holden in that County and then such of the same Rogues so committed as by the Iustices of the Peace then and there present or the most part of them shall be thought fit not to be deliuered shall and may lawfully by the same Iustices or the most part of them bee banished out of this Realme and all other the dominions thereof and at the charges of that Countrey shall bee conueyed vnto such parts beyond the Seas as shall be at any time hereafter for that purpose assigned by the Priuy Councell vnto her Maiesty her heires or successors or by any sixe or more of them whereof the L. Chancellor or L. Keeper of the great Seale or the L. Treasurer for the time being to bee one or otherwise be iudged perpetually to the Gallies of this Realme as by the same Iustices or the most part of them it shall bee thought fit and expedient And if any such Rogue so banished as aforesaid shall returne againe into any part of this Realme or dominion of Wales without lawfull licence or warrant so to doe that in euery such case such offence shall be Felony and the party offending therein suffer death as in case of felony The said felony to bee heard and determined in that County of this Realme or Wales in which the offender shall be apprehended And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any Towne Parish or Village the Constable Headborough or Tythingman be negligent and doe not his or their best endeauours for the apprehension of such Vagabond Rogue or sturdy Begger which there shall bee found contrary to the forme of this present Act and to cause euery of them to bee punished and conueied according to the true meaning of this present Act that then the said Constable Headborough or Tithingman in whom such default shall be shall lose and forfeit for euery such default ten shillings And also if any person or persons doe in any wise disturbe or let the execution of this Law or any part thereof concerning the punishment or conueying of Rogues Vagabonds sturdy Beggers or the reliefe or setling of poore impotent persons in any maner of wise or make rescous against any Officer or person authorised by this present Act for the due execution of any the premisses the same person so offending shal forfeit lose for euery such offence the summe of fiue pound and shall be bound to the good behauiour And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid That no person or persons hauing charge in any voyage in passing from the Realmes of Ireland or Scotland or from the Isle of Man into this Realme of England doe wittingly or willingly bring or conuey or suffer to be brought or conueyed in any Vessell or Boate from and out of the said Realme of Ireland Scotland or Isle of Man into the Realme of England or Wales or any part thereof any Vagabond Rogue or Begger or any such as shall be forced or very like to liue by begging within the Realme of England or Wales being borne in the same Realmes or Island on paine of euery such person so offending to forfeit and lose for euery such Vagabond Rogue Begger or other person like to liue by begging .xx. s. to the vse of the poore of the said Parish in which they were set on land And if any such Manniske Scottish or Irish Rogue vagabond or begger be already or shall at any time hereafter be set on land or shall come into any part of England or Wales the same after he or she shall be punished as aforesaid shall bee conueyed to the next Port or Parish in or neere which they were landed or first came in such sort as Rogues are appointed to bee by this present Act and from thence to bee transported at the common charge of the County where they were set on land into those parts from whence they came or were brought And that euery Constable Headborough and Tythingman neglecting the due performance thereof shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings Be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that no diseased or impotent poore person shal at any time resort or repaire from their dwelling places to the City of Bath or Towne of Buxton or either of them to the Baths there for the ease of their griefes vnlesse such person doe forbeare to begge and bee licensed to passe thither by two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such person doth or shall then dwell or remaine and prouided for to trauaile with such reliefe for towards his or her maintenance as shal be necessary for the same person for the time of such his or her trauaile abode at the city of Bath and town of Buxton or either of them and returne thence and shall returne home againe as shall be limited by the said licence vpon paine to be reputed punished and vsed as Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers declared by this present Act. And that the inhabitants of the same City of Bath and Towne of Buxton shall not in any wise be charged by this Act with the finding the reliefe of any such poore people Prouided alwayes That the Iustices of Peace within any County of this Realm or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough or Towns corporate where be any Iustice or Iustices of the Peace for any such City Borough or Towne 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 Iurisdiction of such City Borough or Townes Corporate But that it may and shal be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bailiffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughes and Townes Corporate where there bee such Iustices of the Peace to proceed to the execution of this Act within the precinct and compasse of their Liberties in such maner and forme as the Iustices of Peace in any County may or ought to doe within the same County by vertue of this Act Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Prouided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the poore people for the time being in the Hospitall called Saint Thomas Hospitall otherwise called the Kings Hospitall in the Borough of Southwarke neere adioyning to the City of London but that the Maior Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London for the time being shall and may haue the rule order and gouernment of the said Hospitall and of the poor people therein for the time being Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Prouided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained or any authority thereby giuen shall not in any wise extend to dis-inherit preiudice or hinder Iohn Dutton of Dutton in the County of Chester Esquire his heires or assignes
CERTAIN necessary Directions aswell for the Cure of the Plague as for preuenting the Infection With many easie Medicines of small charge very profitable to his Maiesties Subiects Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings MAIESTIES speciall command With sundry Orders thought meet by his Maiestie and his Priuie Councell to be carefully executed for preuention of the Plague Also certaine select Statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all Iustices and other officers of the Peace throughout the Realme Together with His Maiesties Proclamation for further direction there in and a Decree in Starre-Chamber concerning buildings and In-mates ¶ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent MAIESTIE And by the Assignes of IOHN BILL 1636. ¶ To the Iustices of Peace AS the want of Lawes occasioneth wrongs to be committed wittingly And want of knowledge of Lawes carieth men into offences ignorantly So are Laws themselues a burthen when they are too many and their very number is a cause that few are executed where Penall Lawes haue otherwise no life but in their execution And certainely that Magistrate who knowes but few and causeth those to be duely obserued deserueth better of the Commonwealth then he that knoweth many and executes but few Therefore is the Composition of this Volume that those few Laws and other ordinances being most needfull for the time may bee easily had soone knowne and duely executed Which is required by His MAIESTIE ¶ The Contents of this BOOKE AN Aduice set downe by the Colledge of Phisicians for preuention and cure of the Plague 2 Orders concerning health 3 A Proclamation for quickning the Lawes made for the reliefe of the poore and the suppressing punishing and setling of the sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds 4 An Act for the reliefe of the poore 5 An Act for the necessary reliefe of Souldiers and Mariners 6 An Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars 7 An