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<P>A SVBSIDIE Granted to the KING, OF Tonnage, Poundage, and other Summes of Money, payable upon Merchandize, exported, and imported.</P>
<P>According to a Booke of <HI>Rates,</HI> agreed upon by the Honourable Hou&s;e of COMMONS, and here|unto annexed.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Laurence Blaiklock,</HI> and are to bee &s;old at his &s;hop next <HI>Temple Barre</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet,</HI> M. DC. XLII.</P>
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<HEAD>A SVBSIDIE Granted to the KING, OF Tonnage, Poundage, and other Summes of Money, payable upon Merchandize, expor|ted, and imported.</HEAD>
<P>_IN mo&s;t humble wi&s;e &s;hew unto your mo&s;t excel|lent Maje&s;tie, Your Loyall and Obedient Subiects, the Commons in this Your pre&s;ent <HI>Parliament</HI> A&s;&s;embled: That in and by &s;euerall Acts formerly made this pre&s;ent <HI>Parliament,</HI> for the granting to Your Maie&s;tie of the Sub&s;idies of
<PB N="2" REF="2"> Tonnage, Poundage, and other Summes of money payable upon merchandize ex|ported, and imported, It is Declared and Enacted; That it is and hath been the ancient right of the Subiects of this Realme, That no Sub&s;idy, Cu&s;tome, Im|po&s;t or other Charges what&s;oeuer ought or may bee layed or impo&s;ed vpon any merchandize exported or imported by Subiects Denizens or Aliens without common con&s;ent in <HI>Parliament.</HI> By which &s;aid &s;everall Acts, it is likewi&s;e Decla|red, That the Summes of money there|by granted upon merchandize, are not the rates intended to be continued, but the &s;ame to be hereafter in this pre&s;ent Par|liament altered in &s;uch manner as &s;hall be thought fit. The &s;aid Commons, upon due con&s;ideration had of the pre&s;ent &s;tate and condition of the trade of this Your Realme, and of the nature, quality &amp; &s;eue|rall u&s;es of the goods &amp; merchandize ex|ported and imported, haue now according|ly agreed upon, and e&s;tabli&s;hed &s;uch Rates, Valewes and Payments upon goods &amp; merchandizes to be exported and import|ed,
<PB N="3" REF="3"> as are expre&s;&s;ed in a Book of Rates in|titled, <HI>The Rates of Merchandize, That is to &s;ay, the Sub&s;idy of Tonnage, the Sub&s;idy of Poundage, and the Sub&s;idy of Wool|len Cloaths or old Draperies, as they are rated and agreed on by the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament, &s;et down and expre&s;&s;ed in this Book, to be paid according to the Te|nor of the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, from the fir&s;t day of Iuly, <HI>Anno Domini</HI></HI> 1642. <HI>During the continuance of the &s;aid Act, and ordered to be printed.</HI> And fora&s;|much as we do repo&s;e tru&s;t and confi|dence in your Maie&s;ty in and for the guar|ding and defending of the Seas, again&s;t all per&s;ons intending or that &s;hall intend the di&s;turbance of Your &s;aid Commons in the enter-cour&s;e of trade and the inua|ding of this Your Realme: And for the better defraying the nece&s;&s;ary expences thereof, which cannot otherwi&s;e be effe|cted without great charge to Your Ma|ie&s;ty; We Your &s;aid Commons, by the adui&s;e and con&s;ent of the Lords in this Your pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by the Authority of the &s;ame to the in|tent
