aforefaid; any Thing in this or any former Act or Acts of Par- "Collectors may receive the Land Tax in wrought Plate at five- 10. Hammered current Money at five Shillings Two pence ❝an Ounce, and wrought Plate to be melted down and coined "into new Money, &c. § 11. CA P. IX. An Act to reftore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the FORASMUCH as of late Years, by the great Increase of the Factors of Blackwell Hall in the City of London, and by the Advantages given them by the Governors of the faid Hall, not only in affigning them the moft convenient Lights, but permitting them to hire Warehouses in the faid Hall to their own Ufes, into which they enter upon thofe Days that are no Market Days, and carry the Clothiers Cloths thence, and expofe them to Sale in a clandeftine Manner in their own Houses, whereby great Inconvenience and Discouragement hath accrued to the Clothing Trade, on which the Welfare of this Nation very much depends: For Remedy hereof be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the first Day of May, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand fix hundred ninety feven, the Governors of Blackwell Hall, and their Deputies, fhall ftrictly perform, obferve and keep the fet Times and Rules hereinafter limited and appointed for the exact Keeping and Government of the publick Market of Blackwell Hall, that is to fay, The faid Market fhall begin and be held on every Market is to be Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from eight of the Clock in the Forenoon, until twelve o'Clock in the fame Forenoon, and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon, until five o'clock in the fame Afternoon; and that the faid Hours, for the Beginning and Ending of the faid Markets, fhall be known by the ringing of the Market Bell in the Hall aforefaid, appointed for that Ufe and , Purpose; and the fame to be held and continued weekly throughout the whole Year, except Days of Humiliation or Thanksgiv ing appointed to be otherwife fet apart by Act of Parliament, or publick Authority; and the Keepers of the faid Hall fhall not permit or fuffer any buying or felling of any Woollen Cloth at the faid Hall, in or upon any other Days or Hours, than upon the Market Days and Hours appointed as aforefaid, upon the Penalty of one hundred Pounds. When the held. Regulations. Penalty. Room to fhew II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Governors of Blackwell Hall, and their Deputies, fhall fet forth and appoint unto the Clothiers of all Counties, that fhall bring up Cloth to fell at the faid publick Market, the moft convenient Room in the faid Hall for the Sale of their Cloth, and likewise Warehouse Room for the lodging and fafe keeping of any Warehouse Cloth of the faid Clothiers unfold, the Clothiers or their Servants Room. paying unto the Hall-keepers the ancient Duties of the faid Hall, and no more. III. And for the further Encouragement of the faid publick Market, Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Factor or any Perfon or Perfons whatsoever, other than the Owner of the Cloth, fhall fell, caufe to be fold or expofe to Sale, out Cloth fold out of of the faid Market of Blackwell Hall, any Cloth configned or the Market. directed by the Owner thereof to be brought to the faid Market of Blackwell Hall, or to any Factor there, to be fold, upon the Penalty. Penalty of five Pounds for every fuch Cloth fo fold. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Hall-keepers, Clerks Regulation for and Matter-porters of the faid Hall, fo far as they are hereby Hall keepers, Clerks, &c. concerned, shall take care that all the Rules and Orders appoint❤ ed to be observed by this Act, in every Branch of it, be put in Execution; and fhall alfo diligently and faithfully keep their Books and weekly Regifters, of all the Cloths bought and fold in the faid Market; in which Books and Regifters they and every of them, as they are concerned in their respective Places, fhall truly enter the Names, Surnames and Places of Habitation of the Owner, Buyer and Seller, of every the faid Cloths, together with the Time of the Sale thereof, and likewife of the Factor or any other Perfon (other than the Owner) buying or felling the fame, to the end Clothiers and others concerned may be fatisfied how their Cloths are difpofed of from Time to Time, to which faid Books it fhall be lawful for the faid Clothiers, their Agents and Servants, at all convenient Times to have Recourse without any Fee, Gratuity or Reward to be paid for the fame; and if any Neglecting