stretch, and draw the same both of length and breadth, and that done, do then with batteldores, pieces of timber and wood, and other things, sore beat the same, ever casting thereupon certain deceitful liquors, mingled with chalk, and other like things, whereby the said cloth is not duly made to seem much finer & thicker to the eye than it is in deed, but also the threads thereof be so loosed and made weak, that after iii or four washings, it will scarcely hold together, to the great deceit, hindrance, and loss of the subjects of this Realm: be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that if any person or persons, shall hereafter willingly use, or cause to be used the aforesaid deceits, or any other act or acts, mean or means, to, in, or with any kind of linen cloth, whereby the same shallbe deceitful or worse, to, & for the good use thereof: that then the said cloth shallbe forfeited, & thoffender therein to be punished by one months imprisonment at the lest, and shall pay such fine as shallbe assessed, for his or their offence or offences, by the justices, before whom he or they shallbe condemned according to the tenor of this act.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every the justices of oyer and determiner, and justices of assizes in all their sessions, and all justices of peace in every County and place of this Realm, or iii of them at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall have full power and authority to inquire, hear, & determine the offences aforesaid, in their sessions, by information, indictment, or upon the traverse of any presentment, or indictment, found before the said justices, or any of them.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, shall at the next sessions of the peace (after the said seaser, to be kept within the shire or place where the seaser was made, or before two justices of peace, whereof one to be of the Quorum) make due information of the offence, and of the seaser of the said cloth, or else shall procure the offenders to be thereof indicted, at the said next sessions after the said seaser, and shall also be bound before the said justices by recognisance or obligation, to the use of the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, in such form as the said justices, or any of them, shall think meet for the greatness of the matter, and to pursue the same matter with effect, and to give evidence, as of right appertaineth, and also to pay and give the moiety of all that he or they shall so recover and receive, to the Sheriff, or other accomptaunt; to the use of the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors: and the one half of all the forfeitures and fines of and for the premises to be unto the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that shall make information, or procure indictments of and for the premises, and shall follow the same with effect.  
And further be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices before whom any such offence shallbe tried, shall certify the same by their estreat into the Exchequer, at the least yearly at Michaelmas, as they be bound to do other their estreats, & upon that certificate, the Barons of the Exchequer to have full power & authority to make process for so much thereof as by this statute shall appertain to the Queen's Majesty, in like manner & form as they only do for any other fines and amerciaments so certified before them.   

An Act for the shipping in English bottoms. The xiii Chapter.  
WHere by divers statutes made in the time of the Queen's Majesties most noble progenitors, it hath been enacted & provided, that no person borne within the Realm of England, or being of the legiaunce of the prince of the said Realm, or any the dominions of the same, should ship any manner of merchandise either out of the realm, or into the same, but only in a ship or bottom whereof the said prince, or some other of their subjects, were owners, possessioners, proprietaries, and masters, & the mariners of the same vessel, for the more part, to be also their subjects, upon divers pains and penalties, as in the said statutes more plainly appeareth. Since the making of which said statutes, other foreign princes finding themselves aggrieved with the said several acts, as thinking that the same were made to the hurt & prejudice of their country & navy, have made like penal laws against such as should ship out of their countries in any other vessels then of their several countries and dominions: by reason whereof there hath not only grown great displeasure betwixt the foreign princes and the kings of this realm, but also the merchants have been sore grieved and endamaged.  
For reformation whereof, and for increase of continuance of amity, be it enacted, that the several acts made in the fifth year of king Richard the second, the third Chapter, and in the fourth year of the late king of famous memory king Henry the seventh, entitled, Of wine and tholouze ode, shallbe from henceforth clearly void & of none effect, And nevertheless for avoiding of great deceit practised, & now a days used by sundry subjects borne within this Realm of England, and dominions of the same, which enter in the customers books, wares and merchandise of aliens borne, in their own name, whereby the Queen's majesty is defrauded in her customs and subsidies, to the great decay of the ancient revenues of the crown: be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that all and every person and persons, being owner or owners of any goods, wares, or merchandises, which after the first day of january next ensuing the sessions of this present Parliament, shall in time of peace, and when there is no restraint made of english ships, embark, ship, lad, or discharge by way of merchandise, any wares, or merchandise (masts, Raffe, Pitch, Tar, and Corn only excepted) out of, or into any ship, bark, hoy, vessel, or bottom, whereof our said sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, or successors, or some of her or their subjects of this Realm, or the dominions of the same, be not possessioners and proprietaries, and the masters under God, and the mariners of the same ship or ships, for the most part, be not subjects of our said Sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors, shall answer, yield, and pay to the use of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, & successors, such custom and subsidy, for such wares and marchaundizes so shipped, laden, or discharged, as is aforesaid, rate and rate like, as strangers and aliens borne out of the obeisance of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, do, and aught to pay for wares and merchandises of like nature and kind.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Hoy, or Plate, whereof any English subject or subjects, is, be, or shallbe owner or owners, at any time after the first day of january aforesaid, from any port, creak, or place of this said Realm of England, or any of the dominions of the same, shall travers or cross the seas, in, to, or for any of the ports beyond the seas, with any wares, goods, or merchandise, upon pain that the said owner or owners shall forfeit and loose the same Hoy or Plate, with all and every the munition, tackling, and other necessaries pertaining thereunto: whereof the one moiety to be to the use and behoof of the Queen's said Majesty, her heirs, and successors, and tother moiety to the person or persons which will sue for the same, by bill, plaint, action, or information, in any her highness courts at Westminster: in which case no wager of law, protection, or essoign shallbe admitted.  
Provided always, & be it enacted, that it shallbe lawful to the merchants, commonly called merchants adventurers, & merchants of the Staple, & every of them, at their several Fleets, or shippings of cloth, and will, & every of them, from & out of the River of Thames, only being made, twice in one year at the most, to embark, ship and lad any goods, wares or merchandise in, or to any ship, vessel, or Bottom, belonging or appertaining to any stranger or alien borne, so long and at such time as there be not ships, vessels, or bottoms belonging to the Queen's highness, her heirs, or successors, or any of her subjects, in the said River of Thames, sufficient in number, and apt and meet for the sure and safe conveyance of the wares and merchandise into the parts of Flaunders, Holland, Zelande, or Brabant, or any of them, without paying any greater or more custom and subsidy, that English men do, and aught to pay: any thing in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding. This act to continued and stand in force for the space of five years only next immediately following this present session of Parliament, and from thence to the end of the Parliament than next following.  
Provided, that forasmuch as the merchants of the City of Bristol, have sustained of late great losses at the sea by the enemies, by reason of taking of all their best ships, with much substance, so that they be not of ability to provide sufficient ships and vessels of their own within the time limited in this present act: that they for lack of their own ships, or any other vessels of the Queen's dominions, within xl miles of the City of Bristol, may load and embark their own wares and merchandises in strangers Bottoms, without paying any other custom, then for wares and marchaundizes laden in English Bottoms: this act or any thing therein contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.   

An Act for the continuance of the making of Woollen Cloth, in divers Towns in the County of Essex. The xiiii Chapter.  
WHereas by a certain Act of Parliament begun of Westminster, the twenty day of january, in the fourth and fifth years of the reigns of the late king Philip and Queen Marie, and there continued till the seventh day of March, in the said fourth & fifth years of the reigns of the said late king & Queen, amongst other things it was enacted, that from and after the first day of May then next following, no person or persons whatsoever, shall use or exercise the feat or mystery of making, weaving or rowing of woollen clotheses, long or short, or Karseyes, pinned white, or plain straits, to the intent to put the same to sale, but only in a market town where cloth hath continually been used to be made by the space of ten years then last passed, or in a City, Borough, or town corporate, upon pain of forfeiture for every such woollen cloth or Karsey made, woven, or rowed, out of such city, borough, town corporate, or market town five pounds.  
And where also it is provided in the said act, that it shallbe lawful to any person, then using or exercising the feat or mystery of making, weaving, or rowing of cloth or Karsey, to inhabit or devil where he than did devil and there to use the making, weaving, or rowing of cloth or Karsey, as he hath heretofore: any thing in the said act, notwithstanding.  
And where it is further provided by the said act, that it shallbe lawful to all and every person or persons, which then did, or after that time should inhabit or devil in any of the shires of North-wales, or South-Wales, Gheshyre, or Kancashyre, Westmerlande, Gumberlande, Northumberlande, bishopric of Durham, Corn, Suffolk, Kent, the Town of Goddelmine in the County of Surrey, or Yorkeshyre, being not within xii miles of the City of York, or in any of the Towns or Villages near adjoining to the water of Strowde, in the County of Gloucester, where clotheses hath been usually made by the space of twenty years then last passed, and having been apprentice to the occupation of cloth making, or used the same by the space of seven years, to set up, use, and exercise the feat or mystery of making, weaving, or rowing of woollen cloth, out of a city, borough, or market town, as before that time they might have done: any thing in the said act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And forasmuch as the towns or villages of bocking, Westbarfolde, Dedham, and Cockshall in the County of Essex, be fair large Towns, and aswell planted for cloth making, as the said town of Goddelmine, or better, and few towns in this Realm better planted for that purpose, & have berrinhabited of a long time with clothmakers, which have made, and daily do make good and true cloth, to the great common weal of the Country there, and nothing prejudicial to, or for the common wealth of this Realm: be it therefore ordained and enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that it shallbe lawful to all and every such person and persons, which now do inhabit or dwell, or hereafter shall devil in the said towns or villages of bocking, Westbarfolde, Cockshall, and Dedham, or in any of them, now using or exercising, or that hereafter shall use or exercise the feat or mystery of making, weaving, or rowing of cloth or Karsey, by the space of seven years at the lest, or have been apprentice thereto by the said space of seven years, to inhabit and devil in the said towns or villages of bocking, Westbarfolde, Cockshall, and Dedham, and in every or any of them, and to use the making, weaving, or rowing of cloth or Karsey, as before this time they might have done, if the said act had never been made: any thing in the said act to the contrary thereof made, or any other act, statute, or law heretofore made, or hereafter to be made to the contrary hereof in any wise, notwithstanding.   

An Act that timber shall not be felled to make coals for the burning of iron. The xu Chapter.  
FOR the avoiding of destruction and wasting of timber, be it enacted by our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that no person or persons hereafter shall convert or employ, or cause to be converted or employed to coal or other fuel, for the making of iron, any timber tree or timber trees, of oak, beech, or ash, or of any part thereof, of the breadth of one foot square at the stub, and growing within xiiii miles of the sea, or of any part of the rivers of Thames, Severene, Wye, Humbre, Dee, Tine, Teese, Trent, or any other river, creak, or stream, by the which carriage is commonly used by boat, or other vessel, to any part of the sea, upon pain of forfeiture for every such tree, or any part thereof, so employed or converted to coal, or other fuel, for the making of iron as is aforesaid. xl.ss. of lawful money of England; the one half of all which forfeitures to be to our sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, and to her heirs, and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same, by original writ, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoign, protection, injunction, or wager of law shallbe admitted or allowed.  
Provided always, that this act shall not extend to the county of Sussex, nor to the Weyld of Kent, nor to any the parishes of Charlewoode Newdigate, and Lighe, in the Weylde of the county of Surrey: this acre to begin and take effect from and after the feast of the Nativity of S. john Baptist next coming, after this session of Parliament.   

An act to continued the act made against rebellious assembles. Chapter xuj  
WHERE in the Parliament holden at Westminster the xxiiii. day of October, in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Marie, sister unto the Queen's highness that now is, there was one act & statute made against unlawful and rebellious assembles, to endure and stand in force unto th'end of the next Parliament then following, as by the same act more plainly doth appear. Which said act and statute in the Parliament holden at Westminster the xii day of November, in the first and second years of the reign of the late king Philip and Queen Marie, amongst other things was then and there continued unto the last day of the next Parliament: and after, at the next Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xxi day of October in the two. and iii years of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, the said act and statute amongst other things was also further continued to stand in force, until the last day of the next Parliament then following: and also at the next Parliament holden at Westminster the twenty day of januarie in the four and .v. years of the reigns of the said late king and Queen, the said act and statute amongst other things was likewise further continued to stand & remain in force until the last day of the next Parliament then following, which is this present Parliament, and so the said act and statute by the acts of continuance aforesaid, doth stand in force but only unto the last day of this present Parliament.  
