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A66672	Statuta pacis, or, A perfect table of all the statutes (now in force) which any way concerne the office of a justice of peace cleerly also setting down the severall duties of sheriffes, head-officers of corporations, stewards in leets, constables, and other oficers, so far forth as the said statutes do in any sort concern them / faithfully collected, and alphabetically digested under apt tables by E.W.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.	1644 (1644)	Wing W3023; ESTC R25185	131,829	308

he may plead the Generall Issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence CIV This Act shall not abridge the Jurisdiction of Ecclesiasticall Censures CV None shall be punished for his wives offence neither shall any married woman be chargeable with any penalty or forfeiture by force of this Act. CVI. Six of the Privy Councell whereof the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer or Principall Secretary shall be one have power to minister the Oaths abovesaid to Noblemen being 18. yeares old and to Noblewomen also of like age and unmarried who shall take the same Oaths accordingly in paine to incurre a Praemunire Vide infra 128. CVII The Warden of the Cinque Ports or some authorized by him shall take the bond and minister the Oath aforesaid where any person passeth beyond Sea out of them of any of their members CVIII Stat 3. Jac. 5. The person that within three dayes notice shall discover to a Just of P. any that entertaines a Popish Priest or any which have heard or said Masse shall have a thrid part of the forfeiture due for the same offences if the whole exceed not 150. l. and then onely 50. l. thereof to be delivered unto him by the Sheriffe or other Officer which shall have power to levie the same CIX No convicted Recusant shall come into the Court without command from the King or warrant from the Privy Councell under their hands in paine of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the Discoverer CX A Popish Recusant convicted or indicted or any person not coming to Church by the space of 3. months together which remains in London or within ten miles distance thereof shall within ten dayes after such conviction or Indictment depart from thence and also shall deliver their names in London to the Lord Maior there and in the Country to the next Just of P. in pain of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor Howbeit this clause shall not extend to Tradesmen or such as have no other habitation then in London or within ten miles distance as aforesaid CXI It shall be lawfull for a Recusant to go about his necessary occasions as farre as a license obtained from the King or from three of the Privy Councell under their hands or foure of the next Justices of Peace under their hands and seales with the assent in writing of the Bishop Lieutenant or any deputy Lieutenant of the same County shall give him leave notwithstanding the Statute of 35. El. 2. which lecence shall not be granted by the said Justices till the party hath made oath of the true reason of his journey and that he will make no causelesse stayes CXII No convicted Recusant shall practise the Common Law Civill Law Physick or Art of Apothecary or be an Officer of or in any Court or beare any Office amongst souldiers or in a Ship Castle or Fortresse in paine of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor 130. CXIII No Popish Recusant convict or whose wife is a Recusant convict shall exercise any publique Office in the Common-wealth by himselfe or his deputy unlesse he bring up his children in the true Religion together with his children servants repaire to the Church and receive the Sacrament at such times as by the Law are limited 130. CXIV A married woman being a Popish Recusant convict her husband being none that doth not conforme her selfe as aforesaid by the space of one whole yeare before her husbands death shall forfeit two third parts of her Dower or Joynture and shall be incapable of being Executrix or Administratrix to her husband and of enjoying any part of her husbands goods CXV A Popish Recusant after conviction shall be reputed to all intents as a person excommunicate untill he shall conforme go to Church receive the Sacrament and take the Oath of obedience ordained by 3. Jac. 4. Howbeit he may sue for his interest in lands not seised into the Kings hands CXVI A Popish Recusant convict which is married otherwise then in open Church and by a lawfull Minister according to the Orders of the Church of England shall not be tenant by the Counrtesie And a woman in this case shall be disabled to enjoy her Dower Joynture Widowes estate or any of her husbands goods And where the man cannot be tenant by the Courtesie he shall forfeit 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor CXVII Every Popish Recusant shall within one moneth after the birth of his child cause it to be baptized by a lawfull Minister in pain to forfeit 100. l. if he out-live the moneth if not then his wife is to pay the same forfeiture which shall be divided into there parts whereof the King shall have one the prosecutor another and the poor of the parish the third CXVIII Every Popish Recusant shall be buried in the Church of Church-yard and according to the Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realm in pain that his executor or administrator or the party that caused him to be otherwise buried shall forfeit 20. l. to be divided