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 3i6 C. 4—6. Anno vkefinio Caroli II. A. D. 1668. J 6 Car. a. c, i. 31 Ed. 3, Stat, I, c, 12, Judgment may be given in Writs of Error in Prefence of the Lord Keeper, notwithftanding the Abfenceof the Lord Trea- fiirer. Seen Ann. c, 16, icbich p-vcs Cofis on quajhhig Writ Ekp. reft Laws to be put In Execution. The enclofed Lands all re-afForefted. All Eftates made out of it t» any Perfon whatever, to be null and void. The King may reftore a Game of Deer, but not above eight hundred. Provifo for Owners, Tenants and Occupiers. Former Offences remitted. Pannage {hall be re-enjoyed after Mich. 1687, And when and in what Manner all other Privileges. Provifo for the In- habitants of St, Brerih to enjoy the Wood growing upon a Place called Hudnals. R'liners Rights faved. Letters Patents for certain Woods and Iron-works, faved. Provifo for Thomas Prejlon and Dame Mary Stanhop Maly-Scot and other Lands of Sir Edward Filliers, excepted. Sa.ving for Bapiifiree Mainard, How far the Metes and Bounds of the Foreft Ihall extend, Coal-Mines and Grindftone Qiiarries may- be leafed. PR. CAP. IV. An Aft for proceeding to Judgment on Writs of Error brought in the Exchequer, HEREAS by a Statute made in the fixteenth Year of the King's moft Excellent Majefty, it was enaifted, That the not con-.ing of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treafurer, or either of them, at the Day of the Return of any Writ of Error to be fued forth by Virtue of the Statute made in the one and thirtieth Year of the Reign of King Edward the Third, fhall not caufe any Abatement or Difcon- tinuunce of any fuch Writ of Error ; (2) but if both the Chief Juftices of either Bench, or either of them, or any one of the faid great Officers, the Lord Chancellor or Lord Treafurer, fhall come to the Exchequer-Chamber, and there be prefent at the Day of the Return of any fuch Writ of Error, it fhall be no Abatement or Difcontinuance, but the Suit fhall proceed in Law to all Intents and Purpofes, as if both the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treafurer had come and been prefent at the Day and Place of the Return of any fuch Writ ; (3) in which faid Statute it is provided, That no Judgment fhall be given in fuch Suit or Writ of Error, unlefs both the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treafurer be prefent thereat. And whereas at this prefent Time there is no Lord Treafurer, and therefore by reafon of the faid Provifa no Judgment can be had in any Writ or Writs of Error, brought and yet depending, or to be brought, to the great Charges and Prejudice of his Majefty's Subjefts, and Delay of Juflice :' (4) For Remedy- wherein, be it therefore enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Con* fent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament aflembled. That Judgment fhall or may be given in any Suit, or Writ or Writs of Error now depending, or hereafter to be brought in- the Exchequer, in the Prefence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, notwithftanding the. Vacancy of a Lord Treafurer, in fuch Manner as hath been accuftomed when there was prefent the faid, two great Officers ; the faid Provifo in the faid Statute, or any Thing elfe therein contained, to the con-> trary in any wife notwithftanding. C A P. V. An K8i for giving Liberty to buy and export Leather, and Skins tanned or dreiTed. After the z^th of MarS^ 166S. all Sorts of Leather may be exported. The Continuance of this Act to 1675, i^c. Further con-- tinued by i Annse, flat. 2. c. 13. 9 Annas, c. 6. CAP. VL An A(5t to regulate the Trade of Silk-Throwing, IS W. 7. c, II. « Silk-Thrnwing cbQnictcd by a £y La«-, The fame By- Law made voiJ, and the Com- pany difabled to make any fuch Rrttraint. Silk-winders or ■Doublets otfend. in^, to be cora- niilted to Pri- foD, 13"^ 1 4. Car, 2, «,;5. ^, 6. HEREAS the Art of Working and Throwing of Silk (for many Years paft giving Imployment to the Poor of the Kingdom) hath of late been obftruifted, by reafon thr.t the prefent Alafter and ' Wardens, and Part of the Affiil'ants and Commonalty of the Trade, Art or Myftery of Silk- Throwers ' of the City of London, have endeavoured to put in Execution a certain By-Law, by them made near ' forty Years fmce, reftraining and ftinting the Freemen of the faid Company, that they fhall not worjc ' with above the Number of one hundred and fixty Spindles at one Time, and the Alfiftants of the faid ' Company with above the Number of tv/o hundred and forty Spindles : Which is an Hindrance to the ' Growth and Improvement of the faid Art, and a Reflraint to the working of Silks in this Kingdom, ' and puts the Traders in that Commodity upon a Neccffity of ufing foreign Throv.'n-Silfc.' II. Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, with the Advice and Conient of the Lords Spiritual and Tempor.11, and Commons, aflembled in Parliament, That the faid By-Law is hereby void and null, and the faid Company are hereby difabled from making any By-Law for the future which fhall reftrain or limit the Number of Mills, Spindles or other Utenfds to be employed by any of the Free- men of the faid Company, in or about the faid Art or Myftery. III. And be It ena(5i:ed by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Silk-winder or Doubler fhall hereafter be- found faulty in unjuftly, deceitfully or falfly purloining, hnbezilling, pawning, felling or detaining any- Silk committed to his or their Truft, That then any Juftire of Peace, Mayor, Bailiff or Chief Officer of any Countyj Liberty or Corporation, fliall immediately upon Conviction by Confeffion of the Party, or upon the Oath of one Witnefs before any of the ftid' Juftice or Juft-ices of the Peace or other Officer, com- mit to Prifon or to the Hoiife of Corre£Hon the Offender, till Satisfa£tion be given to the Party wronged or Puniflimcnt inflidled, as by an KEX of Parliament, intituled. An A^Si for Regidatlng the Trade of Silk-Throtu- ing, made this prefent Parliament, is direfted and appointed ; any Thing in the faid AQ: contained to the contrary hereof in any wife notwitliftaliding. IVv And
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