Act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague 8 A Decree of Starre-Chamber against Inmates and neâ— Buildings At Whitehall 22. Aprill 1636. Present The Kings most Excellent Majesty L. Archbishop of Cant. Lord Keeper Lo. Duke of Lenox L. Chamberlain Earle of Dorset Earle of Salisbury Earle of Holland Lord Viso Wilmot Lord Cottington Lord Newburgh M. Treasurer M. Comptroller M. Vicechamberlaine M. Secretary Coke M. Secretary Windâ—baâ—â— IT was this day ordered that the Iustices of Peace of Middlesex and Surrey shall forthwith meet together and shall seriously consider of and set downe such rates as are fit for the raising of moneyes to build Pest-houses or to prouide other convenient habitations or places of aboade for infected People and to furnish them with all other necessaries for their reliefe and shall take order for levying and collecting the same accordingly It is likewise thought fit and ordered that the Iustices of Peace of Middlesex shal repair vnto and ioine with the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London in making additionall orders to those heretofore printed to bee forthwith printed for preventing so much as may be the increase of the infection And shall be hereby authorised from time to time hereafter to make such orders as they shall thinke fit and convenient for the purposes aforesaid Also the Church wardens and Overseers of the poore and Constables of every Parish are hereby required and enioyned to prouide themselues with bookes for their directions Lastly the Physicians of the Citie of London are to renew the former booke touching their Medicines against the Infection and to adde vnto and alter the same as they finde the present times and occasions to require and to cause the said booke to be forthwith printed TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE WHereas it hath pleased your MAIESTIE out of your Royall care of the safety and welfare of your Subiects by your speciall Command as also by Order from the Lords of your MAIESTIES most Honourable Priuie Councell to enioyne the Colledge of Physicians to renew their former book touching their medicins against the infection and to adde vnto and alter the same as they finde the present times and occasion to require Wee the President and Colledge of Physicians in all obedience to your Royal Command haue often met and maturely considered of the premisses and vpon serious reuiew of our former booke haue made such additions and alterations as wee iudged most requisite for the present occasion which we haue caused to be printed and now most humbly present vnto your most Gracious MAIESTIE An aduice set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by his MAIESTIES speciall Command containing certaine necessary Directions as well for the cure of the Plague as for preuenting the Infection with many easie Medicines and of small charge the vse wherof may be very profitable to his MAIESTIES Subiects Doctors Apothecaries and Chirurgions THe Church orders for praiers being first obserued as in former times it is thought necessary that by the gouernment of the City there be appointed sixe or fowre Doctors at least who may apply themselues to the cure of the Infected and that these Doctors bee stipendiaries to the City for their liues and that to each Doctor there be assigned two Apothecaries and three Chirurgions who are also to be stipended by the City that so due and true care may be taken in all things that the people perish not without helpe and that the Infection spread not while none take particular care to resist it as in Paris Venice and Padua and many other Cities And if any Doctor Apothecary or Chirurgion stipended by the City shall happen to die in the seruice of the attendance of the Plague then their widowes suruiuing shall haue their pensions during their liues Men or goods from forreigne infected places IT is likewise necessary that there be care taken that neither men nor goods may come from any suspected places beyond the seas or in the land without certificate of health or else either to bee sent suddainely away or to be put to the Pest-house or some such like place for forty daies according to the custome of Italy till the certainty of their soundnesse may bee discouered Two places for entertainement are to bee prouided one for the sound and another for those who are infected That all established good orders bee reuiued THat the Statutes and good Orders made and formerly published against common Beggars against all manner of Plaies Bowling-allies Inmates Tipling-houses Lestalls against the sale of corrupt flesh or fish may be reuiued and strictly executed and that the Skauengers in generall and euery particular housholder take care for the due and orderly cleansing of the streets and priuate houses which will auaile much in this case That Dogges Catts Conies and tame Pidgeons be destroyed about the Towne or to bee kept so sparingly that no offence may come by them and that no Swine be permitted to range vp and down the Streets
their time prefixed such persons shall be not onely reprehended but by order of the Bishop if they be Ecclesiasticall shall be forbidden to preach and being Lay shall be also enioyned to forbear to vtter such dangerous opinions vpon pain of imprisonment which shall be executed if they shall perseuere in that errour And yet it shall appeare manifestly by these Orders that according to Christian charity no persons of the meanest degree shall be left without succour and reliefe 17 And of these things aboue mentioned the Iustices shall take great care as of a matter specially directed and commanded by his Maiesty vpon the princely and natural care he hath conceiued towards the preseruation of his Subiects who by very disorder and for lacke of direction do in many parts wilfully procure the increase of this generall Contagion ¶ Orders conceiued and agreed to bee published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London and the Iustices of Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by direction from the Lords of His Maiesties most Honourable Privy Councell WHereas in the first yeere of the Reigne of our late Soueraigne King Iames of happy memory ouer this Realme of England an Acte was made for the charitable reliefe and Ordering of persons infected with the Plague whereby Authority is giuen to Iustices of Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers to appoint within their seuerall Limits Examiners Searchers Watchmen Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places infected and to minister unto them Oathes for the performance of their Offices And the same Statute also authoriseth the giving of other Directions as unto them for the present necessity shall seeme good in their discretions It is therefore vpon speciall consideration thought very expedient for the preuenting and auoyding of the Infection of Sicknesse if it shal please Almighty God which is now dangerously dispersed into many places within the City and Suburbes of the same that these Officers following bee appointed and these Orders hereafter prescribed bee duely obserued Examiners to be appointed in euery Parish FIrst It is thought requisite and so ordered that in euery Parish there be one two or more persons of good sort and credit chosen and appointed by the Alderman his Deputy and Common Councell of euery Ward and by the Iustices of Peace in the Counties by the name of Examiners to continue in that Office the space of two moneths at least and if any fit persons so appointed as aforesaid shall refuse to vndertake the same the said parties so refusing to bee committed to prison vntill they shall conforme themselues accordingly The Examiners Office THat these Examiners bee sworne by the Alderman or by one of the Iustices of the County to enquire and learne from time to time what houses in euery parish be visited and what persons be sicke and of what Diseases as neere as thy can enforme themselues and vpon doubt in that case to command restraint of accesse vntill it appeare what the Disease shall proue and if they finde any person sicke of the Infection to giue order to the Constable that the house be shut vp and if the Constable shal be found remisse or negligent to giue present notice thereof to the Alderman or the Iustice of Peace respectiuely Watchmen THat to euery Infected house there be appointed two watchmen one for the day and the other for the night And that these