into three parts and disposed as aforesaid CXIX A child being no Souldier Mariner Merchant or Apprentice or Factor to a Merchant shall not be sent or go beyond sea without the licence of the King or of six of the privie Councell whereof the principall Secretary shall be one in pain to be thereby incapable to enjoy any lands or goods by descent or grant untill being eighteen yeers of age or above he take the said oath of Obedience before some Justice of Peace of the County where his parents doe or did dwell And in the mean time the next of his kin being no Popish Recusant shall enjoy the lands and goods but shall be accountable to the other in case he after conform himself as aforesaid And he that so goes out of the kingdome without licence shall forfeit 100. l. to be divided and imployed as aforesaid CXX A Popish Recusant convict shall be disabled to present to a Benefice or to grant any avoydance of a Benefice but in stead of him the Chancellor and Scholers of the Universities of Oxford or Combridge shall present within severall Counties respectively for which see the Statute at large Howbeit they shall not conferre it upon a man already Beneficed CXXI A Popish Recusant shall not be an Executor Administrator or Guardian but the next of the kin being no Recusant and unto whom the land cannot lawfully descend shall have the wardship and tuition of an heir or orphan in that case CXXII A grant of the Kings Ward to a Popish Recusant convict shall be void CXXIII None shall bring from beyond sea print sell or buy any Popish Primers Ladies Psalters Manuals Rosaries Popish Catechismes Missals Breviaries Portals Legends or lives of saints in what language soever they shall be printed or written nor any other superstitious books printed or written in the English tongue in pain to forfeit xl s. for every

complaint of any two of the Overseers or of any Watermans Master have power not only to heare and determine any offences committed against this Act and to enlarge any Waterman unjustly imprisoned by the said Overseers but likewise to inflict punishment upon the Overseers themselves in case they shall unjustly punish any person by colour of this Act. VI. A Wherry that is not twenty two foot and a halfe long and foure foot and an halfe broad in the Midship and sufficient to carry two persons on one side tight shall be forfeit in which Case the King and Queen shall have the one Moity and the Informer the other VII The Waterman that withdraweth himselfe in time of pressing it being proved by two witnesses before the said Maior Aldermen or Justice and two of the said Overseers shall suffer a fortnights imprisonment and shall be prohibited to row any more upon Thames for a yeare and a day after VIII The Overseers shall not only call the Watermen before them direct them and Register their names but likewise examine their boats before they be lanched whether they have due proportion and goodnesse according to this Act. IX If the Overseers refuse or neglect their office they shall forfeit 5. l. whereof the King and Queene shall have one Moity and the Informer the other X. The Court of Aldermen shalll assesse the Fares of Watermen which being subscribed by two of the Privy Councell at least shall be set up in Guildhall Westminster-hall c. And the Waterman that takes more then according to the Fares so assessed shall for every such offence suffer halfe a yeares imprisonment and forfeit 40. s. viz. the one Moity to the King and Queen the other to the Informer XI Stat. 1. Jac. 16. No Waterman shall retaine any Servant or Apprentice unlesse he himselfe hath been an Apprentice to a Waterman by the space of five yeares before and not an Apprentice under the age of eighteene yeares or for lesse time then seven yeares in paine to forfeit for every such offence 10. l. viz. the one Moity to the King and the other to the Informer XII This Act shall not restraine Watermens sonnes of convenient growth and strength and formerly trained up in rowing but that they may be allowed to serve as Apprentices and to carry passengers from place to place at the age of sixteene yeares XIII The eight Overseers shall yearely upon the first of March and the first of September cause openly to be read in their Common Hall all their orders made or to be made in paine that every of them for every such default shall forfeit twentie nobles viz. the one Moity to the King and the other to the Informer Bookes Images I. Stat. 3. 4. E. 6.10 All popish Bookes in times past used for service of the Church shall be utterly abolished and forbidden to be used within the Kings Dominions II. All persons whatsoever having in their custodie any popish Bookes or Images carved or painted which have been taken out of or yet doe stand in any Church or Chappell shall destroy the said Images and deliver the said Bookes to the Major Bayliffe Constable or Church-wardens of the towne where such bookes then shall be to be delivered over to the Archbishop Bishop Chancellor or Commissarie of the same Diocesse to the intent the said Bookes should be by them openly burnt or otherwise defaced in paine to forfeit for the first default 10. s. for the second 4. l. and for the third imprisonment at the Kings will III. The officer shall within three months deliver over the said Books unto the Archbishop Bishop c. and they shall within forty dayes after burne or deface the same or cause them to be burned or defaced in paine to forfeit respectively 40. l. a peece whereof one Moity