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s in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Likewise, the names "Charles" and "James" (traditionally abbreviated "Car." and "Jac.", after the Latinised forms and ) are abbreviated in modern practice as "Cha." and "Ja." respectively. Note that although Charles II's reign began ''de facto'' with the Restoration in 1660, it was considered to have begun ''de jure'' in 1649 with the
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; as such, the earliest act of Charles II is assigned the regnal year 12 Cha. 2. Acts passed by the Parliament of England did not have a
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). Acts passed by the Parliament of England were deemed to have come into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed. Because of this, the years given in the list below may in fact be the year before a particular Act was passed.


1660–1669


1660 (12 Cha. 2)

Session of the
Convention Parliament (1660) The Convention Parliament of England (25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660) followed the Long Parliament that had finally voted for its own dissolution on 16 March that year. Elected as a "free parliament", i.e. with no oath of allegiance to the ...
(25 April 1660 – 29 December 1660)


Public Acts

* Attainder of the Regicides, etc. Act 1660 c. 30 * Bay Making, Colchester Act 1660 c. 22 * Colleges and Hospitals (Leases and Grants Confirmed) Act 1660 c. 31 * Commissioners of Sewers Act 1660 c. 6 * Confirmation of Marriages Act 1660 c. 33 * Continuance of Process, etc. Act 1660 c. 3 * Customs Act 1660 c. 19 * Disbanded Soldiers Act 1660 c. 16 * Disbanding of the Army Act 1660 c. 15 * Excise Act 1660 c. 5 * Excise Act 1660 c. 8 * Excise Act 1660 c. 23 * Exportation Act 1660 c. 32 *
Indemnity and Oblivion Act The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 was an Act of the Parliament of England (12 Cha. II c. 11), the long title of which is "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion". This act was a general pardon for everyone who had committe ...
c. 11 *
Legal Proceedings During Commonwealth Act 1660 The Legal Proceedings During Commonwealth Act 1660 or Act of the Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings (12 Cha. 2 c. 12) was enacted by the English Parliament to legitimise the outcome of judicial proceedings during the English interregnum. It ...
c. 12 * Lord Ormond (Restoration of Lands, etc., in Ireland) Act 1660 c. 7 * Navigation Act 1660 c. 18 * Observance of 29th May Act 1660 c. 14 *
Parliament Act 1660 The Parliament Act 1660 (12 Cha. 2 c.1) was an Act of the Convention Parliament of England of 1660. The Act declared the Long Parliament to be dissolved, and the Lords and Commons then sitting to be the two Houses of Parliament, notwithstandin ...
c. 1 * Post Office Act 1660 c. 35 * Restoring of Ministers Act 1660 c. 17 * Subsidy Act 1660 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 2 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 9 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 20 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 21 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 26 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 27 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 28 * Taxation Act 1660 c. 29 *
Tenures Abolition Act 1660 The Tenures Abolition Act 1660 (12 Car 2 c 24), sometimes known as the Statute of Tenures, was an Act of the Parliament of England which changed the nature of several types of feudal land tenure in England. The long title of the Act was ''An act ...
c. 24 (still in force) * The Rolls Estate Act 1660 c. 36 * Tobacco Planting and Sowing Act 1660 c. 34 * Usury Act 1660 c. 13 * Wine Act 1660 c. 25


Private Acts

*Augustine and William Skinner's estate: power to sell land for payment of debts. c. 11 *Confirmation of sale of manor of Hitcham by Sir John Clarke to Charles Doe and settlement and disposition of other lands of him and his wife Dame Philodelphia. c. 32 *Disappropriating Preston (Lancashire) rectory, uniting and consolidating the rectory and vicarage and assuring the advowson to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. c. 34 *Earl of Cleveland's estate: sale of manors and lands for payment of his and his son Thomas Lord Wentworth's debts. c. 33 *Earl of Inchequin: restoration of honours, manors, lands and tenements in Ireland. c. 3 *Earl of Winchelsea's estate: settling priory of Walton and other lands (Yorkshire) in trustees for payment of debts. c. 5 *George Faunt's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies charged thereon by Sir William Faunt deceased, for raising portions for younger children and providing a jointure for his wife. c. 28 *Great Level of the Fens drainage. c. 2 *Henry Lord Arundel of Warden: restoration of his estate. c. 16 *John Lord Culpeper: restoration of honours, manors and lands. c. 9 *John Newton and William Oakeley estates: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions. c. 19 *Joseph Micklethwaite's (infant) estate: sale of land for payment of father's debts. c. 30 *Levying monies due on the collection for the Protestants of Piedmont. c. 24 *Lord Gerrard: restoration of honours, manors and lands. c. 8 *Maintenance of Vicar of Royston (Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire) and his successors. c. 21 *Making the precinct of Covent Garden parochial. c. 35 *Marquis of Hertford: restoration to Dukedom of Somerset. c. 10 *Marquis of Newcastle: restoration of honours, manors, lands and tenements in England. c. 4 *Marquis of Ormond: restoration of honours, manors and lands in Ireland. c. 15 *Naturalization of Abraham Watchtor. c. 26 *Naturalization of Countess of Derby, Countess of Ossory, Lady Culpeper, Lord Wotton and Dame Emilia Kirkhoven. c. 13 *Naturalization of Frances Hyde and others. c. 29 *Naturalization of Gerrard Vantethusen, Daniel Demetrius, Theodore Cocke, John Cravenburgh and others. c. 23 *Naturalization of John Boreel. c. 25 *Naturalization of Peter and John de la Pierre or Peters. c. 1 *Newport (Salop.) school and almshouses: settlement of land for their maintenance and incorporation of Company of Haberdashers, London, as governors. c. 12 *Raising portions and provision for maintenance for the younger children of Sir Edward Gostwicke. c. 31 *Regulating bay aizemaking in Colchester. c. 7 *Sir George Booth's estate: power to lease and sell. c. 14 *Sir George Hamilton: restoration of lands and estates in Ireland. c. 20 *Sir George Lane: restoration of manors of Rathclive and Lisduff and other lands in Ireland. c. 6 *Sir Thomas Crimes: restoration of his estate. c. 27 *Sir William Wray's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 22 *Thomas Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk: restitution to Dukedom of Norfolk. c. 17 *Wentworth Earl of Roscomon: restoration of honours, manors and lands in Ireland. c. 18


1661


13 Cha. 2 St. 1

First session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(8 March 1661 – 30 June 1661)


=Public Acts

= * Arrears of Excise Act 1661 c. 13 * Clergy Act 1661 c. 2 * Confirmation of Acts Act 1661 c. 7 * Confirmation of Acts Act 1661 c. 11 * Confirmation of Acts Act 1661 c. 14 * Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1661 c. 12 * Hunting of Deer Act 1661 c. 10 * Illegality of Benevolences, etc. Act 1661 c. 4 (still in force) * Legal Proceedings during Commonwealth Act 1661 c. 15 * Navy Act 1661 c. 9 * Provision for the King's Journeys Act 1661 c. 8 *
Sedition Act 1661 The Sedition Act 1661 (13 Car 2 St 1 c 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England, although it was extended to Scotland in 1708. Passed shortly after the Restoration of Charles II, it is no longer in force, but some of its provisions continu ...
c. 1 * The King's Sole Right over the Militia Act 1661 c. 6 * Tumultuous Petitioning Act 1661 c. 5 * Vesting of Certain Moneys, etc. in the King Act 1661 c. 3


=Private Acts

= *Ascertaining and establishing the fees of the Masters of the Chancery. c. 1 *Confirmation and explanation of an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 33for sale of some of the manors and lands of Earl of Cleveland for payment of his debts and those of his son Thomas Lord Wentworth. c. 9 *Confirmation of sale of manor of Holm and certain lands in Manchester by Sir Thomas Prestwich to Sir Edward Mosely. c. 2 *Confirming and continuing an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 2for draining the Great Level of the Fens. c. 14 *Inclosing of former common highway from Parsons Green to Southfield in Fulham and settling other land for a common highway in lieu. c. 15 *John Harbin's estate: sale of lands in Somerset and Dorset for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 4 *John Lord Abergavenny's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and preferment of siblings. c. 11 *Naturalization of Francis Brudenell and Anna Countess of Shrewsbury. c. 12 *Reviving a settlement of certain lands on John Orlibeare for life with the remainder to his sons and to their male heirs. c. 13 *Richard Gipps' estate: sale of lands and tenements in Suffolk and Norfolk for payment of debts and provision of portions for younger children. c. 16 *Settling manors of Knoll, Seale and Kempsing (Kent) upon Earl of Dorset and heirs and charging manors of Bexhill and Cowding and other lands (Sussex) with a yearly rentcharge of £130 in lieu. c. 6 *Sir Edward Baesh's estate: settling lands upon his heir Sir Ralph Baesh. c. 8 *Thomas and John Hunt's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 5 *Thomas Radcliffe: restoration of lands and possessions in England and Ireland. c. 3 *Uniting parsonages of St. Andrews and St. Mary Witton in Droitwich (Worcestershire). c. 10 *Worcester weavers, fullers and clothiers: confirmation of charter and privileges. c. 7


13 Cha. 2 St. 2

First session (continued) of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(20 November 1661 – 30 December 1661)


=Public Acts

= * Cornwall Duchy Act 1661 c. 4 * Corporations Act 1661 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1661 c. 3 * Vexatious Arrests and Delays at Law Act 1661 c. 2


=Private Acts

= *Algernon Peyton's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 3 *Confirmation of an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 10for restoring the Marquis of Hertford in the Dukedom of Somerset. c. 1 *Confirmation of an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 17for restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk to the Dukedom of Norfolk. c. 4 *Confirmation of private Acts 2 Cha. 2 cc. 8, 11, 16, 19, 23, 27, 28 and 32 c. 5 *Division of Trinity Church, Hull, from Hasle. c. 2


1662 (14 Cha. 2)

First session (continued) of
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(7 January 1662 – 19 May 1662) Label given as "14 Car. 2" (14 Cha. 2) in ''
Statutes of the Realm ''The Statutes of the Realm'' is an authoritative collection of Acts of the Parliament of England from the earliest times to the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, and Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain passed up to the death of Queen Anne ...
'', and "13 & 14 Car. 2" (13 & 14 Cha. 2) in Ruffhead-Pickering ''
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''.


Public Acts

* Accountants Expected from Act of Oblivion Act 1662 c. 16 * Bankrupts Act 1662 c. 24 *
City of London Militia Act 1662 The City of London Militia Act 1662 (14 Car 2 c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of England. This Act was partly in force in Great Britain at the end of 2010.The Chronological Table of the Statutes, 1235 - 2010. The Stationery Office. 2011. . Par ...
c. 3 (still in force) * Coin Act 1662 c. 31 * Collectors of Public Money Act 1662 c. 17 * Customs Act 1662 c. 11 * Distribution of monies amongst the truly loyal and indigent commission officers Act 1662 c. 8 * Dover Harbour Repairs Act 1662 c. 27 * Expenses of Sheriffs Act 1662 c. 21 * Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662 c. 10 * Foreign Bone-lace, etc. Act 1662 c. 13 * Foreign Wool-cards etc. Act 1662 c. 19 * Highways Act 1662 c. 6 * Legal Proceedings During Commonwealth Act 1662 c. 25 *
Licensing of the Press Act 1662 The Licensing of the Press Act 1662 was an Act of the Parliament of England (14 Car. II. c. 33) with the long title "An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for regulating ...
c. 33 * Madder Act 1662 c. 30 * Making of stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich Act 1662 c. 5 * Moss Troopers Act 1662 c. 22 * Navy and Ordnance Act 1662 c. 20 * Packing of Butter Act 1662 c. 26 * Pilchard Fishery Act 1662 c. 28 * Policies of Assurance Act 1662 c. 23 *
Poor Relief Act 1662 The Poor Relief Act 1662 (14 Car 2 c 12) was an Act of the Cavalier Parliament of England. It was ''an Act for the Better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom'' and is also known as the Settlement Act or the Settlement and Removal Act. The purpose ...
c. 12 * Prize Goods Act 1662 c. 14 * Quakers Act 1662 c. 1 * Relief of poor and maimed officers and soldiers Act 1662 c. 9 * Silk Throwing Act 1662 c. 15 * Strafford Attainder Act 1662 c. 29 * Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662 c. 2 * To restrain the exportation of leather Act 1662 c. 7 *
Act of Uniformity 1662 The Act of Uniformity 1662 (14 Car 2 c 4) is an Act of the Parliament of England. (It was formerly cited as 13 & 14 Ch.2 c. 4, by reference to the regnal year when it was passed on 19 May 1662.) It prescribed the form of public prayers, adm ...
c. 4 (still in force) * Wool Act 1662 c. 18 * Woollen Cloth Act 1662 c. 32


