of this present Parliament the Towns and Places wherein they shall think most necessary to have a common Goal newly edified and made 2 Inst 705 706. and 5 Eliz. 24. cap. § 3. N. 1. Notice And be it further Enacted § 4. N. 1. That several Commissioners under the Kings great Seal with this present Act thereto affiled shall be directed to the Iustices of Peace of the Shires aforenamed authorizing them to accomplish and execute this present Act according to the tenor thereof in every behalf Imprisonment Be it further Enacted c. § 7. N. 1. That like Provision in every behalf be had for a new Goal to be made within the County of Derby in like form as is provided for other Shires aforesaid Ale And that every Beer-Brewer and Ale-Brewer shall not take over and above for every such Barrel Kilderkin C. 4. § 5. N. 1. or Firkin of Ale and Beer but after such Prizes and Rates as shall be thought convenient and sufficient by discretions of the Iustices of Peace within every Shire where such Beer-Brewer and Ale-Brewer shall dwell without any City Borough or Town Corporate where no head-Officers as Mayors Bailiffs Sheriffs and other head-Officers have no Authority or Rule 8 Eliz. 9. § 5. N. 1. Cap. 5. § 5. N. 2. And before he viz. Commissioner of Sewers shall take upon him the Execution of the said Commission Sewers he shall take a Corporal Oath before the Lord Chancellor or before such to whom the said Lord Chancellor shall direct the Kings Writ of Dedimus Potestatem to take the same or before the Iustices of the Peace in the Quarter Sessions holden in the Shire where such Commissions shall be directed c. Cap. 8. § 2. N. 2. And if it shall happen any person Mettle c. for prosecuting any Suit or Action upon this Statute viz. against Tinners that do not make sufficient Hatches and Tyes for Gravel c. or by occasion of the same hereafter to be imprisoned by any manner of person c. being Officers or Ministers of the Stannery their Deputies or Substitutes that then every of the Iustices of Peace within any of the Counties aforesaid viz. Devonshire or Cornwal wherin the said Prisoner shall happen to be Committed to Prison upon credible Information thereof taking Surety by his descretion for Appearance of such Prisoner at the next general Sessions of the Peace shall have Power c. as well to direct his Warant to the Goaler c. as to any other Person to whom the said Prisoner shall be committed unto commanding him c. upon pain c. of 40 l. to deliver and put at large the said Prisoner c. 27 H. 8. Cap. 23. § 4. N. 1. § 2. N. 6. And if it shall appear upon the Appearance of such Prisoner at the Quarter Sessions by examining of the Iustices of Peace there being Justices that he was imprisoned contrary to the form of this Statute then he shall be forthwith dismissed and thereby discharged and if he were lawfully Imprisoned for any other just Cause then to be remanded to Prison by the discretion of the said Iustices 27 H. 8. Cap. 23. § 4. N. 3. Cap. 1◠§ 3. And be it Enacted c. that the Lord Chancellor of England Sewers c. at all times c. upon request to him to be made by the Mayor and Commonalt◠of the said City viz. of York and Town viz. of Hull or by any other Citizen and Burgess of the said City and Town c. or other person by them under the common Seals of the said City and Town Authorised shall have Power and Authority by his discretion to make and direct like Commission viz. as for Surety unto eight sad and discreet persons whereof four of them be of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the said City and Town and the other four to be Iustices of Peace whereof two to be of the West-Riding and the other two of the East-Riding of the County of York not of Fee nor retained with the said City or Town that they eight seven six five or four of them whereof two of them shall be of the said City and Town and the other two Iustices of Peace the one of the East-Riding the other of the West-Riding of the said County by Virtue of the said Commission shall and may the said Owners assign and appoint to pull up and redress viz. in the River of Ouse and the water of Humber or cause to be pulled up and redressed within thirty days after monition given to the said Owners by the said Commissioners or by such of them taking the charge of the Execution of the said Commission such and as much of the said Fish-gart his and other Impediments to be made in the said Waters viz. of Ouse and Humber to the Let Disturbance Damage or Ieoperdy of any Ships Keyls Boats or any other Vessels passing or repassing to or from the said City of York to the said Town of Hull as by them shall be thought meet and convenient 24 H. 8. C. 1◠§ 2. N. 4. And if the Offence Fowle viz. not endeavouring to destroy Crows Rooks and Choughs be done contrary to this Statute by any person c. which shall dwell and have the Manurance of and in such Mannors Meases Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereunto such Leets Law-days Rapes and Courts do not belong or by reason whereof any such Courts be not holden that then upon a Presentment thereof had before the Sheriffs c. or Iustices of Peace in their Sessions c. the Iustices of Peace or two of them at the least if the Presentment be before them in their Sessions shall assess and set the said Amerciament after the quantity of the Offence by their discretions c. Justices And further be it Enacted § 5. N. 1. c. That as well the Iustices of the Peace in their Sessions c. to be hereafter holden before them or any of them shall give in Charge to the Tenants and Inhabitants and all other appearing before any of them that they shall duly inquire and put in execution the effect of the Premises in due time viz. yearly so that this Act may be fully executed and Choughs Crows and Rooks thereby destroyed in all parts of this Realm c. Fowle And if any such Owner or Farmer viz. on whose Grounds Rooks § 7. N. 2. Choughs or Crows be killed refuse to pay the said mony accordingly as is aforesaid viz. two pence for twelve a penny for six a half-penny for three old Rooks Choughs or Crows killed then upon Complaint and Proof thereof made to any of the Iustices of Peace or High-Constable the said Iustice of Peace or High-Constable shall cause the said mony to be levyed by distress of the Goods and Cattels of every such Farmer or Owner refusing to pay the same
that the said Vagabonds and other lewd persons before recited shall upon their apprehension be committed to the common Goal of the same Shire where they are so taken and apprehended and that in the most Shires of this Realm the Common-Goals are in such Towns where there be a great number of Poor people more than they are well able to sustain with their relief and in some Shires the Assizes are kept far distant from the place where the Common-Goals are by reason whereof the said Prisoners are like to famish for want of sustenance if they be not therefore provided Sessions CCCLXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 37. 2. N. 1. For remedy wherof be it therefore Enacted c. that it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of Peace of every Shire within this Realm at their General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden within the same Shires or the most part of the said Justices being then present to Rate and Tax every Parish within the said Shires at such reasonable summs of mony for and towards the relief of the said Prisoners as they shall think convenient by their discretions so that the said Taxation and rate doth not exceed above 6 d. or 8 d. by the week out of every Parish Church-wardens CCCLXIX 14 Eliz. 5. § 37. 2. N. 2. And that the Church-wardens of every Parish within this Realm for the time being shall every Sunday levy the same and once every Quarter in the year pay to the High-Constables or Head-Officers of every Town Parish Hundred Riding or Wapentake within this Realm all such summs of mony as their Parish shall berated and taxed for and towards the relief of their said Prisoners within their said several Parishes Lambert 467. 468. Constable CCCLXX 14 Eliz. 5. § 37. 2. N. 3. And that the said High-Constables and Head-Officers and every of them shall pay all such summs of mony so to them paid by the said Church-wardens at every General Quarter Sessions to be holden within the said several Shires to such sufficient persons dwelling nigh the said Goals as shall be appointed by the said Justices in their said open Quarter Sessions to be there ready to receive the said mony so Collected as is aforesaid Imprisonment CCCLXXI 14 Eliz. 5. § 37. 2. N. 4. And that the Collectors for the said Prisoners shall weekly distribute and pay all such summs of mony as they and every of them shall receive for the relief of the said Prisoners as aforesaid Church-wardens CCCLXXII 14 Eliz. 5. § 37. 2. N. 5. Upon pain as well the said Church-wardens of every Parish Constables and Head-Officers of every Hundred or Wapentake as also the said Collectors appointed for the Collection and contribution of the said Prisoners so making default as is aforesaid to forfeit 5 l. the one moity therereof shall be to the use of the Queens Majesty her Heirs and Successors and the other moity to the relief of the Prisoners any Statute law custom use or other thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Corporation CCCLXXIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 38. 3. N. 1. Provided always that the Justices of Peace within any County of this Realm or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough Place or Town-Corporate for the Execution of any Branch Article or Sentence of this Act for or concerning any offence matter or cause growing or arising within the Precincts Liberties or Jurisdictions of such City Borough Place or Town-Corporate but that it shall and may be lawful to the Justice and Justices of the Peace Mayor Bailiffs and other Head-Officers of those Cities Boroughs Places and Towns-Corporate where there be Justice or Justices to proceed to the Execution of this Act within the precinct and compass of their Liberties in such manner and form as the Justices of Peace in any County may or ought to do within the same County by vertue of this Act any matter or thing in this Act expressed to the Contrary thereof notwithstanding CCCLXXIV 14 Eliz. 5. § 39. 4. N. 1. And that every Justice and Justices of Peace within every such City Borough Justices Place and Town-Corporate for every offence by them or any of them to be committed contrary to the intent and meaning of this Statute shall be punishable and chargeable as other Justices of Peace at large in the Counties are by this Act above appointed to be CCCLXXV 14 Eliz. 5. § 40. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted c. that if it shall chance any City or Town Corporate Corporation to have in it more Poor folks than the Inhabitants thereof shall be able to relieve that in such case upon Certificate thereof made and of the number and names of persons with which they be so surcharged unto the Justices of Peace of the County in which such City or Town-Corporate shall lie and be Situate at their Quarter Sessions of the Peace by two Justices of Peace of the said County and the Mayor or other Head-Officer of the same City or Town-Corporate the Justices may by their discretions in the same Sessions take order appoint and cause the same Poor folks so Certified to be provided for and be relieved by giving of Licence to beg or otherwise in some other place or places of the said County out of such City or Town-Corporate so surcharged CCCLXXVI 14 Eliz. 5. § 41. N. 1. Provided always that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Poor people Hospitals for the time being in the Hospital called Saint Thomas Hospital otherwise called the Kings Hospital in the Borough of Southwark near adjoyning to the City of London but that the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London for the time being shall and may only have the rule order and Government of the said Hospital and of the Poor people therein for the time being any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CCCLXXVII 14 Eliz. 5. § 42. N. 1. Provided alway that this Act or any thing therein contained or any Authority thereby given Games shall not in any wise extend to disinherit prejudice or hinder John Dutton of Dutton in the County of Chester Esq his Heirs or Assigns for touching or concerning any Liberty Previledge Preheminence Authority Jurisdiction or Inheritance which the said John Dutton now lawfully useth or hath or lawfully may or ought to use within the County Palatine of Chester and the County of the City of Chester or either of them by reason of any Ancient Charters of any Kings of this Land or by reason of any prescription or other lawful usage or title whatsoever CCCLXXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 43. N. 1. This Act to indure for seven years and from thence to the end of the next Parliament Continuance then next following 18 Eliz. 3. § 14. N. 1. Crompt 97. b. CCCLXXIX Crompt 154. b. Nor shall Bail be received
Liberty shall have full power and authority as well to hear and determine every such default by presentment as by such bill of Information and upon every presentment afore them and upon every such Bill of Information to make proces by distress against the Inhabitants of every such Town and Parish where any default shall be presented or supposed by any such Information Distress LX. 22 H. 8. 12. § 5. N. 2. By Authority of which distress the Sheriff or other Officer to whom by the Law such distress shall be made shall distrain the Goods and Chattels of such one or two of the said Inhabitants as he may have knowledge were most negligent and in default in the Execution of this Act and the said distress retain till they find surety to appear at the Sessions limited in the said distress LXI 22 H. 8. 12. § 5. N. 3. And in case they appear and Confess the default or else if they traverse the Presentment Americament and it be tryed against them by Verdict or deny the Information and it be proved against them by sufficient Witnesses then the said Justices of Peace in their Sessions shall have Authority to assesse the Fines as been above limited after the rates abovesaid and to make process for the leving of the same by distress of the Inhabitants of such Towns or Parishes where such default shall be tryed or proved LXII 22 H. 8. 12. § 5. N. 4. And that Every such fine Fines if it grow by presentment to be only to the Kings use and if it grow by Information then the moity thereof to be to him that persueth the Information for the same and the other moity thereof to the Kings use as is aforesaid LXIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 5. N. 5. And if any such person Issues or persons distrained appear not at the day and place contained in such distress then upon the return of the Sheriff or other Officers to whom the distress was delivered to execute that such person or persons were distrained then every such person c. so destrained at the first distress shall lose 3 s. 4 d. and at the second 6 s. 8 d. and so to be doubled upon every distress in such cases to be awarded till appearance may be had by one of the Inhabitants of such Town or Parish to deny traverse or Confess the Presentment or Information exhibited against any such Town or Parish to the intent that upon tryal or proof thereof the Fines above limited may be assessed and levyed of the Inhabitants of every such Town or Parish as is above rehearsed LXIV 22 H. 8. 12. § 6. N. 1. And be it enacted Scholars c. That Scholars of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge that go about Begging not being Authorised under the Seal of the said Universities by the Commissary Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of the same and all and singular the men pretending losses of their Ships and Goods of the Sea going about the Country begging without sufficent authority witnessing the same shall be punished and ordered in manner and form as is above rehearsed of strong Beggars LXV 22 H. 8 12. § 6. N. 2. Vagrants And that all Proctors and Pardoners going about in the Country c. without sufficent Authority and all other idle persons going about in any Country or abiding in any City Borough or Town some of them using divers and subtile Crafts and unlawful Games and Plays and some of them feigning themselves to have knowledge in Physick Phisnomy Palmistry or other crafty sciences whereby they bear the people in hand that they can tell their Destinies Deceases and Fortunes and such other like fantastical imaginations to the great discredit of the Kings subjects shall upon examination had before two Justices of the Peace whereof the one shall be of the Quorum if he by probable Witness be found Guilty of any such deceits be punished by whipping at two days together after the manner before rehearsed 14 Eliz. 5. § 5. N. 3. LXVI 22 H. 8. 12. § 6. N. 3. And if he Eftsoons offend in the said offence or any like offence to be scourged two days Pain and the third day to be put upon the Pillory from 9 of the Clock till a 11 before noon of the same day and to have one of his ears Cut off LXVII 22 H. 8. 12. § 6. N. 4. And if he offend the third time Pain to have like punishment with whipping standing on the Pillory and to have his other ear cut off LXVIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 6. N. 5. And that Justices of the Peace Franchis have like Authority in every Liberty and Franchis within their Shires where they be Justices of Peace for the Execution of this Act in every part thereof as they shall have without the Liberty or Franchis Notice LXIX 22 H. 8. 12. § 7. N. 1. And it is further Enacted that this Act shall yearly be read in the open Sessions to the intent that the said Estatute shall be the more feared and the better put in Execution Charity LXX 22 H. 8. 12. § 8. N. 1. And further more be it Enacted that if any person or persons at any time hereafter give any Harbor Mony or Lodging to any Beggers being strong and able in their bodies to work which order themselves Contrary to the form of this Estatute that every such person so doing being sufficiently proved or presented afore any Justices of the Peace shall make such fine to the King as by the discretion of the said Justices of Peace at their general Sessions shall be assessed Proces LXXI 22 H. 8. 12. § 8. N. 2. And if any person c. do disturbe or let the Execution of this Act in any manner wise or make rescous against any Mayor Sheriff Baliff or other person that shall endeavour himself for the due Execution thereof it s then enacted that every such person c. for every such offence doing shall lose and forfeit 100 s. and over that to have imprisonment at the Kings will the one moity of which forfeiture if such offence be Committed in any City or Town Corporate to be to the Mayor Sheriff Bailiff or other head Officer of such City or Town Corporate where any such Offence shall be done to the use of the Commonalty of every such City and Town Corporate and if it be Commited out of a City or Town Corporate then the said one half to be to the Lord of the Leet or Law days where such offence shall be done and the other half of every such forfeiture to be to the King c. for the which forfeiture of 5 l. recovery shall be had by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of the Kings Courts in which suits the defendants shall not wage their Law nor have any Essoin or Protection allowed Cinque Ports LXXII 22 H. 8. 12. § 9. N.