And forasmuch as the said act and statute, during all the time aforesaid, hath been proved by experience to be a very good and beneficial law, and meet to be continued & kept in force, aswell for the preservation of the peace, as also for the common wealth, and quietness of this Realm: be it therefore enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that the said act and statute, and every branch, clause, and article therein contained, shall stand, remain, continued, and be in full force and strength, to all intentes and purposes, for & during the natural life of the Queen's most excellent Majesty that now is (which almighty God long preserve and continued) & to th'end of the Parliament than next following: and that the said act and statute, & the words and sentences mentioned & contained in the said act, shall extend and be to the Queen's highness that now is, as fully and amply as ever the same did extend to the said late Queen Marie.   

An act for the preservation of spawn and fry of Fish. Chapter xvij  
FOr the preservation hereafter of spawn, fry, and young breed of Eels, Samons, Pikes, and of all other fish, which heretofore hath been much destroyed in rivers & streams, salt and fresh within this Realm, in so much that divers places they feed swine & dogs with the fry and spawn of fish, and otherwise (lamentable and horrible to be reported) destroy the same, to the great hindrance and decay of the common wealth: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that no person or persons, or what estate, degree, or condition so ever he or they be, from and after the first day of june next coming, with any manner of net, we'll, butt, tayning, kepper, lime, crele, raw, fagnet, trolnet, trymenet, trimbote, stalbote, weblister, seur, lammet, or with any devise or engine made of hear, will, line, or canvas, or shall use any heling net, or trimle boat, or by any other devise, enginne, cawtell, ways or means whatsoever, heretofore made or devised, or hereafter to be made or devised, shall take and kill any young broad, spawn, or fry of Eels, Salmon, Pike, or Pickerel, or of any other fish, in any fludgate, pipe at the tail of any mill, wear, or in any straits, streams, brooks, rivers, salt or fresh within this Realm of England, Wales, Barwike, or the marches thereof, nor shall from and after the first day of june next coming by any of the ways and means aforesaid, or otherwise, in any river or place above specified, take and kill any Samons, or trouts, not being in season, being kepper Samons, or kepper trouts, shedder Samons, or shedder trouts.  
And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, of what estate, degree, or condition he or they shallbe of, from and after the said first day of june, by any of the means aforesaid, in any of the rivers or places above named, shall take and kill any pike or pickerel, not being in length ten inches fish or more, nor any Salmon not being in length xvi inches fish and more, nor any Trout, not being in length viii inches or more, nor any barbel, nor being in length xii inches or more.  
And to th'intent the said young fry, broad, or spawn, may be preserved according to the true meaning hereof, be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons, from & after the first day of june next coming, shall fish or take fish with any manner of net, tramel, keep, wore, hivie, crele, or by any other engine, devise, ways or means whatsoever, in any river, or other places above mentioned, but only with net, or tramel, whereof every meshe or mask shallbe two inches & a half broad, angling excepted.  
Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that in all such places where smeltes, loches, minneys, bulheades, gudgeons, or eyes hath been used to be taken and killed, that in all such places, it shallbe lawful only for thetaking of smeltes, loches, mineis, gudgeons and eyes, to use such nets, lepes, & other engines, devices, ways and means, as heretofore hath been used for the taking of the same: so that such person or persons using or occupying such nets, or other engines, as is last afore mentioned, do not take, kill, or destroy any other fish, with the said nets, or engines contrary to the tenor and form above in this statute contained.  
And be it further enacted, that if any person or persons, after the aforesaid day limited in this present act, offend in any of the points before rehearsed, contrary to the tenor, form, and purpose of any part of the same: that then every such person and persons so offending, shall loose and forfeit for every time of his or their offence, the sum of twenty s. ● the fish so taken contrary to the tenor hereof, and also the unlawful nets, engines, devices, and instruments whatsoever they be, wherewith or whereby such offence shall fortune to be made, committed, or done.  
And to th'intent that a perfect execution may be had of this present act, be it further ordained by authority aforesaid, that the lord Admiral of England, and the Mayor of the City of London, for the time being, and all and every other person and persons bodies politic and corporate, which by grant or other lawful ways or means, lawfully have, or aught to have any conservation or preservation, of any rivers, streams, or water, or punishments and corrections of offences committed in any of them, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, to inquire of all the offences to be committed and done contrary to the effect and true meaning of this act, within his or their such lawful rule, government, jurisdiction, and conseruacie, by the oaths of xii men or more, & to hear and determine all and every the same offences, committed within his or their such jurisdiction, conseruacie, rule, and government. And that all such pains and forfeitures, as shall rise or grow by the reason of any such conviction for any the offences aforesaid, shallbe to the use of every of the said person and persons, being no body politic or corporate, nor head of any body politic or corporate, before whom such conviction, as is aforesaid, shall be had, and to the use of every such body politic and corporate, as heretofore have lawfully had any fines, forfeitures, and amerciaments, for any offence unlawfully committed or done, in any such their jurisdiction, or conseruacies, upon conviction had before the head of any such body politic or corporate. And that also the Lord of every leete within this Realm of England, and Wales, or the dominions of the same, shall have full power and authority to inquire of all th'offences contrary to the purport, tenor, and form of this statute, within the precinct of their said leete: such inquiry to be had, in manner and form, and after such sort as common amerciaments, or other things, inquirable in their court leete, have been lawfully used and accustomed to be had and made. And that upon every such presentment had in any court or leete, by the oath of twelve men or more, as is aforesaid, of any offence or offences, made contrary to the tenor of this statute: that then all such forfeiture above in this statute limited and appointed for such offence, shallbe unto the lord of the said leete for the time being, to his own use for ever, and shallbe levied in such manner and form, as amerciament for affrays committed within the precinct of such leete have been used and accustomed to be levied. And if any leete, after the said first day of june, be kept within this Realm of England, or Wales, or the dominions thereof, and the Steward of the said leete, for the time being, or other for him, do not charge the jury sworn in such leete to inquire of all the offences done within the precinct of the said leete, contrary to the tenor and form of this statute: that then the Steward of the said leete, to lose and forfeit. xl.ss. the one moiety of which forfeitures shallbe to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, and tother moiety to him that will sue for the same. And if any jury sworn in any leete, and being charged to inquire of the offences committed within the precinct of that leete, do wilfully and willingly conceal and make default in presentment, or do not present the offence and offenders: that then it shallbe lawful to the steward, or bailie of the leete, or his or their deputy for the time being, to empanel one other jury within the said leete, and to inquire of such concealment, default, and none presentment, and that upon such concealment, default, or none presentment found and presented, every of the said jurors which so did conceal make default, or not present, shall lose & forfeit for every such offence. xx.s. to the lord of the said leete, the same to be levied in manner & form as is abovesaid, for the other offences limited and expressed.  
And it is further enacted by authority aforesaid, that if the offences above mentioned, touching the taking, killing, or destroying of fish, or fry and Spawn, be not presented at the leete where they shallbe committed, within one year next after the offence committed, that the justices of peace in their sessions, justices of Oyer and determiner, and justices of assize in their several circuits, shall have full power and authority to inquire thereof, and to hear and determine all the offences committed contrary to the tenor of this statute.  
Saving always to all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, and every of them, all such right, title, interest, claim, privilege, and conservation, and inquiry, and punishment of and for any the offences aforesaid, as they or any of them lawfully have and enjoy, or of right aught to have and enjoy, by any manner of means: any thing in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding. This act to endure to the end of the next Parliament.  
Provided always, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend unto the fishing of the river or water of Tweed, nor to any river or water whereof the Queen's Majesty is answered of any yearly rent or profit, nor to the owners, farmers and occupiers of the rivers of uske, or Wye, in the County of Monmouth, for any fish hereafter to be taken in any the rivers or waters before mentioned and expressed, but that it may be lawful at all seasonable time and times hereafter, for such as have or shall have any manner of interest therein, to take and fish the said rivers and waters, in such manner and form as heretofore hath been used and accustomed, not using any net or enginne, to the intent wylllingly to take, kill, and destroy the spawn, breed, or fry, breeding any kind of fish, within the said several rivers or waters: this act or any thing therein mentioned or contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.   

An act for the continuance of certain Statutes. Chapter xviij  
WHere in the Parliament begun and holden at London the iii day of November, in the xxi year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lord of most famous memory king Henry th'eight, & from thence adjourned to Westminster, and there holden and continued by divers prorogations unto the dissolution thereof, one act was made for the true winding of Wolles, and one other act was there made to restrain killing of waynelinges, bullocks, stires, and heifers, being under the age of two years: which said several acts were then made to endure and continued unto the next Parliament, as by the said several acts more plainly appeareth. And where also in the same Parliament one other act was made & established for attaints to be sued for the punishment of perjury upon untrue verdites: which act last before rehearsed was then made & ordained to continued and endure to the last day of the next Parliament, as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also in the Parliament begun & holden at Westminster the viii day of june, in the xxviii year of the reign of our said most dread sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, & there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof, it was ordained, and enacted, that all & singular the said acts above remembered, and every of them, should continued and endure in their force and strength, and also be observed and kept until the last day of the next Parliament, as by the same act, amongst other things therein contained, more plainly appeareth. And where also in the Parliament begun & held at Westminster the xxviii day of April, in the xxxi year of the reign of our said late most dread sovereign lord king Henry th'eight, and there continued until the xxviii day of june than next following, it was ordained and enacted by th'authority of the same Parliament, that all and singular the said several acts above remembered, and every of them, and all articles, clauses, and provisions in them and every of them contained, should continued and endure in their force & strength, and also be observed and kept until the last day of the next Parliament, as by the same act amongst other things therein contained, more plainly appeareth. And where in the Parliament held at Westminster, in the xxxv year of the reign of our said late sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, one act was made for the preservation of woods, to endure for vii years then next following, and from thence to th'end of the next Parliament, as by the same act more plainly it doth and may appear. And where also at the parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxvii year of the reign of the said late king Henry th'eight, and there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof, it was ordained and enacted, that all and singular the said acts above remembered, and every of them (except the said act made for the preservation of woods as is aforesaid) should continued and endure in their force and strength, and also be observed and kept until the last day of the next Parliament than next following, as by the same act amongst other things therein contained more plainly appeareth. And where also at the session of the Parliament ended at Westminster the xiiii day of March, in the third year of the reign of our late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, one act was made for the true currying of leather, which act was made to endure to the end of the next Parliament, as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also at the session of a Parliament ended at Westminster the first day of February, in the four year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, one act was then and there made concerning the buying of rother beasts, & also one other act was then and there made touching the buying and selling of butter and cheese: which said several acts where then and there made to endure and continued unto the end of the next Parliament, as by the same several acts more at large it doth and may appear. And where also at the session of a Parliament by prorogation holden at Westminster the xxiii day of januarie, in the fift year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, one other act was then and there made against regrators and forestallers, to endure to the end of the next Parliament: all and singular which said acts above mentioned, together with the said act for the preservation of woods, at a Parliament holden at Westminster the first day of March, in the vii year the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, and there continued and dissolved the last day of the same month of March, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in them & every of them contained, were there revived & continued to stand in their force and strength until the last day of the next Parliament. And where also at the session of a Parliament holden by prorogation at Westminster the xxiiii day of October, in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Marie, sister to the Queen's highness that now is, and there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof, all and singular the acts above mentioned, and before that time continued at sundry parliaments, as is aforesaid, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in them and every of them contained, were there revived and continued to stand in their force and strength unto the last day of the next Parliament. And where also at a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xii day of November, in the first and second years of the reigns of the late king Philip and Queen Marie, and there continued and kept until the dissolution of the same, being the xvi day of januarie than next ensuing, all and singular the acts above remembered, that were before that time continued at sundry parliaments, as is aforesaid, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in them and every of them contained, were by the authority of the said Parliament there revived and continued to stand in their force and strength unto the last day of the next Parliament. And where also at a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xxi day of October, in the second and third years of the reigns of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, and there continued until the dissolution of the same, being the ix day of December than next ensuing, one act was then and there made for the keeping of Milche kine and for the breading and rearing of calves, and one other act for the re-edifying of decayed houses of husbandry, & for the increase of tillage, the said two several acts to endure till the last day of the next Parliament, as by the same more at large doth appear.  
