Provision for the King's Journeys Act 1661

Recital of 12 Car. II. c. 24. § 13.; and that the said Act may prove inconvenient to the King in His Royal Progresses through the Realm.; Clerk or Chief Officer of His Majesty's Carriages, by Warrant from the Green Cloth, to give Notice for providing Carts, &c. for, His Majesty's Use.; Refusing to furnish His Majesty with necessary Carriages; On Proof by Oath of Officer or Two Witnesses,; Penalty 40s

WHEREAS by an Act made in Parliament in the Twelfth Yeare of His Majesties. Reign Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in capite and by Knight Service & Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majestie in lieu thereof It was (amongst other things) Enacted for the reasons and recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seale or otherwise by colour of buying or making provison or purveyance for His Majesty or any Queene of England [X1 for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Queene of England] that shall bee or for his theire or any of theire Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any of the Subjects of His Majesty His Heires or Successors without the free and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or enforcement nor shall summon warne take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattell Cart Ploughs Waynes or other Carriages for the use of His Majesty His Heires or Successors or of any Queene of England or of any Childe or Children of any the Kings or Queenes of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of His Majesty His Heires or Successors or the said Queenes or Children or any of them without such full and free consent as aforesaid Any Lawe Statute Custome or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding Which Act may prove very prejudiciall and inconvenient to the Kings Majesty in His Royall Progresses upon His necessary occasions to severall parts of this Realme in case any person or persons shall obstinately refuse voluntarily to provide sufficient Carriages for Royall service att ordinary and usuall rates for such Carriages as are paid by others of His Subjects in such places contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Clarke or Cheife Officer of His Majesties Carriages shall three dayes att least before His Majesties Arrivall by Warrant from the Greene Cloth give notice in writing to two or more of His Majesties Justices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty of that number as alsoe the time and place when and where the said Carts and Carriages are to attend which Carriages shall consist of foure able Horses or six Oxen or foure Oxen and two Horses for each of which Cart or Carriage the respective Owners shall receive six pence for each mile they shall goe laden And that in case any of His Majesties Subjects of this Realme shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majesty that now is or His Queene that shall bee or His or Her Houshold in theire [X2 Progresse] or Removals with such sufficient and necessary Carriages for theire Wardrobe and other necessaries for ready moneys tendred to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make theire appearance with such sufficient Carts and Carriages as are before exprest that then upon due proofe and conviction of such neglect and refusall by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or twoe other credible Witnesses before the said Justices of the Peace of the County or Maior or other Cheife Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit (which Oath they shall have power to administer) the party soe refuseing shall for such his refusall and neglect forfeit the summe of Forty shillings to the Kings Majesties use to be forthwith leavied by distresse and sale of his Goods and Chattels (rendring to the parties the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any) by Warrant from the said Justices of the Peace Maior or other Cheiffe Officer

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Progresses O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]