Watchmen haue a speciall care that no person goe in or out of such infected houses whereof they haue the charge vpon paine of seuere punishment And the sayd Watchmen to doe such further Offices as the sicke house shall neede and require and if the Watchman be sent vpon any busines to lock vp the house and take the Key with him and the Watchman by day to attend vntil ten of the clocke at night and the Watchman by night till sixe in the morning Chirurgions THat there bee a speciall care to appoint women Searchers in euery parish such as are of honest reputation of the best sort as can be got in this kinde And these to be sworne to make due search and true report to the vtmost of their knowledge whether the persons whose bodies they are appointed to Search doe die of the Infection or of what other diseases as neere as they can And for their better assistance herein forasmuch as there hath beene heretofore great abuse in misreporting the disease to the further spreading of the Infection It is therefore ordered that there bee chosen and appointed three able and discreet Chirurgions besides those three that doe already belong to the Pesthouse amongst whom the Citie and Liberties to be quartered as the places lie most apt and conuenient and euery of these sixe to haue one quarter for his Limit and the said Chirurgions in euery of their Limits to ioyne with the Searchers for the view of the bodie to the end there may bee a true report made of the disease And further that the said Chirurgeons shall visite and search such like persons as shall either send for them or bee named and directed vnto them by the examiners of euery Parish and informe themselues of the disease of the said parties And forasmuch as the said Chirurgions are to bee sequestred from all other Cures and kept onely to this disease of the Infection It is ordered that euery of the said Chirurgions shall haue twelue pence a body searched by them to bee paid out of the goods of the party searched if he be able or otherwise by the Parish Orders concerning infected houses and persons sicke of the Plague Notice to be giuen of the Sicknesse THe Master of euery house assoone as any one in his house complaineth either of Botch or Purple or Swelling in any part of his body or falleth otherwise dangerously sicke without apparant cause of some other disease shall giue knowledge thereof to the Examiner of health within two houres after the said signe shall appeare Sequestration of the sicke AS soon as any man shal be found by this Examiner Chirurgion or Searcher to be sick of the Plague he shall the same night be sequestred in the same house And in case he be so sequestred then though he afterwards die not the house wherein hee sickned shall be shut vp for a moneth after the vse of due Preseruatiues taken by the rest Ayring the Stuffe FOr sequestration of the goods and stuffe of the Infected their Bedding and Apparell and hangings of Chambers must be well ayred with fire and such perfumes as are requisite within the Infected house before they be taken againe to vse this to be done by the appointment of the Examiner Shutting vp of the house IF any person shall haue visited any man knowne to be Infected of the Plague or entred willingly into any knowen infected house being not allowed the house wherein he inhabiteth shall be shut vp for certaine dayes by the Examiners direction None to be remooued out of
see conuenient till such man child shall come to the age of foure and twenty yeeres and such woman childe to the age of one and twenty years or the time of her mariage The same to be as effectuall to all purposes as if such child were of full age and by Indenture of couenant bound him or herselfe And to the intent that necessary places of habitation may more conueniently be prouided for such poore impotent people Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them by the leaue of the Lord or Lords of the Mannour whereof any waste or Common within their Parish is or shall be parcell and vpon agreement before with him or them made in writing vnder the hands and seales of the said Lord and Lords or otherwise according to any order to be set downe by the Iustices of Peace of the said Countie at their generall Quarter Sessions or the greater part of them by like leaue and agreement of the said Lord or Lords in writing vnder his or their hands and seals To erect build and set vp in fit and conuenient places of habitation in such Waste or Common at the generall charges of the Parish or otherwise of the Hundred or Countie as aforesaid to be taxed rated and gathered in manner before expressed conuenient houses of dwelling for the said impotent poore and also to place Inmates or more families then one in one Cottage or house One Act made in the one thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties Reigne intituled An Act against the erecting and maintaining of Cottages or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Which Cottages and places for Inmates shal not at any time after be vsed or imployed to or for any other habitation but only for impotent and poore of the same Parish that shall be there placed from time to time by the Churchwardens and Ouerseers of the poore of the same Parish or the most part of them vpon the paines and forfeitures contained in the said former Act made in the said one and thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties reigne Prouided alwayes that if any person or persons shall finde themselues grieued with any Sesse or Taxe or other Act done by the sayd Churchwardens and other persons or by the sayd Iustices of Peace that then it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace at their generall quarter Sessions or the greater number of them to take such order therein as to them shal be thought conuenient and the same to conclude and binde all the sayd parties And be it further enacted That the Father and Grandfather and the Mother and Grandmother and the children of euery poore old blinde lame and impotent person or other poore person not able to worke being of a sufficient abilitie shall at their owne charges relieue and maintaine euery such poore person in that manner and according to that rate as by the Iustices of Peace of that County where such sufficient persons dwell or the greater number of them at their generall quarter Sessions shall bee assessed vpon paine that euery one of them shall forfeit twenty shillings for euery moneth which they shal faile therein And be it further hereby enacted That the Maiors Bailiffes or other head Officers of euery Towne and place Corporate and City within this Realme being Iustice or Iustices of Peace shall haue the same authority by vertue of this Act within the limits and precincts of their Iurisdictions aswel out of Sessions as at their Sessions if they hold any as is herein limited prescribed and appointed to Iustices of Peace of the County or any two or more of them or to the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions to doe and execute for all the vses and purposes in this Act prescribed and no other Iustice or Iustices of Peace to enter or meddle there And that euery Alderman of the Citie of London within his Ward shall and may doe and execute in euery respect so much as is appointed and allowed by this Act to be done and executed by one or two Iustices of Peace of any Countie within this Realme And be it also enacted That if it shall happen any Parish to extend it selfe into more Counties then one or part to lie within the Liberties of any City Town or place Corporate and part without that then as well the Iustices of Peace of euery Countie as also the head Officers of such City Towne or place corporate shall deale and intermeddle onely in so much of the said Parish as lieth within their liberties and not any further And euery of them respectiuely within their seuerall Limits Wards and Iurisdictions to execute the ordinances before mentioned concerning the nomination of Ouerseers the consent to binding Apprentices the giuing warrant to leuie taxations vnpayed the taking account of Churchwardens and Ouerseers and the committing to prison such as refuse to accompt or deny to pay the arrerages due vpon their accompts And yet neuerthelesse the said Church-wardens and Ouerseers or the most part of them of the said Parishes that doe extend into such seuerall Limits and Iurisdictions shall without diuiding themselues duely execute their office in