Private Acts

*Anthony Etrick's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 31 *Bengeworth Bridge (Worcestershire) repair. c. 34 *Confirmation of agreements between Thomas Bushell and the miners of Rowpits (Somerset) for recovering their drowned and deserted works. c. 38 *Confirmation of an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 9for Lord Culpeper's restoration. c. 7 *Confirmation of decree made for Thomas Derham and the improvements, exchanges and allotments mentioned in it. c. 18 *Confirmation of estates of a number of his Majesty's copyhold tenants within the honour of Clitheroe (Lancashire). c. 22 *Confirmation of estates of several tenants and copyholders of the manors of Rannes, Irchester, Rushdon and others (Lancashire). c. 23 *Confirmation of John Marquis of Winchester's estate in certain manors and lands whose deeds and evidences were burnt and lost at the taking of Basing castle ampshire c. 3 *Confirmation of several Acts 2 Cha. 2 cc. 6, 15, 20 and 25 c. 10 *Confirmation of three Acts 2 Cha. 2 cc. 21, 31 and 34 c. 40 *Confirmation of two Acts 2 Cha. 2 cc. 5 and 14 c. 11 *Discharge of manors of Stodscomb and Holwell and other lands in Devon from the trust of 150 years made to Earls of Exeter, Bridgewater and Bolingbrooke. c. 20 *Disuniting the hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton from the county of the city of Gloucester and restoring them to the county of Gloucester. c. 13 *Duke of Albemarle: confirmation of letters patent granting him honours, manors and hereditaments. c. 2 *Edward Rivers' estate: sale of lands and houses for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 36 *Enabling Bishop of London to lease out tenements built on the site of his palace in London. c. 8 *Ferdinando Earl of Huntingdon's estate: confirmation of sale of land for payment of his and his father's debts. c. 4 *Francis Tindal's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 39 *Henry Nevil's estate: sale of lands (Yorkshire and Leicestershire) for payment of his and his son William's debts and confirmation of sales already made. c. 27 *Making void certain fines levied by Sir Edward and Dame Mary Powel. c. 28 *Naturalization of Anna Ferrers and others. c. 32 *Naturalization of Mark le Pla and others. c. 33 *Naturalization of Philadelphia, Lady Wentworth. c. 9 *Piedmont Protestants collection Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 24confirmation, explanation and enlargement. c. 24 *Rectification of defect in a deed for settling manors and lands on Sir Henry Frederick Thynne. c. 21 *Reversing the Earl of Strafford's attainder. c. 5 *River Ancholm Level (Lincolnshire): confirmation of commissioners' decrees of sewers. c. 17 *Rivers Stour and Salwarpe navigation (Worcestershire, Staffordshire). c. 14 *Rivers Wye and Lugg navigation (Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire). c. 15 *Rowland Okeover's estate: sale of lands in Derbyshire. c. 35 *Settlement of estate of James Duke of Richmond and Lenos ennoxaccording to the agreement between Charles Duke of Richmond and Lenos, Mary Dowager Duchess of Richmond and Lenos, her trustees and her daughter Lady Mary. c. 1 *Settling upon Viscount Campden a mansion house in Kensington. c. 6 *Sir Anthony Brown's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 30 *Sir James Enyons' estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 16 *Sir Robert and William Dallison's estate: sale of lands in Bleesby for payment of debts. c. 26 *Sir Robert Slingsby's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 29 *Sir Thomas Lee's estate: exchange of lands settled upon marriage of Dame Ann Lee his wife in lieu of other lands. c. 19 *Thomas Peck's estate: sale of manor and lands in Norfolk for payment of debts. c. 37 *Viscount Scudamore's endowment of churches in Ireland. c. 12 *William Milward's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 25


1663 (15 Cha. 2)

Second session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(18 February 1663 – 27 July 1663)


Public Acts

* Act of Uniformity (Explanation) Act 1663 c. 6 * Bedford Level Act 1663 c. 17 * Better Ordering the Forces Act 1663 c. 4 * Butchers Act 1663 c. 8 * Destruction of Trees Act 1663 c. 2 * Encouragement of Trade Act 1663 c. 7 * Excise Act 1663 c. 11 * Excise Act 1663 c. 12 * Fisheries, etc. Act 1663 c. 16 * Hearth Money Act 1663 c. 13 * Linen Cloth Act 1663 c. 15 * Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663 c. 1 * Select Vestries Act 1663 c. 5 * Settlement on Duke of York Act 1663 c. 14 * Taxation Act 1663 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1663 c. 9 * Taxation Act 1663 c. 10


Private Acts

*Bedford Level drainage. c. 9 *Confirmation of an Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 1naturalizing Peter and John de la Pierre or Peters. c. 13 *Confirmation of Charles Pitcarne's deed. c. 10 *Empowering Sir John Drake and others to sell lands for payment of the portion of Ellen Briscoe. c. 21 *Enabling Edward Chaloner to make provision for his wife Anne and his younger children. c. 19 *Enabling the Bishop of Winchester to lease out tenements built on the site of his mansion house in St Saviour's parish Southwark (Surrey) and two parks and other desmenses at Bishops Waltham, and other lands, in Hampshire. c. 4 *Estates of Earl of Kent and Lord Lucas: settling of lands on marriage of the Earl of Kent with the daughter and heir apparent of Lord Lucas. c. 2 *Free school in Witney (Oxfordshire): endowment and erection by Henry Box. c. 3 *Governing of St. Oswald's Hospital, Worcestershire. c. 6 *John Robinson's estate: sale of lands for payment of his debts and leasing other lands for provision for his younger children. c. 7 *Making void certain conveyances made by Caril Lord Mollineux. c. 8 *Naturalization of Charlotte Hessen Killigrew and others. c. 20 *Naturalization of Dame Elizabeth Jacob and others. c. 11 *Naturalization of George Willoughby and others. c. 12 *Repair of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire highways. c. 14 *Repairing and better preserving the quay of the port of Wells (Norfolk). c. 5 *Richard and Anthony Senior's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 22 *Settlement of an annuity of £300 per year upon Charles Earl of Portland, and for the benefit of Willoughby Whitelocke, Bulstrode Whitelocke and Carleton Whitelocke infants and for confirming agreements made to compose lawsuits against them. c. 16 *Settling Post Office profits and power to grant wine licences on Duke of York. c. 1 *Settling the charitable gift of John Guest. c. 17 *Sir John Packington's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c. 18 *To enable Edward, Marquis of Worcester, to receive the benefit of a water commanding engine invented by him, a tenth part of which is appropriated for the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors. c. 15


1664


16 Cha. 2

Third session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(16 March 1664 – 17 May 1664)


=Public Acts

= *
Conventicle Act 1664 The Conventicle Act 1664 was an Act of the Parliament of England (16 Charles II c. 4) that forbade conventicles, defined as religious assemblies of more than five people other than an immediate family, outside the auspices of the Church of ...
c. 4 * Error Act 1664 c. 2 * Gaming Act 1664 c. 7 * Hearth Money Act 1664 c. 3 * Licensing of the Press Act 1664 c. 8 * Merchant Ships Act 1664 c. 6 * Navy Act 1664 c. 5 * Triennial Parliaments Act 1664 c. 1


=Private Acts

= *Charles Cotton's estate: leasing of land for payment of debts. c. 9 *Confirmation of Malvern Chase orcestershireinclosure and improvement. c. 5 *Enabling Francis or Charles Cottington to settle and dispose of lands to provide jointures for future wives. c. 8 *Making Falmouth church a parish church. c. 10 *Naturalization of Dame Katherine Sayer and others. c. 7 *Settling Abraham Colfe's charitable gift for erecting and endowing two free schools and an almshouse at Lewisham (Kent). c. 6 *Sir Sackvile Glemham: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 3 *Sir William Armin's estate: sale of lands and manor of Ingoldesby (Lincolnshire) for raising portions for his two daughters. c. 2 *Sir William Keite's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 4 *Vacating of certain conveyances made by Sir John Packington to Christopher Henn and others. c. 1


16 & 17 Cha. 2

Fourth session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(24 November 1664 – 2 March 1665)


=Public Acts

= * Arrest of Judgment Act 1664 c. 8 * Coal Trade, London Act 1664 c. 2 * Draining Deeping Fen Act 1664 c. 11 * Excise Act 1664 c. 4 * Execution Act 1664 c. 5 * Highways Hertford Act 1664 c. 10 * Juries Act 1664 c. 3 * Lancaster (Affidavits) Act 1664 c. 9 * Licensing of the Press Act 1664 c. 7 * Prize Goods Act 1664 c. 6 * River Avon Navigation (Christchurch to New Sarum) Act 1664 c. 12 * Taxation Act 1664 c. 1


=Private Acts

= *Confirmation of a deed of settlement between the Earl of Thanet and his younger brothers. c. 3 *Confirmation of an Act concerning Joseph Micklethwaite's estate 2 Cha. 2 c. 30 c. 16 *Deeping Fen and other fens drainage. c. 20 *Enabling Henry Lord Loughborough to make the river and sewer navigable from or near Bristowe Causey (Surrey) into the river Thames. c. 6 *Enabling the Bishop of Winchester to convey of land in the disparked Park of Bishops Waltham (Hampshire) to the rector of Bishops Waltham parish church and his successors in lieu of all tithes and tithe payments due to them for Waltham Parks. c. 4 *For settling differences between Great and Little Yarmouth concerning the loading and unloading of herrings and other goods. c. 14 *Francis Lee's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and making provision for children. c. 18 *Hertfordshire highways repair. c. 19 *Lord Henry Powlet, George Withers and John Mompesson: power to sell manor of Abbots-Anne (Hampshire). c. 5 *Lord Strangford's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 7 *Naturalization of Richard Comes and others. c. 15 *Restitution in blood of Sir Charles Stanley. c. 8 *River Avon navigation (Christchurch to New Sarum). c. 11 *River Medway (Kent and Sussex) navigation. c. 12 *Rivers (various) navigation. c. 13 *Samuel Sandys' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 2 *Settling Sir Robert Carr's estate. c. 10 *Sir Edward Hungerford: power to sell lands in Devon. c. 1 *Sir Jacob Astley's estate: settling of lands and manors in Norfolk or Warwickshire. c. 9 *Thomas Iuckes of Trelidden's (Montgomeryshire) estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising younger children's portions. c. 17


1665 (17 Cha. II)

Fifth session of the
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(9 October 1665 – 31 October 1665) (held at
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Public Acts

* Attainder of Certain Persons Act 1665 c. 5 * Augmentation of Benefices Act 1665 c. 3 * Damage Cleer Act 1665 c. 6 * Death between Verdict and Judgment Act 1665 c. 8 * Distresses and Avowries for Rents Act 1665 c. 7 * Licensing of the Press Act 1665 c. 4 * Nonconformists Act 1665 c. 2 – the "Five Mile Act" * Taxation Act 1665 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1665 c. 9


Private Acts

* Naturalization of Lewis Blanquefort and others. c. 1


1666–67 (18 & 19 Cha. 2)

*cc. 1–5 are from the sixth session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(21 September 1666 – 8 February 1667) *cc. 6–13 are from the seventh session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(10 October 1667 – 19 December 1667) Label given as "18 & 19 Car. 2" (18 & 19 Cha. 2) in ''Statutes of the Realm'', and separately as "18 Car. 2" (18 Cha. 2) and "19 Car. 2" (19 Cha. 2) in Ruffhead-Pickering ''Statutes at Large''. Equivalences: 18 & 19 Cha. 2 (cc. 1–5) = 18 Cha. 2 (cc. 1–5); 18 & 19 Cha. 2 (cc. 6–13) = 19 Cha. 2 (1–8).


Public Acts

* Burying in Wool Act 1666 c. 4 * Cestui que Vie Act 1666 c. 11 (still in force/hidden) * Coin Act 1666 c. 5 *
Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 The Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 was an Act of the Parliament of England (18 & 19 Cha. II c. 7) with the long title "An Act for erecting a Judicature for Determination of Differences touching Houses burned or demolished by reason of the lat ...
c. 7 * Importation Act 1666 c. 2 * Moss Troopers Act 1666 c. 3 * Navy Act 1666 c. 12 * Poor Prisoners Act 1666 c. 9 *
Rebuilding of London Act 1666 The The reconstruction of London is an Act of the Parliament of England (19 Car. II. c. 8) with the long title "An Act for rebuilding the City of London."'Charles II, 1666: An Act for rebuilding the City of London.', Statutes of the Realm: volume ...
c. 8 * Replevins in Wales and Counties Palatine Act 1666 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1666 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1666 c. 6 * Taxation Act 1666 c. 13


Private Acts

*Confirming, explaining and enlarging an Act concerning Lord Abergavenny's estate 3 Cha. 2 St. 1 c. 11 c. 7 *Edward Russell's estate: sale of a messuage in Chiswick for payment of debts. c. 9 *Enlarging time given by a former Act 2 Cha. 2 c. 33for the redemption of the Earl of Cleveland's mortgages. c. 1 *Henry Kendall's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 16 *Henry Mildmay's estate: settling lands for payment of debts and provision for children. c. 17 *Illegitimation of Lady Anne Roos' children. c. 8 *Lady Elizabeth Noell's jointure. c. 3 *Leicester Grosvenor's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 18 *Lord Strangford's estate: additional Act for sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 5 *Naturalization of Dame Mary Frazer and others. c. 15 *Naturalization of Hesther Le Lou. c. 6 *Naturalization of Lady Isabella Arlington. c. 2 *Restitution in blood of Francis Scawen. c. 14 *Settling an estate in trust for benefit of Mrs Pride and her children. c. 12 *Settling John Bodnell's estate. c. 4 *Settling moiety of manor of Iron Acton on Sir John Pointz. c. 11 *Sir Seymour Shirley's estate: confirmation of a settlement. c. 10 *Swafham Priors (Cambridgeshire), uniting of churches of *Swafham St Ciriac and Swafham St Marys. c. 13


1667–68 (19 & 20 Cha. 2)

*cc. 1–5 are from Seventh session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(10 October 1667 – 19 December 1667) *cc. 6–13 are from Seventh session (continued) of
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(10 February 1668 – 9 May 1668) Label given as "19 & 20 Car. 2" (19 & 20 Cha. 2) in ''Statutes of the Realm'', but separately as "19 Car. 2" (19 Cha. 2) and "20 Car. 2" (20 Cha. 2) in Ruffhead-Pickering ''Statutes at Large''. Equivalences: 19 & 20 Cha. 2 (cc. 1–5) = 19 Cha. 2 (cc. 9–13); 19 & 20 Cha. 2 (cc. 6–13) = 20 Cha. 2 (cc. 1–8).


