Shall view the 3° be by them allowed or admitted for Watermen to row betwixt Gravefend and Windfor aforefaid, in a Book to be made for the fame Intent and Purpofe; and to take fuch further Order and Direction therein with every the faid Parties, by the Authority of this present Act, as it fhall feem meet and neceflary by the Difere tion of the faid Overfeers and Rulers for the Time being: And also that the faid Overseers and Rulers shall and may by the AuthoBoats before they rity of this Act overfee, view and furvey at all and every Time and Times hereafter, all Manner of Boats and Wherries that shall from and after the faid Feast be made, before the faid Boat or Boats, Wherry or Wherries, be launched out of the Yard or Ground wherein the fame Boat or Boats, Wherry or Wherries fhall fortune to be made, into the faid River of Thames, to the Intent that they and every of them may be made and prepared in fuch Manner and Form, and according to the Goodness, Proportion and Quantity in this prefent Act before limited and expreffed. be launched. Refusing their Place, or being negligent therein. Penalty. Affeffment of Fares for rowing between Gravel end and Windfor. Penalty. X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons which at any Time hereafter shall be elected or chofen to be a Ruler or Overfeer as before is expreffed, do happen negligently to use and exercife his or their Room er Place, or that will obftinately refufe to take upon him or them the Room or Rooms, Place or Places of any the faid Overseers or Rulers, that then all and every fuch Offender or Offenders fo offending fhall lofe and forfeit the Sum of v. li. of lawful Money of England; the one Half whereof fhall be to our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen's Majefties Ufe, and to the Ufe of the Heirs and Succeffors of the Queen's Majefty, and the other Half to him or them that will fue for the fame in any of the King and Queen's Majesties Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, or by any other the Ways or Means above specified, wherein no Wager of Law, Effoin, Protection or Injunction fhall be admitted or allowed for the Deferd nt or Defendants. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the faid City of London for the Time being, fhall from Time to Time at their Difcretions limit, fet and affefs the Frice or Trices, and Sums. of Money, that every Perfon or Perfons fo authorized to Row as is aforefaid betwixt Gravefend and Windfor aler faid, fhall take for his or their Labour or Fare, from Place to Place particularly, betwixt Gravefend and Win for aforefaid; and the fame Prices and Affeff. ments to be fet, fhall bring or caufe to be brought to the Privy Council of our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, to be viewed and feen by fome of the faid Privy Council; and after that, the faid Affeffments and Prices fhall be figned and fubfcribed with the Hands of two of the faid Privy Council at the leaft; and the faid Mayor and Court of Aldermen for the Time being fhall caufe the faid Prices and Affeffments to be written and fet up in Tables in the Guildhall in the City of London, WeftminflerHall and elfewhere, where the faid Mayor and Court of Aldermen fhall think convenient: And every Perfon and Perfons that fhall take for his or their Fare or Labour above the Prices that fhall be affeffed, viewed, written and fet up in Form aforefaid, fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence forty Shillings, and alfo thall fuffer Imprifonment by one Half Year: The one Moiety of the faid Forfeiture to be to the King and Queen's Majesties, their Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety thereof to him or them that will fue for the fame in any of the King and Queen's Majefties Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, or by any other the Ways or Means above fpecified, wherein no Wager of Law, Eoin, Protection or Injunction shall be admitted or allowed for the Defendant or Defendants. XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, Servants of WefThat no Perfon or Perfons occupying or using any Western Barge, tern Bargemen, fhall retain, take or receive into his or their Service, any fingle Perfon not keeping Houfe or Houfhold, but only fuch as fhall be retained with him or them by the whole Year, and no Houfholder but fuch as he or they will or fhall anfwer for, for his or their good Behaviour, upon Pain of Forfeiture for every fuch Offence xl. s. Penalty. the one Moiety thereof to be to the King and Queen's Majefties, her Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety thereof to him or them that will fue for the fame in any of the King and Queen's Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, or by any other the Ways or Means above specified, wherein no Wager of Law, Effoin, Protection or Injunction shall be admitted or allowed for the De fendant or Defendants. [Query, If § 12. repealed, 5 Eliz. c. 4. § 2.] CA P. XVII. An Act to take away the Benefit of Clergy from Bennet CA P. XVIII. An Act touching Commiffions of the Peace and Gaol-delivery in Towns Corporate, not being Counties of themselves. WHERE the King and Queen's most excellent Highness, and their noble Progenitors, Kings of this Realm, have heretofore granted their feveral Commiffions directed as well unto the Mayors, Recorders and other grave Men, and Inhabitants of certain ancient and famous Cities and Towns Corporate within this Realm of England, not being Counties in themfelves, as also unto divers other worshipful and learned Men, dwelling out of the fame Cities and Towns Corporate, as well for the keeping of their Peace, good ordering of their People, and executing of 'their Laws and Statutes within