all places within the said Parish in all things to them belonging and shall duely exhibite and make one accompt before the said head Officer of the Towne or place Corporate and one other before the said Iustices of Peace or any such two of them as is aforesaid And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That if in any place within this Realme there happen to bee hereafter no such nomination of Ouerseers yeerely as is before appointed that then euery Iustice of Peace of the County dwelling within the diuision where such default of nomination shall happen and euery Maior Alderman and head Officer of City Towne or place Corporate where such default shall happen shall lose and forfeit for euery such default fiue pound to be imployed towards the reliefe of the poore of the said Parish or place Corporate and to be leuied as aforesaid of their goods by warrant from the generall Sessions of the Peace of the said Countie or of the same City Towne or place Corporate if they keepe Sessions And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid that all penalties and forfeitures before mentioned in this Act to bee forfeited by any person or persons shall goe and be imployed to the vse of the poore of the same Parish and towards a stock and habitation for them and other necessary vses and reliefe as before in this Act are mentioned and expressed and shal be leuied by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or one of them by warrant frō any two such Iustices of Peace or Maior Alderman or head Officer of Citie Town or place corporate respectiuely within their seuerall limites by distresse and sale thereof as aforesaid or
in defect thereof it shall be lawfull for any two such Iustices of Peace and the said Aldermen and head Officers within their seuerall limits to commit the offendor to the said prison there to remaine without baile or maineprise till the said forfeitures shal be satisfied and payed And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the Iustices of Peace of euery County or place corporate or the more part of them in their generall Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter next and so yeerely as often as they shall thinke meet shall rate euery Parish to such a weekely summe of money as they shall thinke conuenient so as no Parish bee rated aboue the summe of sixe pence nor vnder the summe of a halfepeny weekely to be payed and so as the totall summe of such taxation of the Parishes in euery County amount not aboue the rate of two pence for euery Parish within the said County Which summes so taxed shall bee yeerely assessed by the agreement of the Parishioners within themselues or in default thereof by the Churchwardens and petie Constables of the same Parish or the more part of them or in default of their agreement by the order of such Iustice or Iustices of Peace as shall dwell in the same Parish or if none bee there dwelling in the parts next adioyning And if any person shal refuse or neglect to pay any such portion of money so taxed it shal be lawfull for the said Churchwardens and Constables or any of them or in their default for any Iustice of Peace of the said limite to leuie the same by distresse and sale of the goods of the party so refusing or neglecting rendring to the party the ouerplus and in default of such distresse it shal be lawful to any Iustice of that limit to commit such person to the said prison there to abide without baile or maine prise till he haue payed the same And be it also enacted That the said Iustices of the Peace at their generall quarter Sessions to bee holden at the time of such taxation shall set downe what competent sums of money shall be sent quarterly out of euery County or place corporate for the releife of the poore prisoners of the Kings Bench Marshalsey and also of such Hospitals and almes houses as shal be in the said County what sums of money shal be sent to euery one of the said Hospitals and almes houses so as there be sent out of euery Countie yeerely xx s. at the least to each of the said prisons of the Kings Bench and Marshalsey which summes ratably to be assessed vpon euery parish the Churchwardens of euery Parish shall truely collect pay ouer to the high Constables in whose diuision such Parish shall bee situate from time to time quarterly ten dayes before the end of euery quarter and euery such Constable at euery such quarter Sessions in such County shall pay ouer the same to such two Treasurers or to one of them as shall by the more part of the Iustices of Peace of the County be elected to be the said Treasurers to be chosen by the Iustices of Peace of the said County Citie or towne or place corporate or of others which were sessed and taxed at fiue pound lands or ten pound goods at the least at the taxe of Subsidie next before the time of the said Election to be made And the said Treasurers so elected to continue for the space of one whole yere in their office and then to giue vp their charge with a due account of their receipts and disbursements at the quarter Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter in euery yeere to such others as shall from yeere to yeere in forme aforesaid successiuely be elected Treasurers for the said County Citie Towne or place corporate which said Treasurers or one of them shall pay ouer the same to the Lord chiefe Iustice of England and Knight Marshal for the time being equally to be diuided to the vse aforesaid taking their acquittance for the same or in default of the said chiefe Iustice to the next ancientest Iustice of the Kings Bench as aforesaid And if any Churchwarden or high Constable or his executors or administrators shall faile to make payment in forme aboue specified then euery Churchwarden his executors or administrators so offending shall forfeit for euery time the summe of ten shillings and euerp high Constable his executors or administrators shall forfeit for euery time the sum of xx s. the same forfeitures together with the summes behinde to be leuied by the said Treasurer and Treasurers by way of distresse and sale of the goods as aforesaid in forme aforesaid and by them to bee imployed towards the charitable vses comprised in this Act. And bee it further enacted That all the surplusage of money which shall be remaining in the said Stocke of any County shal by discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions be ordered distributed and bestowed for the reliefe of the poore Hospitals of that County and of those that shall sustaine losses by fire water the Sea or other Casualties and to such other charitable purposes for the releife of the poore as to the more part of the said Iustices of Peace shall seeme conuenient And bee it further enacted That if any Treasurer elected shall wilfully refuse to take vpon him the sayd office of Treasurership or refuse to distribute and giue reliefe or to account according to such forme as shall be appointed by the more part of the said Iustices of peace That then it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of Peace in their Qarter Sessions or in their default for the Iustices of Assize at y e Assizes to be holden in the same Countie to fine the same Treasurer by their discretion the same fine not to be vnder three pound and to be leuied by sale of his goods and to be prosecuted by any two of the said Iustices of Peace whom they shall authorize Prouided alwaies that this Act shall not take effect vntill the Feast of Easter next And be it enacted that the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yere of her Maiesties Reigne entituled An Act for the reliefe of the poore shall continue and stand in force vntill the Feast of Easter next And that all Taxations heretofore imposed not payed nor that shal be payed before the said feast of Easter next And that all Taxes hereafter before the said Feast to be taxed by vertue of the said former Act which shal not be payed before the said Feast of Easter shall and may after the said Feast of Easter be leuied by the Ouerseers and other persons in this Act respectiuely appointed to leuy taxations by distresse by such warrant in euery respect as if they had been taxed imposed by vertue of this Act and were not paid Prouided