make their said Account within eight days then the Bishop of the Diocess or Ordinary shall have Authority by Virtue of this Act to compel the said person or persons by Censures of the Church to make their said Accounts before such persons as the said Bishop or Ordinary shall appoint Charity CCXXIV. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 5. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. that if any person or persons being able to further the charitable Work do obstinately and frowardly refuse to give towards the help of the Poor or do wilfully discourage others from so charitable a deed the Parson Vicar or Curate and Church-wardens of the Parish where he dwelleth shall gently exhort him or them towards the releif of the Poor Ordinary CCXXV. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 5. N. 2. And if he or they will not so be perswaded then upon the Certificate of the Parson Vicar or Curate of the Parish to the Bishop of the Diocess the same Bishop shall send for him or them to induce and perswade him or them by Charitable waies and means and so according to his discretion to take order for the reformation thereof 5 Eliz. 3. § 7. N. 3. CCXXVI 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 6. N. 1. And for the better maintenance of this Charitable work ordained Abbe c. that whereas the late King of Famous Memory King Henry the eighth by his several Erections and foundations hath ordained and appointed any summ or summs of Mony to the use of the poor not being taken away otherwise by Act of Parliament whether the same be in any Cathedral-Church Colledge or elsewhere the Bishop of the Dioces for the time being shall from time to time Examine how and after what manner the mony is bestowed and to call to account the Parties which retain the said mony so that it may appear the same is distributed to the Poor according to the Kings Majesties foundation CCXXVII 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 9. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted c. that this present Act nor any thing therein contained Franchis shall extend or be prejudical unto the Mayor Sheriffs and Citizens of the City of Chester for or concerning any gift or Grant of any Annuity or yearly rent heretofore made given or granted by the Kings Majesty that now is unto the said Mayor Sheriffs and Citizens of the said City going out of any Manners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the Cathedral-Church of Christ and our Lady within the City of Chester but that the same Mayor Sheriffs and Citizens shall and may from henceforth receive use and imploy the same Annuities yearly rents and profits to such uses and intents and according to the said gift of our said Soveraign Lord the King any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding CCXXVII 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 7. N. 2. This Act to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Continuance 7 Ed. 6. 11. § 11. N. 4. CCXXIX 5 6 Ed. 6. 21. Forasmuch as it is evident that Tinkers Trades Pedlers and such like Vagrant persons are more hurtful than necessary to the Common wealth of this Realm 1 Jac. 25. § 47. N. 2. 14 Eliz. 5. § 5. N. 5. CCXXX 5 6 Ed. 6. 21. § 1. N. 2. Be it Enacted c. that License c. no person or persons commonly called Pedler Tinker or petty Chapman shall wander and go from one Town to another or from place to place out of the Town Parish or Village where such persons shall dwell and sell pins points laces gloves knives glasses tapes or any such kind of wares whatsoever or gather cunny-skins or such like thing or use or exercise the trade or occupation of a Tinker but only such persons c. as shall be thereunto Licensed 1 Jac. 25. § 42. N. 1. CCXXXI 5 6 Ed. 6. 21. § 1. N. 3. And that in such Circuit or compass as shall be to him or them Assigned by two Justices of Peace Justices or more of the Shire where he or they shall dwell by writing under their hands and seals CCXXXII 5 6 Ed. 6. 21. § 1. N. 4. Upon pain that every person Justices which shall offend contrary to the meaning of this Act shall by any Justice of the Shire where the same offence shall be committed upon complaint and due proof had by witness or otherwise be imprisoned by the space of fourteen days at the least CCXXXIII 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 2. N. 1. Be it Enacted Continuance c. that the Statute c. viz. 22 H. 8. 12. and also the Statute c. viz. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. concerning Beggers Vagabonds and Idle persons and every Article Clause Branch Sentence and other things contained in them and in either of them other than such things as shall be by this present Act otherwise ordained and provided for shall stand remain and be in their full force and effect and shall also from henceforth justly and truly be put in Execution according to the true meaning of the said several Statutes and either of them Records CCXXXIV 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 3. N. 1. And further be it Enacted c. that yearly on some one Holyday in the Christmas in every City Borough and Town-Corporate the Mayor Bailiffs and other Head-Officers for the time being and in every other Parish of the County the Parson Vicar or Curate and the Church-wardens having in a Register or book as well all the Names of the Inhabitants and Householders and also the Names of all such Impotent Aged and Needy persons as being within their City Borough Town-Corporate or Parish are not able to live of themselves or with their own labor shall openly in the Church and quietly after Divine service call the said Householders and Inhabitants together 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 1. Certificate CCXXXV 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 7. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. if it shall chance any Parish to have in it more Poor and Impotent folks not able to labor than the said Parish is able to relieve that then in every such not standing in any City or Town-Corporate the Mayor or Chief-Officers of the same City or Town-Corporate calling to them two or three of the Chief Parishioners of the same Parish such as the said Mayor or Head-Officer shall think meet shall certifie unto the Justices of Peace of the County where the same Parish is the Number and Names of the persons with which they be surcharged License CCXXXVI 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 7. N. 2. And upon such Certificate the said Justices of Peace in the same County or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum shall consider and Examine the said Certificate and finding the same true shall then grant unto such and
the time being shall have power to put other discreet persons learned in the Law in such Commissions though they have not Lands or Tenements to the value aforesaid by his Discretion War And if it be found by Enquiry before Iustices of Peace and proved C. 19. § 2. N. 5. that they viz. Souldiers have so mustred of Record and departed from their Captains aforesaid viz. within the term of retainer without Licence as afore is said viz. under Seal of Captain for Sicknes c. that then they shall be punished as Felons Sheriffs And that the Iustices of Assises in their Sessions 23 H. 6. C. 10. § 2. N. 13. c. and Iustices of Peace in their County shall have power to enquire hear and determin of Office without special Commission of and upon all them viz. Sheriffs Bailiffs Coroners c. that do contrary to these Ordinances in any Article or point of the same Fees And the Iustices of the Kings Bench and of the Common-place C. 11. § 3. N. 1. Iustices of Assises and Goal-delivery and Iustices of Peace in every County shall have power to enquire hear and determin of all the said Defaults as well by Enquiry at the Kings Suit as by Action at the Suit of the Parties viz. for undue levying of Wages of Knights of Shires of Parliament Attorney And if any Person or Persons usurp 33 H. 6. C. 7. § 3. N. 8. or presume to be Atturneys in Courts of Record in the said Counties viz. of Norfolk or Suffolk or City viz. of Norwich otherwise then before is specified viz. by Election of the Justices c. and that found by Enquisition taken before the Iustices of Peace in the said City or Counties which shall have power by Virtue of this Ordinance to enquire thereof in their Sessions or in any other manner lawfully proved that then he or they that so presume if they be thereof lawfully Convict shall forfeit twenty pounds c. Statuta Ed. 4. Sheriffs BVT that the said Sheriffs and their Vnder Sheriffs 1 Ed. 4. C. 2. § 3. N. 4. Clerks or Bailiffs and their Ministers shall bring present and deliver all such Indictments viz. of Felony Trespass c. or Presentments taken before them or any of them in their Towns or Law-days aforesaid to the Iustices of Peace at their next Sessions of the Peace that shall be holden in the County or Counties where such Indictments and Presentments shall be taken before the Iustices of such County or Counties for the time being Indictments And that the said Iustices of Peace shall have Power and Authority to Award Process upon all such Indictments as the Law doth require § 3. N. 6. and in like form as if the said Indictments and Presentments were taken before the said Iustices of Peace in the said County or Counties and also to Arraign and deliver all such Person or Persons so Indicted and Presented before the said Sheriffs Vnder Sheriffs their Clerks Bailiffs and their Ministers or any of them in their Towns or Law-days Amercement And all such Person or Persons which be Indicted or Presented of Trespass § 3. N. 7. shall make such a Fine as shall seem lawful by their Discretions Drapery And that every Iustice of Peace for the time being of every County of this Realm throughout the same County out of Cities 4 Ed. 4. C. ◠§ 6. N. ◠Boroughs and Towns where any Mayor Master Warden Bailiff or Bailiffs is or be and shall have Power and Authority by this Ordinance to hear and determin the Complaints of every such Cloath-maker and Labourer as well for Non-paymnt of the said Labourers wages as of the said Forfeiture and Dam ageseby due Examination of the Parties in this behalf thereupon for nonpayment of the said Duties and Forfeiture and for the said Damages to comit the said Offenders in this behalf to the next Goal within the same County there to remain till the said Duties Forfeitures and Damages be fully paid to the said Labourer or Cloath-maker § 6. N. 4. And also that every of the said Iustices of Peace Justices c. upon the Information or Complaint of any other Person which is not grieved in this behalf shall have power by the said Authority within his Iurisdiction to cause the Party to come before him against whom such Information or Complaint shall be made for Offending this Ordinance and to examin him in and upon the matter contained in the same Information or Complaint § 6. N. 6. And that every of the said Iustices of Peace Process c. within his Iurisdiction upon every of the said Informations or Complaints shall have full power to make like Process against the Party upon whom any such Information or Complaint as before is rehersed shall be made to cause him personally to appear before him thereupon to be examined as Iustices of Peace have upon Information or Complaint made to them for surety of the Peace without any Fee or Reward to be taken or had by any of the said Iustices c. 12 Ed. 4. C. 9. § 6. N. 14. And the Iustices of Peace in every place Corporate Corporation and the Iustices of Peace in every other place having Iustices of Peace within them shall have power to hear and determin every such Forfeiture viz. of Escheator not having twenty pound a year or Letting to Farm c. upon Presentment thereof had before them in their Sessions § 6. N. 15. In which Presentment like Process shall be had as is used upon Indictments of Trespass Process done with Force and Arms against the Kings Peace 17 Ed. 4. C. 4. § 1. N. 13. And also that the Iustices of Peace for the time being within any County of this Realm and every of them shall have full power to enquire Masons hear and determin by their discretions as well by Examination or otherwise the Defaults Offences and Trespasses which shall happen to be comitted contrary to this Ordinance viz. of Tile-makers as well at the Kings Suit as at the Parties which shall fell himself greived in that behalf § 1. N. 14. And if it be found or may appear Justices to the Iustices of Peace or any of them by Examination or otherwise by their Discretion that any Person or Persons hath offended contrary to this Ordinance that then the same Iustices before whom it shall be found or appear shall assess upon the Offenders in this behalf no less Fine than for every M. of plain-Tile set to sale contrary to this Ordinance V s. and for every C. of Roof-tile VI s. VIII d. and for every C. of Corner-tile or Gutter-tile II s. sold contrary to this Ordinance c. § 1. N. 15. And that the same Iustices shall have full power to call before them or any of them at any time and place
number of evil disposed persons did come and joyn themselves to the said small number whereby the same evil disposed persons took upon them such boldness that they would not be reduced to obedience without much blood shedding to the great danger of the Kings Majesties person where if the Kings loving Subjects durst have taken upon them to have suppressed them at the beginning such inconvenience of blood-shed should not have followed 1 Mar. 1. St 2. Cap. 12. § 7. N. 1. § 8. N. 2. Therefore it is also Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Justices that if any persons above the number of two that at any time after the said twelfth day of February shall be unlawfully and of their own authority assembled together to the intent with force of Arms to do practice or put in ure any of the things above mentioned that then it shall be lawful to every Iustice of Peace and to every Sheriff in any County being within the Kings Dominions and to every Mayor Bailiff and other Head-Officer of any City or Town-Corporate for the time he shall be in Office or any other person or persons having the Kings Commission or Letters from his Highness or his Privy Council as well to raise and assemble the Kings loving Subjects in manner of War to be arrayed in such great number as he or they then shall think meet or able to the intent by Violence and Strength to suppress apprehend and take the said persons that so shall be unlawfully assembled 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 7. N. 2. § 8. N. 3. And that if the said persons so unlawfully assembled Process after such Commandment or Request by Proclamation or otherwise made shall continue together and not endeavour themselves to return towards their Habitations Houses or Places from whence they came in such short time as they may conveniently that then it shall be lawful to every Iustice of Peace Sheriff and also to every Mayor Bailiff and other Head-Officer of any City or Town-Corporate and to every other Person having Authority as aforesaid after such Commandment or Request by Proclamation made and to such persons as shall be assembled with any Iustice of Peace or Sheriff or with any Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officer of any City or Town Corporate and with every other person having Authority as is aforesaid to suppress apprehend and take those persons so unlawfully assembled which after such Request made shall continue together and not endeavour themselves to return towards their Habitations or Places from whence they came 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 7. N. 3. Coron And that if the said persons so unlawfully assembled together or any of them shall fortune to be killed slain maimed or hurt § 8. N. 4. in or about the suppressing or taking of them that then every such Iustice of Peace Sheriff Mayor Bailiff and other Head-Officer and every other person having Authority as is aforesaid and all and singular persons by him or them assembled shall be free discharged and unpunishable as well against the King as against all and every other person and persons of for or concerning the killing slaying maiming and hurting of any person or persons so unlawfully assembled that shall fortune to be killed slain maimed or hurt about or by occasion of suppressing or taking of them 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 7. N. 4. Copy-holder And furthermore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid § 9. N. 1. that all and every Copy-holder or Customary-Holder being Artificer Husband-man or Laborer and being of the age of eighteen years or more and under the age of forty years not sick impotent lame maimed ne having any other just or reasonable excuse or cause to the contrary and being required by the Sheriff Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or other having Authority by this Act or by Commission or Letters as is aforesaid in that behalf they declaring their said Authority or being required by the immediate Lord or Lords of whom such Copy-holds or Customary holds then shall be holden to serve the Kings Majesty for any the causes above rehearsed and refuse so to do shall only during the Life of such person or persons so refusing forfeit and lose to his or their Lord or Lords of whom such Copy or Customary-holds then shall be immediately holden and should be holden during the Life of such person or persons so refusing in Case he or they had not so refused all their Copy-holds and Customary-holds 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 8. N. 1. Seisure And that it shall be lawful to every such Lord or Lords § 9. N. 2. their Heirs or Assigns of whom such Copy-holds or Customary-holds shall be immediately holden and should have béen holden in case such person or persons had not so refused by vertue of this present Act to enter and take into his or their Hands or Possession all such Copy-holds and Customary-holds so holden of them or any of them immediately and to retain the same during only the Life of every such Offender or Offenders in such manner and form as he or they should have had the Rents or Services of such Copy-hold or Customary-hold in Case such person or persons so refusing had not refused 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 8. N. 2. â—orfeiture And that all and every Farmer being a Yeoman Husbandman § 9. N. 3. Artificer or Laborer and being of the age of eighteen years or more and under the age of forty years not sick impotent lame maimed ne having any other just or reasonable excuse or cause to the contrary and being required by the Sheriff Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or other having Authority by this Act or by Commission or Letters as is aforesaid in this behalf they declaring their said Authority or being required by their Land-Lord or Land-Lords for the time being to whom the Rents of such Farms shall be then rising coming or growing to serve the Kings Majesty for any the Causes above rehearsed and refuse so to do shall during only the Life of such Farmer or Farmers so refusing forfeit and lose to such Land-Lord and Land-Lords as should have had the Rents of such Farmers during the Life and Lives of such person or persons so refusing all their said Farms 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 9. N. 1. Entrie And that it shall be lawful to every such Land-Lord and Land-Lords § 9. N. 4. their Heirs and Assigns to whom the Rents of such Farms should have been due during the Life of such person or persons so refusing in case such person or persons had not so refused by vertue of this present Act to enter and take into his or their Hands or Possession all such Farms and to retein the same during only the Life of every such Offender or Offenders 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12. § 9. N. 2.
