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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68407	Orders appointed to be executed in the cittie of London, for setting roges and idle persons to worke, and for releefe of the poore	London (England). Court of Common Council.	1587 (1587)	STC 16712; ESTC S108791	9,380	18

whom the fault shal be found and the same to be leuied by distresse and to be imployed to the vse of the poore in Bridewell 21 And also that the Constables Deputies and bedles on like payne shall conuey to Bridewell such as shall be brought to them as is afore sayd 22 The Constable in euery watch shal be charged vppon like payne of vi s. viii d. to apprehend all such vagarants and Rogish persons as they shall find by night and shall send or conuey them to the Counter or Cage and so to Bridewell the next day And the Porter or Officers of Bridewell shall presently receyue them wythout any further attendaunce of such as shall bring them 23 The gouernours of Bridewell shall appoint some meete persons to follow the causes at euery Sessions against such as shal be committed to pryson as is aforesaid 24 For auoyding the returne of idle vagarants and for better reformation of the idle youth and vnthriftie poore in this Citie and for further execution of the premisses euery Alderman or his Deputie in his ward assisted wyth a sufficient steward shall kéepe his Court of Wardmote once in euery month for the first yeare now ensuing and in other yéeres once in euery thrée monethes on payne to euery Alderman for his default or of his sufficient Deputie for him in not kéeping the sayd Court xl s. to the like vse of the poore And all the inhabitants shall there appeare or be amerced for their defaultes and out of the saide amercements and profites of Court the steward shal be rewarded with reasonable fée by the discretion of the Alderman and the rest shal be to the sayd vse of the poore 25 By the Inquest shal be there enquired if idle persons roges vagabunds and other suspect persons which lyue disorderly or suspiciously or spende their times at Bowling allies playes and other places vnthriftily whether the meane officers doo their dueties and all other matters as in the charge of léetes and that spéedy processe be vsed according to the law for the reformation without delay 26 Order to bee there taken for the Wardes to haue cages and stocks according to the Lawes of this Cittie and for the renuing of searches for vagarants and such other persons from time to time as shal be requisite 27 In euery Parrish by the Person or the Curate and Churchwardens with the Constable the Collectors for the poore and sixe other of the chiefe of the inhabitaunts at the least a vestry to be holden in the wéeke before the assemble of euery such wardmote to enquire and vnderstand of all idle persons vagaboundes roges disordered maisters of houses disordered Children of the poore dysordered Alehouses and such like absences from Church and other misdemeaners in their Parrish and that such as they finde be presented at the next wardmote 28 In euery parrish a generall suruey to be made by the Constable Churchwardens Collectors for the poore and vi other of the Parishners of all their poore and needye neighbors of the Parish vz. of euery house particularly the names of the dwellers the children and seruauntes the sexe and age of euery one and which be able to labour and whereupon and who be vtterly impotent to any labour 29 No pension nor other reléefe to be giuen to any which are idle being able to labor And such as will labour and haue not nor can prouide to set themselues to worke making their mone to the Churchwardens or Collectors for the poore may by a bill to be signed with the hands of the sayd Churchwardens or Collectors or any two of them and thrée other parishoners haue work appoynted or deliuered them at Bridewell or els where 30 None of the poore or their children be suffered to begg or wander in the stréetes but be exercised vpon méete labor toward the getting of their liuing in honest sort 31 In euery parrish all the poore houses shall be at cōuenient times visited daily if it may be by some one or moe to be appoynted at the vestry to sée how they apply theyr work and the defaults to be certified euery sunday to the Churchwardens and by thē to be noted in a book against the next vestry 32 Such youth and other as are able to labour and may haue worke shal be found idle shall haue some maner of correction by the parents or otherwise as shal be thought good in the parish And if they wyll not amend they shal be sent to Bridewell to be reasonably corrected there 33 Such as be impotent and reléeued by pensions can do somewhat shal be occupied in so much as they can doo and the sicke shal be visited and reléeued of the cōmon boxe for the poore in their Parrish during onely their sicknes and afterward shall apply theyr labor againe 34 Humble sute to be made to the Lord Mayor and hys brethren that vpon presentments in the court of Wardmote due execution and reformation be had 35 For better execution redresse to be had of thinges to be presented by the Inquest of Wardmote the presentments shal be deliuerd to the Aldermā of the ward and by him or his deputy shal be spéedely redressed and executed such thinges so represented as be within his power by law and the orders of this Citty to execute 36 Such thinges as be not in the power of the Alderman or his deputy but in the power of the house of Bridewel by vertue of their charter shal be deliuered to to the gouernours of Bridewel to be by them executed and reformed so far as they may according to the law 37 Such things as be not in the power of the Aldermā or his deputie nor in the power of the house of Bridewell but do require the authority of the Lord Maior or of the court of Aldermē or of any Iustices of peace shal be deliuered ouer to the Lord Maior or to such iustices as shal be requisite that the same may be lawfully and duly redressed 38 To euery art science or labor in Bridewell be appointed two of the gouernours of Bridewell to ouersée the same who shal haue care to the doing therof as they may answer that charge in credite and conscience 39 Foure gouerners of that house shal attēd two hours at the least in euery day for examination direction of such as shal be brought thether after the first search for expedition of other things requisite 40 The tresorer with some of the gouernours of Bridwell shal be appointed for the prouiding of corne bread victuall apparel and necessaries for the poore and to ouersée their lodgings and such other things as be néedefull 41 Of such companies of this City as wel the worshipfull as the inferior as the gouernors of Bridewel shall find to be requisite according to the qualitie of the artes or labors that are to be ouerséene there shal be appointed persons to attend so as there may be euery day two