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being Papists, shall inlist themselves in his Majesty's Service in Great Britain
or Ireland, or in the Islands of Jersey or Guernsey
[No. XLIII. ] 3 George I. c. 2.—An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and
for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters .....
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103
[ No. XLIV. ] 9 George II. c. 30.-An Act to prevent the listing his Majesty's
Subjects to serve as Soldiers without his Majesty's Licence
ib.
[No. XLV. ] 17 George II. c. 39.-An Act to make it High Treason to hold Cor-
respondence with the Sons of the Pretender to his Majesty's Crown; and for
attainting them of High Treason, in case they shall land or attempt to land in
Great Britain, or any of the Dominions thereunto belonging; and for suspend-
ing the operation and effect of a Clause in the Act of the seventh year of the
late Queen Anne, for improving the Union of the two Kingdoms, relating to
Forfeitures for High Treason, until after the Decease of the Sons of the said
Pretender
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[No. XLVI.] 20 George II. c. 30.-An Act for allowing Persons impeached of
High Treason, whereby any Corruption of Blood may be made, or for Mis-
prision of such Treason, to make their full Defence by Counsel .... ib.
[ No. XLVII. ] 29 George II. c. 17.-An Act to prevent his Majesty's Subjects
from serving as Officers under the French King; and for the better enforcing
an Act passed in the ninth year of his present Majesty's Reign, to prevent the
inlisting his Majesty's Subjects to serve as Soldiers without his Majesty's Li-
cence; and for obliging such of his Majesty's Subjects as shall accept Commis-
sions in the Scotch Brigade, in the Service of the States General of the United
Provinces, to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration
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104
[ No. XLVIII. ] 6 George III. c. 53.-An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration
and the Assurance; and for amending so much of the Act of the seventh year
of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the Improvement of the
Union of the Two Kingdoms; as, after the Time therein limited, requires the
Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of
High Treason or Misprision of Treason
.... ib.
[ No. XLIX. ] 12 George III. c. 24.-An Act for the better securing and preserving
his Majesty's Dock Yards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition, and Stores ... 105
[No. L.] 30 George 1II. c. 48.—An Act for discontinuing the Judgment which
has been required by Law to be given against Women convicted of certain
Crimes, and substituting another Judgment in lieu thereof ib.
[ No. LI.] 36 George III. c. 7.—An Act for the Safety and Preservation of his
Majesty's Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious Practices
and Attempts.-[18th December 1795.]
[No. LII. ] 36 George III. c. 8.-An Act for the more effectually preventing
Seditious Meetings and Assemblies.-[18th December 1795.] ......
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[ No. LIII. ] 37 George III. c. 70.-An Act for the better Prevention and Pun-
ishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in his Majesty's Forces by Sea or
Land, from their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to
Mutiny or Disobedience.-[6th June 1797.]
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[ No. LIV. ] 37 George III. c. 123.-An Act for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of unlawful Oaths.—[19th July 1797.] ... ib
[No. LV. ] 39 George III. c. 79.-An Act for the more effectual Suppression of
Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes; and for better
preventing Treasonable and Seditious Practices.-[12th July 1799.]
117
[ No. LVI. ] 39 George III. c. 93.-An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in
the seventh Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and also so much of an Act passed
in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Se-
cond, as puts an End to the Forfeiture of Inheritances upon Attainder of Trea-
son, after the Death of the Pretender and his Sons.-[12th July 1799.] .. 129
[ No. LVII. ] 39 and 40 George III. c. 93.-An Act for regulating Trials for
High Treason and Misprision of High Treason in certain Cases.-[28th July
1800.]
[No. LVIII. ] 39 and 40 George III. c. 95.-An Act to indemnify all Persons who
have printed, published, or dispersed, or who shall publish or disperse any Pa-
pers printed under the Authority of the Commissioners or Head Officers of any
Public Boards from all Penalties incurred by Reason of the Name and Place of
Abode of the Printer of such Papers not being printed thereon.-[28th July
130
[No. LIX.] 41 George III. (U. K.) c. 80.—An Act to indemnify all Persons who
have printed, published, or dispersed or who shall publish or disperse any Pa
pers printed under the Authority of any Head Officer of State, or of Publick
Boards, or other Publick Authorities, from all Penalties incurred by the Reason
of the Name and Place of Abode of the Printer of such Papers not being printed
thereon. [27th June 1801.]
[No. LX. ] 51 George III. c. 65.-An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in
the thirty-ninth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the more
effectual Suppression of Societies established for seditious and treasonable Pur-
poses, and for better preventing treasonable and seditious Practices," so far as
respects certain Penalties on Printers and Publishers,-[10th June 1811.] .. ib.
