Now jn Force, O F 0 ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. By T. STOWELL, Advocate. _________________.zzzzzz________________ Mod humbly Infcribed To the Honourable ALEXANDER SHAW, Efq. Lieutenant Governor and Chancellor Of the Isle of Mak. DOUGLAS: Printed bv C. BRISCOE. i/92- PREFACE. r:5sOfi Ifle of Man, or, as it was anciently called, T n The Kingdom of Man, though generally tributary •ft *°’ 0r fa^fy pendant on, one or other of t^e grifi^ Crowns, was never annexed to either, nor to am other Realm; and has, from Time immemorial, I enjoyed other wife, and witbin itfelf, a Free Conftitution. The Feudal Sy Item, which at one Time prevailed over all, or tbe greate fl Part of Europe, though in fome Degree adopts ed in the ifle of Man, was never experienced there in the Rigor, or btriflnefs, with which it was attended in other Countries : at leaf, this much may be J aid with Certainty । . that tbe People of this //land, under a Legiflature entirely tbeir own, have, from theearlieft Period to which tbe Hiflory of the fland can be traced, claimed and enjoyed the Privilege *f being governed by Laws of tbeir own making, or consented to by tbt midver, or tbeir constitutional Reprefenta-fives. Tbe Legiflature oS tbe fland was compojed, (as it is at this Day) of three Eftates : viz. tbe Sovereign, tbe Governor and Council, and tbe Twenty-four Keys, tbe direct and conflitutional Repref entatives of tbe People: and ibis Legtdature did, and doth, pofffs tbe Power of making Laws as compledtly binding within it’s Jurifdidion, as the Legifld-Sure of any Country whatever. Tbe three Lftates, or she latter two of them, being affembled upon public Affairs, were, and now are, filed a Tynwald Court j and the Laws faffed by tbe Legiflature of ibis Wand, were and are called Afts of Tynwald; wbicb ASts of Tynwald, before they become binding and have tbe Force of a Law, muft, according to imme* mortal ufage, be promulged at a certain Place near tbe Centre of the //land, called the Tynwald Fl ill. The Sovereignty of tbe Ifle of Man has, forfome Centuries paft, been vefled in different noble Families, by fucceffive Grants from tbe Kings of England, claiming as Lords Paramount, but who did net otherwise interfere fa tbe interior ^ Government tin PREFACE. Government of the If end, All Lews were made, Money 3 I coined, Delinquents pardoned, &c. (de, in the Name 0/the 3 Subordinate or feudatcry Sovereign : But in the fifth Tear of the Reign of his prefent Majefy, the Sovereignty was re-vefied in the Crown, by an Afi of Parliament called the Ml Re-veiling Ad. The People of the Ijland were, at firfi. exceedingly alarmed at the Change of Affairs in Confequence of the Re veJi went, but Experience has taught them to regard it now at the greateJi Biffing. The Sovereign of this JJland anciently here the Title of King of Man 5 but that Title was given up, cr declined, through Alo fives of Delicacy or Prudence, Jone Centuries ago, and the Sovereign of the Ijland thereupon affumed, and ever after, until the Re-vefment, bore the Title of Lord of Man and the Wies. It may be deemed a Matter of no fmall Surprize, that the Statute-Lawj, or Afis of Tynwald oj the ifle or Man, (except a few lately paffed) have n:ver heretofore been printed and publifhtd : This is faying enough for the Chitty of the prefent Publication. In the following Work a Difiinction is made between Statutes and Ordinances. By Statutes, the Publifher would be underfeed to mean fuch Abis as have been made and paffed by the three Effates of the Legiflature before mentioned: and by Ordinances, certain Orders and Resolutions, which have, from Time to Time, been made by feparate Branches of the Legiflature, and which have been received andufed as Laws, and are retained in ufe and-Force at this Day. Tbefe Ordinances were frequent in ancient Times. They are, properly fpeaking, a Part of the Common Law, and are in Force no I further than they have beenfauctioned by, or retained in, u/e, yet being pretty numeroujly interjperfed and recorded among/} the Statutes, and frequently mentioned and referred to in and by the Statutes, the Publifher apprehended that a Publication of the Statutes without fuch of the Ordinances as are fill in Force, would be in com pleat. 26 JA 66 the 4^% r * ^ THE 0 F T H E . ISLE of Md-Ni ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED^ ABBEY LAND [^ Afi of Sett loment] . Si 11 ACCOUNT, Account ^TO Party, or Parties^ Plaintiff, (hall recover to be {i any Debt, or Demand, unlefs he or they Statuti ^'^ *lhall fervc the Defendant, or Defendants, with l^77< on d,an Account, or State of his or their Claim, or Demand, three Days, at lead, before the hearing of the Caufe, by the Deemftcr, or High-Bailiffs, or any of them. Anions of Account when and where to be eo** mencedt— [See Adion perfopaL] C * ) a C T «f S-E T T L E M E N T, AND ACT explanatory thereof. Sutrite 1704^ ^n A CT for the perfect Settling, and Confirmation of the ffates^f enures, FineSi Rents f $1111^ 8 ma Sdmtw cf'thdtftnants the County of Cumberland, Efqj John Stephenson, of Balladoole ; and Ewan Christian, of Lewage, witbin the faid Ifle, Gen-titmen: who, (by an I^rumentunder the Hands tf the Twenty-four Keys, now remaining upon Record,) were impbwered co treat concerning the-S lame, as well for and on Behalf of ’themfetaet, as) all and every the Tenants within the laid ide, in Manner following : v-sb First, That in Cafe his LorThip would be pleafed to declare and confirm unto his Tenants their ancient cuAomafy ERates‘of Inheritance in their refpeclivt Tenements, defcendable from, AnceRor to 'Heir, according to the Laws and Cuftoms of the faid Ilie, that then the faid Tenants Ihould, in Cori fid elation Thereof, advance an^ pay unto his laid Lordihip, the fame Fines which they fevcrallv and refpedively paid for their levc-ral and relpe&ive Tenements, at the general Fitting, which was in or about the Year of our Lord 164^ except where any Tenant, or Tenants have, or hath one or more Life, o? Lives in. Being ; and that then, and in fuch Cafe, he or they Ihould feverally and refpe&ivelv pay two Thirds, only, of the faid general Fine, for their refpeftive 1 cnements. Secondly, That upon tjie Change of any Tenant, by Death or Alienation, the next fuc-ceeding Heir or Alienee, Ihould pay unto the Lord of the faid Ide for the Time being, the third Part of the faid entire Sum, which was paid for a Fine, at the laid general Fining, in Manner following :—that is to fay. In Cafe of the Change of a Tenant by Death, then the faid Fine Ihould be paid within twelve Months after the Death of fuch Tenant : and in Cafe of the Change or Removal of a Tenant by Alienation, then the fame Ihould be paid immediately after fuch Alienation, made proportionably to the Lands and Tenements which Ihould defeend, or be aliened ; and this to continue forever hereafter, as a fixed and certain Fine, upon every Delcent and Alima-toon. Provided, peverthelefs, that all huack^ A 2 Cottage^ . Cottages, and Mills, which, by the Laws and* Cuftoms of the laid lilt, were and are reputed Chattels, might be chargeable with Debts, and dcvifeable by Gift, Grant, Will, or Alignment,, as formerly accuftomed, paying fuch hints rtfpec-tively, as were paid at the general Fining aforefaid : 7o wit, The.whole Fine where there were no Lives in Being, and two Parts thereof only where there were and ftdl are one or two Lives in Being । and a third Part of the faid general Fine, forever hereafter, upon every Decent or Alienation, as aforefaid. Thirdly, That the Tenants of the Abbey Lands, as well as the Lord’s Tenants, fhould be included in the laid Propofals, they and every of them paying tne fame Fines that were agreed for, upon their late Coin portions, or Leafes, made in or about the Year of our Lord j6b6, (except fuch as have one or more Life or Lives yet in Being, to pay two Parts, only, of the faid Fine now,) and a third Part thereof always afterwards, upon the Admittance of a new Tenant, either upon Death, or Alienation, as aforefaid ; and allo yielding, paying, performing, and doing the annual Rents, Cuftoms, Suits and Services, as formerly and anciently accuftomed ; and that the Tithes arifin^out of the Abbey Demefnes, and referved by James, late Earl of Derby, upon the Composition by him made, in the Year J643; and afterwards by Charles, late Earl of Derby, graojed to Bi (hop Barrow, (fince ce-ceafed,) an A his SuccefTors, for the Ufe of the Clergy of the faid l|le, fhould be referved, and forever hereafter payable to them. Fourthly, That the double Rents of the Quarter lands, as they were then payable, together with all other Rents, Suits, and Services, payable out of thole, or any other Eftatts within the faid IHe, fhould be referved and payable sum- . forever hereafter, as formerly, to the faid James, 1704^ Earl of Derby^ his Heirs and Afligns, or to fuch other Perlon, or Pcrfons, as, for the Time Being, * fhould be Lord of the faid lilt ; and that the Boons aocicnt Boons and Carriages, payable by the re-andCar- fpedivc Tenants, fhould be confidered at a Tyn-riages, wald Court. wald Court* Alienation. Fifthly, That if any Tenant fhould then after pais away any Part of his Eftate. either to any of his Children, or other Perfon whatfoever,. by Gift, Grant, Alignment, or any other Deed, or Contract, whatfoever, whereby to diveft himfelf of the Premifes, that the fame fhould be efteem-ed and accounted as an Alienation within the Intendment of the faid Propofals : or if any Tenant JUort- who ^en h^ mortgaged, or fhould thence £age. after mortgage all, or any Part of his Mefluages, Lands, Tenements, Mills, Cottages, Intacks, or other Hereditaments, unto any Perfon, and fhould not actually redeem the fame to his own proper Ufe, within the Space of five Years next after the Commencement of the faid Mortgage, that then fuch Mortgage, fhould be likewiie looked upon, and reputed as an Alienation; and the Mortgagee fhould be admitted Tenant, and his Name entered into the Court Rolls, and fhould pay the third Part of the general Fine, charged and chargeable upon the faid Mefluages, Lands, Tenements, Mills, Cottages, Intacks, and Hereditaments fo mortgaged, or to be mortgaged, as aforefaid: Provider, neverthelefs, that the Mortgager Ihall have the Power and Liberty of Redemption (till remaining in him, and is to be re-ftqred to the Pcfleflion of the Premifes, by Law, or Order of the Court of Chancery,* as the Matter: will appear in Equity; Io that the fame may be. > done within the Space of one and twenty Yeat> i from the Date of the faid Mortgage, and not b*z^ ( 6 1 therwife. And that all Bills of Mortgage already g^ in a ie or hereafter to be nl ide, fhall be entered in- ^^ to the Records within fix Months after the paf-fing >f the laid Propofals into a Law, or within fix Months next after Rich Bills of Mortgage were executed, otherwife fuch Bills to be of no 1 ffed in the Law. Sixthly, That all new Intacks, or Inclofures, ___;g, taken out of the Commons, and all Mills eteded dx. line? rhe Year 16*43, that had not paid any Fines, fhould have a reafonable Fine fet upon them "by the Governor, three of the Lord’s Officers, and three of the Twenty Tour Keys, to be appointed for that Purpofe ; and that the Fines fo fet by them, fhould be paid within fix Months next after the letting thereof; and that the third Part of the find Fine fo to be fet as aforefaid, fhould, forever hereafter, be paid upon the Change of every Ten-anr, by Death, Alienation, cr Mortgage, as afore-£*id. Seventhly, That all Intacks, or Mills, which fhould then after be inclofcd, or eroded, fhould pay fuch Fine and Fines as fhould be agreed on bv the Governor, and Lord's Officers, and that to be hkewife a fixed anti certain Fine, to be forever hereafter paid by the Tenants of the fame, upon every De Lent, or Alienation, in Manner aforefaid. Fightly, And that all fuch Intacks, and Cottages as had been taken out of the High ways adjoining the Quarterlands, or other Fftates, but not belonging to the fame, fhould not, nor were not intended to be included in rhe faid Propo-, iais ; but that fuch Intacks and Cottages, (being complained of as great Nuifances,) fhould be referred to the Confideration of a Tynwald Court, <0 determine where the Rents and Fines of, and ♦ . for fuch Intacks and Cottages, might moft con-* 3HH^X ke fixed, Ninthly* ( 7 $ ■ iomrh- Ninthly, That whereas the Fine lately paid Stated 2w.ou? of.the iftatt called Jbougb-Mallow and Ury- 170^* Clojc^9 was not computed in the general Fining in the laid Year 1643., l^c fame being iincc that Time leaied by the Kight Honourable Charles, late Karl of Derby, it was therefore, (upon fpecul Confiderauon had,) ptoppfed that the-laid Hlate fhouhf only pay quo Hundred and twenty bounds for ch^. pi client Fine : but if an^ of the Lives no-JTUnattd in th^ faid.Lcafe, made thereof by the faidf^ate Earl Charles, fhould be found to be ft 111 in Being, then only two third Paijts.oftht laid one Hundred and twenty Pounds fhould be paid as a prefect Fine ; and a third Fart of the laid one Hundred and twenty Pounds ihould, (01 ever hereafter, be paid, $s a fixeu and ceitain Fine* upon ike .Change of any tenant, by Deaths Alienation, or Mortgage,, as aforcLud. Tenthly, That the prFftnt Fines fhould be Tines accepted-and received according to the Currency payable of Money then within the faid Ifte ; and that one *n third Part thereof, fhould be paid within fix ^hi’ Months next, after the. patting of this Act : ano-cy. then ^Kd Part fhould be paid at the End of twelve Months now ncxt.vnfumg : and the lalt Payment to be made within fix Months-then next following : fo that the Whole fhould be paid within eighteen Months next after the patting of this Aft. Entries Eleventhly, That the ancient Rents, (except by the on^y df fuch Lands as were then in the Lord’# Setting Hands,) fhould, for the Future, be preferved by ^2«fb the Setting Queft ; and that the Tenants’ Names fhould be entered in the Court Rolls,-as formerly # , and that when any Tenant fhould come to any • Eftate, by Death, Alienation, or Mortgage fuch' t Tenant fhould be obliged to give Notice L Earl °^ Derby, now Eord of the faid fals paf- Ide, by and with the Advice and Confcn: of the fed into faid Governor, and the Reft of his faid Lordfhip's a Law. officers, and by the Twenty-four Keys in this prefect Tynwald Court alf mbled, and by the Authority of the fame, that the faid Propofa sj and every Claufe, Article, Sentence, Matter, and Thing in the fame contained, (hall itand and be ratified, aVowed, approved of and confirmed by the Authority of this prefent Tynwald Court ; and that the faid Propofals (ball ft and and be of Force to bind and conclude, as well the faid James Farl of Derby, his Heirs, and Affigns, and all Perfons claiming, or to claim from, by, or under him or them, or to his Ufe, or in Truft for him, as the faid Ewan Christian, John Ste-phenson, and Ewan Christian of Lewatge, and all and lingular other the Tenants and Inhabitants within the faid llle, their and every of their Heirs and Affigns, and all Perfons claiming, or to claim ( io ) from, by, or under them, or any of them, or to or for their IJ ft, or in Truft, for them or any of them, in all Things according to the Purport, I7°^’ Tffcd, and true Meaning of the faid Propofals; and that every Claule, Article, Sentence, Matter and thing in the faid Propofals contained, (hall forever hereafter, ftand, be, and remain, and be adjudged and taken to be of fuch and the fame Force a-d Effect, to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the laid Propofals and every Claufe, Article, Sentence, Matter, and thing therein contained, were Specially and particularly herein again ex-picffed and repeated, and by the Authority of this prefent Court Enacted, And be it further Enacted, Ordained, and Tenures DeclaR£D> by the Authority aforefaid, that all firmed, Hlates made,.or to be made of any Meffuages, 1 ands. Tenements, and Hereditaments within the faid Ifle, or Members of the fame, to any Perlon or Perlons, and his and tneir Heirs (hall be, and fhall be adjudged, efteemed, and taken from the making or granting of fuch Eftates, to be good and per ted cuftomary Eftates of Inheiitance, de-fcendable from Anceflor co Heir, according to the Laws and Cuftoms of the faid Ifle, (except fuch as are reputed Chattels, as is before mentioned ;) and that all and every fuch PcrGn and Perlons, to whom any fuch cuftomary Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, are, or (hall be granted to him, and his Heirs, according to the Laws and Cuftoms of the faid Ifle, (hall be, and fhall be adjudged, efteemed, and taken, and are hereby declared to be feized thereof, as of good and perfect cuftomary Eftates of Inheritance, to them and their Heirs dependable from Anceftor to Heir, according to the Cuftoms of the faid Ifle; and that all and every the faid Tenants of and within the faid Ifle, and Members of the fame, as well all Tenants in Poffcflion, as in Rcverfion, and ( U ) swd Remainder particularly or generally named, mentioned, or intended to be Parties co the laid i*^ Propofals and not hereby excluded, cheir and every * of their refpcdtive Heirs, and Afligys, (hall and may from henceforth forever, quietly and peaceably have, hold, and enjoy ail their rrlpeCbve Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, with their and every of their Appurtenances, to them and to their Heirs feveraily and refpedively, as cuftomary Tenants of and within the faid Ifle, againft the faid James, Karl of Derby, his Hein, and Afligns, and againft all and every other Perfon, or Perlons, claiming, or to claim from, by, or under him, them, or any of them: All and finguUr (he Tenants within the faid Ifle and Members of the fame, their Heirs, and Afligns, and all and every other Perfon or Perfons claiming, or to claim, from, by, or under them, or any of them refpedively yielding, paying, performing, and doing unto the faid James, Earl of Derby, his Heirs, and Afligns, and all and every other the Lords of the faid Ifle for the Time being, fuch yearly Rents, Boons, Huts, and Services, as herein before are mentioned, an! which now are or heretofore have been ufually paid and performed; and alfo paying unto the faid James, Earl of Derby, his Heirs, and Afligns, fuch general and other Fines certain, as in the faid Propofals are alfo, for that Purpofe, particularly mentioned and exprefled : Saving always Re *c *s mentioned and expnfled that all fuch Cottages In tacks and Cottages as had been taken out of the Highways adjoining to the Quarterlands, or other Eftates, but not belonging to the fame, fhould not, nor were not intended to be included in the faid Ad of Settlement : but that fuch Intacks and Cottages (being complained of as great e Nuifances.) fhould be referred to the Confidera-tion of a Tynwald Court, to determine where the Rents and Fines of and for fuch Intacks and Cottages might mod conveniently be fixed. Be it therefore hereby Ordered, Ordained, and Enacted, by the Authority aforefaid, that rhe Rents and Fines of all fuch Cottages and Intacks taken out of the Highways adjoining to any Quarter lands, or other F flatty whether they belong to the Lord or Barons, being taken to Rent in or fince the Year of our Lord one Thou-fand fix Hundred and Ten, are to be pa»d by thole Farmers and Tenants, or other Perfons unto whole Lands and Tenements thefe Cottages and Intacks do adjoin ; and they to become Tenants thence forward to the Lord for the faid Cottages and Intacks, and that the faid Tenants and Inhabitants dwelling in and pofitfling thole Cottages and Intacks, Hull hence forward become Sub-tenants to the laid Farmers, Tenants, and other Perfons, upon fuch icafonable Terms as as can be agreed upon betwixt them, or as fliall Statute be thought reafonable by the Court of Chancery 1704* of tRjs I fl and 5 and if any fuch Cottage or In-tack nolder do not fubmit to fuch Terms as the Court (hail order therein, then fuch Cottage or Intack Holder is to be ejected out of the faid Holding, and a Jury of four Men fworn to value what Improvements he has made on the fame, which faid Value (being approved of bv the Court,) the faid Farmer, Tenant, or other Per-fon, is to pay and reimburfe unto the’ faid Cot-* Cage, or Intark Holder, and thereupon to be im-mediately poffeffed of the fame, and have Liberty to difpofe of the faid Cottage or Intack to whom and to what Ufes he (hall think fitting. Provided always that fuch Farmer, Tenants, or other Perlons unto whofe Lands fuch Cottages or Intacks do adjoin, complaining of fuch to be a Nuifance, Ihall be obliged to make the fame appear to be fo, within eighteen Months next after the Date hereof, otherwise and in Default thereof, the faid Cottage or Intack Holder Ihail have and enjoy the fame on the like Terms that other Cottages and Intacks are held and enjoyed within this Ifle, by Virtue of the faid Aft of Settlement, without any Difturbance of the faid Farmer, Tenant, or other Perfon, at any Time after the faid eighteen Months are determined and . expired. And it is hkewife Provided and De-. clared that all Highways out of which any Intacks or Cottages have been taken, that Ihall be found not to be eighteen Foot broad, according as the Statute provides, (hall be enlarged out of the faid Intacks or Cottages, (when complained of,) at any Time hereafter; any Thing herein mentioned to the Contrary notwithftanding. And whereas in the faving Part of the faid Aft of Settlement, it is mentioned and declared that all Quarries and Delfs of Flag, Slate, and Stone are refer ved ( »7 ) Royalty and Prerogative belonging to them within Suwtt this Ifle: which Part of the faid Aft feems to x7°4-reflrain the Farmers and Tenants of the faid Ifle, from digging, and getting fuch Sort of common Scone as might be nccelf^y for building aid ma-. king of other Improvements on their Eftates and oiStone Tenements : Be it, therefore, Enacted, Ordain-and ed and Declared, by the Authority aforefaid, that Slate notwith(landing the general Words in the faid Aft of Settlement, chat every Tenant and Farmer (hall, neverthelcfs,.have free Liberty of digging, raifmg, and difpofing of all Sorts of Stones and Slates upon their rtfpedive Tenements, and as hath been formerly accuftomed; fo that they be employed only for their own Ufe, and for the Improvement of their own and Neighbours* Eftates and Tenements; and that they (hall not difpofe or make Merchandize of the fame otherwife, without the Licence or Liberty of the Lord or Governor of the faid Ifle firft had and obtained for the fame; and if any Farmer or Inhabitant, having a Quarry or Quarries of Limeftone, or other common Stone, on his or their Grounds, (hall obft • *nately refute or deny Liberty to any other Pcrfon or Perfons to dig or get fuch 1 imeftone or other Stones for the Improvement of his or their Lands or Tenements, or otherwife, without paving him a high and unreafonabie Confideration for the fame, then and in fuch Cafe, it (hall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Ifle, for the Time being, to interpole, and order that fuch Prrfon or Perfons as ft and in Need of fuch Limeftoncs, or other Stones, may dig, raife, and carry away as much as will be nectflarv for his or their Ufe, paying unto the Farmer or Inhabitant on whole Lauds the fame (ball be fo gotten, fuch moderate and reafonable Satisfaction as the Governor, in his Difcretion, Ihail think fit to order and allow, WHICH faid fevcral Ads of Tynwald, being MOW the Bafts of the Tenure of the Lands and « C Hereditaments* a ( .S > Hereditaments, and the true Security of the real ‘J4dates and Premifes within the laid Hie; Be it Statute hereby Declared and Ln acted by the Pttmiffi- 17°4‘ on and Authority aforefaid, that the faid Ad of Settlement, and the faid Ad of Tynwald expla-nat rv thereof, herein before let forth, and every Claufe, Article, Matter and Thing therein and herein before contained, (hall be, and the fame are htrebv ratified, confirmed, and binding, and effcdual for and againft all, and all Manner of Peffon and Perlons, Lands, agd Herditamenrs therein, and thereby meant, mentioned and intended, to all Intents and Purpofes. ^his Aft was promulged the '^tb, of Jane 1704. ACTION. Aftion perfcnal.