Civil List Act 1697

XI. Recital that it is intended that His Majesty shall have a Revenue of £700,000 out of the several Duties herein mentioned.

If the said Duties produce more than the said £700,000 per Ann., Over plus not to be disposed of without the Authority of Parliament; All Grants thereof in such Case void, and Grantees incapable to hold the same.

And whereas it is intended that the yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand Pounds shall be supplied to His Majestie for the Service of His Houshold and Family and for other His necessary Expences and Occasions out of the Hereditary Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors which were granted to the Crown in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second and out of the Rates and Duties of Excise of Beer Ale and other Liquors payable for the Term of His Majesties Life by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His Majesty and the late Queen of blessed Memory after all the Talleys charged upon the Weekly Sum of Six thousand Pounds issuing out of the said severall Rates and Duties of Excise pursuant to an Act of [X1 Parliant ] passed in the Seventh Year of His Majesties Reign in that behalf and still remaining unsatisfyed (with the Interest thereof) shall be fully paid off and cleared And out of the Revenue of the Generall Letter Office or Post Office or the Office of the Postmaster Generall after all the Talleys charged upon the Weekly Sum of Six hundred Pounds issuing out of that Revenue pursuant to the said Act of Parliament of the Seventh Year of His Majesties Reign and still remaining unsatisfyed and all the Interest thereof shall be fully paid and disharged And out of the small Branches of His Majesties Revenues herein after mentioned and expressed that is to say The First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy The Fines for Writts of Covenant and Writts of Entry payable in the Alienation Office The Post Fines The Revenue of the Wine Licences The Moneys arising by Sheriffs Proffers and Compositions in the Exchequer and by the Seizures of uncustomed and prohibited Goods The Revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwall and any other Revenue arising by the Rents of Lands in England or Wales or for Fines of Leases of the same or any of them and the Duty of Four and an half per Cent in Specie arising in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands in America And out of the Moneys which from and after the Co[m]mencement of this Act shall arise by the further Subsidies and Duties hereby granted Be it therefore further enacted and it is hereby enacted and provided by the Authority aforesaid That if the said great and small Branches and Revenues herein before mentioned and out of which the said yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand Pounds is intended to be supplied as aforesaid and every or any of them shall produce in clear Money more than the yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand Pounds to be reckon'd from the Five and twentieth Day of December which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety nine that then the Overplus of such Produce (being more than the said yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand Pounds) shall not be issued disposed made use of or applied to any Use or Purpose or upon any pretext whatsoever without the Authority of Parliament And that all Grants and Dispositions whatsoever hereafter to be made of such Overplus or any part thereof from time to time without [X2 the ] Authority of Parliament shall be utterly void and of none Effect And the Grantees or other Persons to whom such Grants or Dispositions or any of them shall be made of such Overplus or any part thereof shall be adjudged uncapable in Law to take hold keep detain or enjoy the same Any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

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

X2 O. omits