A. D. 1698. 705 



ceptance fliall be by under-writing the fame under the party's hand fo 

 accepting. And after the expiration of three days after the bill fliall 

 become due, the party to whom the bill is made payable, his fervant, 

 agent, or afligns, may, and (hall caufe the bill to be protefted by a notary 

 public, or any other fubflantial perfon of the city, town, or place, in the 

 prefence of two or more credible witneffes, refufal or negled being firfl 

 made of due payment, which proteft fliall be made and written under 



a fair-written copy of the fiiidbill, fignifying, that I, A. B. on the 



day of , at the ufual place of abode of thefaid C. D. have demand- 

 ed payment of the bill of which this is a copy ; which the faidC. D. did 

 not pay : wherefor I the faid A- B. do hereby proteft the faid bill. Dated 



at this day of . Which proteft fhall, within fourteen days after, 



be fent, or otherwife due notice fhall be given thereof, to the party from 

 whom the bill was received, and who, upon producing fuch proteft, fhall 

 repay the bill, together with intereft and charges : and, on default of 

 fuch proteft, (for which Gd only fhall be paid) or due notice, the perion fo 

 failing fliall be liable to all cofts, damages, and intereft, acruing there- 

 by : provided, that if any fuch bill be loft or mifcarried within the time 

 limited for payment, the drawer fhall be obliged to give another bill ; 

 the perfon to whom it is fent giving fecurity, if demanded, to the drawer, 

 to indemnify him, in cafe the loft bill fhall be found again. [9, 10 

 Gul. Ill, c. 17.] 



Private and fallacious lotteries were at this time become general, not 

 only in London, but in moft other great cities and towns of England, 

 whereby the lower people, and the fervants and children of good families, 

 were defrauded : an aft of parliament was therefor pafTed, for fupprefs- 

 ing fuch lotteries ; even though they might be fet up under colour of 

 patents or grants under the great feal, fuch grants or patents, againft the 

 common good, welfare, and peace, of the kingdom, being void, and 

 againft law ; and a penalty of L500 was laid on the proprietors of any 

 fuch lotteries, and of L20 on every adventurer in them. [10, 11 Gul. 

 ///,r. 17.] 



1699. — During the unfettled times of the Eaft-Tndia trade, the old 

 Eaft-lndia company's ftock, by the management of ftock-jobbers, had, 

 in about nine or ten years pafl, been fold on the exchange at from 300 

 per cent down to 37 per cent. 



Captain Dampier, in the king's fliip the Roebuck, having failed upon 

 new difcoveries, after various adventures found that the eaftermoft part 

 of New Guinea did not join to the continent, but was, in fad, an ifland, 

 which he therefor called New-Britain. 



Complaints being ftill loud concerning the wool and woollen manu- 

 factures of Ireland exported into foreign parts ; and that even thofe of 

 our North-American plantations began to be likewiie exported to fo- 

 reign markets, formerlv fupplied by England ; a law was thereupon 



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