-^T is Enacted that all q ^JMlta' Adions of 1 relpafs, or Plaints in Nature of Ac-Actions ^ons °^ frcfpafs between Neighbours, committed /0 perfo- in or upon each others* Lands, Houfcs, Grounds, nal. or other Properties,—-All Adions or Plaints in Nature of Adions for wrongful Detention of Goods, Chattels, or Effeds ;—All Adions or Plaints in Nature of Adions for Goods delivered or loft ;-— All Adions or Plaints in Nature of Adions of Account, and upon the Cafe (other than for Ac- *xcep- counts Current, which concern the Trade or Mer-fpefting chandize between the Merchants and Traders of Ac- this Ifle, and Merchants and Traders beyond counts Sea, their Fadors or Servants ;)—All Adions or Current pjaints in Nature of Adions of Debt, grounded upon any lending Contrad or Demand without Specialty ;—All Adions of Deceit and Cozen-age ;—All Adions or Plaints in Nature of Actions of Aflault, Battery, wounding, or falfe Im-prifonment, or any of them; and all other Adions tranfitory or perfonal whatfoever which (hall be fued or brought in any any of the temporal Courts of this lUr, or before any Judge or Ma-giftrate gittrate ofwl^^efcer the making of this Law, fhall be commenced and effectually profecuted Statute within the Time and Limitation hereafter ex- ^^ prefled, and n )t after. That is to fav, the faict Albions, or Plaints of Trefpafs, the Paid Albions or Plaints of Detention, Debt, Deceit, and Cozenage, and of Goods delivered or loft ; the faid Albions, or Plaints of Account and upon the Cafe, (except for Qanderous Words) and other fuch like perfonal Albions, within two Years next after the making of this Law, or within three Years next after the Caufe of fuch Albion, Plaint, or Suit, and at no Time after. And the faid Albions of Aflault, Battery, wounding, Imprifonment, and for Slanderous Words, or any of them, within one Year after the making of this Law, or within two Years next after the Caufe of fuch Albions, or Plaints in Nature of any of the Albions aforefaid, and at no Time afterwards, any Law, Order, Cuf tom,or Practice to the Contrary notwithftanding. Provided, neverthelefs, and it is further Provifo Enacted, that if any Perfon or Perfons that is, i11 rr or fhall be intitled to any fuch Albions of Tref-fancy. pafs, Detention of Goods delivered or loft, of Accounts, and upon the Cafe, of Debt, Deceit, Aflault, Battery, wounding, or Imprifonment, or Albions upon the Cafe for flanderous Words, or any other perfonal Albion be, or fhall be at the Time of any fuch Caufe of Albion given, accrued, come, or fdlen within the Age of twenty one Years, under Coverture, non compos mentis, im-prifoned, or beyond the Seas, that then fuch Per-fon, or Perfons, fhall be at Liberty to bring the fame Albions (as others not under fuch Incapacities might before have done) fo as they take the Benefit thereof, within fuch Times after fuch their Imperfelbions are removed, as are herein before for that Purpole limited, and not other-wife. And if any Perlon againft whom lies any fuch Caufe of Albion or Albions, C 3 Time of fuch Caufe of Suit * accrued,be beyond Defen- Sea, then the Perfon intirled ‘To-filch Suit may Statute dam be- bring an Adion after the Return of luch Perfon, x7^ ^ fa as he brings the fame within fuch I ime after the Return, as is refpcdively be foie limited by this Ad. And it is further Ordained and Enacted, Limita- by the Authority aforefaid, that ail Claims and o™ Probate of Claims hereafter to be entered and Claims made in the Spiritual Court of this Ifle, againft in the Executors or AdmiaiRratovs. of Deceadent^, fur Or on Account of any of the Caufes of Suit Court before mentioned, and more efpecially for Debts, and other Demands of what Nature foever, without Specialty, (hall be entered, profecuted, and made by Ciaimers within the I (land, in one Year, and by Perfons beyond Sea, within three Years from the Probate of the Will, or granting Ad-miniftration, and at no Time after ; and then the Cognizance of fuch Claims fo entered to belong to the temporal Court according to the Statute 1665 ; but that no Decree, Judgment, Order, or Recover} (hall at any Time oe given, had, or made by or upon any fuch Claim, or Claims in the Spiritual Court, nor afterwards in the temporal Court, but within the Time and Limitation of four Years next after the Caufe of fuch Suit or Claim, by or for Ifland Ciaimers, and within five Years from the Caufe of Suit or Claim by or for Ciaimers beyond Sea, and not otherwife; and that all other Suits, Controver-fies, and Matters of Contention, of what Nature foever, for or againft Executors, Adminiftrators, And or others, which, hereafter (hall be fued, or Suhs in brought in the Spiritual Court, fball be com-the faid fenced and effectually profecuted within one Court. Year after the making of this Law, or within two Years next after the Caufe of Suit, and at no Time afterwards : any Law, Cuftom, or Practice CP the Contrary notwithftanding. Provided, Prov^b Provided, neverthelefs, that this (halt not ofOr Prciudicc Orphans in feeking Reftitution of St*®*> phan>. their Goods, fecuted under Pledges, in the J^ Hands of Parents, Guardians, or Supervi-And Ex-fbrs, in Manner already directed by Law: ecaton Nor Executors, or Adminiftrators making real Admini- Difcoveries of (he Effects or Credits of Decead-itrators ents, to fulfil their Inventories, fuch Right being (till refer ved for them to be recovered as formerly accuftomed, they making Oath before they (hall obtain Procefs, that fuch Effeds, or Credits, did not before confift with, or come to their Knowledge j and that the Delay of timely Profecution Oath of has not been occafioned by Neglect. And to the Par- prevent litigious Suits and ocher Inconveniences. ^bTa n ’* further Enacted and Declared, that it mined fHall not be hereafter lawful for the faid Courts, againftaor Magiftrates, or any of them, to admit of any Special- Obligor, or Party Defendant’s Oath as Evidence, ^ againft any Bill, Bond, Note, or other Specialty in Writing, to acquit himfelf from the Payment thereof, otherwife than bv a proper Receipt and Di (charge for the fame ; any Law or Cuftom to the Contrary notwithftanding. Provided always that this Ad (hall not be conftrued or underftood to intrench upon the The Rights or Prerogatives of the Lord of the Ide in Preroaa-an? $u,t» P^int> Adion, or Claim, to which he uves is or may be intitled ; the fame being referved faved. and excepted ; any Thing herein before contained to the Contrary notwithftanding. Afiion Real.--------^F any Perfon (hall pretend Limita- Title to any Farm Houfe or Ground within SVc ^*S ^e> and d° not exhibit his Bill in Writ-St,^ FC^onsC ,n» f°r lhe fame before the Lord, his Lieu- 1593, tenant, or Captain, and other principal Officers ( 2* ) ©f the faid Tile, whereby it may be entered of Record within the Space of twenty one Years Statute next after he or his Ancestors have been difpoflef- ^^ fed thereof, then he, or his SuccefTors claiming after him, to be utterly excluded and barred from making Title thereto forever* The /aid Status of 1593 is confirmed and statute tftablijbed by a Statute pajfed in the Tear 1647. 1647. In Refped of the Statute limiting all Perfons to fue for Title of Lands and Houfes within ewen- Ordi- ty one Years next, after their Title firft defeended ^nc^^ or accrued, it is apprehended that great Preju- 4^^ dice may arife to Infants, Perlons under Cover- Council* tore, beyond Sea, imprifoned and the like, It is Deem-therefore Ordained that notwithftanding the Li-ftSP and mitation of Time by the faid Statute, if any Per- x^ fon, or Perlons, at the Time of the faid Right, firfl: Provifo defeended, accrued, come, or fallen, be within in Cafe the Age of twenty one Years, under Coverture, e^^"' not °f f°und Mind, imprifoned, or beyond Stas, c‘ or have any other lawful Impediment, that then fuch Perfon, or Perfons, and their Heirs, Ihall and may, notwithftanding the faid twenty one Years be expired, bring his Plaint, make his Title, fue his Right and Demand, as fuch Perfon might have done, before the Expiration of the faid twenty one Years, fo as neverthelels fuch Perfon, or Perfons, or their Heirs, do, within the Space of two Years next after their full Age, dif-coverture, coming of found Mind, Enlargement out of Prifon, or being free of their lawful Impediment, or coming into the Ifle, take the Be-A&ions nt^r °^ and ^ue and putfue the fame, and at no stal to be Time after the faid two Years be determined and at Com- expired. ^^ All Suits for Title of Houfes, Lands, Tene- sUtut# meats. Mills, Cottages, and Intacks, being In- 17^ heritancc ( 23 ) heritance or Quarterland, (hall always be by Provifo Adion at Common Law, and not otherwife. But m C?fe if manifeft Frauds be made ufe of to procure Statute Fiauds legal Titles, which cannot be relieved at Com- ^^ &c. ’ mon Law, but require to be redrt fled in Fqui- • ty, the Plaintiff bringing his Adion at Common And Law, may alledge the Fraud therein ; and upon Proceed-the Defendant's Appearing to the Adion, the wg» m p|ajnrjff js thcn to give jn a Cafe in Writing, containing the Particulars of his Allegation, with Refped to the Fraud j and upon entering into Bond in ten Pounds, to make good the fame, the that •Cafe. A Proceeding at Law to be (tayed, and the Plaintiff be allowed to file his Bill, or Ad ion, in Chancery j and when the Defendant joins Iffue, the Chancellor (hall direct the Examination of the Matter to fix of the twenty-four Kevs, by Way of Commiflion, to inqu're into the lame, by Way of Oaths, or ocherwife, as the Cafe may require j and then to make a Report of the Whole impartially to the Court, in Writing, in Order to a Determination. But if upon confidering the Re- / port, and hearing the Caufe, the Court (hould not have fufficient Proof to find and decree for the Fraud, then the Matter (hall be remitted to be proceeded in, and decided by the Courfe of Common Law, and the Plaintiff (hall be liable to forfeit his Bond to the Defendant for his Corts and Damages, or fuch Part thereof as the Chancellor (hall think reasonable to allow. And if either Party (hall appeal from the faid Decree of Chan- ^ eery, he (hall be obliged to enter into Bonds as ’P^’ufual: Providbd that Difputes and Controver-fies concerning Mortgages (hall, according to concern* ing Mort- gage* to be in Chan- cery. the Ad of Settlement, be determinable in the Court of Chancery ; and that no Sequeftration (hall be laid on the Profits of any Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments whatfoever, by any Court or M^giftrate within this irte, but in extraordinary Cafes j and then the fame not to be done C «4 ) e done without the Confent of the Governor, Officers, Decmfters, and Keys. Statue 1736 ACTIONS in CHAN [3# Court of Chancery ACTIONS at COMMON LAW. [to Court of Common Law.] ADMINISTRATION. 'IT, is Ordered that the Goods of Deceadants, , according to the Inventory, (hall be made good by the Ordinary, or his Spiritual Officers, if he or taken, they upon proving the Will, or making of the Decree where no Will was made, do not take fufficient Security for the fame. It is Enacted that the Probate of Wills and Probates making Decrees of Deceadent’s Effects, (hall be and De- efftded within three Months after the Death of s^me when to ^e Party, at furtheft, under Pain of Fine and fe- 16 $ be wade. vcre Puniffiment on the Perfon failing therein, after lawful Summons given by the proper Officers of the Spiritual Court: and that the Spiritual Officers take fpecial Care for the Obfervance hereof. [to Affton personal—Deceadent—Intefatc.] ADULTERY. ( *5 ) adultery. WHEREAS heretofore it hath been a Law in ^^ the Ifle of Man that a Wife going away from her Hufband for Adultery, or any ocher Caufe, might give away the one Half of all fuch Goods and Chatties as her Hufband and (he were feifrd Wife of, to whom pleafed herfelf, which is thought to kc a&a’n^ the Laws of God and good Govern-^uf^.ment: It is therefore Ordered, That if any Wife hereafter, fhall commit Adultery, and be thereof lawfully convided before the Bifhop, or his lawful Deputy, the Captain, and the Reft of the Lord’s Council there; die ft all lofe her Benefit of the faid Law, and fhall have no more of her Hufband’s Goods than fhall De agreed upon by the Bifhop or his lawful Deputy, the Captain, and the Reft of his Lordfhip’s Council there, for her Maintenance. . No Appeal fhall be made from the Ecclefiafti-ppcal cal Courts to the Lieutenant or the Captain, or his ^^ Deputy, or the temporal Judges, or the twenty-four Keys, in Cafe of Adultery.-[5ee ApftalJ\ A D V O C A T E.-----------[^ Attorn^.} ALE-HOUSE. It is Enacted that no Perfon fhall retail Ale, Wine, or other Liquors without a Licence, from ctatnt^ the Governor, under the Penalty of three Pounds x^ None to for eveiy Default; one Half to the lx»rd of the r^ Ifland, and the other Halt to the Informer : and without none fhall obtain fuch Licence except a competent licence Number of fubftantial Ale-houteKeepers in every Town and Parilh, the Situation of whofe Houles D and ( 16 ) and other neeeffary Conveniences, are to be year- Statute ly reported to the Governor, by the Minifter and *734 Captain of every Parifh, the Coronor of the Sheading, and four of the Great Inquefl, in each Parifh, who are moil fitting, and belt qualified for that Purpofe. And fuch Returns to be made to the Governor, at the refpeftive Sheading Courts, annually holden after Micha^nnas, that fuch as fhall be fufficient and able to perform the Tenor of their Licences may be licenfed and al-Recog- lowed 5 who, upon obtaining of their Licences, ^a^ enter into a Recognizance to perform the given Tenor thereof, as formerly accuftomed. Upon every Licence there fhall be paid fourteen Pence Fee for to the Governor’s Secretary, feven Pence to the Licence Comptroller, and nine Pence to the Keys, for the Reparation of their Houfe, and to find other Neceffaries at the Times of their Meetings. Nnmber The Number of Licences for retailing Beer, stateta of Ale- Ale, Wine, and other Liquors, in this Ifland is 174*. ^fc* ^limited to three Hundred at five fcoie to the Hundred. Additi- it is Ordained and Enacted that an addi* for Li- t*00^ Sum °^ ninc Shillings, and nine pence, be cence •. paid for every Ale-houfe-licence, into the to be ap- handj of the Clerk of the Rolls, as a Fund, to be nlied m applied in making, repairing, and amending the oSe Highways, in fuch Manner as fhall be direded by High- the Governor, with the Council and Keys, or a ways Committee to be by them appointed. A L I E N.-——[^ InfclventJ\ A L IE N A T10 N.*o—[^ M ff Settlement.1} ^ ALIMONY. * ( *7 ) A L I M O N Y.---[to Adultery.} APPEAL. Appeal F^R Quietnefs, and avoiding of Differences Ordi-feomthe between the temporal and ecclefiaftical Courts, nance Ecckfi- it is Ormred that no Appeal fhall be made from b? th< ^hothe ecclefiaftical Courts, to the Lieutenant orA0™* Tempo-Captain or to his Deputy, or to the Judges, or j^ rai Twenty four Keys, or any of them, for any Caufe Courts depending or determined in the ecclefiaftical Court which does merely concern the Government of the Church, Excommunications, Sufpcnfion^ Adultery, Fornication, Prophanation of God’s Name or the Sabbath, Curfing, Probate of Wills, granting Admihiftratjon, granting Tuition of Children’s Goods, merely fubtrafting of Tithes, or concerning Defamations determinable or pt-nifhable by the ecclefiaftical 1 ,aws : but this to be no Way prejudicial to the Privileges formerly enjoyed by the Soldiers, pr the Captain in Garri* fon. It is Enacted that all Perfons having any Ap-Ajpeals Pea^ or Caufe of Appeal from any Decree, Order Stat111* when to Sentence, Judgment, or Proceeding of any of the 173^ be pre- Courts or Magiftrates of this lflez or from the ^ Keys, to any fuperior Judge of Appeals, are ob-Bonds ^ec^ t0 Pre^cr their Appeal for Acceptance, and given enter into Bonds thereon, in Order to an tffeftual Profecution, within fix Months nsxr after the Decree, Sentence, Order, or Judgment is made, or given againft them : otherwife they, and all Perfons claiming under them, ro be excluded and barred from the Benefit of any Appeal for eyeraf;cr,. APPEAL/® Cafe ^/EXTRAVAGANTCOSTS ' [to Q/j,] 2# i' REPEAL /rem COURT of COMMON LAW. [5« Cw t of Common Law,] APPEAL/c« High-Bailiff’s Judgment, [cee Hi^b-Bailiff,] Appeal7«« jury’s verdict. [See ‘Travet/e.] APPRENTICE. . NO Perfon fhall take any Apprentice to learn tiTe uT a Science, or Trade, without fuch Apprentice, ^^ ferve with a fufficient Surety, do firft enter into Bond to 3 Tve the Lord’s Ufe. in the penal Sum of ten Rounds ^cais at Lead, to ferve for the Tend of five Years ; And when the faid Term is up fuch Apprentice e Ard rof is forbidden to take an Appren#ce for one Year to take afterwards; and that to be upon the Approba-pimice^00 °f three of the fame Faculty, of his Suffi-norto c ency to teach an Apprentice. Nor fhall he be many permitted to marry for one Year aftrr ferving Yearaf- IS Time, without the fpecial Licence of *he Or-terwards binary, or his Subftitutes, or fpiritual Officials fo without impowtred, to be obtained upon a true Certifi- j afpecialcate under the Hand of the Mmifter of the Pa- * if rilh, and two fufficient Neighbours whe* e fuch Tradefman dwelleth, of his Condition, Honefty. and Ability acccording to their Knowledge, and common Fame. And all this upon fevere Pu-nifhment on the Offender, and a tine to the Lord befides. ARCHDEACON. ARCHDEACO N............[^ Clergy] -arms. Ip is Enacted that it (hall and may be lawful ?rotef-for al! Land-holders and other Houfe-keepers, aTec k^ng PiOteftants, to purchafe themfelves Arms, ^Fire^and to keep a Fire-lock for the Protection ui Statute lacks themfelves and Families as well as the Defence 174^* of the Ifland upon all emergent Occafions, provided they always keep them clean, and in good Order at the Sight of the Captains of the Panfhes and towns, who for that Purpoie are to call them forth with their Arias, at ieail four Times in the Yea-, and. report their Condition to the Governor 5 and the laid Aims ihali co J° dc" and defeend to their Heirs and Af&gns in Place Curbs5 °^ thc anc,cnt Weapon* of War called Curbs, and be a full Satisfaction for the lame. A R R E S T. 1 ^JO ACtion of Arreft (ball be granted againft a landed Man, or Native within this Ifle, gtitute againft t0 hnprifon or hold him to Bail, unlefs he has i7^ Native* obtained the Governor’s Pafs, or that there is fome other juft Caufe to believe he defigns to go off the Ifland : And that any Perfon profecuted for ForFo- a foreign Debt by an A&ion of Arreft, (hall be bebts hc^ to bail only for his perfonal Appearance to e u fuch ACtion, and for the forth coming of what Effects he hath within this Ifland. For No Arreft for Debt or Contract without Spe-Z^a™ty fc»ll/e granted but upon the Affidav.t in s without Writing of the Complainant, or fome proper I777 Specialty Perfon in that Behalf, according to the beft of his Judgment and Belief, and not otherwife. Which ( 3* ) » Which Affidavit is to fpecify the Caufe of fuch [ Debt or Contraft; And that the fame is juft and StatuA reafonable, according to the Nature thereof : 1777 which Affidavit may be taken by the Clerk of the Rolls, or other Perfon duly authorized by the Court, or Magiftrate for that Purpofe. And fuch Affidavit (hall be annexed to, and filed with the Procefs of Arreft ; for the taking and filing thereof Seven-pence only is to be paid. S And Procefs of Arreft for Debts due by Special-7 ty may be granted without Affidavit, upon Sight of fuch Specialty, and a recital thereof in fuch Procefs.} Provided that if any Perfon who ffiall be liable to any civil Procefs for Debt, Contraft, or otherwife ffiall be about to leave the Ifland without fettling the fame, it ffiall be lawful for the Perfon likely to be agrieved, (taking with him Deten- a c'v^ Officer,) to ftop fuch Perfon, or caufe him tion for ^ be apprehended and detained for twenty four 24 hours Hours, and no longer, until a regular Procefs of Arreft be obtained, or the Matters adjufted. Crimi- AU Warrants to apprehend, and Commitments walCafesin criminal Cafes ffiall be iffued upon the Oath of the Profecutor or Perfon agrieved, fetting forth the Faft, or Caufe of Sufpicion ; or upon the Return or Verdift of a Jury duly authorized, and not otherwife. Falfe A°d in all Cafes where the Party imprifoned Injpn. ffiall think himfelf injured by frivolous or vexa* fonment tious Arrefts in civil Matters, or from Commitments in criminal Cafes, fuch Party may fue for Damages againft fuch Profecutor, by Aft ion at Common Law. [S« Ccur/.] ARREST of GOODS for RENT. £^e Rr#/.J ASSAULT. A S S A U L T.-[^ Battery.} 4 ———-------—-----—_ ASSETS. NO Houfes, or Lands either Quarterland, Mills, Lauds Cottages, or Intacks, purchafed or acquired, « M deemed ^a^ ^e deemed to be perfonal Effeds or Chat- 1^ Affetj ties, Co as to be confidered as Aflets in the Hands of Executors, or Subject to be claimed by Right of Confanguinity, or next of Kindred, in Exclu-fion of the Heir at Law. ATTORNEY. NO Perfon (hall plead in any Court, except in gtatwe Attor- his own Caufe, nor pradife as an Attorney j^y Meys to or Advocate, until he be firft commiflioned by ^r°mj the Governor, or lieutenant Governor, and hath 1 wnc taken the Government Oaths, and alfo the following Oath. “ /, A. B. do /wear that 1 will truly and honeftly demean myjelj in the Practice and Knowledge of an Attorney to the heft of nty Ability” Some ^° Attorney Ihall become Bail in any Suit B^°noT whatever, or carry on any Suit by Way of Cham-commit petty : that is, by making any Bargain beforeCham- hand, or during the Plea, to have Part of the P^y Subjed in Litigation, or any Reward thereof, either by his own Procurement, or by others; nor to carry oh any Suit at his own Charges upon the Event of the Caufe. /.nd if any be convid-ed of Co offending, he (ball be fined and imprifoned at the Difcretion of the Court, for any Time not exceeding three Months, and be ten- * dered incapable of pradifing the Law thereafter. And if any Champertor be difcovered upon the Trial of any Caufe, the Judge before whom the * fame ( Ji ) fame is depending, (hall remit him over to be tried; and all Trials for Champerty fhall be by a S&tvtB Jury, as in other criminal Cafes; and the Profecu- x777 tiou may be carried on cither at the Suit of the King, or the Party grieved. Provided that this Ad fhall not be underftood to prohibit Parents, near Relations, or Friends, from giving Aid or Afliftance to any Party in Suit, and that a Grant, or Bargain to have a Part of the Thing in Suit when recovered, to fatisfy a juft Debt or other , , Matter juftly owing, fhall not be Champerty. ^^ And any poor Peifon, deftitute of Relations ^u/crisan^ Friends, who fhall have any Caufe of Suit, (hall, upon Application to the Court be* fort which the Suit depends, or is to be commenced, and making Oath that he is not worth five Pounds, be allowed to employ any Attorney to carry on iuch Suit, who fhall be allowed to lay out his own Money in the Profccution thereof, to be paid upon the Event of the Caufe. And the Court, at the Requeft of fuch poor Penon is authorized to allow him to give the Attorney Security for his Trouble and Expences upon the Sub-jed in Difpute, by Deed of Sale, Mortgage, or Aflignment, to fuch Extent as the faid Court fhall think reafonable, and fuch Deed fhall ef-feduallv operate upon the Subjed when recovered. ATTORNEY’S FEES.----[to Fw.J t BAIL. ( 33 ) , BAIL. f^rr Arrejl,--Attorney ^-Breach of the Peace, Exchequer,—Felony. ] B A N N S.-—[i« Marriage ] Wife'. Debts Committing BARON ^ F E M E tF a Man wed a Wife that is in a Farm, her n 1 Debts to be paid by her Hufband. ^1429 If any Man forfeit his Goods to the Lord by ~ Felony, his Wife fhall not forfeit her Part of the ^“^ Goods 5 but if the. Woman forfeit in Felony, her ^.^of Hufband may forfake her, and her Deeds; and if the he docs not, but conceals her Dreds, he to Hand Council as deep in the Law as tht Woman. I^°4- Hufband When Hufband or Wife die the Debts tempo Bock of orWife ra| to be p^d out of rhc w^oie Goods/and the fp-Law# ying Debts fpiritual out of the Dead’s Part. Widow If any Man die the Wife to have one Half of Book of ^ 1 all his Goods moveable and immoveable, and C Roor-the Debts to be paid out of the Whole; and alfo”? Law the Wife to have one Half of the 1 cnement 157/ wherein fhc dwelleth during her Widowhood. Upon the Death of a Hufband before his Wife, one Half of the whole* Goods and Chatties, pur- Statute chaed L ands, and Premises, fhall become the ^'^ Property of his Widow, fubjeft to one Half of the Debts; but in, Cale rhe Wife dies before her Hufband and without IfTue, her Right in fuch Goods . and Chatties, L rds and Premifes, fhall ceale Wife an^ tieterm.ne, and the fame remain wholly to thc^ nay Hufband: Provided that.Nothing herein fhall* ^WiV Prcvcnt a Wife fr°m nuking a W7ill even in t^ C life 5 , life Time of her Hufbind in Favour of the law- Stm^ kCUk^ URie of her Body, or to her Hu (band, but l777 ofmar- to no other Perfon : Provided allo that thia ™£« Ad (hall not afFeft any Articles, Settlement, •^“k5 Centrad, Agreement, or other Deed, made, or to be made and executed, by or between any Party, or Panics married, either before or after their Inter mu riage, for the Settlement of the purchafed Lands nnd Premifrs, or perfonal Eflate of fuch Parties, or either of them, married or to be married, but Inch Deeds (hall have their full Effect according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof. WIFE eonvined ef ADULTERY. [See Adultery.] ------------i---------------------- bastard. JF any die Inteftate having no Children legiti- • .^ farerts mately begotten, but only bafe Children, then CufbA Baftard ^ Ordinary (hall make and ordain both of Fa- ary law ^ing *her and Mother’s Side, to be lawful Executors j tnuftate and the baft begotten to be rewarded of Charity, at the Difcretion of the Ordinary. * T^mpo- A Baftard can have no Goods except they be ral c f-given him by Will, or a? the Difcretion of the t°™*y Ordinary upon Charity, otherwife they can have ^ none by Law. 7 Pawnt» If any Man get a Maid or young Woman with Baftard ^^ before Marriage, and within a Year or two mar- ^oth h^ry her, if (he was never Hindered or de-.r/ing famed with anv other Man befoie, that Child be-gotten before Mai riace (hall have his father’s Corb and Farm according to the Law of the Land. A ReMa* lion of Deem-fieri and Ke/* ^ Qteftion I ting put by the Governor to the DeemHers and Keys upon the Meant t^ of the la/l written cufibmarn Law, they anjwer in the following ft ar ds. If a Maa get a Maid with Child, and then within a Year or two after doth marry her, wc ^rf judge them to be legitimate by our Law. [See Marriage ^.} BATTERY. pOR the Prevention of the frequent Complaints f . touching Batteries, and pafiionare Words pro- ^^ Cjnvia--j°^no the fame, It u OROtRiD that as often as Q^r ed of iuch Complaints fhall be made, and the Party nor Battery accufed convinc'd, by lawful Proof, by apparent Council fiicd bounds. Bloodfhed, or Confrfiion, fuch Perfons11^^1 j^ fur their violent Strokes, Battery, inhuman and 1 and evil Ufage, fhall, befiuts Punifhment and Charges •fPro- <>f Cure, be fined in ten Shillings to the Load’s ^lan*5 ^^’ ^>r^v^^y Time offending in that Nature: gaage and Inch Perfons as fhall be abufed, and Proof 13s 4d had againft them as before mentioned, for upbraiding and provoking Language, and inveterate Speeches cau mg, or that might caufe fuch Battery, wounding, or violent Strokes, or Ufage, to be fined thirteen Shillings and Four-pt nee to the Lord's Uk, befides Imprifonment. BEASTS. J^ O Perfon fhall take the Goods or Cattle of •-; Work- nother to ride, draw, work, or otherwife rm-^nce‘^ inga- ploy the fame without Confeot of the Owner, Gw Xvtha s (though he find them trerpafiing upon his im jor and *e Ground,) upon Pain of forfeit ng to the Lord forC>*ii every fuch Offence, being convicted thereof by ^ C 2 kfur®iuo#» Information, Adion, Plaint, or otherwife Jvy the Oaths of two iufficicnt ^untiles, the Sum of penalty three Shilings and tour pence, and to make A-1 mends to the Party grieved. If any Perfon puts forth Horfes, Mares, Cat-Trefpaf- rlp> Cai Wb, ^heep, Goats, wine, or Geefe, into ^^ High way the Highways, without the Content ot the Farmer or Tenant whole Lands adjoin to fuch Highways, and the Goods be tound without a Herd, or one looking to them, it Ihall be lawful for fuch Tenant or farmer to impound the fame in the next Pinfold. Every Perfon holding Lands within this Ifle fhail be obliged either by Herding, Fencing, or Statute ocher Means,’ to keep their Horfes, Cattle, Sheep,^^’ Goats, Swinr, and Geefe, and all other their Goods whatfoever, upon their own Lands without fuftenng them to trefpafs on their Neighbours. il If any Pinfold Avail be broken, or the Goods B™k- therein impounded by any Way or Means be ta-Pound ^en out °f fhe lame, the Owner of the Goods fo ibidem impounded, ihall be taken and reputed to be the Perfon who committed the Offence, and Avail be liable both to the Pinfold Fees and Trefpafs Money, by Order of the Governor, or Deemfter. Pound- , , * , , age Fees. If any Rattle, Horfes, Affes, Mules, Swine, Statute Sheep, Goats, or Geefe be found trefpaffing on 1774 indexed Grounds where the Fences are kept in fufficient Repair, and impounded for the fame from the. twenty fifth Day of March to the tenth DayofOdober, the Owner thereof fhail, before^ they are releafed, pav the Keeper of the Pinfold as follows : viz. I wo Shillings and Two-pence for every Head of Cattle, Horfes, Affes, Mules, and Swine : Eight-pence for every Head of Sheep and Goats, and four Pence for every Goofe ; and for fuch Cattle &c. impounded from the loth* Day of Oftober to the 35th Day of March, as , * follows: ( 37 ) * follows rjriz.—For every Head of Cattle, Hor«St»Wte fes, Affes, Mules, and Swine, one Shilling and Two pence : for every Head of Sheep and Goats Six-pence : and for. every Goofc Three-pence. And after the laft mentioned Rates, whenever • fuch Cattle &c. are impounded from off the Highway, adjoining Quarterlands, Baron Lands, or incloted Intacks, in any Part of the Year; which fcveral Sums are to be paid to the Keeper of the Pinfold, who after deducting the accuftom-ed Pinfold Fines and Fees, is to pay the Re-Oh- mainder to the Perlon bringing fuch Cattle &c. ftruaingto the Pinfold. And in Cafe any Perfon fhall obftrud, or pievent fuch Cattle, &c. found tref-paffing, from being impounded, fuch Perfon ihail, upon Convi&ion before a Deemiter, be adjudged to pay the full Trefpafs-money, and Dues aforelaid, befides the Sum of ten Shillings to be laid out on the Parifh Pinfold, and luch Cofts as fhall be awarded. [^ P inf old,\ ' MAIMING B EASTS.