CAP. XVII.
An Act concerning Welsh Cottons.
'WHEREAS in a Statute made at the first Session of Parliament holden at 'Westinster in the first Year of his Majesty's Reign[d 1], amongst other Things it was provided and enacted, That no Person or Persons should incur any Penalty for want of Length, Breadth or Weight of Welsh Cottons, under the Price of Fifteen-pence the Yard, and two Shillings the Goad, so as they be not mixed with Hair or other deceitful Stuff, nor for any other above that Price, except they be mix'd as aforesaid, or shall shrink above Half a Yard in twelve Yards at Length, or weigh less than fourteen Ounces the Yard, and hold not full three Quarters of a Yard broad, as by the same Statute appeareth; (2) which Proviso in the Construction of divers Persons doth not preserve such as make or sell coarse Welsh Cottons, from the Penalty and Danger of not adding or affixing a Seal to contain the Length, Breadth or Weight of the said Cottons, which Affixion of a Seal is needless when there is no Length, Breadth or Weight prescribed for them: (3) And moreover for that in all antecedent Ages the said Cottons being commonly used for Linings, were never seized as forfeited for want of the Seal of the Makers put unto them, nor used to be searched or tried by Water, but only by the Buyer:' No Penalty for want of a Seal of Welsh Cottons.(4) Be it therefore enaded by our Sovereign Lord the King, and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from henceforth no Person or Persons shall incur any Penalty for want of any Content Seal to contain the Breadth, Length or Weight of any Welsh Cottons: Welsh Cottons shall not be searched or tried.(5) And that no Welsh Cottons shall at any Time or Times hereafter be Marched or tried in the Water by any Person or Persons, other than by the Buyer thereof; (6) upon Pain to forfeit for every such Offence by the Party who shall make any such Search or Trial contrary to the Intent of this Statute, five Pounds of lawful Money of England; the one Moiety thereof to the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; the other Moiety to the Party grieved; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
CAP. XVIII.
An Act for the bringing in of a fresh Stream of running Water to the North Part of the City of London.
'FOR that it is found very convenient and necessary to have a fresh Stream of running Water to be brought to the North Parts of the City of London, from the Springs of Chadwel and .Amwel and other Springs in the County of Hertford not far distant from the same, which upon View is found very feasible, and like to be profitable to many:' It is therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. A new Trench may be made to convey the Water from Chadwel and Amwel to London.[a 1]That it shall be lawful to the Lord Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, and their Succesors, at any Time or Times hereafter, to begin and continue the laying out of such convenient Limits of Ground for the Making of the Trench for the said River at the Breadth of ten Foot and not above, as to them and their Deputies and Workmen, with the Allowance of the Commissioners hereafter mentioned, or any Seven of them, shall be seen convenient and meet for the same; (2) and in that Place that they shall find to be most apt and meet for that Purpose, to have and take for the Purpose abovesaid, the Use and Liberty of such and so much Ground, as shall contain ten Foot in Breadth and not above, during and by all the Length as the said new Channel, Cut or River, shall pass, for the Conveying of the said Water from the said Springs to the City of Londonleaving the Inheritance of the new Cut in the Owners thereof:
The Mayor, &c. of London may take and maintain the New Cut.II. And that the said Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of London, and their Successors for ever, for the Consideration hereafter expressed, shall have Liberty to dig the same Ground to be imployed for the said River or New Cut, not exceeding ten Foot in Breadth alongst all the said whole Length of the said River or New Cut, and from Time to Time for ever to maintain and preserve the same, and to lay the Earth there digged or to be digged on either Side of the same River or New Cut, in such Places as shall be thought meet for that Purpose; (2) and to have free Passage to and from the said New Cut or River, with Men, Horses, Carts and Carriages at all Times convenient, and in Places convenient, for making of the same New Cut or Trench, and for the Preserving of the same, and of the Banks thereof from Time to Time for ever, to the Intent that no Part of the said Stream be at any Time after the Making of the New Cut, without the Consent of the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of London, turned or conveyed out of the same New Cut or Watercourse.
Satisfaction shall be made to the Owners of the Ground where the New Cut is made.III. In Consideration whereof the Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of London, and their Successors, shall make such Satisfaction or Composition to and with the Lords, Owners and Occupiers of the same Grounds through which the New Cut or River shall be made, and with all such Person and Persons as shall sustain any Damage, Loss or Hindrance in their Mills Handing upon any of the Rivers or Streams from which the Water shall be taken through the said New Cut, or River, as shall be to the Contentment of the Lords, Owners and Occupiers of the said Grounds and Mills; (2) and in Default of their Agreement by mutual Assent, such Satisfaction or Recompence as shall be limited and appointed by the Commissioners to be assigned for that Purpoe, according to the Intent of this Statute, by the Lord Chan-