<PB N="5" REF="3"> afore&s;aid, do giue and grant to You our Supreame Liege Lord and Soueraigne, One Sub&s;idy called <HI>Tonnage</HI> (that is to &s;ay) of euery Ton of Wine of the growth of <HI>France</HI> or of any the Dominions of the <HI>French</HI> King, or Crown of <HI>France</HI> that &s;hall come into the Port of <HI>London</HI> and the members thereof by way of marchandize, by Your naturall borne Subiects, the &s;umme of foure pounds and ten &s;hil|lings of currant Engli&s;h money, and &s;o after that rate and by Strangers and Aliens, &s;ix pounds of like money: And of euery Tonne of the like Wine which &s;hall be brought into all and euery the other ports and places of this King|dom and Dominions thereof, by way of marchandize by Your naturall borne Subiects, the &s;umme of three pounds, and by Aliens foure pounds ten &s;hil|lings: And of euery Butt, or Pipe of Mu&s;cadels, Malme&s;eys, Cutes, Tents, Allicants, Ba&s;tards, Sacks, Canaries, Mallagoes, Maderoes and other Wines what&s;oeuer, commonly
<PB N="6" REF="4"> called Sweet wines, of the growth of the <HI>Levant, Spaine, Portugall,</HI> or of any the I&s;lands or Dominions to them or any of them belonging or el&s;ewhere, that &s;hall come or be brought into the Port of <HI>London</HI> by Your naturall born Subiects, the &s;umme of forty fiue &s;hil|lings of currant Engli&s;h money, and &s;o after that rate: and by Strangers and Aliens three pounds of like money: And of euery Buttand Pipe of the like wine, which &s;hall bee brought into all and euery the other Ports and Places of this Kingdome &amp; Dominions there|of by way of marchandize, by Your na|turall borne Subiects the &s;umme of thirty &s;hillings, &amp; by Strangers forty fiue &s;hillings, and of euery Awme of Rheni&s;h or wine of the growth of <HI>Ger|many,</HI> that &s;hall be brought into this Your Realme and Dominions thereof by Your naturall borne Subiects, the &s;umme of twenty &s;hillings of currant Engli&s;h money: And by &s;trangers and Aliens twenty and fiue &s;hillings: Which &s;euerall Rates are the &s;ame
<PB N="7" REF="4"> which are expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid <HI>Book of Rates.</HI></P>
<P>And al&s;o one other Sub&s;idy called Poundage (that is to &s;ay) of all man|ner of goods and marchandize of euery Marchant naturall borne Subiect, Denizen and Alien, to be carried out of this Realme, or any Your Maie&s;ties Dominions to the &s;ame belonging, or to be brought into the &s;ame by way of marchandize of the valew of euery twenty &s;hillings of the &s;ame goods &amp; marchandize, according to the &s;euerall and particular rates and valews of the &s;ame goods and marchandize, as the &s;ame are particularly and re&s;pec|tiuely rated and valewed in the afore|mentioned Book, twelue pence, and &s;o after that rate: And of euery twenty &s;hillings valew of any the natiue Commodities of this Realme or Man|ufactures wrought of any &s;uch natiue Commodities to be carried out of this Realme, by euery or any Marchant A|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ien, according to the valew thereof, in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;aid Booke expre&s;&s;ed, twelue pence
<PB N="8" REF="5"> ouer and aboue the twelue pence afore|&s;aid (except and foreprized out of this Grant of Sub&s;idy of <HI>Poundage,</HI> all manner of Woollen Cloths made o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> wrought, or to be made or wrought within this Realme of <HI>England,</HI> com|monly called Old Draperies: And all Wines before limitted to pay Sub&s;idy of Tonnage: And all manner of fi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Engli&s;h taken and brought by Engli&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> bottomes into this Realme: And al<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> manner of fre&s;h fi&s;h and be&s;tiall tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hall come into the &s;ame Your Realm.</P>
