7. An act for repairing and amending

the highways leading from Royston in the county of Hertford, to Wandesford Bridge, in the county of Huntingdon.

8. An act for repairing the highways from Sheet Bridge in the parish of Petersfield, to the town of Portfmouth, in the county of Southampton. 9. An act for repairing the highways between Dunfiable and Hockley in the county of Bedford.

10. An act for fettling the estates of the right noble Evelyn lord marquis of Dorchefer, and William Pierrepont, efq; commonly called lord Kingston, fon and heir apparent of the faid lord marquis; and alfo for fettling the eftate late of John Hall, efq; on the marriage of the faid William Pierrepont, efq; 11. An act to enable Arthur earl of Anglefey, and Henry Hyde, efq; commonly called Henry viscount Hyde, to take in England the oath of office as vice treasurer, and receiver general, and paymafter general of her Majefty's revenues in her kingdom of Ireland, and to qualify themselves in England for the legal enjoyment of the faid office.

12. An act to enable the earl of Themond to make leases for three lives, with covenants for renewal thereof for ever, and grants in fee farm, of the lands and hereditaments in Ireland, comprised in his marriage fettlement.

13. An act for vesting in Henry Arundel, efq; and his heirs, the truft in the eftate of the lord viscount Montagu, which is vefted in her Majefty by the attainder of John Caryll, efq; for high treason. 14. An act for difcharging John lord bishop of Rapho in the kingdom of Ireland, from all penalties, and incapacities, incurred by him in omitting to take the oath of abjuration on or before the first day of August, one thousand feven hundred and

three, and for making all ecclefiaftical and civil acts done by him, as bishop of Rapho, after fuch omiffion, to be of the fame validity as they would have been if he had taken the said oath in due time. 15. An act for eftablishing a purchase of certain fee farms, lands, and hereditaments, in the kingdom of Ireland, made by Sir Alexander Cairnes, baronet, of his grace James duke of Ormond, in pursuance of a power given him by an act of parliament paffed in this kingdom in the twelfth year of his late Majefty's reign, notwithstanding an act paffed in Ireland in the ninth year of the reign of her prefent Majefty, or a deed dated the five and twentieth of April, one thousand seven hundred and ten, therein mentioned. 16. An act for confirming to the principal and scholars of King's Hall and college of Brazen Nofe in the university of Oxford, the purchase of the advowfons of Stepney and other churches, and for fettling the fame to the benefit of the faid college.

17. An act for confirming a leafe for one and twenty years, made by Jeffery Palmer, efq; and others, of lands in Carlton Curlieu in the county of Leicester, for payment of the debts of the faid Jeffery Palmer. 18. An act for fale of fuch part of the estate of Nathaniel Mathew, late of Petersham in the county of Surrey, gent. deceased, as will be fufficient to discharge his debts and legacies thereon charged by his laft will and teftament; and for fettling the remainder thereof to the ufes in the faid will mentioned.

19. An act for fale of feveral lands

and hereditaments of William Henden, efq; in the county of Kent, for payment of his debts, and for fettling other lands in the fame county, of a better value, to the fame uses, in lieu thereof.

20. An act for fale of the eftate of Humphry Pooler, in the parish of Hartlebury, in the county of Worcefter.

21. An act for the fale of part of the eftate of Sir Richard Allin, alias Anguish, baronet in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, for payment of his debts, and fettling the remainder according to his marriage articles.

22. An act to enable trustees to perform the marriage articles of Sir Richard Grofvenor, baronet, and dame Jane his wife, notwithstanding the lunacy of dame Mary Grofvenor, and the infancy of her younger children; and for fettling the eftate in the family, and making building leafes, as effectually as if the faid dame Mary was of found mind, and her children of full age, and all had joined in levying fines. 23. An act for vefting feveral meffuages or tenements in Bride Lane, and elsewhere, in the parish of StBridget, alias St. Bride's, London,of John Poynter, efq; in trustees, to be fold in lieu and fatisfaction of other manors, meffuages, lands, and tenements of a greater value, fettled by the faid John Poynter to fuch ufes, and upon fuch trufts, as the faid houses in London are fettled. 24. An act to enable John Hardres, efq; and Anne his wife, to fell certain lands in the county of Kent, and for fettling of others to the uses therein mentioned.

25. An act for vefting of certain lands in the parish of Woodchurch in the county of Kent, formerly purchased by Winifred Bridger, and Laurence Bridger, in certain trustees, to be fold for the raifing money for the purposes therein mentioned. 26, An act for the fale of the manor of Great Bealings, and feveral farms, lands, and hereditaments, late the eftate of Henry Wood, alias Webb, efq; deceafed, in Great Bealings, 6

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and several other places in the county of Suffolk, for discharging a mortgage thereon, and for payment of other debts of the faid Henry Wood, alias Webb, and for applying the overplus-money (if any) arifing by fuch fale, for the benefit of Henry Wood, alias Webb (an infant) his fon and heir.

