STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, BULGES, ORDERS, ETC. 859 



commodities or things, of what kind or nature soever, the same shall 

 be, from one port or creek of England, Ireland, Wales, islands of 

 Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, to another port 

 or creek of the same, or any of them; under penalty for every one 

 that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this 

 present act, to forfeit all such goods as shall be loaden and carried in 

 any such ship or vessel, together with the ship or vessel, and all her 

 guns, ammunition, tackle, furniture and apparel; one moiety to his 

 Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or 

 them that shall inform, seize or sue for the same in any Court of 

 Kecord, to be recovered in manner aforesaid. 



VII. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that 

 where any ease, abatement or privilege is given in the Book of Kates 

 to goods or commodities imported or exported in English-built ship- 

 ping, that is to say, shipping built in England, Ireland, Wales, is- 

 lands of Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or in 

 any the lands, islands, dominions and territories to his Majesty in 

 Africa, Asia or America, belonging, or in his possession, that it is 

 always to be understood and provided, that the master and three 

 fourths of the mariners of the said ships at least be also English; (2) 

 and that where it is required that the master and three fourths of the 

 mariners be English, that the true intent and meaning thereof is, that 

 they should be such during the whole voyage, unless in case of sick- 

 ness, death, or being taken prisoners in the voyage, to be proved by 

 the oath of the master or other chief officer of such ships. 



VIII. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no 

 goods or commodities of the growth, production or manufacture of 

 Muscovy, or of any of the countries, dominions or territories to the 

 Great Duke or Emperor of Muscovy, or Russia belonging, as also 

 that no sort of masts, timber or boards, no foreign salt, pitch, tar, 

 rosin, hemp or flex, raisins, figs, prunes, olive-oils, no sorts of corn 

 or grain, sugar, pot-ashes, wines, vinegar or spirits called Agua-vitce, 

 or brandy-wine, shall from and after the first day of April, which 

 shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty one, 

 be imported into England, Ireland, Wales, or town of Berwick upon 

 Tweed, in any ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such 

 as do truly and without fraud belong to the people thereof, or some 

 of them, as the true owners and proprietors thereof, and whereof the 

 master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English: And 

 that no currants nor commodities of the growth, production or manu- 

 facture of any of the countries, islands, dominions or territories to the 

 Othoman or Turkish Empire belonging, shall from and after the first 

 day of September, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thou- 

 sand six hundred sixty-one, be imported into any the afore-mentioned 

 places in any ship or vessel, but which is of English-built, and navi- 

 gated, as aforesaid, and in no other, except only such foreign ships 

 and vessels as are of the built of that country or place of which the 

 said goods are the growth, production or manufacture respectively, 

 or of siich port where the said goods can only be, or most usually are, 

 first shipped for transportation, and whereof the master and three 

 fourths of the mariners at least are of the said country or place, under 

 the penalty and forfeiture of ship and goods, to be disposed and 

 recovered as in the foregoing clause. 