Public Acts

* Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667 c. 1 * Bedford Level Act 1667 c. 13 * Dean Forest Act 1667 c. 8 * Earl of Clarendon Act 1667 c. 2 * Error Act 1667 c. 9 * Exchequer Orders Act 1667 c. 4 * Exportation Act 1667 c. 10 * Importation Act 1667 c. 12 * Prize Ships Act 1667 c. 3 * Public Accountants Act 1667 c. 7 * Silk Throwing Act 1667 c. 11 * Taxation Act 1667 c. 6 * Trade Act 1667 c. 5


Private Acts

*Better securing Lady Frances Savile's portion of £5000 out of part of James Earl of Sussex's estate pursuant to her father's, Thomas Earl of Sussex's, will. c. 14 *Confirmation of an exchange of lands between Horatio Lord Townsend and the Rector of East and West Raynham (Norfolk). c. 3 *Dawes Wimondseld's estate: sale of customary lands held of the manor of Wimbledon (Surrey). c. 15 *Earl of Clare's estate: settling of part of the possessions of John, Earl of Clare and enabling Gilbert, Earl of Clare to dispose of part for payment of debts and portions. c. 1 *Enabling Bishop of Durham to lease certain lead mines for three lives. c. 2 *Enabling Sir William Juxon to recover part of the estate of William Juxon late Archbishop of Canterbury. c. 13 *Exchange of lands and manors of William Palmes for other lands settled upon him and his issue by his wife Mary. c. 6 *Execution of Richard Tayler's trust for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 16 *Fire of London: indemnification of City Sheriffs and Warden of the Fleet for the escape of prisoners and other matters occasioned by the fire. c. 7 *Great Level of the Fens: taxing and assessing the Adventurers' lands. c. 8 *Horton inclosure and preservation of wood and timber: confirmation of an agreement between lord of manor and tenants. c. 12 *Lucy estates: confirmation of the settlement of Sir Kingsmill Lucy and transfer of part of the real estate of Sir Richard Lucy from Francis Lucy. c. 11 *Naturalization of Alvaro de Costa and others. c. 4 *Settling of lands on Sir Richard Wiseman and John Plott for better performance of a trust. c. 5 *Sir Charles Stanley's estate: leasing of land for payment of debts and provision for children. c. 17 *Sir Thomas Heblethwaite's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 10 *Sir Thomas Leventhorp's estate: settlement of manors and lands in Essex and Hertfordshire. c. 9


1670–1679


1670


22 Cha. 2

Ninth session of the
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(14 February 1670 – 11 April 1670). The Eighth Session, October–December 1669, did not pass any public acts.


=Public Acts

= * Benefit of Clergy Act 1670 c. 5 *
Bridges Act 1670 The Bridges Act 1670 (22 Car 2 c 12) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The whole Act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part VI of Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973. See also *Bridges Act References *Halsbury's Sta ...
c. 12 *
Conventicles Act 1670 The Conventicles Act 1670 is an Act of the Parliament of England (22 Car. II. c. 1) with the long title "An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles". The Act imposed a fine on any person who attended a conventicle (any religious assem ...
c. 1 * Duchy of Cornwall Act 1670 c. 6 * Duchy of Cornwall Act 1670 c. 7 * Measures Act 1670 c. 8 * Rebuilding of London Act 1670 c. 11 * Sale of Sir John Prittiman's Lands Act 1670 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1670 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1670 c. 4 * Tillage Act 1670 c. 13 * Union between England and Scotland Act 1670 c. 9 * Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Duties) Act 1670 c. 2


=Private Acts

= *Assurance of lands in County Durham to Doctor Wharton by Henry and Jane Perkins. c. 22 *Building a mansion house for the dean of St. Paul's Church, London. c. 12 *Confirmation of purchasers' estates and settling differences between Lady Elizabeth Lee and the daughters and coheirs of Earl of Downe. c. 5 *Confirmation of Sir Ralph Bankes' estate (manor of Thesbestet and other lands in the county and county and borough of Carmarthen). c. 8 *Deeping Fens drainage (Lincolnshire). c. 15 *Disposing of a house and lands belonging to sisters and coheirs of Margaret Strode. c. 13 *Dorothy Farewell's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 10 *Enabling Anthony Ashley to acknowledge fines and suffer recoveries of lands while he is under 21 years old. c. 3 *Enabling John Manners, Lord Roos, to marry again. c. 1 *Enabling Sir William Gostwicke to make a jointure for his wife Dame Mary. c. 7 *John Bill's estate: sale of lands in Kent and Surrey. c. 19 *Naturalization of Captain Christopher Gunman and others. c. 24 *Naturalization of Horatio Woodhouse and others. c. 25 *Richard Beckham's estate: sale of lands to pay father's debts and to raise portions for younger brothers. c. 18 *Rivers Brandon and Waveney orfolk, Suffolknavigation. c. 16 *Robert Hotchkin's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for daughters. c. 21 *Sale of manor of Firbeck (Yorkshire) and other lands for payment of debts. c. 11 *Settlement of Bishop of Rochester's charities. c. 2 *Settling part of Dame Susan Bellasis' estate. c. 4 *Shadwell: endowment of a church and making it a parish church distinct from Stepney (Middlesex). c. 14 *Sir Cuthbert Heron's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 9 *Thomas Davison's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 23 *Thomas Hord's estate: power to grant leases. c. 17 *Thomas Leigh's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 20 *Viscount Strangford's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 6


22 & 23 Cha. 2

Ninth session (continued) of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(24 October 1670 – 22 April 1671)


=Public Acts

= * Burning of Houses, etc. Act 1670 c. 7 * Duties on Law Proceedings Act 1670 c. 9 * Excise Act 1670 c. 5 * Exportation Act 1670 c. 13 * Extents Act 1670 c. 2 * Fee Farm Rents Act 1670 c. 24 * Fines and Forfeitures Act 1670 c. 22 * Game Act 1670 c. 25 * Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1670 c. 20 * Judgments, etc. Act 1670 c. 4 * Kidderminster Stuffs Act 1670 c. 8 * London Streets, Paving, Cleansing, etc. Act 1670 c. 17 * Maiming Act 1670 c. 1 * Measures Act 1670 c. 12 * Navy Act 1670 c. 23 * Piracy Act 1670 c. 11 * Plague and Fire Relief Funds (Frauds, etc.) Act 1670 c. 16 * Poor Act 1670 c. 18 * Post Office Revenues Act 1670 c. 27 * Rebuilding of London Act 1670 c. 14 * Sale of Cattle Act 1670 c. 19 * Statute of Distribution c. 10 * Subsidy Act 1670 c. 3 * Tithes in London After the Fire Act 1670 c. 15 * Tobacco Planting and Plantation Trade Act 1670 c. 26 * Wine Licences, etc. Act 1670 c. 6


=Private Acts

= *Benedict Hall's estate: exchange and sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 15 *Better explanation of an Act for making Falmouth church a parish church 6 Cha. 2 c. 10 c. 12 *Better payment of debts of Sir Clifford Clifton and raising portions for his daughters. c. 9 *Building of Arundel House. c. 19 *Confirmation of agreements between Lord and Lady Stafford and their customary tenants and copyholders. c. 3 *Elizabeth, Mary and Letitia Hammond's estate: sale of lands. c. 13 *Enabling Charles Howard and Mary his wife to levy a fine and suffer a recovery of their estate in the manor of Dorking urrey c. 20 *Enabling Christopher Duke of Albemarle to reconvey mortgaged lands and manors. c. 1 *Enabling Francis Courtney to join with his father Sir William Courtney in a conveyance to settle their estate. c. 8 *Enabling guardians to dispose of lands for benefit of Charles Earl of Shrewsbury and John Talbot (infants). c. 2 *Enabling Henry Booth to levy fines and suffer recoveries. c. 21 *Enabling Sir Andrew Hackett to settle a portion of money on Mary his daughter. c. 22 *Enabling the Bishops of Bangor and St. Asaph to lease their lead mines for 21 years. c. 5 *Explaining an Act 5 Cha. 2 c. 1for settling Post Office profits and the power to grant wine licences on the Duke of York. c. 18 *Granting Sir Philip Howard and Francis Watson sole use of an invention for the benefit of shipping. c. 7 *Henry Viscount Irwin's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and legacies. c. 6 *Improvement of Boston incolnshireand Trent navigation. c. 25 *James Lord Norreys' estate: enabling conveyancing during his minority. c. 4 *John Knight's estate: settling the manor of Portswood and other lands in Hampshire and Southampton to be sold for the payment of debts. c. 16 *Making manor of Parisgarden a parish and enabling parishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark to raise a maintenance for ministers and for repair of the church. c. 28 *Rectification of a mistake in the dates of deeds mentioned in an Act to enable John Bill to sell lands in Kent and Surrey 2 Cha. 2 c. 19 c. 14 *Settling an agreement between Sir William Smith, Sir Thomas Hooke, German Poole and others. c. 10 *Settling and preserving the River Wey navigation (Surrey). c. 26 *Settling John Sams' charity lands. c. 30 *Sir John Fitz-James' estate: enabling daughters and coheirs to join in a sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 11 *Sir Thomas Ogle's estate: sale of lands for raising a portion and maintenance for his daughter and heir, and for payment of his debts. c. 24 *Sir William Clarke's estate: settling manor of Shabbington uckinghamshirefor payment of debts. c. 23 *Thomas Herlackenden's estate: sale of part for satisfaction of a debt due to the Crown. c. 29 *Uniting the vicarage and parsonage of Ross (Herefordshire). c. 27 *Vesting and settling the fee simple of certain Crown lands in Portsmouth which have been taken into and spoiled by new fortifications there. c. 17


1672 (25 Cha. 2)

Tenth session of the
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(4 February 1673 – 29 March 1673) (Acts dated "1672" because passed before 25 March 1673, the end of the civil and legal year 1672.)


Public Acts

* Aliens Duty Act 1672 c. 6 * Coinage Act 1672 c. 8 * Duchy of Cornwall Act 1672 c. 3 * Durham (Representation of) Act 1672 c. 9 * Fire of London, Property Disputes Act 1672 c. 10 * General Pardon Act 1672 c. 5 * Popish Recusants Act 1672 c. 2 * Sale of Cattle Act 1672 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1672 c. 1 * Trade Act 1672 c. 7


Private Acts

*Confirmation of an award made by Sir Orlando Bridgeman for ending Sir Thomas Woolrich's family's differences and enabling John Woolrich and his heirs to execute the powers in the said award. c. 6 *Confirmation of Sir William Rich's marriage settlement. c. 5 *Confirming agreements between Sir Ralph Bancks, Sir J. Hanham and others. c. 8 *Enabling James Earl of Salisbury to grant leases of lands and tenements for not more than 40 years. c. 2 *Enabling Robert Bellamy to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 10 *Enabling the dean and chapter of Bristol cathedral to exchange Berkeley vicarage (Gloucestershire) with George Lord Berkeley for his rectory of St Michael in Sutton Bonnington (Nottinghamshire). c. 3 *Explaining and declaring the extent of an exception in a deed. c. 9 *Hanham estates: sale of land by trustees for payment of Sir William Hanham's debts and management of the estate of *Sir John Hanham (an infant). c. 4 *Naturalization of Philip Lloyd. c. 11 *Settlement of Chudleigh Rectory (Devon) on Thomas Lord Clifford and others. c. 1 *Transfer of the interest of a term of years in certain manors and lands of Sir Robert Berkeley deceased and payment of portions to his grandchildren. c. 7


1675 (27 Cha. 2)

Fourteenth session of the
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(13 October 1675 – 16 November 1675). The 11th (October–November 1673), 12th (January–February 1674) and 13th Sessions (April–June 1675) did not pass any public acts.