<P>And further, we Your &s;aid Com+mons by the aduice a&s;&s;ent and autho+rity afore&s;aid, Do giue and grant unt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> You our &s;aid Leige Lord and Soue+raigne, for the cau&s;es afore&s;aid, on<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> other Sub&s;idy (that is to &s;ay) of an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> for every &s;hort Woollen Cloth to be e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+ported by Your naturall borne Sub+iects of this Your Realm and the Do+minions thereof called broad Cloth, no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> exceeding twenty eight yards i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> length, and three&s;core &amp; foure pound<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> in weight, the &s;umme of &s;ix &s;hilling<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="9" REF="5"> and eight pence of currant Engli&s;h mo|ney, and of euery Cloth of greater length and weight proportionably, ac|cording to the &s;ame rate, and of euery other &s;hort Cloth of Old Drapery of le&s;&s;er length and weight, accompting &s;o many peeces to a &s;hort Cloth, as are limitted and appointed thereunto in the <HI>Book of Rates</HI> afore&s;aid to be likewi&s;e exported by Your naturall borne Sub|iects, the like &s;umme of &s;ix &s;hillings eight pence, and &s;o after that Rate: And by Strangers &amp; Aliens thirteen &s;hillings foure pence for euery &s;hort Cloth accompted as afore&s;aid; which &s;euerall Rates are accordingly expre&s;|&s;ed in the &s;aid <HI>Booke of Rates,</HI> to Haue Take, enioy &amp; perceiue the Sub&s;idies afore&s;aid, and euery of them, and euery part and parcel of them, to Your High|ne&s;&s;e, from the fir&s;t day of <HI>Iuly,</HI> 1642. vnto the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next com|ming.</P>
<P>And that it may be further enacted by the authority afore&s;aid&punc; That if any Wines, Goods or other Marchandize
<PB N="10" REF="6"> whereof any the Sub&s;idies afore&s;aid are, or &s;hall be due, &s;hall at any time hereafter be &s;hipped, or put into any boat or other ve&s;&s;ell, to the intent to be carried into the parts beyond the Seas, or el&s;e be brought from the parts beyond the Seas, into any Port, Place or Creek of this Realme, or o|ther Your Maie&s;ties Dominions by way of Marchandize, and un&s;hipped to be laid on land, the Sub&s;idy, Cu|&s;tomes, and other Duties due or to be due for the &s;ame not payed, or lawfully, tendred to the Collector thereof or his Deputy (with the con&s;ent and agree|ment of the Comptroller, and Sur|veyor there, or one of them at the lea&s;t) not agreed with for the &s;ame in the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e, according to the true meaning of this Act: That then from the &s;aid fir&s;t day of <HI>Iuly,</HI> all the &s;ame Wine, Goods and Merchandize what|&s;oeuer &s;hall be forfeit to Your Highnes, and afterwards to Your Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, during the &s;aid time; The moyety of the rate thereof to Your
<PB N="11" REF="6"> Highne&s;&s;e, and the other moyety to him or them that will &s;eize the &s;ame or &s;ue for the &s;ame. And that it may plea&s;e Your Highne&s;&s;e, That all Marchants a&s;well Denizens as Strangers com|ming into this Your Realm be well &amp; hone&s;tly intreated and demeaned for &s;uch things as Sub&s;idy by this Act is granted; for as they were in the time of Your Noble Progenitors and Prede|ce&s;&s;ors, without oppre&s;&s;ion to them to be donne, paying the Sub&s;idies afore|&s;aid.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, that if any goods or Marchandize as afore&s;aid of any Marchant, being born Denizen after the &s;aid Fir&s;t day of <HI>Iuly,</HI> during the Terme of this grant hath been or &s;hall be taken by any enemies or Pyrats up|on the Sea or peri&s;hed in any &s;hip or &s;hips that &s;hal happen to be taken or pe|ri&s;hed within the time of the &s;aid grant whereof the Sub&s;idies and other du|ties afore&s;aid, are or &s;hall be duely paid or agreed for as a fore&s;aid and that
