A SUBSIDY Granted to the KING, OF Tonnage, Poundage, and other Sums of Money, payable upon Merchandise, exported, and imported.  
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M. DC. XLII.   

A SUBSIDY Granted to the KING, OF Tonnage, Poundage, and other Sums of Money, payable upon Merchandise, exported, and imported.  
IN most humble wise show unto your most excellent Majesty, Your Loyal and Obedient Subjects, the Commons in this Your present Parliament Assembled: That in and by several Acts formerly made this present Parliament, for the granting to Your Majesty of the Subsidies of Tonnage, Poundage, and other Sums of money payable upon merchandise exported, and imported, It is Declared and Enacted, That it is and hath been the ancient right of the Subects of this Realm, That no Subsidy, Custom, Impost or other Charges whatsoever ought or may be laid or imposed upon any merchandise exported or imported by Subject's Denizens or Aliens without common consent in Parliament. By which said several Acts, it is likewise Declared, That the Sums of money thereby granted upon merchandise, are not the rates intended to be continued, but the same to be hereafter in this present Parliament altered in such manner as shall be thought fit. The said Commons, upon due consideration had of the present state and condition of the trade of this Your Realm, and of the nature, quality & several uses of the goods & merchandise exported and imported, have now accordingly agreed upon, and established such Rates, Values and Payments upon goods & marchandizes to be exported and imported, as are expressed in a Book of Rates entitled, The Rates of Merchandise, That is to say, the Subsidy of Tonnage, the Subsidy of Poundage, and the Subsidy of Woollen  or old Draperies, as they are rated and agreed on by the Commons House of Parliament, set down and expressed in this Book, to be paid according to the Tenor of the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, from the first day of july, Anno Domini 1642. During the continuance of the said Act, and ordered to be printed. And forasmuch as we do repose trust and confidence in your Majesty in and for the guarding and defending of the Seas, against all persons intending or that shall intent the disturbance of Your said Commons in the intercourse of trade and the invading of this Your Realm: And for the better defraying the necessary expenses thereof, which cannot otherwise be effected without great charge to Your Majesty; We Your said Commons, by the advice and consent of the Lords in this Your present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same to the intent aforesaid, do give and grant to You our Supreme Liege Lord and Sovereign, One Subsidy called Tonnage (that is to say) of every Tun of Wine of the growth of France or of any the Dominions of the French King, or Crown of France that shall come into the Port of London and the members thereof by way of merchandise, by Your natural born Subjects, the sum of four pounds and ten shillings of currant English money, and so after that rate and by Strangers and aliens, six pounds of like money: And of every Tun of the like Wine which shall be brought into all and every the other ports and places of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof, by way of merchandise by Your natural born Subjects, the sum of three pounds, and by Aliens four pounds ten shillings: And of every But, or Pipe of Muscadels, Malmeseys, Cutes, Tents, Allicants, Bastards, Sacks, Canaries, Mallagoes, Maderoes and other Wines whatsoever, commonly called Sweet wines, of the growth of the Levant, Spain, Portugal or of any the Islands or Dominions to them or any of them belonging or elsewhere, that shall come or be brought into the Port of London by Your natural born Subjects, the sum of forty five shillings of eurrant English money, and so after that rate: and by Strangers and Aliens three pounds of like money: And of every But and Pipe of the like wine, which shall be brought into all and every the other Ports and Places of this Kingdom and Dominions thereof by way of merchandise, by Your natural born Subjects the sum of thirty shillings, and by Strangers forty five shillings, and of every Awme of Rhenish or wine of the growth of Germany, that shall be brought into this Your Realm and Dominions thereof by Your natural born Subjects, the sum of twenty shillings of currant English money: And by strangers and Aliens twenty and five shillings: Which several Rates are the same which are expressed in the said Book of Rates.  
