The Continuance, etc. of Laws Act 1603 (1 Jas. 1. c. 25) was an act of the Parliament of England that revived, continued and repealed various older acts.
Provisions Section 2 of the act permitted the exportation of corn when not exceeding 26s 8d per quarter for wheat, 15s per quarter for rye and 14s per quarter for barley, and imposed a duty of 2s per quarter for wheat and 16p per quarter for other grains.
Section 3 of the act provided that the exportation of corn may be prohibited by royal proclamation.
Section 4 of the act exempted cheaper Welsh cotton fabrics (under 15 pence per yard or 2 shillings per goad) from dimensional regulations provided they weren't adulterated with deceptive materials.
Revived and continued enactments Section 1 of the act continued 34 enactments, listed in that section, until the end of the next session of parliament. CitationShort titleDescriptionExtent of continuation21 Hen. 8. c. 12Manufacture of Cables, etc. Act 1529One act made in the one and twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An act for the true making of cables, halsers and ropes.The whole act.24 Hen. 8. c. 9Killing Weanlings Act 1532An act made in the four and twentieth year of the reign of the said King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An act against killing of young beasts called weanlings.The whole act.3 & 4 Edw. 6. c. 19Buying Cattle Act 1549Two acts made in the parliament holden at Westminster by prorogation the fourth day of November, and continued until the first day of February next after, in the third and fourth years of the reign of the late King Edward the sixth; the one concerning the buying and selling of rother beasts and cattle;.The whole act.3 & 4 Edw. 6. c. 21Butter and Cheese Act 1549Two acts made in the parliament holden at Westminster by prorogation the fourth day of November, and continued until the first day of February next after, in the third and fourth years of the reign of the late King Edward the sixth; the other intituled, An act for the buying and selling of butter and cheese.The whole act.1 Eliz. 1. c. 17Fisheries Act 1558One act made in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for preservation of spawn and fry of fish.The whole act.5 Eliz. 1. c. 7Importation Act 1562An act made in the fifth year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for avoiding divers foreign wares made by handicraftsmen beyond the seas.The whole act.5 Eliz. 1. c. 5Maintenance of the Navy Act 1562Another act made in the same year, intituled, An act touching certain politick constitutions made for the maintenance of the navy.As is not repealed by any later statute nor doth concern the transporting of herring or other sea-fish, nor freedom of custom, subsidy or tonnage for the same, nor transportation of corn; together with all and every other additions, explanations and alterations made thereunto or thereof, or of any part thereof, by any statute or statutes made sithence the making of the said last mentioned act, and now standing in force.8 Eliz. 1. c. 10Bows Act 1566An act made in the eighth year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for bowyers and the price of bows.The whole act.13 Eliz. 1. c. 21Purveyance Act 1571Three acts made in the thirteenth year of her late Majesty's reign: one, intituled, An act that purveyors shall not take victuals, within five miles of Cambridge and Oxford, in certain cases.The whole act.13 Eliz. 1. c. 10Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1571Three acts made in the thirteenth year of her late Majesty's reign: another, An act against frauds defeating remedies for dilapidationsThe whole act.13 Eliz. 1. c. 20Benefices Act 1571Three acts made in the thirteenth year of her late Majesty's reign: the third, An act touching leases of hospitals, alms-houses and other ecclesiastical living with cure, together with all and every explanations, additions and alterations thereof, or of any of them, or to any of them, made by several statutes of the fourteenth, eighteenth and three and fortieth years of her said late Majesty's reign.The whole act.18 Eliz. 1. c. 20Road Repairs (Oxford) Act 1575An act made in the eighteenth year of her said Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the repairing and amending of bridges and highways near unto the city of Oxford.The whole act.18 Eliz. 1. c. 3Poor Act 1575One other act made the same eighteenth year, intituled, An act for setting the poor on work, and avoiding of idleness.As concerneth bastards begotten out of lawful matrimony. I.e., section 1.27 Eliz. 1. c. 31 27 Eliz. 1. c. 17Government of the City of Westminster Act 1584Two acts made in the seven and twentieth year of her said Majesty's reign, the one intituled, An act for the good government of the city or borough of Westminster.The whole act.27 Eliz. 1. c. 14Malt Act 1584Two acts made in the seven and twentieth year of her said Majesty's reign, the other, An act for reducing of divers statutes for the making of malt.