Portal:Acts of the Parliament of England/Charles II
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These are the Acts of the Parliament of England, which remained in existence until the Act of Union 1707, during the reign of Charles II. Preceded by the Second Commonwealth and followed by the reign of James II.
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Year | Citation | Short name | Long name |
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1660 | 12 Chas. 2. c. 1. | Parliament Act 1660[1] | An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament |
1660 | 12 Chas. 2. c. 11. | An act of free and general pardon, indemnity and oblivion | |
1660 | 12 Chas. 2. c. 18. | An act for the encouraging and increasing of shipping and navigation | |
1660 | 12 Chas. 2. c. 24. | Tenures Abolition Act 1660[1] | An Act takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance, and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in Lieu thereof. |
1661 | 13 Chas. 2. stat. 1. c. 1. | Sedition Act 1661[1] | An Act for Safety and Preservation of His Majesties Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious practices and attempts. |
1661 | 13 Chas. 2. stat. 1. c. 5. | Tumultuous Petitioning Act 1661[1] | An Act against Tumults and Disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting Petitions or other Addresses to His Majesty or the Parliament. |
1661 | 13 Chas. 2 stat. 1. c. 12. | Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1661[1] | An Act for Explanation of a Clause contained in an Act of Parliament made in the seventeenth year of the late King Charles, Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethe concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical. |
1662 | 14 Chas. 2. c. 3. | City of London Militia Act 1662[1] | An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties of the Kingdom. |
1662 | 14 Chas. 2. c. 4. | Act of Uniformity 1662[1] | An Act for the Uniformity of Publique Prayers and Administracion of Sacraments & other Rites & Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of making ordaining and consecrating Bishops Preists and Deacons of the Church of England. |
1662 | 14 Chas. 2. c. 12. | Poor Relief Act 1662[2] | An Acte for the better Releife of the Poore of this Kingdom. |
1663 | 15 Chas. 2. c. 6. | Act of Uniformity (Explanation) Act 1663[1] | An Act for Releife of such Persons as by Sickness or other Impediment were disabled from subscribeing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity and Explanation of part of the said Act. |
1664 | 16 & 17 Chas. 2. c. 5 | Execution Act 1664[1] | An Act to prevent Delayes in Extending Statutes Judgements and Recognizances. |
1665 | 17 Chas. 2. c. 3 | Augmentation of Benefices Act 1665[1] | An Act for uniting Churches in Cittyes and Towns Corporate. |
1666 | 18 & 19 Chas. 2. c. 11. | Cestui que Vie Act 1666[1] | An Act for Redresse of Inconveniences by want of Proofe of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose lives Estates doe depend. |
1667 | 19 & 20 Chas. 2. c. 8. | Dean Forest Act 1667[2] | An Acte for the increase and preservation of timber within the Forest of Dean |
1670 | 22 Chas. 2. c. 12 | Bridges Act 1670[1] | An Additionall Act for the better repairing of Highwayes and Bridges. |
1670 | 22 & 23 Chas. 2. c. 10. | Statute of Distribution[2] | An Act for the better settling of intestates' estates. |
1670 | 22 & 23 Chas. 2. c. 11. | Piracy Act 1670[1] | An Act to prevent the delivery up of Merchants Shipps, and for the Increase of good and serviceable shipping. |
1677 | 29 Chas. 2. c. 3. | The Statute of Frauds 1677[2] | An Act for prevention of Frauds and Perjuryes. |
1677 | 29 Chas. 2. c. 7. | The Sunday Observance Act 1677[2] | An Act for the better Observation of the Lords Day commonly called Sunday. |
1677 | 29 Chas. 2. c. 8. | Augmentation of Benefices Act 1677[1] | An Act for confirming and perpetuating Augmentations made by Ecclesiasticall Persons to small Vicarages and Curacies. |
1677 | 29 Chas. 2. c. 9. | Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677[1] | An Act for takeing away the Writt De Heretico cumburendo. |
1679 | 31 Chas. 2. c. 1. | Billeting Act 1679.[1] | An Act for granting a Supply to His Majestie of Two hundred and six thousand fower hundred sixtie two pounds seventeen shillings and three pence for paying off and disbanding the Forces raised since the nine and twentyeth of September one thousand six hundred and seaventy seaven. |
1679 | 31 Chas. 2. c. 2. | The Habeas Corpus Act 1679[2] | An Act for the better secureing the Liberty of the Subject and for the Prevention of Imprisonments beyond the Seas. |