Index of subjects: E

E.

Elderships. See Church, The (ii) (iii).

Elections.

Ordinance for disfranchisement to be published at, i. 1046 (1647, Dec. 17), 1252 (1648, Dec. 18), ii. 320 (1649, Dec. 14).
Mode of, under Instrument of Government, ii. 814–818 (1653, Dec. 16).
Distribution of seats and other regulations relating to, in Scotland, ii. 930–932: and in Ireland, 932–933 (1654, June 27).
Proposals in Petition and Advice relating to, ii. 1049–1050, 1054–1055 (1657, May 25), 1183 (June 26).
Prohibition of, upon Lord's day, ii. 1165 (1657, June 26).
Regulations for, of members of new parliament, ii. 1471 (1659–60, Mar. 16).
See Franchise.

Elector Palatine.

Annuity settled upon, i. 784–786 (1645, Oct. 8).

Ely. See Bishops' Lands (i).

Enclosure. See Inclosure.

Engagement, The. See Covenant (iv).

English Language.

To be used in legal proceedings, ii. 455–456 (1650, Nov. 22): mis-translation of documents not to void proceedings, 511 (1651, Apr. 9).
To be used upon tallies, ii. 919 (1654, June, 21).

Engrossers.

Unlicensed sellers of corn punished as, ii. 443 (1650, Oct. 23).

Enlistment. See Army (iv).

Enrolment. See Chancery, Court of (iii): Clerk of the Pipe: Exchequer (i) (ii): Fee Farm Rents (i): Forfeited Estates (i): Manor.

Entail. See Fee Farm Rents (i): Reversion.

Entry. See Bill of Entry: Writs (iii).

Equity, Courts of. See Law and Equity, Courts of.

Error. Writ of. See Writs (ii) (a).

Escheators.

Appointment of, i. 425 (1644, May 9).
To pay treble damages for infringements of act of General Pardon, ii. 568 (1651–2, Feb. 24).
Escheats in Scotland to fall to Lord Protector, ii. 875 (1654, Apr. 12).

Esquire.

Persons of rank of, exempted from impressment, i. 242 (1643, Aug. 10), 475 (1644, July 12), 651 (1644–5. Feb. 28), 695 (June 10), 697 (June 11), 822 (1645–6, Jan. 19), ii. 514 (1651, Apr. 18).

Essoin, Wager and Protection.

Prohibition of:—
in prosecution of disfranchised persons recording vote, i. 1024 (1647, Oct. 4): under ordinance for payment of Church Duties, 1069 (1647–8, Feb. 9): in prosecution of importers of prohibited goods, ii. 243 (1649, Sept. 5): under act for packing of butter, 364 (1649–50, Mar. 12): under act for use of English in courts of law, 456 (1650, Nov. 22): in prosecution of persons making use of protected invention, 491 (Nov. 27): of persons taking illegal rate of interest, 550 (1651, Aug. 8): of persons growing tobacco in England, 580 (1652, Apr. 1): under Printing act, 699 (1652–3, Jan. 7): in prosecution of disfranchised persons attempting to vote (proposed in Petition and advice), 1050 (1657, May 25): of persons selling wine at illegal rate, 1058: of infringers of postal monopoly, 1113 (June 9): of customs offenders, 1126: of officers neglecting to execute or prosecuted under Recusancy act, 1179, 1180: under London building Act. 1228–1230: and in prosecutions for gaming, 1250 (June 26).

Estreats.

Fees of clerk of, ii. 448 (1650, Nov. 7.)
All fines to be duly estreated and certified, ii. 448 (1650, Nov. 7).
of conviction of recusants, ii. 1174 (1657, June 26).

Eton College.

Election of scholars of, i. 758 (1645, Aug. 28).
Revenues of, exempt from assessment, i. 758 (1645, Aug. 28), 984 (1647, June 23), 1077 (1647–8, Feb. 16), ii. 57 (1649, Apr. 7), 318 (Dec. 7), 490 (1650, Nov. 26), 687 (1652, Dec. 10), 1095 (1657, June 9), 1401 (1659–60, Jan. 26).
Exemption of, from act for Abolition of Deans etc., ii. 85 (1649, Apr. 30.)
Exemption of, from trust for maintenance of ministers, ii. 377 (1650, Apr. 5).
Visitation of, ii. 1029 (1654, Sept. 2).