the fame Cities and Towns Corporate, as alfo for the Delivery of their Majefties Prifoners remaining in the Gaols there; and after the granting of fuch Commiflions, their Majefties have granted divers other like Commillions unto certain worshipful and learned Men of the Shires, Lathes, Rapes, Ridings and Wapentakes, of this Realm of England, for the Confervation of their Peace, and alfo delivering of ⚫ their Prifoners remaining in their Gaols within the fame Shires, Lathes, Rapes, Ridings and Wapentakes; which Commiffions fo bearing a later Day, have been a Superfedeas and clear Discharge unto all and fingular the faid former Commiffions, granted unto the faid Cities and Towns Corporate, not being Counties in themfelves; fo that the faid Mayor and other grave and chiefeft Officers of every fuch City and Town Corporate, have been charged to fue for the renewing again of fuch Commiffions, both for the G 2 • Peace A Commiffion of the Peace and Gaol-delivery Superfedeas to a Peace and Gaol-delivery, to the great Expences, Cofts and Charges of the faid Mayor, and other the Inhabitants of fuch • Cities and Towns Corporate, and to the great Protracting and Delay of Juftice therein in the mean Time: For Reformation whercof, and for the better Advancement of Justice in the Pre• mifes;' II. Be it therefore enacted by the King and Queen's Majefties, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all and fingular Commiffion and Commiffions, granted or to be granted to any fuch City or Town Corporate, not being as is aforefaid a County in itfelf, for the keeping of their Peace and Delivery of their Prifoners remaining in the Gaols of any fuch City or Town Corporate, not being a County in itfelf, fball ftand, remain, and be good and available and effectual in the Law, to all Intents, Conftructions and Purpofes; the granting of any like Commiffion of Peace, or Gaol-delivery to any Commiffioner or Commiffioners for the Confervation of the Peace, or Delivery of the Prifoners remaining in the Gaol of any Shire, Lathe, Rape, Riding or Wapentake, within this Realm of England, bearing Date after the faid Commiffion or Commissions granted as is aforefaid, to any fuch City or Town Corporate, not being, as is aforefaid, a County in itfelf, to the contrary notwithflanding. CA P. XIX. An A& touching the Powdike in Marfh-land. 22 H.8. c.11. touching Powdike in Marfh-land, (virtually repealed, 1 E. 6. c.12. §4 3.) revived. F CA P. XX. An Act for the inlarging of the Duchy of Lancafler. ORASMUCH as the King and Queen our Sovereign Lord and Lady confidering and regarding the Eftate of the Duchy of Lantafter, being one of the most famous Princelieft and State⚫lieft Pieces of our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen's ancient Inheritance, do perceive and confider, that the Poffeffions and yearly • Revenues of the faid Duchy are and have been of late greatly diminished, as well by reafon of fundry Gifts, Grants and Sales • made by the late Kings of famous Memory, Henry the Eighth and Edward the Sixth, late Kings of England, Father and • Brother to our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen's Highnefs, as alfo by reafon of fundry Exchanges made with divers of their Inving Subjects, of fundry Manors, Lands, Tenements, Possesfions and Hereditaments lately belonging to the fame Duchy, • and the Manors, Lands, Tenements, Poffeffions and Heredita•ments, being received and taken in Recompence of the said Ex• changes, be not annexed to the faid Duchy, but been in the Order, Survey and Governance of other Courts and Places fo by their Highnelles taken and received in Exchange: II. And forafmuch alfo as their Majefties do mind and intend to preferve, advance, maintain and continue the ancient and honourable Eflate of the faid Duchy;' our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady therefore be pleafed and contented, that it be enacted, ordained and Parcel of the and established by their Majefties, with the Affents of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Comir ons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all Honours, Cafties, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Foffeffions and Hereditaments within this Realm of England, which at any Time fince the xxviii. Day of January in the first Year of the Reign of our faid late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, were Parcel of the Poffeflions of the faid Duchy of Lancaster, or which, were united and annexed to the faid Duchy by Authority of Parliament, Letters Patents or otherwife, and which at any Time fiuce the faid xxviij Day of January have been given, granted, alienated, bargained, fold, exchanged or otherwife fevered from the faid Duchy by our faid late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, or by our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen that now is, or by our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen's Majefties that now be, to or with any Perfon or Perfons, and which faid Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Duchy Lands fince fuch Gifts, Grants, Alienations, Bargains, Sales, Exchanges evered from the or Severance thereof fo made as is aforefaid, been comen or returned, Crown, and again to the Hands of our faid late Sovereign Lord King Edward thence reunitthe Sixth, or to the Hands of our faid Sovereign Lady the chale again Queen, or to the Hands of our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady Duchy. the King and Queen, or to the Hands of her Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, in Poffeffion, Reverfion, Remainder or otherwife, and which now be or remain in the Hands of our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen's Majeflies, of any Eftate of Inheritance, fhall from the Time the fame came and reverted again to the Hands of our faid late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, or to the Hands of our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen, or to the Hands of our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, by Authority and Force of this Act, be united and annexed for ever unto the faid Duchy of Lancafler, and shall be adjudged, deemed and taken for ever, for and as Parcels and Members of the faid Duchy of Lancaster; and that all fuch and thofe of the faid Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, which be lying within the County Palatine of Lancaster, thall be of the fame Nature, Quality, Kind and Condition, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, as others the ancient Poffeflions of the faid Duchy, lying and being within the faid County Palatine of Lancafler, be and ought to be; and all those and fuch of the faid Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, which be lying out of the faid County Palatine of Lancofler, thall be of the fame Nature, Quality, Kind and Condition, to all Intents, Conftructions and Purpofes, as other ancient Poffeffions of the faid Duchy, lying and being out of the County Palatine of Lancefler, be and ought to be; and fhall be in the Letting, Setting, Order, Rule, Survey, Receipt and Governance of the Changellor, Counfel and Officers of the faid Duchy of Lancafler for the Time being for evermore, in like and the fame Manner and Form, to all Intents and Purpofes, as others the faid ancient Poffeffions belonging to the faid Duchy been, have been, or ought to be, The new an III. And that all the faid Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, nexed Lands Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, united and annexed to the thall pafs under faid Duchy of Lancafler, by Authority and Force of this Act, and the Seal of the all and fingular Gifts, Grants, Leafes, Letters Patents and Writ G 3 ings Duchy, and with the fame Ceremonies. Other Lands Lançaiter. ings thereof, or of any Parcel thereof, hereafter to be made by the King and Queen's Highnefs, or by the Heirs or Succeffors of her Majelty, fhall for evermore pafs and be made under fuch of the Seals of the faid Duchy, as other the ancient Poffeffions of the faid Duchy have ufed to pafs and be made, and not under any other Seal or otherwise, and with the like and the fame Livery of Seifin, Attornment, Ceremonies, Orders and Circumftances in the Law, and in the fame Manner and Form, as other the ancient Poffeffions of the faid Duchy, and the Letters Patents, Charters and Writings thereof heretofore of ancient Time made, have used and ought to be made and paffed, and not otherwife, nor in any other Manner and Form; any Law, Eftatute, Ufage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. IV. And be it further enacted, ordained and established by the may be annexed Authority aforefaid, That our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady the to the Duchy of King and Queen that now be, and the Heirs and Succeffors of her Majefty, may from Time to Time hereafter, at their Liberties and Pleafures, by their Graces Letters Patents, to be fealed with the Great Seal of England, unite, annex, limit, affign and appoint any other their Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, lying and being within this their faid Realm of England, unto their faid Duchy of Lancaster, for the further Augmentation, Honour and Eftate of the faid Duchy, at their Wills and Pleafures. Lands to be annexed lying within the County Palatine. Lands to be an nexed lying out of the County Palatine. Saving of Rights. V. And that all and every fuch Annexing, Limiting, Affignment and Appointment made or to be made by our faid Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, or by the Heirs or Succefors of our faid Sovereign Lady the Queen, of any of their Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, unto the faid Duchy of Lancaster, by any their faid Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, fhall be as good and available, as if it were done by Authority of Parliament. VI. And that all fuch Honours, Cailles, Lordfhips, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, lying and being within the faid County Palatine of Lancaster, which shall happen to be united and annexed to the said Duchy by Force of any fuch Letters Patents, fhall from the Tefle of the faid Letters Patents be within. the Order, Survey, Rule, Governance, Jurifdiction, Letting and Setting of the faid Duchy of Lancaster for the Time being, as other the Poffeffions of the faid Duchy, lying and being within the faid County Palatine of Lancafler, have ufed and ought to be. VII. And that all other Honours, Caftles, Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, lying and being out of the faid County Palatine of Lancaster, which fhall happen to be united and annexed to the faid Duchy by Force of any fuch Letters Patents, fhall be from the Tefle of the faid Letters Patents, within the Order, Survey, Rnle, Governance, Jurifdiction, Letting and Setting of the faid Duchy of Lancafler, as others the Poffeflions of the faid Duchy of Lancaster, lying and being out of the faid County Palatine of Lancaster, have ufed and ought to be; Saving to all and every Perfon and Perfons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, to their Heirs, Succeffors and Affigns, and to the Heirs, Succeffors and Affigns of every of them, all fuch Right, Title, Intereft, Entries, Conditions, Occupations, Poffeffion, Leafe and Leafes, Fees, Annuities, Offices, Rents, Services, Commons, Profits, Commodities, Eafements, |