[No. LXI.] 52 George III. c. 104.-An Act to render more effectual an Act pass-
ed in the thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty, for preventing the admin-
istering or taking unlawful Oaths.-[9th July 1812.] .
... 132
[ No. LXI. a. ] 52 George III. c. 156.-An Act for the more effectual Punishment
of Persons aiding Prisoners of War to escape from his Majesty's Dominions.—
[29th July 1812.]
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[No. LXII. ] 53 George III. c. 99.-An Act for the more speedy and effectual
Trial and Punishment of Offences committed by Soldiers, detached in Places
beyond the Seas, out of his Majesty's Dominious.-[7th July 1813.] ................ 134
[ No. LXIII. ] 54 George III. c. 146.-An Act to alter the Punishment in certain
Cases of High Treason.-[27th July 1814.]
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[ No. LXIV. ] 57 George III. c. 6.—An Act to make perpetual certain Parts of an
Act of the thirty-sixth Year of his present Majesty's Person and Government
against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts; [and for the Safety
and Preservation of the Person of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent agaiust
Treasonable Practices and Attempts.]-[17th March 1817.] ....
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[No. LXV.] 57 George III. c. 7.-An Act to revive and make perpetual two Acts
of the thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty, the oue in the Parliament of
Great Britain, and the other in the Parliament of Ireland, for the better Pre-
vention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in his Majesty's
Forces by Sea or Land from their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesty, or to
incite them to Mutiny or Disobedience.-[17th March 1817.] ...
[No. LXVI.] 57 George III. c. 19.-An Act for the more effectually preventing
Seditious Meetings and Assemblies.-[31st March 1817.]
[ No. LXVII. ] 4 George IV. c. 87.-An Act to amend and render more effectual
the provisions of an Act, made in the fiftieth Year of his late Majesty's Reign,
for preventing the administering and taking unlawful Oaths in Ireland.-[18th
July 1823.]
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[ No. LXVIII. ] 6 George IV. c. 4.—An Act to amend certain Acts relating to un-
lawful Societies in Ireland.-[9th March 1825.]
[No. LXIX. ] 6 George IV. c. 47.-An Act for restricting the Punishment of
Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, in Scotland.—[22d June 1825.] ib.
PART V. CLASS III.
Offences relating to Coin and Bullion.
[No. I. ] 20 Edward I. st. 4.-Statutum de Moneta
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144
[ No. 11. ] 20 Edward I. st. 5.-Statutum de Moneta parvum
[ No. III.] 20 Edward I. st 6.-Articuli de Moneta
[No. IV. ] 27 Edward I.-Stat. De falsa Moneta
[ No. V. ] 28 Edward I. st. 3. c. 20.-Vessels of Gold shall be essayed, touched,
and marked. The King's Prerogative shall be saved
[ No. VI. ] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 1.-None shall convey Gold or Silver forth of
the Realm without the King's Licence
VOL. V.
B
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[ No. VI. a. ] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 2.-No false Money or counterfeit Sterling
shall be brought into the Realm
[No. VI. b. ] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 3.-No Sterling Farthing or Halfpenny shall
be molten to make Vessel
[No. VI. c. ] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 4.—Black Money shall not be current in this
Realm
[No. VI.d.] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 5.-The Reward of those that will sue against
the Offenders of this Statute
[No. VI.e.] 9 Edward III. st. 2. c. 9.-Search shall be made for Money carried
out, and false Money brought in
[No. VII. ] 17 Edward III.-Le Parliament tenus à Westm. à la Quinzeme de
Pasch. du raign nostre Seignur le Roi Edward Tiers apres le Conquest Dys et
Septime
[ No. VIII. ] 18 Edward III. st. 2. c. 6.—Money shall be made and Exchanges or-
dained, where the King shall please
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[ No. IX. ] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 2.-A Declaration which Offences shall be ad-
judged Treason
[No. X. ] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 12.-No Person shall take Profit by Exchange
of Gold or Silver
[No. XI. ] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 13.-The Money of Gold or Silver now current
shall not be impaired
[No. XII.] 25 Edward III. st. 5. c. 20.-Plate of Gold and Silver shall be received
into the King's Mint by Weight, and not by Number; and so shall the Money
be returned
[ No. XIII.] 27 Edward III. st. 2. c. 14.-Merchants may bring in Gold or Silver
to the King's Exchanges, and carry out as much
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[ No. XIV. ] 36 Edward III. st. 1. c. 2.-No Purveyance but for the King and
Queen. The Name of Purveyor changed into Buyer. Ready Payment shall be
made of Things purveyed, and they shall be appraised
[No. XV. ] 37 Edward III. c. 7.-Goldsmith's Work shall be of good Sterling,
and marked with his own mark. None shall make white Vessel and also
gild
[No. XVI.] 47 Edward III. c. 2.-The Value of a Scottish Groat shall be Three-
pence ......