And forasmuch as all and singular the said several acts above mentioned, be good and beneficial for the common wealth of this Realm: be it therefore enacted, ordained, and established by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all and singular the said several acts and statutes above mentioned and rehearsed, & every of them, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in them and every of them contained, shallbe revived, continued, stand, and endure in their full force and strength, to all intentes, constructions & purposes, and shallbe observed and kept in all things until the last day of the next Parliament. And where in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xxi day of October, in the second and third years of the reigns of the said late king Philip and Queen Marie, and there continues and kept until the ix day of September than next ensuing, one act was then and there made, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor, and to endure to the latter end of the first session of the next Parliament. Forasmuch as the said act is good and beneficial to the common wealth of this Realm: be it therefore enacted, ordained, and established by the authority of this present Parliament, that the said act last above mentioned and rehearsed, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in the same contained, shallbe revived, continued, stand, and endure in full force and strength, to all intentes and purposes, and shallbe observed and kept in all things until the last day of the next Parliament.   

An act of a subsidy of Tonnage and Pondage. Chapter xix  
IN their most humble wise shown unto your most excellent Majesty, your poor and obedient subjects and commons in his your present Parliament assembled, that where aswell your noble grandfather, of worthy memory, king Henry the seventh; the most victorous & mighty prince king Henry the eight your most dear father, the late prince of worthy memory king Edward the sixth, your most entirely beloved brother, and our late sovereign Lady Queen Marie, your most dear sister, as other your right noble and famous progenitors, kings of this your Realm of England, time out of mind, have had and enjoyed unto them by authority of parliament, for the defence of the same now your Realm, and the keeping and safeguard of the seas, for the intercourse or merchandise, safely to come into, and to pass out of the same, certain sums of money, named Subsidies, of all manner of goods and merchandise, coming in or going out of the same your Realm. And forasmuch as we your said poor commons, undoubtedly and most assuredly do trust and have sure confidence in your majesties good favour and will towards us your said poor commons, in and for the keeping and sure defending of the seas, against all persons, intending or that shall intend the disturbance of us your said commons in the intercourse and the invading of this your Realm, to our modestation, inquieting, and loss which at any time cannot be borne without the great excess, and intolerable costs, charges, and expenses of your Majesty, which is not (when need shall require in such cases) to be lacked at any time. But rather we your said commons, wishing that such furniture of all things may be had in readiness from time to time, when necessity shall require, for the speedy indilayed provision and help for the suppressing of such inconveniences, disturbances, and invasions, humbly desire your most excellent Majesty, benignly and favourably to take, accept, and receive these our poor grants hereafter ensuing, as granted of true hearts, and good wills, which we bear unto your highness, towards your said great costs, charges and expenses, which may be expended and laid out by your Majesty for the causes aforesaid, when need shall require, as the first fruits of our good wills and hearts toward your highness, although the same do, or hereafter shall nothing in effect countervail the same your great charges, nor yet we your said poor commons able fully to gratify your highness by any means: yet nevertheless we your said poor commons, by th'advise and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, in this your present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, to the intent aforesaid, give and grant to you our supreme liege Lady and sovereign, one subsidy called Tonnage, that is to say, of every tun of wine coming, or that shall or is come into this your realm, by way of merchandise, the sum of. 3s.. and so after the rate. And of every tun of sweet wine, alwell malvesey as other, that shall or is come into the same your Realm, by every or any merchant alien, aswell by the merchants of Haunse, & Almanie, as by any other merchant stranger, of what nation so ever he be. 3s.. and so after the rate over and above the. 3s.. afore granted. And of every aume of rhenish wine, coming or that shall or is come into this your Realm, by way of merchandise, by every or any merchant denizen, or alien, of what nation soever he be. xii.d. And also one other subsidy called Pondage, that is to say, of all manner of goods and merchandises, of every merchant denizen and alien, whatsoever he be, carried and to be carried out of this your said Realm, or brought or to be brought into the same, by way of merchandise of the value of every. xx.s. of the same goods and merchandise. xii.d. and so after the rate. And of every. xx.s. value of tin and pewter vessel, carried out of this your Realm, by any and every merchant alien. xii.d. over and above the. xii.d. aforesaid. Except and always foreprised out of this grant of subsidy of Pondage, all manner of woollen Cloth, made or wrought, or that shallbe made and wrought within this your Realm of England, & by every or any merchant denizen, and not borne alien, carried or to be carried out of this your said Realm: and all manner of wols, molfelles, and hides, and backs of leather, also carried or to be carried out of this your Realm: and all wines, and all manner of fresh fish, and beshall, coming, or that is or shall come into the same your realm. And further we your said poor commons, by the advise, assent, & aucthoritfe aforesaid, give and grant unto you our said sovereign liege Lady and sovereign, for the causes aforesaid, one other subsidy of all manner of wool, wolfelles, and leather, carried or to be carried out of this your Realm, in manner and form following: That is to say of every merchant denizen, of and for every sack of will. xxxiii.s.iiii.d. and for every. xxxl. wolfels. xxxiii.s.iiii.d. and of and for every last of hides & backs of every such merchant denizen. iii.l.vi.s.viii.d. And of every merchant stranger, not horn your liegeman, aswell those that be made denizens, as hereafter shall be made by letters patents, or otherwise, as all other merchant strangers, of and for every sack of will iii li. vi. s. viii. d. and of and for every ccxl wolfels iii li. vi. s. viii. d. and also for every last of hides and backs iii li. xiii. s. iiii. d. And so of all the said wools, wolfelles, hides, and backs, & every of them, after the rate that so is or shallbe carried, to have, take, enjoy, and perceive the subsidies aforesaid, and every of them, and every part and parcel of them, to your highness, from the xvi day of November last passed, during your life natural.  
And further we your said poor commons, most humbly desire your Majesty, that it may be enacted by your highness, by the advise and assent of the Lords aforesaid, & us your said commons, and by the aforesaid authority of this present Parliament assembled, that the gifts & grants aforesaid, shallbe good and effectual according to the true meaning of the same. And that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any wines, goods, merchandise, will, wolfels, hides, and backs of leather aforesaid, or other things afore specified, whereof the subsidies aforesaid, or any of them, is or shallbe hereafter due, shall at any time hereafter during the time aforesaid, be shipped, or put into any boat, crayer, ship, or vessel, to the intent to be carried into the parties of beyond the seas, or else be brought from the parties of beyond the seas into any port, haven, creak, or other place of this your Realm by way of merchandise, & there laid on land (the subsidies aforesaid of the premises due, or to be due, by the reason of this grant not paid) or the collector of the same subsidy, or his deputy, with & by the consent, knowledge, and agreement of the comptroller & surveyor, or one of them at the lest, not agreed with for the same in the custom house, according to the true meaning and intent of these aforesaid grants & every of them: that then from the said xvi day of November last passed, and not before, all the said wines; goods, merchandise, wools, wolfels, hides, & backs, and other the premises aforesaid, & every part and parcel thereof, so shipped, or else put into any boats, crayer, or other vessel aforesaid, to the intent aforesaid, or brought into this Realm, & there laid on land, as is also aforesaid, shallbe & remain forfeit to your highness, during the time aforesaid, th'one moiety or the value thereof to your highness, & the other moiety to him or them that shall seize the sante, or sue for the same. And that it may please your highness, that all merchants, aswell denizens as strangers, coming into this your Realm, be well & honestly entreated & demeaned, for such things as subsidy by this act is granted for, as they were in the time of your said noble progenitors, without oppression to them to be done, paying the subsidies aforesaid.  
And further that it be enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any goods, merchandises, wols, wolfelles, or leather aforesaid or any part thereof, of any merchant denizen, naturally borne your liege man, which hath or shall pass out of this your said Realm, after the said xvi day of November last passed, during the term of this gift and grant, hath or shall happen to be taken with enemies or pirates upon the sea, or perished by infortune in any ship or ships that shall happen to be taken, or perished within the time of the said grant, whereof the subsidies aforesaid, or any of them, to your highness due, or to be due, is or shallbe in form aforesaid duly paid or agreed for, without fraud or collusion, & such loss or losses as been before rehearsed, be found and proved before the Treasurer of England, or the chief baron of your Exchequer for the time being, by the examination of the same merchants if they be alive, or of their executors or administrators if they be dead, or two true credible persons sworn, or other reasonable witness and proves sworn, witnessing the same marchaundizes so to be lost or perished: that then the same merchants denizens that were or shallbe owners of the aforesaid goods, merchandises, will, wolfels, hides, or other marchaundizes aforesaid, a shallbe so perished or lost, if they be on live, or their executors & administrators, if they be dead, and every of them, by force & virtue of this act when them liketh, during the said term, shall or may newly ship as much will, wolfels, hides, or other goods and merchandises in the same port or ports in the which the same will, wolfelles, hides, or other goods and merchandises aforesaid so lost and perished, were or shallbe shipped, without any, of the subsidies aforesaid now granted to be had or paid therefore to your highness in any wise: and that all such profits of the premises so to be lost or perished, be certified into your chancery by your said treasurer or chief Baron, there to remain of record. And after such certificate made, the chancellor of England, or the Lord Keeper of your great seal for the time being, shall make and deliver unto the said merchants, their executors, or administrators, or any of them, or to their attorney or attorneys in that behalf, or any of them, as many and such writs and warrauntes to be directed aswell to the collectors of the subsidies aforesaid, or any or every of them, for the time being, as to the treasurer and Barons of your Exchequer for the time being shallbe thought requisite and needful, for the said merchants, their executors, or administrators, or their attorney or attorneys, or any of them, or the said Collectors, or any of them, to have for the obtaining aswell of the shipping, as of the allowance thereof.  
And further that every merchant denizen that shall ship hereafter any will, wolfelles, hides, or any other goods and merchandise in any Carrack, or Galley, shall pay to your Majesty during the time aforesaid, all manner of customs, and all the subsidies aforesaid, as any alien borne out of this your Realm.  
God save Queen.   

An act of a subsidy and two fifteens and Tenth by the Temporalty. The twenty Chapter.  
THE care which we do perceive your Majesty hath, most noble and redoubted Sovereign, to reduce this Realm, and the imperial Crown thereof, now lately so sore shaken, so impoverished, so infeabled and weakened into the former estate, strength and glory, doth make us not only to rejoice much in the great bounteousness of almighty God, who hath so marvelously, and beyond all worldly expectation, preserved your Majesty, in these late difficult and dangerous times: but also to study and bend all our wits and force of understanding, how we may like loving and obedient subjects, follow our head, in this so noble and so necessary an enterprise. And considering with ourselves, that the decay hath been, besides many other things, especially in these three. first, wasting of Treasure, abandoning of strength, and in diminishing of the ancient authority of your imperial Crown.  
We do most earnestly and faithfully promise' to your highness, that there shall lack no good will, travel nor force on our behalf, to the redress of all this: but we shallbe ready with heart, will, strength, body, lives and goods, not only to recover again that which is thus diminished: but if need be, to recover farther (as far as right, and the will and pleasure of God shall suffer) the old dignity and renownie of this Realm. The time and place whereof doth not rest in us, but as most reason is, in your most noble Majesty, with the advise of your honourable Counsel. Nevertheless since it doth so manifestly appear to us all, what inestimable wasting, and consumption of the Treasure and ancient Revenues of this Realm hath been of late days, and what great new charges, and intolerable expenses, your highness is forced now to sustain, by reason of the decay and loss of parcel of your ancient Crown. So being not ignorant that no worthy enterprise, no noble attempt, not not so much as the preservation of a strong and puissant estate, may be without some mass of Treasure presently to be had, and ready against all occurrentes.  
Therefore we your most obedient and loving subjects, the lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembed, to show our willing hearts and good minds, upon mature consultation had, have condescended and agreed with one voice, and most entire affections, to make your highness at this time a present, not such in deed as in our affections we do wish it, & as we know most certainly aught to be. But yet of your accustomed clemency which you do show to all men, we humbly on our knees pray your highness not to reject it, but to accept our good wills and hearty desires therein, and that this our small gift may be by your highness, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same enacted.  
