
No Person by reason of Monies put into such Companies by them to be therefore subject to the Bankrupt Law.WHEREAS divers Noblemen Gentlemen and persons of quality no wayes bred up to Trade or Merchandize
do oftentimes put in great stocks of money into the East India Company or Guiney Company and the
Fishing Trade and such other publiq[ue] Societies and receive the procede of those Stocks sometimes in ready moneys
sometimes in Comodities which they usually sell for money or exchang again by which meanes the Trade of
those Companies is much encouraged Fishing and Navigation increased and the publique good of the whole Kingdome
very much advanced Notwithstanding which great advantages to the publique there hath been lately some opinion
conceived that such persons may and ought to be made subject to the Statutes provided against Bankrupts For
the better declaring and explaining the Law therein and to the end such persons may not be discouraged in those
honourable indeavors for promoting publique undertakings Be it declared an enacted by the Kings most Excellent
Majesty with the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament
assembled and by the authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever who have adventured or put in
or who hereafter shall adventure or put in any sum or sums of money into the said East India Company or Guiney
Company or into any joynt stock or stocks of money by them or either of them made or raised or to be made
and raised for and towards the maintaining and carrying on the Trade by the said East India Company or
Guiney Company managed or to be managed or who have formerly or shall hereafter adventure or put in any
su[m]m or su[m]ms of money into any stock or stocks of money for the managing and carrying on of the said fishing
trade or the trade now called the Royal Fishing Trade and shall receive and take his or theire part or dividend
of Fish Goods or Merchandizes in specie and shall sell or exchange the same shall for or by reason onely of
such adventure of moneys so put into the said East India Company or Guiney Company or into any Stock or
Stocks for and towards the said fishing Trade or for or by reason only of the receiving and taking such Fish
Goods and Merchandizes in Specie or selling for money or exchanging the same againe be adjudged taken
esteemed or reputed a Merchant or Trader within any Statute or Statutes for Bankrupts or bee liable to the same
II. 
Provided alwaies and it is hereby declared That every person or persons who shall Trade Traffique or
Merchandise in any other way or manner then in the said Royal Fishing Trade or the Trade managed by the
said East India Company or the Guiney Company as aforesaid shall for and by reason of his and theire trading
traffiquing and merchandising be lyable to Commission and Commissions against Bankrupts as fully to all intents
and purposes and not otherwise as if this Act had never been made Any thing in this Act to the contrary
notwithstanding
III. 
And be it further enacted That a Verdict and Judgement in Replevin heretofore had or given in the Terme
of Easter in the Yeare One thousand six hundred fifty three in the Kings Bench betwixt Phineas Andrewes Plaintiffe
Richard Woolward and William Meggs Defendants whereby Sir John Wolstenholme Knight and Adventurer in the
said East India Company was adjudged and found lyable to a Commission of Bankrupts only for and by reason of
a share hee had in the joynt Stock of the said Company and a pretended selling for money part of the return
which hee had in Specie for his said Adventure shall be and is hereby declared contrary to Law and is hereby
reversed and made void and null.
IV. 
Provided alwaies and be it enacted That no Act Sale or Disposition of any the Lands Tenements Hereditaments
Goods Chattels Debts or Creditts of the said Sir John Wolstenholme or any distribution of the same or of any
money heretofore made or done by the Commissioners of Bankrupts or any claiming under them or any of them by
vertue or colour of any Commission or Commissions taken out against the said Sir John Wolstenholme and whereof
any person or persons is by vertue or colour of or under any such Act Sale or Disposition actually seised or
possessed shall be hereby impeached or frustrated but that the same be injoyed for and toward satisfaction of the
Debts for which the same have been disposed or distributed.