354 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTEE CASE. 



dock, Coal-fish or Gull-fish, shall be imported into England, Wales, 

 or the Town of Berwick, but in English-built Ships or Vessels, or in 

 Ships or Vessels bona fide belonging to England, Wales, or the Town 

 of Berwick, and having such Certificate thereof as is abovesaid, and 

 whereof the Master and three Fourths at the least of the Mariners 

 are English, and which hath been fished, caught and taken in such 

 Ships or Vessels, and so navigated, and not being bought or had of 

 any Strangers born, or out of any Strangers Bottoms, under the 

 Pain of the Forfeiture of all such Herring, Cod, Haddock, Coal-fish 

 or Gull-fish imported contrary to the true Intent and Meaning hereof, 

 and of the Ship or Vessel in which it was imported; (3) one Moiety 

 of which Forfeitures shall be to his Majesty, his Heirs and Success- 

 ors ; and the other Moiety to him or them that shall inform, seize or 

 sue for the same, to be recovered by Bill, Plaint or other Action, 

 wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed. 



XVII. And be it further enacted, and it is hereby enacted by the 

 Authority aforesaid, That for the following Sorts or Kinds of salted 

 or dried Fish, which from and after the said first Day of August 

 shall be imported into England, Wales, or the Town of Berwick, in 

 any other Ship or Vessel than what is English-built or belonging to 

 England, Wales, or Town of Berwick, and having such Certificate 

 thereof as abovesaid, and whereof the Master and three Fourths of 

 the Mariners at least are English and not having been fished and 



caught in such Ships or Vessels, and so navigated, there 

 214 shall be paid by way of Custom and Impost the several Sums 



of Money herein after particularly mentioned, (that is to say) 

 For Cod-fish the Barrel, five Shillings; for Cod-fish the Last, con- 

 taining twelve Barrels, three Pounds ; for Cod-fish the Hundred, con- 

 taining sixscore, ten Shillings; for Coal-fish the Hundred, contain- 

 ing sixscore, five shillings; for Lings the Hundred, containing six- 

 score, one Pound; for White Herrings the Last, containing twelve 

 Barrels, one Pound sixteen Shillings ; for Haddocks the Barrel, two 

 Shillings ; for Gull-fish the Barrel, two Shillings. 



No Z.1676: Extract from British Statute, 29 Charles II, Cap. 7. 

 An Act for the better Observation of the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday. 



" For the better observation and keeping holy the Lord's Day, com- 

 monly called Sunday;" (2) Be it enacted by the King's most Ex- 

 cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 

 Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this present Parlia- 

 ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, that all the laws 

 enacted and in force concerning the observation of the Lord's Day, 

 and repairing to the church thereon, be carefully put in execution; 

 (3) and that all and every person and persons whatsoever shall on 

 every Lord's Day apply themselves to the observation of the same, 

 by exercising themselves thereon in the duties of piety and true reli- 

 gion, publicly and privately; (4) and that no tradesman, artificer, 

 workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise 

 any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon 

 the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity 