computation of all such summes as they leuie and also a Register of the names of euery such person vnto whom they shall haue disbursed any reliefe And shall also preserue or enter euery Certificate by warrant whereof such reliefe hath beene by them disbursed And also that the Mustermaster or Receiuer generall of the Muster Rolles shall keepe a booke wherein shall be entred the names of all such whose Certificates shall bee by him allowed with an abstract of their Certificates And that euery Treasurer returning or not accepting the Certificate brought vnto him from the said Muster-master shall write and subscribe the cause of his not accepting or not allowing thereof vnder the said Certificate or on the back thereof And be it further enacted That if any Treasurer shall wilfully refuse to distribute and giue any reliefe according to the forme of this Act That it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of peace in their quarter Sessions to Fine such Treasurers by their discretions as aforesaid The same Fine to bee leuied by distresse and sale thereof to bee prosecuted by any two of them whom they shall authorize And be it also enacted that euery Souldier or Mariner that shall be taken begging in any place within this Realme after the Feast of Easter next Or any that shall counterfeit any Certificate in this Act expressed shall for euer lose his Annuitie or pension and shall be taken deemed and adiudged as a common Rogue or Vagabond person and shall haue and sustaine the same and the like paines imprisonment and punishment as is appointed and prouided for common Rogues and Vagabond persons Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that all the surplusage of money which shall bee remaining in the Stock of any County shall by the discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions bee ordered distributed and bestowed vpon such good and charitable vses and in such forme as are limited and appointed in the Statutes made and now in force concerning reliefe of the poore and punishment of Rogues and Beggars Prouided alwayes that the Iustices of peace within any County of this Realme or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough Place or Towne corporate where is any Iustice of Peace for any such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for the execution of any Article of this Act But that it shall be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the peace Maiors Bailiffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughs Places Townes corporate where there is any Iustice of Peace to proceed to the execution of this Act within the precinct and compasse of their liberties in such manner as the Iustice of Peace in any County may doe by vertue of this Act. And that euery Iustice of Peace within euery such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for euery offence by him committed contrary to the meaning of this Statute shal be fineable as other Iustices of peace at the large in the Counties are in this Act appointed to be And that the Maior and Iustices of Peace in euery such Borough Place and Towne corporate shall haue authority by this present Act to appoint any person for the receiuing of the said money and paying the same within such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate which person so appointed shall haue authority to doe all such things and be subiect to all such penalties as high Constables by vertue of this Act should haue or be And be it enacted that all forfeitures to bee forfeited by any Treasurer Collector Constable Church-warden or other person for any cause mentioned in this Act shall be imployed to the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as are by this Act appointed to take and haue reliefe And after that reliefe satisfied then the ouerplus thereof with the ouerplus of the stock remaining in any the said Treasurers hands shall bee imployed as is before mentioned to the charitable vses expressed in the said Statutes concerning the reliefe of poore and for punishment of Rogues and Beggers except the said Iustices or the more part of them shall thinke meet to reserue and keepe the same in stock for the maintenance and reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as out of the same County may afterward bee appointed to receiue reliefe and pensions And that the reliefe appointed to bee giuen by this Act shall be giuen to Souldiers and Mariners out of the County or place where they were pressed so far forth as the Taxation limited by this Act will extend And if the whole Taxation there shall be before imployed according to the meaning of this Act or that they shall not be prest men then out of the place where they were borne or last inhabited by the space of three yeeres at his or their election Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that euery pension assigned heretofore to any Souldier or Mariner or that shall be assigned before the said Feast of Easter next notwithstanding the discontinuance of the said two former Acts shall stand in force and shall yeerely from and after the said feast of Easter next be satisfied and payed out of such Taxations and forfeitures as shall be made collected and leuied by force of this Act so long as the said pension shall remaine in force without such reuocation or diminishing as is before in this Act mentioned Which clause of reuocation or diminishing before mentioned shall extend aswell to pensions heretofore assigned as to such as at any time hereafter before or after the said feast of Easter shall bee assigned to any person or persons And bee it also enacted that all arrerages of Taxations heretofore made by vertue of the said former Statutes or any of them which shall be or remaine at the said feast of Easter next vncollected and not receiued or leuied shall and may by authority of this Act be had receiued and leuied by such persons and in such manner and forme as in euery respect Taxations made by vertue of this Act are appointed to bee collected receiued and leuied and shall be imployed to the vses expressed in this Act and no otherwise Prouided alwaies and bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid that if the said rate shall bee thought not to bee sufficient for the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as shall be to be relieued within the City of London That then it shall bee lawfull for the Maior Recorder and Aldermen of London or the more part of them to rate and taxe such reasonable taxe summe and summes of money for the said reliefe as shall be to them thought fit and conuenient So as such summe and summes of money so to be rated doe not exceed three shillings weekely out of any Parish and so as in the totall the summe shall not exceed or bee vnder twelue pence weekely out of euery Parish one with another within the said Citie and the Liberties thereof
for touching or concerning any liberty preheminence authority iurisdiction or inheritance which the said Iohn Dutton now lawfully vseth or hath or lawfully may or ought to vse 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 vsage or title whatsoeuer And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by this present Act except such as are otherwise limited and appointed by this present Act shall wholly goe and be unployed to the vse of the reparations and maintenance of the said houses of Correction and stocke and store thereof or reliefe of the poore where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the Iustices of the Peace of the same limit City Borough or Towne Corporate And that all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by conuiction of any person according to this present Act shall by warrant vnder the hands and seales of any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace of the same County City Borough or Towne Corporate belâ—ied by distresse and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender which sale shall be good in the Law against such offender And that if any of the said offences shal be confessed by the offender or that the same shall be proued by two sufficient and lawfull witnesses before such two or more Iustices of the Peace That then euery such person shall forthwith stand and be in the Law conuicted thereof And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid that any two or more Iustices of the Peace within all the said seueral Shires Cities Boroughes or Townes corporate whereof one to be of the Quorum shal haue full power by authority of this present Act to heare and determine all causes that shall grow or come in question by reason of this Act. And bee it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seale