is given to the King and the other to the Informer IV. Justices of Assise and Just of P. in Sess have power to inquire heare and determine these defaults and offences V. Images upon Tombes shall remaine unlesse the dead person have beene commonly taken for a Saint VI. Primers set forth by H. 8. purged from sentences of invocation or prayer to Saints shall be still retained S. Recusants 17.123.124 Bowes S. Archerie Brasse Latten Copper Bell-metall Pewter c. I. Stat. 19. H. 7.6 None shall sell or change brasse save only in open Faires and Markets or in their owne houses except they be desired by the Buyer of such wares in pain of 10. l. 12. II. None shall cast or worke Brasse or Pewter but according to the goodnesse of metall wrought within London in paine to forfeit the same viz. one Moity to the King and the other to the finder III. Hollow ware of Pewter called lay metall shall be wrought after the Assise of Lay metall in London and shall be marked in paine to forfeit the said wares or being sold the price of the same to be divided as aforesaid IV. None shall use in the selling of Brasse or Pewter any false beames or weights in paine to forfeit 20. s. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor and in case he be not able to pay it he shall be by the head officer committed to the stocks till the next Market day and then stand upon the Pillory V. Searchers of Brasse and Pewter in every City and Borrough shall be appointed by the head officers of the same and in every County by the Just of P. at their Mich. Sessions And in default of Searchers in Cities and Boroughs any other person skilfull in that mysterie by oversight of the head officers may take upon him the search of defective Brasse which being found either by him or the other searchers shall be equally divided as aforesaid VI. Stat. 4. H. 8.7 The Statute of 19. H. 7.6 is confirmed and besides it is enacted that in Cities and Boroughes search of defective Tinne and Pewter shall be made by the. Wardens of the Craft of Pewterers and in townes where no Wardens are searchers shall be appointed by the head-officers there which said defective Ware shall be forfeited and divided as in the former statute VII Stat. 25. H. 8.9 None shall buy or take by exchange any wares made of Tinne or Pewter out of the Realme in paine to forfeit them and also the value thereof in mony VIII Officers may search and seise wares brought into this Realme contrary to this Act. IX No stranger borne shall worke any Pewter or Tinne in England in paine to forfeit the same X. No Pewterer shall teach his trade in a forraigne nation in paine to lose the Priviledge of an Englishman XI Licences and Placards to wandering Brasiers and Pewterers shall be void XII The penalties mentioned in 19. H. 7. and in this present Act shall be equally divided betwixt the King and the finder Stat. 33. H. 8.4 XIII Stat. 33. H. 8.4 The statute of 25. H. 8.9 is confirmed XIV None shall withstand the search of

questioned he shall plead the generall issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence III. Stat. 3. Car. 1. No Carrier with his horse Wagoner with his wagon Carman with his Cart Waynman with his Wayne or Drover with his Cattle shall travell upon the Lords day in paine to forfeit xx s. for every such offence IV. No Butcher shall kill or sell any Victual upon the same day in pain of 6. s. 8. d. V. Here the conviction of the offender and the levying and imployment of the forfeitures are the same with those of the former Statute save only that here two witnesses are not necessary and the forfeitures may also be recovered by a prosecutor in the Sess of the County or in the Court of the Corporation where the offence was committed and in that case the Justice or head-officer may allow the prosecutor part of the forfeitures but not above a third part VI. This Action shall be prosecuted within six moneths and here also the officer may plead the generall issue c. S. Fishdayes 4. Recusants 98. Sacraments 24. Horse-bread S. Inholders Horses I. Stat. 32. H. 8.13 None shall put to feed upon Forests or common ground any stoned horse being above 2. yeares old and not fifteen handfull high from the lower part of the hoofe to the upper part of the Wither every handfull being accompted 4. Inches standard measure in pain to forfeit the same horse 15.21 II. It shall be lawfull for any man to selse to his owne use any stoned horse of lesser statute put to feed upon any such common ground as aforesaid so that first by the Assistance of the keeper of the ground or Constable Bayliffe Head-borough or other such officer of the parish next adjoyning such horse be brought to the next pound and there by the officer and in the presence of three other sufficient men be measured and found lower then that stature III. Those that refuse to measure or to be present at measuring of such horse shall forfeit xl s. a peece for every such default to bee divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor IV. A horse that makes an Escape into such Common shall not be questioned so he stay not above four dayes after notice thereof given at the owners house or in his parish Church V. Forests and common grounds shall be driven yearly at Michaelmas or within xv dayes after by the Keepers or officers aforesaid in paine of xl s. who have also power to drive them at any other time of the yeare at their pleasure such power likewise have the owners of such grounds And here upon the drift if any unlikely