Evidence.

(i) General issue.
Permission to give ordinances and acts in evidence or to plead general issue, i. 900 (1646, Nov. 17), 906 (Dec. 2), 935 (1647, May 13), 936 (May 21), 952 (June 3), 1007 (Aug. 28), 1040 (Dec. 16), 1045 (Dec. 17), 1068 (1647–8, Feb. 9), 1162 (1648, June 5), 1182 (Aug. 9), ii. 90 (1649, Apr. 30), 109 (May 7), 139 (May 29), 179 (July 16), 234 (Aug. 14), 244 (Sept. 5), 253 (Sept. 20), 375 (1650, Apr. 5), 378 (Apr. 6), 387 (Apr. 19), 396 (June 28), 432 (Oct. 16), 455 (Nov. 14), 531 (1651, July 16), 594 (1652, Aug. 4), 647 (Nov. 18), 780 (1653, Nov. 12), 793 (Nov. 22), 867 (1654, Mar. 31), 901 (May 26), 986 (Aug. 28), 1007 (Sept. 2), 1096 (1657, June 9), 1170, 1181, 1229 (June 26), 1303 (1659, July 12).
Permission to plead general issue and give in evidence matter alleged in bar, ii. 443–444 (1650, Oct. 23).

(ii) Nature of, required for conviction.
Court-martial to convict upon confession or evidence of two credible witnesses, i. 861 (1646, June 27).
Conviction on evidence of two witnesses, i. 985 (1647, June 28), 1000 (Aug. 23).
Conviction under Printing ordinance on view of justice or oath of one credible witness, i. 1023 (1647, Sept. 30).
Conviction of spectator of stage play on confession or evidence of one witness, i. 1071 (1647–8, Feb. 11).
Confession or proof before elders inadmissible in court of law, i. 1207 (1648, Aug. 29).
Exclusion of confession of sexual offence as evidence against another person: and of evidence of husband or wife, ii. 389 (1650, May 10).
Injunction granted only on evidence of confession or record, ii. 956 (1654, Aug. 21).
Regulations for admission of evidence by commissioners for ejection of scandalous ministers, ii. 984 (1654, Aug. 28).

(iii) Miscellaneous.
Statute of Limitations not to be pleaded in certain actions, ii. 275 (1649, Sept. 26), 1023 (1654, Sept. 2).
Permission to lord of manor to produce enrolment of grant or exemplification, ii. 449 (1650, Nov. 7).
Acts to be interpreted in beneficial sense, ii. 567 (1651–2, Feb. 24), 937 (1654, June 27), 1182 (1657, June 26), 1301 (1659, July 12).
Admission of oath of seaman offending against act for recall of seamen, ii. 614 (1652, Sept. 9).
Admission of record, ii. 793 (1653, Nov 22), 956 (1654, Aug. 21).
Method of examination of witnesses in court and by commission, ii. 953–955 (1654, Aug. 21).
Commissioners for survey of royal forests to disregard formal defects in claims, ii. 1119 (1657, June 19).
Exclusion of claims based on general words of grant, ii. 1121 (1657, June 19).
Actions not specified protected by act of indemnity, ii. 1300 (1659, July 12).

Examination.

Committee for. See Commissioners and Committees (xviii).
of candidates for Ordination, i. 522–523 (1644, Oct. 4), 866–867 (1646, Aug. 28), 1200–1201 (1648, Aug. 29): for presentation to benefices, ii. 1460 (1659–60, Mar. 14).

Exchange.

Barter regarded as sale for purposes of excise, i. 771 (1645, Sept. 16), ii. 222 (1649, Aug. 14).
See Bill of Exchange.

Exchequer.

