Providing of Carriages for the King Act 1685

II. Clerk of the King's Carriages to give Three Days Notice in Writing to Justice of Peace to provide Carts and Carriages.

Recompence; Persons refusing to provide same; Conviction by Oath; Penalty 40s.

Bee it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authorite of the same That the Clerke or Chiefe Officer of His Majestyes Carryages shall three dayes at least before His Majestyes Arrivall by Warrant from the Greene Cloth give notice in writeing to two or more of His Majestyes Justices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majestie 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 [X1 or] Carriage the respective Owners shall receive Six pence for each mile they shall goe laden And That in case any of His Majestyes Subjects of this Realme shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majestie that now is or his Queene that is or shall be or his or her Household or her Majestie Catherine Queene Dowager or her Household in their Progresse or Removalls with such sufficient and necessary Carriages for their Wardrobe and other Necessaries for ready Moneys tendered to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make their 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 two other Credible Witnesses before the said Justices of the Peace of the County or Maior or other Chiefe Officer of the Citty or Corporation where he or they inhabite (which Oath they shall have power to administer) the Partie soe refuseing shall for such his refusall and neglect forfeite the summe of Forty shillings to the Kings Majestyes use to be forthwith levyed by Distressse and Sale of his Goods and Chattells (rendring to the Partyes the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any) by Warrant from the said Justices of the Peace Maior or other Officer.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]