Essoyn Protection Wager of Law or Licence to the contrary shall be allowed Cattle And be it Enacted C. 7. § 7. N. 1. c. that the Iustices of Peace of every Place and County as well within Liberties as without shall have Authority in their Sessions within the limits of their Authority and Commission to inquire hear and determine all Offences against this Statute viz. of selling Horses Gueldings Mares and Colts in Fairs and Markets Overt as they may do any other matter tryable before them Ways And in default of such Inquiry or Presentment C. 8. § 2. N. 10. viz. in Leet of not amending High-ways c. the Iustices of Peace for every Place or County shall have Authority to inquire of the same the Offences which shall be committed within the limits of their Commission at every their Quarter Sessions and to assess such Fines therefore as they or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum shall think meet Account And the said Church-wardens shall have Authority to call the said Bailiff and Head-Constable to Account before the Iustices of Peace or two of them wherof one to be of the Quorum by Bill § 4. N. 2. Information or otherwise Bail And forasmuch as the said Act viz. 1 2 Ph. Mar. Cap. 13. § 4. N. 1. doth not extend to such Prisoners as shall be brought before any Iustice of Peace for Manslaughter or Felony C. 10. § 2. N. 1 and by such Iustice shall be committed to Ward for the Suspition of such Manslaughter or Felony and not Bailed in which Case Examination of such Prisoner and of such as bring him is as necessary or rather more than where such Prisoner shall be let to Bail or Mainprize Proof Be it therefore Enacted § 2. N. 2. c that from henceforth such Iustice or Iustices before whom any person shall be brought for Manslaughter or Felony or for Suspition thereof before he or they shall commit or send such Prisoner to Ward shall take the Examination of such Prisoner and Information of those that bring him of the Fact and Circumstances thereof and the same or as much thereof as shall be material to prove the Felony shall put in Writing within two days after the said Examination Certificate And the same shall certify in such manner and form § 2. N. 3. and at such time as they should and ought to do if such Prisoner so committed or sent to Ward had been Bailed or let to Mainprize upon such Pain as in the said former Act viz. 1 2 Ph. Mar. Cap. 13. § 5. N. 5. is limited and appoin◠for not taking or not certifying such Examinations as in the said former Act is expressed Recognizance And be it further Enacted § 2. N. 4. that the said Iustices shall have Authority by this Act to bind all such by Recognizance or Obligation as do declare any thing material to prove the said Manslaughter or Felony against such Prisoner as shall be so committed to Ward to appear at the next general Goal-delivery to be holden within the County City or Town-Corporate where the Tryal of the said Manslaughter or Felony shall be then and there to give Evidence against the Party § 2. N. 5. And that the said Iustices shall certify the said Bonds taken before them Certificate in like manner as they should and ought to certify the Bonds mentioned in the said former Act viz. 1 2 Ph. Mar. Cap. 13. § 5. N. 3. upon Pain as in the said former Act is mentioned for not certifying such Bonds as by the said former Act is limited and appointed to be certified Cap. 18. Where the King and Queens most Excellent Highness Coporation and their Noble Progenitors Kings of this Realm have heretofore granted their several Commissions directed as well unto the Mayors Recorders and other Grave Men and Inhabitants of certain Antient and Famous Cities and Towns-Corporate within this Realm of England not being Counties in themselves as also unto divers other worshipful and learned men dwelling out of the same Cities and Towns-Corporate as well for the keeping of their Peace good ordering of their People and executing of their Laws and Statutes within the same Cities and Towns-Corporate as also for the Delivery of their Majesties Prisoners remaining in the Goals there and after the granting of such Commissions their Majesties have granted divers other like Commissions unto certain worshipful and learned men of the Shires Laths Rapes Ridings and Wapentakes of this Realm of England for the Confirmation of their Peace and also delivering of their Prisoners remaining in their Goals within the same Shires Laths Rapes Ridings and Wapentakes § 1. N. 2. Which Commissions so bearing a later date Supersedeas have been a Supersedeas and clear Discharge unto all and singular the said former Commissions granted unto the said Cities and Towns-Corporate not being Counties in themselves § 1. N. 3. So that the said Mayor Commission and other grave and chiefest Officers of every such City and Town-Corporate have been charged to sue for the renewing again of such Commissions both for the Peace and Goal-delivery to the great Expences Cost and Charges of the said Mayor and other the Inhabitants of such Cities and Towns-Corporate and to the great protracting and delay of Iustice therein in the mean time for Reformation whereof and for the better Advancement of Iustice in the Premisses § 2. N. 1. Be it therefore Enacted Franchise c. that all and singular Commission and Commissions granted or to be granted to any such City or Town-Corporate not being as is aforesaid a County in it self for the keeping of their Peace and delivery of the Prisoners remaining in the Goals of any such City or Town-Corporate not being a County in it self shall stand remain and be Good and Available and Efectual in the Law to all Intents Constructions and Purposes the granting of any like Commission of the Peace or Goal-delivery to any Commissioner or Commissioners for the Conservation of the Peace or Delivery of the Prisoners remaining in the Goal of any Shire Lath Rape Riding or Wapentake within this Realm of England bearing date after the said Commission or Commissions granted as is aforesaid to any such City or Town-Corporate not being as is aforesaid a County in it self to the contrary notwithstanding C. 21. § 10. N. 2. Be it therefore Enacted Riot c. viz. because good and beneficial that all the said several Acts c. viz. 1 Mar. 1. St. 2. Cap. 12 c. and all Clauses c. shall be revived c. untill the last day of the next Parliament 4 5 Ph. Mar. Cap. 9. § 14. N. 2. 4 5 Ph. Mar. Cap. 2. § 8. N. 2. And be it further Enacted War c. that the Iustices of Peace
Inholders hereafter to be committed against the form of this present Statute C. 22. § 7. N. 1. Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted Victuals c that if the Iustices of the Peace of any of the Counties of this Realm of England or the Dominion of Wales at their Quarter Sessions of any of the said Counties shall declare and publish in open Sessions that the Traders aforesaid in Butter and Cheese viz. from London c. shall forbear to buy any Butter and Cheese for any time within the said County or Counties or within any Parts or Places of the same that then for and during the time of such Restraint the said Traders in Butter and Cheese that shall buy any such Butter viz. above a Barrel or Cheese viz. above a Weigh and sell the same again by Retail contrary to the Acts aforesaid viz. 3 4 Ed. 6. Cap. 21. § 2. N. 1. and 5 6 Ed. 6. Cap. 14. § 3. N. 1. shall not be freed of or from any Penalties of the said Acts but shall be subject to the same as if this Act had never been made Statuta Car. 1. Games AND that any one Iustice of the Peace of the County 1 Car. 1. Cap. 1. § 1. N. 5. or the Chief Officer or Officers of any City Borough or Town-Corporate where such Offence viz. of resorting to Sports on the Sunday c. shall be committed upon his or their View or Confession of the Party or Proof by one or more Witness by Oath which the said Iustice or Chief-Officer or Officers shall by vertue of this Act have Authority to Minister shall find any offending in the Premisses the said Iustice or Chief-Officer c. shall give Warrant under his or their Hand and Seal to the Constables and Church-wardens of the Parish c. where such Offence shall be committed to levy the said Penalty so to be assessed by way of Distress and Sale c. rendring to the said Offenders the overplus c. and in default of such Distress that the party offending be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of three hours Religion The said Offences Viz. Travailing 3 Car. 1. C. 1. 2. § 1. N. 4. or Killing or Selling Victual on Sunday and every of them being done in view of any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other Head-Officer of any City or Town-Corporate within their Limits respectively or being proved upon Oath by two or more Witnesses or by the Confession of the Party offending before any such Iustice Mayor or Head-Officer within their several Limits respectively wherein such Offence shall be committed to which end every such Iustice Mayor or Head-Officer shall have Power by this Act to minister an Oath to such Witness or Witnesses Forfeitures All which sums c. viz. of twenty shillings forfeit for travailing § 1. N. 5. and six shillings and eight pence for killing or selling Meat on Sunday c. shall or may be levyed by any Constable or Church-warden by Warrant from any â—uch Iustice or Iustices of Peace Mayor or other Head-Officer c. within their several Limits where such Offence shall be committed or done by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods c. or shall be recovered by any person c. by Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record in any City or Town-Corporate before his Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their General Sessions of the Peace Poor All which Forfeitures shall be imployed to and for the use of the Poor of the Parishes where the said Offences shall be committed or done § 1. N. 6. saving only that it shall be lawful to and for any such Iustice Mayor or Head-Officer out of the said Forfeitures to reward any such person c. that shall inform or otherwise prosecute any person c. offending against this present Act according to their discretions so that such Reward exceed not the third part of the Forfeiture Ale Which Law viz. 5 6 Ed. 6. Cap. 25. § 4. 5. hath not wrought such Reformation as was intended C. 3. 4. § 1. N. 6. for that the said Fine of 20 s. is seldom levyed and for that many of the said Offenders by reason of their Poverty are neither able to pay the said Fine of 20 s. nor yet to bear their own charges of conveying them to the Goal and moreover do leave a great charge of Wife and Children upon the Parishes wherein they live in regard whereof the Constables and other Officers are much discouraged in presenting them and the Offenders become obstinate and incorrigible Licence For remedy whereof be it Enacted c. that if any § 2. N. 1. c. shall upon his own Authority not being thereunto Lawfully licenced take upon him or them to keep a Common Ale-house or Tipling-house or use commonly selling of Ale or Beer Cyder or Perry that then every such c. shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose c. 20 s. to the use of the Poor of the Parish c. the same Offence being viewed and seen by any Mayor Bailiff or Iustices of Peace or other Head-Officer within the several Limits or confessed by the Party so offending or approved by the Oath of two Witnesses to be taken before any Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officer or any one or more Iustice or Iustices of the Peace who by vertue of this Act shall be authorized to minister the said Oath to any c. that can or will justifie the same being within the limits of their said Commission § 2. N. 2. The said Penalties to be levyed by the Constables or Church-wardens of the Parish c. where the said Offence shall be committed Forfeiture who shall be accountable therefore to the use of the Poor of the said Parish by way of distress to be taken and detained by Warrant or Precept from the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices or other Head-Officer by whom the said Offence shall be viewed or before whom the same shall be confessed or proved as aforesaid § 2. N. 3. And for default of satisfaction within three days next ensuing Process the said Distress to be by the said Constables or Church-wardens apprised and sold and the overplus to be delivered c. and this to be only for the first Offence § 2. N. 4. And if such Offender Imprisonment c. shall not have sufficient Goods and Chattels whereby the said 20 s. may be levyed by way of distress as aforesaid or shall not pay the said sum c. within six days after such Conviction as aforesaid that then the said Mayor Bailiff Iustice or Iustices or other Head-Officer before whom the said Offender shall be convicted as aforesaid shall commit all and every the said Offender c. to some Constable c. or other inferior Officer c. of the City Borough Town Parish
any persons above the number of twenty or more to any Petition Complaint Remonstrance Declaration or other Address to the King or both or either Houses of Parliament for alteration of matters established by Law in Church or State unless the matter thereof have been first consented unto and ordered by three or more Iustices of the County or by the major part of the Grand-Iury of the County or Division of the County where the same matter shall arise at their publick Assizes or General Quarter Sessions or if arising in London bp the Lord-Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common-Council assembled Joynder And that no person or persons whatsoever shall repair to his Majesty § 2. N. 2. or both or either of the Houses of Parliament upon pretence of presenting or delivering any Petition Complaint Remonstrance or Declaration or other Addresses accompanied with excessive number of people not at any one time with above the number of ten persons Forfeiture Vpon pain of incurring a Penalty not exceeding the sum of one hundred pounds in mony and three Months Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for every Offence § 2. N. 3. Days Which Offence to be Prosecuted at the Court of the Kings Bench § 2. N. 4. or at the Assizes or General Quarter Sessions within six Months after the Offence committed and proved by two or more credible Witnesses Parliament Provided always that this Act or any thing therein contained § 3. N. 1. shall not be construed to extend to debar or hinder any person or persons not exceeding the number of ten aforesaid to present any publick or private Grievance or Complaint to any Member or Members of Parliament after his Election and during the Continuance of the Parliament or to the Kings Majesty for any remedy to be thereupon had Prerog Nor to extend to any Address whatsoever to his Majesty § 3. N. 2. by all or any of the Members of both or either Houses of Parliament during the sitting of the Parliament but that they may enjoy their freedom of access to his Majesty as heretofore hath been used Purveyance Be it therefore Enacted Cap. 8. § 2. N 1. c. that the Clerk or Chief-Officer of his Majesties Carriages shall three days at least before his Majesties Arrival by Warrant from the Green-Cloth give notice in Writing to two or more of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the Places next adjacent as his Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty c. Forfeiture And that in Case any § 2. N. 2. c. shall refuse to provide and furnish his Majesty that now is or his Queen that shall be or his or her Houshould in their Progress for Removals c. that then upon due Proof and Conviction c. by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices of Peace of the County or Mayor or other Chief-Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have Power to administer the Party so refusing shall c. forfeit the sum of forty shillings to the Kings Majesties use to be fortwith levyed by Distress and Sale c. by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other Chief-Officer § 3. N. 2. And in Case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor Fees Chief-Officer or Constable shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any c. or shall impress more Carriages then he shall be directed c. that then upon due Proof and Conviction thereof the Party so offending shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds to the Party thereby grieved or any other who shall sue for the same c. § 5. N. 1. And be it further Enacted Justices c. that any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning to the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in Writing from the said Green-Cloth and Avener under their Hands and Seals set down and appoint such reasonable Rates and Prices to be paid during his Majesties abode there both for Hay and Oats and other Accomodations for Horses as they in their discretion shall think meet which Rates one day at the least before his Majesties coming to such Place the said Iustices shall cause to be proclaimed in the Market Town next to such place and in such of the Neighbouring Towns and Villages as to them shall seem meet to the end that notice may be taken of such Rates and Prices § 5. N. 2 And if any person shall take any other sum than what is or shall be so limited either for Lodging Horse-meet Forfeiture Stable-room or other such Accommodations and be thereof convicted by Confession of the Party or by the Oath of one credible Witness before any one Iustice of the Peace which Oath the said Iustice of the Peace is hereby authorized to administer that then in such Case every person so offending shall forfeit and pay to the Party grieved the sum of 40 s. the same to be levyed by Distress by Warrant from the said Iustice of the Peace and Sale there of c. C. 10. § 1. N. 3. Viz. The Forfeiture of 20 l. by Deer-stealer to be levyed by the way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattels of every such Offender Forest by Warrant under the Iustices Hand before whom such Conviction shall be made § 1. N. 5. And for want of sufficient Distress Imprisonment the Offender shall be committed to the House of Correction for six Months and there to be put to hard Labour or to the Common-Goal for one whole year without Bail or Mainprize at the discretion of the Iustices of the Peace before whom such Conviction shall be and not to be discharged from thence till he or they have given sufficient Sureties for their Good-behavior for one whole year next ensuing after his or their Enlargement 13 Car. 2. St. 2. C. 1. § 10. N. 2. And from and after the Expiration of the said respective Commissions Coporation viz. for regulating of Corporations March 25. 1663. the said three Oaths viz. of Allegiance Supremacy and against taking up Arms against the King c. and Declaration viz. that no Obligation lyeth on any by the solemn League and Covenant shall be from time to time administred c. by such c. persons respectively who by the Charters or Vsages of the said respective Cities Corporations and Boroughs and Cinque-Ports and their Members and other Port-Towns ought to administer the Oath for due executing the said Places c. viz. of Mayor Alder-men Recorder Bailiffs Town-Clerks Common-Council-men c. § 10. N. 3. And in default of such by two Iustices of the Peace of the said Cities Justices c. for the time being
the Place made to him or them of the Offence Committed shall and are hereby required to Commit the Person or Persons so Offending viz. Preaching Lecture or Sermon while dissable by this Act of Uniformity to the Goal of the same County City or Town Corporate accordingly C. 5. § 3. N. 3. Which By-Laws Rules and Ordinances Drapery viz. by the Wardens and Assistants of the Weavers of Norwich Stuffs c. being Ratified and Confirmed by the Mayor and two Iustices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich for the time being and thrée other Iustices of Peace of the said County of Norfolk whereof one to be of the Quorum shall be published four times in the Year at the least at four publick Assemblies for the said Trade and Manufacture and shall be obeyed and kept by the several Persons within and under the said Regulation § 14. N. 1. And that if any Person shall Counterfeit any Seal of the said Trade Forfeiture viz. of Norwich Stuffs weaving c. or shall Seal any piece of Stuff under the Regulation with any counterfeit Seal or shall remove a Seal off one piece and set it unto another piece which hath not been Sealed by the Wardens c. and being thereof Convicted by his own Confession or by the Oath of two or more Witnesses to be taken before the Mayor of the said City or his Deputy or any one Iustice of the Peace of the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk who respectively have hereby power to Administer an Oath for that purpose shall forfeit c. xx l. § 19. N. 2. And that if any Person c. shall refuse hinder Process or will not permit the said Wardens or Assistants or any two or more of them to Exercute their Office according to the Tenure of this Act c. being thereof Convicted by the Oath of one or more credible Witnesses before the Mayor c. or his Deputy or any one Iustice of Peace of the said City of Norwich or County of Norfolk respectively who are hereby Authorized to Administer such Oath shall forfeit the Sum of xl s. c. § 20. N. 2. Which said Penalties and Forfeitures Forfeiture together with all other Fines and Penalties which are appointed to go to the Poor of the Trade and Manufacture or for the use thereof mentioned in this Act the means of recovery of which is not already otherwise herein provided and set forth shall be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels by Warrant to be granted by the said Mayor or his Deputy for the time being or any one Iustice of Peace of the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk c. C. 6. § 3. N. 5. And every such Assessment so made viz. by the Surveyers of High-wayes Taxes with two Househoulders of the Parish Vill. c. shall within six dayes after be presented to some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning to the Parish where it is made to be seen allowed and signed by him N. 6. And after such allowance every Person so Assessed Process c. That shall not within twenty dayes after demand made by the Surveyers or one of them pay such Sum c. shall forfeit and pay double c. unless upon complaint made to the said Iustice of wrong done to such Person by that Assessment the said Iustice shall think fit to alter the same Justices And if any Question shall arise about the value or worth of such work § 4. N. 3. or labour or Man and Team viz. in High-wayes c. some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning and not living in the said Parish shall determine what is fit to be allowed for such work Wayes And be it further Enacted c. That it shall and may be lawful § 6. N. 1. to and for the said Surveyers of the High-wayes for the time being of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet within their several Precincts from time to time by Order from the Quarter Sessions and upon the View and by the Allowance and Consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace of the County Authorized thereunto by the Sessions wherein such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall lye under their Hands and Seals in Writing where any Common or Publick Highway is not of the breadth of Eight Yards from the Shores and Banks of the Ditches on either side or from the Banks and Hedges where there are no Ditches to assign and lay out so much of any Mans several Lands next adjoyning to the said Common and Publick Highway where they shall think it néedful and it may conveniently be done as shall enlarge the said way to the full bredth of Eight Yards or so much broader towards the bredth of Eight Yards then now it is as conveniently the place will bear from the said Shores Ditches Banks or Hedges by the consent of the owner or owners of the said Lands according to his or their respective Interests therein or otherwise by Order of the Iustices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions after a Writ of ad quod Damnum first Issued out and returned to assign and lay out a more near and commodious way in and over the said Lands near adjoyning to the said common and publick Highwayes the said Surveyers first giving such satisfaction for the said Ground unto the respective Owners of the same according to their several and respective Interest in the whole not exceeding twenty years purchase Forfeitures And viz. all Assessments Fines and Penalties for the Highwayes § 12. N. 2. c. be Levied Collected and Gathered by the said Surveyers or any of them by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any two Iustices of the Peace within the County City Riding Town Corporate Liberty or Limit wherein the same lieth by Distress and Sale of the Goods c. Account And if the said c. Surveyors shall not make such an Account § 13. N. 3. and Payment c. viz. within the year following new Election c. any two Iustices of the Peace living near to or in the said Parish shall and may upon Complaint unto them made Examine the business upon Oath and upon default found in the Surveyor c. shall and may commit him or them to the Common Gaol of that County City Riding Town Corporate Liberty or Limit there to remain until be hath made a true and perfect Account and Payment c. Justices And be it further Enacted That all and every Iustices of Assize § 14. N. 1. Oyer and Terminer and Iustices of the Peace c. are hereby Enabled and Impowered to Inquire after Hear and Determine all matters concerning charitable Gifts for the Making Amending and keeping in Repair any Common High-wayes Pavements Streets and Caus-wayes within the Limits of their Commisson and to make Orders therein for the