[ No. XVII. ] Richard II. st. 1. c. 2.-None shall transport Gold or Silver, nor
depart out of the Realm, without Licence
[ No. XVIII. ] 14 Richard II. c. 12.-The Value of Scottish Money of several
Sorts
[No. XIX. ] 17 Richard II. c. 1.-There shall be no melting of Money to make
any thing thereof. Foreign Money shall not be current
[No. XX. ] 2 Henry IV. c. 5.—He that carrieth Gold or Silver out of the Realm
shall confess so much
mas
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[No. XXI. ] 2 Henry IV. c. 6.-The Money of Scotland and of other Countries
beyond the Sea, shall be voided out of England, or put to coin before Christ-
[No. XXII.] 4 Henry IV. c. 10-The Third Part of the Silver brought to the
Bullion, shall be coined in Halfpence and Farthings
[No. XXIII. ] 4 Henry IV. c. 16.-No Person shall carry Gold or Silver out of
[No. XXIV. ] 5, Henry IV. c. 9.-Merchants Aliens shall imploy their Monies
upon the Commodities of this Realm
[ No. XXV. ] 9 Henry IV. c. 8.-The carrying of Money out of the Realm to the
Court of Rome prohibited; and all Statutes against Provisors, and Translation
of Archbishopricks, &c. confirmed
152;
[ No. XXVI. ] 11 Henry IV. c. 5.-Gally Half-pence shall not be current in Pay-
ment in this Realm
153
[No. XXVII. ] 11 Henry IV. c. 8.-The Lord Chancellor shall send the Estreats
of Exchanges taken of Merchants into the Exchequer every fifteen Days 153
[No. XXVIII. ] 13 Henry IV. c. 6.—No Gally Half-pence or Foreign Money shall
be current within this Realin
[ No. XXIX. ] 2 Henry V. st. 2. c. 4.-There shall be gilding of Silver Ware, but
of the Allay of English Sterling
[ No. XXX. ] 3 Henry V. st. 1. c. 1.-It shall be Felony to Import or offer in Pay-
ment any sort of Money forbidden by former Statutes
[No. XXXI. ] 3 Henry V. st. 2. c. 6.-It shall be Treason to clip, wash, or file
Money
[ No. XXXII. ] 3 Henry V. st. 2. c. 7.-What Justices shall have Authority to hear
and determine the Offences of falsifying of Money
[ No. XXXIII. ] 8 Henry V. c. 2.-Certain Gold or Silver shall be brought to the
Mint instead of Wool or Tin transported
154
[ No. XXXIV. ] 8 Henry V. c. 3.—What Things only may be gilded, and what laid
on with Silver
[ No. XXXV. ] 9 Henry V. st. 1. c. 11.-No English Gold shall be received in Pay-
ment but by the King's Weight
[ No. XXXVI. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 1.-A Confirmation of all Statutes made
touching Money
[ No. XXXVI. a. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 2.-All men may resort to the King's Ex-
changes, or to the Tower, to have Money new coined
[ No. XXXVI. b. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 3.—At the King's Exchanges good Money
shall be delivered to the Parties, or else he that doth receive it may refuse it. 155
[ No. XXXVI. c. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 4.-The Officers of the Exchanges shall
bring to the Tower all the Gold or Silver which they buy or exchange
[ No XXXVI. d. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 5.-The Mint shall be at Calais ...... ib.
[ No XXXVI. e. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 6.-The Allay and Weight of Money
[ No. XXXVI. f. ] 9 Henry V. st. 2. c. 7.-The Weight of Gold shall be sent to
every City
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[ XXXVII. ] 1 Henry VI. c. 1.-The King's Council may assign Money to be
coined in as many Places as they will
[No. XXXVIII. 11 Henry VI. c. 4.-The Master of the Mint shall send to the
Mint to be coined all the Gold and Silver that shall come to his hands by Ex-
change
[ XXXIX. ] 2 Henry VI. c. 6.-For what Causes only Gold or Silver may be
carried out of the Realm
out .....
