... . repealed. and that the said first-fruits and all payments thereof, from and after the said first day of this parliament, shall be revived, . . . and be . . . united and annexed to the imperial crown of this realm. . . . and also that as well so much of the said perpetual and annual Tenth and Pension granted by the said Act made in the said twentysixth year of the reign of the said late King Henry the Eighth, as also so much of the said yearly rents reserved upon the said several Letters Patents nomine decima, and also so many of the said rectories . . . and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid and the reversion and reversions thereof and all rents, emoluments and profits incident to the same, as were in the hands and possession of the said late Queen Mary at and before the said eighth day of August, shall from the Feast of St Michael the Archangel last past be . . . in the seisin and possession of our said Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors. V. All vicarages not exceeding the value of £10. . . and also all parsonages not exceeding the value of ten marks . . shall be free . . . from the said first-fruits. . . . VII. [Exemptions granted to the Universities confirmed.] I ELIZ. CAP. V. An Act whereby certain offences be made treason. I. . Be it enacted that if any person or persons after the first day of May next to come do maliciously, advisedly and directly compass or imagine to deprive the Queen's Majesty... from the style, honour and kingly name of the imperial crown of this realm, or from any other the realms and dominions unto our said Sovereign Lady appertaining, or to destroy the Queen's Majesty . . . or to levy war within this realm or within any the marches or dominions to the same belonging against the Queen's Majesty. . . or to depose the Queen's Majesty . . . from the imperial crown of the realms and dominions aforesaid; and the same compasses or imaginations or any of them, maliciously, advisedly and directly shall or do utter by open preaching express words or sayings; or if any person or persons after the said first day of May next coming, shall maliciously, advisedly and directly say . . . or hold opinion, that the Queen's Majesty that now is, during her life, is not or ought not to be Queen of this realm, or after her death that the heirs of her Highness' body, being Kings or Queens of this realm, of right ought not to be Kings or Queens of this realm, or that any other person than the Queen's Highness that now is during her life ought to be King or Queen of this realm ..; that then every such offender being thereof duly convicted . . . their abettors and counsellors . . . shall forfeit and lose to the Queen's Highness, her heirs and successors, all their goods and chattels, and the whole issues and profits of their lands, tenements and hereditaments, for term of the life of every such offender or offenders, and also shall suffer during their lives perpetual imprisonment. II. Provided.. . . that every ecclesiastical person being convicted in form aforesaid . . shall . . . be . . . deprived from all his benefices and promotions spiritual or ecclesiastical. . . . III. And if any person being hereafter convicted of any the said offences . . . shall . . . eftsoons commit any of the said offences... that then every such second offence shall be deemed high treason and the offenders therein, their abettors [&c.] shall be deemed high traitors, and shall suffer pains of death and forfeit all their goods, chattels, lands and tenements to the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors. ... ... IV. And be it further enacted . . . That if any person by any writing, printing, overt deed or act ... do affirm that the Queen's Majesty that now is ought not to have the style, honour and kingly name of this realm, or that any person other than the Queen's Majesty that now is, ought to have the style, honour, and kingly name of this realm, or that the Queen's Majesty that now is during her life is not or ought not to be Queen of this realm . . . that then every such offence shall be adjudged high treason, and the offender and offenders therein, their abettors [&c.] . . . shall be deemed and adjudged high traitors and shall suffer pains of death and forfeit all their goods [&c.] to the Queen's Majesty. . . V. [Saving of titles of strangers.] ... VI. Provided . . . that concealment of any high treasons be deemed only misprision of treason and the offenders therein to forfeit and suffer as in cases of misprision of treason hath heretofore been used. . . . VII. [Peers to be tried by their peers.] VIII. And be it further enacted . . . that no person shall be impeached for any of the offences above-said committed only by open preaching or words, unless the offender be thereof indicted within six months. . . . IX. [Punishment of accessories.] X. Provided . . . that no person shall be hereafter indicted for any offence made treason or misprision of treason by this Act, unless the same offence . . . be proved by the testimony and oath of two lawful and sufficient witnesses at the time of his indictment; which said witnesses also at the time of the arraignment of the party so indicted (if they be then living) shall be brought