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Statutes of the Realm
… it was thereby further provided and enacted That in case a Months Pay should [not 4] be provided and advanced as … the Yearly Sums hereafter mentioned (that is to say) for a Horse Horseman and Arms the Sum of Eight Pounds and for … Agreement of the Parties and if any Person so charged as a Contributor being Inhabitant of the said County Riding …
Statutes of the Realm
… and are daily imported and sold to the Impoverishment of a greate Number of Families in England whose Livelyhood … imported into the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall (from and after the … with all the said Goods. II. Such Importation, &c. a common Nuisance, and the Goods may be seized; and any …
Statutes of the Realm
… Chapter XVIII. An Act for repairing the Highways from the Towne of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley Hill in the County … Reasons for passing this Act Quarter Sessions to appoint a Surveyor of the Roads yearly; Notice to Persons appointed.; … so from time to time in every Yeare nominate and appoint a convenient number of sufficient and able Persons residing & …
Statutes of the Realm
… Silver and Gold Thread and Wire especially in not allowing a due Proportion of Fine Silver to Silk whereby the Silver … breaking and crumbling off from the Silk there not only is a great Loss to the respective Buyers but an irreparable Loss … become nonsuit or discontinue his or their Action or if a Verdict pass against him or them the Defendant shall …
William III, 1697-8: An Act for taking away Half the Duties imposed on Glass Wares and the Whole Duties lately laid on Stone and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes and for granting (in lieu thereof) new Duties upon Whale Fins and Scotch Linen. [Chapter XLV. Rot. Parl. 9 Gul.III.p. 7.n.5.]
Statutes of the Realm
… carrying on the Warr against France and for, establishing a National Land Bank and for taking off the Duties upon … for every Pound Weight thereof and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity And for all Whale Fins which are … for every Pound Weight thereof and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity to be paid by the Importer or …
Statutes of the Realm
… &c. given to the Commissioners of the Customs; And a Licence for lading and importing to be taken from the said … where the same are to be shipped or taken on board and a Licence shall be taken under the Hands of the Commissioners … thereof in the Custom-house in the said Port of London in a Book to be provided for that purpose only which said Entry …
Statutes of the Realm
… drawne in or dated att and from any Trading Citty or Towne or any other Place in the Kingdome of England Dominion … to be received) and is and shall be drawne payable att a certaine Number of Days Weeks or Months after Date thereof … and shall cause the said Bill or Bills to be protested by a Notary Publick and in default of such Notary Publick by any …
Statutes of the Realm
… to be determined by Officers of Corporation, or if out of a Corporation, then by Justice; who may administer an Oath … of Clipt and unlawfully diminisht and counterfeit Money is a more effectuall Meanes to preserve the Coine of this … Bayliffe or Bayliffs or other Chief Officer of any City or Towne Corporate where such Tender shall be made and if such …
Statutes of the Realm
… Earth and scouring Clay; Penalty. And whereas under a Pretention of carrying Fullers Earth and Scouring Clay into … nearest Port or Officer;and Notice of Removal; and to take a Certificate.; Penalty.; Officer to take Account gratis, and give Certificate; Fee to Officer. And whereas it is a common Practice in Romney March and other Place adjacent …
Statutes of the Realm
… Kingdom is permitted to be exported which was at that time a good and wholesom Law and tended to the Benefit of the … keeping Bullion at home to be coined Now forasmuch as by a subsequent Act made in the Eighth and Ninth Year of the … be prevented by the first recited Act But on the contrary a great Benefit may accrew to many Artificers and to the …