due Imployment of such Charitable Gifts according to the true intent and meaning of the Donors thereof except Gifts to the aforesaid Vses made in any Colledge Hall Frée-School or Hospital which have Visitors of their own and also to Hear and Determine all Offences Defaults and Defects in Surveyors or others concerning the Premisses Error Provided that if any Person be agrieved with such Order §. 15. N. 1. they shall have Liberty to appeal to the Court of Chancery as in the Case of a Decrée made upon the Statute viz. 43 Eliz. 4. of Charitable Vses Certiorari And be it further Enacted c. That § 16. N. 1. c. no Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Information Indictment Presentment Order or other Procéedings in the Quarter Sessions of for or concerning any matter or thing in this Act unless the Party or Parties against whom any such Information Indictment Presentment Order or other Proceeding shall be had by Vertue of this Act shall before the Allowance of such Certioraries become bound to the Person or Persons prosecuting in the Sum of xl l. with sufficient Sureties as the Iustices of Peace at their said Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall think fit with Condition to pay unto the said prosecutors within one month after the Conviction of such parties Indicted their full Costs and Damages to be ascertained upon their Oaths and that in default thereof it shall be lawful for the said Iustices to proceed to Tryal of such Indictments any such Writs of Certiorari to remove the same Indictments notwithstanding C. 7. § 7. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. That it shall and may be lawful Leather to and for the Masters and Wardens of the Cordwainers Sadlers Girdlers and Curriers of the City of London c. and to and for all Iustices of the Peace Mayors and Chief Officecs of Corporations within this Realm c. Wales c. as well by Land as by Water to search for and seize any Leather or raw Hides wrought or unwrought cut or uncut packed up or unpacked intended or purposed to be Transported by any person c. Into any parts beyond the Sea or into Holland other then Calves skins and Shéep skins c. C. 9. § 2. N. 6. And the said two Iustices viz. next Parish of Poor and maimed Officer in the late Wars c. upon the Examination of the truth of such Certificate Poor viz. of Captain or Commission Officer c. which the said two Iustices are hereby Impowered to take upon Oath of the Party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer Assign him relief until the next Quarter Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in manner and form and with power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute viz. 43 Eliz. 3. § N. is further declared and directed C. 10. § 4. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. that the several Constables and other Officers Taxes who are hereby Authorized to take the Account of the aforesaid Hearths Stoves within their particular Limits as aforesaid shall at the next Quarter Sessions after the last day of May to be holden for their respective Counties deliver all such Accounts in Writing as they shall receive reform or take by their own view unto the Iustices of the Peace in their respective Quarter Sessions of the said Counties together with a true note of the Names of all such Persons who shall refuse or neglect to give unto them an account under their Hands of such Hearths and Stoves within their respective Houses Edifices Chambers and Lodgings as aforesaid § 5. N. 1. And be it further Enacted That the said Iustices of the Peace shall cause all the said Accounts of the several Hearths and Stoves Account within the respective Counties to be Inrolled by the Clerk of the Peace of the said respective Counties Ridings in York-Shire and Divisions in Lincolnshire and also a Duplicate thereof in parchment under the Hands and Seals of thrée or more of the Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid who are hereby required to sign the Sum to be returned into His Majesties Court of Exchequer within one month next after such Account delivered unto them at their respective Quarter Sessions aforesaid N. 2. Vpon pain that the Clerk of the Peace of every such County Riding Forfeiture or Division respectively offending therein shall forfeit to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the Sum of two Hundred pounds for the first month and for the second month he shall so neglect every such Clerk of the Peace shall forfeit and lose his or their Place and Office and the same shall become void accordingly c. § 18. N. 1. Provided always and be it hereby Enacted Poor That if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish together with the Minister of the same or any two of them whereof the Minister to be one shall in Writing under their Hands yearly Certifie their belief that the House wherein any Person doth Inhabit is not of greater value then of twenty shillings per Annum upon the full Improved Rent and that neither the Person so Inhabiting nor any other using the same Messuage hath useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of their own or others of the yearly value xx s. per Annum nor hath any Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of the value of Ten pounds in their own possession or in the possession of any other in trust for them that then in such Case upon such Certificate made by the two next Iustices of the Peace and allowed for which Certificate and Allowance no fée shall be paid the person on whose behalf such Certificate is made c. shall not be returned by the Constable or other Officer and the said house is hereby for that year discharged of and from all the Duties by this Act Imposed Merchants Be it Enacted c. That where any Officer C. 11. § 6. N. 5. c. viz. in Execution of this Act against concealing of Customes c. shall be by any person c. Armed with Club or any manner of Weapon forcibly hindered afronted abused beaten or wounded c. either on Board any Ship or Vessel or upon the Land or Water in the due execution of their Office all and every person c. so refusing afronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer c. or their Deputies or such as shall act in their Aid or Assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter Sessions Process And the Iustices of Peace of the said Quarter Sessions N. 6. shall and are hereby Impowered
their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate and to seize the same any Act Statute c. notwithstanding C. 15. § 2. N. 2. Viz. None to be Silk-Thrower unless seven years Apprentice Drapery upon pain that every person so Offending contrary to this Act shall pay c. forty shillings for every month c. the one Moiety c. to the use of his said Majesty c. and the other c. to such c. as shall sue for the same in any of the Courts of Record within this Realm c. or before any the Iustices of Oyer and Terminer or the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter Sessions of the Peace by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. § 6. N. 2. Be it further Enacted c. That every such silk winder and doubler Collusion who shall at any time hereafter unjustly or deceitfully and falsely Purloin Imbezil Pawn Sell or Detain any part of Silk delivered c. by any Silk-thrower or other person to them or any of them to wind or double that in every such Case c. as well the Winder or Iourneyman so offending as the buyer c. receiver c. of such Silk being thereof lawfully Convicted by confession of the party c. or by one Witness upon Oath before one or more of the Iustices of Peace of the County or Liberty where the same Offence c. shall be committed or if it be within any City or Town Corporate before the Mayor c. who by force of this Act are Impowered c. to minister the same Oath and finally to hear and determine all and every the Offences aforesaid and to give and make to the party c. Grieved such recompence and satisfaction for such their Damage and Loss and Charges thereabouts as by the said Iustice or Iustices or chief Officers shall be ordered and appointed § 7. N. 1. Provided that no more Damage be given Damages c. then the party grieved shall prove he is damnified and hath expended in looking after the same and if the party c. so offending shall not be able c. to make recompence c. within fourtéen days next after such Conviction c. as by the Iustice c. or chief Officers shall be ordered c. then the party c. so offending for the first Offence shall be apprehended and whipped or set in the Stocks in the place where the Offence is Committed or in some Market Town in the said County near unto the place c. as shall be limitted and appointed by the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or chief Officers and for the second Offence to incur the like or such further punishment by whipping or being put in the Stocks as the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or chief Officers shall in their Discretion think fit and convenient C. 18 § 12. N. 1. And for the better execution of this Act Merchants viz. against Exportation of Sheeps Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth fulling Clay or Tobacco-pipe Clay c. Be it further enacted That all Iustices of Assize c. and Iustices of Peace shall Inquire of all the Premisses in their General Quarter Sessions and hear and determine the same C. 20. § 1. N. 2. Be it notwithstanding viz. 12 Car. 2. 24. § 13. Enacted c. that Purveyance c. as often as the Service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance shall require any Carriages by Land c. upon notice given in Writing by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Lord High Admiral c. of two or more of the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy c. the Master c. the Lieutenants of his Majesties Ordnance for the providing of Carriages for the respective Service of the Navy or Ordnance unto two or more Iustices of the Peace dwelling near unto the place where the said Carriages shall be required the said Iustices of the Peace may and shall immediately Issue forth their Warrants unto such of the adjacent Parishes Hundreds or Divisions as they shall judge fit within their respective Counties and Divisions not being above Twelve miles distant from the place of Lading for the sending to a certain place and at certain times to be specified and appointed in the said Warrants such numbers of Carriages with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service as by the Lord High Admiral c. or by the Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance c. or by the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy respectively c. shall be by writing under their Hands and Seals required Cap. 22. Whereas a great Number of lewd Scotland disorderly and lawless persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the Borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of large wast Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many Intricate and Dangerous wayes and by-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other 29 30 Car. 2. 2. War And whereas since the time of the late unhappy Distractions § 2. N. 1. such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary Charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernitious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment Taxes And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties N. 2. being more remote from the Borders then other persons and consequently not so much exposed to eminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be Avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure most certainly sustein much Damage and Detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must needs do in case there be no restraint upon them Scotland Be it Enacted N. 3. c. That from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present
special matter in Evidence N. 2. And if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Non-suited Damages shall recover his Damages and double Costs of Suit for his unjust vexation in that behalf C. 3. § 3. N. 1. Be it further Enacted that every Sheriff shall on the first day of every General Quarter-Sessions yearly held next after the Feast of Easter Inquest deliver and cause to be delivered unto the Iustices of Peace sitting at the same Sessions the names of all Persons of such Estates viz. xx l. per Annum in England and viij l. per Annum in Wales as are by the true meaning of this Act to be Returned for Iury-men to the end the Estates of such Persons may be enquired after and such Persons approved by the said Iustices of Peace or the greater number of them then present to be Persons of such Estates to be retornable for Iury-men for the year then next ensuing N. 2. And the said Iustices shall have power to add such Persons having Estates of the respective values before mentioned Justices as they shall find to be omitted by the Sheriff amongst the Names by him delivered and such a Competent number and no more of such Persons as aforesaid shall be retornable to serve of Iuries for the year next Ensuing as the said Iustices or the greater number of them as aforesaid shall think fit Statuta 17 Car. 2. Religion VIz. Non-Conformist Parson not to come within five miles of City 17 Car. 2. 2. § 3. N. 4. Town Corporate or Borough that sends Burgesses to Parliament or of place where he was Vicar or Preacher c. before he or they have taken and subscribed the Oath aforesaid viz. against taking Arms against the Kings Commissioner before the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden for the County Riding or Division next unto the Corporation City or Borough Parish Place or Town in open Court which said Oath the said Iustices are hereby Impowred there to Administer Forfeiture Vpon Forfeiture c. of xl l. c. one third c. to the King N. 5. c. the other third c. to the use of the Poor c. and the other third c. to such c. as shall or will sue for the same c. before any Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions c. Imprisonment Provided also and be it further Enacted § 5. N. 1. c. That it shall be Lawful for any two Iustices of the Peace of the respective County upon Oath to them of any Offence against this Act which Oath they are hereby Impowered to Administer to Commit the Offender for six months without Bail or Mainprise unless upon or before such Commitment he shall before the said Iustices of the Peace swear and subscribe the aforesaid Oath and Declarations viz. of Conformity and against taking Arms c. Statuta 18 Car. 2. Cattle VIz. any Constable c. may seize Cattle alive or dead fat or lean Imported 18 Car. 2. 2. § 1 N. 4. c. and kéep the same during the space of Eight and Forty hours in some publick or convenient place where such seisure shall be made within which time if the owner c. or any for them c. shall make it appear unto some Iustice of the Peace of the same County where the same shall be so seised by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby Impowered and required to Administer that the same were not Imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after excepted after the said second day of February then the same upon the Warrant of such Iustice of the Peace shall be delivered without delay 20 Car. 2. 7. § 5. N. 3. Scotland Be it therefore Enacted c. That the said Act C. 3. § 1. N. 2. viz. 13 14 Car. 2. 22. and every Clause c. therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be continue and remain in force until the end of seven years from the Expiration or Determination of the forementioned Act 29 30 Car. 2. 2. Clergy And be it further Enacted § 2. N. 1. c. That the benefit of Clergy shall be taken away from great known and notorious Thieves and Spoil-takers in the said Counties of Northumberland Cumberland or either of them during the continuance of this present Act who shall be duly Convicted for theft done or committed within the said Counties or either of them Ouster le nere Or otherwise That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Iustices of the Assize and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer or Goal Delivery N. ◠before whom such Offenders shall be Convicted within the said Counties or either of them to Transport or cause to be Transported the said Offenders and every of them into any of his Majesties Dominions in America there to remain and not to return c. C. 4. § 1. N. 3. None to be Buried but in Woollen only Drapery c. upon pain of the Forfeiture of the Sum of Five pounds c. to be levied by the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Poor c. by Warrant from any Iustice of the Peace or Mayor Alderman or Head Officer of such City Town or place Corporate respectively within their several Limits by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the Party Interred contrary to this Act c. or in default thereof by Distress and Sale of the Goods of any that had a hand in the putting such Person into such Shift Shirt Shéet or Coffin contrary to this Act or did order or dispose the doing thereof Statuta 19 Car. 2. 19 Car. 2. 3. § 3. N. 2. ANd if any c. shall presume to build Contrary London c. viz. against the rules for Rebuilding the City of London and be Convicted of the same by the Oaths of two or more Credible Witnesses to be taken before the Lord Mayor for the time being or any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace for the said City who are hereby Impowered to Administer the same Oaths that then and in such Case the said House so irregularly built c. shall be déemed as a Common Nusance C. 4. § 1. N. 2. For remedy c. be it Enacted Poor c. That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties viz. where Poor Prisoners have no Work c. at any their General Sessions or the major part of them then there Assembled if they shall find it needful so to do may provide a stock of such Materials as they find convenient for the setting Poor Prisoners on work in such manner and by such wayes as other County Charges by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm are and may be levied and raised and
want of Distress to be inflicted as in and by the said former Act viz. 16. 17. Car. 2. 19. § 3. N. 1. is directed by the Warrant or Order of any one or more of his Majesties Iustices of Peace within the County City or place where such Offence shall be Committed which said Iustices respectively are hereby required and enabled to sée this Statute duely Executed Forfeiture Viz. if Mayor or Head Officer knowingly permit Sale by false Measures § 3. N. 4. or reform not on Complaint c. then he or they so offending for every such Offence upon due Proof and Conviction thereof by Presentment or Indictment before the Iustices of Peace of the County where such Offence shall be Committed at the General Sessions c. held for the same shall forfeit the Sum of Five pounds Wayes And every Constable or Surveyer of the High-wayes refusing or neglecting to put the said Acts viz. heretofore made in Execution C. 12. § 1. N. 3. or wilfully fuffering any Waggons or Carts to pass through his respective Limits with any more Horses or other Cattle or in other manner then by this Act is allowed shall upon Complaint thereof made to any Iustice of the Peace of the Place or Division where such neglect shall be proved to be done by the Oath of any one Credible Witness which Oath such Iustice is hereby Impowered to Administer or upon view of the Iustice himself be thereof Convicted Amercement And shall incur such Fine as the same Iustice shall think fit to Impose on such Officer not excéeding the Sum of xl s. for any one Offence N. 4. the same Fine to be Levied by the High Constable of such Place or Division or any other Officer by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Iustice of the Peace upon the Goods and Chattels of the Person so offending rendring the overplus to the owner thereof all necessary Charges in Levying the same being first deducted to be Imployed for the Amending of the High-wayes of the Parish or Place where such neglect shall be found as the said Iustice or Iustices shall appoint for the doing thereof § 2. N. 2. And that the Iustices of Peace in their open Sessions shall and may enquire by such wayes and means as they think fitting Justices into the value of all such Lands so given or to be given and order the Improvement and Imployment of the Rents and profits thereof according to the Will and direction of the Donor of such Lands if they find that the Persons so intrusted have béen negligent or faulty in the performance of their Trust except such Lands as have béen given to the uses aforesaid to any Colledge or Hall in either of the Vniversities of this Kingdom which have visitors of their own any Law c. notwithstanding § 3. N. 3. And in Case he viz. the rescuer or resister c. do not pay the said Sum viz. xl s. within seven dayes after notice of such Conviction Forfeiture that it shall and may be lawful for any Iustice of the Peace where any such opposition or rescue shall be made to Commit such Person c. to the Common Goal of the County where such Offence shall be Committed there to remain until the said Forfeiture shall be paid to the Surveyor c. of the Highwayes for that Parish where the Offence was Committed c. § 5. N. 2. And that where any Ground shall lye at the end of any of the said Streets or Lanes Wayes or any other place of which there may be a dispute who ought to Pave or Amend the same that in such Cases the Iustices of Peace for the said Places respectively shall have hereby full power and authority in their Quarter-Sessions to order and determine the same which order c. shall be binding to all Persons whatsoever therein concerned any Law c. notwithstanding § 9. N. 1. Provided also and it is further Enacted c. That if any Person Forfeiture c. shall fail or make default to make their respective dayes labour in every year for and towards the Repairing of the Highwayes or neglect to send their respective Carriages Horses and Carts according as by Law they are respectively required it shall and may be Lawful for the Surveyor c. of every Parish and they are hereby required to make Complaint thereof to the next Iustices of the Peace who are hereby authorized and required upon proof of any such default or neglect made before them by the Oath of one Credible Witness which Oath they are hereby Impowered to Administer to Levy by Distress and Sale of the Goods of every Person failing or neglecting as aforesaid and not having a reasonable Excuse to be allowed by the said Iustices the several Penalties hereafter mentioned c. § 10. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. That where the Iustices of the Peace of any County City or other Place Taxes or the major part of them at their General-Quarter-Sessions shall be fully satisfied that the Common Highways Causeys or Bridges within any Parish Township or Hamlet within their respective Iurisdiction may not or will not be sufficiently Amended Repaired and Supported by means of the Laws now in force without the help of this present Act in all such Cases one or more Assessment c. upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments or any personal Estate usually ratable to the Poor within any such Parish Township or Hamlet shall be made Levied Collected and Allowed by such Person c. and in such manner as the said Iustices by their order at such Sessions shall direct and appoint in that behalf § 12. N. 3. And the said Surveyors and Orderers viz. of Highwayes shall make return of the Defaulters and every of them Certificate within one Month after every default made to some neighbouring Iustice of the Peace of the same County and the said Iustice shall present the same at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace-held next after such return made unto him § 13. N. 2. Therefore viz. Because of great Rivers in Cheshire and Lancashire Be it further Enacted c. That for Ten years next following and no longer Sewers the respective Iustices of the Peace within the said respective Counties shall upon the Presentment of the Grand Iury at their respective and General Quarter-Sessions have Power and Authority by Order or Warrant under the Hands and Seals of all or the major part of the said Iustices being six at the least then Present to cause to be Erected and Builded any new Bridge or Bridges in such Place c. in any of the said Highwayes over any of the said Rivers within their respective Iurisdictions as they shall Iudge fit and necessary and so declare by such Order as aforesaid and likewise to repair or rebuild
