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... duties on wool and leather , with tonnage and poundage , £ 20,000 thereof given the King to dispose of at pleasure . 1412. The same duties continued , and every twenty pound per annum land , paid six shillings and eight pence . ACTS ...
... duties on wool and leather , with tonnage and poundage , £ 20,000 thereof given the King to dispose of at pleasure . 1412. The same duties continued , and every twenty pound per annum land , paid six shillings and eight pence . ACTS ...
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... duties as the year be- fore , for two years . 1425. The like duties granted . 1427. Tonnage and poundage for two years ; and on every parish , six shillings and eightpence for every twenty nobles annual rent ; also six shillings and ...
... duties as the year be- fore , for two years . 1425. The like duties granted . 1427. Tonnage and poundage for two years ; and on every parish , six shillings and eightpence for every twenty nobles annual rent ; also six shillings and ...
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... duties , and from sitting on juries . This privilege is still enjoyed . 14 and 15 Hen . VIII . The parliament granted the King two shillings in the pound on every estate upwards of twenty pounds per annum , and on estates from twenty ...
... duties , and from sitting on juries . This privilege is still enjoyed . 14 and 15 Hen . VIII . The parliament granted the King two shillings in the pound on every estate upwards of twenty pounds per annum , and on estates from twenty ...
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... duties on wool and leather , which had been granted to Henry VII . and Henry VIII . were granted to the King for life , for the guard of the seas . 2 Edw . VI . cap . 3. Enacted , that the King's purveyors should take no provisions for ...
... duties on wool and leather , which had been granted to Henry VII . and Henry VIII . were granted to the King for life , for the guard of the seas . 2 Edw . VI . cap . 3. Enacted , that the King's purveyors should take no provisions for ...
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... King found him- self under a necessity of ordering the offi- cers to continue to collect the usual duties settled on his predecessors , by his own authority . The King entered into an offensive and EE I 209 [A, D. 1618.] ...
... King found him- self under a necessity of ordering the offi- cers to continue to collect the usual duties settled on his predecessors , by his own authority . The King entered into an offensive and EE I 209 [A, D. 1618.] ...
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Page 369 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 383 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 540 - ... an act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons.
Page 332 - Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons assembled at Westminster, do resolve, that William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be, and be declared, King and Queen of England...
Page 348 - An Act for granting to their Majesties several duties upon tonnage of ships and vessels, and upon beer, ale, and other liquors, for securing certain recompenses and advantages in the said Act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the war with France.
Page 379 - further Security of His Majesty's Person and Govern"ment and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of "the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for ex"tinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales "and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 432 - An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled ' An Act for reducing the Laws ' relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants 'into One Act of Parliament, and for the more effectual 'punishing such Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and ' Vagrants, and sending them whither they ought to be sent,' as relates to common Players of Interludes; and another Act passed in the twenty-eighth.
Page 464 - An Act for the further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons and unlawful Exporters of Wool, and for declaring the Law upon some Points relating to Pirates...
Page 359 - Fenwick, they proceeded to enact several laws for regulating the domestic economy of the nation ; among others they passed an act for the more effectual relief of creditors in cases of escape, and for preventing abuses in prisons and pretended privileged places.
Page 561 - ... hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children...