Public Acts

* Fire at Northampton, Property Disputes Act 1675


Private Acts

*Alexander Davies' estate: vesting lands in trustees for payment of debts. c. 7 *Better enabling Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick to perform the last will and testament of her husband Charles Earl of Warwick. c. 6 *Enabling Charles Cotton to sell lands for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c. 4 *Enabling Sir Francis Compton to sell the manor of Hamerton (Huntingdon). c. 2 *Grant of licence to Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland for thirty one years. c. 1 *Naturalization of Theodore Russell and others. c. 3 *William and Edward Lewis' estate: sale of lands in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire for payment of debts and legacies. c. 5


1677

Fifteenth session of the
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(15 February 1677 – 25 April 1677)


29 Cha. 2


=Public Acts

= * Affidavits Act 1677 c. 5 * Augmentation of Benefices Act 1677 c. 8 *
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677 The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677 (29 Car 2 c 9) was an act of the Parliament of England. It abolished the death penalty for heresy, blasphemy, atheism, schism, and such crimes. The whole act was repealed by section 87 of, and schedule 5 ...
c. 9 * Naturalization (Children Born Abroad During the Troubles) Act 1677 c. 6 * Southwark Fire, Property Disputes Act 1677 c. 4 *
Statute of Frauds The Statute of Frauds (29 Car 2 c 3) (1677) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It required that certain types of contracts, wills, and grants, and assignment or surrender of leases or interest in real property must be in writing and sign ...
c. 3 (still in force) * Sunday Observance Act 1677 c. 7 * Taxation Act 1677 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1677 c. 2 * Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Continuance of Duties) Act 1677 c. 10


=Private Acts

= *Edward Standish's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 13 *Enabling Lady Mary Mordant to sell her interest in the manor of Bletchingley and various lands in Surrey despite her minority. c. 3 *Enabling Sir Edward Hungerford to lease Hungerford House, Strand (Middlesex) and adjoining houses and tenements. c. 6 *Explanatory and supplementary Act for better enabling Sir Francis Compton to sell and dispose of the manor of Hamerton (Huntingdon). c. 5 *Herbert Awbrey's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 7 *Lawrence Squibb's estate: sale of lands in Winterbourne Whitchurch (Dorset). c. 14 *Naturalization of Jacob David and others. c. 11 *Naturalization of Peter Reneu and others. c. 12 *Naturalizing of Alice Rushot. c. 10 *Rectification of a mistake in the settlement of Lord Mainard's estate on the marriage of his son. c. 2 *Robert Earl of Manchester's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and settling other lands in lieu of those to be sold. c. 1 *Settling a maintenance on the vicar of All Hallowes, Northampton. c. 8 *Thomas Barkley's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c. 9 *Viscount Kilmorey's estate: payment of debts and raising portions for two of his younger sons . c. 4


29 & 30 Cha. 2

Fifteenth session (continued) of the
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(28 January 1678 – 13 May 1678)


=Public Acts

= * Taxation, etc. Act 1677 c. 1 * Moss Troopers Act 1677 c. 2


=Private Acts

= *Appropriating rectories of Llanrhayader in Mochvant (Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire) and Skeviog (Flintshire) for repairs of the Cathedral of St Asaph and better maintenance of its choir, and also for uniting several rectories sina cura and the vicarages of the same parishes in the
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. c. 18 *Ascertaining and establishing the interest of the lord and copyhold tenants of manors of West Derby and Wavertree (Lancashire) in relation to their fines and commons. c. 3 *Bryan Viscount Cullen's estate: sale or disposal of lands in Elmsthorpe (Leicestershire) for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter. c. 6 *Cobham House and Park: raising of money by trustees. c. 7 *Correction of a settlement made by John Coke and alteration in part of a trust of the estate of Robert Coke. c. 10 *Discharging Winestead (Yorkshire) manor from a settlement in tail and charging other manors and lands in Lincolnshire of greater value with the same uses. c. 12 *Edward, Earl of Warwick and Holland's estate: enabling guardians to make leases during his minority. c. 4 *Enabling Francis Brend to sell lands to raise £3000 for portions of his nieces Frances and Elizabeth Brend. c. 15 *Enabling Sir John Cotton to dispose of a messuage called St Jermans and other lands near St Albans (Herefordshire) and to settle other lands in lieu. c. 8 *Enabling Thomas Lord Morley and Mounteagle Baron of Rye to sell manor and lands in Farlton (Lancashire) for payment of debts. c. 5 *Enabling Thomas Thynne of Longleat (Wiltshire) to settle a jointure on a wife. c. 11 *Estate of Edward Bedell of Wood Rising (Norfolk): sale of lands and manors for payment of debts and for raising portions for his daughters and any future children. c. 14 *Estate of William Gery of Bushmead (Bedfordshire): sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 13 *Francis Shalcrosse's estate (Hertfordshire): settling of manors, farms and lands, making provision for younger children and payment of debts. c. 20 *John Herring's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 22 *John Samine's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 21 *Naturalizing of Countess of Lincoln and others. c. 16 *Restoration of the honour of Baron Audley of Hely to James Lord Audley and others. c. 17 *Rodes v. Thornton: confirmation of Chancery decree dated 24 February 1675, and of conveyances and assurances made in pursuance of it for the payment of Sir Francis Rodes' debts and provision for his wife and children. c. 9 *Sir Ralph Banks' estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 19 *Sir William Thorold's (late of Hough (Lincolnshire)) estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 23


1678

Sixteenth session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(23 May 1678 – 20 June 1678)


30 Cha. 2


=Public Acts

= * Burying in Woollen Act 1678 c. 3 * Continuance of Acts, 1678 c. 6 * Executors of Executors (Waste) Act 1678 c. 7 * Fishing in the Severn Act 1678 c. 9 * Highways Act 1678 c. 5 * Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678 c. 4 * Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keels) Act 1678 c. 8 * Taxation Act 1678 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1678 c. 2


=Private Acts

= *Creation of St. Anne's Parish, Westminster. c. 16 *Edward Gresham's estate: sale of rectory of Westerham (Kent) for payment of debts. c. 12 *Enabling Thomas Plater to sell lands for payment of debts charged upon them and reimbursing him money spent in repairing the breaches made by the inundation of the sea and keeping the waters out. c. 21 *For uniting and consolidating churches of Beaumont and Moze (Essex) . c. 14 *Increasing the revenue of the Dean of St. Paul's and assuring his tenants' estates in Shadwell (Middlesex). c. 11 *John Forth's estate: making good a mortgage to Thomas Cooke and Nicholas Carey and making provision for his son Henry. c. 19 *Naturalizing of John Schoppens and others. c. 18 *On John Fortescue's behalf for executing trusts devolved upon infants. c. 15 *River Fal (Cornwall) navigation. c. 20 *Sir Thomas Cave's estate: better enabling trustees to sell lands for performance of his will and for vesting and settling other lands. c. 13 *Sir Trevor Williams' estate: rectifying an omission in the settlement made on the marriage of his eldest son and enabling eldest son to make a jointure for a second wife. c. 10 *Tanfield Mulso's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for children. c. 17


30 Cha. 2 St. 2

Seventeenth session of the
Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. It was the longest English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring for nearly 18 years of the quarter-century reign of ...
(21 October 1678 – 30 December 1678)


=Public Acts

= * Parliament Act 1678


1679 (31 Cha. 2)

Session of the
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(6 March 1679 – 12 July 1679)


Public Acts

* Billeting Act 1679 c. 1 *
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c. 2 (still in force) * Records of Fires Burnt, etc. Act 1679 c. 3


Private Acts

*Charles Dale's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and provision for daughters and coheirs. c. 5 *Drake estates: confirmation of leases made by John Drake and others and enabling Sir Francis Drake to make a jointure and raise portions for his daughters and younger children. c. 4


1680–1689


1680 (32 Cha. 2)

Exclusion Bill Parliament The Exclusion Bill Parliament was a Parliament of England during the reign of Charles II of England, named after the long saga of the Exclusion Bill. Summoned on 24 July 1679, but prorogued by the king so that it did not assemble until 21 Octob ...


Public Acts

* Burying in Woollen Act 1680 c. 1 * Importation Act 1680 c. 2


Private Acts

*Rectification of errors in Sir Charles Hoghton's marriage settlement. c. 1


1685 (1 Ja. 2)

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. James II prevented this Parliament from sitting after 1685 and did not call any more Parliaments, so he did not pass any laws after 1685.


Public Acts

* Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 c. 17 * Attainder, Duke of Monmouth Act 1685 c. 2 * Coal Duties for Rebuilding Saint Paul's Act 1685 c. 15 * Coinage Act 1685 c. 7 * Duchy of Cornwall Act 1685 c. 9 * Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Duties) Act 1685 c. 16 * Importation Act 1685 c. 6 * Importing, etc., of Gunpowder, etc. Act 1685 c. 8 * Moss Troopers Act 1685 c. 14 * Navy and Ordnance Act 1685 c. 11 * Post Office, etc., Revenues Act 1685 c. 12 * Providing of Carriages for the King Act 1685 c. 10 * Revenue Act 1685 c. 1 * Ships Act 1685 c. 18 * Taxation Act 1685 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1685 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1685 c. 5 * Tillage Act 1685 c. 19 * Trade Act 1685 c. 13


Private Acts

*Creation of St. James' Parish, Westminster. c. 10 *Enabling Edward Meller to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 9 *Enabling James Earl of Ossory to make a jointure for a future wife. c. 3 *Naturalization of James Dufay, Theodore Janssen and others. c. 8 *Naturalization of John Esselbron, Otto Geertz, David Becceler and others. c. 4 *Naturalization of Magdalen Pellasary and others. c. 7 *Rebuilding of Earl of Powis's house, Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 5 *Repair of Cathedral Church of Bangor, maintenance of choir and augmentation of revenue of the Bishopric of Bangor and of several vicarages within the comportions of Landinum (Bangor diocese). c. 11 *Repealing a clause for dividing commons in an Act for draining the Bedford level 5 Cha. 2 c. 9 c. 2 *Rochester water supply. c. 6 *St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: raising of money by inhabitants to build a church. c. 1


1688


1 Will. & Mar.

Convention Parliament (1689) The English Convention was an assembly of the Parliament of England which met between 22 January and 12 February 1689 (1688 old style, so its legislation was labelled with that earlier year) and transferred the crowns of England and Ireland from ...


=Public Acts

= * Appropriation of Revenue Act 1688 c. 28 * Clergy, Ireland Act 1688 c. 29 *
Coronation Oath Act 1688 The Coronation Oath Act 1688 (1 Will & Mary c 6) is an Act of the Parliament of England. It was passed in 1689 (New Style; 1688 Old Style). The preamble noted that "by the Law and Ancient Usage of this Realm" the monarchs of England had taken a ...
c. 6 (still in force) * Court of Marches of Wales Act 1688 c. 27 * Excise Act 1688 c. 24 * Exportation Act 1688 c. 12 * Exportation Act 1688 c. 22 * Exportation Act 1688 c. 23 * Great Seal Act 1688 c. 21 (still in force) * Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs Act 1688 c. 11 * Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688 c. 2 * Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688 c. 7 * Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688 c. 19 * Hearth Money Act 1688 c. 10 * Leather Act 1688 c. 33 * Legal Proceedings Act 1688 c. 4 * Mutiny Act 1688 c. 5 * Oaths Act 1688 c. 25 * Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688 c. 8 * Papists Act 1688 c. 9 * Papists Act 1688 c. 15 * Papists Act 1688 c. 17 * Parliament Act 1688 c. 1 (still in force) * Presentation of Benefices Act 1688 c. 26 * Revenue Act 1688 c. 14 * Royal Mines Act 1688 c. 30 (still in force) * Simony Act 1688 c. 16 (still in force) * Taxation Act 1688 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 13 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 20 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 31 * Toleration Act 1689 c. 18 *
Trade with France Act 1688 The Trade with France Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 34) was an Act passed by the Parliament of England which prohibited all trade and commerce with France, effective 24 August 1689 and in force for three years. Passage had followed the accession of ...
c. 34 * Woollen Manufactures Act 1688 c. 32


=Private Acts

= *Annulling Algernoon Sydney's attainder. c. 7 *Annulling Alicia Lisle's attainder. c. 8 *Annulling William Lord Russell's attainder. c. 1 *Better assurance of manor of Silton and other lands to Joseph Soley in Silton (Salop.). c. 12 *Better regulation of Droitwich salt works. c. 19 *Enabling Hannah Sherley and her daughter Mary Battilhey to sell and dispose of lands in Middlesex and Essex. c. 22 *Enabling Robert Penwarne to sell lands to pay his siblings' portions and to pay debts. c. 13 *Enabling Theodore Bathurst to make a jointure for his wife and to charge monies on part of his estate in Yorkshire. c. 15 *Enabling Thomas Chettell to sell part of his estate for payment of debts and making provision for wife and children. c. 20 *Enabling Younger Cooke to sell lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 5 *Erecting Bristol and Gloucester Courts of Conscience. c. 18 *Erecting Newcastle upon Tyne Court of Conscience. c. 17 *Exhibiting a Bill in Parliament for naturalizing Prince George of Denmark. c. 2 *For building into tenements the remaining inclosed part of Arundel Ground. c. 10 *Henry Coventry's estate: sale or leasing of a capital messuage in Piccadilly. c. 9 *Making good a recovery suffered by the Earl of Peterborough and Lord Mordaunt. c. 14 *Naturalization and settling the precedence of Prince George of Denmark. c. 3 *Naturalization of Anne Astley and others. c. 11 *Naturalization of Frederick Count Schomberg and others. c. 4 *Naturalization of Henry de Nassau and others. c. 6 *Reversing Henry Cornish's attainder. c. 16 *Richard Hele's estate: enabling trustees to grant leases. c. 21


1 Will. & Mar. sess. 2


=Public Acts

= *
Bill of Rights A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and pri ...
c. 2 (still in force) * Indemnity Act 1688 c. 8 * Mutiny Act 1688 c. 4 * Relief of Irish Protestants Act 1688 c. 9 * Revenue Act 1688 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 5 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 6 * Taxation Act 1688 c. 7


=Private Acts

= *Discharge of Duke of Norfolk and trustees of Henry late Duke of Norfolk upon payment of certain sums of money to Lady Elizabeth Teresa Russell. c. 5 *Enabling Charles Earl of Radnor to make a jointure and to raise money out of lands and tenements in Cornwall. c. 6 *Enabling Edward Viscount Hereford to settle a jointure on his marriage to Elizabeth Narbourne despite his minority. c. 3 *Enabling Thomas Edon to sell land for payment of debts and making provision for wife and any future children. c. 7 *Enabling William Batson to sell lands in Oxfordshire and to purchase and settle lands in Suffolk to the same uses. c. 8 *Naturalization of John Rogerson. c. 2 *Naturalization of William Watts. c. 1 *Provision for maintenance of children of Sydney Wortley or Montague. c. 4


1689 (2 Will. & Mar.)