(i) Officers.
(a) Barons of:
Duties of:
to issue quiet us to receivers of crown lands, i. 301 (1643, Sept. 21): to grant certificates of exemption from impressment to solicitors and others engaged in court, 822 (1645–6, Jan. 19): to allow deductions in sheriffs' accounts, ii. 5 (1648–9, Feb, 15): to act as commissioners to hear appeals against sequestrations, 62–63 (1649, Apr. 9), 333 (1649–50, Jan. 25): to proceed against persons who have embezzled goods of late king and queen, 162: and against defaulting purchasers of such goods, 165 (1649, July 4): to hear declarations of accounts, 207 (Aug. 8): to proceed against persons refusing to account, 375 (1650, Apr. 5): to administer oaths, 562 (1651, Oct. 8), 1175 (1657, June 26): to execute act for voidance of titles of honour, 564 (1651–2, Feb. 4): to grant relief in exceptional cases to persons who have acted in service of commonwealth, 859–860 (1653–4, Mar. 23), 1182 (1657, June 26): to discharge recusants, 1175 (1657, June 26).
Disabled on desertion of office, i. 805 (1645, Nov. 24).
Cases of illegal exportation certified to, i. 1060–1061 (1647–8, Jan. 19), 1219 (1648, Sept. 23).
Appointment of, i. 1227 (1648, Oct. 30).
(b) Remembrancers and clerks of, to deliver records to auditors of prests, ii. 206 (1649, Aug. 8).
Second remembrancer of, to issue certificates for sale of Fee-farm rents, ii. 414 (1650, Aug. 13).
Remembrancers of, to enrol discharges, ii. 1406 (1659–60, Feb. 2).

(ii) Financial and administrative functions.
Certification into, of estreats, ii. 448 (1650, Nov. 7): of accounts, 993 (1654, Aug. 30), 1005–1006 (Sept. 2): of names of recusants, 1174 (1657, June 26): of proceedings of commissioner for church in Wales, 1466 (1659–60, Mar. 16).
Discovery of concealments, ii. 548 (1651, July 17).
Return into, of surveys of royal forests, ii. 949 (1654, Aug. 21): of recognizances, 1263 (1657, June 26).
Payments of money into, ii. 992–993 (1654, Aug. 30).
Survey of, over various branches of the revenue, ii. 1016–1019 (1654, Sept. 2).
Payment of assessment into, ii. 1093 (1657, June 9): subject to discretion of Protector and council, 1096–1097.
Filing in, of certificates of value of houses, ii. 1225 (1657, June 26).
Transmission to, of duplicates of assessments, ii. 1238 (1657, June 26).
See also (i).

(iii) Judicial functions.
Proceedings in, upon seizure of goods on which subsidy unpaid, i. 629 (1644–5, Feb. 20): to recover arrears due to late court of Wards, 1013 (1646–7, Feb. 21): upon information as to customs offence, 1041 (1647, Dec. 16).
Actions pending in, relating to Durham, to be heard there, ii. 517–518 (1651, July 9).
Transfer of judicial powers of, to commissioners of customs, ii. 1127 (1657, June 26).
See also (i).

(iv) Miscellaneous.
Seizure of crown revenues within survey of, i. 299 (1643, Sept. 21).
Writs and patents of, not invalidated by alteration of documentary forms, i. 1263 (1648–9, Jan. 29).
Regulation of fees payable upon passing accounts in, ii. 447–448 (1650, Nov. 7).
Ordinance relating to salaries of officers in, confirmed, ii. 1134 (1657, June 26).
See also Chester, Country Palatine of.

Exchequer Chamber.

Writs of error returnable in, i. 434 (1644, May 15).

Exchequer of Ireland.

Surveys and other records deposited in, ii. 1261 (1657, June 26).

Exchequer of Receipt.

Ordinances against removal of, to Oxford, i. 65–67 (1642–3, Jan. 21), 133–134 (1643, Apr. 18).
Payment into, of public moneys, i. 878 (1646, Oct. 1), ii. 919 (1654, June 21), 1017 (Sept. 2), 1034 (1654–5, Feb. 8), 1177 (1657, June 26), 1349 (1659, Aug. 27), 1414 (1659–60, Feb. 2).
Appointment and fees of officers of, ii. 920 (1654, June 21).
Accounts rendered in, ii. 1034 (1654–5, Feb. 8).

Excise.