—-[See ^refpafs^ BEGGARS. yHAT no Man bring Beggars or Vagabonds into tne Country on Pain of forfeiting his Boar. Ordinance 1422. Statute It is Ordained that the Poor of this Ide fhall 166-not beg out of their own Parifh; and if any offend herein the Conftable, Coroner, or Lockman of fuch other Parifh is, for the firft Time, to warn None to fuch beggars back to their own Parifh, which if beg out thev negled or refufe, then are they to be com-oftheir pelled and whipped to their own Parifh. And tWI*jmda- mere hence or Boundary, anv Perlons inrerefted gialr,. ^ in fuch Boundary being defirous tn have a fufficient i7^ Stone ( 40*) Stone Wall erected in lieu thereof, Hi all apply t® their Neighbour to join with them in making luchStnt^ ftone wall Boundary : and in cafe Rich Neighbour 177 (hall not agree co bear an equal Share of the Ex-pence, or otherwife amicably agree about the fame, the perfons wanting fuch Stone wall to beereded may apply to a Deemfter for his Authority to im-pannel and fwear a Jury of four of the moft judicious Men within the Sheading to view the infufficient Boundary, and to eftimate and report according to the beft of their Judgment, not only what Sum will be fufficient to put the fame into ftatutable Repair, but alfo what Sum will be fufficient to keep the fame in fuch Repair for ten Years next following ; and thereupon it (hall be lawful for fuch Decmfter on fuch Report to grant Judgment and Execution againft fuchdif-agreeing Par tv for one Moiety of the Sums fo reported : the amount of which Moiety (hall be paid in the whole or in fuch parts and Proportions and at fuch Times as to the Deemfter (hall appear juft and reafonable, according to the Circum-Rances of the Cafej and the Party fo applying upon receiving the fame, or fuch Part or Portion thereof as (hall be adjudged him as aforefaid, jj (hall, with all convenient Speed, erect a Stone and 1 Wall at the leaft two Feet four Inches broad in the Breadth Foundation, five Feer in the Perpendicular height, and fixteen Inches broad at the Top at fuch height, together with proper Coping, or projecting Stones to compleat the fame. And in cafe the faid old Boundary be crooked, Boun- and that the parties fhall not agree upon a irookeddirc& Line in Order to make the faid Boundary may be mofe compleat and lefs expensive, then either fbraight-of the faid Parties may apply ro a Deemfter who •^ Ihall order the Commiffioners of Drains at the Expence of the Parties to view and furvey the faid Boundary and Premifes, and upon duly confidcnn# #onfi dering the Quantity and Quality of the Statute Ground, fhall fettle the Difference between the 1^ Parties, and afcertain the new Boundary. And in like manner the faid Commiflioners are authorized and direded to view, fhorten, afcertain, and fix all other Boundaries whatfoever, which fhall be referred to and come before them in Manner aforefaid And that the faid ftone wall and other Boundaries fixed by the laid Commif-fioners, and all other Boundaries which have been or nr ay ke hefted by Content of Parties, fhall be deemed and adjudged, repaired, and amci.d- •d as the true and lawful Boundary for ever. BOUNDARY between LORD’S CLOSES, jlnd other Lands.—[Set Lord.] BREACH of the PEACE. UPON flagrant Breaches of the Peace, open Riots, and Difturbances, or other notorious etatnte Flagrant Mildemeanors, it fhall be lawful for the Gover- 1736 ^r^ nor* or anV °^ ^e Officers or Deemfters, or if Peace Occafion fhall require, for the Conftables of Garrifons, or Commanders of Forts in their re-fpedive Towns, to commit the Offender or Offenders, who fhall be held to Bail by Order from the Governor, to anfwer and ftand Trial at fuch Time as fhall be appointed :•—but fuch Trial not to be delayed, but to be brought on with or dan*a^ P^lhble Speed. Provided that in Cafe of <^«ous Murder being committed, or any mortal, vio-Wound lent, or def perate Stroke, or Wound given, whereby any Perlon’s Life is in immediate Danger, the Offender is not to be admitted to Bail, but to remain in Goal to undergo his Trial, according to th# Courfe of the Law j and that ( 42 ) this Aft (hail not reftrain the Governor, or Statute Deemfter from* proceeding upon the Law touch- ^^ ing Battery and Provocation, without Juries, as formerly. ^ ■ ------------—---------------------, BRIBE R Y#-^-[to Jury,—Officers.} ----------------—--------------------- BUGGERY. *pHAT any Perfon committing or fulpefted of committing fuch Crime with any Manner of Beaft, the Cafe (hall firft have and receive ^^^ buggery Examination in the fpiritual Court, according 1' *5 * capital to Matters of Rape, Sorcery, and the like ; and Crime afterwards in the temporal Court, by Indift-< ment and Arraignment, as in the Cafe of Felo- ny, or other notorious Crimes, if the fpiritual Court fo return the fame. And if the Malefaftor be found guilty, then Sentence of Death to pafs againft him, and to forfeit Life and Limb at the pleafure of the Lord, and likewife all his Eftates, Lands, Goods, and Chatties, as in the Cafe of Felony, or other notorious Crimes. [^ Felony^ CALENDAR. Stik T^E ^n^s according to the new Calendar eftablilh- eftablifhed and to be obferved in this Ifland. All Fairs depending upon the moveable Feafts Fairs t0 ^e holden according to the new Calendar , but fuch Fairs as have been fixed to certain no- L minal Days of the Month, or depend upon the beginning of any certain Day of any Month, and Tynwald^6 Tynwald Court ufually held w’th the Fair on the Feaft of St. John the Baptift, at which the feveral Coroners were and hereafter arc intended ., . - . ' by by this Aft to be chofen and fworn; and the Servants Times of hiring, giving Warning, and difcharg- ^53’ ing of Servants (hall be held and done upon the fame natural Days on wlUcKthey would have happened in Cafe this Aft^d^ot been made. . Poflef- And whereas according todivers Ufages with-fion of in this Me, the enterin^upigmthe Poffefiion of Lands Lands and Houfes either 'e Recoveries of &c‘ Titles, or by fetting and letting or opening of Grounds for Pafture and other Purpofes, are often, on particular nominal Days and Times in the Tear, and on the other Hand the Owners of fuch Lands and Houfes on the Determination of fuch Settings, and of the letting of Paftures have a Right to enter upon, (but up, and inclofe the fame for their own Ufe ; And there is, in many other Indances, a temporary and diftinft Property veiled in different Perfons, in and to fuch Lands and Houfes, according to certain > nominal Days and Times in the Year. And whereas the anticipating the faid Days and Times, .by eleven Days, according to the new Calendar might be attended with Inconvenience, It is therefore' Provided that the Times and Days aforefaid (hall be obferved according to the old Stile, that is to fay, eleven Days later than the fame would have happened according to the new Stile. Lord’s And. that this Aft (hall not accelerate or alter ^nts the accuftomed Times of paying the Lord^s chief Rents, Fines, or other Dues whatfoever. CARRIAGES. WHERFAS bv the ancient Laws of this Ifland the Tenants and Inhabitants thereof are and Statute have been accuftomed to do their Duties and 1645 Service to the Lord and his Anceftors at the building ( 44 ) butting or repairing of his Forts or Houfes in Swwtt the Ifland, by the Service of themfelves in Per- ^ fon, or by the Service of fome fufficient and able l abourer in his or their Behalf, fit for the Work in Hand : contrary to which many and divers of the Farmers and Tenants of the better Sort ufual-ly lend Boys and Children to fuch Work, by Tvleans whereof the Burden lies upon the poor People, who are conftrained to ferve in their own Perlons, and fuch Works are neglected or not well performed, notwithftanding that they are for the Honour and Safety of the Country : It is. now therefore Ordered and Enacted that every Farmer, Tenant, and Inhabitant of this Ifland fo negleding to do fuch Dirty or Duties in hit or their own Perfon, or Perfons, or in Default thereof fhall not fail to fend fome able and fufficient Labourer in his Stead : he or they fo offending fhall, for every Time, forfeit Six-pence to the Lord upon the Prefentment of the Officer, or Officers that (hall be put in Charge with fuch Works.-—••[^ ^ ^f Settlement J CASTLE - MAZE. THAT a Caftle Maze be paid out of five The Maze of Herrings in a Boat taken j and half o,^ Mature a Maze out of two Maze and a half gotten in a nance hr thereof Boat as. oft as they go to Sea and gotten fo :— the Be-and that is our Law, the Cuftom and Ufage. And the Lord to pay Six pence for a Maze there- £iatute of : Provided that the Bringers of the firfl: Book Maze fhall for the Same have three Shillings and Date Four-pence. defaced All per- ^ every Herring- fi(hing on the Coaft of Man, tons to all Manner of Perfons whetherfoever they be, Ordi-pay it Barons, Officers, or Soldiers, to pay the Caftle nance Maze and Cuftoms, as hath been heretofore ufed. 15 * Note,—* Note t—the Cafle-Maze bail* of late Years, been commuted for a yearly Payment tn Money) which bears tie Name of Herring Cuf-tom, and hath been appropriated by an Art of the Prittjh Parliament to the kepairs of the Harbours of the Ifland. The Laws relating to Cafile-Maze are incited for the Purpofe of throwing a Light upon the Nature ana Origin of this Cujlom* CHAMPER! Y.—[^ Attorney.] CHANCER Y.—[^ Cwt ] CHILDREN. • JN Cafe a Man dieth inteftate, the Bifhop or dying his Vicars General (hall order his Children le- Sp ^^ midiaie gitimately begotten to be jointly Executors. Alfo if any make their Tc Ramen t and leave . ^ot not Six-pence Legacy to their Children unmar- Tf WT 6dJcgf- ried> legitimately begotten, of the Value there- rtom$u’ of of, then the Ordinary may make him or her Exe* 1577 cutor with the Reft. A man having married two Wives, and hav-Children ing Children by the firft Wife, being under Age, Ordi_ 14 years l^c father is bound to bring them up until four- nance old teen Years of Age, without taking any Part of 1525 the Goods by the Mother ; and then he may turn them away giving them the laid Goods. If either Father or Mother depart this Life having Children, if the faid Children be of Years Book of of Difcrction, that is fourteen Years, they mayfp.Cuf-divide tom* divide Goods either with Father Or Mother, and repair to whom they will. If there be but one Child between Man and f^em r^YeanWife, and the Father die, the Father’s Kindred (hall have the Cutlody of the Child and his Goods until fourteen Years of Age, except the Father order orherwife by his Will ; then that to be obferved. And if there be two Children, then the Mother to have one that is the elded. And if the Mother die before the Child comes to Years of Difcretion, (he may leave the Cuftody of the faid Child to whom (he will, and the next of Kin of the Father’s Side and Mother’s Side Supervifois. If any Man, having but one Child, dieth, the next-of Kin of the Father’s Side fhall have the T^°' Cuftody of the Child and his Goods till fourteen r\oms Years of Age, and then he may go to whom he 1577 pleafeth. And if the Child die under fourteen Years of Age, then the faid Goods to come to the next of Kin upon the Father’s Side legitimately begotten. And if the Goods come bv the Mother’s Side, then the next of Kin by the Mother’s Side to have it. If there be two Children then the Father’s Side to have the youngeO, and the other Kindred to. have the eldeft and his Goods. Children entering upon their Goods and Liv-Vnckr ^'^ at f°uneen Years of Age, fhall not be at Statute ax Years f ^erty to make Sale or difpofe of the fame (un- 16*# kfs they be enforced through Neceflity,) before they attain to the Age of twenty one Years, and that made known to the Captain and the Reft of the Officers. wmink^ Whereas it is complained that Children and ting Poor Ferfons not of Ability to make Satisfaction, Statute Tro- cut Grafs and Corn in the Lands of other 1665 paffts Perfons, dig, pull, and carry away Ling, and Turf ( 47 ) Turf in others’ rented Premifes, dig, and take Statute, away Timber out of the Curraghs, and put Hor- 16^ fes or Cattle into Neighbours’ Corn and Grafs in the night Time, and * take them out before Morning : It is therefore Ordered that as often as Children, or poor Perfons offend in that Kind, and be thereof lawfully convicted by fufficient or probable Teftimony, they (hall be whipped, or otherwife punifhed at the Difcretion ot the Governor and Officers according to their Condition and Age. • Enter- ■ . . . . taining No Perfon fhall entice, inveigle, countenance, Status Children and entertain any Servants ax unfeaionable 1667 femnu Times ; for chat it hath been accuftomed to be a great Motive to convey and purloin their Mailer’s Goods, and fo bring fuch Servants into a Courfe of pilfering, and wafting their Wages: It is therefore Ordered that whefoever fhall entertain Servants/ or Children, in that Kind, fhall (if of ability,) for the firft Offence be fined ; for the fecund be fined and punifhed* befides making Reftitution to the Party grieved ; and for the third Offence be proceeded againft as the Receivers and Abettors of Felony, according to the Statute of Pilferies, if the Goods purloined and received amount to the Value of Six-pence Half-penny, and that by Indictment and Arraignment, and the Servant to be punifhed at Difcretion ; and to give Security for his honeft Dealing in Future. All Children and Servants unconfirmed, of fuch a Divifion of the Parifh as the Miniffer ihall Statute ^andrCn aPP°'nt> (which fhall be at leaft a fourth Part 1704 fcrvants thereof,) fhall eonffandy come to evening to attend Prayers, to be intruded in the Chriftian Re-^lvhnc ligion; at which Time every Re&or, Vicar, and crvice Curate fhall employ, at lead, half an Hour in their Inftrudion in the Chui ch Catechifm. . And ( 48 ) And all Parents and Mailers who (hall be ob- Statute ferzed by the Ignorance of their Servants and I7°+ Children to be grofsiy wanting in their Duty, in not inftructing them, fhall be feverely punifhed. And the Minifter and Wardens (hall keep a Catalogue of fuch as are not confirmed, and pre-fent thofe that are abfent without urgent Caufe, who fhall be fined Two-pence the firft Sunday they abfent, Four-pence the fecond, and Sixpence the third : in which Cafe the Parents and Maders are anfwerable for the Children and Servants, uplefs it appears to be the Servants’ own Fault. Children And all Perfons (hall fend their Children as to be f°on as they are capable of receiving Indrucl on, fent to to fome petty School to continue there until fchool t]iey can reaJ Englifh diftmclly, ualefs the Parents give a juft Caufe to excufe th?mfelves, approved of by the Ordinary in open Court. And Parents negleding fo to do, fhall, upon Prefentment by the Minifter and Churchwardens, or Chapter Queft, be fined one Shilling per (garter to the Uleof the Schoolmafter; who may refufe to teach the Children that do not come conftantly to School, unlefs for fuch Caufe as fhall be approved of by the Minifter of the Parifh ; and then the Parents fhall be fined as if they did altogether refufe to fend the (aid Children to School. And the Schoolmafters fhall have over and above their Salaries already School- allowed, Six-pence quarterly from the Parents mailers of every Child that (hall be taught to read Eng-Xmolu- ji^^ anj Nine-pence quarterly from fuch as arc mcnL taught to write : which Sums being refufed, the Sumner fhall be ordered to require punctual Payment within fourteen Davs : and upon Default hereof they are to be committed till they fubmit to Law. But when the Parents or Relations are poor, and not able to pay as aforefaid, and ( 49 ) this certified by the Minifter and Church-war- dens to the Ordinary, fuch Children to be taught Statute • gratis. And whereas fome of the poorer bort l^ may have juft Caufe to keep their Children at Home for fcveral Weeks in the Summer and Harveft, fuch fhall not be ^able to the Penalties aforefaid, provided they do, and they are hereby required to fend fuch Children during fuch their Abfence from’School, every third Sunday to the panlh Church, at leaft an 1 lour before evening Service, there to be taught by the Schoolmafter, to prevent lofing their Learning. And if any Schoolmafter negied his Duty, and Complaint be made and proved, he (hall be difeharged, and another placed in his Stead at the Difcretion of the Ordinary. And every Re dor, Vicar, or Vicar &c.Curate, fhall, the firft Week of every Quarter, io vifit vifit the petty School, and take an Account of the khouf improvement of every Child, to be produced as often as the Ordinary fhall call for it. The Minifter, Church-wardens, and Chapter Pre*ent‘ Queft fhall, the laft Sunday in every Month after be made evening Prayers, fet down the Names of all Monthly fuch as without juft Caufe abfent from Church; and of Parents and Mailers who negled to fend their Children and Servants to be catechifed, and of Parents and Guardians who fend not their Children to School, and all other Matters, they are, by their Oachs, bound to prefent: the Articles of Vifitation are to be read to them at • every fuch Meeting; and this to be done under Pain of ecclefiaftical Cenfures# CHILDRENJcekingGoQ&JecureduntLr Pledges. [^ ^dmimjiralor.} G CHILDREN Children Illegitimate.—[^ Sajiard.^ [•^e Gurdian^-fatcftate.] CHURCH. Uy *pHE Parifhioners aft bound to keep up and g wwm maintain the Body of the Church within and cu|t9m. repaired without, with all Ornaments, Books, and other ary law# Ncceflaries ; and the Parfon is bound to keep in good Order the Chancel. bpfe tf any Parfon, Vicar, of thirds or Penfion, do j^^ depart and no other be inflated within fix Months from Eafter next enfuing Jus Departure, the Bifhop or Ordinary (hall take it in his Lapfe if it be not in the Gift of the Lord of the Ifland. 4 KIRK PATRICK CHURCH. yHE Parcel of Land given by Capt. Silvester Radcliff and Charles his Son, for making a Church and Church-yard in the Parifh of Kirk Patrick, is as follows :—From the Corner of Kill Crow-glebe along the Highway, forty three Yards :—from thence eaftward fifty fix Yards : —from thence fouchward thirty- fix Yards:— and from thence back, and weft ward to the Highway, fifry nine Yards, as bv a Note fub-joined to the Articles of Agreement between the Bifhop and the Parifhioners of Kirk Patrick, dated 13th June 1710, appears. And it is Enacted that the faid Inftrument be confirmed, and tnat all Perlons concerned be 171^ bound thereby, and that the Parifhioners of Kirk Patrick be for ever freed from all Charges and Afleflments towards the Repair of the Church or Chapel of St. Peter’s, in Peel : Provided that this Ad do not prejudice Mr ( 5' ) Mn Matthias Curphey, the lawful Vicar of Kirk. German and Kirk Patrick. KIRK LON AN CHURCH. JHE Church-wardens and four fufficient Men ^^ of the Panlh as Affiftants, are authorized to 173$ confider and conclude upon a general Aflefiment of the Panffi: viz. after the Rate of twenty Shillings per Quarterland and no more5 and the Intacks and Mills in Proportion, according co their Value as ufual : which with the voluntary Contributions towards the Work, arc to be laid out in building a new Church on a Parcel of Land called Bollice-Veen, of eighteen Yards long, and eighteen Feet broad, according to the Directions of the Biffiop. And rhe faid new Church and Church-yard when compleated and confecrated, Hull be called and eneemed the Pariffi Church and Church-yard of Kirk Lonan to all Intents and Purpofes, and be exempt from all temporal Rents and Services whatfoever. And the Remainder of the faid Premifes to be chargeable w.th the whole thereof as ufual* re-ferving to the Parilhioners their ancient .Right and Place of burying in the old Church or Church-yard, KIRK BRADDAN CHURf H. jT is enacted that it (hall be lawful for the Lord Biffiop to give in Exchange, the prefent Glebe gutae Lands, Vicarage Houfe, Out-houses and Gardens 174a and Appurtenances, belonging to the Pariffi Church of Kirk Braddan or fuch Part thereof as his Lordffiip with the Advice of the Vicar, War- : ' dens, and principal Inhabitants of the faid Pariffi, ffiall . ( 52 ) /hall fee proper, for an Equivalent in Lands from Strute Cap • Edward Fletcher, for the Purpofc of a x74a Glebe, Vicarage Houfe, and other neceffary Conveniences, for the conftant Refi lence of the Vicar; and that fuch Deeds as (hill be executed for that Purpofc be for ever binding. Refervtng the Lord’s Rents, Fines, Boons, Suits and Services, and other Dues, to be fixed and fufficiently fecured by the Parties, to be the Approbation of the Governor and Officers in the laid Deeds, KIRK ARBORY CHURCH. IT is Enacted that it fhall be lawful for the St{rtm Vicar and Wardens of Kirk Arbory to ereft a ^^ new Church at the North-fide of the old Church and within the Church-yard, and to lay out charitable Contributions thereon, and then to levy a general AAflefTmenR according to the Proportions formerly tiled in the Parifh: and the Paid Church when compleated and ennfecrated fhall be called and efteemed the Parifh Church of Kirk Arbory to all Intents and Purpoles, and no Perlon upon any Pretence whatever fhall carufe any Corple to be interred in the Body of the faid Church. CHURCH CENSURES. Offender J^ anv ?crf°n fhall incur the Cenfures of the iciapfmg Church, and having done Penance fhall after- Statute wards incur the fame Cenfures, he fhall not be '^ admitted to do Penance again fas has been formerly accuftomed,) until the Church be fully fatufied of his fincere Repentance, during which Time he fhall not prefume to come within the Church, but be obliged to ftand in a decent Manner at the Church-door every Sunday and Holiday, ( 53 3 Holiday, the whole Time of morning and evening ^^ Service, until by his penitent Behaviour and ’^ other Infantes of fober Living, he dtferves an ’ procures a Certificate from the Minirter, Chore; wardens, and fome of the fubereft Men in tl Pardh, to the Sausfa&ion of the Ordinary, whic if he does not io deferve and procure withi Excom-three Months, the Church (hall proceed t ^unica- Excommunication. And during thefe Proceed ^h ings the Governor (hall be applied to not to permit him to kave the I (land: and this being a Matter of very great Importance, the Minifier and Church-wardens (hall fee it performed under Penalty of the fevered ecckfiaftical Cenfures. And whenever any daring Offender (hall be an continue fo obilinate as to incur Excommunic non, the Pallor (hall aff dionately exhort 1 Parishioners not to converfe with h m on Pt of being Partaker with him in his Sin 2 Punfihmcnt. [See Clergy ] CLERGY. Emble ^ ^ Executors or Afligns of theBifhop, Arch- q ♦ mwitsC deacon, oranv Parlon, Vicar. Curate, or Clerk Cuftort do low any of the Glebe-Land before Eafter-day, ary La they (hall have ail fuch Corn as is (own, with the Profit thereof, ami (hall be at Liberty to reao the laid Corn and carry it away. And if either Bilhop, Archdeacon, Fan Parfon, or Vicar having Leafes, do depart Life after twelve o’Clock on Eaftcr-day, t Executors or Affigns, have ever been accuftoi*. to have and enjoy all the Profits of that Year until Eafter-day next enfuing, and (hall find and fee the Cure ferved and difeharged. Articles delivered 24th. June 1594, at the Tynwald then holden, to the Vicars General, by 3 ( 54 ) the Captain of this Ifle; which Articles arc to be inquired of at next Confiftory Court. Firft) That they impannel in the fweral Shead- j^^ ings, Jurors to inquire into all Offences committed againft the fpiritual Laws j and the fame Jurors to be chofen of fuch as be of beft Ability Prefent to difchirge the fame* That they inquire and mem prefent all Adulterers, Fornicators, Bialphcmcrs, Drunkards, and fuch like. That they inquire and prefent all fuch as carry Bells or Banners before the Dead ; or pray upon the Graves of the Dead : and all fuch as keep any Market upon the Sabbath-dav, or otherwife profane the fame. Alfo any Perfon or Perfons that refufe to come to the Church to hear divine Service, or to receive the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. Every Redpr, Vicar, and Curate, (hall firft privately and then publicly adm»ni(h fuch Per-wMis°^ons as he ^a^ obferve to be diforderly Livers, gutlte orderly ^'^ ^iCh as W*H not bv this Means be reclaimed, L^ Liven may be hindered from coming to the Lord’s Table, and being presented, may be Excommunicated ; and if any Minifter knowingly admit fuch Perfons to the holy Sacrament, whofe Lives are blemifhed with the Vices of Drun-kenefs, Tipling, Swearing, profaning the Lord’s Day, quarreling, Fornication, or any other Crime by which the Chriftian Religion is difhonored, before fuch Perfons have publicly acknowledged their Faults, andfolrmnly promifrd Amendment, the Minifter fo off-nding ihall be liable to fevere ecclcfuftical Ccnfure. Anv Redor or Vicar who (hall hereaQer ereft, or build, or make anv Addition to, or repair any Statut ^e Dwelling-froufe or Out-houfe, upon any Church I7J| Glebe Glebe, to be fir, convenient, and durable for him-felf and Succeffors, fuch Rcftor or Vicar or his Executors, of Adminiftrators, Ihall be intitled to * have have and receive from his next immediate Succef- Statute for, or his Executors or Adminifirators, two third x734 Parts of whatever Sums fhall be really and truly expended by him on fuch Buildings and 1m-piovements(neceflary yearly Reparations except-cd,) provided hegiveajuft and fair Account of the Money fo difburfed by him, upon Oath, to a Jury of four fufficient Men, to be appointed by Pro-cefs from the Bifhop, or Arc! deacon, and fworn on the Premifes tor that Purpofe: and their Return upon the fame with the Bill of Difburfe-ments fo given upon Oath, to be regiftered for the Satisfaction of all Perlons concerned: and fuch Succeffori or his Executor, fo paying the two thirds of fuch Difburfements, fhall be intitled to receive a Moiety thereof: viz. a third Part of the whole Difburfements from his next Succefibr or his Executors, or Adminifirators, who fhall al- ^ fo be obliged to pay the fame within one Year, to be accounted from Eafter, after the Death or Removal of fuch PredecefTor. And the faid Sums fhall be recoverable in the ecclefiaftical Courts, and a Moiety of the Rents and Profits of the Benefice to be laid under Sequeftration fo as to be refponfible for the fame. And to prevent Dilapidations, if any Perfcn fhall afterwards fuffer fuch Buildings to go to decay for want of ne* cefTary Repairs, he fhall be accountable for the fame to his SucccfTors and liable to make Satis-fadion at the Eftimation of four fworn Men to be appointed in Manner aforefaid, and the fame to be laid out in the Repairs of the faid Buildings. Every Rcdor, Vicar, and Curate, or their Ex-a°CataP ccutors or Adminifirators, fhall be accountable Statute logueoffor fuch Books as are or fhall be given to 1734* the Pa-the fevcral Parifhes or the full Value of the * fame. And every Rt&or, Vicar, or Curate, 08 fhall immediately after his Induction, or Licence, make a new Catalogue of all the Books belonging to their refpedive Churches, and fhall deliver the --me to the Epifcopal Regifter, to the End j they mav be accounted for as aforefaid. statute * *734 [to Children—Church Ceu/ureSi—Curate,— ?ourt EccE/ia/Hcal,—Marriage Abi^^^Gn-iefi^ ence.'