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[ No. XL. ] 2 Henry VI. c. 9.-The Money called Blanks shall be wholly put
156
[ No. XLI.] 2 Henry VI. c. 12.-The Office and Duty of the King's Assayer,
Controller, and Master of the Mint
[ No. XLII. ] 2 Henry VI. c. 13.-The Price of a Pound of Silver in Plate, Piece
or Mass
[No. XLIII. ] 27 Henry VI. c. 3.-Merchants Aliens shall bestow all their Money
upon other Merchandizes, and carry forth no Gold or Silver, upon Pain of For-
feiture thereof
[ No. XLIV. ] 17 Edward IV. c. 1.-An Act for Money
[ No. XLV. ] 4 Henry VII. c. 2.-Allaying of Gold and Silver, melting, selling,
and marking the same
[ No. XLVI. ] 4 Henry VII. c. 18.-The Forging of the Coin of other Realm al-
lowed to be current in this Realm shall be Treason
[ No. XLVIII. ] 14 & 15 Henry VIII. c. 12.-What Coiners shall do that make
Money at any Mint within England. Coiners that shall make any Money at
any Mint shall coin Part thereof Half-Angels, Groats, and small Money. The
Print of the Farthing. The tenth Part of Money coined for any Person shall be
paid in Half-pence and Farthings. This Act not to affect the Coiners of York,
Duresme, or Canterbury
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[ No. XLIX. ] 5 & 6 Edward VI. c. 19.—An Act touching the Exchange of Gold
and Silver
[No. L. ] 1 Mary, sess. 2. c. 6.—An Act that the counterfeiting of strange Coins
being current within this Realm, the Queen's Highness's Sign Manual, Signet
or Privy Seal, to be adjudged Treason
160
No. LI. ] 1 & 2 Philip and Mary, c. 11.-An Act for the Punishment of the
bringing in of the counterfeit Coins of Foreign Realms, being current within
this Realm
[No. LII. ] 5 Elizabeth, c. 11.-An Act against the Clipping, Washing, Round-
ing and Filing of Coins
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[No. LIII. ] 14 Elizabeth, c. 3.-An Act against the Forging and Counterfeiting
of Foreign Coin, being not current within this Realm
162
I No. LIV. ] 18 Elizabeth, c. 1.-An Act against the diminishing and impairing
of the Queen's Majesty's Coin, and other Coins current within this Realm.. ib.
[ No. LV. ] 18 Elizabeth, c. 15.-An Act for Reformation of Abuses in Gold-
smiths
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[ No. LVI. ] 13 & 14 Charles II. c. 31.-An Act to prevent the inconvenience aris-
ing by melting the Silver Coin of this Realm
164
[ No. LVII. ] 18 Charles II. c. 5.-An Act for encouraging of Coinage ..... ib.
[No. LVIII. ] 6 & 7 William III. c. 17.—An Act to prevent counterfeiting and clipping the Coin of this Kingdom
165
[No. LIX. ] 7 & 8 William III. c. 1.-An Act for remedying the ill State of the
Coin of the Kingdom
... 168
[No. LX. ] 7 & 8 Wililam III. c. 19.—An Act to encourage the bringing Plate
into the Mint to be coined, and for the remedying the ill State of the Coin of the
Kingdom...
[No. LXI.] 8 William III. c. 2.-An Act for the further remedying the ill State
of the Coin of the Kingdom
[ No. LXII. ] 8 William III. c. 8.-An Act for encouraging the bringing in wrought
Plate to be coined
[No. LXIII.] 8 & 9 William III. c. 26.—An Act for the better preventing the
counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom
[No. LXIV. ] 9 & 10 William III. c. 21.-An Act for the better preventing the
counterfeiting, clipping, and other diminishing the Coin of this Kingdom .. 172
[No. LXV. ] 1 Anne, st. 1. c. 9.—An Act for continuing the Act made in the
eighth Year of his late Majesty's reign, for better preventing the counterfeiting
the current Coin of this Kingdom
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[No. LXVI. ] 7 Anne, c. 25.-An Act for making perpetual an Act for the better
preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom, as also an Act
for giving like Remedy upon Promissory Notes as is used upon Bills of Exchange,
and for the better Payment of inland Bills of Exchange: and also for continuing
several Acts made in the fourth and fifth Year of her Majesty's reign, for pre-
venting frauds committed by Bankrupts
174
[No. LXVII. ] 6 George I. c. 11.-An Act for laying a Duty upon Wrought Plate;
and for applying Money arising for the clear Produce (by Sale of the forfeited.
Estates) towards answering his Majesty's Supply; and for taking off the Draw-
backs upon Hops exported for Ireland; and for Payment of Annuities to be
purchased after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum at the Exchequer
redeemable by Parliament; and for appropriating Supplies granted in this Ses-
sion of Parliament; and to prevent counterfeiting Receipts and Warrants of the
Officers of the South Sea Company; and for explaining a late Act concerning
foreign Salt cellared and locked up before the four-and-twentieth day of June
one thousand seven hundred and nineteen; and to give a further time for pay-
ing Duties on certain Apprentices' Indentures; and for Relief of Thomas Vernon
Esq., in relation to a Parcel of Senna imported in the Year one thousand seven
hundred and sixteen
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[ No. LXVIII. ] 12 George II. c. 26.—An Act for the better preventing Frauds and
Abuses in Gold and Silver Wares