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Sh 3 East 467 467 game, and fhall be thereof convicted upon the oath of one or and destroy two credible witneffes, by the juftice or justices of the peace the game, to where such offence is committed, as aforefaid, the perfon or forfeit sl. perfons fo convicted, fhall forfeit the fum of five pounds; one to be levied by half to be paid to the informer, and the other half to the poor diftrefs and of the parish where the fame was committed; the fame to be fale, &c. levied by diftrefs and fale of the offenders goods, by warrant under the hand and feal of fuch justice or justices, before whom fuch perfon or perfons fhall be convicted, as aforefaid; and for Re-Billary 727 want of fuch distress, the offender or offenders shall be sent to the house of correction for the fpace of three months for the first offence, and for every fuch other offence, four months; and that it fhall and may be lawful to and for any of her Majesty's juftices of the peace, in their respective counties, ridings, cities, Juftices, or towns corporate, or liberty, and the lords and ladies of his, her, lords of matheir, or any of their refpective manors, within the faid manors, take away any nors, &c. may to take away any fuch hare, pheasant, partridge, moor, heath- hare, &c. game, or groufe, or any other game, from any fuch higlar, from higlar, chapman, inn-keeper, victualler, or carrier, or any other perfon or perfon not or perfons not qualified to kill the fame, and fhall be found in qualified: their cuftody or poffeffion; and likewife to take away fuch dogs, And alfo their nets, or other engines, which fhall be in the power or cuftody dogs, nets, &c. of any perfon or perfons not qualified by the laws to keep the by 3 Geo. 1. fame, to their own proper use, without being accountable to c.I. any perfon or perfons for the fame; and that it fhall and may None fhall be be lawful for any lord or lady of his or her refpective lordship keepers but made gameor manor, by writing under his or her hand and feal, to im- perfons quali power his or her game-keeper or game-keepers, upon his or her fied or the own lordship or manor, as aforefaid, to kill hare, pheasant, parlords fervants. tridge, or any other game whatfoever; but if the faid gamekeeper thall, under colour or pretence of the faid power and authority to kill or take the fame for the ufe of fuch lord or lady, game keeper, Penalty on and afterwards fell and difpofe thereof to any perfon or perfons killing the whatsoever, without the confent or knowledge of the lord or game, and lady of fuch manor or manors that hath given fuch power or felling it withauthority, in manner as aforefaid, and fhall be thereof convicted lord of maupon the complaint of fuch lord or lady of any manor, and up- nor, &c. on the oath of one or more credible witneffes, before any one This act made or more of her Majefty's juftices of the peace, as aforefaid, up- perpetual by 9 Ann. c. 25. on fuch conviction fuch game-keeper fhall be committed to the as altered by houfe of correction for the space of three months, and there to that act. be kept to hard labour. And this act fhall remain and be in force for the space of three years, from the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and feven, and from thence to the end of the next feffions of parliament, and no longer. V. And whereas the burning of heath, ling and brakes or fern upon the foreft of Sherwood in the county of Nottingham, and in the parts thereunto adjacent, as it is frequently used by divers diforderly and diffolute perfons, doth not only destroy the breed of game, but bath alfo very frequently been the occafion of burning, damaging, and deftroying, of great quantities of wood, timber, and fences within the out confent of No heath, Said foreft, and places thereunto adjacent, to the great damage and prejudice of the owners thereof; be it further enacted by the autholing, or brakes rity aforelaid, That if any perfon or perfons fhall, at any time forest of Sher- after the said first day of May, fet fire to any ling, heath, or wood, without brakes growing upon any part of the faid foreft, or on any other to be burnt in licence of owner, on penalty., None to buy fern afhes on penalty. Juftices to iffue their warrants for offenders. EXP. EXP. waste, common, or land within the faid county of Nottingham, or fhall cut any ling, heath, or brakes, in order to be burnt to ashes upon the ground, or thall burn the fame to ashes upon the ground, in any part of the faid foreft, or in any wafte, common, or land, lying within the said county, without licence from the owner of the foil where such offence fhall be committed, shall forfeit to the owner of the foil where fuch offence fhall be committed, ten fhillings, and all the afhes which fhall be fo burnt; and every perfon and perfons who fhall buy fern afhes of any fuch unlicenfed perfon or perfons within the faid county, fhall forfeit for every peck of fuch afhes, which fhall be fo bought, the sum of ten fhillings; one moiety thereof to the poor of the parish where such offence shall be committed, and the other moiety thereof to such person or persons as shall give information of the faid offence; and it fhall be lawful for the keepers and officers of fuch parts of the said foreft, and for the owners of the land or foil where any the said offences fhall be committed, their fervants and agents, to take away, for his and their own use, the scithes, rakes, and other inftruments to be ufed for any