2nd Parliament of William and Mary


Public Acts

* Absence of King William Act 1689 c. 6 *
Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 The Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 (2 Will & Mary c 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England, passed in 1690. It was designed to confirm the succession to the throne of King William III and Queen Mary II of England and to confirm th ...
c. 1 (still in force) * Distress for Rent Act 1689 c. 5 (still in force) * General Pardon Act 1689 c. 10 * Importation Act 1689 c. 9 *
London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 The London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 is an Act of the Parliament of England (statute number ''2 W. & M. c. 8.''), the long title of which is "An Act for Reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for Res ...
c. 8 * Parliamentary Elections Act 1689 c. 7 * Taxation Act 1689 c. 2 * Taxation Act 1689 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1689 c. 4


Private Acts

*Cadwallader Wynne's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts. c. 13 *Confirming privileges and trade to Hudson's Bay Company. c. 15 *Correction of a mistake in an Act concerning Henry Coventry's estate Will. & Mar. c. 9 c. 2 *Enabling Algernoon Earl of Essex to make a jointure for his wife, repay a loan for Lady Morpeth's portion and to settle his estate on his marriage. c. 5 *Enabling John Wolstenholm to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 3 *Enabling Sir Edwin Sadlier to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 17 *Enabling Sir Humphry Forester to settle and dispose of lands. c. 11 *Enabling Sir Robert Fenwicke to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 8 *Enabling Thomas Berenger to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 12 *For encouraging the manufacture of white paper. c. 16 *For the sale of Harleyford mansion house, the manor of Great Marlow and other lands in Buckinghamshire. c. 7 *Granting an annuity to Lady Alexander in satisfaction of the lands which she was to have had for her jointure. c. 18 *Making illegitimate any children which Jane, wife of John Lewknor, has or shall have during her elopement from him. c. 4 *Making provision for Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury's children. c. 6 *Making Wortenbury chapel a distinct church from Bangor parish church. c. 1 *Naturalization of David Le Grand and others. c. 14 *Sir Hugh Midleton's estate: confirmation of settlement for maintenance for his wife and other trusts, and sale of part for payment of debts. c. 9 *Vesting for sale the freehold of the manor and advowson of Lolworth (Cambridgeshire) and other lands in Lolworth and Long Stanton (Cambridgeshire) in trustees for John Edwards of Debden Hall (Essex). c. 10


1690–1699


1690 (2 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)


Public Acts

* Admiralty Act 1690 c. 2 * Coals Act 1690 c. 7 * Indemnity Act 1690 c. 13 * Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1690 c. 15 * London Streets, etc. Act 1690 c. 8 * Militia Act 1690 c. 12 * Mutiny Act 1690 c. 6 * Public Accounts Act 1690 c. 11 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 5 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 9 * Taxation Act 1690 c. 10 * Trade with France Act 1690 c. 14


Private Acts

* David Bigg's estate: sale of messuages and tenements for purchase of more convenient lands. c. 5 * Enabling Dacres Barrett or Lennard to charge the reversion of his estate with £1500. c. 2 * Enabling Elizabeth Mountague to lease houses and ground in Stepney (Middlesex). c. 6 * Enabling John Rosseter to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 26 * Enabling Philip Hildeyard to sell lands in Surrey and to settle lands in Lincolnshire in lieu. c. 21 * Enabling Thomas Earl of Aylesbury and Elizabeth Countess of Aylesbury to make provision for payment of debts and to lease their estates. c. 22 * Enabling Thomas Sheafe to sell lands for payment of debts and making provision for his wife. c. 23 * Francis Phelips' estate: sale of manor of Kempton, Kempton park and other lands. c. 1 * George Vilet's estate: sale of manors and lands for raising portions for his daughters. c. 4 * John Baines' estate (City of London): sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 12 * Limiting the powers of James Earl of Salisbury to cut off the entail of his estate. c. 8 * Marlborough (Wiltshire) thatched roofs prohibition. c. 3 * Mary Wharton and James Campbell marriage annulment. c. 9 * Naturalization of Francis de la Chambre and others. c. 13 * Nicholas Bagnall's estate (Ireland): barring a remainder limited to Dudley Bagnall. c. 14 * Reginald Bray's estate: better enabling Jane Bray his widow to raise portions for her daughters. c. 16 * Richard Cooke's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter. c. 11 * Saint Leger Scroope's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 15 * Sale of Henry Serve's estate. c. 17 * Securing the portion of Elizabeth Lucy, breeding her up a Protestant and transferring the trust for that purpose. c. 19 * Settling Robert Ask's Charity to the Company of Haberdashers of London. c. 18 * Sir Samuel Bernardiston's estate: freeing from incumbrances occasioned by a judgement given against him. c. 10 * Thomas Manwaring's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 25 * Thomas Williams' estate: leasing for payment of debts. c. 20 * To give Katherine Lady Cornbury powers to act as if she were full age. c. 7 * York Buildings Waterworks: incorporation of proprietors and development of the works. c. 24


1691 (3 Will. & Mar.)


Public Acts

* Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691 c. 9 * Cattle Act 1691 c. 8 * Correspondence with Enemies Act 1691 c. 13 * Deer Stealers Act 1691 c. 10 * Fraudulent Devises Act 1691 c. 14 * Highways, etc. Act 1691 c. 12 * Militia Act 1691 c. 7 * Oaths of Supremacy, etc., Ireland Act 1691 c. 2 * Poor Relief Act 1691 c. 11 * Prize Act 1691 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1691 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1691 c. 5 * Taxation Act 1691 c. 6 * Taxation Act 1691 c. 15 * Tithes Act 1691 c. 3


Private Acts

* Assurance to George Vernon of of land in Evisham (Surrey). c. 36 * Barbary and John Newton's estate: settlement of manor and lordship of Kings Bromley taffordshireand other lands. c. 39 * Better performance of Richard Campion's will. c. 17 * Bishop of Ely's estate: settling Hatton Garden (Middlesex) on Christopher, Viscount Hatton, subject to an annual fee farm rent of £100 payable to the Bishop of Ely. c. 2 * Bishopric of London's estate: sale of manor of Bushley (Worcestershire) and purchase of other lands. c. 27 * Charles Pelham's estate: provision of £5000 for his daughter Anne. c. 34 * Edward Smith's estate: raising money for payment of debts and making a provision for children. c. 13 * Enabling the Earl of Winchelsea to settle a jointure on any wife he marries during his minority. c. 16 * Francis Moore's estate: power to sell the manor of Bayhouse and lands in West Thurrock (Essex) and to purchase and settle other land in lieu. c. 19 * George Mountague's estate: sale of lands in Gloucestershire for payment of children's portions. c. 7 * Henry Drax's estate: vesting in Thomas Shatterden and others and enabling them to make a jointure. c. 10 * Henry Halsted's estate: lease for the improvement of his prebend of Eald Street in the Church of St. Paul, London. c. 26 * Henry, Duke of Grafton's estate: sale of land in St. James and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. c. 41 * Incorporation of Shadwell waterworks. c. 37 * James, Earl of Salisbury's estate: better securing of portions, debts and legacies. c. 21 * James, Earl of Suffolk's estate: sale of manor of Hadstock (Essex) and discharge of others from £5000, the remainder of £10,000 originally charged thereon. c. 31 * James, Lord Waldgrave's estate: power to grant leases and copyhold estates for payment of arrears of annuities of his father. c. 18 * John Cripps' estate: sale of estate in Kent and settlement of another. c. 22 * John Keble's estate: sale of lands in Stowmarket (Suffolk) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 42 * Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates: sale and settlement of others. c. 33 * Making a 12-year lease made by Earl and Countess of Aylesbury, which was determinable on their deaths, absolute for 12 years. c. 1 * Manors of Albury and North Mimms (Hertfordshire): copyhold enfranchisements. c. 20 * Maurice Shelton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies and settlement of other land in lieu. c. 12 * More speedy payment of debts of Elizabeth Curtis and performance of a related agreement between Charles Curtis and Edward Earl according to a Chancery decree. c. 32 * Naturalization of Mainhardt, Duke of Leinster. c. 24 * Naturalization of Marquis of Monpavillan and others. c. 30 * Naturalization of Sir Martin Beckman. c. 4 * Nicholas Martyn's estate: sale of the manor of Manworthy (Devon) for payment of debts. c. 9 * Philip Hildeyard's estate: vesting manor of East Horsley (Surrey) in trustees for payment of debts. c. 35 * Philip, Lord Stanhopp's marriage settlement enabling. c. 25 * Richard Roberts' estate: sale of lands in Leicestershire for payment of debts and raising of portions. c. 8 * Settling a jointure on Jane Matthews. c. 6 * Sir Dudley Cullum's estate: raising money for siblings' portions. c. 11 * Sir Edwin Sadler's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 40 * Sir Thomas Burton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 14 * Sir Thomas Putt's estate: leasing for payment of legacies to his three sisters and of debts. c. 3 * Sir William Halford's estate: sale of lands in Leicestershire for payment of debts and legacies. c. 38 * Vincent Grantham's estate: leasing of manor of Golthoe (Lincolnshire) to pay debts and raise portions. c. 29 * William and Jenkin Vaughan estates: vesting property in Merioneth in trustees to be sold or mortgaged for payment of debts. c. 28 * William Davile's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 15 * William Molineaux's estate: vesting land in trustees to raise portions for younger siblings pursuant to a Chancery decree. c. 23 * William Stydolph's estate: sale of the advowson and of the manor and lands in Wittering (Northamptonshire). c. 5


1692 (4 Will. & Mar.)


Public Acts

* Apprehension of Highwaymen Act 1692 c. 8 * Cheese and Butter Trade Act 1692 c. 7 * Clandestine Mortgages Act 1692 c. 16 * Crown Office Procedure Act 1692 c. 22 * Estreats: Personal Representatives Act 1692 c. 24 * Game Act 1692 c. 23 * Greenland Trade Act 1692 c. 17 * Highways, Hertfordshire Act 1692 c. 9 * Importation Act 1692 c. 10 * Indemnity Act 1692 c. 19 * Judgment Act 1692 c. 20 * Malicious Information in Court of King's Bench Act 1692 c. 18 * Militia Act 1692 c. 6 * Mutiny Act 1692 c. 13 * Pleadings in Actions Act 1692 c. 21 * Public Accounts Act 1692 c. 11 * Repairs of Church Act 1692 c. 12 * Special Bail Act 1692 c. 4 * Taxation Act 1692 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1692 c. 5 * Taxation Act 1692 c. 14 * Taxation Act 1692 c. 15 * Taxation, etc. Act 1692 c. 3 * Trade with France Act 1692 c. 25 * Wills Act 1692 c. 2


Private Acts

* Abel Atwood's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 34 * Abraham Hinde's estate: sale of lands and a messuage for payment of debts. c. 33 * Alexander Popham's estate: jointure for wife and provision for children upon receipt of £12,000 portion to be applied for payment of debts. c. 6 * Anthony Danby's estate: settling a jointure on his wife and making provision for his brothers and younger children and for payment of debts. c. 16 * Anthony Eyre's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and portions for children. c. 1 * Barnham Powel's estate: settling of manor of Kings North to provide for younger children. c. 11 * Better assurance of manor of Woodlands and Hundred of Knoulton to Edward Seymour. c. 20 * Bishop of Bangor's estate: leasing of Bangor House in St Andrews, Holborn. c. 23 * Confirmation of sale of woodlands in Hampshire and of agreements between Isaac and Richard Wollaston. c. 17 * Division of the chapelries of North Chapel and Dungton from the Parish of Petworth ussexand making them new parishes, and settlement of the advowsons of the rectories of Petworth, North Chapel, Dungton, Clewer, Farnham Royal uckinghamshire Worplesdon urrey Kirby, Overblowes and Catton and the vicarage of Long Horsley orthumberland c. 13 * Enabling Sir George Parker to make a marriage settlement despite his minority. c. 7 * Enabling Sir John Wentworth (an infant) to make a jointure out of and settle his manors and lands in Yorkshire, York and Westmorland. c. 4 * Enabling Sir Thomas Wroth to make a jointure and settlement on his marriage and provision for his sister notwithstanding his minority. c. 15 * Enabling William Wake and William Wake, Doctor in Divinity, to make leases for lives or years within manor of Shapwick (Dorset). c. 8 * Exchange of lands in Fulham belonging to the Bishopric of London for others belonging to Charles Earl of Monmouth. c. 29 * Francis Osbaston's estate: sale of lands and manors for payment of debts and legacies and provision of a portion for his daughter Mary. c. 14 * Henry Baynton's estate: better execution of a trust and provision of a portion for his daughter. c. 18 * Henry Hawley's estate: sale for benefit of his infant daughters. c. 2 * Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates: clarification of Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates Act Will. & Mar. c. 33 c. 3 * Matthew and Robert Pitt's estate: enabling trustees to sell land for payment of debts and settle the remainder on Matthew and Robert Pitt, Robert's wife and their issue. c. 21 * Naturalization of Henry Sheilbell and others. c. 30 * Ralph Macclesfield's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and provision for wife and children. c. 12 * Richard Walthall's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and portions. c. 19 * Roger Price's estate: sale of part for provision of portions for daughters of John Price deceased. c. 26 * Sale of Thomas Broomhall's interest in the office of Warden of the Fleet and in 13 adjoining houses and in an office of the custody and keeping of Westminster palace for the better payment of debts. c. 28 * Settlement and confirmation of manors and lands in Hameldon (Rutlandshire) pursuant to a past agreement for exchanging and inclosing lands there. c. 31 * Settlement of Francis Boyle Viscount Shannon's estate in Ireland. c. 22 * Sir Anthony Browne's estate: more effectual execution of a trust and of a Chancery decree. c. 5 * Sir John Williams' estate: sale of manors of Ewyas Lacy, Waterstone and Trescaillan and other lands in Herefordshire and the manor of Carwent and other lands in Monmouthshire for payment of debts. c. 27 * Sir Robert Smith's estate: sale of lands and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 32 * Sir William Mannock's estate: charging of estate to raise portions for younger children. c. 10 * Thomas Goodwin's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for his wife and children. c. 25 * Thomas Towers' estate: vesting manor of Barcroft and other lands in Lincolnshire, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk in trustees for payment of debts and provision for his wife and daughter. c. 24 * William Molineux's estate: rectification of a mistake in William Molineux's estate Act 1691 . 23 c. 9


1693 (5 Will. & Mar.)


