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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74485	An act for regulating the making of stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich. Saturday the 12th of November, 1653. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E1062_25; ESTC R209423	6,119	12

AN ACT For Regulating the making of STUFFS IN Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers Abuses and Deceits have of late years been had and used in the making of Worsteads and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuff● and in the Reeling of the Yarns whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made all which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique For prevention of all which Abuses and Deceits It is Enacted by this present Parliament That from henceforth there be and shall be a Corporation within the said City and County of Norwich and County of Norfolk consisting of two Presidents twelve Wardens and forty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the places aforesaid And one of the said Presidents and six of the said Wardens and twenty of the said Assistants shall be yearly chosen upon the last Wednesday in the moneth of November at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said city and county of Norwich and the other of the said Presidents six Wardens and twenty Assistants shall be chosen on the same day in some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the county of Norfolk And the said twelve Wardens respectively shall within fourteen days after they shall be so chosen or elected before the Major of Norwich for the time being or his Deputy or any one Iustice of the Peace of the county of Norfolk for the time being if he be present otherwise before the said Major or his Deputy onely declare as followeth I A.B. do promise That I will under the Penalties and Forfeitures contained in this Act well and truly perform and discharge the Office of a Warden of the Corporation of the Worstead-Weavers according to this Act and the Rules and Orders made and to be made by the said Corporation by vertue of the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Presidents Wardens and Assistants for the time being shall for ever hereafter in Name and Fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and be called by the name of the Presidents Wardens and Assistants of the Worstead-weavers of the city and county of Norwich and county of Norfolk and sue or plead and be sued or impleaded by the name aforesaid in all Courts and places of Iudicature within this Nation and by that name shall and may without License in Mortmain purchase take or receive any Lands Tenments or Hereditaments of the Gift Alienation or Demise of any person or persons who are hereby without further License enabled to transfer the same and any Goods or Chattels whatsoever for the use and benefit of the Corporation aforesaid not exceeding the yearly value of One thousand pounds And for the Regulation and good Government of the said Trade and Manufacture The said Corporation or any Thirteen or more of them whereof one President and seven or more Wardens to be present shall have hereby power and authority from time to time to meet and keep Courts for the ends in this Act mentioned within the city of Norwich at such time and place as shall be appointed by the said Presidents or one of them and Wardens or the greater number of them for the time being who are hereby required upon the desire of any Eight or more of the said Assistants at any time to warn and keep a Court accordingly And the said Corporation or any thirteen or more of them whereof one President and seven or more Wardens to be present as aforesaid or the greater number of them shall have and hereby have power and authority from time to time to make and appoint a common Seal or several common Seals for the use of the said Corporation and to make By-laws Rules and Ordinances for and concerning the Regulation of the premises and of such particulars as shall be by them or the greater number of them found requisite for the better regulation of the said Trade and Manufacture and the due execution of this Act which By-laws Rules and Ordinances being confirmed and ratified by the Major and one Iustice of the Peace for the time being of the said city and county of Norwich and two other Iustices of the Peace of the said county of Norfolk or the greater number of them shall be obeyed and kept by the several persons within or under the Government of the said Corporation or Regulation And the said Court have hereby power to impose a Fine or Penalty upon any person or persons of the said Corporation that shall not conform to such Rules Orders and Ordinances so made as aforesaid Provided the said Fine or Penalty on any person for not conforming exceed not the sum of ten shillings for one Offence the said Fines and Penalties to go to the use of the said Corporation And it is further Enacted That the Weavers of the said Corporation that are within the City and County of Norwich shall from time to time give notice unto the Weavers of the said County of Norfolk of the time and place when and where they shall intend to consider of the making of any By-Laws Orders or Ordinances as aforesaid by Publication of such their purpose and intent to their open Court Fifteen days at least before they shall proceed to make the same And it is further Enacted That if any person or persons shall be duly chosen as above-said to be a Warden or Wardens of the said Corporation and after such election and due notice thereof given him or them he or they shall refuse or wilfully neglect to undergo and execute the place and duty of a Warden or Wardens according to the purport of this Act such person or persons so refusing or neglecting shall each of them have a Fine imposed on them by the said Corporation the said Fine not exceeding Ten pounds the said Fine to go to the use of the Corporation And for the better Regulation and carrying on of the Work aforesaid and avoiding of all Frauds and Deceits therein Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Yarns called Worstead-yarns or used by the Worstead-weavers shall be made without fraud and shall before the same be put or offered to sale be reeled on a Reel of a full yard about every Reel-staff containing Fourteen Leas and every Lea containing Forty thrids Twelve of those Reel-staves making a Dozen and Twelve of those Dozens making a Gross And in case any person or persons shall after offer to put to sale any the Yarns aforesaid within the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk made and reeled in any other maner then as aforesaid that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the Presidents Wardens and Assistants aforesaid or any two or more of them to seize take and carry away all such Yarn as is defective and