A.D,iyot: Anno primo Ann ^ Regmce. Stat. i. C. i8. 97 ef Gold and Silver Thread, and to prevent the Abiifes of JVire-drawers. In Silver gilt ufed by the Wire- drawers, Quantity of fine Gold to a Pound of Silver. No gilt Wire to be coloured with Verdigreece, t^c. Six Ounces of Plate to cover four Ounces of Silk, isc. How Gold and Silver Plate fhall be fpun. All Metals inferior to Silver fhall be fpun on Thread, l^c. No Gold or Silver Thread, i^c, to be imported. KSc to continue feven Years. Penalty on felling Gold or Silver Orice Lace mixt, dffc. or felling by any other Weight than Troy Weight ; or making Goods contrary to this Aft, i^c EXP. CAP. XVIII. An Aft to explain and alter the Aft made in the two and twentieth Year of King Henry the Eighth, concerning repairing and amending of Bridges in the Highways : And for repealing an Aft made in the twenty-third Year of Queen Elizabeth, for the re-edifying of Cardiffe Bridge in the County of Glamorgan : And alfo for changing the Day of Eleftion of the Wardens and Affiftants of Rochefler Bridge. ' TXT HE RE AS by an A<E1: of Parliament in the two and twentieth Year of the Reign of King a^H. g, c.'y, ' VV Henry the Eighth, intituled. An ASl concerning repairing and arnending^ of Bridges in the High- ^^^"^"^"^ ^° ' ways, it is amongft other Things therein enafted, That in every Cafe where it cannot be known and g^^ges"^ " ' proved what Perfons, Lands, Tenements, and Bodies Politick ought to make and repair fuch Bridges, ' that for fpeedy Reformation and Amending of fuch Bridges, the Juftices of the Peace within their fe-
- veral Counties, Shires, Ridings and Divifions, Cities and Towns Corporate, or any four of them,
' whereof one to be of the ^ioru?n, fhall within the Limits of their feveral Commiffions call before them ' the Conftables of every Town and Parifli, or elfe two of the mofl: honefl: Inhabitants of every Town and ' Parifli. and with the Affent of the faid Conftables or Inhabitants, fhall tax and fet every Inhabitant in ' fuch City, Town, and Parifli, to fuch reafonable Aid, and Sums of Money, as they fhall think by ' their Difcretions convenient for the repairing of fuch Bridges, and after fuch Taxation made, fhall caufe ' the Names and Sums of every particular Perfon fo by them taxed, to be written in a Roll indented, one ' Part whereof is to be delivered under the Hands and Seals of the faid Juftices, to two CoUeftors ap- ' pointed by the faid Juftices for every Hundred, who are thereby impowered to colledl the fame; which ' Method and Manner of taxing and collefting the faid Money for Repair of decayed Bridges, and ' the Highways thereunto adjoining, having by long Experience been found very troublefome, burthen- ' fome, and chargeable to the feveral Counties, Cities, Towns Corporate, Ridings and Divifions : And ' whereas in many Places within this Kingdom, more Money than is neccflary for the Repair of fuch ' Bridges hath been taxed and collected, or the Money which hath been fo taxed and coUefted hath been ' mifimployed, and not laid out in the Repair of fuch Bridges as was intended :' For Remedy of all which Mifchiefs and Inconveniences for the future, may it pleafe your moft Excellent Majefly that it may be enafted ; and be it enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That all and every the Claufes, Matters and Things in the faid Act of the two further conti- and twentieth Year of the Reign of the faid King Henry the Eighth, not hereby altered, fhall be and ""^d. continue in full Force and Virtue, to all Intents, Conftruftions and Purpofes whatfoever, relating to the repairing of decayed Bridges, and the Highways thereunto adjoining. II. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That for the more eafy taxing and collecting For collefling of the Money for the Repair of decayed Bridges, and thit the fame may be duly applied to the Purpofes Money for Re- fer vhich it is intended, the Juflrices of the Peace, v/ithin the feveral Limits of their Commiffions, fhall, pair of decayed at their General or QLiarter-Seffions of the, Peace, from and after the firft Day o^ May, v/hich fliall be in ^"pf'^'^J^f '" the Y"ear of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and two, have full Pov/er and Authority, upon due afl-ef"",e"^^ Prefentment to them made, that any Bridge within their refpeilive Com.milfions or Authorities is out Town, &c. in of Repair, and which by them hath ufually, or ought to have been repaired and maintained, to aiTefs Proportion, upon every Town, Parifli or Place within their refpeflive Commi-lions, iii Proportions upon each re- fpeclive 1 own and Parifh, as they ufually have been affefTed towards the Repair of Bridges ; which Mo- Affeffments how ney fo allefled as aforefaidj fliall be levied and collected by the refpedtiv? Conftables of each Parifli, w be levied, &q. Townfhip, Hamlet or Vill, or by fuch other Perfon and Perfons, and in fuch Manner, as the {aid Ju- ftices by their Order at fuch SeiTions, fliall in that Behalf direft: and appoint, and the Money thereby raifed fliall (by fuch Conftables or other Perlons, fo as aforefaid by tliem collected) o': paid over by them to the High Conftables of every Hundred, in any fuch County, Ci'^y, Riding, or Divifion, in fix Days after they fhall have received the lame, and the High Conftables frail and are hereby required, in ten Days after their P>.eceipt, to pay the fame into the Hands of fuch Perfon and Perfons as the faid Ju- ijices, by their Order, at fuch Seffions fliall direft and anpoirt to -e Treafurers and Receivers of the Treafurers to be i:me, and the Money thereby raifed fliall be imployed and accounted for according to the Orders appointed, and End Direfiions of the faid Juftices, for and towards the Amending of fuch decayed Bridges, and Monies how im- the Highways at the End of the faid Bridges, from.Time to Time, as Need fhall require; and the P'°>'^'^- fid Aflellments fliall be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Goods of every Perfon fo afTeflTed, not paying On Nonpayment the fame within ten Days after Demand, rendring the Overplus of the Valtie of the Goods fo diftrained to be levied by to the Owner and Owners thereof, the necefiary Charges of making and felling fucii Diftrefs being firft Dilrefs, deducted. ■ Vol. IV. • O . III. And