of England for the time being shall and may at all times hereafter by vertue of this present Act without further warrant make and direct Commission or Commissions vnder the great Seale of England to any person or persons giuing them or some of them thereby authority as well by the oaths of good lawfull men as of witnesses or examination of parties or by any other lawfull wayes or meanes whatsoeuer to enquire what summes of money or other things haue been or shall bee collected or gathered for or towards the erection of any houses of Correction or any Stockes or other things to set poore on work or for the maintenance thereof at any time after the seuenteenth day of Nouember in the eighteenth yeere of the Reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty and by whom the same were or shall be collected or gathered and to whose hands commen and to what vse and by whose direction the same was or shall bee employed And to call all euery such person persons and their sureties and euery of their executors or administrators to an accompt And to compell them and euery of them by attachment of their goods or bodies to appeare before them for the same and to heare determine the same and to leuie such money and things as they shal find not to haue been duly employed vpon the said houses of Correction or stockes or vpon other like vses hauing in such other like vses respect of things past by the said Commissioners to be allowed of either by distresse sale of the goods and chattels of such persons as they shall thinke fit to bee chargeable or answerable for the same or by imprisonment of their bodies at their discretion And that the said Commissioners shall haue full power and authority to execute the same Commission according to the tenor and purport thereof And that all their proceedings doings iudgements and executions by force and authority thereof shall be and remaine good and auaileable in the Law which said money so leuied by the said Commissioners shall bee deliuered and employed for the erecting or maintenance of the same Prouided alwayes neuerthelesse That euery Sea-faring man suffering shipwracke not hauing wherewith to relieue himselfe in his trauailes home wards but hauing a Testimoniall vnder the hand of some one Iustice of the Peace of or neere the place where he landed setting downe therein the place and time where and when he landed and the place of the parties dwelling or birth vnto which he is to passe and a conuenient time therein to be limited for his passage shall and may without incurring the danger and penalty of this Act in the vsuall wayes directly to the place vnto which he is directed to passe and within the time in such his testimoniall limited for his passage aske and receiue such reliefe as shall be necessary in and for his passage Prouided also that this Statute nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any children vnder the age of seuen yeares nor to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and doe trauaile in or through any Country without begging hauing licence for their trauailing vnder the hands and seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same County where they trauaile whereof one to be of the Quorum And bee it also further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that this present Act shall bee proclaimed in the next quarter Session or Sessions in euery County and in such other market Townes or places as by the more part of the Iustices of the Peace in the said Sessions shal be agreed and appointed This Act to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament ¶ Certaine branches of the Statute made in the first yeere of the Reigne of King IAMES concerning Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars FOrasmuch as sithence the making of the Act of 39. Eliz. diuers doubts and questions haue been mooued and growen by diuersitie of opinions taken in and vpon the letter of the said Act For a plaine declaration whereof Be it declared and enacted That from henceforth no Authoritie to bee giuen or made by any Baron of this Realme or any other honourable Personage of greater degree vnto any other person or persons shall be auaileable to free and discharge the said persons or any of them from the paines and punishments in the said Statute mentioned but that they shall be taken within the offence and punishment of the same Statute And whereas in the said Statute there is a Prouiso conteined that the said Statute nor any thing therein conteined shall extend to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and shall trauell in or thorow any Countie without begging hauing Licence for their trauelling vnder the hands and Seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same County
where they trauell whereof one to bee of the Quorum as by the Statute more at large appeareth By reason of which libertie many notorious Rogues and Vagabonds and euill disposed persons haue vndertaken and doe professe the trade of Glassemen and by colour thereof doe trauell vp and downe diuers Counties of this Realme and doe commit many Pickeries petty Felonies and other misdemeanours For the auoding of which inconuenience Bee it established and enacted by the Authoritie of this present Parliament That from and after two moneths next after the end of this present Session of Parliament all such person and persons as shall wander vp and downe the Countrey to sell Glasses shall be adiudged deemed and taken as Rogues and Vagabonds and shall suffer the like paine and punishment in euery degree as is appointed to bee inflicted vpon Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by the intent and true meaning of the said Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of the said late Queene Elizabeth and shall be set down limitted and appointed by this present Act Any thing in the said Statute of the nine and thirtieth yeere of her said Reigne to the contrary therof in any wise notwithstanding And forasmuch as one branch of the Statute of 39. Eliz. is taken to bee some what defectiue for that the said Rogues hauing no Marke vpon them to bee knowne by notwithstanding such iudgement of Banishment may returne or retire themselues into some other parts of this Realme where they are not known and so escape the due punishment which the said Statute did intend to inflict vpon them For remedy whereof Be it ordained and enacted That such Rogues as shall after the end of two moneths next after the end of this Session of Parliament be adiudged as aforesaid incorrigible or dangerous shall also by the iudgement of the same Iustices or the more part of them then present in their open Sessions of the Peace bee branded in the left shoulder with an hot burning Iron of the breadth of an English shilling with a great Romane R vpon the Iron and the branding vpon the shoulder to bee throughly burned and set on vpon the skinne and flesh that the Letter R bee seene and remaine for a perpetuall Marke vpon such Rogue during his or her life and therevpon bee sent by the same Iustices to the place of his dwelling if he haue any if not then to the place where hee last dwelt by the space of a yeere if that can be knowne by his confession or otherwise And if that cannot bee knowne then to the place of his birth there to bee placed in labour as a true Subiect ought to doe And after such punishment of any such Rogue as aforesaid if any Rogue so punished shall offend againe in begging or wandring contrary to the said Statute or this present Act That then in euery such case the party so offending shall bee iudged a Felon and shall suffer as in Cases of Felony without benefit of Clergie the same Felony to be tried in the County where any such offender shall bee taken Anno primo Iacobi Regis ¶ An Act for the charitable reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague FOrasmuch as the Inhabitants of diuers Cities Boroughs Townes corporate and of other Parishes and places being visited with the Plague are found to bee vnable to relieue the poorer sort of such people so infected who of necessity must be by some charitable course prouided for lest they should wander abroad and thereby infect others And forasmuch as diuers persons infected with that disease and others inhabiting in places infected aswell poore people and vnable to relieue themselues that are carefully prouided for as other which of themselues are of abilitie being commanded by the Magistrate