And be it enacted that your highness towards the said great costs, and inestimable charges, shall have by authority of this present Parliament, two whole fifteens, and tenths, to be paid, taken, and levied of the movable goods, chattels, and other things usual to such fifteens and tenths, to be contributory and chargeable within the Shires, Cities, boroughs, Towns, and other places of this your majesties Realm, in manner and form aforetime used. Except the sum of twelve thousand pounds, thereof fully to be deduced, that is to say vi M. pounds of either of the said whole fifteens & tenths, of the sum that one whole Fifteen and Tenth attaineth unto, in relief, comfort, & discharge of the poor Towns, Cities, and boroughs of this your said Realm, wasted, desolate, or destroyed, or over greatly impoverished, after such rate as was and hath afore this time been had and made unto every Shire, & to be divided in such manner & form as heretofore for one whole Fifteen and Tenth hath been had and divided. And the said two whole fifteens and tenths (thexceptions, and deductions aforesaid, thereupon had deducted, and allowed) to be paid in manner and form following: that is to say, the first whole Fifteen & Tenth, except before excepted, to be paid to your highness in the receipt of of your highness Exchequer, before the tenth day of November next coming. And the said. ii.xv. and ten except before excepted, to be paid to your highness in the receipt of your Exchequer before the ten day of November, in the year of our Lord God. M.d.lx  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the knights elected and returned, of, & for the shires within this realm for this present parliament, citizens of cities, & burgesses of boroghes & towns, where Collectors have been used to be named & appointed for the collection of any Fifteen & Tenth before this time granted, shall name and appoint yearly before the last day of August, in either of the said two years, sufficient & able persons for the collection of the said fifteens & tenths, in every of the said shires, cities, borrows and towns, the said persons the having lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, in his or their own right of an estate of inheritance, of the yearly value of ten pounds, or in goods worth a hundredth pound at the lest. And also such person or persons so by them to be named and appointed, for the collection of either of the said fifteens and tenths, shallbe by them severally appointed, and allotted into hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, boroughs, and Towns. And also the said persons so named and appointed for the collection of the same fifteens and tenths, shallbe charged and chargeable upon his or their account or accounts, in the Exchequer to be made, with all such sum or sums of money, as the hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, boroughs, and Towns, where he or they shall so happen to be appointed, amount unto, and of no more sum or sums. And upon the payment of such sums of money, as he or they shallbe charged with, shallbe discharged, and have his and their Quietus est, the non accounting or none payment of any other his fellows, or the insufficiency of them, or any of them notwithstanding. And the names and surnames of every of the said Collectors, for the said fifteens and tenths, during either of the said two years together, with the place allotted to their collection and charge, the said Knights, citizens, and Burgesses for the Shires, Cities, and boroughs, whereunto they be elected, named, and returned, shall certify before the Queen in her Chancery, before the xiii day of October, in every of the same two years, according to the tenor of this act. And if default of any such certifying be had or made in form as is aforesaid, than the Lord chancellor of England, or keeper of the great seal for the time being, shall immediately after, name and appoint Collectors, for the Collection of either of the said fifteens & tenths, in manner and form as the said Knights of the Shire, Citizens of Cities, and burgesses of boroughs, should have done, and as aforetime have been used. The which said Collectors and every of them, shall have like allowance upon their accounts, for their fees, wages, and rewards for the collection of the said fifteens and tenths, in as large manner and form as any collector or Collectors, of fifteens and tenths, have had at any season in time past. And that the Barons of the Queen's Exchequer for the time being, shall and may from time to time, award such process for the speedy payment thereof, against the collector and Collectors for the same, as by their discretions shallbe thought convenient.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that the said Lord chancellor, or keeper of the great seal for the time being Knights of the Shires, Citizens of Cities, and Burgesses of boroughs, Towns & other places, having authority by this present act, to name & nominate the said Collectors, of, or for the said fifteens and tenths, shall upon their nomination and election, had, and made, take by authority of this present parliament, sufficient recognisances, or by obligation of every person so by them to be named, to be bound to the Queen's Majesty, in the double sum of the sum of their Collection, & to be endorsed upon such condition, that if the said Collector or Collectors do truly content and pay to the use of the Queen's highness, in her receipt of thexchequer, before the tenth day of November, in every of the said two years, so much of the sum of money allotted and appointed to his collection, as the same collector shall have collected and gathered, & do likewise after the said thenth day of the month of November, in every of the said two years, content and pay to the Queen's majesties use, at the same receipt, the residue of his collection & charge within one month next after such time, as he shall have gathered & collected the same residue that then the said recognizance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in his full strength and virtue, which recognizance or obligation, so taken, the said knights of the Shire, Citizens and Burgesses, and every of them, taking any such recognisances or obligation, shall certify & deliver to the lord treasurer, & Barons of the same Exchequer, before the said tenth day of November, in every of the said years, upon pain of forfeiture often pound to the queen's highness, for every recognisance or obligation, so to be taken, and not certified. And that every such collector upon request to him made, shall make and knowledge the same recognisance or obligation accordingly▪ upon like pain & forfeiture of ten pound to the Queen, for his refusal thereof. And that the Treasurer or Barons of thexchequer, upon the payment of the same collection, or at the said days, shall cancel and deliver the said recognisance or obligation to the said collector or Collectors, without any fee or reward, to be paid to any person for the same.  
And furthermore, for the great and weighty considerations aforesaid, We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, do by our like assent and authority of this Parliament, give and grant to your highness, our said Sovereign Lady, the Queen's Majesty, your heirs and successors, one entire subsidy, to be rated, taxed levied, and paid at two several payments, of every person, spiritual and temporal, of what estate, or degree he or they be, according to the tenor of this act, in manner & form following, that is to say, aswell of every person borne within this Realm of England, Wales, or other the Queen's dominions, as of all & every Fraternity, Guild, Corporation, Mystery, Brotherhead, & Commonalty, corporated, or not corporated within this realm of England, Wales, or other the Queen's domonions, being worth. u.li. for every pound, aswell in coin and the value of every pound that every such person, fraternity, guild, corporation, mystery, brotherhood, commonalty, corporate, or not corporate, hath of his or their own, or any other to his or their use, as also stock of merchandises, all manner of corn and blades, household stuff, and of all other goods movable, aswell within the Realm as without, and of all such sums of money as to him or them is, or shallbe owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience surely to be paid (except and out of the premises deducted) such sums of money as he or they own, and in his or their consciences intendeth truly to pay, and except also thapparel of such persons, their wives and children belonging to their own bodies (saving jewels, gold, silver, stone, and pearl) shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. xx.d. of every pound, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy. xii.d. of every pound. And also every alien and stranger borne out of the Queen's obeisance, aswell denizen as others, inhabiting within this Realm, of every pound that he or they have in coin, and the value of every pound in plate, corn, grain, merchandises, household stuff, or other goods, jewels, cattles, movable or unmovable, as is aforesaid, aswell within this Realm as without, and of all sums of money to him or them owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their consciences to be paid (except and of the same premises deducted, every such sum or sums of money, which he or they do own, and in his or their conscience or consciences intend truly to pay) shall pay of and fore every pound, to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. iii.s.iiii.d. and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy. ii.ss. of every pound. And also that every alien and stranger, borne out of the Queen's dominions, being denizen or not denizen, not being contributory to any the rates abovesaid, shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. iiii.d. and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy other. iiii.d. for every pole. And the master, or he or she with whom the same alien is, or shallbe abiding at the time of the taxation or taxations thereof to be charged with the same for lack of payment thereof.  
AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every person borne under the Queen's obeisance, and every corporation fraternity, guild, mystery, brotherhood, and commonalty corporate, or not corporate, for every pound that every of the same person, and every corporation, fraternity, guild, mystery, brotherhood, and commonalty, corporate or not corporate, or any other to his or their use, hath in fee simple, fee tail, for term of life, term of years, by execution, wardeshippe, or by copy of court roll, of, and in any Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, tenements, Rents, services, hereditaments, annuities, fees, corrodies, or other yearly profits of the yearly value of. xx.s. aswell within ancient demean and other places privileged, or else where, and so upwards shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subdie. ii.s.viii.d. of and for every pound, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy xuj. d. of & for every pound. And every alien borne out of the Queen's obeisance, in such case, to pay at the first of the said payments u s.iiii.d. of every pound, and at the second payment. ii.s.viii.d. of and for every pound. And that all sums presented and chargeable by this act either for goods, and debts, or either of them, or for lands and tenements, and other the premises as is in this act contained, shallbe at either of the said payments, set and taxed after the rate and portion, according to the true meaning of this act (lands and tenements chargeable to the dimes of the Clergy, and yearly wages due to servants for their yearly service, other than the Queen's servants, taking yearly wages of five pounds or above, only excepted and foreprised.) And that all plate, coin, jewels, goods, debts, and chattels personelles, being in the rule and custody of any person and persons to the use of any corporation, fraternity, guild, mystery, brotherhood, or any commonalty, being corporate or not corporate, be and shallbe rated, set, and charged by reason of this act, as the value certified by the presenters of that certificate, to be sworn of every pound in goods and debts, as is abovesaid. And of every pound in lands, tenements, annuities, fees, corrodyes, or other yearly profits as is abovesaid: and the sums that are before rehearsed, set, and taxed, to be levied and taken of them that shall have such goods in custody, or otherwise charged for lands as is before rehearsed. And the same person or persons, and body corporate, by authority of this act shallbe discharged against him or them that shall or aught to have the same, at the time of the payment or delivery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custody or possession of the same. Except and always foreprised from the charge and assessment of this subsidy, all goods, chattels, jewels, and ornaments of Churches and Chapels, which have been ordained and used in Churches or Chapels, for the honour and service of almighty God.  
AND the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe by the authority aforesaid, taxed, assessed, and rated according to this act, in every Shire, Riding, Lathe, Wapentake, Rape, City, Borough, Town, and every other place within this realm of England and Wales, and other the Queen's dominions, before the last day of April next coming. And the seconnd payment of the said subsidy, shallbe by th'authority aforesaid, taxed, assessed, & rated, before the twenty day of january next coming. And the particular sums of every Shire, Riding, Borough, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are chargeable for and to the first payment of the said subsidy, to be taxed and set by the Commissioners to the same limited, or two of them at the lest, with the names of the high Collectors, and in the same form shallbe certifed into the Queen's Exchequer, before the last day of May next coming. And the particular sums of every Shire, Riding, Borough, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are chargeable for and to the second payment of the said subsidy, to be taxed and set by the Commissioners to the same to be limited, or two of them at the lest, with the names of the high Collectors, & in the same form shallbe certified into the Queen's Exchequer, before the twenty day of February, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M.d.lix and the said sums in manner & form aforesaid, to be taxed for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the Queen's receipt of her Exchequer aforesaid, to the use of our said sovereign Lady, before the xxiiii day of june next coming, and the said sums in manner and form aforesaid, to be taxed for the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the receit aforesaid, to the use aforesaid, before the first day of March, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M. D.lir. And the sum abovesaid, of and for the said subsidy, shallbe taxed, set, asked, and demanded, taken, gathered, levied, and paid to those of our said sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors, in form abovesaid, aswell within the liberties, franchises, sanctuaries, ancient demean, and other whatsoever place exempt or not exempt, as without. Except such Shires, places, and persons as shallbe foreprised in & by this present act, any grant, charter, prescription, use, or liberty, by reason of any letters patents or other privilege, prescription, allowance, of the same or whatsoever other matter of discharge heretofore to the contrary made, granted, used, or obtained, notwithstanding.  
AND it is further enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that every such person, aswell such as be borne under the Queen's obeisance, as every other person, strange borne, denizen, or not denizen, inhabiting within this realm, or within Wales, or other the Queen's dominions, which at the time of the said assessings, or taxations, or of either of them, to be had or made, shallbe out of this realm and out of Wales, and have goods or cattles, lands or tenements, fees or annuities, or other profits within this Realm, or in Wales, shallbe charged and chargeable for the same, by the certificate of the inhabitants, or the parties where such goods, chattels, lands, tenements, or other the premises then shallbe, or in such other place where such person or his factor, deputy, or attorney, shall have his most resort unto, within this realm, or in Wales, in like manner as if the said person were, or had been at the time of the said assessing within this realm. And that every person abiding or dwelling within this realm or without this Realm shallbe charged or chargeable to the same subsidy granted by this act, according and after the rate of such yearly substance or value of lands and tenements, goods, cattles, and other the premises, as every person so to be charged shallbe set at, in the time of the said assessing or taxation upon him to be made, & in none otherwise.  