} C L E R K.——-[to Pari/h-clerk ] CLERK cf the RO LLS.-[to Fees] C L 1 E N T.-----[to attorney.] COIN. pORASMUCH as certain Perfons did coin and utter faife Monies, called Ducketoons or of Co«n- fome other Stamps in bale Metal, as Pewter and terfeiuRgthe like, It is Enacted that if any Perlon fhall Statute Coin hereafter falfify, for ge and counterfeit fuch current l6^6 Money, knowing the lame to be faife or counterfeit, and do merchandize or make Payment thereof in Deceit of this Country and People, and be thereof lawfully convicted according to the Courfe of Trial for 1 ife ano Death, fuch Perfons fhall be deemed and adjudged to be in the Cale of High-Treafon, and lor the famr fhall forfeit Life, Lands, Goods, and Chattels to the Lord, as in Cafes of other Treaions they ufed to do. Whereas the Lord of this Ifle hath fent over three Hundred Pounds in Copper Pence, and two Hundred Pounds in Copper Half-pence, It is therefore publicly proclaimed upon the Tynwald Tynwald, that the faid Copper Pence and Half-Pence, (hall at all times be current in this Ifle. Statute 1 •And no Perfon (hall after this Aft be obliged to take any other Copper or Brafs Money what-foever : And it any Perfon (hall be convifted of a counterfeiting the faid Pence and Half-Pence,— feiiing bringing into this Ifle or uttering, or paying a-ny of the faid counterfeit Pence and Half-Pence, knowing them to be counterfeit, fuch Perfon fhall forfeit and be. punifhed after fyeh Manner as is declared by an Aft palfed in the Year 1646 : And the better to find out whether there be any fuch Counterfeits, It is Ordered that on the fe-cond Thurfday in June in every Year, all Per-fons who have any of the faid Copper Pence and Half-pence (hall bring in the fame to the Captains of the refpeftive Parishes to be counted, and an Account thereof to be returned by the faid Captains to the Governor or Receiver : And any Perfon ncglefting to bring in fuch Pence and Half-pence as aforefaid, (hall be fined twenty Shillings, befides other Punifhment as the Cafe (hall demerit. [A fimilar Aft palfed in 1757, to make current two Hundred and fifty Pounds in Copper Pence, and one Hundred and fifty Pounds in Copper Half-Pence, which were fent to the Ifland by Ja^es, Duki of Atholl, then L ord thereof. In which Aft it h provided that the fame (hall not prejudice the Currency of the Coinage eftablifh-cd by the foregoing Aft of 1733.] COMMISSIONERS.—[^rDrains.} COMMITMENT. See Arreftr—Felonj>—Breach cf the Peace. H COMMITTEE* ( 5« ) C O M M I T T E E.—[to Highways] COMMON LAW. ([See Court of Common Law. ] COMMONS. Unrented J^O Perfon fhall hold any of the Lord’s Wades or Commons of this Land unrented, but that Statute whofoever holdeth the fame and it unrented, 1 45 he fliall pay the Value thereof. Not to I* *s Ordered that no Perfon go to the Moun- Ordi-be fre- tains or Commons of this Ifle, after the Hour of ^q^ qua tei five o’Clock in the Afternoon, or before Day in the lv*rnOr u^a.Morning, for the carrying of any Turf, or Ling, c>u*cl time^ f°r that Complaint is made that fome do carry and Keys away their Neighbours* Turf and Ling at fuch 1661 unfeaionable Times. Wherein if any offend in Future, they fhall be feverely fined and punifhed as by the Court fhall be thought fit. [^ Court of Common Law,—Fore tier,—Game.] COMPOUNDING FELONY. [See Felony.] CONFIRMATION. When any Redor, Vicar, or Curate, fhall have statute any Number of Perfons under twenty Years 1704 of Age in his Parifh fit to be confirmedj he fhall give give the Bifhop Notice thereof, and a Lift of their S^M Names, and (hall fuffer none to offer, themfel/es 1'°^| to be confirmed, but fuch as he has before in-ftru&ed to anfwer in the neceffary Part of the Chnftian Knowledge. \ And no Perfon (hall be admitted to die Sacrament till he has firft been comfirmed by the Bifhop, or in Cafe of his Lordfhip’s Indifpofition, to bring a Certificate from the Archdeacon or Vicar General, that he is, qualified to be confit med. ——---:-----I CONSTABLE. His Fees.—[5>e Fees '] [&e Breach of the Peace.] C O N T E M P T.-—[^G«r/.J CONVOCATION. When A Convocation of the Bifhop and Clergy of this and Diocefc, (hall be held yearly, at the Bifhop’s Statute where to Chapel, on Thurfdav in Whitfun-Week, if his 1704 ^c held Lord (hip be in the I Hand, or as foon as conveni- ent after his Return. CORDS. Corbs ^JfHERE ought to be Corbs pertaining to a for a Ma» Man, as it his Father have a Pan, the Son to Ordi-have it, or elie his beft Jack and Sallet * Fow ^nc« . and Arrows, Sword, and Buckler, his beft Board, '"‘T^J H2 and’^l * Thefe are commuted by Statute 1748, lot the modern Weapon# of War.——[Sr# Arms.'] ( 60 ) and beft Stool, his Coulter, and Rackentree, his beft Cup, if it be Wood, and bound with Silver, and gilt, his beft Cheft. I For a For a Woman, the beft Wheel, and Cards, jbide^ IWoman Rackentree, a Sack, or elfc a Manks Spadr, the beft Bead of Jet or Amber, the beft Broach, the beft Crofs, the beft Pot or Pan. I Corbs 1° Cafe of Forfeiture of Goods for Felony, forfeited the Corbs which fhould pertain to the Heir, the Coroner is to have. * In Cafe any do bequeath a Corb or Heir- Spiritual tfueathed ^00m ^or a legacy, the fame fhall not be given C^oms ■ but the Value thereof at Difcrction. No Cotterels or Artificers fhall be liable to Statute pay Corbs ; but they fhall be all bequeathable ^29 as other Goods. _ CORONER. His Duty without jn Points of Treafon, Felony, or for Surety of Ont-a War- ^g pcacc> with many other Things that belong nance rant to his Office, he ought to arreft, and do thole When to by Virtue of his Office without Warrant. poinlfd. At the next Court after Mid rummer, the Co- statute roners to be appointed, and their Names enteied 1430 in the Rolls of the Court, with the Sum that they take to ferve. Jn°Office And fora (much as Coroners, again ft the Law, q^ bat on? ftand in Office two or three Years together, nance year which puts them to great Value, to the Deftruc- 1424 tion of the Commonality, It is ordained ♦ that rhe Coroners ftand in Office but one Year, and that they take no Inqueft but twice in the Year, by the Commandment of the Lieutenant, , in open Court, by Inqueft fworn before the Deemfter, and there to be recorded, and tha the^ ( 61 ) they arreft no Man without a Warrant, fave for Trcafon, Felony, or Breach of the Peace. The Coroner ought to have no Cuftotns of Statt[# Land- any Man, but of him that beareth Rent to the ^l Holders Lord, and if it be a Penny Rent, he fhall pay die Coroner his Duty, (the Moar to be free of all Manner of Cuftoms,) Four-pence fhall be paL yearly out of every Quarterland, to the Cornier, and hoever holds no Quarterly-* but only Cottages and Intacks, Aad pay a Penny if he hold but three Shillings and Four-pence Rent, and above three Shillings and Four-pence Rent, Two-pence and no more. No Coroner fhall fight or take Quarrel in iyd Hand, nor be Advocate in any Place during his Office, but in the Lord’s Caules. It is Ordered that the ancient Law for con- Statute douing Coroners in Office but one Year, be ^^ revived. Coroner ne^lefling bis Duty to be prefected by the Great Inqueft.—[^ Court of Common Law.] —His Duty and Fees upon Executions.— [5^ Execution.] ----His D^t^and Fees with Refped t* Felo»-[^ Felon.] [^ Fodder-Jury,---Highway,---Licence. C OSTS. fwt WITNESSES (hall have Cofts allowed them, neffes. (fave in the Lord’s Caufes) in Manner fol-Ger.de- 'owing:—Every Perfon of the Degree of a Gen- Statute man tieman or Gentlewoman, that (hall be charged >75$ as a Witnefs before any Court, Magiftrate, or Minifter of Juftice, fhall, upon his or her Ap- Statnu pearance, be allowed Six-pence for every Parilh l^ through which he or flic fhall be obliged to travel, fo as that the fame do not exceed two Shillings and Six pence in the Whole. Every Perlon Tradef °^^e Oegreeof a Fradefman, fhall upon Appear-maa ^^ as aforefaid, be allowed for Lofs of Time E’o’^^nce, betides Two-pence for every Parr th he thill be ^Ijged to go through fo as that th whole does not exceed one Shilling and Six-per *, z and every Woman in the fame Degree to be allowed Two-pence a Parifh as aforefaid. Every Labourer labouring Man fhall be allowed Four-pence for Lofs of Time and a Penny a Parifh ; and every Woman in the fame Degree Twopence a Parifh. Degrees or Denominations of the WicntlTes to be regulated at the Difcretion of the Court before whom the Caufe depends, and the Charges to be paid by the Perfon at whofe Suit they are charged, by immediate Execution from the faid Court by Way of Pawn, according to the due Courfe of Law, or by Order of Commitment, where the Nature of the Procefs by the Rules of the Court doth fo require it. And whenever a Defendant fhall be caft in a Caufe it fhall be lawful for the Court to award Execution to the Plaintiff againft the Defendant for Defen- the Witnefies’ Charges aforefaid, as well as for dam, the Fees of Tokens and Preferments, along Jur>- with the Subject Matter in Litigation, or other-WiiDL^ w^c as r^e ^a^c may recluire Or if the De-notap- fendant fhall incur a Piefentment for nor ap- . pearing pearing, it fhall fubjeft him to the Plaintiff for the Witnefies* Charges thereby occafioned. And if any Default fhall fall out by the Non-appearance of a Juror or Witnefs, whereby the Caufe cannot that Day proceed to a Determina- $ tion, then fuch Juror or Witnefs, unlefs fome lawful Caufe be Ihewn to Rop a Prefentment a-gainft ( 63 ) painft h^ ^all be obliged by the like immediate Execution, to pav the Parties Jury, Inq left Statute and other Witnefles all their Charges occafioned x^ by fuch Contempt, to be regulated as in the Cafe of Witnefles, at the Difcretion of the Ma-giftrate, in Manner aforefaid. And it a Plain- Plaintiff tiff fhall charge a Defendant, Juror, or Witnefs not ap- before anv Court, and not appear to profecute, peanng ^ ^ ^ ^ lawful for fuch Court upon the Pro- duftion of a Certificate of the Charge (which the Officer concerned ffiall give any Perfon on paying the Fee of Two-pence,) to grant immediate Execution tofuch Defendant, Juror or Witnefs to levy their Colts of the Plaintiff in the fame Proportions and Degrees aforefaid, together with the faid Fee of Two-pence. Statute ^ar^or ^ Ihall ^c ’awfu^ for l^e Governor upon any x75^ difcr^ Trial where he (hall judicially pre fide, and for do nary all other Courts as well fpiritual as temporal, Cofts. Upon the full hearing of any Caufe, to award fuch Cofts, Charges, Damages and Expences, to any injured Party whether Plaintiff or Defendant, againft fuch other Party as ffiall appear upon fuch hearing, to have bi ought a vexatious Suit or litigioufly defended the fame as fuch Court ffiall thihk proper ; and to grant imme-ediate Execution to any Party, Juror, Witnefs or other Perfon injured, to be levied in as full, and ample a Manner, as any other Decree, Order, Judgment, or Execution. Provided belief that any Perfon conceiving himfelf agrieved by exinna any °^^c inferior Courts, in awarding extravagant gant Damages and Cofts, may, upon Applica-Colts tion to the Governor, have the fame further heard, and confidered of in Chancery, where it may be mitigated and red fitd, or enforced as to the Governor ffiall feem reafonable : which is to be final in the Premifes, without further Relief by Appeal, or otherwife......[5^ Feei '} CO FTAGES COTTAGE S.—-[^x—z. j COUNCIL. WHOSOEVER is fworn, and after telleth the Lord's Council, or his own, he forfeiteth qI2 three Founds to the Lord. COUNTERFEITING. CoUNTERFSlTING CoiN.— [^ Coitt.^ Counterfeiting the Governor’s cr DeemfterT Token.——^ [5^ DeemJler.J COURTS. H T^£ Lord, or his Lieutenant may hold a iUMlon Court wherefoever pleafeth them, and do Wtti Execution as oft and where pleafeth him, within the Land of Man, except in Paffiba Week, at which Time Execution of Life and Limb ought not to be done. But as for Courts of Challenge, all Times in the Year, and Execution to be done. or No Court, Judge, or Magiftrate, (hall impofe iciprifon any Fine or Punifhment upon any Perfon on Statute arbitrari- Account of any criminal Caufe, until he be firft *73^ 7 convicted by the Verdict or Prefentment of four, fix, or more Men, as the Cafe (hall require, upon fome Stature-Law in Force ; nor (hall im-prifon any Perfon arbitrarily, before a proper Complaint is made and lodged, and an Affidavit made to the Truth thereof. Courts of Juftice, or Magiftrates doing the Doty of their Offices, (hall have and continue the i Power of committing and fining any Perfon — 4or contemptuous Behaviour, infulting or abu- Status fing them, or any of them, in the Execution of x?^ their Duty, according to the Natural the Offence. —~Pinj oid ."\ If the Pia nt^ff to an Adion at Common I aw, after the anfwering of the Defendant. 'ail to Ibidem Plaintiff profecute the lame either at that Court, wlvrtin non- thefe Anions are put to a Jurv, or at the next fuited Exchequer co be holden at flirtheft . then the * Plaintiff to be call in his * wn Plea, an^ to be charged (he ufuil Fine to rhe Lord : Provided that Sicknefs or other lawful Caufe hath nut h’ndrrcd him, and th it to be proved by fufHcient । Teftimonv, in which Cafe it will lie in toe Dif-cretion of toe Court co give hun further Time; elfe if caft in his own Plea, to gianr a’new Commencement of the Action at the next Court, and at no Time after ; and for the bringing in of the Jury’s Verdict at the fame Court, If any Party to a Suit in the Court of Common Wit- Law, lives in Great Britain or Ireland, or wants Statute iW Pr ,°f ^oin thence to be taken under a Coin* I7$6 ittflion from the faid Court, he (hall have Time allowed for the fame not exceeding a Year from the Time that Iffue is joined, and a Jury fworn upon the fame : and if any fuch Party lives in foreign Countries or wants Proof from thence, he (hall be allowed Time at the Court’s Dif-cretion not exceeding three Years. Waud A. Common Law Court (hall be held at Clftle-where to Ruthen, or at fuch other Place as the Governor Statute weld (hall appoint, at the four following Tcttps of the l?'7 Year: viz. Hilary Term, to begin' Monday nrxt after the fir ft Thurfday in February. Larter Term, on Monday next after the firft Thurf-dav in May. Trinity Term, on Monday next after the laft Thurfday in June. And Michaelmas t erm on Monday next following the fifth Day of October; for hearing Actions, real, per ion al and mixed: at which Court the Governor may ^°£^0^P!efide by the Deemfter : and every Defendant moas to ke fummoneefthree days at the leaft pievious to the Court Day : which Summons is to be verified by the Oaths of two Witncfles : whereupon the Plaintiff (hall fill his Declaration, and therein fet forth the Right or 1 itle under which he Defen- claims fpccially ; and if the Defendant be off the dam off Iftand, then fuch Summons (hall be given not ^ only to the Tenant in Pvffcflion, but Llkewilc an Notice left at rhe Place of Abode of the De- fendant ; and that each Defendant do enter his Appearance and proceed to his Defence, to that Plea or lhc iamc mav be tried by a Jury the tecond £(. Term: Provided that in Cafe the Defendant file murrer a fptcul Plea or Demuirer within twenty Days alter the firft Court, the lame (hall be argued at fuch (hurt 1 ime afterwards as the Court (hall upon Application dircd j and in Cafe the lame be ( ®9 > • * - be overruled, the Defendant Gull pay Cotts at 5rataU thp nifrrefi in of the Crwirr : an t within rhe x777 the Djfcretion of the Court; and if within the 1777 Iflan 1 be alfo obliged to join I (Tur, fo as that tnc Cnule in ** come on to be tried at the fecond Court J and if resident out of the 1(1 vid upon the fourth Court, and in Mittens of Debt where either P arty th ah be about to leave the 1(1011 fperd- - . ilv, the Suit may be heard and determined at a Cxirt special Court, upon Application to the Gover- • nor ; and tn Cafe the Defendant or any of his E-able11 v,denccs live or be out of t^e lllaid, upon good time Caufe (hrwr^fupport-d -by Affidavit, fuch rea-may be fumble fume Ihdl be allowed for his Drfence ^the^ a' £hc Court (hall fee proper: Prqvided that the Parties yccrn^cr ^dl hear ahd determine Suits in a fun nary war without a Jury 4s heretofore accuf- . ^ coined, and that this Aft (hall not rettrain the \ Court from giving either Parry fuch further ^j Time for the appearing to Profecutiog, or defending their refpeftive Suits, as the Court (hall direct: any Law or Cuftom to the contrary not-withftinding. ' k v And whereas Inconveniences have arifen from Proceedings of Juries out ot Court, It is Enact-y kd that all Suits at Common llfiw which require J Jn a Pnal bv Jury, (hall be tried and determined at the Common Law Court, and rhe Juries for that Evidence ^urP°^e (hall confift of (ix Men, and the Court may upon Caufe (hewn order the F vidence to be Veraid taken in Writing, and the Jury (hall return their Verdift in the Face of the laid Court in Writing, and not depart therefrom until a Verdift is given : and if thev do not agree upon a Verdift in any convenient Time, the Court mav order them to be confined in tome proper Place, and not to be discharged until they have returned their Travcrfe Verdift to the faid Court or Magiftrate. And or if any Perfon (hall apprehend himftlf a-' Appeal grieved by fuch Verdift, he may travcrfe the thyfame to the Houfe of Keys, in all Aftions <777 iylferein the Title of Land or its Appurtenances Come in Queftion, and by Appeal to the Gover- nor in all other Cafes whatfoever : who fliall proceed in fuch manner therein, as to him fhall Term right, and the Party traverfing or appealing, fhall give in Bonds in three Pounds within twenty-one Days from the Day of recording the Verd ft to profecute fuch Traverfe or Appeal with Effeft. Provided that this Aft (hall not alter the prefent Mode of proceeding in a Summary Jory of way by Jury of Inquiry to find out loft or ftolen ^“^ Qoojs or Trefipaffes, where a Juty of four Men Mede of ^a^ ^c fufficient; and that in the trfal of all Suits impan- ^here a Jury is by Law neceflary, the Court ntiling before which fuch Trial is to be, fhall at lead Jurors fix Days before the fitting of the Court, Iffue Procefs to the feveral Coroners, requiring them to fummon two or more good and lawful Men, as required out of each Parhh, of which the Jurors fhall have at leaft three Day’s Notice, and at the Titling of the faid Court every Coroner fhall make a Return, in Writing, of the Names of the Perfons fo fummoned, with their Addition and Place of Abode; which fhall be written by the proper Officer of the Court, on diftinft Pieces of Paper of equal Size; and be by him given in fuch Court Publicly to the Judge, or Magistrate prefiding, who fhall caufe the fame in his Prefence to be rolled up and put into a Box : and when any Caufe is called to be tried, Tome indifferent Perfon fhall in open Court, draw out fix of the faid Papers. And if any of the Perfons therein named and fo drawn do not appear, or fhall be challenged by a Party and dMapproved by the Court, a further Number fhall be drawn tocompleat the Jury ; and the fix Perfons fo drawn and approved of and fworn, (their Names being marked in a Pannel,) fliall be kept apart in a Box or Place during the Trial: Trial : and the fame Mode to be repeated in afctruining Jurors as often as Occafion r< quires. Statute And if a Caufe fhall happen to be brought on in 1777 the faid Court before the Jury, in any other Caufe fhall have returned their Verdid, the Court may order fix of the remaining Number to try fuch Caufe and foon in like Manner. And if cither Party move the Court for a ipecial Jury, or Jury Special °f View, a View fhall be granted, and a ipecial Ju-Jury ry returned, impanneHed and 1 worn in fuch fair o-pen and impartial Manner as the Cour t fhall direct. * Great And it is alfo Enacted that the Great Inqueft inqueft and long Juries, and; all Proceedings before them fhall ceale, and all Matters which were formerly cognizable before them (hall be tried at Common Law. CHANCERY COURT. ^dant" ^ ^H ke ^aw^ for ^ Chancellor to take Statute not , cognizance of anv Caufe, and to examine Evi- 1758 pearii.g dence therein, and finally to hear and determine the fame, and proceed to a Decree, at any fouith Chancery Court, in the Defendant’s Abfencc or Non-appearance : Provided it appears*by Matter of Record that he hath been regularly and legally fummoned to the faid fcveral Courts, and Rood out the fcveral Attachments and Pro-cedes of Contempt. Whereas the Court of Chancery hath hitherto* 177^ 2^ exercifed a mixed Junfdiftion of I .aw and 1 quity. Rules of which may occafion Doubtsand Difficulties in Brattice Practice, and great Expence and Delay, It is Fn-adedthat the laid Court fhall have full Power to make fuch Rules and Orders from Time to Time touching its own Pradice and Proceedings, and for the better Conduit of Suitors and Pra&inoners as ( 72 ) is fhall be found expedient: which faid Rules statntj and Orders fhall be written in a fair Hand, and 1777 hung up in a confpicucus Place in the faid Court. Extravagant Cods awarded bv inferior Courts to be mitigated in Chancery.—[w Ccfts.] Proceedings in Chancery rtfpecling Titles of Land*—[&r Abievs real ] [»/ Mortgagt^ COURT of EXCHEQUER. WHEREAS all Difputes relating the Rights of gutatc the Crown, (he impofing of Fines, and the j^ recovering of Debts or Duties due to the Sovereign, and the determining the Rights of Tithes, being properly cognizable in rhe Court of Exchequer, It is Enacted that the faid Court fhall be held regularly on the Day after every Chan-\Vhen eery Court, or immediately after on the fame »obe Day if the Governor fhall think proper : And held the Attorney General fhall in the firfl Infiance profecute all Offenders in Revenue Matters by ceedin g^^mons or Proofs in the Nature of a Capias, thereinP^y^g an Arrefl againfl the Defendant’s Perfon, which Capias is returnable at the next Court after the ifining thereof, three Days being allowed between the Service and fuch Return; and when any Offender fhall be thereupon apprehended, or fhall have given Bail for his perfonal Appearance, the Attorney General fhall, before the fecond Court, file an Information, fetting forth the Caufe of Suit; of which Information being filed, three Days Notice to be given to the Defendant, cr his Attorney, before fuch fecond Court, requiring the Defender to appear and plead ( 73 J plead thereto at fuch fecond Court, and in Default I of fuch Appearance, Judgment and Execution to Statute go againft the I defendant’s Pei fon and FffeAs: and 1777 at fuch tecond Court the Matter fhail be heard and determined, unlels fufficient Caufc (hall be Ihtwn to rhe contrary ; and the Governor is im-powered to make fuch Orders and Rules from 1 me to lime for the better regulating rhe Practice and Proceedings of the laid Court, as Occafion fhail require. , COURT «/GENERAL GAOL DFUVFRY. Mutate Proceed- ings WHERE any Peifon fhail be indided and 777 therein committed to Prilun ; at lead three Pays be- < fore the fitting of the Lid Court, a Jury (hall be convened accoiding to ancient Cuftum, con-fitting of twelve good and lawful Men; to try the had before fuch Court : ana the faid Court fhail be held at Caftle-Ruihcn, as Occafion (hall requite, by Order of the Governor ; at which Coun all Perlons indided fhail be arraigned aS heretofore accuftomcd. COURT ECCLESIASTICAL. ! Con- T^E fpiritual Court (hall not hereafter imprilon tempt for any Per fon upon a Contempt for not appearing 5^3 nonap- before them upon any Prcccfs or Citation; but >737* pearai.ee jn^cac| thereof, upon Application to the Governor, and producing to him the Certificate of the Contempt, a Soldier fhail be granted to take fuch Contemner before the laid Court, on any Day appointed, and a reafonable Fine to be let SumnerSuPOn ^,m tor ^C contempt, as accuftomed in dues fochCales in the temporal Courts: Provided that when the Sumner is put to Trouble to apply for a Soldier, the Contemner fhail pay him 1 wo-pence ( 74 ) pence for every Parifh through which he (hall travel, before fuch Contemner be releafed out !i> of the Soldier’s Cuftody. । No Appeal from the ecclefiaftical to the temporal Court, in certain Cafes.—*[5*4* appeal.] ,^to takeJuffcient Security on Ranting Probate, or Adminilkation.— [See Adminijirat^n] •^Limitation of Claims and Suits in the ec* defiaftical Court.—[See Claims.) [See Cle*^—Fees,—Intcjlate.] ----------- DEEMSTERS COURT. —[See Deemfer) HIGH-BAILlFF’s COURT. [See High-Bailiff.] . CURATES. „ All Curates hired from Eafter to Eafler, or Cantes longer, fhall give a quarter of a Year’s Warning f receive* before Eafter Day to his Mader, in Cafe his Will Warning^6 to depart, and go away from him: and the Booh cf 'Matter fhallgive the like Warning to his Curate Spiritual in Cafe he will put him away. Provided the Lav.: Ordinary fhall place and difplace all fuch Curates at his Difcretion. [See Clergy,] DAMAGE. I [S« atrrfft}-“Beaffji—‘Slander,—^rejpafs. I DECEADENT. (to Children,—Claim j—Inteftate,—Mortuary ] D E E M S T E R. JN great Matters and high Points, the Lieute- Ordi-nant, or any of the Council for the Time being, nance to take unto them the Dremften, with the Ad- ^^ vice of the Elders of the Land, to deem the Law truly to the Parties, as they will anfwer thereof : and all doubtful Points to be regiftered up in the Treafury, that they may be ready when the like Chance falleth, that one Doom be not given at one Time, and another contrary. [to Account,—Boundary,—Breub of tb Peace,•—Counterfeiting,— Courts;—Dogs, — Felon,—High-Bailiff,—Officers.] D EFEN DAN T.—[to Cofis,—Court.} DEMURRER.’—[to Court of Common Law,] -.. . ■■ ■ , . , .— DEPOSITION. J^O Copy of a fingle Depofition Hull be givei^ statute from the Rolls’-Office, wi.hout the whole 1734 Depoficions. D E S C E N T.—[to Heir.] D E T 1 N U E.—[to AHit* Ptrjtntl.y DILAPIDATION S.—[to Ckrp.] DITCHES, - ’ ( 76 ) D I T C H E S,—[^ Boundary^ r--- -------- ■ — D 1 S T R E S S.—-[See Execution^} D 1 V O R C E.