11 H. 7. 2. § 1. N. 10. And that the Lord of every Leet within this Realm and the Sheriff in his Tourn Leet have Authority to enquire thereof in his Leet and Tourn and the Lord of the Leet to have for every default found as is abovesaid 1 s. 8 d. and the Sheriff to enquire in his Tourn of such escapes within the Jurisdiction of his own and to have 1 s. 8 d. for every such default found in his Tourn 19 H. 7. 12. § 1. N. 11. XXV 11 H. 7. 2. § 1. N. 11. And that the penalty limited by this Ordinance be forfeited by any Officer or any other person Forfeiture for non punishment of Vagabonds and other misruled persons within every City where Mayor and Aldermen be that the profit of every such penalty be unto the Alderman of that Ward where such forfeiture is had or made to his own profit 19 H. 7. 12. § 1. N. 12. XXVI 11 H. 7. 2. § 1. N. 12. And also it is ordained and enacted Distress c. that it shall be lawful to every man intituled to have the penalty to distrain for it in like wise as the Lord of any Leet may do for Amerciaments and Fines had and assessed in the same Leet 19 H. 7. 12. § 1 N. 13. Women XXVII 11 H. 7. 2. § 1. N 14. Provided always that deminution of punishment of Vagabonds and Beggars aforesaid may and shall be had for women great with Child and men and women in extream Sickness by him that hath authority to do the said punishment 19 H. 7. 12. § 1. N. 17. Alen. XXVIII 22 H. 8. 10. For as much as before this time divers and many outlandish people calling themselves Aegyptians using no Craft nor Feat of Merchandise have come into this Realm and gone from Shire to Shire and place to place in great Company and used great subtlety and crafty means to decline the people bearing them in hand that they by Palmestry could tell Mens and Womens fortunes and so many times by Craft and Subtlety have deceived the people of their mony and also have committed many and hainous Felonies and Robberies to the great hurt and deceit of the people that they have come among 1 2 Ph. Mar. 4. Forfeiture XXIX 22 H. 8. 10 § 2. N. 1. Be it therefore c. ordained c. that from henceforth no such person be suffered to come within this the Kings Realm and if they do then they and every of them so doing shall forfeit to the King c. all their Goods and Chattels and then to be commanded to avoid the Realm within fifteen dayes next after the commandment upon pain of imprisonment 39 Eliz. 3. § N. Lamb. 437. Seisure XXX 22 H. 8. 10. § 2. N. 2. And it shall be lawful to every Sheriff Justice of Peace and Escheator to seize to the use of our Sovereign Lord his Heirs and Successors all such goods as they or any of them shall have and thereof to make account to our said Sovereign Lord in his Exchequer Enquest XXXI 22 H. 8. 10. § 2. N. 3. And if it shall happen any such Stranger hereafter to commit within this Realm any Muder Robbery or any other Felony and thereof be Indicted and Arraigned and to plead not Guilty or any other plea tryable by the County that then the Enquest that shall pass between the King and any such party shall be altogether of English-men albeit that the party so indicted pray medietatem Linguae according to the Statute Anno 8 H. 6. viz. 8 H. 6. 29. § N. or of any other Statute thereof made Exile XXXII 22 H. 8. 10. § 3. N. 1. Provided always that the Aegyptians now being in this Realm have monition to depart within sixteen dayes after Proclamation of this Statue amongst them shall be made upon pain of Imprisonment and forfeiture of their goods and Chattels and if they then so depart that then they shall not forfeit their Goods nor any part thereof this present Statute notwithstanding Restitution XXXIII 22 H. 8. 10. § 4. N. 1. Provided always that every such person or persons which can prove by two Credible persons before the same party that seizeth such Mony Goods or Chattels of the same Aegyptians that any part of the same Goods Mony or Chattles were craftily or Feloniously taken or stolen from him shall be incontinently restored unto the same Goods Mony or Chattels whereof he maketh such proof before the same party that so seizeth the same Mony Goods or Chattels upon pain to forfeit to the same party that maketh such proof the double value of the same by action of debt bill or otherwise in any of the Kings Courts to be sued upon which action and suit he shall not be admitted to wage his Law nor any protection or Essoin to be allowed any thing in this Act to the Contrary notwithstanding Seisures XXXIV 22 H. 8. 10. § 5. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted that if any Justice of Peace Sheriff or Escheator which by Authority of this Act have power to take or seize any Goods or Chattells of any Aegyptians at any time hereafter do seize or take the Goods or Chattels of any such Aegyptians that then every such Justice Sheriff or Escheator doing the same shall have keep and retain to his own use the moity of all such Goods so by him seized and of the other moity so by him taken or seized shall make answer and accompt to the King in his Exchequer according to the tenor of this present act any thing in the same act contained to the contrary hereof notwithstanding and that upon any account hereafter to be made for the said other moity of the same Goods the accountant shall pay no manner of fees or other charges for his account or discharge to be had in the Kings Exchequer nor elsewhere XXXV Lambert 2 Cap. 7. pag. 195. 196. Seisure Every Justice of the Peace may within one month after the arrival seize all the Goods of any Outlandish persons calling themselves Aegyptians that shall come into this Realm and may also keep the one moity thereof to his own use making account to the King in the Exchequer for the other moity And every person that can prove by two Credible Witnessess before him that so seizeth that any of those Goods were craftily or feloniously taken from him shall be incontinently restored thereto before the party that so seizeth them upon pain of the double value thereof to be forfeited to such Prover 22 H. 8. 10. § But note that after the Month the offence is made Felony and then it seemeth the King is to have the Goods wholly 1 2 Ph. Mar. 4. § N. XXXVI Lambert 364. 365. And every Justice of the Peace is allowed to retain to his owe use the one moity of all strangers Goods Seisure
calling themselves Aegyptians that he shall lawfully seize by vertue of this Statute 22 H. 8. 10. § 5. N. 1. Crompt 178. and 195. § 13. XXXVII Lambert 366. That Justice of the Peace which seizeth the Goods of any Aegyptians Restitution and doth not Incontinently restore such part thereof as shall be proved before him to have been Craftily or Feloniously taken shall forfeit the double thereof to such Provers 22 H. 8. 10. § 4. N. 1. XXXVIII Crompt 129. § 32. If any Outlandish Person naming himself an Aegyptian or any such stranger commits any Murder Enquest Felony or Robbery and upon his Arraignment pleads not Guilty or any other plea tryable by the Country the Enquest in this Case shall be all of English 22 H. 8. 10. § 2. N. 3. And so shall the Enquest be where any of the said Aegyptians is Indicted of Felony for continuance within this Realm by the space of a month Contrary to 1 2 Ph. Mar. 4. § N. and 5 Eliz. 20. XXXIX 22 H. 8. 12. Where in all places throughout this Realm of England Vagabonds and Beggars have of long time increased Laborors and daily do increase in Great and Excessive Numbers by the occasion of Idleness the Mother and Root of all Vices whereby hath Insurged and sprung and daily Insurgeth and springeth continual Thefts Murders and other sundry hainous Offences and great Enormities to the high displeasure of God the inquietation and dammage of the Kings people and to the marvellous disturbance of the commonweal of this Realm 35 Eliz. 7. § 25. N. 1. XL. 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 2. And whereas many and sundry good Laws strict Statutes and Ordinances have been before this time devised and made Contempt as well by the King our Soveraign Lord as also by divers his most noble Progenitors Kings of England for the most necessary and due reformation of the premises yet that notwithstanding the said numbers of Vagabonds and Beggars be not seen in any parts to be punished but rather daily augmented and increased into great Routs and Companies as evidently and manifestly it doth and may appear XLI 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 3. Be it therefore enacted Justices c. That the Justices of the Peace of all and singular the Shires of England within the limits of their Commissions and all other Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers of all and every City Borough Riding or Franchis whereof they be Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs or Officers and so being divided shall make diligent search and enquiries of all Aged Poor and impotent Persons which live or of necessity be compelled to live by Alms of the Charity of the People that be or shall be hereafter abiding within every Hundred Rape Wapentake City Borough Parish Liberty or Franchis within the limits of their Division and after and upon such search made the said Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers that is to say every of them within their limits of their Authorities whereunto they be divided shall have Power and Authority by their Discretions to enable to beg within such Hundred Rape Wapentake City Town Parish or other Limits as they shall appoint such of the said Impotent persons which they shall find and think most convenient within the limits of their Division to live of the Charity and Alms of the People and to give in Commandment to every such Aged and Impotent Beggar by them enabled that none of them shall beg without the limits to them so appointed Records XLII 22 H. 12. § 1. N. 4. And shall also register and write the names of every such Impotent Beggar by them appointed in a Bill or Roll Indented the one part thereof to remain with themselves and the other part by them to be certified before the Justices of Peace at the next Sessions after such search had to be holden without the said Shires Cities Towns or Franchises there to remain under the keeping of the Custos Rotulorum Seals XLIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 5. And that the said Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers that is to say as they be divided shall have Power and Authority to make such and so many Seals to be Ingraved with the Names of the Hundreds Rapes Wapentakes Cities Boroughs Towns or places within the which they shall appoint and limit every such Impotent Person to beg and commit the said Seals to the custody of such of them or to the custody of such other as they shall think convenient License XLIV 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 6. And shall make and deliver to every such Impotent Person by them enabled to beg a Letter containing the name of such Impotent Person and witnessing that he is Authorized to beg and the limits within which he is appointed to beg Seals XLV 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 7. The same Letter to be sealed with such of the said Seals as shall be engraved with the names of the limits wherein such Impotent Person shall be appointed to beg in and to be subscribed with the name of one of the said Justices or Officers abovesaid Lieu. XLVI 22 H. 8. 12. § 1. N. 8. And if any such Impotent Person so authorized to beg do beg in any other place than within such limits that he shall be assigned unto that then the Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables and all other the Kings Officers and Ministers shall by their discretions punish all such persons by Imprisonment in the Stocks by the space of two days and two nights giving them but only bread and water and after that cause every such Impotent Person to be sworn to return again without delay to the Hundred Rape Wapentake City Borough Town Parish or Franchis where they be Authorised to beg in License XLVII 22 H. 8. 12. § 2. N 1. And it is Enacted that no such Impotent Person as is abovesaid after the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist next coming shall beg within any part of this Realm except he be Authorized by Writing under Seal as is abovesaid and if any such Impotent Person after the Feast of St. John be Vagrant and go a begging having no such Letter under Seal as is above specified that then the Constables and all other Inhabitants within such Town or Parish where such person shall beg shall cause every such Beggar to be taken and brought to the said Justice of Peace or High Constable of the Hundred XLVIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 2. N. 2. Pain And thereupon the said Justice of Peace or high Constable shall command the said Constables and other Inhabitants of the Town or Parish which shall bring before him any such Begger that they shall strip him naked from the middle upward and cause him to be whipped within the Town where he was taken or within some other Town
where the same Justice or high Constable shall appoint if it shall seem to the discretion of the said Justice of Peace or high Constable that it be convenient so to punish such Beggers to him brought XLIX 22 H. 8. 12. § 2. N. 3. And if not Imprisonment then to command such Begger to be set in the Stocks in the same Town or Parish where he was taken by the space of three days and three nights there to have only bread and water L. 22 H. 8. 12. § 2. N. 4. Lieu. And thereupon the said Justice or high Constable afore whom such Begger shall be brought shall limit to him a place to beg in and give him a Letter under Seal in form above remembred and swear him to depart and repair thither immediatly after his punishment to him executed LI. 22 H. 8. 12 § 3. N. 1. And be it further Enacted Ability c. That if any person c. Being hole and mighty in Body and able to labour at any time after the said Feast of Saint John be taken in Begging in any part of this Realm or if any Man or Woman being hole and mighty in Body and able to labour having no Land Master nor using any lawful Merchandize Craft or Mystery whereby he might get his living after the same Feast be Vagrant and can give no reckning how he doth lawfully get his living that then it shall be lawful to the Constables and all other the Kings Officers Ministers and Subjects of every Town Parish and Hamlet to Arrest the said Vagabonds and Idle persons and them bring to any of the Justices of the Peace of the same Shire or Liberty or else to the high Constable of the hundred Rape or Wapentake within which such persons shall be taken and if he be taken within any City or Town Corporate then to be brought before the Mayor Sheriff or Bailiff of every such Town Corporate LII 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 2. And that every such Justice of Peace Pain high Constable Mayors Sheriffs and Bailiffs by their discretions shall cause every such Idle person so to him brought to be had to the next Market Town or other place where the said Justice of Peace high Constable Mayors Bayliffs and other Officers shall think most convenient by his or their discretions and there to be tyed to the end of a Cart naked and be beaten with Whips throughout the same Market Town or other place till his body be bloody by reason of such Whipping LIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 3. Oath And after such punishment and whipping had the person so punished by the discretion of the Justice of Peace high Constable Mayor Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers afore whom such persons shall be brought shall be enjoyned upon his Oath to return forthwith without delay in the next and strait way to the place where he was born or where he last dwelled before the same punishment by the space of three years and there to put himself to labour like as a true man ought to do LIV. 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 4. And after that done Pasport every such person so punished and ordered shall have a Letter Sealed with the Seal of the Hundred Rape Wapentake City Borough Town Liberty or Franchis wherein he shall be punished Witnessing that he hath been punished according to this Statute and containing the day and place of his punishment and the place whereunto he is limited to go and by what time he is limited to come thither within which time he may lawfully Beg by the way shewing the same Letter and otherwise not Proces LV. 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 5. And if he do not accomplish the order to him appointed by the said Letter then to be Eftsoons taken and whipped and so as often as any default shall be found in him contrary to the order of this Statute in every place to be taken and whipped till he be repaired where he was born or where he last dwelled by the space of three years and there put his body to labour for his living or otherwise truly get his living without begging as long as he is able so to do Imprisonment LVI 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 6. And if the person so whipped be an Idle person and no common Begger then after such whipping he shall be kept in the Stocks till he hath found surety to go to service or else to labour after the discretion of the said Justice of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs High-Constables or other such Officers afore whom any such Idle person being no common Begger shall be brought if by the discretion of the same Justice of Peace Mayor Sheriff Bailiff High-Constable or other such head Officer it be so thought Convenient and that the party so punished be able to find surety or else to be ordered and sworn to repair to the place where he was born or where he last dwelled by the space of three years and to have like Letter and such further punishment if he Eftsoons offend this Statute as is above appointed to and for the Common strong and able Beggers and so from time to time to be ordered and punished till he put his body to labour or otherwise get his living truly according to the Law Justices LVII 22 H. 8. 12. § 3. N. 7. And that the Justices of Peace of every Shire Riding City Town and Liberty shall have power and Authority within the limits of their Commissions to enquire of all Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers and persons that shall be negligent in Executing this Act. Constable LVIII 22 H. 8. 12. § 4. N. 1. And if the Constables and Inhabitants within any Town and Parish where any such impotent person or strong Begger doth happen to Beg contrary to the form of this Statute be negligent and take not every such impotent and strong Begger that so shall Beg against the form of this Statute and order and punish every such Begger as is above limited that then the Township or Parish where such default shall be shall lose and forfeit for every such impotent Begger that shall be suffered to beg within the said same Township or Parish not being taken ordered and punished according to the form of this Statute 3 s. 4 d. and for every strong Begger that shall happen to beg within any such Township or Parish not being taken and ordered as is above limited by this Statute 6 s. 8 d. the one half of all which forfeitures to be to the King c. And the other half to him that will sue for the same by any Bill of Information before the Kings Justices of his Peace in their General Sessions to be holden in the Shire or within any Liberty where such default shall happen Justices LIX 22 H. 8. 12. § 5. N. 1. And that all Justices of Peace within any Shire City Borough or
by the discretion of the said Governors or Bailiffs and thereupon to be sent again unto his service and so to be served as often as he shall be apprehended and Convicted in form aforesaid CV 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 7. N. 3. And if any person or persons Proces refuse to Execute and to do the said punishment at the Commandment of any of the said Governors Aldermen Justices of Peace and others the said Officers and Ministers then he or they so refusing the same shall be set in the stocks by the space of two days without having of any other sustenance saving only bred and water CVI. 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 8. N. 1. Item It is also enacted Search c. that all and every the aforesaid Mayors Governors Aldermen and every the Justices of the Peace as well within liberties as without shall once in every month or oftner if need shall require command a Privy or secret search to be made within every City and Ward Town Hundred Parish and Hamlet of this Realm in such time of the night and day as they shall think convenient to the intent that all Rufflers sturdy Vagabonds and valiant Beggers and other suspect persons may be by such means apprehended taken and ordered according to the purport and meaning of this present act and otherwise to be used according to the Laws of this Realm CVII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 8. N. 2. Proces And that all and every person and persons obey aid assist and maintain from time to time all and every the Commandments of the said Justices of Peace and other head Officers aforesaid for and concerning the making of all the said searches and the apprehending of all and every the suspect persons aforesaid upon pain to make fine for not doing of the same at the next quarter Sessions as it shall be thought by the discretion of the Mayor Governors Aldermen and Justices of the Peace Games CVIII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 9. N. 1. Item It is Enacted c. that no person c. at any time after the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming shall use keep and maintain any open Playing-House or place of Common Bowling Dicing Carding Closh Tennis or other unlawful Games taking mony for the same or other gain in any place of this Realm upon pain to forfeit five Marks for every Month that any such unlawful Houses or Games shall so be openly kept used and maintained in any Place within this Realm be it within liberties or without any grant heretofore made to any person c. in any wise notwithstanding Encumbant CIX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 10. N. 1. Item It is Enacted c. that every Preacher Parson Vicar Curate of this Realm as well in all and every their Sermons Collections Biddings of the beads as in time of all Confessions and at the making of the Wills or Testaments of any Persons at all times of the year shall exhort move stir and provoke people to be liberal and bountiful to extend their good and Charitable Alms and Contributions from time to time for and towards the comfort and relief of the said Poor Impotent Decrepit Indigent and needy people as for the setting and keeping to continual work and labor of the aforesaid Rufflers sturdy Vagabonds and valiant Beggers in every City Ward Town Hundred and Parish of this Realm as well within liberties as without Pain CX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 11. N. 1. Item It is Enacted c. that if any of the aforesaid Rufflers sturdy Vagabonds and valiant Beggers after such time as they have been once apprehended taken whipped and sent unto any City Ward Town Hundred or Parish by any Justices of Peace Mayor Constable Bayliffs or any other the Kings Officers and Ministers happen to wander loyter or idly to use themselves and play the Vagabonds and willingly absent themselves from such labor and occupation as he or they shall be appointed unto within any City Ward Town Hamlet Hundred or Parish whereunto he or they have been appointed in manner and form aforesaid that then he or they being Eftsoons apprehended and taken of suspitions of Idleness in any privy searches aforesaid or otherwise shall be brought before the next Justice of Peace And upon due Examinations and proof of the continuance of his said loytering wandering in idleness or Vagaboncy shall be Eftsoons not only whipped again and sent into the City Ward Town Hundred or Parish whereunto he was first appointed but also shall have the upper part of the Grislle of his right Ear clean cut off so as it may appear for a perpetual token after that time that he hath been a contemner of the good order of the Common-wealth Constable CXI 27 H. 8. 25. 26 § 11. N. 2. And that every Constable of the Parish with the assistance of the most substantial of every such Parish where any such Ruffler or Vagabond shall happen thus to be taken shall do or cause to be done this present Execution as well in whipping as in cutting off the said upper Grisle of the Ear of every such Ruffler or sturdy Vagabond or valiant Begger upon pain to lose and forfeit five Marks for every time that he shall refuse to do or cause to be done the same Execution And all and singular the Inhabitants of the said City Ward Town Hundred or Parish shall assist and aid the said Constables in Execution of the premisses to the best of their Power with Good diligence and without contradiction upon the pain aforesaid CXII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 12. N. 1. Item It is further Enacted Imprisonment c. That if any Ruffler or sturdy Vagabond or valiant Begger not having the upper part of the right Ear and being cut off as is aforesaid happen to be apprehended and taken in or at any privy search as aforesaid at any other time wandring in Idleness in or without any City Ward Town Parish or Hamlet within this Realm whereunto he or they have been assigned and duely proved before any Justice of Peace that he or they haunt Idleness and hath not applied nor doth not apply such labors as he or they have been assigned unto or be not in service with any Master that then he or they so taken marked and having the upper part of the right Ear cut off as is aforesaid shall be by any of the said Justices of Peace sent unto the next Goal there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until the next Quarter Sessions and there to be Indicted of wandring loytering and idleness and shall be arraigned of the same and if he or they shall happen to be found Guilty by Verdict Confession or otherwise of for and upon the same continual loytering and idleness then every such sturdy Vagabond and valiant Begger so found Guilty and Condemned shall have Judgment to suffer pain and Execution of death as a Felon and as Enemies of
