A. D. 1530.' Anno vicefimo fecundo Henrici VIII. C. 6 — 8. 155 16 Geo. 2. 1. 20. xi Cu. a.r. 28. 24 Gn, %. t. 43. 26 <7«. 2. r. 28, y 30. 28 (7.-.?. c 1-. 30 C». 1. e. »8. ««/ 31 Get. 2. r. 34. .?/■<•/• .33. enabling Jujiiccl 10 pitrllaje Londl for Bridges; 29 60. 2, r. qa.fir widening London Bridge, and 31 6"«. 2. f. io. / n grjming 1 5CO0 .. building Lrndon Bridge. CAP. VI. If any Butcher keep a Tan-houfe, he fhall forfeit vi. s viii.d. a Day. Rf P- ' J- c - *• CAP. VII tip. 1 El.c. 18. C. 27. c 13. Jt*p. 1 Whofocvcr fhall convey any Horfes, Geldings, Mares, or Sheep, to any Parts beyond the Sea, without 37 H- the King's Licence (faving for the victualling of Calais) fhall forfeit xl. s. for every Poll. "Edi "6 , 5EI.V1* C A P. VIII. For Den"z.rns Strangers to pay Strangers Cuftoms. pRayen the Common-, in this prefent Pariiament aflbmbled, That where in a Parliament holdcn at Weft- Denizens <hA)
- a minfler the Seve A ember, in the Firft Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord of p»y like Coilomj
' famous Memory [ene . the Seventh (whofe Soul God pardon) it was ordained, eftablifhed, and = : thc y d,d bc ' ' enacV-J, by > thi id 1 1 ment, J hat every Perfon made, or after the making of the faid Act p^^l ' to be mad; I nizi n, mould pay of his Merchandifes like Cuftom and Subfidy as he ought or fhould pay , Ht -. c ", t ' afore thai he ivere made. Denizen; any Letters Patent, or other Ordinances by Parliament or otherwife, ' to the contrary notwithftanding; (2) which Statute and Ordinance was only made for Cuftom and Sub-
- fidy to be paid to the faid late King, and to our now Sovereign Lord; (2.) fithen which Time divers
' Grants have been- made to divers, as well Merchant Strangers, as other Aliens born out. of this Realm, ' to be Denizens, whereby they have and enjoy fuch Freedoms and Liberties, as do Denizens born within ' this Realm, being our faid Sovereign Lord the King's natural born Subjects, whereof there is'no fmall ' Number, and every Day increafe more and more, by the which the faid Aliens, to their Lucre and Avail,
- been incrcafed to great and notable Subftance and Riches, and the natural Subjects of our faid Sovereign
1 Lord and his Realm greatly impoverifhed, and after they be fo inrirhed, for the moft Part convey them- ' felves, with their faid Goods, to their own Country wherein thcy be naturally born, to the great Detri- ' ment of the Common Weal of this Realm of England, and the Subjects of the fame;' (4) It may therefore pleafe your Kighnefs, of your moft good and loving Difpofition, that ye bear and owe to the Common Wealth of this yourR.ealm, by the Adyice of your Lords Spiriturai and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament afiembled, and by Authority of the fame, to ordain, enact, and eftablifh, That every Aliens iWn, Perfon or Pe'rfons, whatfoever they be, born out of this Realm of England, out of the King's Obeifance, ™ a ^. e J??"L made or hereafter to be made Denizen, do pay to your Grace, and to your Heirs, and to all and every CurUm's^'nd^ other Perfon and Perfons, of what Eftate, Degree, or Condition he or they be, and to all and lingular Of- other Dutcs as ficcrs and Minifters of Cities, Boroughs, and Tdwns within this Realm of England, and to every of them, they did before, all fuch Subfidies, Cu.lomb, i oils, Duties, and other Sums of Money, for their Wares, Merchandifes, "H.7.C. 14. and other whatfoever Goods, by whatfoever Name or Names the faid Subfidies, Cuftoms, Tolls, Duties, ^sCar.i. c. 6. and other Sums of Monfy, or any of them, be named or called, as they fhould or ought to have paid before they were Denizens; any Grant or Grants to them made, or hereafter to be made, or any Act or Acts, Sta- tute, or Ordinance to the contrary made or had notwithftanding. II. Provided alway, That all and lingular Officers and Minifters of every City, Borough, or Town, A T.,b'e of Cu- wherein any fuch Cuflcm, Tolls, Duties, or Sums of Money fhall be demanded, as is abovefaid, on this Items, Teills, and) S.ide the Feaft of Pentecojl next coming, fhall fet up, or caufe to be fet up, in open Place and Places of P lltl "<. ffiail be every fuch City, Borough, or Town, a Table, or Tables, by which the Certainty and very Duty of every ciry^Eo'rouch 7 fuch Cuflom, Toll, and Du.y, or Sum of Money, of fuch Wares, and Merchandifes, to be demanded or r Town, required, as is above rehearfed, fhall and may plainly appear, and be declared, to the Intent that nothing be exacted otherwife than in old Time hath been ufed and accuftomed, (2) upon Pain of every City not doing the fame, to lofe v. 1. and every 1 own Corporate to lofe xl. s. for evciy Month that the fame Table fhall fail to be fet up after the fame" Feaft; the Moiety of which Forfeiture to be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Moiety to the Party that will (ue for the fame, by Writ, Bill, Plaint, or Information, (3) in which Action the Defendant fhall have no ElToin, Wager of Law, ne Protection allowed. III. Provided alway, and be it enacted by the Autho:ity aforefaid. That this Act, ne any other Act or The Merchants Acts made or to be made in 'his prefent Parliament concerning the Premiffes be not in any wife prejudicial ol the Stilyard. or hurtful unto the Merchants of the Hans of Almdtgrt, nor to any of them, having the Houfe within the City of London, commonly called Guild-haldaTheutomcorutn, otherwife called the Merchants of the Stilyard in London, nor to their Goods or Merchandifes, by whatfoever Name or Names rhey or any of them be call- ed, but that they, and eveiyof them, fhall have and enjoy all fuch Liberties, Franchifes, Cuftoms, and Privileges, as they had the Fiift Day of this prefent Parliament; any Thing or Things fpecified in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts, made or to be made in this prefent Parliament notwithftanding. X z Provided