<PB N="12" REF="7"> duely proued before the Trea&s;urer of England, or chief Baron of the Exche|quer for the time being, by the exami|nation of the &s;ame Marchants if they be aliue, or of their Executors or Admi|ni&s;trators, if they be dead, or by two credible witne&s;&s;es at the lea&s;t &s;worne, or other rea&s;onable witne&s;&s;es &amp; proofe &s;worne. Then the &s;ame Marchant or Marchants, his or their Executors, or Admini&s;trators &s;hall or may newly &s;hip in the &s;ame Port where the goods and Merchandize afore&s;aid were or &s;hall be cu&s;tomed, &s;o much other mar|chandize or goods, as the &s;ame goods or marchandize that are or &s;hall be lo&s;t as afore&s;aid &s;hall amount unto in Cu|&s;tome without paying any thing for the &s;ame, &s;o as the &s;ame proofe be recorded &amp; allowed of in the Court of Exchequer and certified unto the Collectors of the Cu&s;tomes of the Port where the &s;ame wares and Marchandize are to bee newly Shipped without Cu&s;tome as afore&s;aid: And further, That euery Marchant Denizen that &s;hall here|after
<PB N="13" REF="7"> Shippe any Goods and Mar|chandize in any Charrack or Gally, &s;hall pay to your Maie&s;ty all manner of Cu&s;tomes, and all the Sub&s;idies afore&s;aid, as any Alien borne out of the Realme.</P>
<P>Prouided always, That it &s;hall and may be lawfull to all and euery of the Subiects of our Soueraign Lord the King, at His and their will and plea&s;ur to carry &amp; tran&s;port out of this Realm, in the Ships or other Ve&s;&s;els of any the Subiects afore&s;aid, all and euery kind of Heerings or other Sea-fi&s;h, to be taken vpon the Seas by any of the Subiects afore&s;aid, from or out of any Port, or Harbour of this Realm, to any place out of the Kings Dominions, without paying any Cu&s;tome, Sub&s;idy or Poundage money for the &s;ame He|rings &amp; Fi&s;h &s;o carried or tran&s;ported, during this pre&s;ent Grant of Sub&s;idy of Tonnage and Poundage, any thing before conteined to the contrary not|with&s;tanding.</P>
<P>And it is further Enacted, That any
<PB N="14" REF="8"> Cu&s;tomer or Comptroller or any other Officer or per&s;on, That after the De|termination of this Grant, &s;hal take or receiue or cau&s;e to be taken or receiued the &s;aid Sub&s;idy, Sums of money, or any other Impo&s;ition, Summe or Sums of money vpon any Marchan|dize what&s;oeuer, exported or imported, except the &s;ame by Grant in <HI>Parliament,</HI> be due or by &s;uch Grant &s;hall become due or haue been continually payed from the end of the reigne of the late King <HI>Edward</HI> the third, vntill the be|ginning of the Reigne of the late Quen <HI>Mary;</HI> &s;hall incur and &s;u&s;tein the paines, penalties and forfeitures or|dained and prouided by the Statutes of Proui&s;ion and Premunire, made in the &s;ixteenth year of King <HI>Richard</HI> the &s;econd: And &s;hall al&s;o from henceforth be di&s;abled during his life, to &s;ue or im|plead any per&s;on in any action reall, mixt or per&s;onall, or in any Court what&s;oeuer. And that His Maie&s;ties Cu&s;tomers, Comptrollers and other Officers, from the greatne&s;&s;e of the &s;aid