the purposes aforefaid, of every perfon and perfons whom they shall find fo offending; and it shall be lawful for any one or more of her Majefty's juftices of the peace, upon complaint made to him or them againft any perfon or perfons for any the faid offences, to fend forth his or their warrant or warrants to bring the perfon or persons so complained of before him or them; and if the perfon or perfons fo complained of, shall be convict of any of the faid offences before fuch justice or justices, by the oath or oaths of one or more witness or witneffes, then and in such case the party so convict, fhall immediately after fuch conviction, pay fuch penalties and forfeitures as are hereby before impofed for the faid offences refpectively, 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 or juftices to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for the space of one month, unless the faid penalties and forfeitures fhall be in the mean time paid. CAP. XV. An act for the better recruiting of her Majefty's land forces and the marines, for the year one thousand seven hundred and seven. CAP. XVI. An act for continuing an act made in the third and fourth years of her Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and falfe mufiers, and for the better payment of the army and quarters. CAP. CAP. XVII. An act to repeal all the laws prohibiting the importation of foreign lace made of thread. WH 13 & 14 Car. 2. C.13. HEREAS it is by experience found, That an act passed in the parliament holden at Westminster, in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of his late majefty King Charles the Second, intituled, An act prohibiting the importation of foreign bone lace, cut work, embroidery, fringe, band ftrings, buttons, and needle work, as alfo divers other acts heretofore made, prohibiting or reftraining the importation of foreign lace, or for rendring the laws more effectual for preventing the importation of foreign lace, have obftructed the exportation and vending or felling of the woollen manufactures of England in the Spanish Low Countries, and other places abroad: now for the remedy thereof, be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the Queen's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the aforefaid act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the All acts which Second, and alfo all and every other act and acts of parliament prohibit the whatsoever which prohibit or reftrain the importation, vending, foreign lace, importation of or felling of foreign lace, be henceforth repealed fo far forth as repeal'd. the said acts relate to foreign lace made of thread in the faid Spanish Low Countries, or in any other place not within the dominions of the French King; and that the afore-mentioned acts, and every clause, 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. Provided nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained Not to extend fhall any ways extend, or be conftrued to extend to permit or to lace made allow of the importation of lace made in any the dominions of in French the French King, or in any of the lands, towns, or countries in duke of AnKing's, or the poffeffion of the duke of Anjou, fo long as they fhall remain jou's domior continue in the poffeffion of the faid French King or duke nions. respectively. CAP. XVIII. An act for inrollments of bargains and fales within the Weft Riding of the county of York, in the register office there lately provided, and for making the faid register more effectual. WH HEREAS by an act of parliament made in the twenty fe Farther pro vifions relating venth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, For inrollments of bargains and fales, it is enacled, That no ma- bereto. nors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments fall pass, alter, or 6Annæ, c. 35. change from one to another, whereby any eftate of inheritance or free-. 34. bold fhall be male, or take effect in any perfon or perfons, or any ufe 27 H. 8. c. 16. thereof to be made, by reafon only of any bargain and fale thereof, ex cept the faid bargain and fale be made by writing indented, fealed, VOL. XI. and C. 4. and inrolled in one of the King's courts of record at Westminster, or elfe within the fame county or counties where the fame manors, lands, or tenements fo bargained and fold lie or be, before the Cuftos Rotulorum, and two juftices of the peace, and the clerk of the peace of the fame county or counties, or two of them at the leaft, whereof the clerk of the peace to be one; which act hath been found by experience to be of little or no ufe within the Weft riding of the county of York, as to the inrollments of bargains and fales within the faid Weft riding, for that the clerk of the peace thereof for the time being, who hath the keeping of the faid inrollments within the faid Weft riding, is not by the faid act enjoined to give any security for the Safe keeping, nor under any penalty for the negligent keeping of the Jaid inrollments, nor is there by the faid act any certain place appointed 2 & 3 Annæ, for keeping thereof: and whereas by an act of parliament made in the Second year of her prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for the publick regiftring of all deeds, conveyances, and wills, that shall be made of any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments within the Weft riding of the county of York, after the nine and twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hunRegifter office dred and four; a publick