AND further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for thassessing and ordering of the said subsidy to be duly had, the Lord Chancellor of England, or the keeper of the great Seal, the the Lord treasurer of England, the Lord Steward of the Queen's majesties household, the Lord precedent of the Queen's honourable counsel, and the Lord privy Seal for the time being, or two them at the least, whereof the Lord Chancellor of England, or keeper of the great Seal for the time being to be one, shall and may name and appoint, of, and for every Shire, and Riding, and other places, aswell within this Realm, as in Wales, and other the Queen's dominions, and also of and for every City & Town, being a County in itself, and of, and for the Isle of Wight, such certain number of persons of every of the same Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns, and Isle of Wight, and every other place, and other thinhabitants of the same, to be Commissioners of, and within the same whereof they be inhabitants. And also, of and for the honourable household of the Queen's Majesty, in what Shire or other places the said household shall happen then to be. And the Lord Chancellor or keeper of the great Seal, and other with him before named, in like manner may name and appoint of every other such Borough and Town corporate, aswell in England as in Wales, and other the Queen's dominions, as they shall think requisite. vi.u.iiii.iii. or ii of the head officers, & other sad honest inhabitants of every of the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns corporate, according to the number and multitude of the people being in the same, the which persons if any such be thereunto named, of the said inhabitants of the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being Counties in themselves, shallbe joined and put in as Commissioners, with the persons named for such Shires and ridings, as the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being Counties in themselves, be set and have their being, which persons so named for and of the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being Counties, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall no take upon them, ne none of them, to put any part of their commission in execution, for the premises out of the said boroughs and Towns corpoporate, wherein they being so named, only for the same be dwelling. And also no to execute the said commission within the Borough or Town corporat where they be so dwelling, but at such days & times as the said other Commissioners, for the same Shire and Riding shall thereunto limit and appoint within the same Borough, or Town corporate, not being County corporate, whereof they so be, and not out of such Borough or Town, and in that manner to be aiding and assisting with the said other Commissioners, in and for the good executing of th'effect of the said Commission, upon pain of every of the said Commissioners so named for every such City, Borough, and Town corporate, not being a County, to make such fine, as the said other Commissionrs, in the commission of, and for the said Shire or Riding so named, or three of them at the lest, shall by their discretions, set and certify into the queen's Exchequer, there to be levied to the use of the queen's majesty, in like manner, as such or like sums had been set and rated upon every such person for the said subsidy. The which Commissioners so named of, and for the said Cities boroughs, and Towns, not being Counties, & only put in the said commission, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not have any part of the portion, of the fees and rewards of the Commissioners, and their Clerks, in this act afterward specified. And the Lord chancellor of England, or keeper of the great seal for the time being, shall make and direct out of the Court of Chancery, under the great seal, several commissions, that is to say, To every Shire, Riding; Lath, Wapentake, Rape, City, Town, Borough, Isle, and household, unto such person and persons, as by his discretion and other with him aforenamed and aypoynted, in like manner and form as is afore rehearsed, shallbe thought sufficient for the sessing and levying of the said subsidy, in all Shires and places, according to the true meaning of this act, which Commission for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe directed and delivered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them, before the first day of April next coming. And the Commission for the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe directed and delivered to the said Commissioners, or one of them, before the first day of januarie, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, a thousand, five hundred, fifty and nine. And to every of the said Commissions, ten schedules containing in them, the tenor of this act, shallbe affiled. By which commission the Commissioners in every such Commission, named according to this act, & as many of them, as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, shall have full power and authority, to put th'effect of the same commission in execution. And that by authority of this act, after such Commission to them directed, they may by their assents & agreements sever themselves for the recution of their commission, in hundreds, Laths, Wards, Rapes, Wapentakes, Towns, Parishes, and other places, within the limits of their said commission, in such form as to them shall seem expedient to be ordered, & between them to be commoned and agreed, according to the tenor and effect of the commission to them therein directed, upon which severance every person of this present Parliament, that shallbe Commissioner shallbe assigned in the hundred where he dwelleth.  
Provided always, that no person, be or shallbe compelled to be any Commissioner, to and for the execution of this present act, but only in the Shire, where he dwelleth and inhabiteth. And that any person being assigned to the contrary thereof, in any wise shall not be compelled to put in execution the effect of this act, or any part thereof. And it is also enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that the Commissioners and every of them, which shall be named, limited, and appointed according to this act, to be Commissioners in every such Shire, Riding, Lath, Wapentake, Rape, City, Town, Borough, Isle, and the said household, or any other place, and none other, shall truly, effectually, and diligently for their part, execute th'effect of this present act, according to the tenor thereof in every behalf, and none otherwise, by any other means, without omission, favour, dread, malice, or any other thing to be attempted, and done by them, or any of them to the contrary thereof. And the said Commissioners, and as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, and none other, for th'execution of the said commission and act, shall for the taxation of the said first payment of the said subsidy, before the sixth day of April, next coming: and for the taxation of the said second payment of the said Subsidy, shall before the sixth day of januarie, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, a thousand, five hundred, fifty & nine, by virtue of the commissions, delivered unto them in form abovesaid: direct their several or joint precept unto. viii.vii.vi.v. iiii. or iii or more, as for the number of th'inhabitants, shallbe requisite of the most substantial, discrete, & honest persons, inhabitances, to be named by the said Commissioners, or by as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, of, and in hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, Parishes, Towns, & other places, aswell within Liberties, Franchises, ancient demeans, places exempted, and Sanctuaries, as without, within the limits of the Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns, boroughs, or Isle aforesaid, and other places, within the limits of their commission, and to the Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, & other like officers, or ministers of every of the said Hundreds, towns, Wards, Laths, Wapentakes, Parishes, and other places beforesaid, as to the said commissioners, and every number of them, or unto three, or two of them by their discretion in division shall seem expedient, as by the manner & use of the parties shallbe requisite, straightly by the same precept, charging & commanding the same inhabitants, constables, and other officers aforesaid, to whom such precept shallbe so directed to appear in their proper persons, before the said Commissioners, or such number of them as they shall divide themselves, according to the tenor of the said commission, at certain days & places by the said commissioners or any number of them as is aforesaid, within cities, boroughs, or towns corporate, or without, in any other place as is aforesaid, by their discretions shallbe limited thereunto to do & accomplish all that to them on the parties of the queen's Majesty, shallbe enjoined touching this act. Commanding further by the same precept, that he to whose hands such precept shall come, shall show or deliver the same to tother inhabitants or officers named in the said precept, & that none of them fail to accomplish the same, upon pain of forty shillings, to be forfeited to the Queen's Majesty.  
And it is further ordained by the authority of this present parliament, that the said day and place prefixed & limited in the said precept, every of the Commissioners then being in the shire, & having no sufficient excuse for his absence, at the day & place prefixed for that part whereunto he was limited, shall appear in his proper person, & there the same commissioners being present, or as many as shallbe appointed by the queen's Majesties commission, shall call or cause to be called before them the said inhabitants & officers to whom they have directed their said precepts; & which had in commandments there to appear by the said precept of the said Commissioners, & if any person so warned make default, unless he then be letted by sickness or lawful excuse, & that let them be witnessed by the oaths of two credible persons, or if any appearing refuse to be sworn in form following, to forfeit to the Queen's Majesty. xl.ss. And so at every time appointed by the said Commissioners for the same taxation, unto such time the number of every such persons have appeared & certified in form under written, and every of them so making default, or refusing to be sworn, to forfeit to the Queen's Majesty. xl.ss. and upon the same appearance had, one of the most substantial inhabitants or officer so being warned, and appearing before the said Commissioners, shallbe sworn upon a book openly before the Commissioners in form following. I shall truly inquire with my fellows that shallbe charged with me, of the Hundred, Wapentake, Ward, Town, or other place of the best and most so alue of the substance of every person dwelling and abiding within the limits of the place that I and my fellows shallbe charged with, and of other which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places, & chargeable with any sum of money by this act of this said subsidy, & of all other articles that I shallbe charged with touching the said act, and according to the intent of the same, and thereupon as near as it may be, or shall come to my knowledge, truly to present and certify before you the names, surnames, and the best and uttermost substance, and values of every of them, aswell of lands, tenements, & other hereditaments, possessions, and profits, as of goods, cattles, debts, & other things, chargeable by the said act, without any conceilement, love, favour, affection, dread, fear, or malice, as near as God will give me grace, so help me God, & the holy contents of this book. And every other person that shall appear there by the same precepts, from time to time, shall make like oath, and upon the oath so taken as is aforesaid, by the inhabitants and officers of every hundreds, ward, Wapentake, Town, or other place, the said Commissioners shall openly there read or cause to be read unto them the said rates, & openly declare th'effect of their charge unto them, in what manner & form they aught and should make their certificate, according to the rates & sums thereof abovesaid. And of all manner of persons, aswell of aliens & strangers, denizens or not denizens, inhabiting within this Realm, as of such persons as be borne under the Queen's obeisance, chargeable to this act. And of the possessions, goods, and chattels of Fraternities, guilds, Corporations, Brotherheades, Mysteries, & Commonalties, and other as is abovesaid. And of persons being in the parties of beyond the seas, having goods or chattels, lands, or tenements within this Realm, as is aforesaid. And of all goods, being in the custody of any person or persons, to the use of any other, as is abovesaid, by the which information and showing, the said persons should have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present act, and of the manner of their certificate, that the same persons shall have no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignorance, & after such oath, and the statute of the said subsidy, and the manner of the said certificate to be made in writing, containing the names & surnames of every person, and whether he be borne without the queen's obeisance, or within, & the best value of every person, in every degree, as well of yearly value of lands, & tenements, & of such like possession and profits, as the value of goods, & cattles, debts, and every thing to their certificate requisite & necessary to them declared, the said commissioners there being, shall by their discretions appoint & limit unto the said persons, another day & place to appear before the said commissioners, & charging the said persons, that they in the mean time shall make diligent inquiry by all ways and means of the premises and then & there, every of them, upon pain of forfeiture of. xl.ss. to the queen's Majesty, to appear at the said new prefixed day and place, there to certify unto the said Commissioners in writing, according to their said charge, and according to the true intent of the said grant of subsidy, & as to them in manner aforesaid, hath been declared and showed by the Commissioners, at which day and place so to them prefixed, if any of the said persons make dafault or appear and refuse to make the said certificate, that then every of them so offending, to forfeit to the Queen's Majesty. xl.ss. except only a reasonable excuse of his default, by reason of sickness, or otherwise by the oaths of two credible persons, there witnessed be had. And of such as appear ready to make certificate as is aforesaid, the said Commissioners there being, shall take and receive the same certificate, & every part thereof, and the names, values, and substance of every person so certified, and if the same Commissioners see cause reasonable, they shall examine the said presenters thereof. And thereupon the said Commissioners, at the said days and place by their agreement amongst themselves, shall from time to time, openly there prefix a day, at a certain place or places, within the limits of their commission, by their discretion, for their further proceeding to the said assessing of the same subsidy, and thereupon at the said day of the said certificate, as is aforesaid taken, the same Commissioners shall make their precept or precepted to the Constables, Subconstable, bailiffs, or other officers of such hundreds, Wapentakes, Towns, or other places aforesaid, as the same Commissioners shallbe of, comprising and containing in the same precept, the names, and surnames of all persons presented before them in the said certificate, of whom if the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe thereunto appointed by the Queen's commission, shall then have vehement suspect to be of more greater value or substance in lands, goods, chattels, or sums of money owing to them, or other substance beforesaid, then upon such person or persons shallbe certified, the same Commissioners shall make their precept or precepts, directed to the Constable, bailiffs, or other officers, commanding the same Constable, Bailiffs, or other officers, to whom such precept shallbe directed to warn such persons whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept, at their mansions, or to their persons, that the same persons named in such precepts, and every of them, shall personally appear before the said Commissioners, at the same new prefixed day & place there to be examined by all ways and means, (other then by corporal oath) by the said Commissioners, of their greatest substance, and best value, and of all & every sums of money owing to them, and other whatsoever matter concerning the premises, or any of them according to this act, at which day and place so prefixed, the said Commissioners, then and there being, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed, by the Queen's commission, shall 'cause to be called the said persons, whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept, as is beforesaid, for their examination. And if any of those persons which should be warned, as is beforesaid, to be examined, which at any time after the warning, and before the prefixed day, shallbe within such place, where he may have knowledge of his said appearance to be made, make default, and appear not, unless a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse by the oaths of two credible persons, before the said Commissioners, be truly alleged for his discharge, that then every of them, so making default, to be taxed and charged to the Queen's Majesty, with and at the double sums of the rate that he should or aught to have been set at, for and after the best value of his land or substance, upon him certified, if he had appeared by the discretion of the Commissioners there being, which Commissioners shall travel with every of the other persons, so then and there appearing, whose names shallbe expressed in the said precept or precepts, and in whom any vehement suspect was or shallbe had in form abovesaid, by all such ways and means they can, other then by corporal oath, for their better knowledge of their best value, either in hereditaments or possessions, either else in goods or debts. And that every spiritual person, at either of the said taxations, of the said subsidy, shallbe rated and set according to the rate abovesaid, of, and for every pound that the same spiritual person, or any other to his use, hath by descent, bargain, or purchase, in fee simple, fee tail, term of life, term of years, by execution, by ward or by copy of court roll, in any manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, offices, fees, corrodies, annuities, or hereditaments, after the true just and yearly value thereof, after and according as other the Queen's majesties subjects borne within this Realm, be charged in form above remembered, so that it extend to the yearly value of. xx.s. or above. And if any person certified or rated by virtue of this act, be he Commissioner, or other, to any manner of value, doth find himself grieved with the same presentment, sessing, of taxing, and thereupon complain to the Commissioners, before whom he shallbe rated, sessed, or taxed, or before two of them: That then the said Commissioners, shall by all ways and means, examine particularly and distinctly the person so complaining, and other his neighbours by their discretion, of every his lands, and tenements above specified, and of every his goods, chattels, and debts above mentioned, and after due examination and perfect knowledge thereof, had and perceived by the said Commissioners, which shall have power by the authority aforesaid: the said Commissioners, or two of them, to whom any such complaint shallbe made, by their discretions, upon the oath of the said person so complaining, may abate, defaulke, increase, or enlarge the same assessment, according as it shall appear unto them just, upon the same examination. And the same sum, so abated, defaulked, increased, or enlarged, to be estreated in form as hereafter ensueth. So that he come before the estreats of the same assessing, be delivered by the same Commissioners into the Queen's Majesties Exchequere. And if it be proved by witness, his own confession, or other lawful ways or means, within a year after any such oath made, that the same person so taxed & sworn was of any better or greater value in lands, goods, or other things above specified, at the time of his said oath, than the same person so sworn did declare upon his said oath. That then every such person so offending shall loose and forfeit to the Queen's majesty so much in in lawful money of England, as the same person so sworn was set at or taxed to pay, and all persons, set, rated, and taxed as is abovesaid, shallbe bound and charged by the same, & the sum or sums upon him set, to be due towards the payment of the said subsidy, and to be levied as hereafter shallbe secified.  