or officer of or within the place where the Infection shall be to keepe their houses or otherwise to separate themselues from company for the auoiding of further Infection do notwithstanding very dangerously and disorderly demeane themselues Bee it therefore enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament That the Maior Bailiffes head Officers and Iustices of the Peace of euery City Borough Town corporate and places Priuiledged where any Maior and Bailiffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace are or shall bee or any two of them shall haue power and authority from time to time to taxe and assesse all and euery Inhabitant and all Houses of habitation Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Citie Borough Towne corporate and places Priuiledged or the liberties or precincts thereof at such reasonable taxes and paiments as they shall thinke fit for the reasonable reliefe of such persons infected or inhabiting in houses and places infected in the same Cities Boroughs and Townes corporate and places priuiledged and from time to time leuie the same Taxes of the goods of euery person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Taxes by Warrant vnder the Hand and Seale of the Maior and Bailiffes and head Officers aforesaid or two such Iustices of Peace to bee directed to any person or persons for the execution thereof And if the party to whom such Warrant is or shall be directed shall not find any Goods to leuy the same and the party taxed shall refuse to pay the same Taxe That then vpon returne thereof the said Maior Bailiffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace or any two of them shall by like Warrant vnder their hands and Seales cause the same person so taxed to bee arrested and committed to the Gaole without Bayle or Maineprise vntill he shall satisfie the same taxation and the Arrerages thereof And if the Inhabitants of any such Citie Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged shall finde themselues vnable to relieue their said poore infected persons and others as aforesaid That then vpon Certificate thereof by the Maior Bayliffe head Officers and other the said Iustices of Peace or any two of them to the Iustices of Peace of the Countie of or neere to the sayd Citie Borough Towne corporate or priuiledged place so infected or any two of them to be made the said Iustices of or neer the said County or any two of them shall or may taxe and assesse the Inhabitants of the Countie within fiue miles of the sayd place Infected at such reasonable and weekely Taxes and Rates as they shall thinke fit to be leuied by warrant from any such two Iustices of Peace of or neere the Countie by sale of Goods and in default thereof by imprisonment of the body of the party taxed as aforesayd And if any such Infection shall bee in any Borough Towne corporate or piuiledged place where there are or shall be no Iustices of peace or in any Village or Hamlet within any County That then it shall and may bee lawfull for any two Iustices of peace of the said County wherein the said place infected is or shall be to taxe and assesse the inhabitants of
the said Countie within fiue miles of the sayd place infected at such reasonable weekely taxes and rates as they shall thinke fit for the reasonable reliefe of the said places infected to bee leuied by warrant from the said Iustices of Peace of the same County by sale of goods and in default therof by imprisonment of the body of euery partie so taxed as aforesaid The same taxes made by the said Iustices of Peace of the County for the reliefe of such Cities Boroughs townes corporate places priuiledged where there are no Iustices of Peace to be disposed as they shall think fit And where there are Iustices of Peace Then in such sort as to the Maior Bailifs head officers Iustices of Peace there or any two of them shall seeme fit conuenient All which taxes and rates made within any such Citie Borough town corporate or place priuiledged shal be certified at the next quarter Sessions to be holden within the same Citie Borough Towne corporate or place priuiledged And the said Taxes and Rates made within any part of the said County shall in like sort be certified at the next quarter Sessions to bee holden in and for the said Countie and that if the Iustices of Peace at such quarter Sessions respectiuely or the more part of them shall thinke it fit the said tax and rate should continue or be inlarged or extended to any other parts of the Countie or otherwise determined then the fame to be so enlarged extended or determined increased or taxed and leuied in manner and forme aforesaid as to the said Iustices at the Quarter Sessions respectiuely shall be thought fit and conuenient And euery Constable and other Officer that shall wilfully make default in leuying such money as they shall be commanded by the said Warrant or Warrants shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings to be employed on the charitable vses aforesaid And be it further enacted That if any person or persons infected or being dwelling in any house Infected shall bee by the Maior Bayliffes Constable or other head Officer of any Citie Borough Towne Corporate Priuiledged place or Market Towne or by any Iustice of Peace Constable Headborough or other Officer of the Countie if any such Infection be out of any Citie Borough Towne Corporate Priuiledged place or Market Towne commanded or appointed as aforesaid to keepe his or their house for auoiding of further Infection and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment offering and attempting to breake and goe abroad and to resist or going abroad and resisting such Keepers or Watchmen as shall be appointed as aforesaid to see them kept in That then it shal be lawful for such Watchmen with violence to inforce them to keepe their houses And if any hurt come by such enforcement to such disobedient persons That then the said Keepers Watchmen and any other their assist assistants shall not bee impeached therefore And if any infected persons as aforesaid so commanded to keepe house shall contrary to such Commandement wilfully and contemptuously go abroad and shall conuerse in company hauing any infectious Sore vpon him vncured That then such person and persons shall be taken deemed and adiudged as a Felon and to suffer paines of death as in case of Felonie But if such person shall not haue any such sore found about him Then for his said offence to be punished as a Vagabond in all respects should or ought to be by the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our late Souereigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds And further to be bound to his or their good behauiour for one whole yeere Prouided That no attainder of Felony by vertue of this Acte shall extend to any attainder or corruption of blood or forfeiture of any Goods Chattels Lands Tenements or Hereditaments And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesayd That it shall be lawfull for Iustices of Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers aforesayd to appoint within the seuerall Limits Searchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places respectiuely infected as aforesayd and to 〈…〉 vnto them Oathes for the performance of their Offices of Searchers Examiners Watchmen Keepers and Buriers and giue them other directions as vnto them for the present necessitie shall seeme good in their discretions And this Acte to continue no longer then vntill the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament that no Maior Bayliffes head Officers or any Iustices of Peace shall by force or pretext of any thing in this Acte contained doe or execute any thing before mentioned within either the Vniuersities of Cambridge or Oxford or within any Cathedrall Church or the Liberties or Precincts thereof in this Realme of England or within the Colledges of Eaton or Winchester But that the Vicechancellor of either of the Vniuersities for the time being within either of the same respectiuely and the Bishop and Deane of such Cathedrall Church or one of them within such Cathedrall Church and the Prouost or Warden of either of the said Colledges within the same shall haue all such power and authority and shall doe and execute all and euery such Act and Acts thing and things in this Act before mentioned within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions abouesaid as wholly absolutely and