27. An act for vesting a certain piece of ground being part of a field called Stonebridge Field, adjoining to Piccadilly in the county of Middlefex, in trustees, to difpofe of the fame, to discharge a debt to the crown, and to other uses.

28. An act to veft the eftate of Sir Henry Robinfon, knt. a lunatick, lying in Cranley, in the county of Northampton, in trustees, to enable them to make a fettlement on the - marriage of John Robinson, efq; only fon and heir apparent of the faid Sir Henry, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

29. An act to enable trustees to make, renew, and fill up leafes of the eftate of William Burgoyne, late of the city of Exon, merchant, deceased, during the minority of his fon and daughters..

30. An act for diffolving the marriage of Stephen Fermin, the only fon of Stephen Fermin, of London, merchant, with Sarah Bell, and to enable him to marry again. 31. An act for confirming the fale of the estate of John Wefton, efq; in the county of Surrey, and difcharging it from the demands of the crown. 32. An act for the fale of the estates late of William Habbald, and of his father Edward Hubbald, in the county of Surrey, for the fatisfaction of the faid William Hubbald's debt to the crown, and to preferve the furplus thereof for the purposes therein mentioned.

33. An act to explain and make more effectual a claufe relating to the eftate of dame Rebecca Lytton,, de

ceased,

ceafed, in an act of parliament made in the feventh year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for payment of the debts of Sir John Bolles, baronet, a lunatick.

34. An act for vesting the manor of Bucksteep, and feveral lands in SufJex, the eftate of Jofeph Weller, efq; in trustees, to be fold for discharging the incumbrances thereon, and applying the furplus-money to certain ufes and trufts therein mentioned.

35. An act for the relief of Abraham Roth of the kingdom of Ireland, efq; in relation to the purchase of part of the forfeited estates in Ireland.

36. An act to enable Robert Jones of Funmun Castle in the county of Glamorgan, efq; to make leases for three lives, or for ninety nine years determinable on three lives, of the manors, lands, and hereditaments in the county of Glamorgan, limited to himself for life by his marriage fettlement; and for fettling other lands to the uses of that fettlement in lieu and recompence of fuch power.

37. An act for the fale of certain lands and tithes in the parish of Tonge in the county of Leicester, late the eftate of William Muggelftone deceased, and for the diftribution of the money thereby arifing, purfuant to a fettlement made of the faid lands and tithes by the faid William Muggelftone.

38. An act for enabling Charles lord viscount Cullen, to fell the manor and advowson of the church of Elmefthorpe, in the county of Leicester, for the payment of his debts. 39. An act for sale of part of the eftate of Theophilus Biddulph, efq; for payment of his debts.

40. An act to enable trustees to make building leafes of part of the estate late of John Lovett deceased, lying in the city of Dublin.

41. An act for fale of timber upon the estate of Thomas Skeffington, efq; an infant, for payment of his father's debts.

42. An act for confirming an agreement made between Philip Saltmarsh and Thomas Bennett, efqrs. for a partition, divifion, and exchange of several eftates in the counties of Nottingham and Dorset, and other purposes therein mentioned.

43. An act for fale of part of the eftate of Richard Brideoake, efq; in the county of Oxon, and charging other part thereof with two annuities, for payment and fatisfaction of feveral incumbrances affecting his whole estate; and for confirming an agreement made between the faid Richard Brideoake and others claiming common in Hook Norton Warren and Hook Norton Lays, in the fame county.

44. An act for the fale of the manor of Frognal, and other lands and hereditaments in the county of Kent, the estate of George Clerk, efq; for payment of debts, and fettling an eftate in the county of Leicester, and city of London, to the fame uses as the estate in Kent was settled.

Anno 10 Annæ.

Cap. 1. For granting an aid to her Majefty, to be raised by a land tax in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year 1712.

Cap. 2. For preferving the protestant religion, by better fecuring the church of England as by law eftablifhed; and for confirming the toleration granted to proteftant diffenters by an act, intituled, An alt for exempting their Majefty's proteftant fubjects, diffenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws, and for fupplying the defects thereof; and for the further fecuring the proteftant fuc

ceffion,

ceffion, by requiring the practicers of the law in North Britain to take the oaths, and fubfcribe the declaration therein mentioned. Cap. 3. For charging and continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year 1712, and for applying part of the coinage duties, to pay the deficiency of the value of plate coined, and to pay for the recoining the old money in Scotland.

Cap. 4. For fettling the precedence of the most excellent princefs Sophia, electress and dutchefs dowager of Hanover, of the elector her son, and of the electoral prince the duke of Cambridge.

