An EXACT and TRUE TABLE Of the FEES of the Chief, or Head-Searcher, and of His Majesties five Under-Searchers in the Port of London, Established by the Commons in PARLIAMENT, Anno 14 Car. 2.  
Together with an Account of the several Laws and Statutes that forbidden them to Exact, Require, or Receive, any other or greater Fee of any Merchant or other Person whatsoever, than the several Fees here under-specified, and the Penalty and Punishment of those Searchers or Officers that shall act contrary to the said Laws.  
Collected for the Benefit of all Persons, as well Merchants as others, Trading in the Port of London.  
The lawful Fees between the Chief, or Head-Searcher, and His Majesties five Vnder-Searchers that attend at London. s. d. For every Ship that passeth into Foreign Parts at clearing out SPAIN, Portugal, the straits, West-Indies, Guinny, or the Western-Islands. 06 00 East-India 10 00 All other English Ships into Foreign Parts 04 00 For every Stranger's Ship or Bottom 06 08 The Lawful Fees due to His Majesty's five Vnder-Searchers that attend at London. s. d. English and Aliens FOR every Certificate for shipping out Goods, formerly Imported 02 00 But if half the Subsidy to be received back amounts but to forty shillings, than 01 00 To be paid by English and Aliens for Goods that pay Subsidy and pass out by Cocquet or Warrant. Pipe, Puncheon, or Butt 00 04 Hogshead or Bagg 00 02 Tin, the Block or Barrel 00 01 Beer-eager, Wood of all sorts, Copperas, Allom, and such gross Goods, the Tun 00 04 Corn the Last, Sea-Coal the Cauldron, Beer the Tun, Led the Fodder 00 02 The Maund, Fat, or Pack 00 06 The Lawful Fees due to the five Under Searchers. s. d. To be paid by English and Aliens for Goods that pay Subsidy and pass out by Cocquet or Warrant. The Bundle, Bale, Chest, or Case, 00 03 Raisins and Figs, the twenty Frails or Barrels 00 03 Butter and such Goods, the Barrel 00 02 For every Cost Certificate or Cocquet 01 00 Transires for the Coast, free 00 00 For every Horse, Mare, or Gelding 01 00 For certifying every Debenture for receiving back half Subsidy, etc. 00 06 For every piece of Ordnance 01 00 For the Endorsement of every Cocquet 01 00 For every Certificate out of their Books, of Goods lost at Sea, taken by Pirates, or returned, whereby by so much may be shipped Custom-free 01 00 For every Bill of Sufferance, or Bill of Store above ten Shillings in the Book of Rates 01 00 If under 00 06 The Fardel or Truss by English of three hundred weight, or upwards 00 06 Woollen-Cloth, the Bale not exceeding five , or three hundred weight, Stuffs, Bays or Says 00 03 Merchants Strangers, Un-freemen of London, or such as ship on Strangers Ships or Vessels. The Fardel or Truss 01 00 The Bale 00 06  
Signed by virtue of an Order from the House of Commons Dated the 17 th' of May, 1662. E. TURNER.   

Note here, That Merchant's Strangers, Un-freemen of London, or such as Ship on Strangers Ships or Vessels, are not obliged to pay to the Searchers double Fees or Duties for any parcel of Goods whatsoever, except the Fardel or Truss, 1 s. and the Bale 6 d.  
Note also, That there is no Fees due to the Searchers, or any other Person whatsoever for Victualling Bills and Contents. And it is farther to be observed, That there is no Fee due to the Searchers, for any parcel of Goods that pass out by Cocquet or Warrant, that is not particularly expressed in the abovesaid Table, as for instance; for a Coach or Cart, etc. if they pass by Cocquet or Warrant, there is no Fee due, because not above expressed, but if by Bill of Store, than 6 d. and no more, by reason it pays under 10 s. Custom.  
Note, That every Searcher that belongs to the Customhouse, that takes greater Fees or Duties than what are above expressed, is guilty of that odious and abominable Crime Extortion, or Exaction, the Definition of which, you have in my Lord Cooks sense, to be this, (viz.) Extortion in its proper sense, is a great Misprision, by wresting, or unlawfully taking by any Officer, by colour of his Office, any money, or valuable thing, of or from any man, either that is not due, or more than is due, or before it be due. 1 Instit. pag. 368. And in the same page, he saith, that it is ever accompanied with the grievous sin of Perjury.  
Another saith, that Extortion is Wrong done by any Officer by colour of his Office, by taking excessive Reward or Fee for Execution of his Office, or otherwise; That it is no other thing than plain Robbery, or rather more odious than Robbery; for Robbery is apparent, and always hath with it the countenance of Vice; but Extortion being as great a Vice as Robbery, it carries with it a countenance of Virtue, by reason whereof it is the more hard to be tried or discerned, and therefore more Odious. Expos. Law-Terms, pag. 153.  
And because some there are that will not stick to stretch their Office, Credit, and Conscience, to purchase money, as well by Extortion as otherwise, it may not be amiss to give the Reader an account of those Laws, Orders, and Rules, which are now in Force, and established by Act of Parliament, and the Penalties that are inserted therein, that so all Searchers that shall offend in that kind, in taking any other or greater Fees than are above expressed and Established by Law, may know the Penalties and Dangers they incur, and so avoid them; and also that all Persons whatsoever grieved thereby, may know and be acquainted with their Remedy and Relief against all such Searchers that shall so offend.  
And in general, All Persons that are guilty of Extortion, or Exaction, are guilty of a Great Misprision, and so liable to be indicted; and for their Punishment, my Lord Cook saith, that the Ancient Common Law is, that Extortion and Exaction in His Majesty's Officers, is punishable by Fine and Imprisonment.  
12 Car. 2. For the particular Penalties against all Searchers that shall offend in this kind, see the 24th Rule in the Book of Rates, pursuant to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, which is as followeth (viz.) For avoiding of all Oppression by any of the Officers of the Customs in any Port of this Kingdom, in exacting unreasonable Fees from the Merchants, by reason of any Entry, or otherwise, touching the Shipping or Unshipping of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, It is Ordered, That no Officer, Clerk, or other, belonging to any Customhouse whatsoever, shall EXACT, REQVIRE, or RECEIVE any other, or greater Fee, of any Merchant or other whatsoever, than such as are, or shall be Established by the Commons in Parliament Assembled. If any Officer or other shall Offend contrary to this Order, he shall forfeit his Office and Place, and be for ever after uncapable of ●ny Office in the Customhouse. And it is further Provided by the said Act, that all Merchants, as well Denizens as Strangers, be well and honestly entreated ●nd demeaned, without Oppression to them to be done.  
14 Car. 2. And also in an Act entitled, An Act for Preventing Frauds, and Regulati●● Abuses in His Majesty's Customs, it is Provided and Enacted, That if any Person employed in His Majesty's Customs, shall demand or take any other or greate●●um of Money than by Law is now due, or hereafter shall become due, or shall put any Merchant or other out of his Turn, without express Order before, or immediate Approbation after, from the Person or Persons who are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to Manage his Customs, or the Superior Officers for the Customs; or shall illegally Detain the Goods of any Person, or shall Neglect or Refuse to make Repayments and Allowances, which are or shall be due since the ●●●th of June 1660. or shall not after Notice given, Give out and Execute his Warrant, shall be liable to double Costs and Damages.  
Munera ne capias, un●●●●●tet Hamus in Esca,  
Nulla carent Visco ●●●era, Virus habet.