AND also it is enacted by the same authority, that every person to be rated at the said taxation, as is aforesaid, shallbe rated, taxed, and set, and the sum on him set, to be levied at such place where he and his family, at the time of the same presentment to be made, shall keep his house or dwelling, or where he than shallbe most conversant, abiding, or restaunt, or shall have his most resort, & shallbe best known at the time of the said certificate to be made, and no where else, and that no Commissioner for this subsidy, shallbe rated or taxed for his goods, or lands, but in the Shire and other place where he shallbe Commissioner, and that if any person chargeable to this act, at the time of the same assessing, happen to be out of this Realm, and out of Wales, or far form the place where he shallbe known, than he to be set where he was last abiding in this Realm, or within Wales, and best known, and after the substance and value, and other profits of every person, known by the examination, certificate, and other manner of wise as is aforesaid. The said Commissioners or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the Queen's majesties Commission, shall after the rate aforesaid, set, and tax every person according to the rate of the substance and value of his lands, goods, and other profits, whereby the greatest and most best sum according to his most substance, by reason of this act, might or may be set or taxed.  
Provided always that every such person, which shallbe set or taxed for payment of and to this subsidy, for and after the yearly value of his lands, tenements, and other real possessions or profits, at any of the said taxation, shall not be set and taxed, for his goods and cattles, or other movable substance at the same taxations. And that he that shall be charged or taxed for the same subsidy, for his goods, cattles, and other movables, at any if the said taxations, shall not be charged, taxed or chargeable for his lands, or other real possessions, and profits abovesaid, at the same taxations, nor that any person be double charged for the said subsidy, neither set or taxed at several places by reason of this act: any thing contained in this present act, notwithstanding.  
AND that it be ordained by the said authority of this present Parliament, that no person having two mansions, or two places to resort unto, or calling himself household servant, or wayghting servant to the Queen's Majesty, or other Lord or Laid, Master or Mistress, be excused upon his saying, from the taxes of the said subsidy, in neither of the places where he may be set: unless he bring a certificate in writing from the Commissioners, where that he is so set in deed at one place. And if any person that aught to be set by reason of his removing or resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he else where was taxed, or by reason of any privilege by his dwelling or abiding in any place, not being forprised in this act, or otherwise by his covin or craft, happen to escape from the said taxations, and be not set, and that proved by presentment, examination, or information, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe by the same commission appointed, or by the Barons of the Queen's majesties Exchequer, or two justices of the peace, of the County where such person dwelleth, than every such person, that by such means or otherwise willingly by covin shall happen to escape from the said taxation or payment aforesaid, and not to be rated, taxed, and set, shallbe charged upon the knowledge and proof thereof, with and at the double value, that he should or aught to have been set at afore, according to his bahaviour. The same double value to be levied, gathered, and paid of his goods and cattles, lands, and tenements, towards the said subsidy. And further to be punished according to the discretions of the Barons, justices, and Commissioners, before whom he shallbe convicted for his offence and deceit in that behalf.  
AND further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners or every commission shall according to their divisions, and after they be divided, have full power and authority by this act, to set, tax, and sesse every other Commissioner, joined with them in every such commission and division. And shall also assess every assessour, within their division, for his and their goods, lands, and other the premises, as is abouseayde. By the which said Commission, the said Commissioners shall indifferently set, tax, and assess themselves, and the said assessors. And that aswell the sums upon every of the said Commissioners and assessors so sessed, rated and taxed, as the sums made and presented by the presenters, sworn as is abovesaid, shallbe written, certified, set, and estreated, and the estreats thereof to be made, with other the inhabitants of that parties, within the limits of the same commission, and division, so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it aught or should have been, if the said Commissioner had not been in the said commission. And that all persons of the estate of a Baron or Barons, and every estate above, shallbe charged with their free hold and value as is abovesaid, by the Chancellor, or keeper of the great Seal, Treasurer of England, Lord Precedent of the Queen's majesties privy counsel, & Lord privy Seal for the time being, or other persons by the Queen's majesties authority to be limited, & they to be charged for the said several payments of the said subsidy, after the form of the said grant, according to the taxation aforesaid, and the sums upon them set, with the names of the Colloctours appointed for the gathering & paying of the same, to be estreated, delivered, and certified at days and places above specified, by the Lord Chancellor or keeper of the great Seal, Treasurer, Lord precedent of the counsel, & Lord privy Seal for the time being, or such other persons as shallbe limited by the Queen's Majesty. And after the taxes and assesses of the said sums upon and the said assessing and certificate as is aforesaid made, the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the Queen's majesties commission, shall with all speed and without delay, by the writing estreated of the said tax thereof, under the seals and signs manuel of the said Commissioners, or as may of them as shallbe appointed at the least to be made, shallbe delivered unto sufficient and substantial inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs and other officers, jointly of hundreds, Towns, Parishes, and other places aforesaid, within their limits, or to other sufficient persons inhabitants of the same only, by the discretion of the said Commissioners, and as the place and parties shall require, aswell the particular names & surnames, as the remembrance of all sums of money, taxed and set, of, and upon every person, aswell man as woman, chargeable to this act, householder, and all other inhabitants and dwellers within the said Parishes, Towns, and places contributory to this act of subsidy. By authority of which writing or estreat so delivered, the said officers and other persons so named and deputed severally, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, immediately after the delivery of the said writing or estreat, to demand, levy, and gather of every person therein specified, the sum or sums in the same writing or estreat comprised. And for none payment thereof, to distrain the same person or persons so being behind by their goods and cattles, and the distress so taken, to keep by the space of viii days, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof. And if the said owner do not pay such sum of money as shallbe taxed by this act, within the same viii. days, than the same distress to be appraised by. iiii.iii. or ii of the inhabitants where such distress is taken, and also to be sold by the said Constable or other collector for the payment of the said money, and the overplus coming of the sale and keeping thereof (if any be) to be immediately restored to the owner of the same distress, which said officers and other persons, so deputed to ask, take, gather, and levy the said sums, shall answer and be charged for the portion only to them assigned or limited to be gathered, levied, and comprised in the said writing or estreat so to them (as is aforesaid) delivered, to the use of our sovereign Lady the Queen's majesty, her heirs, & successors. And the said sum in that writing or estreat comprised to pay unto the high collector or Collectors of that place for the collection of the same, in manner & form under written, thereunto to be named & deputed, & the same inhabitants & officers so gathering the same particular sums for their collection thereof, shall retain for every. xx.s. so by them received and paid. ii.d. & that to be allowed at the payment of their collection by them to be made to the high collector or collectors.  
AND further be it enacted by the said authority, that the said Commissioners, or the more part of them as shall take upon them the execution and business of the said commission, shall for either of the same payments of the said subsidy, name such sufficient and albe persons which then shall have and possede lands & other hereditaments, in their own right, of the yearly value of. xx.li. or goods to the value of. CC. marks at the least. And the persons severally be the discretions of the same Commissioners in Shires, Ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns corporat, & other whatsoever places, aswell within places privileged as without, not being foreprised within this act to be high Collectors, and have the collection & receipt of the said sums, set and leviable within the precinct, limit, & bonds, where they shallbe so limited to gather, & receive, to every of the which Collectors so severally named, the said Commissioners, or ii of them at lest, shall with all speed, & without delay, after the said whole sum of the said subsidy, be set by all the limits of the same their commission or in such limits as the high Collectors shallbe so severally assigned, shall under their seals and signs manuel, deliver one estreat indented in parchment to every of the said high Collectors, comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to levy the said particular sums, & the sums of every Hundred, Wapentake, Town, or other place aforesaid, with the names and surnames of the persons so chargeable, according to the estreat so first thereof, made as is aforesaid, and delivered, and the collector so to be assigned, shallbe charged to answer the whole sum comprised in the said estreat limited to his collection, as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners having authority by this act to name and nominate the said high Collectors, of the said subsidy, shall immediately upon the nomination & election, take by authority of this present parliament, sufficient recognisances, or obligations, without any fee, or reward to be paid therefore of every person so by them to be named to be high collector, to be bounden to the Queen's majesty in the double sum of the sum of his collection, & to be endorsed and made upon such condition: that is to say, for the collection of the said first payment of the said subsidy, that if the said collector his heirs or executors, do truly content & pay, to those of the Queen's majesty, her heirs or executors, in the receipt of the said Exchequer, before the said xxiiii day of june next coming, so much of the said sum of money allotted & appointed to his collection, as he shall collect & gather, and content and pay the residue of his collection & charge, within one month next after such time as he hath gathered and collected the same residue, that then the said recognisance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in full strength and virtue. And for the collection of the second payment of the said subsidy, upon condition that if the said collector, his heirs or executors, do truly content and pay, to the use of the Queen's majesty, her heirs or executors, in her receipt of the Exchequer, before the first day of March, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M.d.lix so much of the said sum of money allotted and appointed to his collection, as he shall collect and gather, and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge, within one month next after such time as he hath gathered & collected the same residue, that then the said recognisance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in full strength and virtue, which said several recognisances or obligations so taken, the said Commissioners shall severally certify, and deliver into the Queen's majesties Exchequer, with the several certificates of the said taxations and rates of the payments of the said subsidy, at and by the time to them prescribed and appointed by this act for the certificate of the said several taxations of the said subsidy, upon pain of forfeiture of. x.li. to the Queen's majesty, for every recognisance or obligation not certified. And that every such collector so elected, named, and chosen, upon request to him made, shall knowledge and make the said recognisance or obligation, upon like pain and forfeiture of. x.li. to the Queen's Majesty, for the refusal thereof, and every collector so deputed, having the said estreat in parchment, as is aforesaid, shall have authority by this act, to appoint days and places within the circuit of his collection, for the payment of the said subsidy to him to be made, and thereof to give warning, by proclamation or otherwise, to all the Constables, or other persons or inhabitants, having the charge of the particular collection, within the hundreds, Parishes, Towns, or other places, by him or them limited, to make payment for their said particular collection of every sum as to them shall appertain. And if at the said day and place so limited and prefixed by the said collector, the said Constable, Officers, or other persons or inhabitants, as is aforesaid, for the said particular collection assigned and appointed within such Hundred, City, Town, or other places, do not pay unto the said Collectors, the sum within their several hundreds, Towns, Parishes, and other places, due and comprised in the said estreat thereof to them delivered by the said Commissioners, or some of them as is aforesaid, or so much thereof as they have by any mean received. ii.d. of every pound for the said particular collection as is aforesaid, always to be thereof allowed, excepted, & abated: that then it shallbe lawful to the said high Collectors and every of them, and to their assigns, to distrain every of the said Constables, Officers, and other inhabitants for their said several and particular collection of the said sums comprised in the said estreat, and writing thereof, to them and every of them, as is before expressed, delivered, or forasmuch of the same sum as so then shall happen to be gathered & levied, and behind and unpaid by the goods and cattles of every of them so being behind. And the distress so taken, to be kept, appraised and sold as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and levy the sums so then being behind and unpaid. And the overplus coming of the sale of the said distress (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the owner, in form above remembered.  