<PB N="15" REF="8"> Penalties in this pre&s;ent Act, &amp; in the &s;aid former Acts in this pre&s;ent <HI>Parlia|ment,</HI> inflicted and &s;et vpon them, may not out of feare thereof be di&s;couraged from demanding and taking the iu&s;t and lawfull Cu&s;tomes, Duties, and Sums of money due unto His Ma|ie&s;ty, vpon Trade and Marchandize without this pre&s;ent Grant, or any the before mentioned Acts heretofore made in this pre&s;ent <HI>Parliament.</HI> It is therfore hereby Declared, That the ancient Cu&s;tomes due vpon Wools, Wool-fels, and Leather, that is to &s;ay of Denizens, halfe a marke of a &s;ack of Wooll, halfe a marke of three hundred Wooll-fels, a marke of a la&s;t of Lea|ther: and of Aliens ten &s;hillings of a &s;ack of Wooll, ten &s;hillings of three hundred Wooll-fels, &amp; twenty &s;hillings of a la&s;t of Leather Pri&s;age, That is to &s;ay, of euery ve&s;&s;ell wherein &s;hall be imported twenty tons of wine or more: One ton before the ma&s;t and one other ton behind the ma&s;t; And if there be le&s;&s;e then twenty tons and ten tons or
<PB N="16" REF="9"> aboue in the ve&s;&s;ell only one ton, pay|ing the fraight butlerage: that is to &s;ay, two &s;hillings upon euery ton of wine imported by &s;trangers. Three pence vpon the pound of all Goods or Marchandize imported by Stran|gers, and other duties due by <HI>Charta Mercatoria,</HI> made the 31 of <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t, and confirmed by <HI>Parliament,</HI> in the 27 of <HI>Edw.</HI> the third: three pence upon euery Sow of Lead, twelue pence vp|on euery Chalder of &s;ea-coale exported from <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> vpon <HI>Tyne,</HI> to any o|ther Ports or parts of this Realme. The Cu&s;tomes and Summes of Mo|ney to be paid vpon exportation of Wheat &amp; other corne and graine, by the Statutes made in the 13 and 35 years of Queen <HI>Eli&s;.</HI> and the 3 yeare of His now Maie&s;ties reigne, and vpon ex|portation of Beere, by the Statutes made in the 3 yeare of king <HI>Iames,</HI> and in the 3 yeare of His now Maie&s;ties reigne, &amp; vpon exportation of any Lea|ther, Tallow or raw Hydes, according to the Statute made in the 18 yeare of
<PB N="17" REF="9"> Queen <HI>Eli&s;.</HI> and all other Cu&s;tomes, Duties, &amp; Payments vpon Goods &amp; Marchandizes exported or imported into or out of the Kingdome, and the Dominion of <HI>Wales</HI> now due by grant in any former <HI>Parliament,</HI> or due or pay|able to the Crown without any Im|po&s;ition thereof, &s;et by the Kings Ma|ie&s;ty that now is, or any of His prede|ce&s;&s;ors Kings or Queens of this Re|alme, are the rights of the Crowne of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And be it further Enacted, That from and after the la&s;t day of <HI>Augu&s;t Anno Domini</HI> 1642. No Corrants &s;hall be imported into His Maie&s;ties King|dome of <HI>England</HI> or the Dominion of <HI>Wales,</HI> by any Marchants, Stran|gers, Denizens or others, by way of Marchandize from any parts beyond the Seas: But the importing thereof from and after the &s;aid la&s;t day of <HI>Au|gu&s;t</HI> is hereby prohibited and forbidden. And all Corrants that &s;hall be imported, contrary to the intent afore&s;aid &s;hallbe forfeited, The one moyetie to the King,
<PB N="18" REF="10"> His Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, The o|ther moyetie to the Imformer.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That the &s;aid <HI>Book of Rates</HI> compo&s;ed and agreed on by your Maie&s;ties &s;aid Commons: And al&s;o euery Article and Clau&s;e therein conteyned &s;hall be and remaine during the time of this pre&s;ent Act &amp; no lon|ger, as effectuall to all intents and purpo&s;es as if the &s;ame were included particularly in the body of this pre&s;ent Act. And it is further Enacted, That during the continuance of this Grant, the Cu&s;tomers, Collectors and all o|ther His Maie&s;ties Officers in the &s;e|uerall Ports, &s;hall take and receiue &s;uch fees in manner and no other as were taken in the 4 year of the reign of the late King <HI>Iames,</HI> vntill &s;uch time as the &s;aid fees &s;hall be otherwi&s;e &s;etled by authority in <HI>Parliamnet.</HI></P>
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