Tits shall be found they shall be kild VI. Just of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine these offences But stewards of Leets only to take presentments of them which they shall certifie in at the next generall Sess or to the Custos Rotulorum within 40 dayes in paine of 40. s. VII None shall put upon common grounds or common fields any scabbed or infected horse in pain to forfeit x. s. to the Lord of the Leet VIII This statute shall not restrain keeping of horses under this Stature upon Commons where Mares are not usually kept IX Stat. 1. E. 6.5 None shall convey sell or deliver any horse into Scotland or any other forraine Country without the Kings Licence in paine to forfeit such horse and xl l. to be divided betwixt the King and the Prosecutor X. Wardens of the Marches and Just of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine these offences and it shall be lawfull for any of the Kings Subjects to arrest and imprison any Scotch man or other that shall convey any horse contrary to this Act. XI Stat. 2.3 P. M. 7. Every owner of a Faire or Market shall appoint a Toll-taker where Toll is taken or a Book-keeper where no toll is paid to sit there from ten of the Clock in the forenoone till Sun-set in paine of xl s. for every default And this Officer shall enter into a Booke the names and dwellings of the Buyer and seller together with the Colour and some pregnant Mark of every horse there sold in like pain of xl s. for every default XII The Toll-taker or Book-keeper shall within one day after deliver unto the said owner a note of all the horses sold there that day in pain of xl s. which note the owner shall subscribe in the like pain of xl s. XIII Sale of a stolne horse in a faire or market without entry in the Book as aforesaid and without staying there in open view by the space of an houre at least betwixt ten of the Clock and Sun set shall not alter the property of the right owner But that he may by vertue of this Act seise or replevy him wheresoever he finds him XIV Just of P. in Sess shall have power to hear and determine the breach of this Stat. and the forfeitures shall be divided betwixt the King and Queens Majesties and the prosecutor 16 c. XV. Stat. 8. El. 8. The Statute of 32. H. 8.13 shall not restrain the keeping of stoned horses of a lower stature in the Fen grounds of the I le of Ely or of the Counties of Cambridge Huntington Northampton Lincolne Norfolk or Suffolk so that those horses so kept be not under thirteen handfull high according to the standard in the same statute mentioned XVI Stat. 31. El. 12. The seller of a horse in a Fair or Market which is not known to the Toll-taker or Book-keeper or doth not produce one credible person that is well knowne unto him to avouch the Sale of the same horse shall forfeit 5. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor and besides the sale of such horse shall be voyd XVII The names of the Buyer Seller and voucher and the price of the horse shall be entred in the toll-Toll-book and a note thereof delivered to the buyer under the Toll-takers or Book-keepers hand for which the Buyer shall pay 2. d. XVIII Just of the P. in Sess have power to heare and determine these offences XIX Notwithstanding such sale and voucher as aforesaid the right owner or his executors may redeeme a stolne horse if they clayme him within six moneths after the stealing at the Parish or Corporation where they shall find him and make proofe by two sufficient Witnesses before the next Just of P. in the Country or before the Head-officer of the Corporation that the horse was his and repay to the Buyer such price for the horse as the same Buyer shall upon his owne oath before such Justice or Officer testifie to have payed for him XX. An Accessary of a horse-stealer shall not have his Clergy XXI Stat. 21. Jac. 28. The statute of 32. H. 8.13 shall not extend to the County of Cornewall Hostlers S. Inholders Purveyors 56. Victuall 2. Hospitalls S. Poore people 15. Houses of Correction S. Poor people 5. Vagabonds Hue and Cry

arraignement of the offender and to give advice concerning the offence committed VI. This offence shall be prosecuted within three months and the offender shall be admitted to produce witnesses for his default VII Stat. 2 3. E. 6.1 Every Minister shal use the Church service in such forme as is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer established by this Act and shall not use any other or deprave the same in paine if he be beneficed and convict thereof by the verdict of 12. men his owne confession or notorious evidence of the fact to forfeit to the King for the first offence that of his benefices which the King will choose and to suffer six months imprisonment for the second to suffer one whole yeares imprisonment and to be deprived ipso facto of all his Spirituall promotions whereupon every Patron may present and for the third to suffer imprisonment during life And if he be not beneficed for the first offence he shall suffer six months imprisonment and for the second imprisonment during life VIII If any shall be convicted to have by enterludes playes songs thymes or otherwise depraved the said books or to have compelled or procured the Minister to sing or say any other Church Service or in any other forme then as aforesaid or by any such means to have interrupted or let the Minister to sing or say the said Service they shall for the first offence forfeit x. li. to the King or that not paid within six weeks