Public Acts

* Government Life Annuities Act 1693 c. 5 * House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693 c. 7 * Importation Act 1693 c. 2 * Importation Act 1693 c. 3 * Justice of the Peace in Wales Act 1693 c. 4 * Royal Mines Act 1693 c. 6 (still in force) * Taxation Act 1693 c. 1


Private Acts

*James Clayton's estate: indemnifying trustees for sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 2 *John and Thomas Vivian's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and provision for children and settlement of another part in lieu thereof. c. 1


1694


5 & 6 Will. & Mar.


=Public Acts

= * Bank of England Act 1694 c. 20 (still in force) * Capiatur Fine Act 1694 c. 12 * Cloth Weavers Act 1694 c. 9 * Duchy of Cornwall Act 1694 c. 18 * Exportation Act 1694 c. 17 * Hackney coaches, etc. Act 1694 c. 22 * Importation Act 1694 c. 16 * Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1694 c. 8 * Militia Act 1694 c. 19 * Mutiny Act 1694 c. 15 * Navy Act 1694 c. 25 * Orphans, London Act 1694 c. 10 * Pardon of Felony Act 1694 c. 13 * Public Accounts Act 1694 c. 23 * Quarter sessions delays Act 1694 c. 11 * Ships Act 1694 c. 24 * Stamps Act 1694 c. 21 * Taxation Act 1694 c. 14


=Private Acts

= * Alice Turner's and her children's estate: sale of houses and grounds near Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 11 * Charles Turner's estate: settlement. c. 13 * Construction of a bridge over the river Axe (Somerset). c. 8 * Enabling Sir Charles Barrington to make a jointure for his wife Dame Bridget and to provide for his children. c. 5 * Enabling the Earl of Thanet and Sackville Tufton to lease Thanet House in St. Botolph, Aldersgate. c. 6 * Erecting new Parish of St. John of Wapping (Middlesex). c. 20 * Estates of Roger and Thomas Whitley in Cheshire: exchange. c. 3 * Henry Frere's estate: sale of part to raise money to recover other parts under water and pay debts. c. 7 * John Whitehall's estate: charging of certain lands for children's portions. c. 9 * Mildmay's and Dixy's estate: sale for payment of debts and mortgages. c. 15 *
Nathaniel Brent Sir Nathaniel Brent (c. 1573 – 6 November 1652) was an English college head. Life He was the son of Anchor Brent of Little Wolford, Warwickshire, where he was born about 1573. He became 'portionist,' or postmaster, of Merton College, Oxford, ...
's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and maintenance of his children. c. 18 * Naturalization of Johanna D'Offerel and others. c. 22 * Payment of George Turner's debts. c. 4 * Payment of the late John Lord Stawell's debts. c. 17 * Sale of a third part of the manor of Lekby and other lands in Yorkshire and settlement of a farm and lands in Terling and Mack Leighs in Essex to the same uses. c. 19 * Sir James Beverly's estate (Huntingdonshire): vesting in trustees for sale. c. 21 * Sir John Maynard's estate: settlement. c. 16 * Susan and Dorothy Chaplyn's estate: sale for payment of debts and provision for themselves. c. 10 * Thomas Edwards' estate: sale of part for payment of debts and disabling him from committing waste on the residue. c. 12 * William Stevens' estate: sale for payment of mortgage and application of the residue for the benefit of his sons. c. 14


6 & 7 Will. & Mar


=Public Acts

= * Coin Act 1694 c. 17 * Continuance of Acts Act 1694 c. 14 * Duties on Marriages, etc. Act 1694 c. 6 * Exemptions of Apothecaries Act 1694 c. 4 * General Pardon Act 1694 c. 20 * Government Life Annuities Act 1694 c. 5 *
Meeting of Parliament Act 1694 The Meeting of Parliament Act 1694 (6 & 7 Will & Mary c 2), also known as the Triennial Act 1694, is an Act of the Parliament of England. This Act is Chapter II Rot. Parl. pt. 1. nu. 2. The act currently requires that Parliament hold a session a ...
c. 2 (still in force) * Militia, etc. Act 1694 c. 13 * Mutiny Act 1694 c. 8 * Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keel) Act 1694 c. 10 * Profane Swearing Act 1694 c. 11 * Public Accounts Act 1694 c. 9 * Sir Thomas Cooke, etc. (East India Company Transactions) Act 1694 c. 19 * Sir Thomas Cooke's Indemnity Act 1694 c. 15 * Stamps Act 1694 c. 12 * Taxation Act 1694 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1694 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1694 c. 7 * Taxation Act 1694 c. 18 * Thames Navigation Act 1694 c. 16


=Private Acts

= * Christchurch parish (Surrey): enabling the making of rates to provide a minister and empowering the trustees of John Marshall, deceased, to employ money to finish the church. c. 10 * Confirmation of a grant by the rector of the united parishes of St. Michael Royal and St. Martin's in the Vintrey, London, of part of St. Martin's churchyard. c. 11 * Confirmation of two indentures tripartite, of lease and release, made by Thomas, Earl of Thanett Island, Sackville Tufton, William Cheyne and Sir Charles Tufton, and of the estates thereby settled. c. 6 * Enabling Elizabeth, widow of John Howland, to settle lands upon marriage of his sole daughter and heir; settling lands on Elizabeth for her life in lieu of dower and indemnifying her and Sir Josias Child in disposing of the personal estate of said heir on her preferment in marriage, she being under 21 years old. c. 22 * Enabling Peter Gollop to sell a farm and lands called Wantsly subject to payment of £1000 and interest to the executory estate of Robert Merefield, deceased. c. 27 * Enabling Sir Paul and Dame Jane Whitchott to make leases of manor of Tooting Gravenay and lands in Tooting Gravenay, Tooting Bec and Streatham (Surrey). c. 19 * For settling manors and lands upon the Marquis of Tavistock's marriage. c. 4 * George Gilbert Pierce's estate: vesting in trustees lands and tenements in Middle Temple, London for payment of debts. c. 23 * George Pitt's estate: correction of deed of trust and will. c. 2 * Hannah and Jonathon Woollaston's estate: sale of lands in Warmford (Hampshire) for payment of debts and legacies of Richard Woollaston. c. 29 * Henry Northley's estate: leasing for payment of debts and maintenance for children. c. 12 * James Earl of Salisbury's estate: leasing of Salisbury house and other hereditaments in the Strand (Middlesex) for improvement by building. c. 5 * Jane Rogers' estate: sale of lands for payment of the debts and legacies of Brian Rogers in performance of his will. c. 14 * John Caryle's estate: vesting land in Kent and Sussex in trustees for payment of debts and portions for younger children and for correction of a conveyance. c. 17 * John Estoft's estate: sale of lands and tenements for payment of debts and portions for daughters. c. 13 * John Kirke's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 28 * John, Earl of Rochester's estate: division and settlement, and discharge of trusts. c. 7 * Jonathon Webb's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances. c. 21 * Joseph Finch's estate: sale of lands for better provision of daughters and coheirs. c. 16 * Making saltwater fresh. c. 24 * Naturalization of Bernard Cosserat, Alexander Pringli and others. c. 3 * Ratifying and confirming an indenture of lease of Martin Meare (Lancashire) made by Earl of Derby and others to Thomas Fleetwood. c. 15 * Reversal of the attainder of
Jacob Leisler Jacob Leisler ( – May 16, 1691) was a German-born colonist who served as a politician in the Province of New York. He gained wealth in New Amsterdam (later New York City) in the fur trade and tobacco business. In what became known as Leisler' ...
and others. c. 30 * Sale of manors of Earls Croome and Baughton (Worcestershire), settlement of the manor house and royalty of Wainfleet St. Mary (Lincolnshire) to the same uses and enabling Sir Robert Barham to make provision for younger children. c. 8 * Sir Jarvase Clifton's estate: vesting lands in Nottinghamshire in trustees for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 9 * Sir Thomas Hare's estate: provision of portions and maintenance for younger children. c. 26 * Sir William Chaitor's estate: sale of land in Yorkshire and Durham for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 18 * Warwick fire rebuilding, &c. c. 1 * William Gage's estate: mortgaging for preservation of timber growing thereon. c. 25 * William Wanley's estate: building new messuages and tenements in Ax-yard, King Street, Westminster and enabling his guardian to lease the same. c. 20


1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3)


Public Acts

* Annuities, etc. Act 1695 c. 2 * Coin Act 1695 c. 1 * Coinage Act 1695 c. 19 * Coining Act 1695 c. 13 * Continuance of Acts, 1695 c. 36 * Corrupt Practices Act 1695 c. 4 * Greenland Trade Act 1695 c. 33 * Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1695 c. 21 * Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1695 c. 11 * Highways Act 1695 c. 29 * Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1695 c. 12 * Juries Act 1695 c. 32 * Linen Manufacture Act 1695 c. 39 * Marriage Duty Act 1695 c. 35 * Militia Act 1695 c. 16 * Mortmain Act 1695 c. 37 * Moss Troopers Act 1695 c. 17 * Mutiny Act 1695 c. 23 * Oaths, etc. Act 1695 c. 24 * Parliament Act 1695 c. 15 * Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 c. 25 * Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695 c. 7 * Plantation Trade Act 1695 c. 22 * Public Accounts Act 1695 c. 8 *
Quakers Act 1695 The Quakers Act 1695 was an Act of the Parliament of England which allowed Quakers to substitute an affirmation where the law previously required an oath. The Act did not apply to the oaths required when giving evidence in a criminal case or ...
c. 34 * Recovery of Small Tithes Act 1695 c. 6 * Rivers Wye and Lugg Act 1695 c. 14 * Roads, London to Harwich Act 1695 c. 9 * Roads, Norfolk Act 1695 c. 26 * Security of King and Government Act 1695 c. 27 * Taxation Act 1695 c. 5 * Taxation Act 1695 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1695 c. 18 * Taxation Act 1695 c. 20 * Taxation, etc. Act 1695 c. 30 * Taxation, etc. Act 1695 c. 31 *
Treason Act 1695 The Treason Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will 3 c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of England which laid down rules of evidence and procedure in high treason trials. It was passed by the English Parliament but was extended to cover Scotland in 1708 and Irela ...
c. 3 (still in force) * Wills Act 1695 c. 38 * Wool Act 1695 c. 28


Private Acts

* Bluet and John Wallop's (minors) estates: leasing and purchasing other lands. c. 22 * Bristol water supply. c. 31 * Bristol: erection of hospitals and workhouses and better employing the poor. c. 32 * Edmond Warner's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 11 * Empowering Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and her son James, Earl of Dalkeith to grant leases for improving ground in St. Martins-in-the-Fields (Middlesex). c. 24 * Enabling Anthony Earl of Kent and Henry Grey his son to make a jointure for Henry's wife Jemima. c. 7 * Enabling John Aunger, an infant, and his mother to lease his estate. c. 12 * Enabling Richard Haynes to settle a jointure on his wife and to exchange lands with Thomas Stevens' trustees. c. 10 * Enabling Sir Charles Heron to sell lands for payment of a portion and debts. c. 34 * Enabling Sir Thomas Pope Blount to make a marriage settlement for his oldest son. c. 3 * Enabling Sir Thomas Wagstaffe to raise a portion for Frances his only daughter. c. 35 * Enabling Thomas Stoner, a minor, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate in marriage. c. 5 * Enabling trustees to raise money to construct a wet dock and to improve an estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tavistock at Rotherhithe (Surrey). c. 25 * Improvement of a house and ground in Great Queen Street. c. 27 * John Fownes' estate: sale of lands in Devon and settlement of others to the same uses. c. 15 * Joseph Dawson's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts and for provision for maintenance and marriage of his daughters. c. 38 * Lady Katherine Fane's estate: sale of reversion of fee farm rents given to her by her grandfather John Bence. c. 1 * Lord Francis Powlett's estate: provision for younger children. c. 8 * Making towns of Stretton and Princethorpe a separate parish from Wolston (Warwickshire). c. 37 * Manor of Barkhampstead: sale of part for payment of incumbrances and purchase and settlement of other lands. c. 13 * Manor of Madeley (Salop.): vesting in trustees. c. 4 * Naturalization of James Stanhope and others. c. 19 * Naturalization of Salomon Eyme and others. c. 20 * Naturalization of the children of Henry de Nassau Seignior de Auverquerke. c. 14 * Naturalization of William Viscount Tunbridge and other children of Earl of Rochford. c. 26 * Revesting in the King the Honour of Tutbury and Forest of Needwood (Staffordshire) and manors, parks, lands, offices and other profits belonging to them, and vacating certain letters patent. c. 41 * Richard Jones' and Mary Gufford's (minors) personal estate: settling in trustees. c. 30 * Sale of the moiety of manor of Shepton Mallet (Somerset) and a divided moiety of manor of Wells (Somerset) for payment of a mortgage and maintenance of Mary, wife of William Sandes, and her children. c. 36 * Samuel Powell's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts. c. 6 * Settlement of lands and rentcharges on the rector of
Maidwell Maidwell is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had 325 inhabitants, including Draughton, and this increased to 429 at the 2011 census. The villages name means 'Maidens' ...
church (
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) and his successors, and in lieu settling other lands and discharging tithes belonging to the said church according to agreements between the patron and the rector made upon inclosure of lands in Maidwell, and later with the consent of the Ordinary confirmed by a Court of Chancery decree. c. 29 * Sir James Chamberlaine's estate: exchange of lands in common hill or field of Salford (Oxfordshire) for other lands in order to make an inclosure. c. 16 * Sir Nicholas and Sir Lawrence Stoughton's estate: sale for payment of debts and portions for daughters of Sir Nicholas. c. 9 * Sir Robert Sawyer's estate: sale of a messuage in Lincoln's Inn Fields and purchase of other lands and tenements to be settled to the same uses. c. 28 * Sir Thomas Parkyns' estate: sale of lands in Huby and Easingwold in Yorkshire and settlement of others in lieu. c. 2 * Sir William Barkham's estate: sale of lands to pay debts and provide for children. c. 33 * St. James's parish, Westminster: power to raise money to discharge debts incurred in building the church, rectory, vestry and other public works. c. 17 * St. Lawrence Old Jewry (London): ascertaining and settling payment of the impropriate tithes to Balliol College, Oxford and confirming an award concerning the same. c. 18 * Thomas Bigg's and wife's estate: vesting lands in Chislett (Kent) in trustees for payment of debts and provision for children. c. 40 * Thomas Rider's and Christopher Clitherow's estates: exchange of messuages in London for manors of Bilsington and other lands in Kent. c. 21 * William Midford's (an infant) estate: sale of manor of Pespoole (Durham) for payment of debts and incumbrances. c. 23 * William Ridout's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Horsington (Somerset) for payment of incumbrances and for preserving the residue for him. c. 39