the Common-wealth and to lose and forfeit all their Lands and Goods as Felons do in all other cases within this Realm CXIII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 13. N. 1. Item It is Enacted Search c. That the Knight Marshal for the time being shall have full power and Authority by vertue of this present act to search do and put in due and plain Execution all and every the contents as well of the aforesaid former Act viz. 22 H. 8. 12. as of this present Act and of and upon all such Rufflers sturdy Vagabonds and valiant Beggers Men and Women as in any wise shall frequent hunt or loyter Masterless and out of service in and about the Court wheresoever the Kings Highness chance to be resiant with his most Honorable Houseshold in any place of this Realm CXIV 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 14. N. 1. Charity And for the avoiding of such inconveniences and Infections as oftentime have and daily do chance among the people by Common and open Doles and that most commonly unto such Doles many persons do resort which have no need of the same It is therefore Enacted c. that no manner of person c. shall make or cause to be made any such common or open Dole or shall give any ready mony in Alms otherwise than to the common Boxes and Common Gatherings in Every City Town Hundred Parish and Hamlet to and for the putting in plain and due Execution of all and every the good and vertuous intents and purposes contained in this present Act upon pain to lose and forfeit ten times the value of all such ready mony as shall be given in Alms Contrary to the tenor and purport of the same CXV 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 14. N. 2. And that every person Taxes c. of this Realm Bodies Politique Corporate and others that be bound or charged Yearly Monthly or Weekly to give or to distribute any ready Mony Bread Victual or other sustentation to Poor people in any place within this Realm shall from the Feast of Michaelmas next coming give and distribute the same Mony or the value of all such Bread Victual or sustentation unto such Common Boxes to the intent the same may be imployed towards the relieving of the said Poor Needy Sick Sore and Indigent persons and also towards the setting in work of the said sturdy and idle Vagabonds and valiant Beggers and every of the said person and persons Bodies Politique Corporate and others shall be clearly discharged against all and every other person and persons of and for all manner of Bonds or Grants whatsoever they be for making of any of the said Common Doles or others the foresaid distributions at any time of the year so as the Mony and true value of the same be given unto the Boxes towards the common Alms and relief of the poor people in form aforesaid Account CXVI 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 15. N. 1. And to the intent that the Mony gathered towards the relief of Poverty as is abovesaid shall be imployed and converted to such charitable uses and behoofs by this present Act limited and no part thereof to be misused by such as shall have the collection thereof it is therefore ordained and enacted c. that the Church-wardens of every Parish calling unto them six or four of their honest Neighbors shall have full power and Authority every Quarter of the year or oftner by their discretions to command every such Collector to appear before them and to render and yield account of all summs of Mony as by them shall be gathered and how and in what manner it was imployed Account CXVII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 15. N. 2. And if upon any account it shall be seen perceived or found that any such Collector hath not converted nor employed the Mony by him gathered to such uses and intents as be limited by this Act or to have imbezilled any part thereof that then every such offendor shall be attached and apprehended by them before whom he so shall make account and shall immediatly be brought before a Justice of the Peace if it be in any Shire or before the Mayor or Bailiff if it be in City Borough or Town Corporate which Justice or Mayor or Bailiff shall cause every such offender to be committed to Ward and Prison there to remain unto such time as he shall have fully restored and paid to the Collectors of the said Alms within the Parish where he so offended all such summs of Mony as by him shall be so imbezilled converted or imployed to other uses or intents than by this Act be limited and also till he shall have paid 6 s. 8 d. for a penalty to be converted imployed and distributed to the uses and intents specified and declared in this Act. Incumbent CXVIII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 16. N. 1. And it is ordered c. that the Parson Vicar or Parish Priest or some other honest man of every Parish of this Realm without taking or demanding any thing for the same shall keep a Book of reckoning and then shall enter write and make mention from time to time in one place or part of the Book as well of all and every such summs of Mony as shall be gathered by the charitable Alms of the Inhabitants of every of the same Parishes as to make mention in other place of the same Book how upon whom and in what wise any part of the same Mony shall be spent and so from year to year from one year to another year he shall keep a new book the Book to be bought and paid for by the Constable and Church-wardens for the time being of the common Collections and always shall remain in the Custody of two or three of them or of some other indfferent man by their consents and not with the Parson Vicar or Parish Priest Charity CXIX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 17. N. 1. Item It is ordered c. that two or three times in every week two or three of every Parish within Cities and Towns Corporate by the assignment and appointment of the Mayor Aldermen Governor Bailiff or Constable some in one week and some another week shall name and appoint certain of the said poor people found of the common Alms to collect and gather broken meats and fragments and the refuse-drink of every Householder within every such Parish which shall be by their discretions distributed evenly among the poor people found of the said common Alms as they by their discretions shall think good Constable CXX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 18. N. 1. Item It is ordered c. that all and every Bailiff Constable Church-wardens and other the Collectors of the said Alms which shall at any time forbear their own business and labor and shall travail or take any pains in and about the Execution of any part of this present Act shall have and take for his and
their so doing such competent wages of the Mony of the said common Collections as by the discretion of the Mayor Aldermen Governor Bailiff or Justices of Peace and others of the Parish shall be thought good and reasonable which shall be appointed to them from time to time always at the making of their accounts before the whole Parish aforesaid CXXI 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 19. N. 1. Item Charity The Mony of all and every the aforesaid free and Charitable Collections shall be kept in the common Coffer or Box standing in the Church of every Parish or else shall be committed into the hands and safe custody of any other such good and substantial trusty man as they can agree upon where they shall think it always sure and safe and where it may be surely delivered unto the uses before expressed from time to time as necessity shall require making always mention thereof in two several places of the said book as it is before declared as often times as any part thereof shall be spent or gathered CXXII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 20. N. 1. Item It is ordered Days c. That the Inhabitants of every Parish of this Realm shall begin to make the foresaid free Charitable and Godly Collections and Gatherings in every Sunday and Holiday next after the day of Saint John Baptist next coming and so shall continue yearly unto the last day of the next Parliament and every Parish making default and not putting all and every the premisses in due and perfect Execution according to their power behaviors and discretions shall lose and forfeit 20 s. for every Month in which it is omitted and undone CXXIII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 20. N. 2. And all Justices of Peace in every County and Liberty of this Realm Justices shall have full power and Authority by vertue of this present act to enquire hear order and determine all and every the premisses in manner and form and to all intents as it is before declared CXXIV 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 21. N. 1. Finally it is ordained Continuance c. that this present Act shall begin to take effect and to be put in Execution with the aforesaid former Act viz. 22 H. 8. 12. the morrow after the day of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel next coming and shall continue unto the last day of the next Parliament 31 H. 8. 7. CXXV 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 21. N. 2. Forfeiture And that the one moity of all and every the Forfeitures aforesaid shall be to the use of the common box to the relief of the Poor Decrepit Sick and Indigent and Impotent people being within any City Town Hundred or Parish where any such offence is committed and the other moity to him or them that will sue for the same by Bill Action of Debt Plaint or otherwise in any Court of Record or Court Baron of this Realm in which Action no wager of Law Essoyn or Protection shall be allowed CXXVI 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 22. N. 1. Charity Provided always that this present Act shall not be hurtful or prejudicial unto any person or persons for giving or sending any ready mony or of any fragments or broken meat or drink unto any person or persons Inhabited within the Parish where he dwelleth or to any persons but that they and every of them of their Charity may use send order give and dispose the same to any person or persons aforesaid as they will themselves either within their own Houses or else where any thing contained in this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CXXVII 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 23. N. 1. And be it further Enacted Certificat c. That they which by the Authority of this Act shall cause the Ears of any offendor to be cut off in form before mentioned shall certifie in writing indented under their Seals at the next General Sessions of the Peace that shall be kept in any City Town Borough or Shire unto the Clerk of the Peace of the same City Town or Shire the names of all such as shall fortune to have their Ears cut off for the causes beforesaid and of the time and place of doing the same and if they fail and make default this to do by the space of one month that then they shall forfeit for every month so offending 40 s. Church wardens CXXVIII 27 H. 8. 25. 26 § 24. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. That no Church-warden Collector or Collectors of any the foresaid charitable Alms shall continue in his or their said Offices and Rooms above the space of one whole year Charity CXXIX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 24. N. 2. And that in all Cities Boroughs Towns and Parishes of this Realm the overplus of all and all manner of Collections of the Rich and Wealthy Parishes within any of the same Cities Boroughs Towns Hundreds Lathes Rapes and Wapentakes from time to time shall be ordered and distributed for and towards the sustentation of the charges of other poor Parishes near and within any of the same Cities Boroughs Towns Hundreds Lathes Rapes and Wapentakes by the discretion from time to time of the Mayor Aldermen Baliffs Governors Justices of Peace and high Constable of the same Constable CXXX 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 25. N. 1. Provided alwais that in such Cities Towns Hundreds Wapentakes Lathes Rapes Ridings Tythings Hamlets and Parishes where the voluntary and unconstrained Alms and Charity of the Parishioners or people which by this Act shall be contributory to such Alms and with such Mony as shall be added and given to the same from any Monasteries or other persons bodies Politick Corporate or other will not suffice to the sustentation of the poor needy and indigent people being within the limits of such contribution neither the Mayors Aldermen Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables or other head Officers Householders Ministers or Inhabitants of the same in particular ne also the whole of them in general shall incurre or run into the said forfeiture danger or penalty of 20 s. for every Month ne any of them to be constrained to any such certain contribution but as their free wills and Charities shall extend otherwise than that the persons thereunto appointed by this Act shall well and truly distribute according to the purport of the same the said Charity and Alms that shall come to their hands of voluntary gift upon the penalties in this Act for the same provided any Clause Sentence or Words in the same Act being or founden to the Contrary thereof notwithstanding Charity CXXXI 27 H. 8. 25. 26. § 26. N. 1. Provided also it shall be lawful to all Noblemen and other keeping Houses their Almoners Servants Officers and Ministers to give in Alms the Fragments or broken Meat or Drink of the same as well to poor and indigent people of other Parishes as of the same Parishes where such House
Ed. 6. 3. § 10. N. 8. And the said City Town or Village Laborer shall see the said Slave being able to Labor set on work and not live Idly within the said Premises upon pain for every such default that the said Slave doth live Idly by the default of the City Borough or Town or Village by the space of three working days together the City to Forfeit 5 l. a Borough or Town Incorporate 40 s. and other Town or Village 20 s. whereof the one half to the King our Soveraign Lord the other to him that will sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Information or Action of Debt in the which Suits no Essoyn Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed Corporation CLXIX 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 11. N. 1. Provided and be it Enacted that the City Town and Borough Coporate by the consent of the most part of the Corporation and the Town and Village not Corporate by the consent of the most part of the Inhabitants thereof may set sell or give away the right title and interest of the said Slave to any other Persons as any other Common or Private person may do with his Slave by Virtue of this Act. Lieu. CLXX 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 12. N. 1. Provided always and be it Enacted that if it fortune when the said Vagabond is brought to the said City Town or Village where the said person said he was born to appear and be manifest that he or she was not there born that then for such lye the said Vagrant shall be marked in the face with an S. and be Slave to the Inhabitants or Corporation of the City Town or Village where the said Vagrant said he was born in for ever upon such Conditions and Orders in all points as of a Slave marked in the face is before expressed Alien CLXXI. 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 12. N. 2. The same Law and Order in all points to be had of all Vagrant persons and Vagabonds being born in any other Nation or Country than this Realm as is before expressed of English idle persons marking in the breast or face only excepted that is to say to be had to the next Port and there to be kept of the Inhabitants of the said next Port in convenient Labor and from Idleness or otherwise till they may be conveyed over and then at the costs of the Inhabitants of the said Port to he conveyed over into their Countries Ability CLXXII 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 13. N. 1. And forasmuch as there is many maimed and otherwise lamed sore aged and impotent persons which resort to the City of London and to other Cities Towns and Villages on begging whose coming together and making a number doth fill the streets or high-ways of divers Cities Towns Markets and Fairs who if they were separated might easily be nourished in the towns and places where they were born or where they were or have been most conversant and abiding by the space of three years Trades CLXXIII 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 13. N. 2. Be it therefore Enacted c. that all and singular Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables or other head-Officers of any City Town or Hundred to which such resort is or shall be shall before the Feast of Purification of our Lady next following see all such Idle Impotent maimed and aged persons who otherwise cannot by their discretions be taken for Vagabonds which were born within the said City Town or Hundred or hath been there most conversant and abiding by the space of three years as is aforesaid and now decayed bestowed and provided for of Tenantries Cottages or other convenient Houses to be lodged in at the costs and charges of the said Cities Towns Boroughs and Villages there to be releived and cured by the devotion of the good people of the said City Borough Town or Village Lieu. CLXXIV 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 13. N. 3. And that they do not suffer after the time before rehearsed any other than such as either were born or have been for the most part conversant or abiding for the space aforesaid in the said City Borough Village or Town to remain and beg abroad within the Precincts of such Cities Towns Villages or Hundreds Forfeiture CLXXV 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 13. N. 4. Upon pain that every such Mayors Sheriffs and Bailiffs Constable or other head-Officer by what names soever he be called suffering any person to beg within the precinct of his or their such Jurisdiction other than is before rehearsed for every three days shall forfeit 10 s. to whomsoever will sue therefore by Bill Information or Action of debt in any Court of Record in the which suits no Essoyn Wager of Law nor Protection shall be allowed CLXXVI 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 14. N. 1. And for the better performance hereof be it Enacted c. that the Mayor of the City of London Corporation and all other Mayors Bailiffs Sheriffs Constables and other Head-Officers of every City and Town Corporate do with all convenient speed by themselves or their sufficient Deputies by them appointed before the Feast of the Purification next coming and so from time to time every month once make a view and Examination of Aged Impotent and Lame persons Beggers as be within the precinct of their Jurisdiction CLXXVII 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 14. N. 2. And see all such as were not born Settlement nor have been for the most part conversant and abiding there by the space of three years compleat conveyed on Horseback Cart or Chariot or otherwise as shall seem by their discretions to the next Constables and they to convey the same to the next Constables and so from Constables to Constables till the said persons be brought to the place where they were born or most conversant and abiding as is aforesaid there to be provided for kept and nourished of Alms as is aforesaid CLXXVIII 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 14. N. 3. Upon pain that every such Mayor Forfeiture Sheriff or Constable Head-borough or Head-Officer not making view not sending or conveying away not receiving or not providing as is before appointed according to the true purport or meaning of this Act to forfeit for every such default 40 s. whereof the one half to the Kings use the other to the party that will sue therefore in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Information Action of Debt in the which suits none Essoyn Wager of Law nor Protection shall be allowed CLXXIX 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 15. N. 1. Provided always Ability that if any of the said aged maihmed or Impotent persons of the Cities Towns or Villages where they were born in or had their most abiding as is aforesaid be not so Lame or Impotent but that they may work in some manner of work that then such City Town Parish or Village do either in common provide some such work for them as they may