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 16Malt Act 1597Together also with an act made in the nine and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to restrain the excessive making of malt.The whole act.27 Eliz. 1. c. 24Norfolk Coast Sea Defences Act 1584A third act made in the said seven and twentieth year of her said Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for keeping the sea-banks and sea-works in the county of Norfolk.The whole act.31 Eliz. 1. c. 8Sale of Beer Act 1588Two acts made in the one and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign; the one intituled, An act for the true gauging of vessels brought from beyond the seas, converted by brewers for the utterance and sale of ale and beer;.The whole act.31 Eliz. 1. c. 5 Pr.Relief of the City of Lincoln Act 1588Two acts made in the one and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign; the other, An act for reviving and enlarging of a statute made in the three and twentieth year of her said Majesty's reign, for the relief of the city of Lincoln.The whole act.35 Eliz. 1. c. 1Religion Act 1592Three acts made in the five and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign; one intituled, An act to retain the Queen's majesty subjects in their due obedience.The whole act.35 Eliz. 1. c. 10Cloth Act 1592Three acts made in the five and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign; another for reformation of sundry abuses in clothes called Devonshire kersies or dozens, according to a proclamation of the four and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reignThe whole act.35 Eliz. 1. c. 11Clapboard Act 1592Three acts made in the five and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign; the third, An act for the bringing in of clap-board from the parts beyond the seas, and the restraining of the transporting of white-ashes, for the sparing and preserving of timber within the realm.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 1Houses of Husbandry Act 1597Several acts hereafter mentioned, made in the nine and thirtieth year of her said Majesty's reign, that is to say, an act intituled, An act against the decaying of towns, and houses of husbandryThe whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 2Tillage Act 1597An act, intituled, An act for the maintenance of husbandry and tillage.The whole act together with such explanations and provisions as thereunto are added by the statute made in the three and fortieth year of her said Majesty's reign.39 Eliz. 1. c. 10Navigation Act 1597An act, intituled, An act for the increase of mariners, and for maintenance of the navigation, repealing a former act made in the three and fortieth year of her said Majesty's reign, bearing the same title.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 12Labourers Act 1597An act, intituled, An act for explanation of the statute made in the fifth year of her said Majesty's reign, concerning labourers.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 14Importation Act 1597An act, intituled, An act prohibiting the bringing into this realm of foreign cards.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 17Vagabonds Act 1597An act, intituled, An act against lewd and wandering persons, pretending to be soldiers or mariners.The whole act.39 Eliz. 1. c. 4Vagabonds (No. 2) Act 1597An act, intituled, An act for the punishment of rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars.The whole act with this proviso to be annexed thereunto by authority of this present parliament; That the said last mentioned act, nor any thing therein contained, shall impeach, avoid, prejudice or infringe such liberty and inheritance of John Dutton of Dutton in the county of Chester, esq; and his ancestors, whereof he is, or they have lawfully used and exercised, in showing minstrels in the county palatine and county of the city of Chester, and in governing of minstrels there, and keeping a court yearly for the same purpose.43 Eliz. 1. c. 3Disabled Soldiers Act 1601The several acts hereafter mentioned, made in the three and fortieth year of the reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth, that is to say, an act, intituled, An act for the necessary relief of soldiers and mariners.The whole act.43 Eliz. 1. c. 6Frivolous Suits Act 1601An act, intituled, An act to avoid trifling and frivolous suits in law in her Majesty's courts at Westminster.The whole act.43 Eliz. 1. c. 2Poor Relief Act 1601An act, intituled, An act for the relief of the poor.The whole act with this addition, viz. be it enacted, That all persons, to whom the overseers of the poor shall, according to this act, bind any children apprentices, may take and receive, and keep them as apprentices; any former statute to the contrary notwithstanding.43 Eliz. 1. c. 10Woollen Cloth Act 1601An act, intituled, An act for the true making and working of woollen clothes.The whole act.43 Eliz. 1. c. 5Inferior Court Act 1601An act, intituled, An act to prevent perjury and subornation of perjury, and unnecessary expenses in suits in law.The whole act.Section 5 of the act revived and continued the Perjury Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 9) until the end of the next session of parliament. Section 5 of the act also revived the Tenths Act 1572 (14 Eliz. 1. c. 7) and the Lands of Crown Accountants Act 1584 (27 Eliz. 1. c. 3), effective from the end of the present session of parliament. Section 5 of the act also revived and continued so much of the Vagabonds Act 1572 (14 Eliz. 1. c. 5) "as concerneth the taxing, rating, levying, receiving and employing of gaol money" (section 38) until the end of the next session of parliament.Section 6 of the act continued the Lyme Regis Pier Act 1584 (27 Eliz. 1. c. 1 Pr.) until the end of the next session of parliament ten years from the start of the present session of parliament.
Section 8 of the act revived and made perpetual the Clergy Marriage Act 1548 (2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. 21) and the Clergy Marriage Act 1551 (5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 12), and declared that the children of clergy affected by the act were legitimate.
Repealed enactments Section 7 of the act repealed all statutes made before 35 Eliz. 1 "as concerneth abjured persons and sanctuaries, or ordering or governing persons abjured or in sanctuaries". Section 7 of the act repealed 15 enactments, listed in that section, as well as "all other acts heretofore made concerning apparel".