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Oxford, or within any Cathedral Church, or the Liberties or Precincts thereof, in this Realm of England, or within the Colleges of Eaton or Winchester; (2) but that the Vice-Chancellor of either of the Universities for the Time being, within either of the same respectively, and the Bishop and Dean of every such Cathedral Church, or one of them, within such Cathedral Church, and the Provost or Warden of either of the said Colleges within the same, shall have all such Power and Authority, and shall do and execute all and every such Act and Acts, Thing and Things in this Act before-mentioned, within their several Precincts and Jurisdictions abovesaid, as wholly, absolutely and fully, to all Intents and Purposes, as any Mayor, Bailiffs, Head Officers or Justices of Peace, within their several Precincts and Jusisdictions may elsewhere by Force of this Act do and execute. [3 Car. i. c. 4. Continued until the End of the first Session of the next Parliament, and farther continued by 16 Car. 1. c. 4. ]

CAP. XXXII.

^[1][2]From the end of this Sesson of Parlirment, during seven Years and no longer, there shall be paid by the Master or Owner of every Ship, Vessel or Crayer saving of Lime-Regis in the County of Dorset) whereof any of the King's Subjects shall be Owners or Part-Owners, of the Burden of twenty Tons or upwards, for every Voyage loading or discharging within this Realm, or to or from any foreign Country beyond the Seas, and passing to or from London, or from, to or by Dover, or coming into the Harbour there, (not having a Cocquet testifying his Payment before) Three-pence for every Ton of the Burden of every such Vessel, &c. except Vessels loaden with Sea coals or Grind-Stones; and for every Chaldron of Sea-Coals or Grind-Stones i.d. ob. which shall be paid to the Customer, Collector of Customs or Subsidies, or their Deputies, &c. EXP.

CAP. XXXIII.

^[3]An Act of a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage. A Subsidy granted.to the King of Tonnage, Poundage, Wools, &c. What Subsidies the Kings of this Realm have had, and for what Causes. EXP.

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Anno Regni Jacobi Regis Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ & Hiberniæ, viz Angliæ Franciæ & Hiberniæ tertio, & Scotiæ tricesimo nono.

AT the second Session of Parliament begun and holden by Prorogation at Westminster the fifth Day of November in the third Year of the Reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lord James, by the Grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth: And there continued until the seven and twentieth of May: (And from this second Session of Parliament, ending the said seven and twentieth of May, the said Parliament was prorogued until the eighteenth of November next following, one thousand six hundred and six,) to the high Pleasure of Almighty God, and to the Weal publick of this Realm, were enacted as followeth.

CAP. I.

An Act for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God every Year on the fifth Day of November.

Yearly Prayer shall be made for the Delivery of the King,&c. from the Gunpowder Treason.For as much as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious Deliverance of his Church, and in the Protection of Religious Kings and States; The Blessings of his King and Progeny(2) and that no Nation of the Earth hath been blessed with greater Benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth, having the true and free Profession of the Gospel under our most gracious Sovereign Lord King James, the most great, learned and religious King that ever reigned therein, Enriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progeny, proceeding out of his Royal Loins, promising Continuance of this Happiness and Profession to all Posterity: The Gunpowder Treason conspired to have been effected 5 Nov. Ann. Dom. 1605.(3) The which many malignant and devilish Papists, Jesuits and Seminary Priests, much envying and fearing, conspired most horribly, when the King's most excellent Majesty, the Queen, the Prince, and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, should have been assembled in the Upper House of Parliament upon the fifth Day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five, suddenly to have blown up the said whole House with Gunpowder: (4) An Invention so inhumane, barbarous and cruel, as the like was never before heard of, and was (as some of the principal Conspirators thereof confess) purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House, that where sundry necessary and religious Laws for Preservation of the Church and State were made, which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws, enacted against them and their Religion, both Place and Persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once; How the Treason was discovered.(5) which would have turned to the utter Ruin of this whole Kingdom, had it not pleased Almighty God, by inspiring the King's most excellent Majesty with a Divine Spirit, to interpret some dark. Phrases of a Letter shewed to his Majesty, above and beyond all ordinary Construction thereby miraculously dis-

1. Dover, Rast.5
2. 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 27.
3. 2 Roll 383.

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