fully to all intents and purposes as any Maior Bayliffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions may elsewhere by force of this Act doe and execute In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem vicesimo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae ELIZABETHAE quadragesimo c. Praesentibus Thoma Egerton mil. Dn̄o Cultod Magni Sigilli Angliae Dn̄o North. Dn̄o Buckhurst Iohanne Fortescue milite Cancellar Scaccarij Archiepiscopo Cantuariens Popham milite Capitali Iustic de Banco Regis Anderson milite Capitali Iustic de Communi Banco THIS day Rice Griffin and Iohn Scrips were brought to the Barre against whome Edward Coke Esquire Her Maiesties Attourney Generall did enforme That the said Griffin had vnlawfully erected and built one Tenement in Hog-lane in the Countie of Middlesex which he diuided into two seuerall roomes wherein were now inhabiting two poore Tenants that onely liued and were maintained by the reliefe of the Parishioners there and begging abroad in other places And that the said Iohn Scrips had in like sort diuided a Tenement in Shordich into or about seuenteene Tenancies or dwellings and the same inhabited by diuers persons of very poore and base condition contrary to the intent and meaning of her Highnesse Proclamation published and set out the seuenth day of Iuly 1580. in the two and twentieth yeere of Her Highnesse Reigne whereby the same and such manner of buildings and diuisions are altogether forbidden and prohibited as by her Maiesties said
Proclamation more at large appeareth Moreouer her highnesse said Attourney further informed this Honourable Court that sithence the said Proclamation sundry Decrees haue beene made and 〈…〉 this Court aswell for the prostrating pulling downe and defacing of diuers new buildings as also for reformation of diuisions of Tenements All which notwithstanding sundry wilful and disobedient persons continue in their contemptuous maner of buildings and diuisions by meanes whereof the citie of London and Suburbs thereof are ouercharged and burdened with sundry sorts of poore beggerly and euill disposed persons to the great hinderance and oppression of the same So as the Magistrates and Officers in and about the citie to whom the execution of the aforesaid Decrees and Orders chiefly appertaineth cannot performe and doe the same according to the purport and tenour thereof And in regard thereof Her Highnes said Attourney humbly prayed that the said Griffin and Scrips might receiue and haue inflicted on them some condigne and fit punishment and that at the humble petition of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the Citie of London and other the Iustices of Peace of the Countie of Middlesex and Surrey the Court would be pleased to set downe and Decree some last and generall Order in this and in all other like Cases of new buildings and diuisions of Tenements Whereupon the Court grauely considering the great growing euils and inconueniences that continually breed and happen by these new erected Buildings and diuisions made and diuided contrary to Her Maiesties said Proclamation and well weighing the reasons of the said Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said city and Iustices of the Counties aforesaid in that behalfe greatly tendring the ouerburdened and distressed estate of the inhabitants that dwell in sundry the Parishes where the said new buildings and diuided Tenements are being for the most part but of small abilitie to beare and sustaine the great charge which is to grow there by meanes of the poore placed in sundry of the new erected and diuided Tenements Haue therefore by the whole and generall consent of all the honourable presence here sitting hearing the accusations aforesaid and the answeres defences and allegations of the said Griffin and Scrips ordered and decreed that the said Griffin and Scrips shall be committed to the prison of the Fleet and pay twentie pounds a piece for a Fine to Her Maiestie And as for the pulling downe or reforming of any house new built or diuided sithence and contrarie to the said Proclamation within the Citie of London or the compasse of three miles thereof in which any poore or Impotent persons now doe or hereafter shall dwell or abide for that if the same houses should be pulled downe destroyed or reformed other Habitations must bee prouided for them at the charge of the Parishes where they be or shall be dwelling The Court doeth as yet think fit to forbeare and respit the doing thereof and haue ordered and adiudged that all and euery such poore and impotent persons which dwell or shall dwell 〈…〉 in any new buildings or diuided tenements erected diuided contrary to the effect and intent of her Highnesse said proclamation and are or shall in any wise be driuen to liue by begging or to be relieued 〈…〉 within the City of London or any other place within the compasse of three miles thereof shall and may during the time of his or their life or liues abide and dwell in the same without giuing or paying any maner of Rent seruice or other recompence vnto the Landlords or any other for and in respect of the same and not be thence 〈…〉 they shall after become able to liue of themselues And that the said Landlord owner or any other that 〈…〉 to or for any Rent or Rents growing arâ—â—ng or payable for any of the said new Buildings or diuided Tenements to inhabited or to bee inhabited with poore people as aforesaid shall 〈…〉 enioyned and vpon this 〈…〉 and Decree take sufficient notice and warning that hee or they doe not 〈…〉 encumber disquiet or moldst any of the said poore Tenants for any Rents Covenants Conditions promises or agreements touching or in any wise concerning the said Tenements new buildings or any of them for the leuying or recouering of any Rent seruice or other consideration in lieu of any Rent And for that the new buildings and diuisions of sundry houses within the Citie of London and three miles compasse thereof contrary to the tenor of the said Proclamation hath beene and is the occasion of great charges vnto the Parishes of the said City and Precinct aforesaid whereby the said Parishes are still ouermuch burdened with poore and impotent persons It is therefore Ordered and Decreed That all such Landlords or owners of such Buildings or Diuisions whersoeuer they should dwell shall contribute and giue such like ratable and reasonable allowance with the said Prishioners where such Buildings and diuisions are towards the finding and maintaining of the poore of the Parish in which such Buildings are is or shall bee erected or diuided contrary to the said Proclamation as should bee apportioned and allotted him or them to pay if he or they were dwelling in the said Parish And it is further Ordered and Decreed by this honourable Court that after the death or departure of such poore people as doe or shall inhabite the same houses or diuided Tenements aforesaid the houses thereby being become void Then the Lord Maior and Iustices of Peace neere vnto the City adioyning hereby are commanded to reforme the said diuided Tenements and to prostrate pull downe and deface the said new buildings in such sort as the same be no more left fit for habitation and the timber and wood therof to be conuerted and disposed in such manner as by the said Proclamation is required As also to take order in all other the premisses That this Decree be duely obserued and kept And if any shall be obstinate then to binde such Landlords as that shall obstinately and wilfully disobey this sayd Decree to appeare in this Honourable Court of Starre-chamber to answere their contempt therein This Decree was afterward read in the Court of Starre-Chamber the 29. of Nouember 1609. and then confirmed and straitly commanded by all the Lords present to be duely put in execution In Camera Stellata coram Concilio ibidem vicessimo nono die Nouembris Anno septimo Iacobi Regis Praesentibus Thoma Egerton milite DnÌ„o Ellesmere DnÌ„o Canc. Ang. Comite Sarum DnÌ„o Thesaurario Ang. Comite Northampton Comite Exon. DnÌ„o Zouch Iul. Caesare milite Cancellar Scaccarij Archiepiscopo Cant. Fleming milite Capitali Iustic de Banco Regis Coke milite Capitali Iust de com Banc. Yeluerton milit Iustic de banc Reg. Williams milit Iustic de banc Reg. Foster milite Iustic de communi Banc. THis day Sir Henry Montague Knight Recorder of London enformed this most honorable Court that where there haue been diuers Proclamations as well