466 C. 16, Anno iiono An N^ Reginje. A. D. 1710, .liicSfJ. A- or that fliall be put or expofcd to Sale, or that fhall be in any Hoy, Barge, Keel, Lighter, or other Boat or '71 Til °^' Veflej, within the Port of Z,5«^/fl«, or any other Port, and Ihall not be affifed and marked, or cut, as is in An'iifp, c/e.'ftz, *^'^'^ ^'^^ before direfced. That then upon Information thereof given to any Juftice of Peace of the County »■; t.iBce'chwood or to the Mayor, Bailiff, or other Head Officer of the City, Borough, or I'own Corporate, where the fui J Billet Billet is, or ihall lie or be expofed, or be put to Si!e, or be in any Hoy, Barge, Keel, Lighter, or other Boat or Veflel, as aforefaid, fuch Juftice of the Peace, Mayor, Bailiff, or other Head Oiiicer, flrall have Power and Authority to call before them fix good and lawful Men of the Town, Parifh, City, Boroucp. or Town Corporate, where the faid Billet is, fliall lie, or be expofed, or be put to Sale, or be in any Hoy' Barge, Keel, Lighter, or other Boat or Veffel, as aforefaid, and fnall fwear them upon their corporal Oaths, truly to inquire and prefent, whether all or any Part of the faid Billet be of good and fufiicicnt Affife, according to the Diredlion of this prefent A6i:; and if they fliall prefent upon their Oaths, that any of the faid Billets are not afilzed and marked, or cut, as is before direScd, That then the faid Juftice of Peace for the. faid County, or the faid Mayor, Bailiff, or other Fiend Officer of the faid City, Borough, c- Town Corporate, by Virtue of this Ait, upon their Prefentment, fhall and may talce fuch of the iaid iiii • tB be fnifeiieJ, lets as fliall not be marked or cut, or be falfe afhzed, as forfeited, and fhall deliver the fame to the Overfecrs and givL-n to the of the Poor in the iaid Town, P.rilli, City, Borough, or Town Corporate, to be by them given and di- ^"° ilributed to the Poor there, according to their Difcretions, from time to time, as often as fuch Offences ihall be prefented in Manner and Form, as aforefaid. Any Peifon filed - J[]. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefiiid, That if any Suit or ASion fuall happen at Aain*E!fecu" ^"^ Time or Times hereafter to be brought, commenced, or profecuted againfl: any Perfon or Perfons for tiun, may plead °'^ relating to any Matter or Thing which he or they fhall happen to do in putting in £?<ecution this prefent the General Aft; it fliall be lawful to and for fuch Perfon or Perfons, againft whom fuch Suit or Aftion fliall happen to Iffue, &c, be brought, as aforefaid, to plead the General Iffue, and to give this Aft and the fpecial Matter in Evi- dence; and if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in fuch Suit or Aftion fliall become nonfuit, or fuffer a Verdift to pafs againft him or them, or difcontinue his, or their Suit or Aflion, or Judgment fhall be given againft and fhall have ^i" or them upon any Demurrer, the Defendant or Defendants in fuch Suit or Aiffion fliall have Judgment Treble Colts. to recover his or their treble Cofts in fuch Suit or Aciion- Proprietors of IV. Provided alv/ays, and be it enadled by the Authority aforefaid. That any Owner or Proprietor of Treesmay mark, Trees, may lop. Cut, carry, mark, or omit to mark Billet of what Aillze, Length or Bignofs he pleafcs,
- '•. "^"'j"^ '"=" fuch Billet being for the private Ufe of the fiiid Ov.'ner and Proprietor only; any thing in this A£l contained
they pieafe'foT ^° ^^^ Contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. private Ufe, See farther lo W«p. c, 6, ivhkh provides that j^Jjlfe of Fuel fhall r.ot extend to Billets made of Beech-Wood, CAP. XVL An Acl to make an Attempt on the Life of a Privy Counfellor, in the Execution of his Of- fice, to be Felony without Benefit of Clergy. ' TyT/IIEREAS Anthony ch Guifcanl^ commonly called Marquis if^ Gz/zTcariri', a i^r^fw^ Papift, refiding ' v in England uniiev her Majefty's Proteifion, and fubfifted by her Majefty's Bounty for fome Years ' paft, was charged with holding a traiterous Correfpondence with France, and being taken into Cuftody ' for fuch his Treafon by Nathan TVilcocks, of the Parifh of St. James Wejlminjicr in the County o'i M'lddle- fex. Gentleman, one of her Majefty's Meffengers in Ordinary, by virtue of a Warrant of the Right. ' Honourable iiZ^wry 5«/?7if./a/;« Efquire, one of her Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State, and. on the • ' eighth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thoufand k'e.i hundred and ten, being under Exa- ' mination before a Committee of her Majefty's moft honourable Privy Council for the fame, perceiving ' his faid Ticafon to have been fully detefted, being conlcious of his Guilt, and dreading the Pain and. ' Infamy of his approaching Punifliment, in Hopes of preventing the fame, and in Revenge for the Dif*-, ' cov'ery of the faid Orffence, did, with a Penknife, in a barbarous and villainous JVIanner, ftab the. Right ' Honourable Robert Harley Efquire, Chancellor of her Majefty's Exchequer, and one of her Majefty's
- Privy Council, then prefent, and aflifting in that Committee, and endeavoured to v/ound others of her
' Majefty's Privy Council there : And whereas in the preventing further Mifchief from the Rage of the faid ' Anthony de Gtiifcard, and in apprehending and fecuring him, he the faid Anthony de Guifcard w^s iiqch&lxWy ' and unavoidably bruifed and wounded, and is fince dsad in the Prifon of Neivgale in the City oi London : ' And v/hereas no fuiScient Punifliment is provided for afTaulting or wounding a Privy Councellor in the ' Execution of his Office, by any Law now in Being;' 1 o the end that all Perfons may be deterred from After I May committing fuch Offences, and for preventing the like Mifchiefs for the Time to come; Be it enafircd by; T711. whoever ^j^g Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- 3 Hen. 7. c. 14. his Office, de- tging one of the moft honourable Privy Council of her Majefty, her Heirs or Succeffors, when in the Exc- ^'TirAf f'p"' <^'J<'' of '""'s Office of a Privy Councellor in Council, or in any Committee of Council, that then the Death as fuch'^ Perfon Or Perfons fo offending, bein,'i thereof conviQed in due Form of Law, fliall be and are hereby de- wJthout Clergy, clared to be Felons, and fhall fuffer Death as in Cafes of Felony, v>?ithout the Benefit of Clergy. ,"' . ., II. And be it further enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That the' laid Nathan JVikocks (who by an In- cocks^"&fVaved quifiticn taken the feventecnth Day of the faid Month o^ March, before George Rivers Efquire, Coroner of I katnifefs. ' the faid City oi London,] on View of the Body of the faid Anthony de Guifcard, then and there lying dead) is found to have 'given him, tlieTaid ^w^Z'otj' (/^ Gi^//?(7;-tifcverar mortal Br'uifss of 'which he'died, and all ^d