(i Ordinances and acts relating to excise in general.
General ordinance, i. 202–214 (1643, July 22): amended, 274–283 (Sept. 8).
Erection of office and appointment of officers, 203, 278, 279: jurisdiction, 203, 279: audit of accounts, 204, 279: times of opening and closing office, 204, 280: rebatement, 204: merchants and brewers to account weekly, 205, 281: salaries, 206, 279, 282: power of commissioners to examine books, 206, 282: and persons, 207, 282: to enter cellars, 207, 282: to call in trained bands, 208, 283: indemnity, 208, 283: schedules of dutifiable articles, 208– 214, 274–277: no duty or drawback on goods re-exported, 214, 278: exemption of goods bought for re-sale, 278: oath of governors, 279.
Ordinance touching salaries and oaths, i. 287–289 (1643, Sept. 18).
Salaries of commissioners and auditors, 287: oaths of commissioners and auditors, 288: date of operation of previous ordinance, 288: penalty for non-entry, 289.
Additional articles, i. 346–347 (1643, Nov. 28).
Bills of entry to receive signature of officer of excise before passing customs: seat to be provided at Custom House for excise officers, 346: prohibition of fees, 347.
Ordinance extending excise, i. 466–468 (1644, July 8), 806–809 (1645, Nov. 24), 863–865 (1646, Aug. 6).
Excise payable on all imports, 466: and on specified English goods, 467: employment of proceeds, 468, 808–809: extension to additional goods of English manufacture and to imported cloth, 806–807 ; regulations as to additional commodities, 863–865.
Rules and instructions, i. 501–502 (1644, Aug. 31).
Regulation of relations of commissioners and auditors, 501–502: governors of forts etc. prohibited from seizing receipts, 502: attendance of excise officer at Customs, 502.
Prevention of fraudulent entries, i. 626–627 (1644–5, Feb. 20).
Nature of frauds, 626: penalty for removal without warrant and other offences, 627.
Ordinance for regulating excise, i. 691–692 (1645, June 6).
Committee appointed with power to send for persons and records and to take general steps for removal of obstructions, 691–692.
Appointment of comptroller and auditor, i. 769–771 (1645, Sept. 11).
Powers of comptroller, 769–770: salary, 770: accounts to be rendered quarterly, 770: powers of auditor, 770: oaths of comptroller and auditor, 770–771.
Removal of goods, i. 771–772 (1645, Sept. 16).
Licence required for removal of exciseable goods, 771; bills of sufferance, 772: indemnity, 772.
Regulation of accounts, i. 783–784 (1645, Oct. 4).
Accounts to be rendered quarterly, 783–784: salaries paid quarterly, 784.
Discharge of accounts, i. 861–862 (1646, July 3).
Commissioners indemnified, 861: and discharged from accounts for year ending 11 Sept., 1644, 861–862.
Additional instructions, i. 916–920 (1646–7, Feb. 22).
Necessity of levy, 916–917: public employment of proceeds, 917: instructions, 918–920: punishment of riots, 918; limitations of time and place of levy, 919: provision for hearing complaints, 919–920: persons in receipt of alms exempted, 920.
Disposal of forfeitures, i. 989–990 (1647, July 23).
Fines etc. for non-payment or other excise offence devoted in part to fund for widows and maimed soldiers, in part to informers, 989: ordinance retrospective, 990.
Re-establishment, i. 1004–1007 (1647, Aug. 28).
Re-establishment in all commodities except flesh and salt confirmed, 1004: assistance in case of riots, 1005–1006: declaration as to cost of collection and amount received for public uses, 1006: ordinance to be given in evidence, 1007.
Charge on receipt of excise, ii. 158 (1649, June 27), 159–160 (June 29).