1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3)


Public Acts

* Administration of Justice Act 1696 c. 11 * Attainder of Conspirators Act 1696 c. 5 * Attainder of Sir John Fenwick Act 1696 c. 4 * Bank of England Act 1696 c. 20 * Blackwell Hall Act 1696 c. 9 * Bridlington Piers, Yorkshire Act 1696 c. 29 * Brokers Act 1696 c. 32 *
Coin Act 1696 The Coin Act 1696 (8&9 Will.3 c.26) was an Act of the Parliament of England which made it high treason to make or possess equipment useful for counterfeiting coins. Its title was "An Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coi ...
c. 26 * Coinage Act 1696 c. 1 * Coinage Act 1696 c. 2 * Compositions by Debtors Act 1696 c. 18 * Duty on Tin Act 1696 c. 34 * Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696 c. 27 * Excise Act 1696 c. 19 * Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1696 c. 23 * Highways Act 1696 c. 16 * Highways, Surrey and Sussex Act 1696 c. 15 * Juries Act 1696 c. 10 * Lustrings Act 1696 c. 36 * Militia Act 1696 c. 35 * Mutiny Act 1696 c. 13 * Partition Act 1696 c. 31 * Paving the Haymarket Act 1696 c. 17 * Quarter Sessions Act 1696 c. 33 * Rebuilding of Saint Paul's and Westminster Abbey Act 1696 c. 14 * Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696 c. 28 * Relief of the Poor Act 1696 c. 30 * Standard of Silver Plate, etc. Act 1696 c. 8 * Streets, London. Act 1696 c. 37 * Tallies for Certain Loans Act 1696 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 6 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 7 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 12 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 21 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 22 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 24 * Taxation Act 1696 c. 25


Private Acts

* Annulment of Hannah Knight's (an infant) marriage settlement and directing her guardianship. c. 27 * Bishop of London and Earl of Nottingham advowsons exchange. c. 6 * Charles Milson's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies and purchase of land for Edward Milson. c. 12 * Crompton Mynors' estate: settlement of manor of Treyagoe (Herefordshire) and other lands and increasing portion of Theodosia his daughter. c. 2 * Edmond Warner's estate: explanation of Edmond Warner's estate Act 1695 . 11 c. 23 * Edward and Mary (his wife) Leigh's estate: sale of manors of Waxham and Horsey and lands in Norfolk and purchase of others. c. 18 * Edward Kerrey's estate in Binoeston (Salop.): vesting in trustees for payment of incumbrances and portions for his children, and confirmation of his marriage settlement. c. 15 * Enabling James Duke of Ormond to raise money by sale of woods and to make leases for lives for payment of debts, encouraging English plantation in Ireland and enabling Charles Earl of Arran to make leases of his estate in Ireland. c. 5 * Enabling Nicholas Goodwin the elder and the younger to sell the manor of Winslow (Buckinghamshire) and to purchase other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 13 * Enabling Sir Ralph Ashton to rectify an omission in his marriage settlement. c. 8 * For satisfying debts of Francis late Lord Holles. c. 7 * Francis Griffith's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 9 * Importing goods and merchandise laden in Turkey in ships called "Success" and "Dragon Galley" paying customs as if imported by English ships.1 c. 20 * Jeffery Stockley's estate: sale of lands in Cheshire for payment of debts and provision for his daughter Mary. c. 11 * Mary Savile's (an infant) estate: settlement upon her marriage. c. 10 * Naturalization of John Keyser and others. c. 17 * Naturalization of Lord Agram and others. c. 1 * Oliver Neve's estate: rectification of a defect in Oliver Neve's estate Act 1696 . 4 c. 22 * Oliver Neve's estate: sale of two houses in London and vesting lands in Norfolk to the same uses. c. 4 * Roger Crowle's (a lunatic) estate: vesting part in trustees to raise portions for younger children. c. 24 * Samuel Trotman's estate: sale of lands in Barking, East Ham, West Ham and Woolwich (Kent and Essex ) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 25 * Sir John Hotham's estate: sale of manor of Holme and Swanage (Dorset) for discharging a mortgage and paying debts. c. 3 * Speedy payment of the late Sir William Thompson's debts. c. 26 * Thomas Panton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and a jointure for his wife Mary. c. 16 * William Fallows' (an infant) estate in Cheshire: sale for payment of debts secured by mortgages. c. 21 * William Hamond's marriage settlement: power to sell the manor of Rowling (Kent) comprised in the settlement by mistake. c. 28 * William James' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for himself and his wife and children. c. 19 * William Melward's estate: vesting lands in Herefordshire in trustees for payment of debts. c. 14


1697 (9 Will. 3)


Public Acts

* Annuities Act 1697 c. 5 * Annuities Act 1697 c. 24 * Appropriation of Certain Moneys Act 1697 c. 34 * Arbitration Act 1697 c. 15 * Bank of England Act 1697 c. 3 * Bill of Exchange Act 1697 c. 17 * Blasphemy Act 1697 c. 35 * Bridgwater, Somerset (Repair of Bridge and Quay) Act 1697 c. 12 *
Civil List Act 1697 The Civil List Act 1697 was an Act of the Parliament of England (9 Will III c. 23). This was the first Act of Parliament to set the Civil List, although the custom had begun in 1689. The annual amount assigned to King William III and his househo ...
c. 23 * Coin Act 1697 c. 2 * Coin Act 1697 c. 21 * Coinage Act 1697 c. 36 * Composition by Debtors Act 1697 c. 29 * Correspondence with the Pretender Act 1697 c. 1 * Court of Marches of Wales Act 1697 c. 16 * Duties on Marriages etc. Act 1697 c. 32 *
East India Company Act 1697 East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fa ...
c. 44 * Embezzlement of Public Stores Act 1697 c. 41 * Exportation Act 1697 c. 28 * Exportation Act 1697 c. 40 * Fireworks Act 1697 c. 7 * Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697 c. 18 * Hawkers Act 1697 c. 27 * Imprisonment of Certain Traitors Act 1697 c. 4 * Lace Act 1697 c. 9 * Lustrings Act 1697 c. 43 * Malt Act 1697 c. 22 * Militia Act 1697 c. 31 * Naturalization (Persons Born Abroad During the War) Act 1697 c. 20 * Navigation, Colchester to Wivenhoe Act 1697 c. 19 * New Forest Act 1697 c. 33 * Payment of Lottery Tickets Act 1697 c. 37 *
Poor Act 1697 The Poor Act 1697 (8 & 9 Will. III, c. 30), formally titled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, was a 1697 welfare statute, operating within the framework of the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1 ...
c. 11 * Registering of Ships Act 1697 c. 42 * Sale of Salt Act 1697 c. 6 * Silver and Gold Thread Act 1697 c. 39 * Stamps Act 1697 c. 25 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 8 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 13 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 14 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 30 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 38 * Taxation Act 1697 c. 45 * Trade with Africa Act 1697 c. 26


Private Acts

* Allowing "Maryland Merchant" of Bristol to import her lading. c. 52 * Annexing the rectory of Whitbourne (Herefordshire) to the Bishopric of Hereford. c. 24 * Bishopric of Chichester: enabling the Bishop of Chichester to grant leases of property in Chancery Lane. c. 12 * Charles, Earl of Macclesfield's divorce and making illegitimate the children of Anne his wife. c. 11 * City and County of the City of Exon xeter erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 33 * City of Hereford: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 34 * Colchester: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 37 * Confirmation of a lease granted by Bishop of Winton inchesterof a parcel of wasteground in Alverstoke (Hampshire) for constructing and improving waterworks there. c. 41 * Confirmation of conveyance by George Pitt and others of manor of Tarrant Preston and other lands in Dorset to John Pitt. c. 45 * Confirming and establishing the administration of Sir William Godolphin's goods and chattels. c. 19 * Correction of a conveyance concerning Sir Edward and Charles Turner's estate. c. 26 * Diana Cecill's and others' estate: vesting lands and hereditaments in Maidstone and elsewhere in Kent in trustees. c. 44 * Enabling Humphrey Trafford to raise £4000 on his estate for payment of debts. c. 62 * Enabling John Lewin to sell certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts. c. 10 * Enabling Paris Slaughter, William Druce and Dame Elizabeth Chapman to import several bales of Italian silk. c. 30 * Enabling Rebecca Lassels to sell copyhold lands and houses in Ealing (Middlesex). c. 5 * Enabling Simon Lord Bishop of Ely and successors to lease Downham manor house and lands and confirming a recent lease thereof by the Bishop and clearing him and others from dilapidations. c. 2 * Enabling Streynsham Master to sell lands in Kent and to convey lands in Derbyshire to the same uses. c. 29 * Enabling Thomas Kinnersly, an infant, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate. c. 8 * Erection of Crediton (Devon) hospitals, workhouses and houses of correction and better relief of the poor. c. 17 * Erection of Tiverton (Devon) hospitals and workhouses for better employment and maintenance of the poor. c. 18 * Estates of Sir Edward and Hopton Wyndham (both deceased): enabling trustees to make leases, grant copies and receive the rents and profits during the minority of Sir William Wyndham. c. 61 * Freedom of "Sally Rose" (formerly prize) to unload and to trade as an English built ship. c. 59 * Freedom of ships "Panther", "Gloucester", "Frigott", "Scarborough" and "Antelope" (formerly prize and condemned) to trade as English built ships. c. 51 * Freedom of ships "Ruby Prize" and "Plymouth" to trade as English built ships. c. 53 * George Farrington's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and Surrey, settled upon the marriage of William Farrington his nephew, and purchase of others in Lancashire. c. 6 * George Hewett's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and purchase of others in Leicestershire to be settled to the same uses. c. 22 * Humphrey Walrond's estate: sale of part for provision for two lunatic children, payment of debts and portions for other children. c. 58 * John Hall's (a lunatic) estate: settling subject to a debt charged thereon. c. 16 * John Hawkes' estate: sale of land in Salop. for payment of debts. c. 57 * John Houghton's estate: sale of manors of Bastwick and Laviles (Norfolk) for payment of debts and settlement of another estate in lieu. c. 28 * John Jenkin's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 56 * John Lewin's estate: correction of the Act of 1697 . 10 ale of certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts c. 35 * Joseph Smith's estate: sale of three houses in Swan Alley in Coleman Street, London, for payment of debts. c. 55 * Kingston-upon-Hull: construction of workhouses and houses of correction. c. 47 * Naturalization of Charles May. c. 13 * Naturalization of Dudley Vesey. c. 9 * Naturalization of Gerrard Maesacker and others. c. 4 * Naturalization of Hillary Reneu and others. c. 50 * Naturalization of John Francis Fauquire, Joseph Ducasse and others. c. 20 * Naturalization of Peter Garon and others. c. 49 * Naturalization of William Lloyd and others. c. 38 * Newcastle upon Tyne water supply. c. 46 * Nicholas Cary's estate: vesting in trustees a moiety of certain messuages and lands in Hackney (Middlesex) for Susanna Cary his widow and relict. c. 36 * Rectification of a mistake in William Gardner's marriage settlement. c. 14 * Relief of Edward Backwell's creditors. c. 43 * Robert Mascall's estate: vesting a copperas work in trustees for sale for payment of debts. c. 54 * Robert Smith's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 27 * Settling certain lands in Essex on Thomas Burgh and his heirs in lieu of other lands conveyed by him according to the decree and will of Sir Samuel Jones. c. 31 * Settling of Viscount and Viscountess Lisburne's estates in Ireland. c. 25 * Shaftesbury: construction of workhouses and houses of correction for better employment and maintenance of the poor. c. 48 * Sir Coppleston Bampfylde's estate: making and renewal of leases during the minority of him and his brother John Bampfylde. c. 15 * Sir Francis and Dame Isabella Guybon's estate: sale of manor of Avenalls and lands in or near Gunthorpe (Norfolk) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 3 * Sir John Churchill's estate: confirmation of sale of part pursuant to his will and two Chancery decrees. c. 39 * Sir Ralph Hare's estate: settlement, making a jointure and raising portions and maintenances for his younger children. c. 21 * Sir William Walter's estate: securing portions for his children by Lady Mary, his second wife, and preventing doubts concerning the construction of the articles and will mentioned in them. c. 42 * Thomas Davies estate: sale of certain customary messuages and lands within manor of Gillingham (Dorset) for payment of debts. c. 32 * Vesting in Sydenham Baker a certain rent, messuages and lands in Devon and securing to John and Henry Baker money in lieu of their claims to them. c. 1 * Vesting in Thomas Rogers the manor of Westcourt and lands in Kent and securing to John Higgens and Alice his wife, and for portions for Irene, Margerett, Mary and Alice Cesar, money in lieu of their claims. c. 60 * Vesting the manor of Alveston and lands in Gloucestershire in trustees to be sold for payment of debts and other purposes. c. 40 * William Knott's estate: sale of a lease of houses in Bread Street, London, for payment of debts, and settlement of another estate in lieu. c. 7 * Wriothesly Baptist late Earl of Gainesborough's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 23


