440 Penalty j 1. 7&8 W. 3. c. ig. §3. II & 12 W. 3, c. 15. s W. & M. SelT. 2. c. 14. 300 1. Penalty ior failing fo- phifticated Wine. 4 & 5 W. & M C. I, 2. Anno primo Gulielmi & Mari^. A. D. 1680 other than by and. in Meafure? mad; of Pev/ter, and fealed according to the Statute, under the Pain an* Penalty of five Po'^nds for every fuch Offence, to. the Informer, to be levied and recovered in any of fuch Courts, and in fuch Manner, as aforefaid. XX. And for the preventing of the Mifchiefs which maybe occafioned by the fophiflicating, corrupting and adulterating of Wines during fuch Time as they are by this A£t allowed to be fold, be it ena^Sed i hat if any Merchant, Vintner, Wine-cooper, or other Perfon felling Vt'"ine by holefale or Retail, ftiall corrupt, fophifticate, or adulterate any Wine, or fliall utter or fell any Wine corrupted, fophifticatsd or adulterated; fuch Perfon fhall forfeit the Sum of three hundred Pounds for every fuch CJftence, the 'one Moiety thereof to their Majefties and their Succeffors, and theother Moiety thereof to fuch Perfon as {hall fue for the fame by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Efloin, Projection, , or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance ftiall be allowed, and alfo fhall fufFer Imprifonment by the Space of three Months, without Bail or Mainprife, o Sc 10 w.- 3. c. 8. 12 & 13 W. 3. c. II. §. 27. 9 Ann. c. 21. The Heads of i^bdication. Difpenfing Power. Committing Prelates . Ecclefiaftical Commifiion. Levying Mon^X- Standing Army. Difarming Pro- teftants. Violating Elec- tions. Wrong Piofe- cutionsi Juries. Exceffive Bail. r'nes and Pu- niftments. Grants of Fines, &c. 5 H. I-J'l- '• c. 14 SESSIO SECUNDA. Anno Regni GULIELMI & MARINE primo. CAP. I. (35.} An Aft for a Grant to their Majefties of an Aid of two Shillings in the Pound for one Year. Lxp. CAP. II. (36.) An Aft declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subjeft, and fettling the SucceiTion of the Crown,
- "X /WHEREAS the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, affembled at JVeJiminJiir^ lawfully,
• ' VV fully^ and freely reprefenting all the Eftates of the People of this Realm, did upon the thirteenth ■'Day of February in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred eighty-eight, prefent unto their ' Majefties, then called and known by the Names and Stile oi JViUiam and Mary, Prince and Princefs of ' Orange, being prefent in their proper Perfons, a certain Declaration in Writing, made by the faid. Lords ' and Commons, in the Words following ; vi%. "HEREAS the late King yi7OT^.f th 3 Second, by the Affiftance of divers evil Counfellors, Judges, and Minifters employed by him, did endeavour to fubvert and extirpate the Proteftant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom. ' I. By affuming and exercifing a Power of difpenfing with and fufpending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without Confent of Parliament. ' 2. By committing and profecuting divers worthy Prelates, for humbly petitioning to be excufed from concurring to the faid afiumed Power. ' 3. By iiliiing and caufmg to be executed a Commiffion under the Great Seal for eredling a Court called, The Court of Cormn'ijfio'mrs frr Ecdefiajiical Caufes. ' 4. By levying Money for and to the Ufe of the Crown, by Pretence of Prerogative, for other Time, anci in other Manner, than the fame was-granted by Parliament. ' 5. By raifing and keeping a Standing Army within this Kingdom in Time of Peace, without Confent of Parliament, and quartering Soldiers contrary to Law. ' 6. By caufmg feveral good Subjects, being Protettants, to be difarmed, at the fame Time when Papifts were both armed and employed, contrary to Law. ' 7. By violating the Freedom of Election of Members to ferve in Parliament. ' 8. By Profecutions in the Court of King's Bench, for Matters and Caufes cognizable only in Parlia- ment ; and by divers other arbitrary and illegal Courfes. ' Q. And whereas of -late Years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified Per.'bns, have been returned and ferved on Juries in Trials, and particularly divers Jurors in Trials for High Treafon, which were not Free- holders. ' 10. And exceffive Bail hath been required of Perfons committed in criminal Cafes, to elude the Benefit of the Laws made for the Liberty of the Subjects. ' II. And exceffive Fines have been impofed ; and illegal and cruel punifhments inflicted.
- 12. And feveral Grants and Promifes made of Fines and Forfeitures, before any Conviftion or Judg-
ment againft the Perfons, upon whom the fame were to be levied. ' All v/hich are uttely and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes, and Freedom of this Realm,' ' i ■I Ed. I. c. 6, 34 Ed. %. c. I. ' And