—[^ Adultery^ D O G S. pOR ASMUCH as there are daily Complaints of great Loffes and Nuisances occafioned by I pngs worrying Sheep and Lambs, and doing o-Dogs ther damages in this Ifle, and that the legal Re-worryinglief againft the fame hath been found very dda- Stat»n* ihcep&ctory anc| infufficent ; for the more fpeedy and ^S® e&ftual Remedy thereof, It is Enacted that alter the Publication of this Aft, upon the firft Inlhnce and Complaint of any Damage being done by any Dog belonging to or harboured by any Perlon, and Proof thereof made by the Tef-timony of one Angle Witnels* or by ftrong Cir-cumftances, before the Deemfter, who is hereby authorized to take Cognizance thereof, or to direft the fame to be inquired into by a Jury, as he (hail, in his Difcretioa, think moft proper, and Afterwards to judge of the Faft, and award the Damages, and thereupon to grant Execution a-gainft Prrfons keeping, harbouring, or encouraging fuch Dogs in or about their Houles that fhall appear to have done fuch Damages as afortfaid, for the laid Lois and Damage, tfhmat~ ing a Mutton after the Rate of Ave Shilling*, a Sheep four Shillings, and a Yeat ling and a Lamb at three shillings feverally ; and alfo order the faid Dogs to be forthwith hanged or oeRroycd. And if the Faft cannot be made plainly to appear againft futh Dogs in Manner afortfaid, but there (ball be CHCumftances that any Dog complained of is a Annoy- any way fufpicious of the Fad, or annoying -H? h* thc ^^h r^a^> 'hen the Dcrmller may Law- 75 fully order luch Dogs to be forthwith hanged or deftroyed. L verv Perfon having, keeping, or making Ufe ^^ of any Grry-hound or half bred Grey-hound, Statute ° Pointer, or Spaniel, tor courfing, pointing, few ing, 177^ or (hooting, or anv Dog, fit for 01 that (hat! be made Ufe of tor any of the like Purpoles, (hall yearly pay the bum of fix Shillings for each and every fuch Dog, and for eac h and every Hound, Beagle, or Other Dog, fit and proper for bunting, or which fhall be made Ufe of for that Purpofe, three Shillings yearly, and for every other Dog nor ufed foi Diverficin, or fit for killing Game, Six pence, yearly : which Sums arc to be collected yearly by the parochial Surveyors of the High ways, between the firfl. Dav of September, and the firft Day of March in each Year, and the faid Surveyors (hall make a true Account in Writing of fuch Dogs in their refpeAive Parishes, and by Whom kept, and (hall deliver the fame with the Sumi colk&td, to the Clerk of the Rolls, upon the firfl: or fecond Dav of May in each Year; and they are thereupon to.be allowed and paid a Shilling in the Pound out of fuch Money, for collecting and paying in the fame, and th# Remainder thereof co be added to the Fund ari-,pi g irom Public-Houfe L icences, and applied to thr Ufe of the Highways ; and if any Doubt or Difpuce arife concerning the levying and col-iedingof the faid Sums, the fame (hall be heard and finally determined by and before a Deem-fler. DOW E R.—[Set Baron and Feme,J $, R A1N S,—[6ee Land overflowed with Water.'] DRUNKARD. ,1 DRUNKARD. . . t ■ Ordi- j J^S often as any Man or Woman (ball be found nance of drunk, the Party fo offending, if not of Ability Gover-to pay a Fine, (hall for the firft Offence, be pu- c™^ nifhed in the Stocks, for the fecond, be tyed to Jeem-’ the Whipping-ftocks, and for the third be flog- fters, and itherein. Key# 1,610 —r—To be prefented,—[to Church-wardens.] E C C L E S I A S T I C A L. [to Children,--~Cburcb>--^^ ~ .„ N0®'^ HoW tO Tmnrtrt E M B A R G O. , Precept, or Command, prohibiting the ^1 . .m^mi nation or Exportation of any foreign Statute 21 Goods, or any Goods of the Growth, Produce, or *737 Manufacture of this, Ifland, (hall be granted * or made without the Confrnt of the Governor, Council, Deemfters and Keys of the faid Ifle e Provided that if it appears upon any juft Complaint made to the Governor that the Public want Corn or other Neceffaries by too great an Exportation, or fuffer by a more than ufual Importation of any Goods or Merchandize, then the Governor is to call the Council, Deemfters, and Keys to confult and con* fider of the fame, and give Orders therein according as they (hall fee moft nectflary for the public Good of the Ifland. ENGROSSIN G.—[^ to^/.] E N T R Y.—(to 48 of Settlement.) EXCHEQUER. E X C H E Q.U E R.—(*« Cwt) . EXCOMMUNICATION, (Ste Cburcb-Cenjuret.) :—:—I—-—.—-_____________________।— EXECUTION. WHEN any Adion is recovered, the • Moar Book of (hall go to his Houfe who is judged to make A- Tempo-Taking mends for any Trefpafs committed between Party ”* ^' ani?n<*1 an^ ^artV» and ®^‘ deliver fufficient Strefs or ^^ pa*n Double within fourteen Days after Judgment is 1577 given; and the faid Strefs to be called at the Cltprch three feveral Sundays together: arid if he that oweth it do not come and loofe it upon the fourth Sunday or fooner, the Officer may fell it lawfully, and the Party lofeth it for ever, having the Overplus paid back to him. Whenever any Coroner or Lockman fhaU fell Su pawn goods,or goods taken in Execution under 1748° Coroner's311? ^ecrec or Execution whatever, by public dues up- Cant or Audion, he (hall have and be allowed on an for his extraordinary Trouble, lofs of Time and Executi- Expences, a Shilling out of every Pound, co be on retained out of the faid Goods, exclufive of the Creditors Debt, and the farmer Fees and all other Charges attending; which Poundage is to be regulated by the Debt in Execution : and in like Manner to be allowed upon the Sale of any Goods by Audion under any interlocutory Order of the Court of Chancery, one Shilling in the Pound of the Produce thereof. F A I R.----------[Srr Market.) C.. * Note, this Daty now belongs to the Coroner*s Office. | ( So ) | FALSE IMPRISONMENT—^rtf.) FEES. ____________________ Statute 1754 ROLL S’-OFFICE FEES. ENTERING an Aft ion and a Copv 1 4. j. d. thereof, containing one Side of > o o 6 half a Shree of Paper, J But if it exceeds the common I engrh of Actions, then for every twenty-four Words a , Half-penny. Copy of an Aftion and Decree in ) ^ , Chancery, | o i o But if it exceeds one Side, then for every twrn- • ty-fopr Words a Half-penny. • For making every Entry at the 1 Sheading Court and every Entry > o | ^ of a new Rent, J v4 Copy of every Entry, 005 A Preferment againft a fingle Perfon, 003 • And if there be more, then 006 Every Affidavit taken in Writing in ? z Court, J Continuance on an Aftion in Chancery, 006 For recording ail Deeds, 006 And to number them and keep a Book containing the Parties* Names, and the Number whereby they may be the more readik found ; to which the People are to have Recourfc tor that Purpofe. All Judgments, Verdifts, and Petitions to be re* corded free, (Setting Quefts’ Returns excepted) and a Copy of every Veidift to be g*en without the Depofitions, but no Copy of any particular I)epofition without the whole. For the Court’s Confirmation of eve- i rv deed payable to the Officers as o 1 o formerly. J * Note, the Fees for making Entries and Copies of Entries, . MOW appertain to the Coart-Baton. < ____*\,. Search Search of every ten Years* Rolls, 1 £. s. d Statute Bundles, or Books, whereof to give >006 ^34 a Certificate, if defired, J But if the Record be found in the firit or fecond Book, to pay Nothing for the Search, other-wife the Six pence to be paid. Entering a Claim for Lands, &c. 006 And for a Copy thereof, 006 Cancelling and drawing a Difcharge / 6 on a Deed of Mortgage, f 0 0 Copy of a fliort Statute, 003 And every other Satute, for every 24 Words a Halfpenny. Every Ale-houfe-Recognizance, 007 Sealing every Weight or Meafure, 001 Recognizance of the Peace, 006 Adminiftring the Oath to every Of- “ ficer fpiritual or temporal, and al- $ . fo to every Soldier, and enrolling 0 2 the Com'mifiion or Warrant, Entering a Traverfe, 006 And for every other Copy of Record not herein before mentioned, to pay a Halfpenny for e- * very twentyfour Words. SOLDIER or CONSTABLE and PORTER’S FEES. NO Fee to be received for taking *) from the Court to the Guard or > o o 4 Prifon, except the Porter’s Fee, j To a Soldier for bringing any Perfon (Moars excepted) before any , o , o Court, if the Perfon be within three Pari th es of the Court, And for every Parilh they go through L o 0 4 afterwards, J M K ‘fa Defendant to an Action of Ar-X £. j. /• Statute reft does not give Bail on Irving 1734 the Action, and rcfufcth to go with the * Searcher to Prifon, fo as to oblige him to call for Aflif- tanre, then iuch Defendant to pay >006 the Soldier’s Fee that comes to aHid for confining him in the next Ganifpn, but if he goes quietly with the . Searcher to Trifon, then /to pay only the Searcher’s Fee, ^ SPIRITUAL-COURT FEES. VOR writing Probate of a Will, But for a poor Performs Will only/ Ch anting Adminiftration of Inuftate’s 7 . Goods, j t if a poor Perfdn only, ' / anting Adtniniftration of a Minor’s f Gobds, | '3 ferer ce to a Petition, vs siting Agreement between Parties 7 n Court, J ' ruing Confent of a Hufband to a 7 Gift’s Will, or of a Wife to a I Hofb^nd’s Will, on the Probate, J : very Depofition taken in Writing / upon a Hearing, ( o o o o o o o o • writerihg)an Inventory, o o o 3 2 ‘ 4 4 o Statute *748 o 6 P o o o o 6 6 6 3 4 JiomVby Allowance for Additions made iCterwar^s, ■ * : string a Claim 2d. and a Copy 7 hereof 2d. ^004 J. Copy with the Order thereon, 003 Ci offing Mote, This Duty is now done by the Conftabks, and the . ;Jr i# mcreiy an Officer oi the Cnlloms. ( 83 ) Crofting the Name of a Perfon prefented, o Writing Discharge on the Rrgiftry roj an bxetutor, Adminiftrator, or I o Guardian, J Copy of every Will and Probate, Inventory, Decree, or other Matter, o o O ^contained, according to the common Way of writing, tn one Side of half a Sheet of Paper, And if it exceeds that Length, to have for ever• twenty four Words a Halfpenny. And all their Order?, Sentences, and Deere . made between Party and Party, are to be jo giftcred, that the Parties may obtain Copies, ATTORNEY’S FEES. RETAINER, Attendance receiving Inftru&ions, Drafting Bill in Chancery, for each 1 Sheet written on all Sides except | the laft Sheet, if it fhould happen | not to be wholly written, Filing the fame, and ordering an Of- R fice Copy is. 2d. and Attendance | at the Office receiving the faid 1 Copy, 7d. Taking out a common Adion, Attendance obtaining Procefs on a ' Bill or Adion, Attendance on the Conftable direft- ' ing the fame to be ferved, Drawing Petition, for each Sheer, written on all Sides except as a-forefaid, Preferring the fame for an Order, Common Motion in Court, 02 V’ o 3 4. o 3 (• 0 1 9 o o ” o 1 2 o 1 2 O 2 1. O I > O 2 <1 • M 2 Praf.:.;. ( 8+ ) 0 ' Drafting Anfwer of a Defendant, for each Sheet written on all Sides except as afore faid, Drawing Replication, Rejoinder, Demurrer, or Exceptions, Drafting a Plea, or fuch like fpecial Proceeding, far each Sheer written on all Sides, and fair copying 1 o /• ^ Statute 2 U 1W 3 3 4 5 12 the fame, Attending the Examination of Evidences o And if a whole Day or more, for each day o Preparing and producing a Brief for 7 hearing any Proceeding on the > o Merits, J And if more than one Sheet, 3s. 4d. per Sheet. Arguing the fame on the Merits, o 5 10 But if the Matter be by Bill, An- 7 fwer and Depofitions, ' J 0 1 3 The foregoing Fees to arife on Bufinefs done in the Court of Chancery, Exchequer, Common Law, Admiralty, fpiritual, or manerial Courts. Attendance on the Deemfter on a 1 common Application, } Arguing on a Trial* before the Deemftcr, o 2 2 Appearing before a Jury, And if a whole Day or more, for each Day o Attending Bufinefs before any Court, 7 Q Judge, or Jury, for each Day, ) 12 Taking Dcpofnions before a Jury, 7 ( each Depofnion, J Drawing any Deed of Conveyance, 7 ( Will, or Inflrument, ) But if the fame take up more than 7 one Sheet, then for each Sheet ( written on all Sides except the laft f . as aforefaid, J Drawing perfonal Bond, Note, Draft, 7 or the like, J LYiWing a Verdict, Journey and Attendance on Bufinefs 7 . for each Mile, J i 2 I 2 I 2 Which ( 8S ) Which Journies and Attendance are to be Statute paid for over and befides the Fees arifing for l'^ Bufinefs done at the Place of fuch Attendance. In Cafe any Difpute arifes between the Attorney and his Client, or other Party, fubjeft ^V/Vn^0 thc Payment of a Bill of Cofts, fuefi Attorney * > ’(hall give a Copy of the Bill to the Perfon dif* puting the fame, and afterwards caufe fuch Per* fon to be noticed of the Taxation of fuch Bill, fix Days, at leaft, previous to the taxing thereof. And in Cafe fuch Bill be found juft and fair, upon Taxation, the neceflary Trouble and Charges attending the fame to the Attorney, fhall be added and allowed him, along with the ’Amount of fuch Bill. And in Cafe the faid Bill be overcharged, and that the Party had juft Caufe to litigate the fame, then fuch Party (hall be allowed for his Trouble in the Difpute, by the Clerk of the Kolls, and fuch Allowance to be deducted off the Bill of Cofts. F E L O de S E. WHEREAS the Wife of John Moore did perifli 4 herfelf: all fuch Goods as were belonging to her are the Lord’s, by his Prerogative, except °di-Forfei- what belongs to the Coroner, which are Corbs: p’*^ tore of viz. her outermoft Garment, broken Hag-yard, ^n aad ^o^8 all Beafts under three Years of Age, her Part of Keys the Houfes, thefe Goods being found free. *4^ Item, the Deemfter to have four Shillings, and the Moar four Shillings, or elfethe third Penny. Such Cofts as were made on her Burial not to be on her Part of the Goods, for they were forfeited to the Lord before. Alfo ( 86 ) Alfo that all the Debts be paid of the whole "Debts Goods, and then the faid Forfeitures to be ot the free Goods. FELON. ALL Felons* Goods, as Horfes, Mares, Oxen, n J}10"’8 and Kine above two Years old, belong to the ^^ ^ * Lord, and thofe that are two Years and under to of Conn-whom demned to die, the Party that fueth him to Death ary can have no more than is found in his Hands Laws which he is condemned for, although he con- ’577 feffts that he had more, for that which he had i$ my Lord’s by his Prerogative, No ( 87 ) Harbor- No Perfon dwelling on the South-fide (hall re- c°Ho®-Felons ce*vc anV common Thieves which dwell on the1^^*^ Noith-fidc; and fo vice vtrla j for if any do as a- * forefaid, he is a Felon by the Law, as well as he that ftealeth the Goods: and fuch to be prefented by the Great Inqueft. Thefts Where foe ver any Thief (hall be found to fteal Statute either Mutton, Sheep, Lamb, Goat, Kid, Swine, 1629 or Pig, the fame (hall not be priced by the Jury of Ind&ment, as hath been accuftomed, who fometimes valued fuch Goods under the Value cf Six-pence Half-penny, out of a foolifh Pity and partial Regard to extenuate the Rigor of the Law: But every Sheep, Mutton, or Lamb, of what Age foever they be, be;ng ftolen, (hall be found to be Felony in the Offender to Death, ip/o fa^e3 upon the Inquifition taken, without valuing or diftin-guifhing the Price. The dealing and cutting of Bee-hives in Gardens, (hall be Felony in like Manner to Death, without valuing the fame. And whereas heretofore fuch as have ftolen Turf, Ling, Gorfe, robbed Gardens, clipped other Men’s Sheep, ftolen Corn and Hay out of Fields and Hag-yards, ftolen Geefe, Hens, Ducks, or fuch like Pilferies and Felonies, have all of them been connived at and (lightly let pals : It is therefore ordained that all fuch Manner of Theft, if it amount to the P value of Six-pence Halfpenny, (hall be Felony to laKc^y Dvith in the Offender ; and under that Value to be whipped, or fet upon a Wooden-Horfe ordained for fuch Offenders, at the Difcretion of the Captain : and every Coroner fo often as fuch Cafes happen, (hall choofe and impannel of the Jukw rnoft fufficient Men in the Pariihes to be Jurors: and if any refufeor bedifobedient, the Coroner to ufe no Delay to prefent them, that they mav be fined, not troubling any of the Twenty-four Keys in in thefe Services, unlcfs they be fpecially coni-# manded thereto by the Captain. Whereas Juries upon Trials of Felonies fome- Stalutw , times will not find Malefadors guilty, unlefs the j^^" Evidcrcepa& ^ proycj againft them by two pufitive WitntfTes, which can feldom happen : It is • therefore Enaded, that one credible Witnefs proving the Fad, and fupported by probable Circumftances, or the Mainour being upon Search, or otherwife, found with or upon the Malefador as aforefaid, fhall be held good and fufficient Proof in Law to convid fuch Malefactor. of doubt ^nd In Cafe anY Doubt fhall arife to the Jury, in apon the Ration to any Evidences, or Circumftances be-Evldcncefore them, they fhall afk the Opinion of the Deem-fters, in Court, whether the fame amount to Conviction, or whether the Criminal deferves any lefler Degree of Pupifhment, as burning in the Hand, or whipping: and it fhall be lawful for fuch Jury, as fuch Matters fhall appear to Vcrlift them, to find and return their Verdid in the Premifes accordingly. But if fuch Jury be found to ad partially, or illegally, or contrary Jory aft-t0 Evidence, the Keys to be called topafs upon Ti^ly l^c,r Proceedings in Manner as formerly ac-cuftomed. And if any Profecutor io a criminal Profc-cution, or any ether Perfon, by his Privity, Or-®o«ndin»^cr> or Diredion, fhall compound or agree not rAuo/to proceed in fuch Profecution, after a Hane* Suit given to the Coroner or Lockman, or after ftolcn Goods found upon Search, purfuant to the Deemftefs Token, or fhall by Corruption, or other indited Means, refufe or decline making Proof co the Mainour, when found as aforefaid ; fuch Perfons, being convided thereof by a Jury, fhall be fined any Sum not exceeding Pounds, thirteen Shillings and Four-pence, to the Lord of the IQand. None to No Court, Judge, or Magiftrate, within this Sutut* be impri-Ifle, (hall impofe or inflift any Fine or Punifh- 1737 un*%- lPcnt upon any Perfon on Account of any cri-xan y‘ minai Caufe, until he be firft convided by the Verdid or Prefcntment of four, fix, or more Men, upon fome Statute-Law in Force in the faid Ifle ; nor imprifon any Perfon arbitrarily,’ befQre a proper Complaint is made and lodged, and Affidavit made to the Truth thereof. . Petty In all Complaints of petty Larceny, it fhall Statute Larceny, ^e |awfuj for the Governor, Deemfters, or other *755 cecdeT^ Magistrates, who have Jurifdidion of inquiry, againft as it appertains unto them in their feveral Ra- tions, to grant the Party injured a Procefs to the proper Officer, for a Jury of Inquiry to inquire of and difeover the Offender, by Examination upon Oath, in Manner following : That is to ' fay, upon fuch Complaint of Petty Larceny, in all Things left to the Valuation of a Jury, by the Statute 1629', and other Inftances of fuch like Nature, the Method of proceeding (hall be, that all fufpeded Perlons and others, who (hall be fummoned to the Jury of Inquiry, which in that Cale is to confift of fix Men, (hall be examined upon Oath, and be obliged to give their Oaths in Relation to the committing the Fact inquired of, either by themfelvcs or others ; and if any Perfon confcious of his Guilt, (hall refufe Perforsto give ftich Satisfaction, upon Oath, for the refuting pifC0Very of the Offender, the Perfon fo refufing them-ar ^a^ kc h^d as gul^y °f the FaCt. Or if the felves Larceny (hall, upon Inquiry, be found by the Jury, in either Cafe they (hall verdict and lease Punith- the Offender to be fined and punifhed, at the ment Difcretion of the Court; Provided that if the Grand Larceny in Queftion (hall appear or turn out larceny, to be Grand Larceny, to the Amount of Six- N pence pence Halfpenny, by the Valuation of the Statute Jury, then the fame Jury (hall proceed by Way l75F of Inquifition for Felony : and upon Proof, Confcflion, ftrong Prefumption, or Sufpicion fupported bv prevailing Circumftances, (hall in-did the Offender, according to the common Courfe of Law; and the Oath firft given them (hail be to that effcd. Proceed- When any Perfon (hall be apprehended on Statute ^g4*” Sufpicion of having committed Treafon or x777 rfT^afon^00?* ^f Coroner in whofe Sheading the fame & felony has been committed, (hail, after the Offender is taken into Cuftody, and fecured by him;# effici^ thereupon proceed by Warrant from a Deemfter, and fummon a Jury of fix good and lawful Men, out of the Sheading, together with all fuch Per-fons as can give any Teftimony in the Matter to appear before the Deemfter; and in his Prefence, and under his Direction, to make Inquiry and take Evidence in Writing, touching the Fads complained of. And the Deemfter, after due Inquiry and Examination had as aforefaid, is herebv required to receive the Indidment or Ver-d d of the faid Jury. And to tranfmit the fame together with the Depofitions to the Rolls-Office, Bail and to releafe, admit to Bail or Imprifon, fuch Perfon fo indided, as the Nature of the Cafe (hall require* And when the Prifoner is fo indided and committed to Prifon 5 at leaft three Days previous to memthe Court of General Gaol Delivery (at which Court all fuch Perlons are to be arraigned and tried) a Jury (ball be convened according to ancient Cuftom, confifting of twelve good and lawful Men, to try the Fad before fach Court. [^ Ccwr/.J Defacing Registry #/ Marriage, Ft foxy* [^See Marriage Aft.] 7 ( SI ) ^ftivg FELON (9 e/cape. [^See Pri/or*] ’*««*»•—^—^——^—^i^*^^™^,^^^..^^^^^^^^^^^ FEME COVERT. [&/ Baron and Feme^ . FENCE S.—— [S^ Boundary.] . #-—-^_————————————»—^—«» , FIRE. Firing the COMMONS to be frefenttd by tie Great Inquest. . £&< Court of Common Law.] . ^^^^^-ill^-l^--———————————————— — ——^—.—^ F L O T S A M.—-(to Wreck.] FODDER-JURY. None to N^ ' Cotler, Intack-holder, or Cottage-holder, Statute keep or any other, Ihall keep more Hories, Cows, i69‘ »ore cat-Oxen, Sheep, or any other fuch Cattle than what thV^have^y ^ave Sufficient Pafturage for in the Summer, f ftci/m^nd a Sufficiency of Hay, or other Fodder in th# fodder for Winter. And the Coroners of the feveral Sheadings are to impannel and fwear four honeft and judicious Mm in every Parifh (three of whom at lead: to be Farmers' upon the 25th of March, in each Year, to be a Handing jury, and make In- Na • fpe&or Sach crt-•tie to be fpe&ion into what Provifion of Giafs or Fodder ®^5 the Uid Cotiers, Intack, and Cottage-holders, or fuch like Perfons do make for their faid Cattle, as well in Summer as in Winter; and to make true Repai r thereof in Writing under their Hands, unto the Governor and Officers at rhe firft Courts that are holden after the 25th Day of March, and 29th Day of September,-in every Yeah or at other Courts, when thereunto required that the Court may judge whether fuch Perfons have 'made lufficient Provifion of Fodder. And if they find upon fuch Report that any fuch Perfon doth keep more Cattle than what he hath made Provifion fdr, ah Order is to be granted’from the " (aid Court to the Coroner to make Sale of fuch Cattle as Provifion hath not been made for, ac- fold by . t » the Caro- cording to the current Prices or Rates, and to utr. deliver the Price thereof to the Owner of fuch Cattle, deducting a Shilling out of the Pound fot his Trouble. Fodder ^nd if the faid Jury be remifs or partial in tiaL iai> their Proceedings, upon Complaint and Proof thereof made, they are to be fined and punifhecj at the Difcretion of the Governor and Officers. Coroner 7* electing to Iwear the Farmers included If anv Coroner negleft or refute to fwear a ^ Z / Fodder-Jury, yearly, upon the 25th of March , ^^^ .......upon-Complaint made, or Knowledge given '7^3. Jury thereof to the Court, he (hall be fined three Pounds to the Lord. And the Fodder Jury, when (worn, fhall direftiy proceed to do their Duty, under the Penalties prefcribed by the faid former Aft, and that ex officio. And the Farmers are to be included, and proceeded againft, in the fame Manner as the Jntack and Cottage-holders, each of them to give an exact Account of his Cattle, Horfes, and Sheep, to the Fodder-Jury, Duty of the Fod- der Jury under Penalty of three Pounds for every Default; ^‘ and the Jury is to take efpecial Care that all Perfons whatfoever have provided fufficient Fodder, / and ^ ( w ) and have the fame in their own Poffeflion, other- Sntut$ wife to proceed againft them, according to the t7^’ Directions of this and the former Aft, not allowing the common and evafive Excufe of depend-, ing on being fupplied by others ; and to the End that fuch Juries be made up of the better Sort of People; the Coroners are to give a Lift of their Names fome Days before they are fworn to the Deemfters for their Approbation. FOREIGN DEB T.—-[^r Arreft.'] «—, . , . „ , ■ । ■ — FORESTER. KoTeftefs-pj-jg Forefter, or bis Deputy, ought .to go forth Ordt* rut/ through the Foreft to the higheft Hill, and there blow his Horn thrice ; the lame done, after pccm_' to range and view the Foreft, and on the third Acre,nd Day to go forth, arid fuch Company as he (ball Keys think fit to fee what Sheep there be unfhorn. J^ And if he find any fuch, he ought to take them with his Dog (if they be not milch Sheep) to (hear them, and take the Fleece to his own Ufe, and put a private Mark on the faid Sheep, to the . Intent, that if any fuch Sheep be found the next * ^ Year, by the faid Forefter, he (hall certify '•’• the Comptroller and Receiver* of the fame, that they may be iccorded in the Court Books, that they may be appraifed and fold to the Lord’s Ufe : and if he find any Lamb, Sheep, Goat, or Kid, within the Foreft, unmarked, he ought not to claim fuch as due co the Forefter, but to put . a Privy-Mark on the fame, to the Intent that if he finds any fuch the next Year, not claimed by any Perfon who hath juft Title thereto, then the fame to be appraifed and fold to the Lord’s pfe. * Now the SenefcKal. AH All Manner of Perfons that go to the Foreft Cullom. Foreftefsfor Turf, ought to pay the Forefttr a Halfpenny : ^^^ ^M and if the Party put in Stone-horfes and Cattle, hefhould pay a Penny Halfpenny. It (hall not be lawful for theForcfter logo forth Statute to clip Sheep on the Commons as his Pcrquifite, 174# till the 21ft of June in every Year. Forester not doing bis Duty to be presented by the Great Inquest. [Sr* Court of Common Law.] FORESTALLIN G.—[Sr* Market.] FORTS and GARRISONS, [S** Carriages.] F R A U D. Fnudu- A^ fraudulent Alignments, or Transfers of lent c-n- Debtors’ Goods, &all be void againft juft Statu t* veyance Creditors. 1737 FRAUDS in procuring Titles to Lands, [&* Action Real.] GAME. Heron, 1^ anT Hawk, or Heron, Hart, or Hind, be Refold Hart, A 1 taken by any Manner of Man, he forfeiteth licnof Hind, for every Time, three Pounds to the Lord. ^^’"^ ' ters &c. Wild Whofoever goeth to the Foreft, either by Day M2* Deer & or by Night, to kill the Lord’s Game, ought to c «mc pay three Pounds for every one of them, as well _ ?m2 ‘ young as old 5 and for every tame Deer five i577 Pounds 1 ( 95 ) Pounds 5 and to be imprifoned at the Difcretion of the Officers. And whofoever goeth to the Hough where the Hawks or Herons do breed. Hawks&if he takes any one of the old or young ones, or Merom their Eggs, he foifeits three Pounds a-picce to the Lord. And if any Perfons go to the Houghs where the Herons do breed, ro take old or young Killing Herons, or their Eggs, or goeth bv Day or the Weight, with his Bow and Arrow, to the Foreft, S^nt^to kill the Lord’s Game, they fhall be prefertted lie. ty the Great Inqueft. Caftlc Whereas of ancient Time it hath been ac- Ordi-Circuit cuftomed that no Perfon (bould ufe (hooting nance of with a Hand-Gun, at any Fowl, or hunting or G^er-courfing the Hare within a certain Circuit near Coundl unto the Cattle ; that is to fay, from the faid 1585 Cadle, near unto Kentraugh Bourn, in Kiik Chrid Ruthen, and following the faid Bourn up to the Fell-dike, co the north cadwards, unto Kirk-Santan Bourn, and fo along the faid Bourn to the eadwards, unto the Cattle again ; which faid Circuit hath been reputed and called the Lord’s Warren : It is ordered, by the Captain, Council, and Deemfters, that no Perfon, of what Ett ate, Condition, or Degree foever, (the faid Captain and Council excepted,) fhall (hoot with his Hand-Gun, or Fowling-piece, at any Fowl, or hunt, or courfe the Hare with any Greyhound, Bitch, Beagle, Curr, or Mongrel, wittingly and willingly, within the faid Circuit, upon Pain of forfeiting to the Lord, for every Time, two Shillings and Six-pence, to be levied upon his Goods, Lands, Tenements, Wages, or Fees, without the efptcial Licenfc of the faid Captain and Council, or one of them they or any of them licenfiog any Perfon fo to hunt, or (hoot, for the Ufe of the Perlon fo giving Li-cenfe, and not for the Ufe and Plea Cure of the Perfon Perfon fo (hooting, or hunting ; and that there Ordi-(hall be fix honed and fubftanrial Men, dwelling "’"^ in feveral Partsjof the faid Circuit, at the Dif- 15 cretion of the (aid Captain, choien and fworn at every Court, to come in; and that they, jointly or fcverally, prefent all Offenders herein; and that there (hall be four honed and fubdancial Soldiers, who' are riot common Shooters, or Hunters themfelves, by the like Difcretion of the Captain, chofen and fworn to make Pre-fentment of fnch of the Soldiers, or others, as offend as aforefaid ; and it (hall be lawful for all other Perfons to make fuch Prefentrrients.’ And if any of the Perfons chofen to make Prefent-ments as aforefaid, do know of any fuch Offender, and not make Prefentment thereof, at the next Court after, they fhall be punilhed as for Perjury. And this Order to be in Force until’ rhe Lord’s further Pleafure be known. [S/e Shooting.] GARDEN. Stealing' cut of Gardens,—^ Felony.] G E E S E. —---Trefpaffing.—[^/ Trejpafa.] general gaol delivery. [Sm Ciart.\ GENTLEMAN. ■^--His Cofts as a WEntfs.—[S« Cojh.] GLEBE GRAND J U R Y.—[to Felony.] GREAT IN Q^U E S T. Plaintiff JT is enabled, that when any Perfon comes to Statute the Coroner, Lockman, or Serjeant of any ^37 Barony, with Authority to convene the Great Inqueft upon any Caufe, fuch Perfon (hall, be-Todepo-fides the ulual Fee, depofic two Shillings into fit their fuch Officer’s Hands, to the End that the lame Charges may t>e applied to the Charges of the faid In* quell: Yet if it ffiould afterwards appear, that the Defendant was the Caufe of the Trouble given to the faid Inqueft; it (hall then be lawful for the Magi ft rate who accepts their Verdi# to grant immediate Execution to the Plaintiff, to levy as well the faid two Shillings, as all other occasional Fees, of and from fuch Defendant, without further Suit. Whereas Difputes concerning Ways, Water- Statute • courfes, and Boundaries, and the like have been 175# inquired and decided in by Great Inquefts: It is ordered, that no fuch Difpute ffi •!! g6 to a fecond Great Inqueft, but that all Difputes and Differences whatfoever, proper for the Inquiry of a Great Inqueft, Ihall firft be verdi#ed in by fuch Traverfe Great Inqueft; and either Party may, within to along twenty-one Days from the recording of the Ver* jarj di#, and not afterwards, be admitted to traverfe the fame to a Long Jury of twenty-four men,to be empannelled and (worn as formerly, giving Bond rathe Clerk of the Rolls, in the Penalty of three Pounds, tothe Lord’s Ule, to difprove fuch Verdi# by the Long Jury: andhe Ihall be obliged to profecute the fame with Effe#, fo as that theLong Jury give in their Verdi# within fix Months from the entering of the Traverfe, or at the next Court of General Gaol Delivery, after the Expiration of the laid fix Months, upon Pain of Commitment, until they agree and give in the fame. O And. C 98 ) ’ Thence And either Party may alfo, within the like to the number of Days, traverfe the Verdid of the Long 7 H0^ Jury 10 ^e Houfe of Keys, giving in Bond as a-6 nd fuch Perfons as he (hall appoint, may Statute may dig dig, gather, take and carry away in and through *77* for gravtlfhe Lynds of any Perfon adjacent, or near unto *c- the laid Highways, any Stones, Gravel, Sand, -or other Materials, where it may be moft proper or convenient for the Ufe of the faid Highways, (fave and except Gardens, Orchards, and Yards, adjoining or near unto any Dwelling-Houfe) fo as the lead Damage to the Proprietors be there- And by occafioned ; and alfo to make Ditches and ®^® Drains in and through the Lands adjoining the ScDrains^^ Highways, for the carrying off the Waters lying thereon ; which Ditches and Drains when 7 made, are to be kept properly cleanfed and open by the Proprietors of fuch Lands. And it is alfo enabled, that an additional Sum Licenc^0^ ninc Shillings and Nine-pence, be laid oh duty and ^c-hbufe Licences, and that the fame, and al-Dog-tax fo the clear Monies arifing from the Tax upon to be ex- Dogs, (hall be applied for the Making, Alter-Penc£d ing, and Repairing the faid Highways, under z Hj^f the Dire&ions herein before provided relative ways to the faid Fund. Pwfent- The Keys, or any of them, and the Surveyor !Je^of General, or Parochial Surveyors, fhall feveratty ec^and ^aye full Power, upon View, to make Prefent-obftruc- me nt of all Obftru&ions and other Nuifances, how wilfully done to the Highways, or the Mileftones thereon: And the Offenders therein (hall, upon Convidion before the Governor or Deemfter, Off**- be fined any Sum, not exceeding Three Pounds, ffoed° aciding t® the Circumftancesof the Cafe, to be levied by Diftrefs and Execution : and in Cafe any Perfon (hall wilfully and obftinately obftruft the faid Committee, Surveyors General, or parochial Surveyors, or any of them, or any Perfon * by them employed for the Purpofes of this Aft, he fhall, upon Conviction before the Governor or Deemfter, be fined three Pounds, and committed Pa* till ( 108 ) Ybes till the fame be paid: and the refpedivc Fines Statute ^neZ^ herein before mentioned, fhall be applied to the 177 plc Ufe of the faid Highways; which faid Highways Wj *° be made in Purfuance of this Ad, fhall be way/^ ^&h1 Yards from Ditch to Ditch. Highway And it is enaded that the Highway from through Callletown to Douglas, fhall be continued through Ncw‘ Newtown ; and that the feveral Surveyors during lown their Office, be exempt from all other parochial Privile- Services, and fhall for their Trouble have, at the IT Difcrerion of a Surveyor General, a Sum not ex-f^Xf ceeding one Shilling and Two-pence each Day, Survey- in the Difcharge of his Duty, without the fpecial ors Appointment of the Committee, who are authorized to make fuch reafonable Cd£npenfati6h to the Surveyors General, for their Trouble and Expence ip the Difcharge of their Duty, as to t them fhall feem fit : and it fhall be lawful for Surveyor-the Surveyor or Surveyors General, as often as mT^f hc or t^ ^a think proper, to difcharge any charge parochial Surveyor for Negled of Duty, and to Parochiai,appoint another Perfon in his Place ; fo that Surveyors!uch other Perfon be approved, of and (worn, as herein before mentioned. H I R I N G.—[^ Servants."} HOG S.—[&e Streets.^ ------------------------------------------------------^ HORS E S. Stallion ANY Perfon keeping a Stone-Horfe under the Tempo Value of fix Shillings and Eight-pence, fliall tomiry' be prefented by the Great Inqueft. Laws ^577 Scabbed If any Perfons keep {cabbed Horfes or Mares, HoriVs the Coroner ought to bring them to the n*xt - i Hough, ( <09 ) Hough, and caft them down there, and the Tempo-Owner to be put in three ShWings and Four- JJ^' pence Fine, and pre fenced by the Great Inqueft, and the Coroner to have a Shining for his Pains; 1577 and if he does not his Duty therein, to be fined thirteen Shillings and Four-pence. Pulling Whofoever /hall be found or deteded to pull ^^ Hoifes’ Horfes* Tails, (hall be fet on the wooden HoHe, 1 19 ^ai 3 thereon to continue for the Space of two Hours, and to be whipped from the Waift upwards. p« ^.j :: — H U N T I N G.—[i« Game.] H U S B A N D.—[^ee Saron and Feme.] IMPRISONMENT. [•Vee Arref,—Court,—Felony.] I N D I C T M E N T.—[^« Felon}.] 1 -1 I N F A N T.—[See Children,—Guardian.] INFORMER. [See Ale-houje,—Game,-—Herrings,—Licence,— freights and Measures. — —— - ■■■■ । — INHERITANC E.—[^ee Lands.] - ^—-------—---------------- in oldest. ( ‘IO ) IN Q.U E S T.—[?« Great hque/l.} —^———-•—•^^••—^*a*——*“■*—*—»—^—»b^-IN SOL VEN 1. ^HEREAS it has been0 the Pradice to give Statute the Natives of the Ifland a Preference to x*77- Strangers in the Recovery of Debts from an Infol vent Debtor, It is hereby enacted, that all his Majefty’s Subjeds, and all others* whofe Prince is Dilhi- in Amity with the Crown of Great Britain, fhall hudoa have j^ fame Rights and Privileges in the Payment of their juft Demands, upon tne Diftribution of infol vent Debtors’ Eftates as the Natives of the Ifland have heretofore had, provided that rhe Go-w . vernor, upon granting a Decree on a Claim a-gainft any of his Majefty’s Subjects, or Others, in Amity with his Crown, refiding in this Ifle, for Debts contracted and due previous to fuch their Refidence here may exclude the Whole of fuch Debt, or order and allow fuch Part or Proportion thereof to be paid in a proper Dividend and Share with the other Creditors, out of fuch infolvent Efl ate, as to him fhall appear juft and rea-fonable according to the Circumftances of the Cafe, provided that Landlords’ Rents and Servants’ Wages fhall be always paid in preference, as heretofore accuftomed. And any Perfon im-Sobfift- prifoned for Debt under a Decree or Judgment; JJce in and it appearing to the Court, that fuch Per-Ga*1 fon hath faithfully and juftly accounted for all his tffv&s, upon Oath; and hath delivered up the fan^e without Fraud or Collufion to fatisfy fuch Decree or Judgment ; in every fuch Cafe the Governor may order and allow fuch Perfon a daily Sum, not exceeding Six-pence each Day, to be advanced and paid by the Plaintiff, for Sub-fiftehce, during the Time fuch Perlon fhall afterwards remain imptifoned. And in Default of the like Payments weekly, the Governor may lawfully order the faid Perfon to be enlarged; pro-.................... vided vided that the Sums paid for Subfiftence as afore* Statute faid, (hall be a lawful charge againft jhe Defendant *777' and his hfftds, as well as the Sum or Part of the Decree or Judgment remaining unfatisfied at all Times afterwards, until the fame be difcharged. --——^——^———————. I N T A C K S.—f^c W/.1 __—————^—-_•-_—--_—_--—_•_ I NT ESTATE. Diftribu-^pHE perfonal Eftate of any Perfon dying intef- Statau tion of tate, aftcr Payment of Debts and Funeral Ex- 1777 Enate ** Pcnccs> ^H ^c diftributed in manner following, that is to fay, one Half of the Surplufage to the Wife of the Inteftate: And the Relidue by equal Portions amongft the Children of the Inteftate, and fuch Perfons as legally reprefent fuch Children in cafe any of the faic^ Children be then dead, o- * ther than fuch Child or Children as (hall have any Eftate by Settlement of the Inteftate, or (hall be Hutch- advanced by him, in his Life-time, by Portion or pot Portions equal to the Share which (hall be by fuch Diftribution allotted to the other Children to whom fuch Diftribution is to be made: And in cafe there be any Child who kill have any Eftate, or be advanced as aforefaid, by Portion not equal to the Share which will be due to the other Children by fuch Diftribution, then fo much of the fard Surplufage is to be diftiibuted to fuch Child as will make the Eftate of all the faid Children to be equal, as near as can be eftimated : and in cafe there be no Children, nor any legal Reprefen-tatives of them, then one Moiety of the faid Eftate to be allotted to the Wife as aforefaid, and the Refidue to be diftributed amongft the next of Kin of the Inteftate, in equal Degree, and thofe Ftpre* that legally reprefent them, provided that no Re-^^•^ prcfcncatiDn be admitted among Collaterals, aftcr ■( »»2 ) After Brother^ ahd Sifters’ Children ; and if there Statute be no Widow, then the faid perfohal Eftate to be 1777 diftributed equally among the Children ; and in cafe there be no Child, then to the next of Kindred, in equal Degree, and their legal Reprefen-tatives: And if there be neither Wife nor Child, the Whole of the faid Fftate to goto the Father; and in cafe there be no Father, then to be diftributed equally to and amongft the Mother, Brothers, and Sifters, or their legal Representatives; and if there be neither Father, Mother, Brother, or Sifter, then to the next of kindred in equal Degree of or to the Intcftate. -•'Ter. ■ : • . i is- ’ A- ; 3JttTwoTT''‘,"",'“‘”'“™T7rrT?Tnr,*nrd they, or a Majority of them, fhall, by Order in Writing, direft from from a proper Level, a fufficient and effedual Statute Channel, Drain, or Outlet, according to the Na* ^^ ture and Situation of the Ground, io be made, for the effectually draining fuch Fens, and carrying off the flagnated Waters. And after the Commiffioners have made their Order, the Party fo applying (ball duly ferve the Perfons through whole Grounds the faid Channel is directed to be made, or who may be affc-Cted thereby, with " ^ < a true Copy of the faid Order. And in Cafe any , fuch Perfons (hall find themfelves aggrieved thereby, they (hall be at Liberty to bring their Com- Complaint againft the fame to the Governor, £ftor-w’t^n eight Days after Inch Service; who (hall derof thereupon, judicially and finally hear anddeter-tht com-mine the Merits of the faid Complaint and Or-tmflion- der. And in Cafe no fuch Complaint be prefer-cn red within the Time aforefaid, the Governor, upon Certificate of fuch Notice being given as aforefaid, fhall dired the faid Order of the Com* Channel miffioners to be carried into Execution : and the made b ^roPr*etors °^ the Lands through which fuch the land Channel is direded to pafs, (hall, at their own owners Cofts and Charges, make fuch Channel in fuch Manner as direded by the faid Order. Refufing And in cafe any Perfon negled or refufe to HyCwhh comply with the faid Order, the Commiffioners the orderlhall, by Writing under their Hands, appoint a proper Overfeer, effedually to carry on and complete the faid Channel, through the Lands of fuch Perfon fo tpfufing or negleding; which Over-, feer upon producing his Account of the Ex* pences of the Work, upon Oath, before the Governor, fhall have Judgment and Execution granted againft fuch Perfon or Perfons, for the full Amount thereof, with an Allowance of one Shilling and Six-pence per Day, for overfeeing €bftrud-the faid Work : And in cafe any Perfon fhall j?8d*® wilfully obftrud the faid Commiffioners and fio™™1 Overfecrs>or °th£r Perfons by them employed in ( ) the Discharge of their Duty, under this Ad; the Statute Governor fhall, upon Certificate made thereof, by x776 the faid Comm.flLntrs or Overieers, order the Offender to be commuted to Pnfon, until he give in good and fufficient Security to offer no further Obftru&ion : And the Work to proceed in the mean Time, as if no Ooftruchon had been given. L A N D L O R D.—[S^ Rents.} LAPS E.—[&* Cbur(b.] L A R C E N Y.—[$« Felo^.] L E A S E.-'-[5« Guardian.] LEGACIES. When t^jEGACIES are to be paid within ten or four- Spiritual be paid teen Days after the Probate of the Will. Cuftoma-ry Laws ........ ■■ ■ , .-'.., „ ,- , . , ... LICENCE. ]T is enaded, That the ancient Laws, with Ref- gtatutc ped to forfeiting Vettels and Goods, for car- 1737. Carrying ryjng perfons off the Ifland without a Licence, < ft\heS ^e KpeaJedj and that any Ship, Vettel, or Boat, Ifland which fhall carry any Perfon or Perfons off the whhuut ajfland, without the Governor’s Licence, (hall for* J4 pnre fcit any Sum, not exceeding ten Pounds, to the or ' s Lordj to which Forfeiture the Matter of the Vef- fcl fhall be liable in the firft Inttance, over and btfides paying the Debts which fuch Perfons did 9W ( Il7 ) owe in the Ifland, at the Time of their Depar- Statute ture, as mentioned wnh Refpeft to affiihng *737 Debtors to ei'cape off the Ifland (See Debtor). But if the Matter be abfent or infoivent, the VctTel to be then fubjeft to the faid Fine and Debts in Manner aforefaid ; but nor to be fo liable longer than for the I ci m of two Years, unlels (he continues to be the real Property of the fame Owner. ALEHOUSE-LICENCE. [dee /ilehouje.] MARRIAGE LICENCE. [See Mm riage Afi,] LICENCE TO KILL GAM Ex [See Game.] LIMITATION of SUITS. [vee Actions^— idminidratorSi—Claims ] L O C K M A N.—[See Coroner.] LORD. Boanda- LORD’S CLOSES. All Perfons whofe Tene-hes ments or Grounds foe ver, about or ^joiningGn^r kWe? ^e Load’s Paftures oi doles, fhall make the Ditch and tobere^ Ditches of the faid Ciofes, fo far as their Ccnjci). paired Grounds extend, at their own proper Coffs and ^^ Charges, and fhall keep the fame in fufficient Repair, both Winter and Summer, on Pain to forfeit, for every Time the Keeper of fuch Ciofes fhall make make true Prefentment of the Default in any Court by his folemn Oath, three Shillings and Four-pence to the Lord. LORD’S RENTS. [See Aft of Settlement^—Aftion Perjcnal.] LORD’S RENT payable in Preference# [^ Rents.] — ------------------—,--—-^^-^^ LOUGHS. [to Lands overflowed with Water.] LOUGH MOLLOW.] [to Aft of Settlement.] MAGISTRAT E.—[to Court.] M A I N O U R—[to Felony.] MARKET. Js^O Market to be kept on the Sabbatt-day, on Ordi-Pain of Fine and Imprifonment. nance All the Inhabitants of Kirk CbriH Rufhen, Ar-GovtTtw bory, Malew, Santan, Mar own, Patrick, German, &Coun-Ballau^b, and Michael, fhall keep the ordinary Cl1 Market-days appointed within thofe Limits, and ^^ Diftri&s bring thither all fuch Viduals, Corn, Wares, and Merchandize, which they have to fpare or fell, on Pain of Imprifonment and Fine to the Lord; and if they cannot fell there, then to be at Liberty to take them elfcwhere. Aad #♦* And none foall fell any Corn to the Strangers, W but firft they foal 1 tender the fame, or a Efficient Part therof co the Market, that the Country may be firft ferved. As often as the Feaft of St. John the Baptift Ordi-Subday falls upon the Sabbath-day the Tynwald and nance •£ the Fair (hall then be kept on the following Council' Day: And in like Manner al) other Fairs and^Rc/a Markets (hail be transferred co Monday, as often i6i> as the Fair-days fall out upon the Lord’s Day. No Perlon foall, by Himfelf, his Agents, or Statute Engrof Servants, by way of engrofling or foreftalling, 1637 *«£»&«• or regrating, buy any Corn or Grain, or other Merchandize or Provifions to fell the fame again on pain to forfeit the Goods, fo bought, or the Value thereof, to the Lord. And if any Perfons, by themfelves or their Servants, or Agents ingrofs, or buy out of Market, any Corn or other Goods, and fell the fame a-gain, they foall forfeit fuch Goods, or the Value of them to the Lord : And it is declared, that any Pcrfon who foall buy, or caufe to be bought, Fom- anY Merchandize or other Thing, coming by ftaller Land or Water, to any Fair or Market, to be fold therein ; or coming towards any Town, Village, Port, Haven, Creek, or Road, of this Ifland, from beyond Sea, to be fold for make any Bargain, for the buying thereof, before the fame foall be in fuch Marker, Fair, Town, &c. ready to be fold, or foall make any Motion, by Meffage, or otherwife, to any Pcrfon for changing the Price, or dear Selling of any of the Things aforefaid, or move or ftir any Perlon, coming to the Market or Fair, to forbear to bring any of the Things aforefaid, to any Fair or Market, Town, Port, Haven, or Creek, to be fold, foall be judged a foreftaller. ( «2O ) Engroffer Whoever frail engrofs, or get into his Hands, Statute by buying. Contract, or Promift, (other than by ’^ Demife, Grant, or Leaf? of Land, or Tithe) any Corn growing in the Fields, or any other Corn or Grain, Butter, Cheefe, Fifr, or other dead Victuals, within the (aid Ifle, to the Intent to fell the fame again, frail be deemed an Ingrof-fer. Urmar 1* ’s cn^e^> ^at ,n Cafe any Perfon frail Statute ketabk bring to Ma*k«t, Veal, before it has come to the 167$ PrevifionAge of three Weeks, at the lead, and be fit and whelelome to eat, the Conftable and Clerk of the Market frail feize upon fuch Victuals 1 To wit, Veal under three Weeks old, and alfo fuch Lambs, Kids, and Pigs, as frail appear unmarketable, in Refpedt of their Leannefs and Ten-dernefs of Age, and diftribute the lame to the Poor of the I own, or otherwife to burn the Flefr in lome convenient Place, and the Owner not to have any Recompence : and if the Owner give anv Oppofition thereto, iuch Conftable and Clerk of the Market to make Prefentmenc againft him, and he frail be fined and punifrcd at the Court's Difcretion. MARRIAGE. J^ONF to be married until they have received Statute the Communion of the Lord’s Supper, unlefs 1704 being an Orphan, there be Occafion for his fpeedy Marriage; and this to be approved and difpenfed with by the Ordinary, for a limited Time, to fit himfelf for the Sacrament : and where any of them are of another Parifr, they are to bring a Certificate form their proper Paftor. MARRIAGE ( >2? ) Marriage act. Sanni to A¥- Banns of Matrimony (hall be publifhed Status ^ pUb- inm audible Manner, in the Parifh-Church ’^7 lifted to which the Perfons to be married belong, according to the Form of Words prpfcribed by the Rubrick, in the Book of Common-prayer, upon three feveral Sundays, during the Time of Morning Service, or of Evening Service, if there be no 1 Morning Service in fuch Church, upon any of thofe Sundays, immediately after the fecond LefTon j and if the Parties live in different Pa-rifhes, the Banns (hall be fo publifhed in the Parifh Church to which each of them belongs ; and the Rules prefcribed by the faid Rubrick, for the publishing of Banns and folemnization of Matrimony, and not hereby altered (hall be obferved: and that the Marriage fhall be folemnized in one of the Parifh Churches where the Banns have been publifhed, and in no other place. But no Minifter (hall be obliged to publilh the Banns of Matrimony unlefs the Perfons to be married (hall, feven Days at leaft before the Time required for the firft Publication, deliver, or caufe to be delivered to fuch Minifter, a Notice, in Writing, of their true Chriftian and Sirnames, and of the Houfe and Houfes of their refptftive Abodes, and of the Time they have dwelt therein* And no fuch Banns fhall be publifhed in any Church of this Ifle, if either of the Parties be Aliens, or Strangers, who (hall refort, or come to Strangeri^ij Ifle, unlefs fuch Stranger fhall have refided here, at leaft three Months, and one Month in fuch Parifh before fuch Publication. And no Minifter folemnizing Marriage between Perfons, both or one of whom fhall be under the Age of twenty-one Years, after Basins publifhed, with-“ lrors out Confent of Parents or Guardians, fhall be liable to Punifhmcnt, unlefs he have Notice of the Difient of fuch Parents or Guardians : and in Cafe they, w one of them, (hall publicly de- R ciarc dare, or caufe to be declared in the Church, at Statute the Time of the Publication of Banns, his, her, XW or their Diffent, fuch Publication of Banns (hall be abfolutely void. Marriage And no Licence of Marriage (hall be granted Lichee ^ ^ 5Hhop, Vicar-General, or other Perfon, to foiemnize any Marriage in any other Church or Chapel, than in the Parifh-Church belonging to tne Panlh in which the ufual Place of Abode of one oi the Parties hath been for three Months before the granting of fuch Licence, and in no other Place whatever : Provided that this Aft fliall not deprive the Bilhop of the Right of granting fpecial Licences, to marry at any Convenient Time and Place, fo that fuch Licence be under his own proper Hand and Seal Epifco-pal ; and that Licences of Marriage (hall hot be valid unltfs the fame be under the Hand and Seal of the Perlon authorized to grant the fame ; and that no fuch Licences (hall be granted to any Perfon but according to the Canons of 1703, re- Offmd- lacing to Marriages. And if any Perfon do fo-^fta" lemnize Matrimony in any other Place than as diw A& a^efaid, or without publication of Banns, or Licence as aforefaid j every Perfon wilfully offending therein, and being lawfully convifted thereof, or persons holding or exercifing any minifterial Funftion in the Church of this Ifle, flaall be deemed guilty of Felony, and tranfport-ed to fome of his Majefty’s Plantations in America, for fourteen years: And if fuch Offender be an Alien, or Stranger, and not of the Miniftry of this Ifle, and convifted as aforeiaid, his Ears (hall be nailed to a Pillory, at Caftletown Crofs, upon the next Court of General Gaol-delivery, at twelve d’Clock at Noon, and there to remain for one Hour, when his Ears are to be cutoff, and remain on the fa d Pillorv, and the Offender to g be returned to Prifon in Caftle-Rufhen, there to ^ K&ain till the Governor thinks proper to teteafe ( *23 ) him, on paying a fine, not exceeding fifty Pounds, Statute VoU and abjuring this Ifle. And all Marriage folem- 175^ mania* nized in any other place than a Church, unlefs by ^ Special Licence as aforefaid, or that (hall be fo* lemnized without Publication of Banns, or Licence from fome Perfon having Authority to grant the fame, (hall br null and void, to all Intents and Purpoles whatfoever, provided that all . Profecutions for the faid Felony (hall be commenced within three Years after the Offence committed, the Offender refiding or continuing in this Ifle, during that Period : Anti that it (hall Evidence n?t be neceflary, in Support of Marriages fojem-of> law-nized as aforefaid, to give any Proof of the actual fulMar- Dwelling of the Parties, in fuch Pirnh where naSc the Banns were puhlifhed: And if the Marriage is by Licence, it (hall not be neceflary to give any Proof, that the ufual Place of Abode of one of the Parties, for the Space of three Months, as afotefaid, was in the Panlh where fuch Marriage waslolemnized, nor (hall any Evidence be taken in either of the faid Cafes, or be received to prove the Contrary in any Suit, touching the Validity of fuch Marriage. ^•’p^ And all Marriages bv Licence, where either •rG^r-*0^ the Pities not being a Widow or Widower, dims (hair be under the Age of twenty-one Years, which (hall be had without the Confine of the Father of fuch Party under Age, if living, or the Guardian or Guardians of fuch Partv, lawfully appointed, or one of them: And in cafe there be no fuch Guardian, then of the Mother, if living and unmarried, or if there be no Mother living and unmarried, then of the Guardian or Guardians of the Perfon (hall be abfolutely null and void, to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever: And if the Guardian or’Mother be not of found Mind, or beyond Seas, or by unreafonable or undue Motives be induced to abufe the Truft aforefaid, by refufing Confent to a proper Mar- R 2 riages. riage, any Perfon fo defirous of marrying, in any Swtut« of the before-mentioned Cafes, may apply by Peti- 1W tion to the Governor, who is impowcred to proceed upon fuch Petition, in a fummary Way> and in cafe the Marriage propofed, fhall, upon Examination, appear to be proper, the Governor ftall judicially declare the fame to be fo, by Order of Court, which (hall be as effectual, as theConfent Kegiftcr-of the Mother or Guardian. The Churchwardens ^^ from Time to Time, as there fhall be Occafion, fhall provide proper Books in each Panfh, in which all Marriages, and Banns of Marriage there publi(bed and foiemnized fhall be regifter-ed ; and every Page thereof truly numbered, beginning at the fecond Leaf; and every Page fo numbered, fhall be ruled with Lines, at proper and equal Diftances. And all Banns and Marriages, publifbed and foiemnized in any Panfh-Church within this Ifle, (hall be written upon fqch Lines, and fignedby the Minifter, or fome Perfon in his Prefence, and by his Direction: And fuch Entries fhall be made in fucceflive Order ; and all fuch Books fhall belong to fuch Parifh refpec-tively, and fhall be carefully prefervcd for public Witncf# Ufe. And all Marriages fhall be foiemnized in the Prefence of two or more credible WitnefTes, befides the Minifter; and immediately after the Celebration of every Marriage, an Entry thereof fhall be made in fuch Regiftry, in which it fhall be exprefled, that the Marriage was celebrated by Banns or Licence; and (if both or either of the Parties married by Licence be under Age) with Confent of Parents or Guardians, as the Cafe may be, and fhall be figned by the Minifter, with his proper Addition, and alfo by the Parties married, and attefted by fuch two WitnefTes, with their proper Additions; and fhall be in the Form or to the EfFed following : A. B. ( «5 ) K 1 Statute A. B e/ | I P^> 1757 MC.D. ./{ } P^.Jb, ‘A^$ ?