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A58542 Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. 1685 (1685) Wing S1026A; ESTC R7018 2,199 1

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ACT Against Land lords setting of Houses to Vn-free Persons And also an Act for purging the City of Vagabonds and Beggers EDINBURGH the Twenty Eighth Day of October One Thousand Six Hundred Eeghty Five Years THE which day the Lord Provost Bailies Council and Deacons of Crafts being conveened in Council taking to their Consideration that notwithstanding of diverse Acts of Council made for purging the City of Vagabonds Beggers and other idle Persons who daily trouble the Inhabitants and others His Majesties Leidges resorting thereto Yet they are so numerous that the Citizens and other His Majesties Leidges cannot without great trouble walk upon the Streets which is very burdensome to the City and disgraceful to the place Considering that by the 15 Act of the third Session of our late Soveraign Lords first Parliament it is Declared that it shall be leisome to all Persons or Societies who have or shall set up any Manufactories within this Kingdom to seize upon and apprehend any Vagabonds who shall be sound Begging on who being Masterless and out of Service and have not wherewith to maintain themselves by their own means and work And impowering them to employ the saids Vagabond persons and their Bairns in their common work and declaring they shall continue therein during their life time and shall be subject to their Masters correction and chaftisement in all manner of correction life and torture excepted The saids persons being always employed by the saids Manufactories with advice of the Magistrates of the place where they shall be seized upon And the Council being now resolved that all the Vagabonds Beggers and other idle persons and their Children that are above the age of 5 years that can be found upon the Streets of the City or in any part of the samine or Suburbs thereof shall be apprehended and put into the Correction-house and set at work to Spin and Card and working such Manufactory work as they shall be employed to do by the Keeper of the Correction-house and his servants which they judge to be the best expedient for purging the City and Suburbs of the saids idle Persons and Vagabonds and preventing the increase of them in time coming Therefore they hereby Command and Charge these persons who shall receive the Magistrates Commission to take and apprehend all such Vagabonds idle Beggers whores Thieves and Masterless persons and their Children above the age of 5 years who shall be found within the City or any part thereof or Suburbs of the same and present them to the Magistrates that thereafter they may be Imprisoned within the said House of Correction to be set at work by the said Master of the Correction-house and his Servants in manner foresaid who are to remain therein during all the days of their life-time conform to the tenor of the said Act of Parliament during the which space they are to receive all manner of punishment and correction life and torture excepted And in like manner the Council taking into consideration that the City hath been and is greatly abused by suffering Strangers Vagabonds un-free Persons poor and indigent Bodies to plant and have their Habitations within this City and that by harbouring of the saids persons and such as they resett the Town is defiled with all kind of Vice the liberty of Free-men usurped the City over-burdened with sustaining of that kind of people their Wives Children and such as they resett particularly in the time of Death and the Monthly contribution appointed for their own poor employed and consumed upon them and that for remeed thereof the Magistrates and Council by their Act of the Date the 22 th day of December 1676. years did Statute and Ordain that no persons set their Houses or Lands within the City or Suburbs thereof in any time hereafter to any unfree persons that are not Landed Gentlemen or Members of the Colledge of Justice without a special Ticket from the Bailie of the Quarter in Writt within whose Bounds the saids Lands lyes under the pain of an Un-law of Twenty Pounds to be taken off the Setters or Owners of the saids Lands or Houses ilk person to whom their Land or Houses was to be set with the Escheat of an Years Mail to the Towns use And where any Lands or Houses are set to such persons that the Owners or Setters remove the saids persons instantly and that the Bailies shall give no Ticket to the saids unfree persons but upon Caution to be found Acted in the Town Books that they shall keep and fulfill the Articles following to wit That they shall receive no Vagabonds Naughty or Vitious Persons nor any who are suspect of Theft or Reset of Theft or of keeping of Brothel-houses nor Masterless-persons within their Houses under the pain of Twenty Pounds so oft as they failzie Item They shall use no unlawful Vocation or usurp the Liberty of a Free-man under the said pain Item That neither they their Servants Wives nor Children shall be burdenable to the good Town under the pain of an Un-law of an hundred Merks Item That they shall be no ways disobedient to the Church or Magistrates or Officers of the said Burgh under the said pain and their Penalties to be paid by the saids Cautioners The Council do revive the foresaid Act in the whole Heads Articles and Clauses thereof and Ordains the same to take effect and to be put to due Execution in all time coming And further it is Statute and Ordained that Out-land poor Beggers and other poor that hath been Burgess Bairns in this Burgh remove and dispatch themselves forth of this Burgh Bounds and Liberties thereof and to retire to the place or Paroch where they were born or formerly recided so that they be not found nor seen within the samine at any time hereafter under the pain of puting them in the Thieves-hole 48 hours for the first fault and Scourging of them thereafter as they shall be found within the Bound foresaid And Ordains this presents to be Printed and Published through the City and Suburbs by Tuck of Drum and affixed upon the most conspicuous places of this City that none pretend ignorance Extracted by me JO. RICHARDSONE Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most sacred Majesty City and Colledge 1685 This may be Reprinted at London RLS November the 13 th by D. Mallet 1685.