Hall-keeper, Clerk or Master-porter, fhall neglect to perform his Duty. Duty herein, he fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit the Sum of Penalty. ten Pounds: And in cafe any Perfon or Perfons, from and after Perfons buying the said first Day of May, fhall buy any Cloth of any Factor or otherwife than Factors or other Perfon or Perfons, except of the Owner of for ready Mofuch Cloth, otherwise than for ready Money; that then and in every fuch Cafe, the Factor or Factors, Perfon or Perfons felling fuch Cloth, fhall within twelve Days next after the Sale and Delivery of the fame, take or demand a Note in Writing from the Perfon or Perfons buying fuch Cloth, teftifying under the Hand of the Buyer the Cloth fo fold, and the Sum of Money fuch Cloth was fold for, and payable by fuch Buyer, to the Owner of fuch Cloth, according to the Contract, and fhall deliver on Demand fuch Note, with Notice of fuch Buyer's ufual Place of Abode thereon fubfcribed, to the Owner of the Cloth fo fold, or to any Perfon authorized by the Owner to demand and receive the fame, on Pain to forfeit to the Owner or Owners of fuch Cloth, for every Neglect or Refufal of demanding fuch Note, or Penalty. fuch Delivery thereof, with Notice as aforefaid, double the Value of the Cloth fo fold, to the Owner or Owners of fuch Cloth; ney, Factor to demand a Note of the Buyer. and if any Merchant, Woollen Draper or Trader in the Woollen Buyers refufix Manufacture, buying any Woollen Cloth upon Truft, fhall refufe to give Note or neglect to give fuch Note as aforefaid, upon Request to him for that Purpose to be made at any Time after eight Days next after Penalty. Cloth deemed to Penalties, &c. how to be recavered. Owners of Clothzot fuing for Penalty in fix Months. Factors to give fold, and of Penalty. 7 & 8 W.3. €32 §4. after the Sale and Delivery of the faid Cloth, he fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence the Sum of twenty Shillings for every Cloth fo fold, to the Owner of the faid Cloth; and every Piece of Cloth, not actually returned within eight Days next after the Sale and Delivery of the fame, fhall be and is hereby adjudged, deemed and taken to be paffed and approved of by the Buyer as a merchantable Cloth; and all Contracts, Promifes and Agreements, for the allowing of any longer Time for the paffing of any Cloth, fhall be and are hereby declared to be void. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all the Forfeitures and Penalties impofed by virtue of this A&t, fhall or may be fued for and recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of His Majefty's Courts of Record, in which no Effoin, Wager of Law or Protection, and but one Imparlance fhall be allowed;, and if not otherwife hereinbefore difpofed of, one Moiety thereof shall be to the Ufe of His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, and the other to the Informer. VI. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority afore. faid, That if the Owner of the Cloth fhall neglect to fue for any of the Penalties and Forfeitures he fhall be intitled to by virtue of this Act, by the Space of fix Months next after the Offence committed, then it shall and may be lawful for any other Perfon to fue for and recover the fame, and one Moiety thereof shall be to the Ufe of His Majesty, His Heirs and Succeffors, and the other to the Informer. [None but the Clothier or Owner of the Cloth may fue the Factor, 1 G. 1. Stat. 2. c. 15. § 13. But that A& wholly repealed, 49 G. 3. c. 109. f 1.] VII. And to prevent fraudulent Practices of Factors as to the Effects of Clothiers in their Hands, and as to the Debts due to Clothiers, contracted for by fuch Factors; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every Perfon being a known or reputed Factor for felling Cloth in the faid Market of Blackswell Hall, fhall, before the four and twentieth Day of June One thousand fix hundred ninety feven, if thereunto requefted by any Clothier or Owner of Cloth, give and deliver a true and particular Account in Writing to fuch Clothier or Owner of Cloth, of the Effects of fuch Clothier or Owner of Cloth, which now are, or before the first Day of May One thoufand fix hundred ninety feven, fhall be in the Hands of fuch Factor, and the particular Cloths of fuch Clothier or Owner of Cloth fold by fuch Factor, and of the particular Sums of Moncy due to fuch Clothier or Owner of Cloth by any Contract of fuch Factor, and of the refpective Names and Places of Abode of every Perfon from whom fuch Sums are due; and if any fuch Factor fhall