Statute c. against him or them that retains any mans Servant out of his service before the end of the said term or else to take an Action of Trespas against such offender in which Action he shall recover his dammages and treble costs of his suit CCVIII 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. § 15. N. 1. Provided always Justices and be it Enacted c. that if the Master or Mistres to whom such Child as is aforesaid shall be adjudged to be Servant be unreasonable in ordering and bringing up of such Child that then at all times upon complaint made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in the County where the said Child shall be by two honest Neighbours of the same place or Town where the same Child shall fortune to be so unreasonably ordered if it shall appear by honest witness to the Justices of Peace at the same Sessions the complaint thereof made shall be true then the Justices of Peace at their General Sessions in the same Shire where such complaint shall be made shall by virtue of this Act have Authority and power to discharge the said Child from his or their unreasonable Master or Mistres CCIX. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. § 15. N. 2. And appoint the same to some other honest Master or Mistres unto the said ages Infant to be ordered in every degree as the said Child should have been with his former Master or Mistres and that order and appointment to be written in the book of the Clerk of the Peace CCX 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. § 15. N. 3. For the which entry the said Clerk of the Peace shall have 4 d. for his labor and not above Fees and in like manner shall have 4 d. and not above for the first entry of the Child to be servant as is aforesaid to be paid by the Master or Mistress of the said Child CCXI. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. § 16. N. 1. Provided always and be it Enacted Women c. that if the Woman Child to be appointed a Servant as is aforesaid be Marryed before the Age of 12 years that then by the Marriage she shall be discharged of service this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding 1 Ed. 6. 3. § 18. N. 2. CCXII. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 1. N. 2. Be it Enacted Continuance c. that as well the Statute c. viz. 22 H. 8. 12. as also the Statute c. viz. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. and every Article Clause Branch Sentence and other thing contained in them and in every of them other then such things as shall be by this present Act ordained and provided for shall stand remain and be in their full force and effect and shall be from henceforth justly and truly put in Execution according to the true meaning of the said several Statutes and every of them CCXIII. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 1. And further be it Enacted Assembly c. that yearly one Holyday in Whitsunday week in every City Borough and Town-Corporate the Mayor Bailiffs or other head Officers for the time being and in every other Parish of the Country the Parson Vicar or Curate and the Church-wardens having in a Register book as well all the Names of the Inhabitants and Householders as also the Names of all such Impotent Aged and Needy persons as being within their City Borough Town-Corporate or Parish are not able to live of themselves shall openly in the Church and quietly after Divine Service call the said Householders and Inhabitants together CCXIV. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 2. Among whom the Mayor Overseers and two of his Brethren in every City the Bailiffs or other Head-Officers in Boroughs and Towns-Corporate The Parson Vicar or Curate and Church-wardens in every other Parish shall elect nominate and appoint yearly two able persons or more to be Gatherers and Collectors of the charitable Alms of all the residue of the People for the releif of the Poor Taxes CCXV 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 3. Which Collectors the Sunday next after their Election or the Sunday following if need require when the people is at the Church and hath heard Gods holy Word shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charitable Will will be contented to give weekly to the releif of the Poor and the same to be written in the said Register or Book Charity CCXVI 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 4. And the Gatherers so being elected and chosen shall justly gather and truly distribute the same charitable Alms weekly by themselves or their Assigns to the said poor and impotent persons of the said Cities Boroughs Towns Corporate or Parishes without Fraud or Covin Favour or Affection Alms. CCXVII 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 5. And after such sort that the more Impotent may have the more help and such as can get part of their living to have the less and by the discretion of the Collectors to be put in such labor as they be fit and able to do Beggers CCXVIII 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 2. N. 6. But none to go or sit openly a begging upon pain limited in the foresaid Statutes viz. 22 H. 8. 12. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. Officer CCXIX. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 3. N. 1. Be it also Enacted c. that no person or persons so elected nominated and appointed to be Gatherer or Gatherers as is aforesaid shall refuse the said Office but shall justly and truly execute the same by the space of one whole year next ensuing upon pain of forfeiting 20 s. to the Alms box of the Poor to be levyed by the Church-wardens where they or he dwelleth of the Goods of the said Gatherer or Gatherers Account CCXX 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 4. H. 1. And further be it Enacted c. that the said Gatherers or Collectors shall make their just Account Quarterly to the Mayor of the City Bailiffs or Head-Officers of the Borough or Town Corporate and in every Parish of the Country to the Parson Vicar or Curate and Church-wardens of the Parish Account CCXXI 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 4. N. 2. At which Account such of the Parish as will may be present Arearges CCXXII 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 4. N. 3. And when they go out of their Office they shall deliver or cause to be delivered forthwith upon the end of their Accounts all such Surplusage of Mony as then shall remain of their Collections undistributed to be put in the common Chest of the Church or in some other safe place to the use of the Poor at the oversight and discretion of the said Mayor or other the Officers before mentioned Account CCXXIII. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 4. N. 4. And if the said Collectors or any of them do refuse to
as many of the said Poor folks as by their discretion they shall think good a sufficient Licence under the seal appointed for the limit to go abroad to beg get and receive the Charitable Alms of the Inhabitants of the Country out of the said Parishes Cities and Towns so charged License CCXXXVII 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 7. N. 3. In which Licence the places Towns and Parishes to which such Poor folks are by that License Licensed to resort shall in the same License be named limited and appointed be it one Hundred or more in the said County at the said discretion of the same Justices Lieu. CCXXXVIII 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 7. N. 4. And if any of the said Poor folks so Licensed shall transgress the limits to them appointed and resort to beg at other places than is in the said License named the party so transgressing and offending to be taken for a Valiant Begger and punished according to the Statute c. viz. 22 H. 8. 12. and his or their License to be taken from them Corporation CCXXXIX 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 8. N. 1. And be it further Enacted that where any of the said Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate or Parish so surcharged is situate and standing in one County or two Counties of this Realm or situate and standing in one and immediatly adjoyning to another County of the Realm as the City of Bristow and Towns of Ludlow and Stanford stand that in those Cities the said Mayor Head-Officers and Inhabitants of every such City Borough Town-Corporate and Parish shall make Certificate unto the Justices of the said Counties adjoyning to the same Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate and Parishes and the same Justices of the said adjoyning County or Counties to do give License and follow the order above remembred according as other Justices of the Counties in which the Parish surcharged standeth is limited and Authorized to do CCXL 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 9. N. 1. And be it Enacted Corporation that in all Cities Boroughs and Towns-Corporate within which be divers Parishes the Mayors and Head-Officers of every the same Cities Boroughs and Towns-Corporate shall consider the state and Ability of every such Parish and if the same Mayor and Officers shall understand by their discretion that the Parishioners of every one of the said Parishes is of such Wealth and Honor that they have no poverty amongst them or be able sufficiently to releive the poverty of the Parish where they inhabit and dwell and also to help and succor poverty elsewhere further that then the said Mayor and Officers with the assent of two of the most honest of the Inhabitants and substantial of every such wealthy Parish shall consider the neediness of the Inhabitants of the other Parish or Parishes within the same City or Town-Corporate and move induce and perswade the Parishioners of the Wealthier Parish Charitably to contribute somewhat according to their ability towards the Weekly relief succor and consolation of the poor and needy within the other Parish or Parishes aforesaid where need is CCXLI. 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 10. N. 1. And be it also Enacted that all and every such Poor folks as by any such License Notice are to be Licensed and authorized to resort out of the limits liberties and franchises of all and every such City Borough and Town-Corporate into any the said Counties to beg get and gather the Charitable Alms of good people shall at all times when the same go abroad to beg weare openly upon him or them both on the breast and the back of his or their uttermost Garment some notable Badge or Token to be assigned unto him by the Mayor or Head-Officers of the same City Borough and Town-Corporate or Parish with the assent of the Justices of Peace that shall grant the same License upon pain to be taken for a valiant begger and to be punished as afore is remembred and shall also carry his License with him upon like pain CCXLII. 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 10. N. 2. This act to endure to the latter end of the first Session of the next Parliament Continuance 1 Eliz. 18. § 3. N. 5. CCXLIII 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 12. N. 1. Provided always and be it Enacted London c. that all and every summ and summs of mony from henceforth to be collected or gathered within the City of London or the liberties of the same by vertue of this Act shall be paid over to the Governors of the Hospital called the Hospital of Christ-Church within the said City of London for the time being and shall be by them from time to time distributed and bestowed for the relief of the Poor of the said City according to their Wisdoms and discretions any thing in this Act mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding 14 Eliz. 5. § 27. N. 1. CCXLIV 5 Eliz. 3. § 1. N. 2. Be it Enacted c. that the Statute Continuance c. viz. 22 H. 8. 12. and also the Statute c. viz. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. and every Article Clause Branch Sentence and other things contained in them and either of them other then such things as shall be by this present Act otherwise ordained and provided for shall stand and remain and be in their full force and effect and shall be also from henceforth justly and truly put in Execution according to the true meaning of the said several Statutes and every of them 14 Eliz. 5. § 1. N. 6. CCXLV 5 Eliz. 3. § 2. N. 7. And if the said Mayors Bailiffs Forfeiture Head-Officers Parson Vicar Curate and Church-warden or any of them fail in the doing and Executing of the premisses in form above declared viz. 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 3. he or they so making default to forfeit for every such default 40 s. to be imployed to the use of the Poor of that Parish where he or they do inhabit to be levyed by the Collectors of the same Parish by way of distress or otherwise as is appointed by this Act for levying of like forfeitures Officer CCXLVI 5 Eliz. 3. § 3. N. 2. viz. None shall refuse but justly Execute Office of Gatherer c. upon pain to forfeit 10 l. the one moity thereof to the Church-wardens of the Parish where he or they shall be Elected Collector and the other moity thereof to the use and relief of the poor of the said parish to be levyed by the Church-wardens where they or he dwelleth of the Goods of the said Gatherer c. so refusing by distress or else by action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information to be brought or pursued by the said Church-wardens of the said parish where they shall dwell in any Court of Record or in the Court of any Lord of any Mannor within the said parish where the said Gatherer shall be so chosen in which suit
no protection or wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted for the party defendent Church wardens CCXLVII. 5 Eliz. 3. § 4. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. that if the said Church-wardens or either of them shall refuse to sue for the said forfeiture or within two months next after the same cause of forfeiture shall be given shall not sue or take the remedy for the recovery thereof in such manner and form as before this present Act is limited and appointed that then the same Church-wardens so making default of suit shall forfeit and lose 20 l. of Lawful mony of England the one moity thereof to him or them that will sue for the same by action of debt bill plaint or information in any Court of Record or in the Court of any Lord of any Mannor within the Parish where the said Church-wardens shall dwell and the other moity to the use of the Poor of the said parish in which suit no Essoyn Protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed for the party defendent Incumbent CCXLVIII 5 Eliz. 3. § 5. N. 2. Be it Enacted c. that every Parson Vicar Curate or Minister of every parish within this Realm shall yearly forevermore upon the Sunday before Midsummer in the Pulpit or some other convenient place in the Church give knowledge and warning at the end of some of the Morning service to the Parishioners then and there present to prepare themselves on the Sunday next after Midsummer day then next following to come to the Church and there to elect and chuse Collectors and Gatherers for the Poor according to the tenor of this Act. Incumbent CCXLIX 5 Eliz. 3. § 5. N. 3. And if the Parson Vicar Curate or Minister shall make default in giving of the said knowledge that then he or they so making default to forfeit and lose 40 s. towards the reparation of the said Church Church-wardens CCL 5 Eliz. 3. § 5. N. 4. And the Church-wardens of the said Parish to sue and distrain for the same in such form as before is appointed for the other forfeitures Account CCLI 5 Eliz. 3. § 6. N. 1. And further be it Enacted c. that the said Gatherers or Collectors for the Poor so to be chosen as is aforesaid shall make their Just account Quarterly to the Mayors or Chief-Officers of the said Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate and in every Parish of the said Country to the Parson Vicar or Curate and Church-wardens of the Parish at which account such of the Parish as will may be present Account CCLII 5 Eliz. 3. § 6. N. 2. And when they go out of their Office they shall deliver or cause to be delivered forthwith upon the end of their accounts all such surplusage of mony as then shall remain of their Collection undistributed to be put in their Common Chest of the Church or in some other safe place to the use of the Poor at the oversight and discretion of the Mayor Officers and others before mentioned CCLIII 5 Eliz. 3. § 6. N. 3. And if the said Collectors or any of them do refuse to make their said account within the eight days next after request made to them for the same Account then the Bishop of the Diocess or the Ordinary of the place Chancellors or their Commissaries together with a Justice of Peace and the Church-wardens of the said parish or one of them shall have Authority by vertue of this Act upon complaint to them made to commit the said person or persons so refusing to Ward there to remain without Bail or mainprise until he or they so refusing shall make their said accounts before such persons as the said Bishop Ordinary Chancellors or Commissaries and Justices of Peace shall appoint and to make Immediate payment of the summs wherewith by determination of the said account they shall be charged CCLIV 5 Eliz. 3. § 7. N. 3. And if the person or persons Ordinary so sent for viz. 5 6 Ed. 6. 2. § 5. N. 2. of his or their froward or wilful mind shall obstinately refuse to give weekly for the relief of the poor according to his or their abilites that then the Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess Chancellors or Commissaries shall have full power and Authority by vertue of this Act to bind the said obstinate and wilfull persons so refusing unto the Queen by recognizance in the the summ of 10 l. which conditition thereupon to be Indorsed that the said obstinate person so refusing shall personally appear before the Justices of Peace of the County where the same person shall then inhabit and dwel if it be out of any City Borough or Town-Corporate and if it be within any City Borough or Town-Corporate then before the Mayors Bailiffs or other Head-Officers of every such City Borough or Town-Corporate at the next General Sessions to be holden before the said Justices within the said County or at the next Court to be holden before the said Mayors Bailiffs or other Head-Officers within every such City Borough or Town-Corporate and that the same obstinate person shall not from thence depart without the License of the said Justices if he dwell out of any City Borough or Town-Corporate of the said Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officers if he dwel within any such City Borough or Town-Corporate CCLV. 5 Eliz. 3. § 7. N. 4. And if any such obstinate person shall refuse to be bound as is aforesaid that then the said Bishop Ordinary Imprisonment Chancellor or Commissary shall have Authority by this Act to commit the said Obstinate person to prison there to remain without Bail or mainprise until the said obstinate person shall become bound as is aforesaid CCLVI. 5 Eliz. 3. § 8. N. 1. And further be it Enacted Justices c. that the said Justices or such of them as shall be at the said Sessions or the Mayor Bailiffs or other Head-Officers of every such City Borough or Town-Corporate if the said obstinate person do appear before them shall Charitably and gently perswade and move the said obstinate persons to extend his or their Charity towards the relief of the poor of the parish where he or she inhabiteth and dwelleth CCLVII 5 Eliz. 3. § 8. N. 2. And if he or she shall obstinately and wilfully stand in the same Taxes and will not be perswaded therein by the said Justices Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officers that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Justices if it be out of any City Borough or Town-Corporate for the Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officers of the same City Borough or Town-Corporate with the Church-wardens where the said obstinate person shall inhabit or one of them to sesse tax and limit upon every such obstinate person so refusing according to their Good discretions what sum the said obstinate person shall pay weekly towards the relief of the Poor
within the said Parish where he or she shall inhabit and dwel Taxes CCLVIII. 5 Eliz. 3. § 8. N. 3. And if the said person so seised and taxed shall refuse to pay the summ that shall be so reasonablly limited taxed and appointed then the said Justices of Peace or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum or the said Mayor Bailiff or other Head-Officers of every such City Borough or Town-Corporate shall have full power and Authority by vertue of this Act upon complaint and certificate to them by the Collectors and Church-wardens of the same Parish where the said obstinate person shall dwell to commit the said obstinate person and persons so refusing to pay to Prison to the next Goal there to remain without Bail or mainprise till he or they have paid the said summ so appointed taxed and limited together with the Arrears thereof if any such shall fortune to be Certificate CCLIX 5 Eliz. 3. § 10. N. 6. And if the said Justices of Peace shall fail to appoint a day and time for inspection of the said poor and examination of the said Certificators viz. 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 7. N. 4. within one month next ensuing the day of the receit of the said certificate or shall grant or give License to any person or persons so certified to go abroad and beg before such time as they shall have viewed and seen the said poor persons and have received Oath of the persons that so certified that the said poor persons for age impotence or sickness in their Consciences and to their knowledge are not able by any work or labor to earn them necessaries meat drink and cloth and the same deposition put in writing subscribed or marked by the persons deposed to forfeit for every such default 10 l. to be imployed to the use of the poor of any parish or parishes within the said County where the said Justices dwell at the oversight and appointment of the Bishop or his Chancellor of the same Diocess to be levyed in sort and form as other forfeitures in this Statute are appointed Justices CCLX 5 Eliz. 3. § 11. N. 1. And be it further Enacted that where any the said Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate or Parish so charged is Situate and standing in one County or two Counties of this Realm or Situate and standing in one and immediatly adjoyning to another County of the Realm as the City of Bristol and the Town of Ludlow and Stanford stand that in those Cites the Parson Vicar and Curate of the said Parish and the said Mayor Head-Officers and Inhabitants of every such City Borough Town-Corporate and Parish shall make certificate unto the Justices of the said Counties adjoyning to the same Cities Boroughs Towns-Corporate and Parishes and the same Justices of the said adjoyning County or Counties to do give License and follow the order above remembred according as other Justices of the Counties in which the Parish surcharged standing is limited and Authorized to do 2 3 Ph. Mar. 5. § 8. N. 1. Continuance CCLXI 5 Eliz. 3. § 13. N. 3. This Act to indure to the latter end of the first Session of the next Parliament 13 Eliz. 25. § 12. N. 2. Incumbent CCLXII 5 Eliz. 3. § 16. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted that the Curate Minister or Reader together with the Wardens of every Chappel of Ease and where no Wardens are the Warden or two of the chiefest of the Inhabitants resorting and frequenting the said Chappel of Ease for hearing divine service the same inhabitants to be nominated and chosen by the same Curate Minister or Reader Officer CCLXIII 5 Eliz. 3. § 16. N. 2. And also the Collectors and all and every other person and persons to whom in this behalf it shall appartain by force of this Statute shall do execute perform and be lyable to all and every such ordinance clause article sentence and penalties specified and contained in this present Act for and towards the releif of the poor in like manner and form as the Vicar Curate Church-wardens and Collectors of every Parish Church shall may or ought to do by force of this Act according to the purport and true meaning of the same and not be compelable to come or resort to their Parish Church for the same only purpose or intent any thing in this Act before specified to the contrary notwithstanding CCLXIV 5 Eliz. 3. § 17. N. 1. Provided also that this Act Charity or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend or be prejudical to any Gift Legacy Conveiance or Assignment of any manner of Lands or other profit heretofore Given Assigned or Bequeathed to the relief of the Poor reparation of Highways or Bridges upon any manner of condition but that the same shall be imployed converted bestowed and accounted for in such manner and form and upon such condition as the same lawfully was or ought to be before the making of this Act. CCLXV. 5 Eliz. 20. § 3. N. 1. And yet moreover Aegyptians viz. Beside 1 2 Ph. Mar. 4. be it Enacted c. that all c. which c. shall be seen or found within this Realm of England or Wales in any Company or Fellowship of Vagabonds commonly called c. Aegyptians or counterfeiting c. Aegyptians and that shall or do continue and remain in the same either at one time or at several times by the space of one month c. shall by vertue of this Act be deemed and Judged a Felon c. CCLXVI. 13 Eliz. 17. § 1. N. 2. For the better perfection and doing whereof viz. Of a Meason de Dieu c. be it Enacted Hospital c. that the said Robert Earl of Leicester his Heirs Excutors or Assigns at his or their Wills and Pleasures shall have full power strength license and lawful Authority to erect found and establish one Hospital or Meason de Dieu within the said Town of Warwick or else within the said Town of Kenelworth at his or their choice and election for the finding sustentation and relief of poor needy and impotent people to have a continuance for ever CCLXVII 14 Eliz. 5. Where all the parts of this Realm and Wales Vagabonds be presently with Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggers exceedingly pestered by means whereof daily happeneth in the same Realm horrible Murders Thefts and other great Outrages to the high displeasure of Almighty God and to the great annoiance of the common-weal 35 Eliz. 7. § 24. N. 1. CCLXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 1. N. 2. And for avoiding confusion by reason of numbers of Laws concerning the premisses standing in force together Parliament CCLXIX 14 Eliz. 5. § 1. N. 3. Be it Enacted that the Statute Continuance c. viz. 22 H. 8. 12. and one other Act c. viz. 3 4 Ed. 6. 16. and one other Act c.
