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A. D. 1558. other Hours or Times than is before limited and appointed; (3) 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 Merchandize and Goods, during and for that Voyage, shall forfeit and lose for every such Offence C. li. of lawful Money of England.

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Master, Shipper or Purser or other Person or Persons taking Charge of the Voyage, or the Merchants Goods, shall after the said Day, receive or take into any Ship Crayer or other Vessel, any Goods, Wages or Merchandize (except before excepted) to be carried or transported into any Parts beyond the Sea, or into the Realm of Scotland, before he shall have signified to the Customer of the Port where he ladeth, and 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 shall be usually resident, that he intended to lade, and to what Place he intendeth to pass; (2) nor shall after his or their full Lading depart out of the Port, Creek or Stream, where he shall so lade, 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 to answer to such questions as shall be ministred to him or them by the Customer or other Officer, concerning to such Wares or Merchandizes 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, C. li.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Owner, Master, Purser or other Person taking Charge of any Ship, Crayer, Vessel or Bottom, wherein any Goods, Wares or Merchandize (ex- cept before excepted) shall be laden and brought from any the Parts beyond the Sea, or the Realm of Scotland, shall after the said Day discharge into any Lighter or Bottom, and lay on Land, or pro- cure, cause or willingly suffer to be discharged into any Lighter or Bottom, and to be laid on Land out of the Ship, Crayer, Vessel or Bottom, any Goods, Wares or Merchandize 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 Creek, where he arriveth, the Names of every of the Merchants or Laders, and shall have truly answered to such Questions and Interrogatories touching or concerning such Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes, as shall be then laden in any such Ship, Vessel or Bottom, as shall be to him ministred 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; (2) upon Pain that every such Master, Purser or other Person or Per- sons taking Charge of such Ship, Crayer or other Vessel for that Voyage, shall forfeit and lose for every such Default not truly advertising nor answering, as is aforesaid, C. li.

VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said Day, no Person, Denizon ne Stranger, do take upon him to enter, or do or cause to be entered into the Books of any Cus- tomer, or any other Officer or Officers, of any Port or Haven within this Realm, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, Servant or Servants, any Manner of Goods, Wares or Merchandize 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 Merchandizes, being not sold, bargained or contracted for, to or with any other Person or Persons, before such Entry, or before the Arrival of such Goods, Wares or Mer- chandize in the Parts beyond the Sea, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the Value of the Goods so entred.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Wharfenegr, Cranekeeper, Searcher, Lighterman, Weigher 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 shall be committed or done, or else to the Lord Treasurer, Chan- cellor, Under-Treasurer or one of the Barons of the Exchequer, or the Attorney General for the Time be- ing, shall, for every such Concealment, or not disclosing such Offence, as is aforesaid, forfeit and lose C. li. of good and lawful Money of England.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the Customer of Hull shall have a Ser- vant or Deputy continually resident at the City of York; (2) and every other Customer, Comptroller and Searcher of every Port, shall from and after the Day aforesaid, assign and appoint to and in every of the Places above-mentioned, and in all and every Port, Creek or Road, where the Servant, or any of them, have been continually resident by the Space of ten Years, or hereafter shall be, as is aforesaid, one able and sufficient Deputy or Servant at least; (3) and that as well all and every of the Customers, Comptrollers and Searchers, as all and every his or their Deputy or Deputies, Servant and Servants, shall from Time to Time do his and their diligent Attendance at the Hours, Times and Places afore appointed, as well in the Custom- house, as elsewhere, as it shall be most expedient and convenient for the speedy Dispatch of the Merchant, and his Goods, Wares and Merchandize, 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 Successor, in the just Answering of your Highness due Customs and Subsidies; (4) upon Pain that every such Customer, Comptroller and Searcher shall forfeit and lose for every Offence by him or them committed or done, his or their several Office or Offices, and C. li. of lawful Money of England; the one Moiety of all which Forfeiture shall be 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 Essoin, Protection, Wager of Law or Injunction, shall be admitted and allowed. 'IX. And