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 148 C. 4' Anno duodecimo Carol i II. A. D. 1660. put into any Boat or Veffel, to the Intent to be carried into the Parts beyond the Seas, or elfe be brought from the Parts beyond the Seas into any Port, Place or Creek of this Realm or other your Majefty's Dominions, by way of Merchandize, and unfliipped to be laid on Land, the ijubfidy, Cufboms and other Duties due or to be due for the fame, not paid or lawfully tendred to the CoUecftor thereof or his Deputy, with the Confent and Agreement of the Comptroller and Surveyor there or one of them-at the leaft, nor agreed with for the fame in the Cuftom-Houfe according to the true Meaning of this Aifl, that then, from the faid four and twentieth Day of jfune, all the fame Wines, Goods and Merchandizes whatfoever, fhall be forfeit to your Majefty ; the one Moiety rf the Rate thereof to your Majefty, and the other Moiety to him or them that will feife the fame or fue for the fame; and that it may pleafe your Majefty, That all Merchants, as well Denizens as Strangers, StfanMrsYhall comiiig into this your Realm, be well and honeftly intreated and demeaned, for fuch Things as bub- be wdJintreat- fidy by this A(5t is granted, as they were in the Time of your Noble Progenitors and Predeceffors-, eti. without Oppreffion to them to be done, paying the Subfidies aforefaid. AProvifofor IV- And be it further enacTted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Goods or Merchandize a$ fuch whofe _ aforefaid, of any Merchant being born Denizen, after the faid four and twentieth Day of June, liath by'pirates,"or*" ^^^" °^ ^' ^'^V Time hereafter during your Majefty's Life fliall be taken by any Enemies or Pirates upon peri (h on the the Sea, or periihed, in any Ship or Ships that Ihall happen to be taken or periftied during your Ma- S**- jefty's Life, whereof the Subfidies and other Duties aforefaid are or fhall be duly paid or agreed for as aforefaid, and that duly proved before the Treafurer of England, Commiflioners of the Treafury or Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the Time being, by the Examination of the fame Merchants if they be alive, or of their Executors or Adminiftrators if they be dead, or by two credible Witneffes at the leaft fworn, or other reafonable Witneffes and Proof fworn, then the fame Merchant or Merchants, his or their Exe- cutors or Adminiftrators, fhall or may newly ihip in the fame Port where the Goods and Merchandize aforefaid were or fliall be Cuftomed, lo much other Merchandize or Goods as the fame Goods or Mer- chandize are or ftiall be loft as aforefaid fliall amount unto in Ciiftom, without paying of any Thing for the fame; (2) fo as the fame Proof be recorded and allowed of in the Court of Exchequer, and certified unto the Collet5tors of the Cuftoms of the Port where the fame Wares or Merchandizes are to be newly The Cufioms of Shipped without Cuftom as aforefaid : (3) And further, That every Merchant-Denizen who fliall here- ^".?^Catrack^ ^^^^'' ^^'P ^"^ Goods or Merchandize in any Carrack or Galley, flhall pay to your Majefty all manner or Griiie*s"^° ' of Cuftoms and all the Subfidies aforefaid, as any Alien born out of tlie Realm, Shipp.ng of V. Provided always. That it ftiall and may be lawful to all and every your Subjedts at his and their Herrings. Will and Pleafure, to convey and tranfport out of this Realm, in Ships and other Veffels of any the Sub- jetSts of this Realm, all and every kind of Herrings and other Sea-fifli, to be taken on the Sea by any the Subjefts aforefaid, from or out of any Port or Harbour of this Realm, to any Place out of your Majefty's Dominions, without paying any Cuftom, Subfidy or Poundage-Monies for the fame Her- rings or other Fifti fo carried or tranfported, during your Majefty's Life ; any Thing herein before con- tained to the contrary notwithftanding. NoRitestobe ' VI. And becaufe no Rates can be impofed upon Merchandize imported or exported by Subjects or impofedonMer- « Aliens, but by common Confent in Parliament;' (2) Be it further enacfted and declared by the Autho- curAuthwi'ty" ^^^V aforefaid. That the Rates intended by this prefent A<ft fhall be the Rates mentioned and expreffed in of Parliament, one Book of Rates, intituled. The Rates of Merchandize, that is to fay, the Subfidy of Tonnage, the Sub- ABook of Rates fidy of Poundage, and the Subfidy of Woollen Clothes or Old Draperies, as they are rated and agreed on climmonsHoure ^V '^^^ Commons Houfe of Parliament, fet down and expreffed in this Book, to be paid according to the of Pariament. Tenor of the A(5t of Tonnage and Poundage, from the twenty-fourth Day of fune inclufively, in the twelfth Year of his Majefty's Reign, during his Majefty's Life, and fubfcribed with the Hand of Sir Har- bottle Grimfton,'B?iYonex., Speaker of the Houfe of Commons ; (3) which faid Book of Rates compofed and agreed on by your Majefty's faid Commons, and alfo every Article, Rule and Claufe therein contained, fhall be and remain during your Majefty's Life, as effedtual to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the fame were included particularly in the Body of this prefent A&., The Fees of VII. And it is further enafted. That during the Continuance of this prefent Grant where the Goods Cuftom Officers, exported or imported amount to the Value of five Pounds or more, the Cuftomers and Colleftors, and all other his Majefty's Ofiicers in the feveral Ports, fhall take and receive fuch Fees and no other, as were taken in the fourth Year of the late King James, until fuch Time as the faid Fees fhall be otherwife fet- tled by Authority of Parliament. AProvifofor VIII. Provided always. That no Perfon or Perfons, who after the four and twentieth Day of June'in foch as paid be- the Year one thoufand fix hundred and fixty, and before the four and twentieth of July in the fame Year, ziio, ^**' haye paid, received or collefled any Duties or Cuftoms, according to the Rates ufed in April one thoufand fix hundred and fixty, fhall be molefted or any way impeached for or concerning the Payment or Receipt of the faid Duties or any other Duties by this A61 impofed. IX. And it is hereby further declared. That no Perfon who hath fliipped any Goods fince the faid four and twentieth of %«^, and before the faid four and twentieth oi July, fhall be liable to the Payment of any Duties therefore, other than fuch as were ufed to be paid in the faid Month of April one thoufand fix hundred and fixty. Goods which X. Provided always, and be it enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That it fhall and may be lawful for may be exported any Perfon or Perfons, immediately from and after the raffing of this Aft, to tranfport, fhip and carry terThePaffioK^" ^^^ °^ ^^'^ Kingdom, or out of any Port thereof, byway of Merchandize, any ofthefe Commodities, this Aft. Goods and Merchandizes following ; that is to fay. Iron, Armour, Bandeleers, Bridle-bits, Halbert-heads and Sharps, Holfters, Mufkets, Carbines, Fowling-pieces, Piftols, Pike-heads, Sword or Rapier-blades, Saddles, Snaffles, Styrrops, Calve-Skins dreffed or undreffed, Geldings, Oxen, Sheep-fkins dreffed with- out