to be recover- ters of a yard, or full half yard in breadth; and that each quarter-piece of plain white linen cloth thall be full ten yards in length, and shall be full yard, or full three quarters of a yard, or full half an yard in breadth. Penalty 5 s.for II. And be it further enacted, That every person offending in every yard; any of the matters aforefaid, contrary to the directions of this act, do and fhall for every fuch offence forfeit and pay the sum of five fhillings for every yard of cloth; and that the offences aforefaid shall be examinable and determinable in fuch manner, and the faid forfeitures and penalties fhall be fued for, levied and recovered, as the penalty of five fhillings fterling mentioned in the said former act is directed to be examined and determined, fued for, levied and recovered. Ann. c. 21. 7 Ann. c. 7. CA P. XXI. An act to explain part of an act made in the feventh year of her Majesty's reign, (for enlarging the capital stock of the bank of England, and for raising a further fupply to her Majesty, for the service of the year one thousand seven bundred and nine) fo far as the fame relates to unwrought incle imported into this kingdom. W HEREAS by an act made in the seventh year of the reign of her prefent Majefty, inituled, An act for enlarging the capital stock of the bank of England, and for raising a further fupply to her Majefty, for the service of the year one thousand feven hundred and nine, it is exprefly enacted and provided, That all European linens, fifters thread and tapes, or incles (among other things) shall be exempted from the payment of the duties called the two third fubfidies, for all times to come during the continuance of the fame: and whereas fom: doubts and difputes have arifen between the commiffioners of her Majesty's cufoms and the merchants and other importers of the Jaid tapes and incles, by means of the uncertainty whether the exception of the tape or incle, mentioned in the faid act, be only of tapes that are wrought incle, fo that all wrought incle is thereby exempted from the payment of the aforesaid duties, though manufactured abroad in parts beyond the feas, and unwrought incles, which imploy great numbers of poor in manufacturing the fame, is conftrued to be liable to, and is charged with the faid duties, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the faid law, as appears evidently, in that the bringing in and importing wrought incle, is prejudicial to Great BriEuropean un- tain, and the poor fubjects and manufacturers thereof; be it therewrought incle fore enacted and declared by the Queen's most excellent majefty, exempted from the du- by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and ties of the two temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, third fubfidies, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid provifion and exception in the said act above mentioned, in relation to tapes or incles, fhall extend and be construed to exempt European unwrought incle, commonly called or known by the name of fhort fpinnal, as well as wrought incle, from the payment of the faid duftes of the two third fubfidies, which shall be entred at any of her Majesty's Majesty's custom-houses within the kingdom of Great Britain, after the twentieth day of July one thousand seven hundred and fourteen; any law, custom or ufage to the contrary hereof in any wife notwithstanding. CAP. XXII. An act to continue an act of the fixth year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to enable her Majefty to make leafes and copies of offices, lands and hereditaments, parcel of her dutchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the fame. EXP. CAP. XXIII. An act for reducing the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, sturdy beg- Repealed gars and vagrants, into one act of parliament; and for the more effec- 13Geo. 2.c.24. fual punishing fuch rogues, vagabonds, fturdy beggars and vagrants, 17 Geo. 2. c. 5. and fending them whether they ought to be fent. Who shall be deemed rogues and vagabonds. Conftables, &c. may apprehend a vagabond, and carry him before a justice. Constable, &c. neglecting, to forfeit 10s. to the poor. Justice may order a reward of 2 s. for apprehending a vagabond, to be paid by the conitable where he paffed unapprehended, on penalty of 20 s. Justices to order a general privy search in the night. Perfons apprehended to be examined and fent by the juftices to their legal settlement. Examination to be tranfmitted to the feffions. If no legal fettlement can be found, he shall be sent to the place of his birth. If under the age of 14, to the abode of father or mother, or where last found begging, &c. Perfons having a legal fettlement, found wandering, &c. may be whipped or fent to the house of correction. How the charges of conveying shall be born. Dangerous rogues to be sent to the houfe of correction or gaol, till next quarter-feffions, who may order them to be whipt and kept to hard labour. And any fuch rogue escaping from prison shall be guilty of felony. Juftice fhall not make a pafs for conveying a vagrant to the place of his birth, if he has any legal fettlement, on forfeiture of 51. Perfons apprehended refusing to be examined, &c. may be punished as incorrigible rogues. Juftices to certify the manner, time, and allowance for conveying, &c. Conftable, &c. to convey the perfon as directed by the pass, and deliver him to the constable, &c. of the place whither fent, taking a note of such delivery; which the faid constable, &c. is required to give, and to apply to fome juftice, who fhall cause such vagabond to be whipt, &c. and conveyed forward, &c. No conftable obliged to receive any perfon, unless it appear he has been whipt, (except women with child, foldiers, &c.) Juftices in quarter-feffions to appoint rates for conveying of vagrants. Quarter-feffions