And also one other Subsidy called Poundage (that is to say) of all manner of goods and merchandise of every Merchant natural borne Subject, Denizen and Alien, to be carried out of this Realm, or any Your Majesty's Dominions to the same belonging, or to be brought into the same by way of merchandise of the value of every twenty shillings of the same goods and merchandise according to the several and particular rates and vallews of the same goods and merchandise as the same are particularly and respectively rated and valued in the afore mentioned Book, twelve pence, and so after that rate: And of every twenty shillings value of any the native Commodities of this Realm or Manufactures wrought of any such native Commodities to be carried out of this Realm, by every or any Merchant Alien, according to the value thereof, in the said Book expressed, twelve pence over and above the twelve pence aforesaid (except and foreprized out of this Grant of Subsidy of Poundage, all manner of Woollen  made or wrought, or to be made or wrought within this Realm of England, commonly called Old Draperies: And all Wines before limited to pay Subsidy 〈◊〉 Tonnage: And all manner of fish English taken and brought by English bottoms into this Realm: And all manner of fresh fish and bestial that shall come into the same Your Realm.  
And further, we Your said Commons by the advice, assent and authority aforesaid, Do give and grant unto You our said Liege Lord and Sovereign, for the causes aforesaid, one other Subsidy (that is to say) of and for every short Woollen Cloth to be exported by Your natural born Subjects of this Your Realm and the Dominions thereof called broad Cloth, not exceeding twenty eight yards in length, and threescore and four pounds in weight, the sum of six shillings and eight pence of currant English money, and of every Cloth of greater length and weight proportionably, according to the same rate, and of every other short Cloth of Old Drapery of lesser length and weight, accounting so many pieces to a short Cloth, as are limited and appointed thereunto in the Book of Rates aforesaid, to be likewise exported by Your natural born Subjects, the like sum of six shillings eight pence, and so after that Rate: And by Strangers and Aliens thirteen shillings four pence for every short Cloth accounted as aforesaid; which several Rates are accordingly expressed in the said Book of Rates, 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 first day of july, 1642. unto the first day of March next coming.  
And that it may be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Wines, Goods or other Merchandise whereof any the Subsidies aforesaid are, or shall be due, shall at any time hereafter be shipped, or put into any boat or other vessel, to the intent to be carried into the parts beyond the Seas, or else be brought from the parts beyond the Seas, into any Port, Place or Creek of this Realm, or other Your Majesty's Dominions by way of Merchandise, and unshipped to be laid on land, the Subsidy, Customs, and other Duties due or to be due for the same not paid, or lawfully tendered to the Collector thereof or his Deputy, (with the consent and agreement of the controller and Surveyor there, or one of them at the least) not agreed with for the same in the Customhouse, according to the true meaning of this Act: That then from the said first day of july, all the same Wine; Goods and Merchandise whatsoever shall be forfeit to Your Highness, and afterwards to Your Heirs and Successors, during the said time; The moiety of the rate thereof to Your Highness, and the other moiety to him or them that will seize the same 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 and honestly entreated and demeaned for such things as Subsidy by this Act is granted for as they were in the time of Your Noble Progenitors and Predecessors, without oppression to them to be down, paying the Subsidies aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any goods or Merchandise as aforesaid of any Merchant being borne Denizen after the said First day of july, during the Term of this grant hath been or shall be taken by any enemies or Pirates upon the Sea or perished in any ship or ships that shall happen to be taken or perished within the time of the said grant, whereof the Subsidies and other duties aforesaid, are or shall be duly paid or agreed for as a foresaid and that duly proved before the Treasurer of England, or chief Baron of the 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 by two credible witnesses at the least sworn or other reasonable witnesses and proof sworn. Then the same Merchant or Merchants, his or their Executors, or Administrators shall or may newly ship in the same Port where the goods and Merchandise aforesaid were or shall be customed, so much other merchandise or goods as the same goods or Merchandise that are or shall be lost as aforesaid shall amount unto in Custom without paying any thing for the same, so as the same proof be recorded & allowed of in the Court of Exchequer, & certified unto the Collectors of the Customs of the Port where the same wares and Merchandise are to be newly Shipped without Custom as aforesaid: And further, That every Merchant Denizen that shall hereafter Ship any Goods and Merchandise in any Charrack or Gally, shall pay to your Majesty all manner of Customs, and all the Subsidies aforesaid, as any Alien borne out of the Realm.  
Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful to all and every of the Subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King, at His and their will and pleasure to carry and transport out of this Realm, in the Ships or other Vessels of any the Subiecs aforesaid, all and every kind of Heerings or other Sea-fish, to be taken upon the Seas by any of the Subjects aforesaid, from or out of any Port, or Harbour of this Realm, to any place out of the King's Dominions, without paying any Custom, Subsidy or Poundage money for the same Herring & Fish so carried or transported, during this present Grant of Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, any thing before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And it is further Enacted, That any Customer or controller or any other Officer or person, That after the Determination of this Grant, shall take or receive or cause to be taken or received the said Subsidy, Sums of money, or any other Imposition, Sum or Sums of money upon any Merchandise whatsoever, exported or imported, except the same by Grant in Parliament, be due or by such Grant shall become due or have been continually paid from the end of the reign of the late King Edward the third, until the beginning of the Reign of the late Queen Mary; shall incur and sustain the pains, penalties and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statutes of Provision & Praemunire, made in the sixteenth year of King Richard the second: And shall also from henceforth be disabled during his life, to sue or implead any person in any action real, mixed or personal, or in any Court whatsoever.  
And that His Majesty's Customers, Comptrollers and other Officers, from the greatness of the said Penalties in this present Act, and in the said former Acts in this present Parliament, inflicted & set upon them, may not out of fear thereof be discouraged from demanding and taking the just and lawful Customs, Duties, and Sums of money due unto His Majesty, upon Trade and Merchandise without this present Grant, or any the before mentioned Acts heretofore made in this present Parliament. It is therefore hereby Declared, That the ancient Customs due upon Wools, wool-fells, and Leather, that is to say of Denizens, half a mark of a sack of Wool, half a mark of three hundred wool-fells, a mark of a last of Leather: and of Aliens ten shillings of a sack of Wool, ten shillings of three hundred wool-fells, & twenty shillings of a last of Leather Prisage, That is to say, of every vessel wherein shall be imported twenty tons of wine or more: One tun before the mast and one other tun behind the mast; And if there be less than twenty tons and ten tons or above in the vessel only one tun, paying the sraight butlerage▪ that is to say, two shillings upon every tun of wine imported by strangers. Three pence upon the pound of all Goods or Merchandise imported by Strangers, and other duties due by Carta Mercatoria, made the 31 of Edward the first, and confirmed by Parliament, in the 27 of Edw. the third: three pence upon every Sow of Lead, twelve pence upon every Chalder of sea-coal exported from New castle upon Time, to any other Ports or parts of this Realm. The Customs and Sums of Money to be paid upon exportation of Wheat & other corn and grain, by the Statutes made in the 13 and 35 years of Queen Elis. and the 3 year of His now Majesty's reign, and upon exportation of Beer, by the Statutes made in the 3 year of King james, and in the 3 year of His now Majesty's reign, & upon exportation of any Leather, Tallow or raw Hides, according to the Statute made in the ●8 year of Queen Elis. and all other Customs Duties, & Payments upon Goods & Marchandizes exported or imported into or out of the Kingdom and the Dominion of Wales now due by grant in any former Parliament, or due or payable to the Crown without any Imposition thereof, set by the King's Majesty that now is, or any of His predecessors Kings or Queens of this Realm, are the rights of the Crown of England.  
And be it further Enacted, That from and after the last day of August Anno Domini 1642. No Corrants shall be imported into His Majesty's Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales, by any Merchants, Strangers, Denizens or others, by way of Merchandise from any parts beyond the Seas: But the importing thereof from and after the said last day of August is hereby prohibited and forbidden. And all Corrants that shall be imported, contrary to the intent aforesaid shall be forfeited. The one moiety to the King, His Heirs and Successors, The other moiety to the Imformer.  
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Book of Rates composed and agreed on by your Majesty's said Commons: And also every Article and Clause therein contained shall be and remain during the time of this present Act & no longer, as effectual to all intents and purposes as if the same were included particularly in the body of this present Act.  
And it is further Enacted, That during the continuance of this Grant, the Customers, Collectors and all other His Majesty's Officers in the several Ports, shall take and receive such fees in manner and no other as were taken in the 4 year of the reign of the late King james, until such time as the said Fees shall be otherwise settled by authority in Parliament.  
FINIS.