refufe or neglect to give and deliver fuch Account as aforefaid, he fhall forfeit to the Perfon or Perfons to whom he ought to give and deliver fuch Account, ten Pounds, to be recovered and fued for 'as aforefaid. CA P. X. An Act to enable the Returns of Juries as formerly, until the first Day of November One thousand fix hundred ninety feven. WHE WHEREAS by an Act made in the firft Seffion of this prefent Parliament, intituled, An AB for the Eafe of • Jurors * Jurors, and better Regulating of Juries, it is, amongst other in Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, That Before 1 Nov. it fhall and may be lawful at any Time before the first Day of 1697, Lifts of November, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord One thou- Juries may be fand fix hundred ninety feven, for all Sheriffs or Coroners of returned as for merly. Counties and Places where fuch Lifts have not been returned pursuant to the Direction of the said Act, to make Returns of Jurors in all Cafes whatsoever, in the fame Manner as they might have done before the making of the faid Act; any Thing in the faid Act to the contrary notwithstanding. And to the Juftices to iffue end the faid Act may be duly put in Execution from and after their Precepts the Feast of Saint Michael, which shall be in the Year of our yearly. Lord One thousand fix hundred ninety feven, all Juftices of the Peace Where one or more of feveral Defendants acquitted, Cofts, as if all acquitted. Exception. Defendant, on Peace are hereby required and commanded, at their respective. Seffions of the Peace that shall be holden next before the Feaft of Saint Michael yearly and every Year, to iffue forth Precepts to the refpective Conftables within their refpective Counties orDivifions, thereby requiring them and every of them to make, fuch Return of Perfons to ferve upon Juries, as by the faid Act is directed. CA P. XI. An Act for the better preventing frivolous and vexatious, FOR OR Relief of His Majefty's good Subjects against causeless. and unjuft Suits, and for the better enabling them to recover their juft Rights; Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the five and twentieth Day of March, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand fix hundred ninety and feven, where feveral Perfons fhall be made Defendants to any Action or Plaint of Trefpafs, Affault, falfe Imprisonment, or Ejedione firma, and any one or more of them fhall be upon the Trial thereof acquitted by Verdict, every Perfon or Perfons fo acquitted fhall have and recover his Cofts of Suit, in like Manner as if a Verdict had been given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, and acquitted all the Defendants; unless the Judge,' before whom fuch Caufe fhall be tried, fhall immediately after the Trial thereof, in open Court, certify upon the Record under his Hand, that there was a reasonable Caufe for the making fuch Perfon or Perfons a Defendant or Defendants to fuch Action or Plaint. II. And forafmuch as for Want of a fufficient Provifion by • Law for the Payment of Cofts of Suit, divers evil difpofed Perfons are encouraged to bring frivolous and vexatious Actions, and others to neglect the due Payment of their Debts;' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if at any Time from and after the faid five and twentieth Day of March, any Perfon or Perfons fhall commence or profecute in any Court of Record, any Action, Plaint or Suit, wherein upon any Demurrer, either by Plaintiff or Defendant, Demandant or Tenant, Judg Judgment given ment fhall be given by the Court against fuch Plaintiff or Demandant, or if at any Time after Judgment given for the Defendant in any fuch Action, Plaint or Suit, the Plaintiff or Demandant fhall fue any Writ or Writs of Error to annul the said Judgment, and the faid Judgment fhall be afterwards affirmed to be good, or the faid Writ of Error fhall be discontinued, or the Plaintiff fhall be non-fuit therein, the Defendant or Tenant in every fuch Action, Plaint, Suit or Writ of Error, fhall have Judgment to recover his Cofts against every fuch Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, Demandant or Demandants, and have Execution for the fame by Capias ad fatisfaciendum, Fieri facias or Elegit. for him, &c. to recover Colts. Where Plaintiff III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, to recover Coits. That from and after the faid five and twentieth Day of March, in all Actions of Walte, and Actions of Debt upon the Statute for not fetting forth of Tithes, wherein the fingle Value or Damage |