to caufe fuch fums to be raised as monies for county gaols or bridges: to be paid to the chief constables, who shall account for the fame twice a year. Chief constable to pay petty constable the rates afcertained in the certificate, and be allowed it on his account. Counterfeiting, &c. any certificate, forfeits 201. above the fum taken. One half to the poor, the other to informer, to be levied by distress. Justices may examine conftable, &c. on oath, concerning the conveying, &c. Parish to which conveyed, fhall employ such person in work. Refufing to work, he shall be sent to the houfe of correction. Penalty on a parish for fuffering fuch perfon to wander again. Perfon wandering again, to be sent to the house of correction till next feffions, and then to give fecurity for good behaviour for one year, or be deemed an incorrigible rogue. Perfon found to have no fettlement, &c. fhall be an appren tice for seven years, either here or in the plantations. Mafter, &c. of fuch perfon fo bound and transported, to enter into a recognizance, that he shall be imployed in the Queen's plantations, &e. Perfons aggrieved by orders of justices may appeal to quarter-feffions, whofe determination shall be final. Constables, &c. to remove blind and lame beggars, &c. and whip them if they refuse, or offend a fecond time, on penalty of 10 s. Duty of juftices in regard to lunaticks. Not to extend to abridge the Queen's VOL. XIII. prero K L prerogative, or the power of the lord chancellor. Master of a ship bringing any rogue, &c. into this realm, from Ireland, the plantations, &c. fhall forfeit 51. &c. And the perfon fo brought over fhall be fent back. Penalty on the mafter of the hip how to be recovered. Master may traverse the order of the juftices, giving 50l. fecurity to answer the cofts, &c. Masters of ships, &c. bound for Ireland, &c. to take vagrants on board, and convey them to Ireland, &c. on forfeiture of 51. Conftable remifs in his duty, and perfons disturbing, &c. the execution of this act, and rescuing, &c. any perfon apprehended, fhall for every offence forfeit 20 s. to the poor. The acts 39 Eliz. c. 4. 1 Jac. 1. c. 7. and fo much of 7 Jac. 1. c. 4. as relates to the privy fearch, repealed. Not to extend to prejudice the heirs or affigns of John Dutton, &c. REP. Anno Regni GEORGII I. Regis Magnæ A T the parliament met at Westminster the first day of August, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, in the first year of the reign of our fovereign Lord George by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. on occafion of the demise of her late majesty Queen Anne (of blessed memory) in pursuance of the act of the fixth year of her faid late Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for the further fecurity of her Majesty's person and government, and of the fucceffion to the crown of Great Britain in the proteftant (a) The follow line, (a) and by adjournments continued until the twentyfollow-line, added from the fifth day of the fame month. ing words are inrollment. 1 Ann. ftat. J. C. 7. CAP. I. An act for the better fupport of his Majefty's houfhold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain MA AY it please your most excellent Majesty, Whereas by an act of parliament made in the first year of the reign of our late Sovereign lady Queen Anne (of bleffed memory,) intituled, An act for the better fupport of her Majefty's houfhold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, it was (amongst other things) enacled, That the rates and duties of excife, upon beer, ale, and other 12 Car.2.c.23. liquors, which had been granted to his late majesty King Charles the 2 W. & M. feff. 1. c. 3. Second, (of bleed memory) by an act made in the twelfth year of his reign, intituled, A grant of certain impofitions upon beer, ale, and other liquors, for the increase of his Majefty's revenue during his life, and which were granted to their late majefties King William and Queen Mary (of bleffed memory) by an act made in the fecond year of their reign, for their lives, and the life of the furvivor of them (a certain duty of fix pence for every barrel of vinegarbeer, granted by the fame acts, excepted) and also a duty of fix pence, part of a duty of eight shillings, which was granted to his faid late majesty King William, for and upon every barrel of vinegar, vinegar-beer, or liquor preparing for vinegar, which fhould be brewed or made of any English materials, by any person or persons whatsoever for fale, and so in proportion for a greater or leffer quantity, by I 23. an act made in the tenth year of his reign: and likewife the further 10 & 11 W. 3. fubfidy of tonnage and poundage, and other duties upon wines, goods c. 21. and merchandizes, which had been granted to his faid late majesty King William for his life, by an act made in the ninth year of his reign, 9 & 10 W 3. intituled, An act for granting to his Majesty a further fubfidy of c. tonnage and poundage, towards raising the yearly fum of seven hundred thousand pounds, for the fervice of his Majefty's houshold, and other uses therein mentioned, during his Majefty's life, should be levied, collected, and paid to her faid late majefty Ann. ftat. x. Queen Anne, for and during the term of her natural life: and in c. 7. and by the faid act of the first year of the reign of her faid late majesty Queen Anne, it was enacted and declared, That the hereditary rates and duties of excife upon beer, ale, and other liquors, which were granted to the crown in the twelfth year of the reign of the faid late King Charles the Second, and the faid duties of excife upon beer, ale, and other liquors, granted to her Majefty by the faid act of the first year of her reign, for her life (fubject nevertheless to the incumbrances in that act mentioned) and the monies arifing by the said further fubfidy of tonnage and