Since the last, these following Acts have been Published.
An Act for Dissolving the Parliament.
BE It Enacted and Declared by this Present Parliament and the Authority
ther of That the Parliament begun and held at Westminster, the Third
day of November, in the year of our Lord God, One thousand six hundred
and Forty, from and after the Sixteen h day of March, in the year of Our
Lord God, one thousand six hundred fifty and nine, be Dissolved, and is here
by dissolved, to all Intents and Porposes.
And be it further Enacted by the An hority aforesaid, That a Parliament
be Summoned, to be holden, and be holden accordingly at Westminster, on the
Five and twentieth day of April, in the year of Our Lord God, one thousand
six hundred and sixty; And that the Form of the Writ for the Summoning
of the Knights, Citizens and Burghesses of England and Wales, and the Town
of Berwick upon tweede, and the Barons of the Cinque Ports, to the Said Parliament,
be as followeth, muratis murandis.
The Reader May take notice, that the form of the Writ is Printed before. The
rest of the Act is on followeth.
And be it further Enacted, That the Knights, Citizens, Barons, and Burgesses
to Chosen, shall appear and serve in Parliament at the time and Place aforesaid.
And the Sheriffs and other officers and Persons, to Whom it apper[unr]ainuth
shall make returns, and accept and receive returns of such Elections
according to the Exigency of the Writ, under pain of incurring the penalty
and forfeiture of one thousand Pounds, mentioned in an Act made in the sixteenth
year of the late King Charls, Entituled, An Act for Preventing of Inconveniencies
hapning by the long Intermission of Parliaments, to be recovered in
such manner, as in the said Act is expressed more at large. And in case any
person or persons shall be so hardy as to advise, frame, contrive, serve, or put
an execution any Writs, Proclamation, Edict, Act, Restraint, Inhibition, Order,
or Warrant whatsoever to hinder or interrupt the said Elections, or by armed
Force, Tumults, or other wise endeavor or to disturb or hinder the same, or the
convening or sitting of the said Parliament, or any Member or Members
thereof, that then he or they so offending in any wise as aforesaid, shall incur
and suffer, the pains and penalties, and sorseitures contained in the Statute
of Provision, and preminire made in the Sixteenth year of King Richard
the Second, and shall from hence forth be disabled, during his Life, to fit and
serve in any Parliament. And be it further Enacted, that if any person or
persons shall directly or indirectly by himself or others, promise or give any
sam of sums of Mony, Lords, gifts, gratuity or reward to any City, Borough,
Corporation, or Person or Persons whatsoever, having a Voyce or Voyces in
any Election, to Procure himself or any other to be elected a Member of the
next Parliament, either before, at, or after such Election, That then such
Person or Persons justly convicted thereof, shall be not only made uncapable
to fit or vote in the said Parliament as a Member, but likewise forseit the
sums of One thousand Pounds: and the said Elector or Electors accepting
any such sums of mony, Land, Gift, Gratuity, or Reward to his own, or the
said Cities, Boroughs, or Corporations, or Other Person or Persons use, the
[unr] of Five hundred Pounds a piece, the one Moyety thereof for the use of