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Our soverane lord and estates of parliament, considering how great and attrocious a cryme it is for childeren to beat or curse their parents; and how the law of God hath pronunced just sentence of death against such as shall either of these wayes injure either of their parents; thairfor, his majestie, with advice of his saids estates, doth heirby statute and ordaine that whosoever, sonne or daughter, above the age of sextein yeers, not being distracted, shall beate or curse either their father or mother, shall be put to death without mercy, and such as are within the age of sixtein yeers and past the age of pupillarity to be punished at the arbitriement of the judge according to their deserveings, that others may hear and fear and not doe the lyk.
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Our soverane lord and estates of parliament, considering that hitherto ther hath been no law in this kingdome against the horrible cryme of blasphemie; thairfor, his majestie, with advice of his saids estates, doth heirby statute and ordaine that whosoever heirafter, not being distracted in his wits, shall raill upon or curse God or any of the persones of the Blessed Trinity, shall be processed befor the chieff justice and, being fund guilty, shall be punished with death. Lykas his majestie, with advice forsaid, findes, statuts and ordaines that whosoever heirafter shall deny God or any of the persons of the Blessed Trinity, and obstinatly continew therin, shall be processed, and being fund guilty, that they be punished with death. As also, his majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, declares that all persones who have commmitted the forsaid crymes since the seventeinth day of February 1649 shall be proceidit against according to this act and ratifies all bygone decreits and judiciall proceidings against any persone committer of the said crymes since the date forsaid, which have been pronunced and done against the saids committers according to this present act, and declares that the pronuncers and executers of the saids sentences shall never be questioned therfor in any maner of way, but are, and shall be heirby secured, no lesse then if this act had been of the forsaid date.
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Our soverane lord, with advice and consent of the estates of this present parliament, for removeing of all question and doubt that may arise heirafter in criminall persutes for slaughter, statutes and ordaines that the caces of homicide after following viz, casuall homicide, homicide in lawfull defence and homicide committed upon theeves and robbers breaking houses in the night, or incace of homicide the tyme of masterfull depradation, or in the persute of denunced or declared rebells for capitall crymes, or of such who assist and defend the rebells and masterfull depradators by armes, and by force oppose the persute and apprehending of them, which shall happin to fall out in tyme comeing, nor any of them, shall not be punished by death, and that notwithstanding of any lawes or acts of parliament or any practick made heirtofore or observed in punishing of slaughter, but that the manslayer in any of the caces aforsaid be assoilyied from any criminall persute pursued against him for his liffe for the said slaughter before any judge criminall within this kingdome, provyding alwayes that in the cace of homicide casuall, and of homicide in defence, notwithstanding that the slayer is by this act frie from capitall punishment, yet it shall be leisum to the criminall judge, with the advice of the councill, to fyne him in his means to the use of the defunct's wiffe and bairns, or neirest of kin or to imprisson him. And his majestie, with advice forsaid, declares that all decision given conforme to this act since the thretteinth of February 1649 yeers shall be als sufficent to secure all parties interessed as if this present act had been of that date, and that all caces to be decydit by any judges of this kingdome in relation to casuall homicide or homicide in defence, committed at any tyme heirtofore, shall be decydit as is above expressed.
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Our soverane lord and the estates of parliament, considering that albeit by act of parliament of the date the nynt day of July one thousand, sex hundreth and sex yeers, letters of horning are ordained to be directed by deliverance of the lords of session upon shirreffs, commissers and other inferior judicatories their decreits upon the simple charge therinmentioned, yet the act beares no warrand for letters of poinding to be granted by the delyverance forsaid upon these decreits wherby the parties interessed, obtainers of the decreits, are oftymes prejudged of their payment when these parties against whom these decreits are obtained doe flit or remove out of the shire or jurisdiction of the judge befor whom the saids decreits are given; therfor, his majestie, with advice of the saids estates, ratifies the act of parliament abovementioned in the whole heids and points thairof and, for remedie of the prejudice forsaid, ordaines letters of poinding to be direct by delyverance of the lords of session at the instance of the parties interested upon the said shirreffs, commissers and other inferior judges their decreits contained in the said act, siclyk and in the same maner as letters of horning are appointed by the said act to passe upon the said decreits, that therby the parties may have reall execution alswell as personall upon their decreits forsaids. Lykas his majestie, with advice and consent forsaid, declares that all execution of poinding legallie used upon the saids decreits since the tuelff of Junij 1649 yeers shall be valeid and sufficient, and the parties, messingers and others executers and users thairof shall never be questioned nor any processe sustained against them therfore, either civillie or criminally, befor any judge whatsomever, but prejudice alwayes to parties against whom poindings have been used upon reduceable or unwarrantable sentences to persew repetition, as accords of the law.
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The king's most excellent majestie, considering the great advantage this his antient kingdome hath had and may have by erecting and keeping up of soap works wherby the isterne trade and Greenland fishing will be much helped by importing of pot ashes and other materialls, and money brought into the kingdome by the exported soap made within the same, and his majestie, being sensible of the prejudice this kingdome hath suffered dureing these troubles by the decay of these works and being willing to give all due encouragements to the same for the future, doth therfor, with advice and consent of the estates of parliament, declare all oyll, potashes and other materialls, of any kynd whatsoever, to be imported for the use of soap works or makeing of soap, and all soap made within the cuntrey, to be frie of all custome and excise, and all other publict or private dues whatsoever; and also, all soap so made and exported shall be frie for the space of nyntein yeers after the setting up of these works and, after the date heirof, for such works as are alreadie set up, and discharges all customers, collectors or fermourers of excise or custome and all others whatsoever to demand custome, excise or other duetie for any oyll, potashes, tallow or other materialls imported for makeing of soap, or use of soap works allenerlie, or for soap made within the kingdome and exported, as said is.
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Forasmuch as Johne, lord Herreis, from the begining of these troubles, did give publict testimony of his loyaltie to his majesties' authority and in the yeers 1643 and 1644 freely engadged himselff in his majesties' service by receaveing a commission and joyning in armes with the marques of Montrose, his majesties' leiutenent generall for the tyme, and by a constant adherence to his majesties' service and opposition to all such as withstood his majesties' authority dureing these late troubles, wes therafter forfalted by sentence given out against him in a pretendit meiting of parliament or committie of estates upon the [---] day of [---] 1645, and his majestie, being desireous to witnesse his sense of the loyaltie of his good subjects and his regaird of their sufferings for the same, thairfor his majestie, with advice and consent of his estates of parliament, rescinds, cassis and annulls the forsaid decreit of forfaltour pronunced against the said Johne, lord Herreis and declares the same, with all acts and deids following thairupon, to have been from the begining and to bein all tyme comeing voyd and null, and that it is and shall be frie to the said Lord Herreis to enter presentlie without processe of law to the possession of his estate and fortune and all other priveledges and immunities belonging to him, as if the said decreit of forfaltour had never been, anything contained therin to the contrarie notwithstanding.
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This day the lord commissioner made knoun to the parliament that he had receaved a letter from the king's majestie declareing his acceptance of the message sent to his majestie from this parliament by the lord chancellour and president of the councill, and also declared that he had warrand from his majestie to make knoun to them his majesties' resolution to marie with the daughter of the king of Portugall. The estates of parliament appoints a returne to be made to his majestie acknowledgeing their thankfulnes for the honour his majestie hath done unto them, and obleidgeing themselffs to hazard their lives and fortunes in prosecution of that mariadge and against all such as would oppose the same.
The lord commissioner continewes the parliament till the morro at tuo hours, and all summons ut supra.