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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82503	An additionall ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: concerning dayes of recreation, allowed unto schollers, apprentices and other servants. Die Lunæ 28 Junii. 1647. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1647 (1647)	Wing E1176; Thomason E394_7; ESTC R201622	2,611	12

An Additionall ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Concerning dayes of Recreation allowed unto Schollers Apprentices and other Servants Die Lunae 28 Junii 1647. ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum London printed for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley 1647. Die Lunae 28 Junii 1647. An additionall Ordinance concerning daies of Recreation allowed unto Schollers Appentices and other Servants WHereas by an Ordinance of Parliament bearing date the eleventh day of this instant June 1647. It is provided and Ordained That every second Tuesday in every Moneth throughout the yeare shall be allotted to Schollers Apprentices and other Servants for recreation and relaxation from their constant and ordinary labours as formerly they have used to have on Festivals commonly called Holy-dayes as by the said Ordinance more at large appeareth and least such daies of Recreation might be abused to the dishonour of God scandall to Religion and detriment both of Masters and Servants and for the more orderly proceeding in the strict observation of the said day of Recreation according to the true intent and meaning of the said Ordinance It is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That all windowes of Shops Warehouses and other places where Wares or Commodities are usually sold shall be kept shut on the said day of Recreation from eight of the clock in the morning untill eight of the clock at evening on the said day And that no Master shall wilfully detaine or with-hold his Apprentice or other Servant within doores or from his Recreation in his usuall duty or service on the said day of Recreation unlesse Market daies Faire daies or other extraordinary occasion yet so as such Master shall allow unto such Apprentice or other Servant one other day instead of such day imployed in the Service of his Master upon such occasion as aforesaid And be it likewise provided and Ordained That if such Apprentice or other Servant shall ryotously spend or abuse such day of Recreation either to his owne hurt or the dammage of his Master and being thereof lawfully convicted and found guilty before any one Justice of the Peace It shall and may be lawfull for such Master at his pleasure to detaine and with-hold such Apprentice or other Servant from their Recreation on such allowed daies And be it also provided and Ordained That if such Apprentice or other Servant shall cause any ryotous or tumultuous assembly to the disturbance of the Peace on such day of Recreation such Apprentice or other Servant being thereof lawfully convicted and found guilty upon the testimony of two Witnesses upon Oath before one Justice of the Peace in any County City or Towne Corporate where such Offence shall be committed or before the Chamberlaine of the City of London for the time being within the said City who shall have power to administer such Oath such Justices of Peace and the said Chamberlaine of the City of London respectively shall and may at their discretion inflict on such Apprentice or other Servant so convicted as aforesaid any Corporall punishment by imprisonment or otherwise so as the same imprisonment exceed not the space of three dayes And it is lastly Ordained That all Mayors Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables Headboroughs and all other Officers and Ministers are hereby Authorized to make or cause to be made diligent Searches for such Apprentices or other Servants in Tavernes Ale-houses or Gaming-houses and such Apprentices or other Servants as shall be found in any such place after eight of the Clock in the Evening or being drunke or otherwise disorderly or shall there remaine after eight of the Clocke in the Evening on such day of Recreation shall bring or cause to be brought such Apprentice or other Servant before any Justice of the Peace in any County City or Towne Corporate or before the said Chamberlaine of London within their respective Limits as aforesaid who shall cause the Statutes to be executed upon them that are in such case provided for the punishment of such Offenders Joh. Brown Cler. Parliam FINIS The Apprentices Petition and Propositions presented unto the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament Assembled June 22. 1647. To the Right Honourable the Commons Assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the well-affected Apprentices of the City of London c. Right Honourable VPon a due neglect and slight regard of certaine Festivalls and Holy-dayes formerly authorized and observed which was effected through their superstitious use we were emboldened being hereby deprived of all times of lawfull pleasure and recreation to Petition your Honours for an establishment and confirmation of some other set times for the supplying our ordinary pleasure which indeed though Your Honours were pleased in some measure to satisfie us in this our request yet your Petitioners finde and humbly conceive that so full satisfaction is not contained in that late published Ordinance from this House as is by the generall expected neither is an observance of the day so firmly authorized as if Your Honours pleases may be vouchsafed We are bold therefore to renew our desires and humbly present unto your Honours consideration these following Propositions or Heads which we desire may be specified and included in a renewed Ordinance from your Honours Which shall oblige us uncessently to pray c. The Heads or Propositions presented to the Honourable House of COMMONS c. 1. THat every second Tuesday monethly be strictly observed with Shop-shutting and that no Master detaine his Servant on such day or dayes in his usuall imployment unlesse extraordinary occasion happen which if it shall so be that then the servant be allowed some other day in stead thereof 2 That no Apprentice or Servant disobay his Master herein when extraordinary occasion shall require his service on such dayes 3. That whatsoever Apprentice shall be found to abuse such day or dayes to his owne hurt or damage of his Master that then he be deprived of the benefit of the next day 4 That none exceed the usuall houres of eight in the morning to eight at night 5. That whatsoever Apprentice be found the cause of any tumultuous assembly to the disturbance of the peace or through his distemper shall cause any disorderly rout or seditious company that upon examination before the next Justice if found notorious Offenders Justice be duly executed upon them 6 That all Constables and Officers c. be authorized to search all Tavernes Ale-houses and seize upon such Apprentices or Servants as shall be found at unseasonable houres either Gaming Carding Dice or any other lawfull Games whereby any disturbance may happen or fallings out to the great disquiet of the City and such places c. These and such like heads we leave to your honours prudence and judgement to be comprised in the renewed Ordinance which we doubt not but will greatly prevent distractions which otherwise may arise Die Jovis 24 Junii 1647. AN Ordinance concerning daies of Recreation for Schollers and Apprentices was this day read the first and second time and upon the question committed unto Sir Walter Erle Mr. Beddingfield Mr. Wheeler Mr. Edward Ashe Mr. Knightley Mr. Gell. Mr. Nelthorp Mr. Love Colonell Ven. Mr. Trenchard Sir Robert Pye Mr. Scewen Mr. Jesson Mr. Vaughan Mr. Dennis Bond. Sir John Curson Mr. Vassall Col. Mountague Sir Henry Mildmay Mr. Francis Allen. Mr. Lawrence Whittacre Mr. Lemman Mr. Reyonlds Mr. Serjant Wilde Or unto any five of them who are to meet upon it to morrow in the afternoone at two of the clock in the Queenes Court. And the care hereof is more especially referred unto Master Wheeler FINIS Imprinted at London for John Wright at the Kings Head in the Old-Bayley 1647.