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A45964 An act declaring which days in the year shall be observed as holy-days; Public General Acts. 1695. 7 Wil.III.c.14. Ireland. 1695 (1695) Wing I299; ESTC R216029 1,903 7

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AN ACT Declaring which Days in the Year shall be Observed as Holy-Days DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty on Ormonde-Key 1695. An Act Declaring which Days in the Year shall be Observed as Holy-Days CHAP. XIV WHEREAS many Idle Persons refuse to Work at their Lawful Calling and Labour on several Days in the Year on pretence that the same is Dedicated to some Saint or pretended Saint Patron or pretended Patron for whom they have or pretend to have Reverence or Respect And chuse rather to spend such Days in Idleness Drunkenness and Vice to the Scandal of Religion rather then following and Working in their Lawful Calling and Vsual Imployment which hath beén found by Experience to tend very much to the Impoverishing and hindring the Improvement of this Kingdom For Remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any Common Labourer being Hired or other Servant retained shall Refuse to Work upon any other Day then the several Days hereafter mentioned being thereunto Required upon the Vsual and Accustomed Wages That is to say All Sundays in the Year The Day of the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord JESUS Christ Of the Epiphany Of the Conversion of Saint Paul Of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Of Saint Mathias the Apostle Of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Of Saint Mark the Evangelist Of Saint Phillip and Jacob the Apostles Of Saint Barnabas the Apostle Of the Ascension of Our Lord JESUS Christ Of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist Of Saint Peter the Apostle Of Saint James the Apostle Of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle Of Saint Mathew the Apostle Of Saint Michael the Arch-Angell Of Saint Luke the Evangelist Of Saint Simon and Saint Jude the Apostles Of All-Saints Of Saint Andrew the Apostle Of Saint Thomas the Apostle Of the Nativity of Our Lord. Of Saint Stephen the Martyr Of Saint John the Evangelist Of the Holy-Innocents Munday and Tuesday in Easter Weék Munday and Tuesday in Whitson Weék The Twenty Third of October Fifth of November The Thirtieth Day of January and Twenty Nineth Day of May Yearly And that no other Day Except the Days aforesaid and such other Days as on some Extraordinary Occasions shall hereafter be set a-part by Order of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or the Chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the tune being shall be kept or Commanded to be kept Holy or to Abstain from Lawful Bodily Labour Every such Person or Persons so Refusing being thereof Lawfully Convicted by his or their own Confession or by the Testimony of one or more sufficient Witness or Witnesses upon Oath before any Iustice of the Peace in any County Mayor or other Chief Officer of any City Burrough Town or Corporation who shall have power by Vertue of this Statute to minister such Oaths where the Offence shall be Committed or the Party Offending Apprehended shall Forfeit the Sum of Two Shillings to be paid at such time or to such Person as by the said Iustice of the Peace or other Chief Officer aforesaid shall be appointed to be Disposed of to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be Committed And if such Offender or Offenders shall Neglect or Refuse to pay the said Sums to be Assessed or Appointed as aforesaid then the said Iustice of the Peace or other Head-Officer aforesaid shall Commit all and every such Offender and Offenders to some Constable or other Inferior Officer of the County City Town or Corporation where the said Offence shall be Committed or the Party Apprehended to be Publickly Whipped which Punishment shall be Publickly Inflicted and Executed upon such Offenders within the space of Twenty Four Hours after such Order made And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Constable or Inferior Officer aforesaid Do Refuse or Do not at the Commandment of any Iustice of the Peace or other Chief Officer of any County City Town or Corporation Execute by himself or by some other to be by him procured the Punishment aforesaid upon all such Offenders That in that Case it shall and may be Lawful for the said Iustice of the Peace and all and Every other Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or Chief Officer of any such County City Town or Corporation upon sufficient Information thereof to bind over such Constable or Inferior Town-Officer to the next General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace or General Assizes or Goal-Delivery which shall first happen there to be proceéded against for such his Contempt And in Case he shall be found Guilty thereof upon Examination of One or more Witness or Witnesses he shall be Fined at the Discretion of the Court so as such Fine for Every such Offence Do not Exceéd the Sum of Twenty Shillings Provided always That no Iustice of the Peace or Head-Officer of any Town or Corporation Do Execute this Statute for any Offence Done unto himself or whereof Complaint was not made within Ten Days after such Refusal to Work as aforesaid And all Iustices of Assize and Goal-Delivery are hereby Required to give this Act in Charge at Every Assize or Goal-Delivery within the several Counties of their Circuits and to Enquire of Hear and Determine the Neglect of all Iustices of the Peace and others in the Due Execution of this Statute FINIS