office hath been erected and established at at Wakefield. Wakefield within the faid Weft riding, at the publick charge thereof, for regiftring and fafe keeping of memorials of all deeds, conveyances, and wills within the faid riding, and a publick register hath been chofen, who hath, according to the direction of the fame act, given Sufficient fecurity for the due execution of the faid office: for the rendring therefore the aforesaid act, made in the twenty feventh year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, more effectual and beneficial to the inhabitants of the faid Weft riding, as to all inrollments of bargains and fales within the faid West riding; may it please your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the four and ding of York- twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand thire, inroll'd feven hundred and feven, all bargains and fales of any manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, fituate, lying, and being within the faid Weft riding, which thall be inrolled before the faid register, or his deputy for the time being, in the said publick office at Wakefield, fhall be as good, effectual, and available, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the fame had been Westminster. inrolled in one of the Queen's courts of record at Westminster, or before the Cuftos Rotulorum, and two juftices of the peace, and the clerk of the peace of the said Weft riding, or two of them, according to the aforefaid act made in the twenty feventh year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth; and the faid regifter, or his deputy, for the time being (together with one or more juftice or juftices of the peace of the faid riding) shall have power to take and enter the acknowledgement of the bargainer, if but one, or of one of the bargainers, if more, in fuch bargains and fales; and fhall well and fufficiently inroll, by in From 24 June, 1797, all bargains and fales of lands, &c. in West Ri in register's office at Wakefield, to be good in law, as if inroll'd at groffing groffing in parchment rolls or parchment books, all fuch bar- Inrollments to gains and fales as fhall for that purpose be acknowledged before be in parchhim, as aforefaid; and fhall endorfe a certificate on fuch bar- ment, gains and sales, of the times of inrolling thereof, and fign the fame; and the rolls or books thereof shall safely keep in the said publick office, there to remain upon record amongst the memorials of deeds there regiftred. II. And be it further enacted, That all deeds of bargain and and allowed in fale fo inrolled in the faid publick or register office, as aforefaid, all courts. which shall appear to be fo inrolled by an indorsement or certificate on the faid deeds of bargain and fale figned by the faid regifter, or his deputy, and that all copies of the inrollments thereof remaining on record in the faid regifter office, fhall be allowed in all courts where fuch bargains and fales, or copies fhall be produced, to be as good and fufficient evidence as any bargains and fales inrolled in any of the courts at Westminster, and the copies of the inrollments thereof. morial there. III. And be it further enacted, That every fuch inrollment Such inrollof every fuch deed in the faid regifter office, as aforefaid, fhall ment deemed be deemed and adjudged to be the entring of a memorial there- entring a meof, pursuant to the faid act made in the fecond year of her pre-f fent Majesty's reign, and fhall have the fame force and effect upon the estate therein mentioned, in relation to all fubfequent deeds, conveyances, and wills, and to all other intents and purposes, as if a memorial of fuch inrolled deed had been entred in the faid register office, pursuant to the said act. manors, &c. fter's office. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, No judg That no judgment, ftatute, or recognizance (other than fuch as ment, &c. to fhall be entred into in the name, and upon the proper account of affect any her Majesty, her heirs, and fucceffors) which fhall be obtained, in welt riding, or entred into, after the said four and twentieth day of June, in but from time the said year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and fe- that a memoven, shall affect or bind any manors, lands, tenements, or here- rial thereof be ditaments, fituate, lying, and being in the faid weft riding, but entred in regionly from the time that a memorial of fuch judgment, statute, or recognizance shall be entred at the faid register office, expressing and containing, in cafe of fuch judgment, the names of the plaintiffs, and the names and additions therein of the defendants, the fums thereby recovered, and the time of the figning thereof; and in cafe of ftatutes and recognizances, expreffing and containing the date of fuch ftatute or recognizance, the names and additions of the cognizors, and cognizees therein, and for what fums, and before whom the fame were acknowledged; and that in order to the making an entry of fuch me morials of judgments, ftatutes, and recognizances, as aforefaid, making entry. the party and parties, defiring the fame, fhall produce to, and leave with the faid regifter, or his deputy, to be filed in the faid publick or register office, a memorial of fuch judgment, statute, or recognizance, figned by the proper officer, who shall fign fuch judgment, or his fucceffor in the fame office, or by the proper officer in whofe office fuch-ftatute or recognizance fhall be inroll Q 2 ed, Manner of |