A. D, 153*1 Anno viccfimo tcrtio Hen rici VITI. C. 12 — 15. 1-3 C A P. XII. An Act for the Exaition of Tolls by the Severn Side. « itjr j HERE the King' - paffing upon the River and Water of Severn^ have ufed Time out of « VV Mind, to 1 Path of One 1 it and a Half Br ery Side of their Trows, Barges, Boats, and other Veflels parting or re- Liver of Severn, with Wine, or any other Merchandife, without any Impofition, Tax, if them that fhould carry Wine in any of the faid Veffel , for the faid paffing an I ned, till now of late certain covetous Perfons have perturbed and inter- ' rupti the King's Subjects, haling and drawing up their Veflels in the faid Paths, taking pi them Draughts, I ol Wine, and yet daily ufe to take, to the Difturbance and Lofs to ma- lub therefore enafled by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and The Penally of the ( in this prefent Parliament aflembled, That 'no Perfon or Perfons interrupt by any Obftacle, hindring Pif- Let, orotherwife, any Perfon or Perfons paffing or re-pafling, over and upon every of the faid Paths ac- B"nk7ouheRi- cuftomed, nor alio alk, take, or demand any Toll, called a Draught, or Bottle ofWine, or any other V cr of Severn, or Tax or fmpofition of any of the King's Subjects there going in the faid Paths accuftomed, upon every Side for demanding of of the River, of Severn, there haling or drawing their Boats, Trows, or Veflels, (z) upon Pain to forfeit Toll. for every Time that he or they fo (hall interrupt any of the King's Subject'., or afk or take any fuch Impo- fition, by what Name foever it be railed. Forty Shillings; the One Half thereof to be to the King our So- vereign Lord, and the other Half to the Party grieved, that will fue for the fame by Bill, Plaint, Informa- „ jj. 6. c. e. tion, or othu vt ife, in the which Suit no Eftbin, Wager of Law, nor Protection fhall be allowed. 19 H. -. c. ij. C A P. XIII. An Act for Trial of Murders in Cities and Towns. 'Orafmuch as Trials in Murders and Felonies in Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate within this 13 EJ. 1. r. 3S. ' .flat, r, i pcrer.Ji icing or of a Freeman, or any other Name, doth enjoy and ufe the Liberties and Privileges of any City, Borough, Towns /hall be or Town Corporate, where he dwclleth and maketh his Abode, being worth in moveable Goods and Sub- °>' , Ml n " r,il ftance to the clear Value of Forty Pounds, be from henceforth admitted in Trial of Murders and Felonies in GocJi * in every Seflions and Gaol-delivery, to be kept and holden in and for the Liberty of fuch Cities, Boroughs, r.nd Towns Corporate, albeit they have no Freehold ; any Act, Statute, Ufe, Cufl'om, or Ordinance to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. II. Provided alway, That this Act do not extend, in any Manner of wife, to any Knight or EfquMre, dwelling, abiding, or rcforting in or to any fuch City, Town, or Borough Corporate ; any thing in the fame Act mentioned or declared to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. l'-^" 1 ,^^ &c.cfJurt>n,wH.%.c.S. s & 3 Ed. 6. r. 32. 27 El. c. 6. 4 £f 5 VS. & M. c. 24. feS, 15. 7 & 8 IV. 3, c. 32. 3 Cm. 2. e. 25. 4 Ce,. %, c. j, 60.. z. :. 37. 24 Ccc. 2. c. lS. and 29 Co. 2. c. 19. CAP. XIV. Procefs of Outlawry to lie in Actions, on 5 Rich. 2. and in Covenant and Annuity. 1 TVOrafmuch as there is great Delay in Actions of Trefpafs brought upon the Statute of Richard the
- JP Second, made in the Fifth Year of his Reign, againft them that make Entries into any Lands or Te-
' r.ements where their Entry is not given by the Law, and alio in Actions of Annuity, and Actions of Cove -
- nant, becaufe there lieth no Procefs of Outlawry in fuch Nature of Actions :' (2) For Reformation where- ^ ^' oc ^ »
of, it may pleafe the King's Highnefs, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Com- wri'of Annota mons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by Authority of the fame, to-ordain and. enact, That like and CosenantJ ' Procefs be had hereafter in every Action from henceforth to be brought upon the faid Statute of Anna quinto, as in an Action as is in a common Action of Trefpafs at the Common Law, (3) and that alfo like Procefs be had in every of Dcbt - Writ of Annuity and Covenant hereafter to be fued, as is in an Action of Debt. S^ 2, tet> r * ' c. S. Br. Exigent, 22, 53, 63. Br. Procefs, 12.. :-.--. CAP. XV. An Aft that the Plaintiff, being nonfuited, fhall yield Damages to the Defendants in Actions perlbnal, by the Difcretion of the Juftices. BE it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and theCommons, Hutt.22, (79,7s. in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by Authority of the fame, That if any Perfon or Perfons, at ' £ o11 5 3- toy Time alter the Feaft of the Purification of. our Lady, in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of our ^j" "|*. Sove.-