Provided always, that no person inhabiting in any City, Borough, or Town corporate, shallbe compelled to be an assessour or collector, of, or for any part of the said subsidy, in any place or places out of the said City, Borough, or Town corporate where he dwelleth.  
AND it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any inhabitant or officer, or whatsoever person or persons, charged to and for the collection or receipt of any part of portion of the said subsidy, by any manner of means, according to this act, or any person or persons for themselves, or as keeper, guardian, deputy, factor, or attorney, of or for any other person or persons, of any goods and cattles of the owner thereof at the time of the said assessing to be made, being out of this Realm, or in any other parties not known, or of, and for the goods and cattles, of any other person or persons, of any corporation, fraternity, mystery, or other whatsoever commonalty, being incorporate or not incorporate, and all persons having in their rule, governance and custody, any goods, or cattles, at the time of the said assessing, or any of them to be made, or which for any cause, for and by collection, or for himself, or for any other, or by reason that he hath the rule, governance, or custody of any goods or cattles, of any other person or persons, corporation, commonalty, fraternity, guild, or mystery, or any such other like, or as factor, deputy, or attorney, of or for any person, shallbe taxed, rated, valued, and set to any sum or sums by reason of this act, and after the taxation or assessing upon any such person or persons as shallbe charged with the receipt of the same, happen to die, or depart from the place where he was so taxed and set, or his goods or cattles be so eloyned, or in such privy and covert manner kept, as the said person or persons, charged with the same, by estreats, or other writings, from the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the said commission, as is aforesaid, can ne may levy the same sum or sums comprised within the same estreats, by distress, within the limits of their collection, as is aforesaid, or can not cell such distress or distresses, as be taken for any of the said payments, before the time limited to the high collector for his payment to be made in the Queen's majesties receipt, then upon relation thereof, with due examination, by the oath or examination of such person or persons, as shallbe charged with and for the receit and collection of the same, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said commission shallbe thereunto appointed, where such person or persons, or other as is aforesaid, their goods and cattles, were set and taxed, and upon plain certificate thereof made in the Queen's majesties Exchequer by the same Commissioners, aswell of the dwelling place, names, and sums of the said persons, of whom the said sums can not be levied and had as is aforesaid, then aswell the Constables and other inhabitants appointed for the said particular collection, against the high Collectors, as the high collector upon his account and oath in the said Exchequer to be discharged thereof, and process to be made for the Queen's majesty, out of the said Exchequer, by the discretion of the Barons of the said Exchequer, against such person, his heirs or executors, so being behind with his payment. And over that the same commissioners to whom any such declaration of the premises shallbe made in form aforesaid, from time to time shall have full power and authority to direct their precept or precepts unto the said person or persons, charged with any sum, of for or upon any such person or persons, or other as is aforesaid, or to any Sheriff, Steward, Bailiff or other whatsoever officer, minister, person or persons, of such place or places where any such person or persons, so owing such sum or sums, shall have lands, & tenements, or other hereditaments, or real possessions, goods & cattles, whereby any such person or persons so indebted, his heirs, executors, or assigns, or other having the custody, governance, or disposition, of any goods, cattles, lands, or tenements, or other hereditaments, which aught or may by this act lawfully be distrained, or taken for the same, hath as shall have goods, cattles, lands, tenements, or other possessions, whereof such sum or sums, which by any such person or persons, may or aught to be levied, be it within the limits of such Commission, where such person or persons was and were taxed, or without in any place within this Realm of England, Wales, or other the Queen's majesties dominions, marches, or territories, by which precept aswell such person or persons as shallbe charged to levy such money, as the officers of the place or places, where such distress may be taken, shall have full power and authority, to distrain every such person, indebted, charged and chargeable by this act, or his executors or administrators of his goods and cattles, his guardians, factors, deputies, leases, farmers, and assigns, and all other persons by whose hands, or out of whose lands, any such person should have rend, see, annuity, or other profit, or which at the time of the said assessings, shall have goods, or cattles, or any other thing movable, of any such person or persons, being indebted, or owing such sum: and the distress so taken, caused to be kept, appraised and sold, in like manner and form as is aforesaid, for the distress to be taken upon such persons, to be taxed to the said subsidy, and being sufficient to distrain within the limits of the Collectors inhabitants, or other officers, charged, with or for the same sums, so upon them to be taxed. And if any such distress for non payment, happen to be taken out of the limit of the said persons, charged and assigned to levy the same, the persons so charged for the levy of any such sum by distress, shall perceive & take of the same distress, for the labour of every person, going for the execution thereof, for every mile that any such person so laboureth for the same. ii.d. And every farmer, tenant, guardian, factor, or other whatsoever person, being distrained or otherwise charged for payment of any such sum or sums, or any other sum, by reason of this act, shallbe of such sum or sums, of him or them so levied, and taken, discharged, & acquitted at his next day of payment of the same, or at the delivery of such goods and cattles, as he that is so distrained had in his custody & governance, against him or them, that shallbe so taxed and set, any grant or writing, obligatory or other whatsoever matter to the contrary made heretofore, notwithstanding. And if any such person, that should be so distrained have no lands or tenements, sufficient, whereby he or his tenants, and farmers, may be distrained, or hath eloyned, aliened, or hid his goods, and cattles, whereby he should or might be distrained in such manner, that such goods and cattles shall not be known or found, so that the sum, of, or by him to be paid in the said form shall ne can be conveniently levied. Then upon relation thereof to the Commissioners, or to as many of them, as by the said commission shallbe thereunto appointed, where such person or persons was taxed and set, by the oaths of him or them, that shallbe charged with the levy & payment of that sum or sums, the same Commissioners, shall make a precept in such manner as is aforesaid, for to attach, take and arrest the body of such person or persons, that aught to pay the said sums, and by this act shallbe charged with, and for the said sum and sums, and them so taken, safely to keep in prison, with in the shire, or other place, where any such person or persons shallbe taken, and attached, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he hath paid the same sum or sums, that such person for himself or for any other by this act, shallbe chargeable or aught to be charged withal. And also for the fees of every such arrest, to him or them that shall execute such precept. xx.d. and that every officer unto whom such precept shallbe directed, do his true diligence, and execute the same, upon every person, so being indebted, upon pain to forfeit to the Queen's Majesties, for every default in that behalf. xx.s. And that no keeper of any jail, from his jail suffer any such person to go at large, by letting to bail, or otherwise to departed out of his prison, before he have paid his said debt, & the said. xx.d. for the said arrest, upon pain to forfeit to the Queen's Majesty. xl.ss. And the same Gaoler to pay unto the Queen's Majesty, the double value, aswell of the rate which the said person so imprisoned was taxed at, as of the said. xx.d. for the fees, and like process, and remedy, in like form shallbe granted by the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as by the said commission shallbe thereunto appointed, at like information of every person or persons, being charged with any sum of money, for any other person or persons, by reason of the said Subsidy, and not thereof paid, but wilfully withdrawn, ne the same levyable within the limits where such persons were thereunto taxed. And if the sum or sums, being behind unpaid, by any person or persons, as is aforesaid, be levied and gathered by force of the said process, to be made the said Commissioners, or if in default or for lack of payment thereof, the person or persons so owing the said sum or sums of money, by process of the same Commissioners, to be made as is aforesaid, be committed to prison in form abovesaid, that then the said Commissioners which shall award such process, shall make certificate thereof in the said Exchequer, of that shallbe done in the premises, in the term next following after such sum or sums of money, so being behind shallbe levied & gathered, or such person or persons for none payment of the same committed to prison. And if it happen any of the said Collectors to be assigned, or any Majors, sheriffs, Steward, Constable, the headborrowe, householder, Bailiff, or any other officer, or minister, or other whatsoever person or persons, to disobey the said Commissioners, or any of them, in the reasonable request, to them made by the said Commissioners, for execution of the said commission, or if any of the officers or other persons, do refuse that to them shall appertain and belong to do, by reason of any precept to him or them to be directed, or any reasonable commandment, instance or request, touching the premises, or other default in any appearance or collection to make, or if any person being suspect, or not to be indifferently taxed, as is aforesaid, do refuse to be examined according to the tenor of this act, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe there unto assigned, as is aforesaid, or will not appear before the same Commissioners, upon warning to him made, or else make resistance or rescous, upon any distress upon him to be taken, for any parcel of the said subsidy, or commit any misbehaviour in any manner of wise, contrary to this act, or commit any wilful omission, or other whatsoever wilful, not doing or misdoing, contrary to the tenor of this act or grant, the same commissioners, and every number of them, above remembered, or two of them at the lest, upon probable knowledge of any such misdemeanours, had by information or examination, shall & may set upon every such offender for every such offence, in name of a fine, by the same offender to be forfeited. xl.ss. or under, by the discretion of the same Commissioners. And further the same Commissioners, and every number of them, or two of them at the lest, shall have authority by this present act, to punish every such offender, by imprisonment, there to remain & to be delivered by their discretion, as shall seem to them convenient, the said fines, if any such be, to be certified by the said commissioners that so assessed the same, into the Queen's Majesties said Exchequer, there to be levied and paid by the Collectors of that parties for the said Subsidy, returned into the said Exchequer, to be therewith charged with the payment of the said subsidy, in such manner as if the said fines had been set and taxed upon the said offenders of the said subsidy.  