poundage, and other duties thereby granted, and the revenue arifing in the general letter-office or post-office, or office For the appliof post-master general, and the small branches of her Majesty's revenues, cation of the therein particularly defcribed or mentioned, fhould be for the fupport Surplus arifing of her Majesty's houfhold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, See 1 Geo. 1. from this act, as by the faid act of the first year of her faid late Majesty's reign itat. 2. c. 12. (relation being thereunto had) may more fully appear: now we your f. 25. and Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Bri- 7 Geo. 1. ftat. tain in parliament affembled, being defirous to fettle on your Majesty a competent revenue, for defraying the expences of your Majesty's civil government, and better supporting the dignity of the crown of Great Britain, during your life (which God long preserve) and as a testimony of our unfeigned affection to your facred perfon, by whose peaceable and happy acceffion to the throne (after the loss of our late moft gracious fovereign Lady) your Majesty's fubjects are not only delivered from the fear of their enemies, but have a profpect (which they are bound to own with thankfulness to Almighty God) that the religion, laws and liberties of this realm will be continued, and that they your faid fubjects, and their pofterity may, through his divine goodness, enjoy a long tranquillity under your Majesty's aufpicious reign, have therefore freely and unanimously refolved to give and grant, and do by this act give and grant to you our most gracious fovereign lord King George, the feveral rates, duties, impofitions and charges herein after mentioned, during your Majesty's life; and do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted: and be it enacted, &c. During the life of his Majefty, the cond shall be paid to King George. poundage, granted by the act of the I. C. 27. excife granted to King Charles the Se- 12 Car. 2.c.23. C. 21. & 10 W. 3. C. 23. 1 Ann. stat. 1. C. 7. 2 & 3 Ann. C. 3. 10 & 11 W. 3. the life of King George, be paid to his Majefty, Thefe faid duties, and the revenue of the poft office, and the small branches of his Majesty's revenues, viz. Fines for writs of covenant, and writs of entry, payable in the alienation-office, the poft-fines, the revenue of the wine-licences, theriffs profers and compofitions in the Exchequer, feizures of uncustomed and prohibited goods, his Majefty's rents of lands, or for fines of leafes, and all other revenues fettled for the fupport of her late Majesty's houfhold, &c. (except the duty of four and an half per cent. in Barbadoes and the 12 & 13 W. 3. Leeward Inlands, and except the revenue of the dutchy of Cornwall, and except the first-fruits and tenths of the clergy,) fhall be for the support of his Majefty's houthold, and of the honour and dignity of his crown. The weekly fum of three thousand seven hundred pounds charged upon the excife, fhall be taken out of the faid duties of excife granted to King George. Nothing in this act shall hinder the payment of the weekly fum of feven hundred pounds out of the poft-office. The fum of thirty-five thousand pounds, payable out of the excife, granted during the term of thirty two years, fhall be charged upon the faid duties of excise granted to King George. EXP. C. 12. 2 & Ann.c.3. 3 Ann. c. 2. Ann. c. 10. 9 Ann. c. 23. 650221. 8s. 8d. VIII. And whereas by an act made in the laft feffion of this prefent for the Hano- parliament, intituled, An act for laying additional duties on fope over troops, and paper, and upon certain linens, filks, callicoes and ftuffs, 12Ann.ftat. 2. and upon ftarch, and upon exported coals, and upon stampt C. 9. Reward for taking the pretender. vellum, parchment and paper, for raifing one million four hundred thousand pounds by way of a lottery, for her Majesty's fupply; and for allowances on exporting made wares of leather, fheep skins and lamb skins; and for distribution of four thoufand pounds, due to the officers and feamen for gun-money; and to adjust the property of tickets in former lotteries, and touching certain fhares of stock in the capital of the South Sea company; and for appropriating the monies granted to her Majesty, any fum not exceeding in the whole three hundred thousand pounds is appropriated towards fatisfying the debt due on account to the land-forces, and to the out-penfioners; in which faid debt due on account to the land forces, the fum of fixty-five thousand twenty-two pounds eight fillings and eight pence, being the arrears of pay and extraordinaries due to the troops of Hanover for their fervice in the Low Countries, in the year one thousand feven hundred and twelve, is included; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That out of the said sum of three hundred thousand pounds, there shall and may be iffued and applied the fum of fixty-five thousand twenty-two pounds eight fhillings and eight pence, for and towards the fatisfying and difcharging the faid arrears of pay and extraordinaries due to the said troops, as aforesaid. IX. And whereas our late gracious fovereign Queen Anne, of bleffed memory, being fully convinced of the imminent dangers which threatred her kingdoms, and the proteftant fucceffion in the house of Hanover, as well as from a just refentment of the indignities offered to her Majefly by the pretender's remaining in Lorrain, in defiance of her repeated inftances for his removal, and of the treasonable practices committed by inlifting her Majefty's fubjects in the fervice of the pretender, was pleafed to iffue her royal proclamation, thereby promising a reward of five thousand pounds to fuch person who should apprehend the pretender: and whereas the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, did by their humble addrefs affure her Majesty, that they would |