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A.D. lyo^' Anno quinto Ann^ Reginae. C. 15 — 18. 237 any fuch unlicenfed Perfon or Perfons within the faid County, fhall forfeit for every Peck of fuch Afhes, which fliall be fo bought, the Sum of ten Shillings ; one Moiety thereof to the Poor of the Parifh where fuch Offence fhall be conrimitted, and the other Moiety thereof to fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall give In- ■ formation of the faid Offence; and it fhall be lawful for the Keepers and Officers of fuch Parts of the faid Foreft, and for the Owners of the Land or Soil where any the faid Offences fliall be committed, their Servants and Agents, to take away, for his and their own Ufe, the Scithes, Rakes, and other In- ftruments to be ufed for any the Purpofes aforefaid, of every Perfon and Perfons who they fhall find fo offending ; and it fliall be lawful for any one or more of her Majefty's Juftices of the Peace, upon Com- Jufticcs to iffue plaint made to him or them againft any Perfon or Perfons for any the faid Offences, to fend forth his or foj'offj'nders" their Warrant or Warrants to bring the Perfon or Peribns fo complained of before him or them ; and if the P-erfon or Perfons fo complained of, fhall be convi6L of any of the faid Offences before fuch Juftice or Juffices, by the Oath or Oaths of one or more Witnefs or Witneifes, then and in fuch Cafe the Party fo convidt, fliall immediately after fuch Conviftion, pay fuch Penalties and Forfeitures as are hereby be- fore impofed for the faid Offences refpe£lively, to fuch Perfon and Perfons as the fame Penalties and Forfeitures are hereby appointed to be paid ; and in Default thereof fhall be committed by fuch Juftice ^"nher pmi:- or Juiiices to the Houfe of Corredtion, there to be kept to hard Labour for the Space of one Month, -^"^ uhungto unlcfs the faid Penalties and Forfeitures fliall be in the mean Time paid. ^ Z"™' .^cJ.'i, c, 11. % Geo, I. c. 19. 10 Cce. z, c, 32. i6 Geo, 1, c. z. and zS Geo, z. c. iz, CAP. XV. An Aft for the better recruiting of her Majefty's Land Forces and the Marines, for the Year one thou- EXP. fand feven hundred and feven. C A P. XVL An Aft for continuing an Aft made in the third and fourth Years of her Majefty's Reign, intituled, y/« E x p. j^£} for punij}}hig Mutiny and Defertlon, and falj'e Mujlcrs, and for the betur Payment of the Army and garters. CAP. XVII. An Aft to repeal all the Laws prohibiting the Importation of foreign Lace made of Thread. WHEREAS it is by Experience found. That an Aft paffed in the Parliament holden at IFeJ}- minfler, in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King Charles 13 & 14 Car, z. the Second, intituled. An Acf prohibiting the Importation of foreign Bone Lace, Cut Work, Einbroiderw =• '3- Fringe,, Band Strings, Buttons, and Needle Work, as alfo divers other Afts heretofore made, prohibiting or reffraining the Importation of foreign Lace, or for rendring the Laws more effeftual for preventing ■ the Importion of foreign Lace, have obftrufted the Exportation and Vending or Selling of the Woollen Manufaftures of England in the Spanijh Low Countries, and other Places Abroad :' Now for the Remedy thereof, be it enafted, and it is hereby enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majeffy, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aiFembled, ard by the Authority of the fame. That the aforefaid Aft of the thirteenth aiid fourteenth "*i'ears of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and alfo all and every other Aft and A&.S of Parlia- All Afls which ment whatlbever which prohibit or reftrain the Importation, Vending, or Selling of foreign Lace, be P™'^!^ 'h^. i™- , henceforth repealed fo far forth as the faid Afts relate to foreign Lace made of Thread in the izM' Spanijh P°."'"'^" "*' '"J X.OW Countries, or in any other Place not within the Dominions of the French King ; and that the afore- ^3^"^. ^"' ^^ jnentioned Afts, and every Claufe, Matter and Thing in them contained, fo far as they relate to fuch -foreign Lace made of Thread (except as is before excepted) be and are hereby repealed and made void. II. Pfovided neverthelefs. That nothing in this Aft contained fliall any ways extend, or be conftrued Not to extend to to extend to permit or allow of the Importation of Lace made in any the Dominions of the French King, ^^" ™^^= '", or in any of the Lands, Towns, or Countries in the Poffeffion of the Duke of Anjou, fo long as they fliall ^^"'^^ '^f^A*' jemain or continue in the Poffeffion of the faid French King. or Duke refpeftively. W'sD'oiSnions. C A P. XVIII. An Aft for Inrollments of Bargain.? and Sales within the Weft Riding of the County of Tork, in the Regifter Office there lately provided, and for making the faid Regifter more eflfeftual,

  • HE R E A S by an Aft of Parliament made in the twenty-feventh Year of the Reign of King 27 H. 8. c. 16.

' V^ Henry the Eighth, intituled. For Inrollments of Bargains and Sales, it is enafted. That no Ma- Farther Provi- ' ncrs. Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments fhall pais, alter, or change from one to another, ^""^ relating ' whereby any Efi:ate of Inheritance or Freehold fliall be made, or take effeft in any Perfon or Perfons, fi'^AnnW c. -c ' or any Ufe thereof to be made, by .reafon only of any Bargain and Sale thereof, except the faid Bargaiii left. 34! ' ' ' and Sale be made by Writing indented, fcaled, and inrolled in one of the King's Courts of Record at ' JVeftminfter, or elfe within the fame County or Counties where the fame Manors, Lands, or Tenements ' fo bargained xnd fold lie or be, before the Citftos Rotuloruin, and two Juflices. of the Peace, and the ' Cle k of the Peace of the fame County or Counties, or two of them at the Icaft, whereof the Clerk of

  • the Peace to be one; -which Aft hath been found by Experience to be of little or no Ufe within the
  • Weft Riding of the County of Torky as to the Inrollments of Bargains and Sales within the faid Weft

' Riding,