containing the Names and Surnames of all such Aged Decayed and Impotent Poor people as be within their said limits and Authorities which shall always remain with the said Justices Mayors Bailiffs or other Head-Officers or any one of them CCCXV. 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 5. And when the number of the said Poor people forced to live upon Alms be by that means truely known Cottages then the Justices Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers shall within like convenient time devise and appoint within every of their several divisions meet and convenient places by their discretions to settle the same Poor people for their Habitations and abidings if the Parish within the which they shall be found shall not or will not provide for them CCCXVI. 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 6. And shall also within like convenient time number all the said Poor people within their said several limits Apportionment and thereupon having regard to the number set down what portion the weekly charge towards the relief and sustentation of the said Poor people will amount unto within every their said several divisions and limits CCCXVII 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 7. And that done they the said Justices Taxe Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers within every their several Commissions Authorities Divisions and limits shall by their good discretions Tax and assesse all and every the Inhabitants dwelling in all and every City Borough Town Village Hamlet and Place known within the said limits and divisions to such weekly charge as they and every of them shall weekly contribute towards the relief of the said Poor people CCCXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 8. And the names of all such Inhabitants Taxed shall also enter into the said Register-Book Record together with their Taxation CCCXIX. 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 9. And also shall by their discretions within every their said divisions and limits appoint to see Collectors Officers for one whole year to be appointed of the said weekly portion which shall Collect and gather the said proportion and make delivery of so much thereof according to the discretion of the said Justices Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers to the said Poor people as the said Justices Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers shall appoint them CCCXX 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 10. And also shall appoint Overseers of the said Poor people by their discretions Overseers to continue also for one whole year CCCXXI. 14 Eliz. 5. § 14. N. 11. And if they do refuse to be Overseers then every of them so refusing Officer to forfeit 10 s. for every such default CCCXXII 14 Eliz. 5. § 15. N. 1. And be it further Enacted London c. that the Mayor of the City of London and the Mayor Sheriffs Baliffs and other Head-Officers of every other City Borough or Town-Corporate or his or their sufficient Deputy or Deputies within their Cities Boroughs and Towns-Corporate and the Constables or Tythingmen of all and every Hundred Rape and Wapentake within all and every such abiding place and places within their Hundreds limits and precincts as shall be appointed to settle the Poor people in shall once every month next after the said places so appointed be inhabited with the said Poor people according to the intent of this present Act of Parliament make a view and search of all the Aged impotent and Lame persons within the precinct of their Jurisdictions Lieu. CCCXXIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 15. N. 2. And all such person and persons as they shall find not being born within that division nor within the said Cites Boroughs or Towns-Corporate then shall they presently see the same Poor people not there born nor dwelling within the said three years except Leprous people and Bedrid people to be conveyed on Horseback in Cart or otherwise as shall seem best to their discretions to the next Constable and so from Constable to Constable the directest way till the said person and persons be brought to the place where he or she was born or most conversant by the space of three years next before Hospitals CCCXXIV 14 Eliz. 5. § 15. N. 3. And there to be put in the abiding place or one of the abiding places of that County appointed or to be appointed for the Habitation of the Poor people of that County there to be provided kept and nourished of Alms as is aforesaid upon pain of 20 s. every of the said Officers that is neglecting Vagabonds CCCXXV 14 Eliz. 5. § 16. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. that if any of the said Poor people upon the appointment of the said Justices or other Officers refuse to be bestowed in any of the abiding places before mentioned but covet still to hold on their trade of Begging or after they be once bestowed in the said abiding place or places do depart and beg then the said person or persons so offending for the first offence to be accounted a Rogue or Vagabond in the first degree of punishment set forth by this Act in all points Pain CCCXXVI 14 Eliz. 5. § 16. N. 2. And if he she or they do the second time offend they to be esteemed as a Rogue or Vagabond in the last degree of punishment set forth by this Act in all points Forfeiture CCCXXVII 14 Eliz. 5. § 17. N. 1. And it is further Enacted c. that if any manner of person or persons appointed and Elected to be Collectors as is aforesaid shall refuse the said Office or shall after he hath agreed to it neglect the same he shall forfeit and lose for every offence to the use of the Poor of the same place 40 s. of lawful mony of England to be levyed by distress or recovered by Action Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record or Lords Court by the High-Constables or Tything-men aforesaid in which suit no Essoyn Protection nor Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted to the party Defendent Constable CCCXXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 17. N. 2. And if the said High-Constables shall be remiss or negligent to sue or shall refuse to sue the said Collectors and every of them within two months next after such refusal or negligence in or by the said Collector that then the said High-Constables or Tything-men shall forfeit and lose 5 l. of lawful mony of England to the use of the Poor of the same place Justices CCCXXIX 14 Eliz. 5. § 17. N. 3. To be sued for by and in the name of two of the next Justices of the said place or places being out of the Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate Corporation CCCXXX 14 Eliz. 5. § 17. N. 4. If within then by Mayor Bailiffs or other Head-Officers of the said Cities Boroughs or Towns-Corporate in any Court of Record or Lords Court by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be
allowed Account CCCXXXI 14 Eliz. 5. § 18. N. 1. And further be it Enacted that the said Collectors and every of them so to be chosen as is aforesaid shall make their just account half yearly of their said Collecting and gathering to two Justices of the Peace dwelling next to the said abiding place or places not being within any City Borough or Town-Corporate or to the Mayor Sheriffs or other Chief-Officers of the said Cities Boroughs or Towns-Corporate CCCXXXII 14 Eliz. 5. § 18. N. 3. And when they go out of their Offices Account they shall deliver or cause to be delivered forthwith upon their accounts all such surplusages of their Collection and gathering as shall then remain undistributed to be ordered by the said Justices Mayors Bailiffs or other Head-Officers upon the said pain of 10 l. CCCXXXIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 18. N. 4. If any such Collector shall refuse to make his said account Imprisonment or neglect the same by the space of fourteen days after request to him therefore made then the said two Justices or one of them to commit the said Collector to the next Goal for the said County there to remain without Bail or mainprise till he have made his said account and immediate payment and delivery of all such surplusages as he hath received CCCXXXIV 14 Eliz. 5. § 19. N. 1. And be it further Enacted Taxes that if any person or persons being able to further this Charitable work will obstinately refuse to give towards the help and relief of the said Poor people or do wilfully discourage others from so charitable a deed the said obstinate person or wilful discourager shall presently be brought before two Justices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the same County to show the cause of his obstinate refusal or wilfull discouragment and to abide such order therein as the said Justices shall appoint if he refuse so to do then to be committed to the next Goal for the said Shire there to remain until he be contented with their said order and do perform the same CCCXXXV 14 Eliz. 5. § 20. N. 1. And it is also further Enacted that if any of the said aged and impotent persons not being so diseased Laborers lame or impotent but that they may work in some manner of work shall be by the Overseers of the said abiding place appointed to work if they refuse then in form aforesaid to be whipped and stocked for their first refusal and for their second refusal to be punished as in case of Vagaboncy in the first degree of punishment CCCXXXVI 14 Eliz. 5. § 21. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted c. that three Justices of the Peace Justices whereof one to be of the Quorum of and with the surplusages of the said Collections and forfeitures the said Poor and Impotent people satisfied and provided for shall by their discretions in such convenient place and places within their said Shires as they shall think meet place and settle to work the Rogues and Vagabonds that shall be disposed to work born within their said Counties or there abiding for the most part within the said three years there to be holden to work by the oversight of the said Overseers to get their livings and to live and to be sustained only upon their labor and travail CCCXXXVII 14 Eliz. 5. § 22. N. 1. Be it also further Enacted Apprentice c. that if any Beggers Child being above the age of five years and under fourteen years being Male or Female shall be liked of by any Subject of this Realm of honest calling who shall be willing to take the said Child into service the said Subject shall at the next General Sessions to be holden for the said County by order of the Justices there or the most part of them have the said Child bound with him if it be a Man Child till the age of twenty four years if it be a Woman Child till the age of eighteen years CCCXXXVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 22. N. 2. If the Child do after depart or be taken or be enticed from the said Master or Mistres Infant to have their remedy by order of laborers viz. 23 Ed. 3. 2. either by way of Action or otherwise as well against the Child as against the taker or inticer thereof Forfeiture CCCXXXIX 14 Eliz. 5. § 23. N 1. Be it also enacted c. that all the forfeitures appointed or to grow by this Statute except the forfeitures of Justices of Peace shall wholly go and be imployed to the use of the Poor aforesaid and shall be levyed by distress by the discretion of the Justices of the same County or two of them or other Head-Officers aforesaid Justices CCCXL 14 Eliz. 5. § 23. N. 3. And that the Justices of Peace in all Shires of England shall in their Quarter Sessions next after Easter yearly Examine the performance or not performance of this Statute according to the tenor thereof as they are bound to do the Statute of Laborers viz. 23 Ed. 3. c. And at their said Sessions shall yearly appoint new Collectors and new Overseers for the causes aforesaid and shall then also agree upon new views and searches of the said Impotent people within every their limits for the year following if need shall be and further at their said Sessions shall take order by their good discretions for all and every thing and things that may in any ways further the intent of this Act. Justices CCCXLI 14 Eliz. 5. § 24. N. 1. And be it further Enacted c. that three Justices of Peace within all the Shires of this Realm whereof one to be of the Quorum shall have full power by Authority of this present Parliament to hear and determine all causes except forfeitures of Justices of Peace that shall come in question by reason of this present Act. Alms. CCCXLII 14 Eliz. 5. § 25. N. 1. Provided also that forasmuch as it is thought that the Inhabitants of divers Counties Cities and Towns within this Realm be not able to relieve the Poor Lame and Impotent persons with mony to be Collected in manner and form aforesaid and that it were overgreat a burthen to the Collector for to gather Meat Drink Corn or other things for their relief to be imployed and bestowed in form aforesaid Licence CCCXLIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 25. N. 2. Therefore it is further Enacted that it shall be lawful to and for the Justices of Peace in their open Sessions of the Peace or for the most part of them there assembled within any the Counties Cities or Towns of this Realm where Collections of mony cannot presently be had as this present Act willeth and appointeth to grant Licence under their Hands and Seals to such and so many of the said Poor and Impotent or diseased persons or to any other person or persons to be by the
said Justices assigned and allowed for the said Poor Charity CCCXLIV 14. Eliz. 5. § 25. N. 3. To ask gather and receive within such other Township or Parishes of the said County as the said Justices or the most part of them there then in their said Sessions assembled shall especially name and appoint limit and assign the Charitable devotion and Alms at the House or Houses of the Inhabitants of such Town Parish or Parishes by the said Justices Named Appointed Limited or Assigned so that they do appoint the said Poor so to be relieved only within the Towns and Parishes being within the divisions of the same Justices that so shall give such Licence or Licences Lieu. CCCXLV. 14 Eliz. 5. § 25. N. 4. And that the Inhabitants of every such Parish or Parishes to the which such Poor or Impotent persons shall be so appointed as is aforesaid shall be coacted and bound by vertue of this Act under such pain as to the discretion of the said Justices there in their Sessions Assembled or the most part of them shall seem convenient to relieve the said Poor and Impotent persons in such sort as the said Justices there assembled shall appoint Corporation CCCXLVI 14 Eliz. 5. § 26. N. 1. And be it further Enacted that if it shall happen any City or Town-Corporate to have in it more Impotent and Poor folks not able to labour then the said Town or City is able to relieve and the said City or Town-Corporate is a County of it self or Situate or standing in one County and Immediatly adjoyning to another that in those Cities or Towns the Mayor or Head-Officers of the said City or Town shall make Certificate to the Justices of the Counties adjoyning to the said Cities or Towns CCCXLVII 14 Eliz. 5. § 26. N. 2. And the same Justices of the said adjoyning County or Town in their General Sessions of the Peace Licence shall give Licence and follow the Order above remembred according as other Justices of the Counties in the which any Town or Parish surcharged standeth are before limited and authorized to do CCCXLVIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 27. N. 1. Provided always and be it Enacted c. that all and every summ and summs of mony London from henceforth to be Collected or Gathered within the City of London and the Liberties of the same by vertue of this Act shall be paid unto the Governors of the Hospital called the Hospital of Christ-Church within the said City of London for the time being and shall be by them from time to time distributed and bestowed for the relief of the Poor of the same City according to their Wisdoms and discretions any thing in this Statute contained to the contrary notwithstanding CCCXLIX 14 Eliz. 5. § 28. N. 1. Provided also and be it Enacted Franchis c. that all and every summ and summs of mony from henceforth to be Collected or Gathered within the City of Coventry and the Liberties of the same by vertue of this Act towards the maintenance and relief of the Hospital of Poor people erected in the same City shall be paid unto such Governor and Governors of the said Hospital as now is or hereafter shall be admitted and appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen of the said City of Coventry or the more part of them for the time being CCCL 14 Eliz. 5. § 28. N. 2. And such Governor and Governors Charity so admitted and appointed as is aforesaid shall from time to time distribute and bestow for the reliefe of the Poor within the said City the said summ or summs of mony according to their Wisdoms and discretions any thing mentioned in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CCCLI 14 Eliz. 5. § 29. N. 1. Provided also and be it Enacted Franchis c. that all and every summ and summs of mony from henceforth to be paid Collected or Gathered within the City of Gloucester Liberties and limits of the same City for and towards the use or relief of the Poor and all and every other relief which shall be due and payable or is to be yielded within the said City Liberties or limits for and towards the relief of the said Poor shall be from time to time paid and delivered or otherwise shall stand and be at the only rule order and disposition of the President and Governors of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew of the Foundation of our most Gracious Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth within the said City of Gloucester for the time being and shall be by them from time to time distributed and bestowed for the relief of the Poor of the said City according to their Wisdoms and Discretions CCCLII. 14 Eliz. 5. § 30. N. 1. And be it further Enacted Ordinary c. that the Bishop of every Diocess or his Chancellor for the time being shall yearly visit all Hospitals in the Diocess of such Bishop where no Visitor by the Founder or Founders is appointed if the Founder of the said Hospital be then Dead and to see and take order that the said Hospital be ordered and used according to the Statutes and Ordinances of the Foundation thereof and if the Founder be then living the said Founder to visit the same during his life without any the Bishops Visitation and the same Visitation to be at the only costs and charges of the Visitors and not of the Hospital Ordinary CCCLIII 14 Eliz. 5. § 30. N. 4. And that it shall be lawful to the Bishop of the Diocess for the time being where such Hospital is or shall be or his Chancellor upon complaint or other intelligence of just cause to take account how the rents revenues and profits of any such Hospital hath been bestowed and spent to call before him or them at the said Hospital to account all such person and persons as have had the Collection or receit of any the said Rents Issues Revenues or profits Account CCCLIV. 14 Eliz. 5. § 30. N. 5. And if any person or persons so called shall and do refuse to account or entring into account shall refuse to proceed and finish the same or upon finishing thereof shall refuse forthwith to imploy or answer to the use of the said Hospital such summ or summs of mony as upon the same account shall appear to be due by him that then every such person and persons so refusing shall forfeit and loose such summ and summs of mony as to the said Bishop or Chancellor and to two Justices of the Peace next Inhabiting to the said Hospital shall be thought meet and convenient Account CCCLV. 14 Eliz. 5. § 30. N. 6. To which accounts the said Bishop or Chancellor shall call the same two Justices of the Peace Ouster le mere CCCLVI. 14 Eliz. 5. § 31. N. 1. Provided also and be it further Enacted c. that no person or persons having charge of any Voyage in passing to the Realm of