* w* ' 0/ ^ of in the Tear By me> \ Vicari t Curate this Marriage was folemnized between us, A. B* and C. D. in the Prejence of E. F, and G. H» And if any Perfon (hall, with an Intent to elude the Force of this Ad, knowingly or wilfully’ infert, or caule to be inferted in (itch Re-gifter-book, any falfe Entry of any Matter or Forging Thing, relating to any Marriage, or falfely make, •r de- alter, forge, or counterfeit, any fuch Regiftry, or Jro^£ affift therein, or utter, or poblifh as true, any cgl er fuch falfe, altered, forged, or counterfeited R<-gidry, or I jcence as aforefaid, or any Copy thereof, knowing the fame to be fo j or (hall wilfully deftroy, or caufe to be deftroyed, any fuch Regif-ter-Book, or any Part thereof, with an Intent to avoid a Marriage, or to fubjeft any Perfon to any of the Penalties of this Ad; every Perfon fo offending, and being thereof lawfully convid-ed, (hall be deemed and adjudged guilty of Felony, and fuffcr Death. Suirogate No Vicar-General or Surrogate, deputed by tobe the Bifhop to grant Licences of Marriage as a-fw°™ forefaid, (hall grant any fuch Licence before he hath ( >26 ) hath taken an Oath before the Bifhop, faithfully Statue to execute rhe fame, according to Law, to the l^ And ^ive beft of his Knowledge, and hath given Security $®«W by his Bond, in the Sum of one hundred Pounds, to the faid Bifhop,-for the due Execution thereof : and for fuch Licence and all other the ne-ceffary Writings required by this Ad, in and a. Jee for b°ut ^c ^^ $ch ^icar General or Surrogate, Licence ^be and if the Cock crow thrice, they remaining ^^ rendered ^rre t|irce Nights and three Days after remov-^^"*^ ing,that then the Perfon departed Hi al I pay all fnntual Duties to that fame Church, within th; f ane Parilh he hath removed unto. ^ , The A- It is ordered, that no Corpf-prefent fhall Staton ® un* hereafter be taken by the Clergy or Proctors, of i^J- CKO fpiritual L vingsof any Deceafed’s Goods, under the Value of 6L 13s. 4d. and of that Value, and under the Value of 20I. they fhall take but 2od. for the Corpf-prefent: And if the Goods be of jj7 the Value of 40I. they fhall take for the Corpfe-whom prcfent but 3s. 4d. And out of Goods of the Va* payable lire of 40I. or above, thev fhall take 6s. 8d. and no more, be the Grids of what Value they may ; And that none ihail pay a Corpf-prefent, but fuch as at the Time of his or her Death, were Houfe-keepers and Mafters of Families: And that no Infant, or Child under the Age of four* teen Years, and no Woman under Covert Baron, {haH pay anv Corpf-prefent. And if any ^.^ Clergyman or P o&or fhall take more for a mure^ Corpf prefent, or other wile, than as aforefaid, he thanas fh^ I forfeit fa much in Value, as he (hall take aforefaid above the Sum before limited, and alfu 6s. 8d. to the Party grieved, to be recovered by Aftion of Debt, ar the Common-Law. But it (hail be lawful for any Spiritual Perfon to take any Sum, or other Thing, which by anv Perfon dying, fhall be given or bequeathed unto him. MURDER. [^ Breach of the Pwe>—Felony.] Sa MUSTER. ( »3» ) MUSTER. Abfcm- WHOEVER abfents from Mufter, fhall be pu- ^^ jag nifhed by Fine and Imprifonment, unlels he Deemf- be hindered by Sicknets, or ocher lawful Excufe. ten and [dr* ^wj.] * 1594 NATIVE [See Arreft)—Debtor /n/olvent.] ——-——————___——------------------- NEXT OF KIN, [S« Cbildren,—Inteftate ] NON - RESIDENCE. Cl'Tj^&gVERY Bifhop, Archdeacon, Parifh Vicar, S^refide Curate, or other Perfon, who hold and enjoy 1697 in the* ^e Bifhopnck, Archdeaconry, or any Parfonage, Bland Vicarage, or Curacy, or Inch like ecckfufbval Statace * ’ Promotion, to the Value of 10I per annum, or upwards; alfo, any temporal Officer, Soldier, or other Perfon, having and enjoying any Of# fice, Place, or other Employment, from and under the Lord of this l(le, to the Value of 3I. per Annum, or upwards, fliall hereafter inhabit, and perfonallv refide within this Ifle, in and upon their refpe&ive Livings, Promotions, Benefices, Offices, Places, or other Employments; and if they, or any of them, fhall, at any Time be Non-Refidcnt, or not inhabit within this Ifle, in or upon their faid refpedivc Promotions, Benefices, Offices, Places, or other Employments, but fhall be found wilfully to abfent him dr them (elves, from his or their Duties in the fame, Wind, Weather, Health, and convenient Ship-itting) above the Space of four Pl"g be accounted at fcveral Times, in any ( *33 ) any one Year, commencing always upon the Scant* firft of Ma\, in every Year: Such Perfun or Per- *^ Tons fo offending, fhall, for the firft Offence, forfeit and lole the full Value, of one half Year’* Penalty Profit, Benefit, and Advantage, of his or their faid Livings, Promotions, Benefices, Offices, Places, oi other Employments, to be colledrd, levied, and difpofed of, in manner herein after* ftientionn*; and if any Perfon or Prrfons before-mentioned, be found to offend in like Nature, at any Time afterwards, he or they fo offending, fhall, for every fuch Itcond Offence, and for every Other Offence of that Natuie, which he or Jhev * (hall commit afterwards, forfeit and lew the full V due oi one whole Year’s Profit, Benefit and Advantage, of his or their (aid Livings, Promotions, Benefices, Offices, Places, or other Employments aforefaid, and be declared and made incapable of receiving any further Benefit or Advantage thereupon, until fuch Time as he or they to offending, fhall return to his or their faid refpt&lve Duties, as aforefaid. And it is further enabled, that all fuch Forfeitures are, from Time to rime, as the fame fhall accrue, or happen to be taken or collided, by Order of the Governor Deputy-Governor, and the Lord’s Council, for x the Time being, direded to the Coroner or Coro nets of the Sheading or ‘ headings, where fuch Forfeitures fhall happen or accrue. And the fame, when fo levied, cohered, and received, as aforefaid. to be applied and difpofed of, for fuch pious, charitable, and public Dies, within this Iffe, as the faid Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Council, fhall have Directions from the Lord of this I fir, for, or concerning the lame. NONSUITS. ( *3+) NONSUIT. [Sot Action Perfonal,'—Court of Common-Low ] NOTE. [tor Specialty ] NUNCUPATIVE. [tor Will.] - ^. ...... ——— ■ — NUISANCE. [See Htgb-Bailiff] } *- - - OATH. Oath ex [T (hall not be lawful for the Ecclefiaftical Statute Oficio Courts to tender, or adminifter unto anv Per- 1737 fon, the Oath commonly called the Oath ex Officio, or any other Oath whereby fuch Perfon may tee charged or compelled to confefs or accufr, or to purge himfelt of any criminal Matter, whereby he may be liable to any Cenfure or Puniftiment: Provided that this (hall not hinder the faid Courts from giving any Oath to any Perlon who (hall come voluntarily/ to clear his Reputation with lawful Compurgators as accuftomed. Oath or the Paatt not admitted to dis-change a Specialty. [tor Specialty] OFFICERS. OFFICERS. Slander- WHOSOEVER (hall (peak or accufe any fcan- Staton ^ dalovs Speeches againft any chief Officer of '^ 1 901 the I (land, fpiritual or temporal, or any of the Twentv-four Keys, touching their Oaths, or the State and Government, or any other fcandaloui Speeches which might tend to the Defamation of their Offices and Places, and be not able to prove it, Hull be fined for every time fo offending, in ten Pounds, and their Ears to ba cut off for Punifhment befidcs. [See Courts^••Non-rejidentc^ Petit Officers neglecting their Duty, prefenta-blc by the Great-Inquest. (See Court 0/Common-Law.} OUTLAWRY. Fdrmof |F any Perlon be end idled of Felony, he (hall be Ordi-Outhw,y proclaimed and cried throughout the fix Shead- M"ce °f ings, and at the Tynwald; and the fouth Court p^^ to be called by the Moar of Gian faba: And if ten and / any fuch Perfons fo called, anfwer not, then up- Keys on the ReCord of the fix Moars then prefent, hav- x422 *- ing with them two Witneffes/that they were called in the fix Sheadings, and appeared not, thereby upon Proclamation to be outlawed, and (hall not v be inlawed without the Lord’s fpecial Grace and Ab. . Pardon. And if any Man be foreigned in the iheJIflandLord’s Court, or any of the Baron’s Courts, for Death, or otherwile to forfwear the Land, he (hall never come into the Land again, without the Receiv- Lord’s fpecial Grace and Pardon : And whoever i"?ln relieves or receives any Peifon after that he is ^lw outlawed and foreigned, as it is recited, forfc iteth Body and Goods to the Lord’s Pleafurc : and if the Biffiop or Abbot, or any other Baron, receive an Ootlaw, without the Lord’s fpeeial Grice and Pardonj he forfeited! his Temporally to the Lord. Receiving Outlaws prefentable by the Great Inquest. (See Court of Common-Law ) PARDON. * [See Outlawry.] PARENTS. [dee Children.] P A R 1J H CLERK. 3«* to EVERY Parifh hath the Liberty to chufe their Spintaal bechofea own Clerk; but the Ordinary muft accept authorize, and allow of him, to be fufficient and’ry able for that Office; and in every Time of Vifi-tation and other Buftnefs, the Pariffi to fend for the Clerk, and the Clerk to go to the Prieft, and vast on him. Kilhn The Clerk’s (landing Wages is a Groat out of ^ every Plough, if the Plough plows but three Fur-lows within the Year; and from thole that have ra Ploughs, but keep fmoak, a Penny, annu- tte Clerk fhail have for every One that de-pwech this Life, able to pay a whole Corpfe* jprefletir, one Shilling and Nine-pence, or elfe his A^kI, as was ufed in old Times. And for a Woman, ofc Shilling and Five-pence, or elfe f)A duties as were ufed in old Time. And for tfe Poor, all Debts being paid, to be reafonably t^ttd withal Th* The Clerk’s Silver, en the South-fide, is Ele-Spiritual ven-pence, and the Head-pennyj of the which c,ft°-Twelve-pence, the Curate hath Seven-pence, the {"*7 Parifh-Clerk Three-pence, and the Parfon’s Clerk w* Two-pence; and upon the North fide Fifteenpence. And in Cafe a poor Perfon depart, and there is not wherewithal to pay the Clerk’s Silver, then the Clerk (hall have no Duty, but the Duty to be fold to pay the Head-penny and Clerk’s Silver. And if any Thing want, the next of Kin to make it good, becaufe if the Party were wealthy, and made no Will, they fhould be his Executors. Whereas it is a Complaint, that the Lord of Statute the I (land makes Clerks of the Pariihes' by his i643 Special Grants, whereas the Parifhioners pay the Cleik his Dues, his Lordfhip is gracioufly pleaf-ed that the Parifhioners, and Parfon or Vicar of the Parifh fhall have the Nomination of the Clerk, and the Bi (hop to have the Allowance or Approbation of him for his Sufficiency, and Ability to perform the Place. .PARIS Hr-.(^CM.) -——--——-————^——— PARTRIDGE. Shooting Partridge.—{See Shitting.) PAS S.—(5« Licence ) P A V E M E N T.—(5« Street.) PAW N.—($« Execnticn.) T PERJURY. ( >38 ) PERJURY. Ordi- WHOEVER is fworn, and their Oaths prove nince falfe, fhall make Satisfaction by our Law, 1444 and to the Church, for Perjury. PERSONAL ACTION.—(S^ AXion.) PETIT LARCENY.—{See Felony.) P 1 D G E O N.*—[See >hooiirg.) ’PIGS. Not to be fufFered to ramble in the Streets. ' [^ Streees."] P I L L O R Y.—[See Officer,} PINFOLD, or POUND. fording WHOEVER taketh any Man’s Goods, and Ttmp brails brings th them to the Pinfold, he fhall fend Notide ro him that owneth the Beads, to loofe Law*# them* And the Partv that taketh the faid Goods 1577 muft fend to the Owner, with convenient Speed, knowing the Owner; and the Owner not being known, to be called at the Parifh-Church, on the next Sunday, or at the next Market. If that then he will not do as aforefaid, to give the Goods Water once a Day; and if they die, the Owner can have no Amends, for they are loll in his own Default. * ' A Half- A Halfpenny per Foot for Bealls impounded, ’577 io go one Half to the Lord, and the other Half to the Pinder. Hotke to The Goods or Cattle of any Perfon trefpafling <^1 toT on anot^r Man’s Ground, may be taken to Owner Untold in the fame Panlh, by the Owner of nor and the (aid Ground, his Fantdy or Servants-giving Council the Owner of fuch Goods or Cattle fufficienc l583 Warning of the impounding thereof, to the Intent that he may relieve the fame. Pinder’s For all live Goods impounded the Owner is, Statute $UM before Releafement, to pay a Halfpenny per Foot, l^» to the Pinder or Warden (whole Fees are one Half thereof) and he is to account for the fame every Year at the Debet Court, that the .Lord’s Part thereof may be eflreated. Pinfold The Pinfolds in every Parilh are to be kept in Lidem. *obe. Repair at all Times of the Year, or in Default Repair ^teof, the Parilhioners to be fined as heretofore accuftomed ; and rhe fame to be prefented by the Great Inqueft, upon the Proof or Com-piamt of the Pinder, or other lawful Proof or Complaint made; and the Courfe of repairing the Pinfold is to be according to the Rule of repairing Church-yards, which is done by the Tenant of every Treen, or Divifion of the Parilh doing their particular Proportion. And it is or- Pinder todered, that fufficient Pinders or Wardens, fhall be fwombe nominated and (worn to deal truly therein; and to give a true Account of the Lord’s Fer, . every Year, and the Oath to be adminiftered by the Dcemfters, or by the Coroner or Lockmaa. before the four Members of the Great Inqueft of ;^'^'l^e Parilh : And in Cafe the Pinder be negligent Strtnte I^tylS *n his Office, he is to be fined and punilhed, and ’^5 removed from his Office, and another placed in his Stead, as aforefaid; whofe Election is to be bv jllywhocti the Captain and the four of the Great Inqueft of ^en’ the Parilh, as they fhall find juft Caufe for his T 2 Honefty ( *4° ) Honefty and Ability, and convenient living near the Pinfold. And in Rtfped that one Pinfold in a Pariffi is too tew, every Pariffi is at Liberty to cred another at their own Charges, which is to be ufed in the fume Manner as the ancient Pinfold, to all Intents and Purpofes. Licence It ffiall be lawful for the Governor, at his Dif- Statute PinS's cieuon> uPon Application made to him by the l7°5 J uS Farmers or I enants of any of the Treens, within theTevera! Panfhcs, to give Licence to any, or as many uf them as he fhall think fir, to ered, at their own Charges, one Pinfold, in the moil commodious Place in the faid Treen, provided that yearly at the Sheading Court, to be held for that Panfh, after Michaelmas, a fufficient Pinder be fworn; and every fuch Licence is to be firft enrolled in the Comptroller’s Office. BREAKING PINFOLD.- [to Beafts.} P O R P U S.—[to IVbale^ PRESENTMENTS.—to Church-warden,---Cods,— Courj Ecclejiafticalt—Fees. By the GREAT INQUEST, [to Court of Common Law.] PRISON. Milefac 1^ anv Perfon ffiall be found, and lawfully con-tors yided of receiving any Malefador, aiding and breaking affi(hngj to break, or make his Efcape out of, Prifon Gaol, fuch Perfon or Perfons fo offending, ffiall forfeit the Sum of twenty Pounds to the Lord of n* this ( ) ;his Ifle: And whofoever (hall be found and convicted of being any way active, in conveying and carrying any Malefactor off the Ifland, or aiding and aflifting him in his Efcape, agreeing wnh a VeAel, carrying Meflages, or tne like, fuch Offender or Offenders (hall be fined in any Sum, not exceeding ten Pounds, to the Lord, be-AfTifting fides three Months Imprisonment: And whofo- Statute to efcapeever A1^ tefcue any Perfon imprifoned, or in x^7 Execution for Debt, or be hereafter found, di-ndly or indirectly, concerned in aiding or aflifting anv Debtor to efcape out of Gaol,or co get off the ifland, or in privately conveying or carrying off any Perfon indebted within this Ifland, fuch Pcrfons, upon Proof made thereof, Ihall be liable to pav all the Debts which fuch Debtor owed in the Ifland, at the Time of his Departure, befides a Fine to the Lord, not exceeding three Pounds: but in cafe fuch Pct Ions io offending as aforefaid, have not Effects to difeharge the faid Debts, then they ihall be whipped in the four Market-towns, befides three Months Imprifonment: And if any Goods can be found, the lame to be applied towards the Payment of the faid Debts, as far as they will extend. _——_———_———— PRISON FEE S.—[to Fea.] P R O B A T E.—[to fFill.\ P *R O C E S S.—[to Fea.] PROCTOR S.—[to tithes.] PRO- ( >4e •) PROVOKING LANGUAGE, [^r/ Battery J\ [J« Allof Settlement and AH explanatory thereof ] K P E. T«nilh« »p any Man take a Woman by Conftraint, or Tempo ^CrW or force her againft her Will, if (he be a Wife Tal ^C- ^ he muft (offer the Law for her. if the be a ^^ry Maid, or (ingle Woman, the Deemftcr (hall x^ give her a Rope, a Sword, and a Ring; and (he Hull have her Choice, co hang with the Rope, cut off his Head with the Sword, or marry him ■with the Ring. MODE of PROSECUTION for the SAME. [5w Felony.] REAL ACTION S.-^ Aiiions^ REBELS, RECEIVING FELON S.— p« Felons.} RECORD. . *pHAT any Plea that is between Partv and O^1' Party be written in the Court Rolls, that it **™* may be of Record againft fuch Time as the like Chance falleth, what Judgment was given in that Matter. . REGRATING, R E G R A T I N G.—[^ Market.] ------------------------------------------------A R E G I S T R Y.-[^ Marriage Aft.] RENT, Tenant^ j^o Goods or Chattels of Tenants, being in Statute jKHtobe arV hloufe or Houfes, or upon any Lands or 175$ taken in Tenements kt for Life, or for one or more Execu- Years, or otherwife, (hall be taken by Virtue uon, un-of any Execution, or extended, unlefs the Party Year*#e ac whofc Suit the Execution is fued, do, before Rent is the Removal of fuch Goods, pay the Landlord {♦cured one Year’s Rent, if not already paid him 5 and then the Party may proceed to execute his Judg. ment, and the Coroner or other proper Officer concerned to execute the fame, is to levy and pay the Plaintiff, as well the Money fo paid for Rent, as the Execution Money and Charges. Tenant ^nj jf any Leffee, or Tenant, (hall fraudulently in"Vhw or clandeftinely convey, aflign, or carry off, or G#»ds fuffer to be carried off, his Goods from rhe demifed Premifes, with Intent to prevent the Landlord from diftraining for his Rcpt, the faid Landlord, or any Perfon by him employed, may, within fourteen Days after his Rent becomes due, take and feize fuch Goods wherever they (hall be found, as a Diftrefs for his Arrear of Rent, and difpofe of and fell the fame, as if fuch Goods had been actually diftrained upon the demifed Premifes; nor (hall any Sale or Alignment of a Leffee, or Tenant’s Goods, though for a valuable Confide-ration, be deemed good againft the Landlord’s Preference for one Year’s Rent, unlels there are , Goods left fufficient to pay the fame : Provided Lord’3 that this Aft (hall not prejudice the Lord of the Rem Ifland in levying his Rents, Debts, Fines, For-feiures, or other Rights or Demands due to him. him, preferable to all others, as if this Aft had 1753 never been made; and if rhe Tenant’s Goods fhould be removed any conliderable I ime before the Rent becomes due, whereby thev might be fecreted or made away, or clandefiantly conveyed off the Ifland to prevent the Landloid from diflraining, it fnail in that Cafe be lawful for the ArrcftforLandlord to obtain the Deemfter’s Authority to cnt lay them under an Arrelt, to be forthcoming for the Rent, uhkfs the Perfon that removes them will give Security to pay the Rent when the fame becomes payable. REPUTATIO N.—O? Slander.} R E S C U E.—[5^ Pinfold,—Prifon.] R E S I D U U M.—[^ Inleflate.] RIO T.—[&* Breach of the Peace.] SACRAMENT. Offering-A^L Perfons^that have received the Commu- ^^ ^ Money nion before, pay Two-pence every Eafter, Spiritual for four Offering-days: but if it be the firftLaws Time of receiving, to pav but an Halfpenny, which the Curate muft have ; and he to examine all fuch of thrir Belief. God- No Perfon fhall (land Godfather or God- shtibe ^^rs, mother, until he or flie hath received the Com- 1704 munion of the Lord’s Supper. (See Children, • - < forty,-—Marriage.) SALT, SALT. Exp<>rt' JT (hall not be lawful for the Mattel or Mari- Statute tog ^al: ners of any Veffel, or Boat, on. any Account or ’^ Pretence whatever, to carry off this Ifland, or export from hence into any Part of Great Britain, any Quantity of Salt exceeding two Bufhcls, for the Ship’s Store, under Penalty that the Mailer, or any of the Mariners of fuch Veffel, or Boat, fo carrying off the faid Salt, or any other Perfon, or Perfons, aiding or affifting therein, and lawfully convicted thereof, fhall fuffer three cn ty Months Imprifonment, and forfeit the Sum of thirty Pounds, two third Parts thereof to the Ufe of the Lord of the Ifland, and the other third Part to the Informer. SCHOO L.---\toc Children.] S E I Z U R E S. WHEN any forfeit is feized within Fulhfea-O^ mark, by any of the Officers, to the Lord’s nance of Ufe, the fame to be certified to the Captain,'he Lord# with Speed, and then he to call the Officers and^®®1^ Deemners, and to commune and confuk how it '^^ was feized $ and if the Captain and Officers find - the fame lawful, then the Comptroller to enter the fame in his Book of Records, as well as the Water-Bailiff, not only the Parcels, but alfo the Day and Year of the. Seizure, and the fame to To ^ , be appraifed by four fubftantial Men ; fo that if ^^ e thc |ame bc c]aimcd by any Perfon, or Perfons, they may have the Law of the Ifland, or the Value thereof, if t^Patty come within a Year and a Day : and ir the laid Officers take the Goods to be clear forfeited, then they to caufe the fame to be fold and converted to thr 1 ord’s Profit, and the Water-Bailiff’s Account U SEQUEL SEQUESTRATION.—^ Atlion Real.] SERVANT.—[^ Mafter and Servant.] SETTING QUEST.—[^ Ail of Settlement.] SETTLEMENT.™^ Alt of settlement.] SHEEP. Dogs worrying Sheep.—[See Defj.] Stealing Sheep.—[<9ee Felony.] Trespassing.™[^ ^^pafr.J SLANDER. JT is ordained, that after Slanderers or Defames* St are found guilty, either in the temporal or fpL 1 ritual Court, as the Matter (hall be properly cog-nibble, the Perfon tendered fhall not only re-CJb fc rover his Cods by Action at Law, but alfo fuch Damages further Damages as fhall be fuitable to the Injury fudainedy and the Ability of the Defamer. Com- In all Complaints of tenderous Words, the St be* EH* P*rt v defamed»or any Informer of a Slander fhall * within be obliged to make a Declaration of the tender-15 days ous Words before a proper Judge or Magiftrate, within fifteen Days after the fpeaking or uttering the fame, in order to a EWjpution ; otherwife, fuch Complaints of SlaqH&^r to proceed at any Time afterwards. Limitation Limitation of Actions for Slandh. ? • (See Actijn Pctfonai^ Slandering Officers and Kits. * p/i Offictr,.} SLA 1 E. [^ee Aff of Settlement and AH Explanatory, “ S M U G G LIN G.---[^ ^] SPECIALTY. JT fball not be lawful for the Courts or Magif- outate tracesX)f this llle, or any of them to admit of ?B3 any Obligor or ratty Defendant's Oath, as Evi* dtnce againft any Bd), Bond, Note, or ouicr specialty in Writing, co acquit himlclf hom cue Payment thereof, other wile than by a proper Receipt or Difcharge tor th# fame. Arrest for Debt, due by Specialty. [See Arrefe.] SPIRITUAL COURT. [^ee Court Ealefiafiical.] s T A L L 1 O N,—[&r Hor/t.\ STREETS. Streets toA^ Pavements in the feverai Streets in the statat* fcapavcj Market-towns, (hail be even and regularly 1776 ^^u paved to the Middle of the Street, by the feverai By wbomjnhabitants or Proprietors adjoining the fame, U a within To be dean within one Month from the patting of this Adi. And that the faid Streets, and the Pavements Statute thereof, fhall, by Order of the Captain* once a 1776 Week, be fwept clean by the faid Inhabitants or Proprietors, and remain clear of and from all Dung, Filth, Lumber, Rubbifh, or other Nuifance whatsoever. And in cafe any of the Inhabitants Or Proprietors aforeibid, fhall make Default or negieft herein, the Captain of fuch Town fhall make Prefentment thereof. And fuch Inhabit- Penalty ants ^t upon Con vision, before the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or a Detmfter, fee fined ten Shillings, with Cotts : Ami in cafe any Cap* tain or Captains of Towns fhall negieft to make fuch Prefentment, he or they fhall, upon Conviction, as aforefaid, be fined tn the Sum of ten Shillings for every fuch Negieft > one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to be applied as herein after dire&ed. And if any Perfon fhall permit or fuffer his or her Pigs to go at large through the {aid Streets, and be convifted thereof, ^1S*hK>*as af°re4a^^ by the Teftimony of one Witnefs, in^he the Owner or Owners fhall be amerced in the Street# Sum of one Shilling and Two-pence for each and every fuch Pig fo left to go it large through the faid Streets,' as a fore fa id, with Cofts, which Amercements (ball be levied as herein before directed, and applied towards the Improvement of the Market-place of fuch Town, wherein the fame (hall be levied, as aforefaid. * Note—This Darty now bi lost* to the Office of High Bailiff. S T U R G E O N.—[to U^balt.} SUITS.