Bills brought in this Session.
Bills brought in this Session.
An Act for the better preserving of His Majesty's
Revenue.
An Act for forging, falsifying, and counterfeiting
of the King's Majesty's Seals, of His Highness's Courts
of King's Bench, Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and
Dutchy.
An Act for the better Maintenance of Hospitals and
Alms-houses.
An Act for the making of the Arms of the Kingdom
more serviceable in Time to come.
An Act for the Restitution in Blood of Carewe Raleigh, Son of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, late attainted
of High Treason.
An Act for the Confirmation of certain Letters Patents, made by the late King, of Famous Memory, King
James, to the Governor and Company of the New
River, brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London;
and for granting of Liberties to the said Governor and
Company.
An Act for the establishing of the Lands of John
Starkey, late of Darley, in the County of Chester,
Esquire, deceased, in Ralph Starkey, his eldest Son.
An Act for the better Government of the Company
of Silk-throwsters in and about the City of London.
An Act to enable Vincent Lowe, of Denby, in the
County of Derby, Esquire, to sell Part of his Lands, for
the Payment of his Debts.
An Act to avoid the Fraudulent Leases and Mortgages made by John Wrenham, to his Wives, Sisters,
and others his Friends; and to reverse all Orders and
Decrees made in the Court of Chancery, for the Confirmation of the said Leases and Mortgages.
An Act for the Assurance of a Jointure to Dame
Frances, Wife of Sir Thomas Nevill, Knight, Son and
Heir Apparent of Sir Henry Nevill, Knight, Lord Abergavenny; and to enable the same Lord and Sir Thomas
to sell certain Lands, for Payment of their Debts, and
Preferment of their younger Children.
An Act to reverse a Decree, made in the Court of
Wards and Liveries, the 12th Day of February, in the
16th Year of the Reign of the late King James, of
Famous Memory, of England, etc. in a Suit there depending, by Information, between the then Attorney
of the said Court, for and on the Behalf of the then
Daughter and Heir of William Lord Howard of Effingham, deceased, and now Wise of the Right Honourable
John Lord Mordant, and then His Majesty's Ward,
Complainant, and Charles late Lord of Nottingham, by
the Name of Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, and
Sir Henry Glenham, Knight, Defendants; and for making
void of an Entry made of Record, in the High Court
of Chancery, whereby the said Sir Henry Glenham did
vacate a Recognizance of Ten Thousand Pounds, in the
said Decree mentioned.
An Act for granting of a Tales de Circumstantibus, in
Trials of Assizes.
An Act for the increasing of Trade, and keeping of
Silver and Gold within the Realm.
An Act for the Confirmation and Continuance of
Hospitals and Free-schools.
An Act to enable certain Commissioners, to be named
by the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great
Seal, for the Time being, to make Sale of divers Lands
and Leases, late of Sir Richard Lydall, Knight, for
Payment of his Debts, and Provision for his Wife and
Children.
An Act for the Explanation of a Branch of the Statute, made in the Third Year of the Reign of our late
Sovereign Lord King James, intituled, An Act for the
better discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants.
An Act for the Maintenance and Increase of Shipping
and Navigation, and for the Free Liberty of Fishing
and Fishing Voyages, to be made and performed in and
upon the Seas, Sea-coasts, and Places of Newfoundland,
Virginia, New England, and other the Seas, Sea-coasts,
and Parts of America.
An Act for the Establishing and Confirmation of the
Foundation of the Hospital of King James, founded
in Charter House, in the County of Midd. at the
humble Petition, and only Costs and Charges, of Thomas Sutton, Esquire, and of the Possessions thereof.
An Act for the Sale of the Manor of Barrington,
and other Lands in Barrington and elsewhere, within
the County of Somersett, being the Inheritance of
Arthure Farwell, an Infant, and in Ward to His Majesty.
An Act to make void certain Assurances, fraudulently
made and set on Foot by Richard Lydall, Knight, in
Deceipt of Sir Peter Vanlore, Knight; and to settle
and vest the Possession and Interest of the Lands conveyed thereby in the said Sir Peter Vanlore.
An Act against the Exportation of Wool, Woolfells, Mortlings, Shorlings, Yarn made of Wool, Woolflocks, Fullers-earth, and Fulling-clay.
An Act to restrain and prevent some Disorders
that are, or may be, in the Ministers of God's Word.
An Act concerning Edmund Nicholson, a Projector of
the Prætermitted Customs.
An Act for the Naturalizing of Samuell Powell, the
Son of John Powell, of London, Merchant, and Jane
his Wife.
An Act concerning Apparel.
An Act to avoid the Benefit of Clergy in some
Cases, and to prevent the having the Clergy the Second
Time.
An Act for the better Maintenance of the Ministry.
An Act for the further Reformation of sundry Abuses
committed on the Lord's-day, commonly called Sunday.
An Act, That certain Clergymen shall not be Justices
of the Peace.
An Act concerning Citations issuing out of Ecclesiastical Courts.
An Act made for the better venting of Dyed,
Dressed, and Mingled Coloured Cloths and Kerfies,
New Draperies, and other Manufactures made of Wool,
into Parts beyond the Seas.
An Act for the better enabling of Sir George Rivers,
Knight, Richard Amherst, Serjeant at Law, and Edward
Lindsey, Esquire, to sell certain Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, mentioned to be conveyed
unto them, and to the Right Honourable the Lord William Howard of Naward, in the County of Comberland,
or some of them, by the late Right Honourable Richard
Earl of Dorsett, for and towards the Payment of the
Debts of the said Earl; and to raise Portions to his
Daughters and Coheirs, the Lady Margarett Sackvill
and Lady Isabill Sackvill, according to his Will in Writing; and for the Confirmation of the Sales by them
already made of Part thereof, for that Purpose; and for
the better settling and establishing of divers Manors,
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of the said late
Earl, upon the Right Honourable Edward Earl of
Dorset, of the most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight,
and his Sons, and the Heirs Males of the several Bodies
of the said Sons to be begotten; and upon the Right
Honourable Anne Countess Dowager of Dorsett, for
Term of her Life, for her Jointure; and upon the
Lady Margarett Sackevell, and the Lady Isabell Sacvill,
Daughters and Coheirs of the said Richard Earl of Dorsett, and upon the Heirs of their several Bodies respectively, according to the Purport of certain Conveyances,
hereafter in this Act mentioned to be made by the said
late Earl, deceased.
An Act for the better Preservation of the Mine of
Salt-petre.
An Act for the establishing of the Estates of the
Tenants of Bromfeild and Yale, in the County of
Denbigh, and of the Tenures, Rents, and Services,
thereupon reserved.
An Act for the establishing of a Free Grammar
School, and Lands thereunto belonging, in Wootton
Under-Edge, within the County of Gloucester, founded
in the Eighth Year of Richard the Second, late King of
England, by Katherine Lady Berkley.
An Act for the enabling of the Right Honourable
Dutton Lord Gerrard, Baron of Gerards Bromley, to
make a Jointure to any Wife which he shall hereafter
marry, and to make Provision for any his younger
Children; and for the better securing of Portions, and
Limitation of Maintenance, for Alice Gerard, Francis
Gerard, and Elizabeth Gerard, Sisters of the said Dutton
Lord Gerard, and Daughters of the late Right Honourable Gilbert Lord Gerard, deceased.