1698


10 Will. 3


=Public Acts

= * Aire and Calder Navigation. Act 1698 c. 25 * Billingsgate, etc. Act 1698 c. 13 * Buttons Act 1698 c. 2 * Clerks of Assize (Fees) Act 1698 c. 12 * Distillation Act 1698 c. 4 * Duties on Glass Repeal Act 1698 c. 24 * Exercise of Trades Act 1698 c. 17 * Exportation Act 1698 c. 3 * Exportation Act 1698 c. 16 – known as the "Wool Act" * For Suppression of Lotteries Act 1698 c. 23 * Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698 c. 5 * Imprisonment of Certain Traitors Act 1698 c. 19 * Militia Act 1698 c. 18 * Parliamentary Elections Act 1698 c. 7 * Posthumous Children Act 1698 c. 22 * Recovery of Tithes Act 1698 c. 21 * Reversal of Fines and Recoveries, etc. Act 1698 c. 20 * River Tone: Navigation. Act 1698 c. 8 * River Trent Navigation. Act 1698 c. 26 * Russia Company (membership) Act 1698 c. 6 * Sedgmoor Drainage. Act 1698 c. 15 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 1 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 9 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 10 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 11 * Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698 c. 14


=Private Acts

= * Ann Bridges' (an infant) estate: sale of an estate in Bermuda and laying out in England the proceeds for her use. c. 43 * Confirming grant and settlement by William Forster of manors and lands in Durham and Northumberland to Thomas Lord Fairfax and others upon certain trusts. c. 25 * Dudley Vesey's estate in Hintlesham (Suffolk): sale for payment of debts. c. 29 * Edward Price's estates: transfer of a charge of £1000 from an estate in Montgomeryshire to one in Herefordshire and Radnorshire for use of his younger children. c. 27 * Edward, Earl of Derwentwater's estate: sale of woods and timber for payment of debts and discharge of incumbrances. c. 1 * Enabling Cyriac Weslyd to sell part of his estate, which by marriage articles was agreed to be settled upon his wife and children, and to settle the other part to the same uses. c. 44 * Enabling Katherine Leeke, an infant, to settle her estate on her marriage. c. 38 * Enabling Liverpool to build and endow a church and making the town and liberties a distinct parish from Walton. c. 36 * Enabling Popham Conway and Francis and Charles Seymour to lease their estates. c. 48 * Enabling Thomas Byde (an infant) to contract for buying his mother's jointure and to settle a small estate in Great Amwell (Hertfordshire) and for securing and raising a portion for Barbara Byde, his sister. c. 40 * Enabling Thomas Methwold to raise £1200 upon his estate for improvements made to it. c. 54 * Encouraging Thomas Savery's invention for raising water and relating to all sorts of mill work. c. 31 * Freedom of ship "Charles," flyboat of Exeter. c. 22 * Freedom of ship "Hope" (of great length and very serviceable for importing masts) to trade as an English built ship. c. 50 * Freedom of ships "Hawke" and "Rainbow" to trade as English built ships. c. 45 * Freedom of ships "Margaret" and "Friendship" of Bristol. c. 5 * George Penne's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 12 * George Scott's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and portions for siblings and settlement of the other part. c. 28 * John Athy's estate: enabling William Wrayford and Dame Ann Rich to lease houses and ground in Covent Garden. c. 51 * John Bull's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of debts and annuities and for provision for younger children. c. 46 * John Moor's estate: sale of manors of Halwill and Becket (Devon) for payment of debts. c. 33 * John Young's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and legacies. c. 35 * Naturalization of Anthony Columbiere and others. c. 15 * Naturalization of Augustine Cloribus and others. c. 56 * Naturalization of Bartholomew Ogilby and others. c. 4 * Naturalization of Captain Thomas Browne and others. c. 19 * Naturalization of Charles de Siburg and Francis St. George. c. 7 * Naturalization of Elizabeth Farewell. c. 2 * Naturalization of George Burnett. c. 16 * Naturalization of Isaac Gouyquette de St. Eloy. c. 23 * Naturalization of James St. Pierre, John Denty and Remond Hensbergh. c. 6 * Naturalization of John de Philip and others . c. 20 * Naturalization of John Francis De Carcassonet and others. c. 18 * Naturalization of John Meoles. c. 9 * Naturalization of Mark De Moncall and David Loches. c. 17 * Naturalization of Nicholas Lepell. c. 3 * Naturalization of Peter Barailleau and others. c. 21 * Naturalization of Philip de Chenevix and others. c. 13 * Naturalization of Richard Legg and others. c. 58 * Naturalization of Samuel Bernadeau, Peter Chantreau des Gaudree and others belonging to His Majesty's Guards and Grenadiers. c. 57 * Naturalization of Scipio Guy and others. c. 32 * Naturalization of Sir David Collier, Isaac la Melionere, Peter de Belcastel and William Reiatore. c. 59 * Naturalization of Theophilus Rabesineres and others. c. 11 * Naturalization of William de Witt and Godfrey Lloyd. c. 8 * Naturalization of William Lower, William Darnell and Peter Godby. c. 14 * Relief of Sir Robert Vyner's creditors. c. 10 * Robert Aldworth and his wife's estate in or near Wantage (Berkshire): sale for payment of debts and purchase of another for use of wife and children. c. 30 * Sale of manor of Lordington and Whitney and other lands in Sussex and laying out £5,000 to purchase other lands. c. 41 * Samuel Wake or Jones' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and purchase of lands adjoining the manor of Waltham Holy Cross (Essex). c. 42 * Settlement of augmentations on certain vicarages for ever. c. 24 * Ships "King William" and "Charles the Second:" discharge from penalties of the Act of navigation. c. 53 * Sir Francis Andrews' estate: sale of manor of Downham (Essex) and purchase of other lands. c. 52 * Sir Thomas Darcy's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 26 * Sir Thomas Seyliard's estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of sisters' portions. c. 39 * Sir William Pulteney's estate: enabling the grant of leases for payment of debts of William Pulteney, his son. c. 47 * Thomas and Rowland Okeover's estate: making a jointure and settlement on Thomas' marriage. c. 37 * Thomas Cowslade's (an infant) estate: sale of freehold and leasehold houses to discharge a mortgage and purchase other lands. c. 55 * Thomas Lascells' estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 34 * Zenobia Hough's estate: sale for payment of her husband's debts. c. 49


1699


11 Will. 3


=Public Acts

= * Ale Measures Act 1698 c. 15 * Aliens Act 1698 c. 6 * Bounty on Exportation Act 1698 c. 1 * Bristol Roads and Avon and Frome Navigation Act 1698 c. 23 * Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates Act 1698 c. 2 * Debts Due to the Army, etc. Act 1698 c. 8 * Dover Harbour Act 1698 c. 5 * Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698 c. 10 * Exportation Act 1698 c. 13 * Frivolous Suits Act 1698 c. 9 * Gaols Act 1698 c. 19 * Governors of Plantations Act 1698 c. 12 (repealed 1995 (c. 44)) * Militia Act 1698 c. 14 *
Piracy Act 1698 The Piracy Act 1698 (11 Will 3 c 7) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed in the eleventh year of King William III. The main purpose behind the statute was to make some corrections to the Offences at Sea Act 1536. The Act The Act ...
c. 7 (repealed 1993 (c. 50)) *
Popery Act 1698 The Popery Act 1698 (11 Will. III, c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700. The long title of the Act was "An Act for the further preventing the Growth of Popery".'William III, 1698-9: An Act for the further pr ...
c. 4 * Repeal of 9 W. 3. c. 9. Act 1698 c. 11 * River Dee, Chester Act 1698 c. 24 * River Lark Act 1698 c. 22 * Signing the Association, etc. Act 1698 c. 17 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 3 * Taxation Act 1698 c. 20 * Thames Watermen Act 1698 c. 21 * Tithes of Hemp and Flax Act 1698 c. 16 * Vagrancy Act 1698 c. 18


=Private Acts

= * Ann Baldwin's estate: sale of a capital messuage and lands called Wiltons and other lands in Buckinghamshire. c. 3 * Arthur Lacy's estate: sale of lands and manors for payment of mortgage and purchase of demesne lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 9 * Bluett Wallop's estate: sale of inheritance of a twelfth part of several manors, lands and tenements during his minority and purchasing others. c. 27 * Bryan Janson's estate: sale for payment of debts and provision for wife and children. c. 31 * Catherine Fitzgerald Villiers' estate: settling, raising money for payment of debts and securing portions for her five younger children by her late husband Edward Fitzgerald Villiers. c. 16 * Charging estate of Sir Thomas Robinson with £7000 for his sister Ann's portion and settlement of her estate on him in lieu. c. 14 * Charles Hore's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and settling other part to raise a portion and maintenance for Elizabeth his daughter by his former wife and making a jointure for his present wife Mary and provision for their children. c. 25 * Confirmation of a lease and indentures between the city of Norwich and Richard Barry, George Sorocold and Richard Soame and for lighting Norwich's streets. c. 15 * Confirmation of a lease of ground for the rector and churchwardens of the parish of St. Martins Ogars, London, to build a church for worship in French according to the usage of the Church of England. c. 30 * Continuing the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies a Corporation. c. 4 * Duke of Norfolk's divorce from Lady Mary Mordant. c. 2 * Enabling Dalby Thomas to sell lands in Islington (Middlesex) settled on his marriage by Dorothy, his wife, as part of her jointure, he settling another estate in lieu. c. 26 * Enabling Edward Mansell to sell or mortgage the impropriate rectories of Llanriddian and Penrice lamorganfor payment of debts and raising portions for younger children, and settling the manor of Henleys and other lands. c. 17 * Enabling Leonard Wessell to sell the manor of Acres-Fleet (Essex), settled on his marriage with Sarah his wife as part of her jointure, and to purchase other lands. c. 28 * Enabling Thomas May to sell lands in Suffolk settled on his marriage and to convey others to the same uses. c. 7 * Enabling Thomas Noble to sell an undivided third part of the manor of Foxton (Leicestershire) after the settlement of lands of greater value to the same uses. c. 1 * Freedom of ship "Martha of Margam." c. 32 * George Harrison's estate: sale of reversion and inheritance of farm of Nethercote (Oxfordshire) for payment of debts and legacies. c. 18 * Henry Butler's estate in Lancashire: leasing of part for discharging incumbrances. c. 21 * John Clobery's estate: payment of debts and raising portions and maintenance for children. c. 6 * Joseph and Sarah Gardiner's estate: sale for payment of debts and legacies and applying residue upon specified trusts. c. 8 * Making a convenient way out of Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 11 * Naturalization of Francis Vandertyd, Agneta Vandermersch, Henry Lowman and James Gabriel Le Tresor. c. 37 * Naturalization of Isaac Delagard, John Batero and others. c. 38 * Naturalization of John Bourges and others. c. 35 * Naturalization of John Ricard and Jacob Dabbadie. c. 36 * Naturalization of Oliver D'Harcourt and others. c. 34 * Naturalization of Theodore Jacobson and others. c. 33 * Philip Holman's estate: supplying the loss of indentures of lease and release to George Holman his son. c. 20 * Rectifying a mistake in Thomas Hopwood's marriage settlement in order to raise portions for younger children and pay debts. c. 5 * Robert and John Merefield's estate: settlement and ascertaining proportions between Robert's widow and his children. c. 12 * Sale of manor of Fenham (Northumberland) for payment of debts of Thomas Riddell and his son Edward and raising portions for Thomas' daughters. c. 24 * Settlement of differences concerning Dame Mary Bond's will and performance of it. c. 13 * Sir Josiah Child's estate: vesting land in trustees for better performance of covenants entered into upon marriage of his eldest son to Sir Thomas Cooke's daughter. c. 19 * Taking the estate in law of messuages and lands mortgaged to Jeffery and Samuel Howland and their heirs "out of" Marquis of Tavistock and his lady. c. 29 * Thomas Barlow's estate: confirmation of sale of manor of Stansall and tenements in Yorkshire, settling other lands to the same uses and purchase of other lands to be so settled. c. 23 * Thomas Cowper's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts. c. 22 * Thomas Siderfin's estate: sale of manor of Exton and other lands in Somerset for payment of debts. c. 10


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