after conviction shall suffer in stead thereof three moneths imprisonment without baile for the second time offending shall forfeit xx l. or that not paid within six weeks as aforesaid shall suffer six moneths imprisonment without bail and for the third time shall forfeit all their goods and suffer imprisonment during life IX Justices of Oyer and Termin and Justices of Assise have power to hear and determine these offences unto whom the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse may associate himself if he please X. This shall not restrain any private man or publick Colledges to use the said Service in such tongues as they understand the holy Communion only excepted or any other to use Psalms or prayers taken out of the Bible at convenient times not letting thereby the said Service XI The offences aforesaid shall be prosecuted at the next Assise or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer after they are committed And here tryall of Peers shall be by Peers XII Chief Officers of Cities and Corporations shall also heare and determine these offences within their severall prccincts and so likewise shall Ecclesiasticall Magistrates Howbeit none shall be punished above once for one offence XIII Stat. 5 6. E. 6.1 Every person shall resort to his Parish Church or Chappel or upon just let so to doe to some other every Sunday and Holiday in pain to be punished by the censures of the Church XIV The Common prayer book now made perfect and annexed to this Act. together with the addition of consecrating Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons shall be used and esteemed as by the Statute of 2 3. E. 6.1 is ordained under the pains in the same Statute expressed XV. If any shall be convict by verdict of twelve men before Justice of Assise Oyer and Terminer or Peace in Sess to have wittingly heard or to have been present at any other form of Common prayer administration of Sacraments making of Ministers or other rites then what are expressed in the said book or which are contrary to the said Statute of 2 3. E. 6.1 shall for the first offence suffer six months imprisonment without bail for the second twelve months imprisonment and for the third imprisonment during life XVI Stat. 1. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. If any shall disturbe a Preacher lawfully licenced he shall be by the Constables or Church-wardens of the parish brought before a Just of Peace who upon due accusation shall presently commit him to safe custody and within six dayes after together with another Justice shall diligently examine the fact who if they find cause shall commit him to the common Gaole there to remain for three moneths and from thence to the next quarter Sessions at which upon the parties reconciliation and entring into bond for the good behaviour for one whole yeer at the discretion of the Justices in Session he shall be released but if hee persist still in his obstinacie he shall remain in prison without bail untill he shall reconcile and be penitent for his offence XVII Hee that rescues an offender in this kind shall suffer like imprisonment as aforesaid and besides shall forfeit v. li. to the Queen XVIII The inhabitants of a towne that suffer such an offender to escape shall forfeit v. li. being presented before the Justices of Peace in Sess within the County or Corporation where the escape was made XIX Justices of Peace Assise and Oyer and Terminer and Maiors and head Officers of Corporations have power to heare and determine these offences and to impose the fines aforesaid XX. This Act shall not restrain the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiasticall lawes Howbeit none shall be punished twice for one offence XXI Stat. 1. El. 2. Every Minister shall use the Church Service in such forme as is mentioned in the book of Common prayer established by 5 6. E. 6.1 together with the addition of certain lessons to be used on every Sunday in the yeer and the form of the Letany altered and corrected and two sentences only added in the delivery of the Sacraments to communicants XXII If any Minister shall be convicted by the verdict of twelve men his owne confession or notorious evidence of the fact to have refused to use the said Church service or to have used any other rite ceremony order forme or manner then is set forth in the said book or to have depraved the same book or any thing therein contained he shall forfeit being a benefited man for the first offence one whole yeers profit of all his spirituall promotions and suffer six moneths imprisonment for the second shall be deprived ipsofacto whereupon every Patron may present and shall suffer one whole yeeres imprisonment and for the third shall be also deprived as aforesaid and shall suffer imprisonment during life And if he be not beneficed for the first offence he shall suffer one whole yeeres imprisonment and for the second imprisonment during life XXIII If any shall be convicted to have by enterludes playes songs rhymes or otherwise depraved the said book or to have compelled or procured the Minister to sing or say any other Church service or in any other form then as aforesaid or by any such means to have interrupted or let the Minister to sing or say the said service they shall for the first offence forfeit 100. Marks to the Queen or that not paid within six weeks after conviction shall suffer in stead thereof six moneths imprisonment for the second offence shall forfeit 400. Marks or that not