It is also enacted by the said authority of this Parliament, that every of the said high collectors, which shall account for any part of the said subsidy, in the said Exchequer, upon their several said accounts to be yielded, shallbe allowed at every of the said payments of the said subsidy, for every pound limited to his collection whereof any such collector shallbe charged and yield account, six pence; as parcel of their charge: that is to say, of every pound thereof, for such person as then have had the particular collection in the towns & other places, as is aforesaid, specified in his collection two pence, and other two pence of every pound thereof, every of the said chief, collectors, or their accomptauntes, to retain to their own use for their labour and charge in and about the premises, and two pence of every pound residue, to be delivered, allowed, and paid by the said collectors so being thereof allowed, to such of the commissioners as shall take upon them the business and labour, for, and about the premises, that is to say, every collector to pay that commissioner or commissioners, which had the ordering of the writings, of, and for the said subsidy where the said collector or collectors had their collection, for expenses of the said commissioners, so taking upon them the said business, and labour of their clerks writing the said precepts and estreats of the said collections, the same last two pence of every pound to be divided amongst the said commissioners, having regard to their labour and business taken by them or their said clerks in and about the premises, for the which part so to the said commissioners attaining, the said commissioners. vi.u.iiii. iii or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the Queen's majesties commission, and every of them jointly and severally for his and their said part, may have his remedy against the said collector or collectors, which there of been, and might have been allowed, by action of debt, in which the defendant shall not wage his law, neither protection, neither injunction, or other essoign shallbe allowed. And that no person now being of the number of the company of this present parliament, nor any commissioner, shallbe named or assigned to be any collector, or subcollector, or presenter of the said subsidy, or of any part thereof, nor no commissioners shallbe compelled to make any presentment or certificate, other then in the Queen's majesties said Exchequer, of, for or concerning the said subsidy, or any part thereof. And likewise that none other person that shallbe named or assigned to be commissioners in any place, to and for the execution of this act of subsidy, be, or shallbe assigned, or named head collectors of any of the payments of the said subsidy, neither of any part thereof. And that every such person and persons which shallbe named and appointed as is aforesaid, to be head collectors, in and for the first payment of this subsidy, shall not be compelled to be collector for the second payment of the said subsidy, or for any part thereof. And the said collectors which shallbe assigned for the collection of the said subsidy, or for any part thereof, and every of them, be and shallbe acquitted and discharged of all manner fees, rewards, and of every other charges in the Queen's majesties Exchequer, or else where, of them or any of them, by reason of that collection, payment, or accounts, or any thing concerning the same to be asked. And that if any persons receive and take any fees, rewards, or pleasures of any such accountant: That then he shall forfeit to the Queen's Majesty, for every penny value of penny so taken, five shillings, & suffer imprisonment at the Queen's majesties pleasure. And after the taxing and assessing of the said subsidies, as is aforesaid, had or made, and the said estreats thereof in parchment unto the collector, in manner and form before rehearsed, delivered, the said commissioners which shall take upon them th'execution of this act, within the limits of their commission by their agreements, shall have meeting together, at which meeting every of the said commissioners which then shall have taken upon them th'execution of any part of the said commission, shall by himself or by his sufficient deputy, truly certify & bring forth unto the said commissioners named in the said commission, the certificate and presentment made before him, and such other commissioners as were limited with him in one limit, so that the same certificate may be accounted and cast with the other certificates of the other limits within the same commission. And then the said commissioners and every number of them, unto two at the lest, as is aforesaid, if any be in life, or their executors or administrators of their goods, if they than he dead, shall jointly and severally as they were divided within their limits, under their seals by their discretion, make one or several writings indented, containing in it aswell the names of the said collectors by the commissioners, for such collection and account in the Exchequer, and payment in the said receipt, deputed & assigned, as the gross and several sums written unto every such collector, to receive the said subsidy. And also all fines, amerciaments, & other forfeitures, if any such by reason of this act, happen to be within the precinct and limit of their commission, to be certified into the Queen's majesties said Exchequer by the said commissioners, in which writing or writings indented so to be certified, shallbe plainly declared & expressed, the whole & entire sum or sums of the said subsidy severally limited to the collection of the said collectors, severally deputed and assigned to the collection of the said sums. So that none of the said collectors so certified in the said Exchequer, shallbe compelled there to account or to be charged, but only to & for the sum limited to his collection, and not to or for any sum limited to the collection of his fellow, but that every of them shallbe severally charged for their part, limited to their collection. And if the said commissioners joined in one commission amongst themselves, in that matter can not agreed, or if any of them be not ready, or refuse to make certificate with other of the same commissioners, that then the same commissioners, may make several indentures in form aforesaid, of their several limits or separations of collectors, within the limits of their commission, upon, and in the hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, Laths, Rapes, or such other like divisions within their said several limits of their commission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided, and as to the same commissioners shall seem good, to make divisions of their limits or collections, for the several charges of the same collectors. So that always one collector, shallbe charged and account for his part to him to be limited only by himself, and not for any sum limited to the part of any of his fellows, and the charges of every of the collectors, to be set and certified severally upon them, and every such collector upon his account and payment of the sum of money limited within his collection, to be severally by himself acquitted and discharged in the said Exchequer, without paying any manner fees or rewards to any person or persons for the same, upon the pain & penalty last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any portion of any other collector. And if any commissioner after he hath taken certificate of them, that, as is aforesaid, shall before any such commissioner be examined, and the sums rated and set, and the books and writings thereof being in his hands, or if any collector or other person charged with any receipt of any part of the said subsidy, or any other person, taxed or otherwise by this act charged, with and for any parcel of the said subsidy, or with any other sum or fine, amerciament, penalty, or other forfeiture, happen to die before the commissioner, collector, or other whatsoever person or persons, have executed, accomplished, satisfied, or sufficiently discharged, that which to every such person shall appertain or belong to do, according to this act; then the executors, and heirs of every such person, and all other seized of any lands, or tenements, that any such person being charged by this act, and disceasling before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use only had of estate of inheritance, at the time that any such person was named commissioner, collector, or otherwise charged with and for any manner of thing to be done, satisfied, or paid by reason of this act, and all those that have in their possessions or hands, any goods, or cattles, leases, or other things that were to any such person or persons, at the time of his death, or any lands or tenements, that were the same persons, at the time he was (as is aforesaid) charged by this act, shallbe by the same compelled and charged to do and accomplish, to do in every case as the same person so being charged, should have done and might have been compelled to do, if he had been in plain life, after such rate of the lands and goods of the said commissioner, or collector as the party shall have in his hand. And if the said commissioners for causes reasonable then moving, shall think it not convenient to join in one certificate, as is aforesaid, them the said person or persons that shall first join together, or he that shall first certify the said writing, indented as is aforesaid, shall certify all the names of the commissioners of that commission, whereupon such writings shallbe there, then to be certified, with division of the hundreds, Wapentakes, Wards, tithings, or other places, to and among such commissioners, of the same commission, with the names of the same commissioners, where such separations and division shallbe, with the gross sums of money, aswell of and for the said subsidy, taxed, or set, of, or within the said hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, or other places to him or them divided or assigned, that shall so certify the said first writing, as of fines, amerciaments, penalties, or other forfeitures, if any happen to be within the same limits, whereof the same writings shallbe certified, and after such writing indented, which as is aforesaid, shallbe certified, and not contain in it the whole and full sums, set and taxed within the limits of the same commission, the other commissioners of the same, before the day of payment of the said subsidy, shall certify into the said Exchequer, by their writing or writings, indented to be made as is aforesaid, the gross and several sums, set and taxed within the places to them limited for the said subsidy, and other fines, amerciaments, penalties, and forfeitures, with the names of the hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, and other places to them assigned, or else by their said writings indented, to certify at the said place, before the said day of payment, such reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate, of, and for the said subsidy, fines, amerciaments, and other forfeitures, growying or set by reason of the causes of their lets, or of their none certifying as is abovesaid, or else in default thereof, process to be made out of the Queen's Majesties said Exchequer, against the said commissioners, and every of them, not makying certificate as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the Treasurer, or Barons of the said Exchequer.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the inhabitants of the parish of saint Martin, called Stampforde Baron, in the Suburbs of the Borough, and Town of Stampforde, in the South part of the water, there called Welland, which hereafter shallbe contributory to the payment of this present subsidy, granted to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs, and successors, shallbe assessed, rated, and taxed for this time, by such commissioners, which shallbe appointed for the taxing, rating, and sessing of such subsidy, or tax within the County of Lyncolne, and shallbe for this time contributory, and pay the said subsidy, to the collector or collectors, which shallbe assigned and appointed for the levying and gathering of the same, with the Aldermen and Burgesses of the said Borough and Town of Stampforde.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons, having manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, chargeable to the payment of the subsidy, granted to the Queen's Majesty, by this act, and also having spiritual possessions, chargeable to her said Majesty, by the grant made by the Clergy of this realm, in their convocation: And over this having substance in goods and cattles chargeable by this said act, that then if any of the said person or persons, be hereafter charged, assessed, and taxed for the said manors, lands, and tenements, and spiritual possessions, and also assessed, charged, and taxed, for his or their goods and chattels, that then he or they shallbe only charged by virtue of this act, for his and their said manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and spiritual possessions, or only for his said goods and cattles, the best thereof to be taken for the Queen's Majesty, & not to be charged for both, or double charged for any of them: any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this grant of subsidy, nor any thing therein contained, in any wise extend to charge the inhabitants or dwellers in Ireland, jernesey, and Garnesey, or any of them, of, or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions, goods, cattles, or other movable substance, which the said inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use, have within Ireland, jernsey, & Garnsey, or in any of them, or of, for or concerning any fees or wages, which any of the said inhabitants or dwellers, have of the Queen's Majesty for their attendance & doing service to our sovereign Lady, in Ireland, jernesey, & Garnesey, or in any of them: any thing in this present act, to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that this present act of subsidy ne any thing therein contained, extend to any of the english inhabitants or resiants in any of the Counties of Northumberlande, Cumberland, Westmoreland, the Town of Berwick, the Town of Newcastle upon Tine, and the bishopric of Durham, nor to any of them, of, for, or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions, goods, chattels, or other movable substance which the same inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use, have within the said Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmerlande, or the Town of Berwick, the Town of Newcastel upon Tine, or the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, or of, for or concerning any fees or wages which any of the said inhabitants or dwellers, have of the Queen's Majesty, for their attendance and doing service to the Queen's Majesty, for, or within the said Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, the Town of Berwick, the Town of Newcastle upon Tine, & the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, to, or for the said taxing, levying, gathering, or payment, but that the English inhabitants or resiants, and every of them, of the said Counties, bishoprics, and Towns, and every of them, shallbe of and from the said subsidy, and every parcel thereof, and for their manors, lands, tenements, fees, wages, goods, and chattels, lying and being in the said Counties, Towns, and bishopric, or any of them, utterly acquitted and discharged: any thing in this present act before rehearsed to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that all letters patents granted by the Queen's Majesty, or any of her most noble progenitors, to any Cities, boroughs, or Towns within this Realm, of any manner of liberties, privileges, or exemptions, from the burden and charge of any such grants of subsidies, which be at this present time in force and vailable, shall remain good and effectual to the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns hereafter, according to the purportes thereof, though the inhabitants of the same, shall upon the great and weighty consideration of the grant abovesaid, be for this grant charged and contributory, in like manner, form, and sort as other Cities, boroughs, and Towns, which be not in any wise privileged, be from such grant of subsidy excepted.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Orphan or Infant, within the age of twenty & one years, borne within any of the Queen's majesties dominions, shallbe charged to any payment of this subsidy, for his or her goods and chattels, to him or her left or bequeathed: any thing in this act contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that this act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to the goods or lands of any College, Hall, or Ostell, within the universities of Oxenford and Cambridge, or any of them, or to the goods or lands of the College of Winton, founded by bishop of Wyckeham, or to the goods or lands of the college of Eton next Wyndsor, or to the goods or lands or any common free grammar school within the realm of England or Wales or to the goods of any Reader, schoolmaster, or Scholar, or any graduate within the said universities and colleges, or any of them there remaynying for study, without fraud or covin, or to the goods and lands of any hospital measondue, or spittelhouse, prepared and used for the sustentation and relief of poor people: any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it enacted, that forasmuch as divers and sundry the Queen's majesties tenants, and other inhabitants and dwellers within the Counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnouce, Mongomerye, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan, & of the County Palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged and chargeable with the several payments of divers great sums of money, by the name of Miso due to her Majesty, according to the several customs of the said Counties.  
Be it therefore ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act of subsidy, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge any of the Queen's tenants, & other inhabitants and dwellers, within any of the said Counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnoure, Mongomerye, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth; Anglesey, Carnarvan, and the County Palentine of Chester, being charged or chargeable with the said Mice, for, or in any of the payments of the said subsidy granted to the Queen's Majesty by this act, until the said several days and times for the payment of the said Mises shallbe expired, and until the days & times of the several subsidies, lately granted to our late sovereign lord & sovereign lady, King Philip & Queen Mary be also past and expired, & that then the first payment of the said subsidy granted by this present act, shallbe made at the receipt of the Queen's Exchequer, before the first day of March next following after the last days of the last payment to be had or appointed of the said Mises, and of the payment of the said former subsidies. And the second payment of this subsidy, to be made by, or before the first day of March next after the said first payment of the said subsidy.  
Furthermore be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the tenants and dwellers of every of the said Counties in this proviso remembered, shall severally before the feast of Pentecost next ensuing, certify into the said court of the Exchequer, under the seals of two justices of peace of every of the said Counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when & what day the last payment of the said several Mises now due in any of the said Counties, shall end and expire.  
Provided also, that the said grant of subsidy, or any other thing therein contained, do not in any wise extend to be prejudicial or hurtful to the inhabitants or resiants at this present time, within the five ports corporate, or to any of their members incorporate, or united to the same five ports, or to any of the same five ports, of, or for any part or parcel of the said sums granted in this parliament, of the said inhabitants now resiant, or any of them, to be taxed, set, asked levied, or paid. But the said inhabitants and resiants in the said five ports, and their members, be and shallbe of, and from the said grant and payment of the said subsidy, during their resiauncie there, and no longer, clearly acquitted and discharged: any matter, or whatsoever thing in this present act had or made to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
God save the Queen.    

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