[Printed act of parliament.] Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Septimo & Octavo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster [22 November 1695]. [An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages.]

[1] + 14pp., 8vo, with the text paginated 349-359. Disbound. Good, on aged paper. At the head of the title, in a contemporary hand: 'Relief of poor prisoners'. The title carries the royal crest, and reads in full: 'Anno Regni Gulielmi II. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Septimo & Octavo. | At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Two and twentieth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1695. In the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord WILLIAM the Third, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.' Drophead title on p.349 reads: 'Anno Septimo & Octavo | Gulielmi III. Regis. | An Act for Relief of Poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages.' Begins by explaining that 'for several charitable and good Reasons an Act of Parliament was made in the Twenty second and Twenty third Yeares of the Reigne of our late Sovereigne Lord King Charles the Second intituled An Act for the Relief and Release of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt and because of some dubious Construction of some Words in the said Act the same did not answer the full Intent for which it was made And therefore for Explanation thereof and to supply the Defects which did obstruct the good Ends and Purposes of the said Act another Act was made'.