forth in person before the party so arraigned face to face, and there shall avow all they can say against the said party so indicted, unless the said party so indicted shall willingly without violence confess the same. I ELIZ. CAP. XI. An Act limiting the times for laying on land merchandize from beyond the seas, and touching customs for sweet wines. I. Most humbly showing, beseech your Highness, your Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, That where the sums of money paid in the name of customs and subsidies of wares and merchandizes transported out and brought into this your Highness' realm of England by any merchant, stranger or denizen, is an ancient revenue annexed and united to your imperial crown. . . ... VIII. And where of late years there have been much greater quantity of sweet wines brought into this realm, than in time past hath been accustomed, which be brought from the same place where the wine commonly called malvesey is brought... and nevertheless... there hath not been such custom received for the same as ought to be paid for such sweet wines... be it enacted that like custom is of very right to be paid and shall from henceforth be paid for such sweet wines as hath been accustomed to be paid for malveseys. I ELIZ. CAP. XX. An Act of the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage. I. In their most humble wise show unto your most excellent Majesty, your poor and obedient subjects and Commons in this your present Parliament assembled, That where as well your noble Grandfather of worthy memory, King Henry the Seventh as other your right noble and famous progenitors, kings of this your realm of England, time out of mind, have had and enjoyed unto them by authority of Parliament, for the defence of the same now your realm, and the keeping and safeguard of the seas for the intercourse of merchandize, safely to come into and pass out of the same, certain sums of money, named subsidies, of all manner of goods and merchandize, coming in or going out of the same your realm; . . we your said poor Commons, by the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal in this your present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, to the intent aforesaid, give and grant to you our supreme Liege Lady and Sovereign, one subsidy called Tonnage, that is to say, of every ton of wine... that shall or is come into this your realm, by way of merchandise, the sum of 38., and so after the rate, and of every ton of sweet wine as well malvesey as other, that shall or is come into the same your realm by any merchant-alien, . . . 38., and so after the rate, over and above the 38. afore granted; and of every awm of Rhenish wine coming into this your realme 12d. and also one other subsidy called Poundage, that is to say, of all manner of goods and merchandizes of every merchant, denizen, and alien, . . . carried out of this your said realm or brought into the same by way of merchandize, of the value of every 208. of the same goods and merchandize, 12d., and so after the rate; and of every 20s. value of tin and pewter vessel carried out of this your realm by any and every merchant-alien, 12d. over and above the 12d. aforesaid. II. Except and always foreprized out of this grant of subsidy of poundage all manner of woollen cloth made within this your realm of England, and by any merchant-denizen, and not born alien, carried out of this your said realm; and all manner of wools, wool-fells, and hides and backs of leather, also carried out of this your realm; and all wines and all manner of fresh fish and bestial coming into the same your realm. III. And further we your said poor Commons . . . give and grant unto you our said Liege Lady and Sovereign, for the causes aforesaid, one other subsidy, . . . that is to say, of every merchant-denizen for every sack of wool £1 138. 4d.; and for every 240 wool-fells £1 138. 4d.; and for every last of hides and backs... £3 68. 8d.; and of every merchant-stranger not born your liege man . . . for every sack of wool £3 68. 8d. ; and for every 240 wool-fells £3 68. 8d.; and also for every last of hides and backs, £3 138. 4d.; and so of all the said wools, wool-fells, hides and backs, and every of them after the rate ... to have and perceive the subsidies aforesaid . . . to your Highness, from the sixteenth day of November last past, during your life natural. V. [Goods imported or exported without duty, to be forfeited.] I ELIZ. CAP. XXI. An Act of a subsidy and two xyths and xhs by the temporality. I. The care which we do perceive your Majesty hath, most noble and redoubted Sovereign, to reduce this realm and the imperial crown thereof now lately so sore shaken, so impoverished, so enfeebled and weakened, into the former estate, strength and glory, doth make us not only to rejoice much in the great bounteousness of Almighty God, who hath so marvellously and beyond all worldly expectation preserved your Majesty in these late difficult and dangerous times, but also to study and bend all our wits and force of understanding how we may, like loving and obedient subjects, follow our head in this so noble and so necessary an enterprise; . . . Therefore we your most obedient and loving subjects the Lords spiritual and ... |