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for-: to !a. D. 1664; Anno decimo fexto & feptimo Caroli II, C. 12. 295 and Undertakers. The Truftees fhall fence and inclofe the third Part, £5V. The Penalty upon NegleiSt: to drain the faid Fens within ("even Years, and fo after to keep and maintain them. South-Dozens and ' liawthorne-Bank. How Meetings and By-Laws may be made for Management of the Dreining. By I whom Rates and Taxes may be made for the faid Work. How the fame may be levied. How Owners' i and Commoners may improve and inclofe their Shares. Who may determine of Boundaries, Improve- j iTients and Inclofures. Appeals in Cafes of Adjudication. The Oath to be taken by Commiffioncrs, '• The Places of Commiffioners Sitting. Their Power and Manner of Proceeding. I CAP. XII.

An Aft for making the River ^w/? Navigable from Chrift-Church to the City of Netv Sarum. Commlf- P R, i

'1 fioners to be appointed for making the River Avon Navigable. SatisfaiStion to Parties endamaged in any of their Lands. Commiffioners for Compounding with Perfons fo damnified. The Power of the faid' .1 Commiffioners. liow Commiffioners dying or renouncing, may be fupplied. The Powers to make Or- ■' ders and Conftitutions. To impofe Penalties upon the Breakers. Perfons grieved may appeal to the, Juftices of Affize. The Undertakers to have the Taxes upon Carts, Carriages, isV. Penalties, and how to recover the fame. Drawing and Haling of Barges, bfc. upon the Banks, provided for. No Wharf to be within New Sarum. The River, Havens, &c. to be under the Survey of the Undertakers .( and Commiffioners. Perfons fued for acSting upon this Aft, may plead the General IfTue. Wiley River. I Anno decimo feptimo Carol i fecundi Regis. ' A T the Parliament begun at Wejlminfter the eighth of May one thoufand fix Hundred fixty-one, and Said in thefo ' l. by divers Prorogations continued till the thirty-firft q>{ OSioher 17 Car. 2.' mer Editions, be held at Ox- C A P. I. ^"665.^°^' j An Aft for granting the Sum of twelve hundred and fifty thoufand Pounds to the King's Majefly, for his ' prefent further Supply. EXP. 19 Car. 2, c. 9. CAP. 11. ! ' An A(Et for reftraining Non-Conformifts from Inhabiting in Corporations. WHEREAS divers Parfons, Vicars, Curates, Lefturers and other Perfons in Holy Orders, have not declared their unfeigned Affent and Confent to the Ufa of all Things contained and pre- fcribed in the Book of Common Prayer, and Adminiftration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ce- remonies of the Church, according to the Ufe of the Church of England^ or have not fubfcribed the De- claration or Acknowledgment contained in a certain Aft- of Parliament made in the fourteenth Year of his Majefly's Reign, and intituled, AnAElfor the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Adminiftration of Sacra- 13 & 14 Car, a; rnenis and other Rites and Ceremonies, and for the Efiahlijhing the Form of Making., Ordaining and Confc- t^- 4. crating of Bijho-ps, Priefts and Deacons in the Church of 'E.n^znA, according to the faid Aft or any other fubfequent Aft. And whereas they or fome of them, and divers other Perfon and Perfons not Ordained according to the Form of the Church of England, and as have fmce the Aft of Oblivion taken upon them to Preach in unlawful Aflemblies, Conventicles or Meetings, under Colour or Pretence of Exercife of Religion, contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom, have fettled themfelves in divers Cor- porations in England, fometimes three or more of them in a Place, thereby taking an Opportunity to Di- ftil the poifonous Principles 6f Schifm and Rebellion into the Hearts of his Majefty's Subjefts, to the great Danger of the Church and Kingdom :' 11. Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent Perfons i-e/?rsin= of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the ed from inha- , Authority of the fame. That the faid Parfons, Vicars, Curates, Lefturers and other Perfons in Holy Or- biting in Car- ders, or pretended Holy Orders, or pretending to Holy Orders and all Stipendaries and other Perfons who P""*^^™^* have been poffeffed of any Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual Promotion, and every of them, Vi'ho have not declared their unfeigned AfTent and Confent as aforefaid, and fubfcribed the Declaration aforefaid, and fhall not take and fubfcribe the Oath following ;

  • (2) T A. B. do Swear, That it is not lawful upon any Pretence whatfoever, totake Arms againft therpjie oatj,^

' -J. King; and that I do abhor that traiterous Pofition of taking Arms by his Authority againft his Rep. 5020. ' Perfon, or againfi: thofe that are Commiffionated by him, in Purfuance of fuch Commifficns ; and that c. 6. ' I will not at any Time endeavour any Alteration of Government, either in Church or State.' III. And all fuch Perfon and Perfons as fhall take upon them to Preach in any unlawful AfTembly, Con- venticle or Meeting, under Colour or Pretence of any Exercife of Religion, contrary to the Laws ai^d Statutes of this Kingdom, ; (2) fhall not at any Time from and after the four and twentieth. Day of; Marljh -.which fhall be in this prefent Year of our Lord God one thoufand fix hundred fixty and five, unlefs only in Paffing upon the Road, come or be within five Miles of any City or Town Corporate, or Borough that fcnda