—[to ASiiwCtJk.] SUMNER. ( UR ) SUMNER. ^mnc/# W HE REAS the Sumner, Parfon, and Clerk, take Spiritual pj" & Eains in gathering Tithe-wool and Lambs,^^“^ hiving with them a Horfe a-piece, and a Sack, Ty 1 ’ then each of them to have one choice Lamb, and one Fleece of Wool, paid out of the Tithe $ and as touching the Sumner’s Duty of Corn, he muft have a Band of three Lengths, of three prin-c pal Corns, portion-like, paid from every Huf-bandman ; and he muft call.within the Church, with the Advice of the Vicar or Curate, all fuch Things as he is requefted of the Pari lb, that are gone or loft; and allo, ftandat the Chancel Door, in Time of Service, to beat the Dogs out. Alfo, when the Sumner is required by the Ordinary, to biihg anv Offender to Prifon, he hath for his Pains Four-pence, and iikewife the Porter Four-pence of the fame Offender; and when any is difobediem to the Sumner and Ordinary, then the Ordinary hath been ufed to fend to the Conftable of Peel, who prefently ought to lend a Soldier to take him to the Bi (hop’s Prifon. [to Cwt EttfyfiajHcaL] SUMNER-GENERAL. WHEN the Ordinary fends a Citation abroad. Spiritual for the keeping CourtSyChapters, or other c#$om’ weighty Matters, the Ordinary to fend to the^ aw# Gcneral-Sumner, and he to [end them with Speed abroad. SUNDAY. hjg^he" JE any Perfon pay or receive Money on a Sun- Smote fame day, he fhall be liable to ecclefiafticalCenfurcs, 1W and always be prefen ted for the fame. per CbHdrtnr^Cbtrcb-warto No ( ifo ) No Tynwald or Fain to be held on Sunday ^ri’fW* Cwt of Tynwald,—Market.] Tidw-’piTHE Corn (hall be received by the tenth Spirit™* ^^ Stook, and for carrying it away, the Parfon orCuft, ma* Prpdor is at Liberty to carry it the next Wav, '7^^ keeping the Hufbandman harmleis, making the Ditch as able as he found it. -And Hay No Hufbandman to lead any Corn or Hay before fufficienc Warning be given to the Parfon, Vicar, or Prodor, when the Corn and Hay are fufficiently dry, and fit to be (lacked. Secreting And if any Mah convey, purloin, or hide, any Tithes, Corn in Houfes or elfewhere, to defraud the 40 Tithes, then the Parfon, Vicar, or Proclor, to be reftored threefold. But in cafe he want to threlh * any Corn for Neceflity, then to take with him two honeft.Men, who will teftify the Tithe thereof to be truly paid. And if any do lead or flack their Corn in Contumacy, or not agreeing with the Parfon, Vicar, or Prodor, for the Tithe thereof, then the Sumner, at the Appointment of the Ordinary, with , 4wo honeft Men or more to call down the Stacks, - and take forth their Tithes; and the Hufbtnd* man to make good the Charges, for calling down the Stacks, and making them up again, and further td be punilhed at the Difcrction of the Ot-' ; _ dinary. lax and dinary. All Tithe* flax and Hemp to be brought Spbunal to the Parilh Church, and the Seed thereof. ^J“ ‘^ La w a Sheep, Fverv one to bring unto their Folds, all the*r jambs. Sheep and Lambs at fuch 1 ime aayth^' Parton, tWoul y|caror p|Odor, (hall appoint, eidiWiifthe latter End of May, or rile in June ; to pay truly their Tithe-limb and Wool, that is to fay, out of eight, one Lamb, and fo out of n nr, ten or twel ve, buconeLamb; provided if rhe Hufb indman pay one Lamb or more, he fhall have the endive of two Lambs, and then the Pi odor where he plea-feth of the Reft. If the Hufbandman hath but five Lambs, then he fhall choofe one Lamb, and the next to the belt the Pro&or fhall appraife, and the Hufb mdman fhall give or take, and if there be but two or three Lambs, then to pay a HiFpenny each: and any that hath wild Sheep or 1 .ambs, that cannot be brought into the Fold, then the Proftor hath been ufed to depofe them upon a^Book, what Wool and Lambs they may have, and fo to pay truly the Tithe thereof. And whoever doth convey or hide his Lambs, from Place to Place, or from Parilh to Pan th, to deceive the Church, then Rcftitution co be made threefold. Small Tithes, &c. Pars, Calv ?, & Colts That all Pro&ors ought at Martinmas, to put in a Book, all fmall Tithes within the Parifhes, that is to fay, Purs, Calves, and Colts, and to receive them from the Hufbandman at Eafter; and out of eighty nine, or ten, one Pur ; and out of twelve, but one Pur; and in like Manner of Calves and Colts; provided always, *that the Hufbandman fhall choofe one or two out of t Whole of the beft, when he payeth one or more Purs, Calves, or Coits. ( *52 ) Alfo, when any Man hath but five Purs, Calves Spint^ or Colts, then the Hulbindman (hall have one* Choice, and then the Prodor to maife the next/7 and the Hulbindman to take or give: And if the Hulbindman hath but three Calves, he (hall pay out of every One a Halfpenny, and out of three Colts Three-pence. Iambi Whereas the Prodor hath not had of fix or fe-ven Lambs, but Half a Lamb, then he may take out of the four Lambs, a Half; in like Manner of Purs, Calves, and Colts. Ceefe & Concerning Tithe-geefe, they are to be taken SK> after the fame Order, and moft commonly taken in the Month ot December ; and as for Tithe-Eggs, they are to be taken at Eafler, and are the Beginning of the annual Fruits next enfuing ; for every Hen one Egg, and for the only Cock two kgg*- Money Alfo, concerning Honey and Tithe-wax, if ♦ Waxthcrc bc ejght> nine, or ten Hives, ot that Year, then the Hufbandman (hall have two Choices, or out of Twelve, and the Proper Ihall have the third choice Hive, for Tithe; and if in cafe there be but five Hives, the Hufbandman (ball have one Choice, and the Prodoi to appraife the next, and the Hufbandman to give or take ; but when there is but two or three Hives, then after the Honey and Wax are purified, they (hall take the Tithe thereof, juffly and truly j whereas the Pi odor hath not had, out of fix or ft ven lathes ^lvcs> but half a Hive, then he may take out of far off f°ur Hives, h/f a Hive : And whereas Parfons and Prodors, having Tithes chat are far off, and cannot conveniently bring them home, it hath been accuftumed to draw and ftack the fame in the Hufbandman’s Hagyard, without Trouble or Let. No ( ^3 ) Tithe- No Tithe-butter, or Cheefe, fhall be paid Spiritual 4 J?1^’ hereafter ; but in lieu thereof, the Farmers andC^?1^ &M;U Others who ought to pay fuch, fhall, at Fatter,?^^^* I When they account for their other Duties to J the Church, pay Four-pence for every Cow ” which had a Calf that Year, and Two-oence for every Farrow Cow which had no Calf, hoc gave Milk flnce the Eafter before ; and a4* Penny oot of every four milch Sheep; and a Penny ouc of every twb milch Goats. And the Vicars of Third and Penfion,' who ufed to have a choice Cheefe, to have, in lieu thereof, the Monies due fpr the ,Tithe-Cheefe and Butter, of a choice Houfe in the Parifh : ^ - ,., -\ ; ' Manner The Parfon, Vicar, and Proftor of ever* of lead- parifh, fhall acquaint the feveral Farmers of the rfS^ Parifhes with the Names of their under Proc-Com & f°r$* $f Deputies, who are to receive the Tithes. Hay And this co be done in the Month of July before the Haryeft begins; and when the Time of Harvell is come, the Farmer is to fend Notice to him or theory who are to receive the Tithe-Corn, the Evening or Day before filch Farmer intends to lead his Corn ; and then if the Par- I fon, Vicar, or Prodor, or the under Prodor, I come not to take the Tithe-corn according to I the Warning fo given, the Farmer is to take t^o Neighbours to juftify with him, that he hath left his due Tithe: fuch Warning to be given at the Parlon age, Vicarage, or Proftor’s Houfe, । Who is tq receive the Tithes, if there be any I fuch in the Parifh. And if it be a Stranger of another Parifh, or a Layman of the fame Parifh, ; fuch Stranger or Layman fhall, before the Time of Harvcft, acquaint the Fanner at what Houfe in the fame Parifh the Farmer fhall give or leave I fuch Notice, that his Corn is readv for leading, I or that he intends tojead the fame; and the \ like Order to be observed for Tithe-hay. ^ The V ^ The Minifter, or Prodor, to whom thefmall ^ and Of- Tube* and Offering-money belong, fhall fit in ^^ faring- the Parifh‘Church, on Monday and Tuefday in Money Fafter-week, after the People have received the Communion, there to receive their Dues ; and whofoever fhall not pay the fame on one of thofe Days* the Minifter and Prodor fhall proceed againft them by Citation, before the Ordinary, or his Officers ; and that in fuch Cafes the Minifter and Prodor fhall have the fpeedieft and ftrideft Courfe that may be, from the Ordinary, for the Recovery thereof* Right of Tithi.—{See Ceurt of Exchequer,) TITLE of LANDS.—(to ARiou Rial.} TRADESMAN. Wh™ to "p RA DES MEN and Laborers labouring by Statute ^1D ff ^c $ay’ ^l* ^,om th* twehty-fifth of March ^ Work t0 'he 29th. of September, come to their Work by fix o’Clock in the Morning, and not leave off or give over Work until fix o’Clock in the Afternoon j and from the 29th. of September to the 25th. of March, to come to Work at Sunrife, and not to give over till Sunfet, except it be Taylors and Shoemakers, who work with Meat and Drink by the Day, they are to work till eight o’Clock both Winter and Summer. Tradefman’s Cofts as a Witnefs.—(to Cofte.) TRAVERSE. When to^JO Traverfe fhall be accepted of, unlefs the fame statute and ^c cntcred within the Space of twenty-one Days 166$ prole- aftcr ^e giving in of the Verdid, and the Party toted traaerfing fhall profecute the fame fo as to bring the ( *5$ ) ^ theTraverfe-Jury to a Verdid within the Timeli- Sutou mitted $ otherwise it fhall be lawful for the Court ^^ to nonfuic him, and to charge the Fine to the Lord’s Ufe, if there appear not good Caufe to the Caofc Court to mitigate the fame : Provided if it happens and doth appear that the fame fell out upon fome extraordinary Occafion, either in Refpeft of Sicknefs, Infanity, or other lawful Impediment, then it fhall be lawful for the Governor, or either Deemfter, to grant a further Refpite of Time, at Difcretion ; and this Rule to be held in every Degree of Traverfe. In Cafe any Party finding himfelf aggrieved by Statute the.Verdict of the firft Jury, fhould enter a fra- x37 verfe within the Time already limited by Law, fuch Pcrfon or Perfons fhall hereafter be obliged to profecute the fame with EfFed, fo as to bring the Traverfe-Jury to a Verdid, within the Space of three Months from fuch Entry, except the Governor or either Deemfter, fhall, upon lawful Caufe fhewn, grant further Time, not exceeding three Months longer; but not to fuffer any wd* ful or unnecefTary Delays in any Caufe, or upon any Account whatever. (^ Curt 9f Gown Law,-—Great bauefa— Trcjptfs.) TREASURE-TROVE. Hidden A NY Treafure whatfoever, being found and °^* ^^^ fecretly hidden under Ground, either in the J?nce °^ to thcT^Houfe or out in the Fields, or in the Thatch of Dcemf-Lord of the Houle, or within any covert Place, to the te^ aid the Me End to defraud the right Heir, or for any other Key’ fraudulent Purpofes, fhall be the Lord’s, as his 1583 Prerogative : Provided that any Man for the Excep- Safeguard of his Goods from the Enemy, or from fcon any other Mifchancc, may, without Danger of this Law, lay up his Treafure in any fuch Place, V a making ( >}6 ) *' making his Child or other Friend privy thereto: Ordi-’ and fuch Child or Friend may lawfully receive n^c fuch Treafure, and deliver the fame to the right 7 Owner ; and that the Barty claiming be able to ’ prove it by one Sufficient Witnefs at the lead,' though he be Brother, Sifter, or any other Kinf-man, or Friend, not deteded of any notorious Crimes. ? ^c * • ' Y z ' ' T R E E s. * Cutting or Spoiling Tkibs.— (See trejpdjs^ - — T R E S P A S S - A C T. Trcfpafs |T is Enacted, that hereafter in all Complaints Statute and Petty of Petit Larceny and Treipafs whatsoever; j%J larceny clandestinely committed by Perfons, Horfes, Sheep, or other Cattle unknown, rhe Party Com* plainant may apply to, and it fhall be lawful for the Governor, Detmfters, or other Magistrates of this Ifle, who have Jurifdi&ion of inquiry, as it appejtains unto them in their Several Stations, to grant the laid Party injured, a Procefs proofs t0 ^ ProPer Officer, for a Jury of Inquiry, to in* < Hnqai-9n^e °^ aud difeoverthe Offender, or Offenders, ry who did the Fa& complained of, by Examinations upon Oath, in Manner following : That In cafes js t0 fav> upon fuch Complaints of Petty Lar* llrccny cenv> *n a^ Things left to the Valuation of a •c 7 Jury, by the Statute made in the Year 1629, and other Instances of fuch like Nature, the Method of Proceeding fhall be, and Shall be underftood to be, that all fufpeded Perlons and Others, who fhall be Summoned to the Jury of Inquiry, (which ip .that Cale is to confift of fix Men,) Shall be examined upon Oath, and Shall be obliged ip give their Oaths in Relation to the ^gM^itting. of the Fad inquired of, either by themfelve# ( *57 ) themfclves or Others. And if any Perfon or Statute Perlons confcious of his or 'their own Guik, *x^ fhall wilfully refufe co give fuch Satisfaction I upon Oath, tor the Difcovcry of the Offenders, he , or they fo refuting, fhall be held as guilty of the > V: a * Fad: or if the Larceny, upon inquiry, fhall happen to be found by tne Jury, in either Cafe they fhall verdiA and leave the Offender, or Offenders, to be fined and punifhed at the Difcrdtion of the Court. Provided always, and Be it further Enafted, that if the Larceny in Question ^nd fhall appear or turn out to be Grand Larceny ccny to the Amount of Six-pence Halfpenny, by the Valuation of the Jury, the fame Jury fhall then proceed by Way of Inquifirion for Felony, and upon Proof. Conteflion, ftrong Prefumption, or ftrong Suspicion, fupported by good and pre* India- v*Hfog Circumitances, fhall indift the Offender »ent according to the common Courfe of Law, and the L Oathat firft given them fhall be to the Tenor,Ef- fed, and Purpofe of this Aft, any Thing contain- x» ed in the faid Statute of the Year 1639# or any ocher Law or Cuftcm to the Contrary notwith-ftanding^ :<> ‘ ?**•&£ And in Complaints of Trefpafs of the Nature jn& mf’aforcfcWt all lufpeded Perfons and Others, and all Owners of Horfes, Sheep, or other Cattle, lummoned or charged to the Jury of Inquiry, (which in that Cafe is to con lift of four Men) fhall and are hereby obliged to give their Oaths in like Manner, for the Difcovery of the Tref-paffers who committed the Trefpafs complained of, whether it be by themfclves, or Others, or by their own Horfes, Sherp, or Cattle, or (hofe of Others j and if any refute, he or they fo refuting fhall be deemed guilty thereof. Or if the TrcL pals be found by the Jury, they fhall verdift, and in either Cafe leave the Offenders to the Difcrc-tton of the Court, to be fined with Damages of four Times the Value, to the Party injured, efti- m«i«« •Ski ( >58 ) mating the fame to the full Worth, al their Pe- Statute ril; provided always, and be it further enaAed, I753 that if the Complaint be for cutting, fpoiling, Deftroy. or deftroying, any Tree, or Plantation ot Trees, hgTieoor any Set, Plant, or Graft, or for throwing down, *c» or breaking into, any Inclofure or Inclofures, with or by their Cattle, Horfes, or other Goods, by Night or by Day, or other wilful Trefpafs ; or if any Perfon or Perfons (ball, on purpofe, or by want of due and proper Care, fuffer their Cattle, Horfes, or other Goods, to Uray or wander out in the Highway, or other Place, in the Nighttime, whereby they become Trefpaffers on their Neighbours; or if any other fecret or uncontion-able Trefpafs or Trefpaffes (hall be done or committed (in all which Cafes the fufpeAed Offender or Offenders, if thereunto required, Ihall be obliged to give Oath, as aforefaid) then fuch Offender Ihall not only incur a fevere Fine to the Fne and ^ * but Ihall alfo for every Tree, Set, Plant, «xtraor- or Graft, fo cut, fpoiled, or deftroyed, pay the dinary Party injured twenty Shillings, for extraordinary Damage 0amagC> ani tcn shillings extraordinary Damage, for every fuch other clandeftine or wilful Tref- , pafs fo committed as aforefaid, over and befides the fourfold Damages, abovementioned: Pro-Maimingv^$$ ^at evcry P^fon or Perfons who Ihall ^“ gmaim, or otherwife malicioufly hurt Cattle or other live Goods, be proceeded againft by Pro-cefs of Inquiry by a Jury as before; and upon Proof, Confcflion, or Refufal, to clear themfelves upon Oath of the Fad, it (hall be lawful for the Jury to find the Offender or Offenders guilty, and to leavfhim, her, or them, to the Court’s Mercy, for a Fine and Punifhment, as formerly, with ____ fourfold Damages to the Party aggrieved, as be-Damagesfore direAed by this Ad. And be it further en-a&ed by the Authority aforefaid, that all and ^^c“ every the Damages before-mentioned Ihall be re-^xed °* coverable by Execution, from the Judge, Court, or or injuring Bcafts f ine 5c unifh- ment ( >0 ) or Magistrate concerned, upon Sight of a Copy of Statute the Verdict from Record, and levied by Way of Diftrefs of the Goods and Chattels of the Offenders, without further Suit or Adion. Provided Traverfe neverthelefs, that any Perfon finding himfelf ag- grieved, may be allowed to traverfe fuch Juries* Verdins, according to the accuftomed Courfe of Proceeding in fuch Cafes. TROVE R.—[3* MLn PerftnaL] TURBARY. [Sr/ Court of Common-Law*—Forefi.}. VAGRANT. THAT ItiShWomen, loitering and not working Orderof be commanded forth off this ifle with as much Commit convenient fpeed as may be; and no Boat be fuf- , ^ fered to bring any of the faid loitering Perfons * into the faid Ifle, but that the Mafter of the faid Boat, upon Pain of forfeiture of his Boat and Goods, after Warning given, take the faid Perfons off again* V E A L.—S/e Market.'} ___________________________J________ VERDICT. Verdid# JT is enaded, that the Verdids of all Great In- Statute tobciy- quefts, Setting-Quefts, and Slander-Juries, *W raTtenc™^3^’ f°r ^ Time to come, be delivered and of Par-C received in the Prefence of both Parties, or their ties Agents or Attornies in public Court, as anciently accuftomed, or by the proper Magistrate or Magistrates out of Court, but that to be likewise made known unto, and done in the Prefence of, the ( t«o ) the Parties, or their Agents or Attornies, who for Statute that Purpofe are to attend at the Courts as well **5^ as before inch Magistrates, when fuch VerdiCfs are to be taken to make their Objections, if they have any, otherwife, the fame to be received, and the Proceeding to go on, in his or their Default. [Sw Court of Common* Lavt^-Felon^-Great * jhjtteft-Juy> ‘ USURY. ^O Perfon upon anv ContraCt, fhall take, di- ^ / redly or indireftly, for Loan of Money, Wares, ^^ Merchandize, or other Commodities, or for any /6^f corrupt Loan, Exchange, Bargain, Mortgage, Rate of or any other deceitful Way or Means, or other lawful Doings whatfotver, above the Value of fix Intcwft Pounds, for the Forbearance of an Hundred Pounds for a Year ; and fo after that Rate for a greater or lefler Sum, or for a longer or Shorter Time : and that all Bonds, ContraCis, or- Affu-rances whatfoever, for Payment of any Principal or Money, to be lent or covenanted to be per* formed, upon or for any Ufory, whereupon or went for^herebv there fhall be referved a greater Jntereft Ufujy than aforefaid, fhall be utterly void. And if any Perfon fhall do any Aft or Thing contrary to the Tenor of this Aft, he fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence to the Lord of the Ifland, the treble Value of the Monies, Wares, Merchandize, or other Thing lent, bargaihed, fold or exchanged. WARNING. [Src Curate,*—Mafter anti Servant.] t . ' , . .... . r..l - j — .1 • • ■•-i—i^—^—«__ WATCH WATCH and WARD. Krgled^W^TCH and Ward (hall be kept throughout ^~. ing the Land, as it ought; upon Pain of Life and ^X^ W*uh Limbj for whofoever faileth any Night in his* Date Ward, forfeited a Wether to the Warden; and to the Warden the fecond Night, a Cow; and the third Night Life and Limb. [Which is afterwards, upon a Qu eV io ft put thereon, by the Governor, to tbe Deemfters and Keys, thus explained ] If any Party fail, and do not come to his Watch, Ordi-and the Warden do appoint another in his Room, nance to forfeit according to this Statute. ‘3’V, \ Watch and Ward upon the Ports and Sea- Or(Jl* coafts to be well and duly kept, and whofoever "*"'* falls, he forfeits all his Goods unto the Lord, and his Body at the Lord’s Will. [Which upon a Que ft ion put thereon by tbe Governor to tbe Deemflers and Keys, is thus explained.] If the Party be in the Place, whereat he Ihould Ordi-watch, and after the Watch fet, go away before the **n« ordinary Time without Confent of the Warden, ^^ to forfeit Body and Goods to the Lord. Warden If the'Wardens do not their Duty according to neglea- the Captain’s Direftion, they are to be punifh-^ hh cd at his Difcretion. Duty Forfei- There is no Forfeiture to the Warden unlefs tore to he appoint one inftead of another. All other the War-Forfeiturcs are to the Lord. ^ den Watch to Watch and Ward fhall be kept according to Onli- . fon# of' th* ®r^ ^cr °f ^ aw> an^ none ^3^ ^c fent naDCC ° Pifc°# thither, but fuch as are of Difcretion and able ^J^ lion to obierve to be capful: and the Night-watch E i " fhall ( 1^ ) Nkht (hall come at Sun-fet, and not depart before Sun- Onfi-W*^*1 rife; and the Day-watch come at Sun-rife, and “^ Wadi not depart before Sun-fet. : • W WATER-BAILIFF. Ordi- *J'HE Water-Bailiff to have hi# Deputy in everynawe of Haven, to make a Defence in all Caufes, and^eernftW to make the Profits thereof, if any Forfeit hap-^^®7* pen in the Lord’s Behalf; and to write what ’ Goods are taken out of the Country, and what brought in. WATER-COURSE, [tor Grcat-lnqut/l^ WAYS. WHEN a Man comes to the Deemfter to Com- Tem»* plain that he wants a Highway from his ral Cuf-Houfe to the King’s Highway, he ought to*^^ drive as far as he may upon his own Ground, x^ and then he ought to have a Way upon his Neighbour, and that ought to be eighteen Feet broad : and if his own Ground come to the Highway, he can have none of his Neighbour*# $ for akho’ he wanteth the neared Way, he ought not to have it but in that Order. [^rr TSgbwayJ] WEIGHTS and MEASURES. ALL Weights and Meafures ufed for buying Statin How fix- or felling in this Rland, (hall be according iW edandre-to lhc Standard of his Majefty’s Exchequer in quitted England, and a Standard thereof (hall be kept F atCaftle Rufhen, by the Regulator of Weight# a>d Meafures, who fhall be appointed by the ./ Governor j Governor and Sets of the like Weights and St Meafures fhall be delivered to, and kept by, the 1 « 5^ High-Bailiffs, in their refpe&ive Diflrifts: And Duty ref-a^ Weights and Meafures ufed within fuch Dif* pedi- g W^s> ^a^ be compared and regulated thereby, &« fame and ftamped by fuch High-Bailiffs; for each of which fo compared and ftamped, the High-Bailiffs fhall take the Fee of one Penny. And each High-Bailiff, with the Affiftance of one or mure petit Conflables, is required co infpeft the Weights and Meafures made Ufe of in his Ddtrid, from Time to Time, four Times in the Year, at leaft. Making And in cafe any Perfon fhall make Ufe of any ^ °r i ^c*8ht or Meafure, not ftamped as aforelaid, or Weighuan^ Wright or Meafure, which fhall, upon Exa-andMca-m*n^^on> be found deficient, according to the fire* Standard aforefaid, fuch Weight or Meafure fhall be forthwith renewed, or broken and deftroyed. The Offender and the Offence fhall be reported in Writing, by the faid High-Bailiff, to the faid Regulator, and the Perfon or Perlons offending, by ufmg fuch unlawful or defeftive Weights or Meafures, fhall thereupon feverally forfeit for the Penalty firft Offence, the Sum of ten Shillings, and for the fecond Offence, twenty Shillings, and for the third Offence, three Pounds j and for every Offence thereafter, fuch Offender or Offenders fhall feverally be fubjeft to a Fine, not exceeding the Sum of five Pounds, or Imprifon-ment, not exceeding one Month, which laid kye-ral Forfeitures or Fines fhall, by Order of the Governor, or Lieut.Governor for the Tune being, be forthwith levied by Execution and Diftrcfs, and paid into the Hands of the faid Regulator of Weights and Meafures, and be by him diftiibut-ed among fuch High-Bailiffs, petit Conflables, and others, employed in the carrying of this Claufe of the Aft effeftually into Execution, in fuch Manner, Shares, and Proportions, as th? Governor of this Ifle, for re Time being, (had X 2 *®r for that Purpofedireft and appdjk. And the faid Senate Regulator or Weights and Meafures is hereby re- x^7 quired to keep a Rfek, and make Entries therein <•1 ah Hoceedings and Tranfaftions which fhall occur in his Department, as aforefaid, for the Examination and Infpe&ion of all and every Per- z fon and Perfons whom it fhall or may concern. W H A L E S. OrdL rerpus JF any Porpus, Sturgeon, or Whale, be taken d^J5 burgeon within the Pleads of Man, they be the Lord’s ten md and by his Prerogative. Keys V ”aic * 1422 W I D O W. [^ Baren and Fcn.^—lnlejlate.'] WIFE. [See /duller? >—-Baron and Feme.] WIL L. t Jr any make they* Tejlament, and leave not Six- Spiritual n pence Legacy unto their Children unmarried,Cukoma-Lgir.mateiy begotten, or the Value thereof, then 17 a*’ the Ordinary may lawfully make him or her Ex- ittors with thr K L >31 after “ thereof,” read as follows : Provided alfo that nothing in this Aft (hall * ™rcha- exclude or reftrain the Purchafer or Purchafers Sl^le U la. d$of fuch pUrchafed Lands, or acquired Premi- 1 ^ w... fts, from granting or devifing the fame as he, 1 1 flw, or they, (hall, by Deed or Will, think proper : And provided alfo that nothing herein contained (ball preclude or prevent the Propne- File tors °f Lands of whatsoever Nature or 1 enure, from felling or alienating fuch Lands and Premifes, by Deed, duly executed, for a full Mort- and valuable Confideration, as heretofore ac-g«g« cuftomed; or It fie n the Rights of Mortgagees # in any Houfes, Lands, or 1 enements, or <.f any Perfons poflcfltd of kafehold Pdates, for a Term or Term of Years, or prejudice juft Creditors ; but that fuch Houfes, Lands, and Tenements (hall be held and enjoyed by them, according to their nfptftivc Claims, Rights, and Intereds therein. Ard it is further triad- . ^1°^^ that all and every Perfon and Perfons, being rance? kifed of any Lands of Inheritance, (hall be, and Lafe are hereby impowered to grant a Leafc of the f whole, or any Part of fuch Vflate of Inheritance, for anv Term not.exceeding twenty orc Years in Puffefliun, and that thr high H and mpft i.nip oved Rent be had for the fame. Page E R R A TA. ^age 68, 1. 26, far “ fill,” read jf/e,—L 31, for 0 the Place,” read the loft Place-p. 81, ar the top of * the leaf, read, Fer recoi ting every Setting ^tzft's Dtvi-jiun, and a Copy thereof) if the Pa^ty deitre it, Rd.— P 97> h 29, for “ einpanneUed,” real in panne Hid,-— P- 99> 1» 8, after “ Ground,” read of any Ini ant,— ). 12, leave out ‘'/awe”--?. 101, L 32, for “of Judgment,” read or Judgment,—^ 115, I. 27, leave out “ or, *—p 117, 1. 21, for “ about or adjoining,” read abut or adjoin,—p. 122, L 27, for “ or Pctfons,” read if Per font,—p^ 132, I. u, for “ Parilh,” read Farjo*,— p 133, 1. 20, for “thereupon,” read there-jiom,—p 135, 1. 17, tor “endi&ed,” read indicted,— L 19, fur “ fuuth,” read Joit^t^,—^ 139, 1. 26, for “ Tenant,” real Tenants,—p. 145, bottom line, for and,” read /«,—p. 146, alter Title “ Sheep,” read "as follows: SHOOTING. J? is enabled, that none (hall hereafter pre- fume to carry about a Gun to fowl, Ihoot/awte Game kill, or deftroy the Load’s Game, without the l*^ Governor’s Licence, in Writing, firft had for Penalty t^e fa,ne> upon Pain of forfeiting three Pounds; one H ilf to the Lord, and the other Half to the Perfon informing againft, or prefenting the • Offence in Manner hereafter directed by this Act. Aad f>r the better Difcovery of fuch as M wk of fhall tranfgrefs herein. It Is further enacted, PrJuu thu the Method of proceeding upon this A£t, full be by Information upon Oath, or. Pre-kntment made unto the Court, by a Jury of Inquiry of four Men, to be impannelled and ’ Twin in every Parilh, yearly, after Midfum-g < met, by the refoedive Coroners, tb inquire of, B& and purl? or ftverally make Prefentment^ in , ‘ ' the ERRATA. the Premifes, as Occadoa (hill require, in Statute which they (hall ufe the r utmoft Diligence, as x^ they will avoid a Pine o- five Shillngs a-piece for every Default or Neglcd; ana that the Coroners and Lockmen are allo hereby obliged to inquire .of and make Informations or Prc-fentments againft Contemners of this Aft , and if any of them fhall be found to fail therein, they (hall be fined at the Court’s Dif-cretion, for every Default, or Negied, and that it fhall be lawful for all Others, as well \ as th de already mentioned, to make Informations on this Act $ and that upon every fuch Information upon Oath, and Prefentment made, the Offender, or Offenders, being firft heard, (hall be condemned by the Judgment of the Court in the Penalty before mentioned ; and that the Jury, or any of them, prefent-ing, or any Coroner or Lpckman obliged to give Informations, or make Prefcntmcnts as aforefaid, fhall be intitled to the Moiety of the Forfeiture, as any private Perfons fhould or could be by Virtue of this Ad : An i that Pidgeon none fl^u Carry about their Guns, to (hoot «d8Cpidgeo^ p"tridges, or Growfe, under the Growfe Penalty of twenty Shillings, on Proof or Pre- fentment made thereof in Manner before mentioned. Page 148, L 25, for “ left,” read kt,—in the margin, for “ 1703,” read 1704,—p. 152,1. 3. for