Cap. 5. To repeal the act of the feventh year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for naturalizing foreign proteftants, (except what relates to the children of her Majejesty's natural-born fubjects, born out of her Majefty's allegiance.) Cap. 6. For explaining and altering the laws now in being concerning the affizes of fuel, fo far as they relate to the affize of billet made or to be made of beech wood only. Cap. 7. To prevent the difturbing those of the epifcopal communion in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, in the exercise of their religious worship, and in the use of the liturgy of the church of England; and for repealing the act paffed in the parliament of Scotland, intituled, An act against irregular baptifms and marriages.

Cap. 8. To continue the act of the laft feffion of parliament, for taking, examining and stating the publick accounts of the kingdom, for one year longer.

Cap. 9. For recruiting her Majefty's land forces and marines, for the fervice of the year 1712. Cap. 10. For punishing mutiny and defcrtion, and falfe mufters, and

for the better payment of the army and quarters.

Cap. 11. For enlarging the time given to the commiffioners appointed by her Majefty, pursuant to an act for granting to her Majefty feveral duties on coals, for building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and fuburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned; and alfo for giving the faid commiffioners farther powers for better effecting the fame; and for appointing monies for rebuilding the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth in the city of London.

Cap. 12. To restore the patrons to their ancient rights of presenting minifters to churches vacant in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 13. For repealing part of an act paffed in the parliament of Scotland, intituled, Act for discharging the Yule vacance.

Cap. 14. For reviving and continuing several acts therein mentioned, for preventing the mischiefs which may happen by fire; for building and repairing county gaols; for exempting apothecaries from ferving parish and ward offices, and ferving upon juries; and relating to the returning of jurors. Cap. 15. For repealing a claufe in the ftatute made in the twenty-first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, An act for the further defcription of a bankrupt, and relief of creditors against fuch as fhall become bankrupts, and for inflicting corporal punishment upon the bankrupts in fome fpecial cafes, which makes defcriptions of bankrupts; and for the explanation of the laws relating to bankruptcy in cafe of partnership.

Cap. 16. For regulating, improving, and encouraging the woollen manufacture

nufacture of mixed or medly broad cloth, and for the better payment of the poor employed therein. Cap. 17. For the better collecting and recovering the duties granted for the support of the royal hofpital at Greenwich, and for the further benefit thereof; and for the preferving her Majefty's harbour moorings.

Cap. 18. To give further time for inrolling fuch leases granted from the crown, as have not been inrolled within the respective times therein limited; and for making the pleading of deeds of bargain and fale inrolled, and of fee-farm rents, more easy.

Cap. 19. For laying several duties upon all foap and paper made in Great Britain, or imported into the fame; and upon chequered and ftriped linens imported; and upon certain filks, callicoes, linens and ftuffs printed, painted, or ftained; and upon feveral kinds of ftamped vellum, parchment, and paper; and upon certain printed papers, pamphlets and advertisements; for raifing the fum of 1,800,000l. by way of lottery towards her Majefty's fupply; and for licenfing an additional number of hackney chairs; and for charging certain ftocks of cards and dice; and for better fecuring her Majefty's duties to arise in the office for the stamp duties by licenses for marriages and otherwife; and for relief of perfons who have not claimed their lottery tickets in due time, or have loft Exchequer bills, or lottery tickets; and for borrowing money upon ftock (part of the capital of the South Sea company) for the use of the publick.

Cap. 20. For the relief of infolvent debtors, by obliging their creditors to accept the utmost fatisfaction they are capable to make, and restoring them their liberty.

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Cap. 21. To prevent abufes in mak

Cap. 24. For prolonging the term for payment of certain duties granted by an act made in the twelfth and thirteenth years of his late Majefty King William, intituled, An act for recovering, fecuring, and keeping in repair the harbour of Minehead, for the benefit and fupport of the navigation and trade of this kingdom. Cap. 25. For raifing the militia for the year 1712. although the month's pay formerly advanced be not repaid; and for rectifying a mistake in an act paffed this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and defertion, and falfe muflers, and for the better payment of the army and quarters; and for tak ing accounts of trophy money formerly raised and collected. Cap. 26. For laying additional duties on hides and fkins, vellum and parchment, and new duties on ftarch, coffee, tea, drugs, gilt and filver wire, and policies ofinfurance, to fecure a yearly fund for fatisfaction of orders to the contributors of a further fum of 1,800,000!. towards her Majesty's fupply; and for the better fecuring the duties on candles; and for obviating doubts concerning certain payments in Scotland; and for fuppreffing unlawful lotteries, and other devices of the fame kind; and concerning cake foap; and for relief of Mary Ravenall, in relation to an annuity of 18. per annum; and concerning prize cocoanuts brought from Ame

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