Excise charged with amount of loans satisfied out of Bishops' lands: such sums to be security for Irish loan, 159: no charges on excise to be transferred to other security, 160.
Acts for better collection, ii. 213–235 (1649, Aug. 14), 368–369 (1650, Mar. 28), 851–853 (1653–4, Mar. 17).
Payment of previous imposts, 213: powers of commissioners, 213, 851–853: oath of commissioners, 214: bond entered by sub-commissioners, 214–215: accounts, 215, 223: salaries, 215, 230: ship-masters to deliver goods by daylight, 216: master of lighter to receive note from officer of customs on board ship together with goods, 216–217: bills of entry etc. to be signed by commissioners, 217–218: unknown persons to pay excise or give security, 218–219: retailers importing goods to enter them, 219: prevention of corruption and fraud, 219–220: wharfinger to admit goods only in presence of commissioner of customs, 221: removal and sale of goods by importer, 221–222: rebatement on re–exportation, 223: charges on goods imported for private use, 223: power of search, 224: rebatements for leakage and decay, 224, 227: recovery of arrears, 224: brewers, distillers, and tinners to account weekly under penalties, 225: appointment of gaugers, 226: no innkeeper to brew without giving security, 226: weekly payment by private brewers at fixed rate and assessment of parishes to determine such rate, 227–228 [repealed, 368–369]: appeal, 228: penalties, 228–229: lead and tin sealed on payment, 231: judicial powers of commissioners, 232–233: suppression of riots, 233: indemnity, 234; assignment of loans on security of excise, 234: excise proceeds secured from seizure, 235.
Appointment and salary of commissioners, ii. 422–423 (1650, Sept. 20): excise of certain commodities to be farmed, 423.
Appointment and powers of commissioners for arrears, ii. 828–829 (1653, Dec. 29), 1276–1277 (1659, May 26), 1287 (June 22).
Rates and regulations, ii. 846–853 (1653–4, Mar. 17).
Schedule for home products, 846–847: for imports, 847–849: weights and measures, 849–850: appointment and powers of commissioners for appeals, 851–853: appointment of officers to prevent evasion, 853.
Additional ordinance, ii. 889–890 (1654, May 4).
Regulation as to payment on unspecified goods, 889: centralisation of revenue, with exception of pension fund, 889: augmentation of latter fund 890: rebatement upon re-exportation, 890.
Improvement of receipts, ii. 1186–1223 (1657, June 26).
Rates to be imposed in England, Scotland and Ireland, 1186–1187: on foreign goods, 1187–1189: and on native goods, 1189–1190: powers of search, 1187–1188, 1194–1195: merchants to account for arrears, 1191: discharge of arrears upon payment of part, 1191: entries of goods at customs to be signed, 1191–1192: seizure of goods, 1192: retailers to deliver particulars of goods to be shipped, 1193: shipmasters to take oath as to contents of ship, 1193: inspection of brewers' vessels, 1193–1194: penalty for work on Sabbath, 1194: powers of justices of peace, 1195: no person compelled to travel more than ten miles to enter goods or pay duty, 1195: indemnity, 1196: alphabetical list of values of exciseable merchandise, 1196–1223.
Improvement of, by farming for period not exceeding seven years, ii. 1268–1269 (1657, June 26).
Acts etc. for continuance, i. 513 (1644, Sept. 28), 611–612 (1644–5. Jan. 29), 846–847 (1646, Apr. 28), 1168–1169 (1648, July 11), ii. 823 (1653, Dec. 24), 845–853 (1653–4, Mar. 17), 1035–1036 (1654–5, Feb. 28), 1349–1351 (1659, Sept. 28), 1353–1355 (Dec. 27), 1416–1417 (1659–60, Feb. 25), 1432–1424 (Mar. 7).

(ii) On particular commodities.
Lists and schedules of exciseable goods, i. 208–214, 274–277, 467, 806–807, ii. 846–849, 1186–1190, 1196–1223.
on Spanish and French wines, i. 305–306 (1643, Oct. 9).
on beer, ale, and cider, i. 315–316 (1643, Oct. 17).
on draperies, i. 316 (1643, Oct. 17).
on wine, i. 339 (1643, Nov. 7).
on tobacco, i. 361–362 (1643, Sept. 23), 394–395 (1643–4, Mar. 4), ii. 719 (1653, Sept. 3).
on flesh and salt, i. 364–366 (1643, Jan. 9): continued, 578 (1644, Dec. 6).
on flesh, i. 484–486 (1644, Aug. 3).
on herring, i. 496–497 (1644, Aug. 24).
on strong waters, i. 511–512 (1644, Sept. 27).
on exports to plantations, i. 912 (1646–7, Jan. 23).
on alum and copperas, ii. 990 (1654, Aug. 29), 1196, 1199 (1657, June 26).

(iii) Employment of proceeds:—
for repayment of Navy loan, i. 284 (1643, Sept. 13): of loan raised in London and district, 528 (1644, Oct. 12): of loan for raising horse, 768 (1645, Sept. 9): of Army loan, 788 (Oct. 13): of loans for army and navy, ii. 390 (1650, May 15).
for local purposes, i. 345 (1643, Nov. 22), 458 (1644, June 25), 725 (1645, July 1), 734–735 (July 10), 745 (Aug. 12), 858 (1646, June 27).
for maintenance of navy, i. 366 (1643–4, Jan. 9).
for recruiting army, i. 376 (1643–4, Feb. 1).
for maintenance of army, i. 399 (1644, Mar. 26).
for payment of workmen, pensions, maintenance of army and navy, i. 484 (1644. Aug. 3).
for provision of saltpetre, i. 579 (1644, Dec. 13).
for the use of the Scottish army, i. 645 (1644–5, Feb. 21).
as a general security for loans, i. 884 (1646, Oct. 13), 929 (1647, May 13), 948 (June 3), ii. 688 (1652, Dec. 16).
for payment of interest on moneys due under ordinance dealing with Bishops' lands, i. 897 (1646, Nov. 17): and on public loans in general, 934 (1647. May 13), 951 (June 3).
for satisfaction of accounts of soldiery, i. 940 (1647, May 28).
for payment of committee for accounts, in event of arrears collected proving inadequate, i. 1047 (1647, Dec. 17).
for payment of salaries of auditors of army accounts, i. 1169 (1648, July 20).
loans already satisfied, to remain as charge upon excise, for general service, ii. 239 (1649, Aug. 28).
for payment of pensions, i. 484, ii. 558 (1651, Sept. 30).

(iv) Miscellaneous.
Local execution of acts and ordinances:—
in North Wales, i. 379 (1643–4, Feb. 13).
in Cheshire, i. 410 (1644, Mar. 26).
in Gloucester and district, i. 429 (1644, May 10).
in Shropshire, i. 447 (1644, June 13).
in Wilts, i. 476 (1644, July 15).
in Worcestershire, (prohibited), i. 508 (1644, Sept. 23).
Officers of, exempted from impressment, i. 651 (1644–5, Feb. 28), 691 (1645, June 5), 695 (June 10), 697 (June 11), 822 (1645–6, Jan. 19).
Proceeds of Irish assessment paid to credit of, i. 748 (1645, Aug. 15).
Lands secured on, transferred to other securities, ii. 99–101 (1649, Apr. 30), 169 (July 16).
Auditors of, to deliver accounts to Auditor of Prests, ii. 206 (1649, Aug. 8).
Enquiry into, by commissioners for advancement of trade, ii. 404 (1650, Aug. 1).
Payment of, excepted from General Pardon and from Act of Indemnity, ii. 569 (1651–2, Feb. 24), 1303 (1659, July 12).
Commissioners of, to execute act for prevention of tobacco-growing in England, ii. 580 (1652, Apr. 1).
Removal of, between England and Scotland, ii. 873 (1654, Apr. 12).
Payment of issues of, into exchequer of receipt, ii. 919 (1654, June 21).
Regulations for Ireland to be same as for England, ii. 926 (1654, June 23).
Confirmation of ordinances having reference to, ii. 1136, 1138 (1657, June 26).
Sequestration of estates of farmers of, ii. 1342–1343 (1659, Aug. 2).
Prohibition of levy of, without consent of parliament, ii. 1351 (1659, Oct. 11).

Excommunication. See Church, The (ii).

Execution.

Not stayed by writ of error, ii. 358 (1649–50, Mar. 11).

Executor. See Administration of Estates.

Exports.

To be entered at London and other ports, i. 17 (1642, Aug. 1), 629 (1644–5. Feb. 20).
Special permission required for export of Newcastle coal, i. 84 (1643, Feb. 21).
Commissioners of customs empowered to prevent abuses in relation to, i. 163–165 (1643, May 30).
Cockets etc. to be signed by officer of excise, i. 346 (1643, Nov. 28).
to Plantations, exempted from customs etc., i. 571 (1644, Nov. 26), 912 (1646–7 Jan. 23).
Rebatement in favour of imports re-exported, i. 1041 (1647, Dec. 16).
of wool and clay, prohibited, i. 1059–1061 (1647–8, Jan. 19).
of Irish wool to countries other than England and Wales, prohibited, i. 1061 (1647–8, Jan. 19).
of bullion, prohibited, i. 1218–1219 (1648, Sept. 23).
to French dominions beyond Gibraltar, special rate imposed on, i. 1224 (1648, Oct. 19).
Commissioners for advancement of trade to enquire into accounts of, ii. 404 (1650, Aug. 1).
of salt fish, to be carried on English boats, ii. 560 (1651, Oct. 8).
Encouragement, of, ii. 1043–1048 (1656, Nov. 27). See Trade (ii).
Not to be shipped until oath taken as to payment of excise, ii. 1193 (1657, June 26).

Extortion. See Salaries and Fees (iii).