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A74593	Several orders made and agreed upon by the Iustices for the Peace of the city and liberty of Westminster, vpon Monday the 10. day of March, 1655. Concerning the future licensing of all inn-keepers, victualers, & alehouse-keepers, within the said city and liberty. Putting in execution the laws and ordinances and statutes concerning the punishment and conveyance of rogues, sturdy beggers, and vagrants, to the place of their birth : with a declaration of such persons as are accounted rogues by the several statutes; and the penalties of several persons, both officers and private persons neglecting their duty concerning them. Setting forth what will be for the time to come expected from the church-wardens, overseers of the poor, constables and others, inhabitants within the said city and liberty.	Westminster (London, England). Justices of the Peace.	1656 (1656)	Wing S2786A; Thomason E1065_6; ESTC R210600	5,959	11

appear at the next Sessions of the publike Peace to be holden for this City Liberty that such Officer so refusing may be proceeded against according to Law for his said contempt And it is also Ordered that this Order be forthwith Printed and sent to the Justice of the Peace of each severall division by the Clerk of the Peace of the said City and Liberty and the said Justices are desired to call together the Church-wardens and Constables of the severall Parishes within their respective divisions and to acquaint them with this Order and to give the same in charge unto them for their observance thereof accordingly and to the end all Officers Ministers and others who are herein concerned may the better understand their duty and know the penalty that they incurr for their negligence therein It is thought fit that the said Justices of the Peace within their said divisions shall disperse abroad among the Constables a Paper signifying what persons are by the Law and Statutes adjudged Rogues with the penalty imposed upon each of the said Officers for his neglect in the performance of his duty that they may not pretend ignorance when they come to be punished for the same The persons hereunder named being above the age of seaven yeares are adjudged Rogues by the Lawes and Statutes of this Nation All persons calling themselves Schollers going about begging all Seafaring men pretending losses of their Ships and Goods on the Sea going about the Countrey begging having no testimony under the hand of a Justice of Peace or the times limited by the same for his journey expired All idle persons going about in any Countrey either begging or using any subtile craft or unlawfull Games and Plaies or faining themselves to have knowledge in Physiognomy Palmistrey or other like crafty science or pretending that they can tell destinies fortunes or such other like fantasticall imaginations All persons that be or utter themselves to be Proctors Procurers Pate●t-gatherers or Collectors for Goales Prisons or Hospitals all Fencers Bearwards common Players of Interludes and Minstrels wandring abroad all Juglers Tinkers Pedlars and petty Chapmen wandring abroad all wandring persons and common Labourers being persons able in body using loytering and refusing to worke for such reasonable wages as is taxed or commonly given in such parts where such persons do or shall happen to dwell or abide not having living otherwise to maintaine themselves All persons delivered out of Goales that beg for their Fees or otherwise do travell begging all such persons as shall wander abroad begging pretending lesses ●y sire or otherwise all such persons not being Fello●● w●●ndring and pretending themselves to be Egyptians or wandring in the habit fortue atire of counterfeit Egyptians All such persons as shall wander up and downe the Country to sell Glasses are adjudged deemed and taken as Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy beggers The penalties by Law to bee imposed upon such persons as shall neglect their duty in passing of Rogues I. That the Minister of the place shall Register the testimoniall signifying the day and place of his punishment in a booke kept for that purpose upon paine of five shillings II. That if a Constable Tithingman or Headborough bee negligent in the Execution of his duty herein hee shall forfeit for every default twenty shillings III. That if any person doe in any wise disturbe or let the execution of the Law herein or making rescusse against any Officer or person in the execution of the Statute made 39. Eliz. Cap. 4. He shall forfeit for every offence five pound and be bound to his good behaviour IV. That every person or persons that seeth or knoweth any Rogue to resort to his or their Houses to beg gather or receive any Almes shall convey him or cause him to bee conveyed to the next Consta● Tythingman upon paine of ten shillings V. That the Constables or Headboroughs having Warrants directed to them for privy searchers for Rogues and neglect to give an account in writing under their hands to the Justices of the Peace at the next meeting such Rogues as they have passed and conveyed since the last meeting of the said justices shall incur what fine the said Justices shall please to set upon them not exceeding forty shillings VI. That all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by the Act of 39. Eliz. Cap. 4 except such as bee otherwise limited by the said Act shall wholly go and be imployed for the use of the reparations and maintenance of the House of Corection stock and store thereof or reliefe of the poor where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the Justices of the Peace of t●e same City and Liberty and that all fines and forfeitu●es appointed to grow by conviction of any person shall by Warrant under t●e ha●ds and Seas of any two or more Justices of the Peace c. be Levied by distresse and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender w●ich shal be good in Law against such Offender and that if any of the said Offences sha●l be confessed by the Offender and that the same shall bee proved by two s●ffici●nt ●awfull Witnesses before such two or more Justices of the Peace that then every such person shall forthwith stand and be in Law convicted thereof City Borough and Town of Westminster in the County of Middl. At a meeting at the Half-moon in the Strand on Friday the 29 day of March 1649. Before Sir John Thorowgood Knight Thomas Lathum John Hooker Edw. Birkhead Tho. Fauconberge George Manley and Edward Carter Esquires Justices assigned to keep the publick Peace within the Liberty of the late Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Peters Westminster of the City Borough and Town of Westminster in the County of Middl. And also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdoings committed within the said City and Liberty These Articles were agreed upon as followeth viz. I. THat the said Justices in their several Divisions do consider and report in writing to the next Sessions what number of Alehouses are needful and sufficient in each Parish for accommodation of Labourers and Travellers II. That all Cellars Blind or Ally and Backward-Alehouses be forthwith suppressed and no more in such places licensed III. That all disorderly Alehouses be from time to time suppress'd and as the Alehouse-keepers shall dye and remove their habitations no new Licenses be granted to their Successors in their Houses unless such Houses be fitted and seated in very convenient places until such time as the supernumerary Alehouses be reduced to the numbers to be reported needful for each Parish as aforesaid IV. That the Justices here present do agree That they will not License any Alehouse but in their respective Divisions unless the License be taken and subscribed by one Justice of Peace of that Division and those not to exceed the number to be reported as aforesaid V. That if any new Licenses be granted the Clerk of the Peace do the first day of the next Quarter-Sessions acquaint the Court with such Licenses and by whom granted And the Clerk of the Peace do likewise send to each Justice of the Peace a Catalogue of the names of all Licensed Alehouse-keepers in the Division where such Justice inhabiteth And also from time to time to send the names of all suppressed Alehouse-keepers VI. That no person that hath adhered to or voluntarily assisted the Enemy against the Parliament shal either be continued a Victualler or hereafter licensed VII If any person that is well-affected to the Parliament shall henceforth desire to be licensed that he be licensed in stead of any person that he shall discover to be a Delinquent or to have assisted or contributed to the Enemy the former Rules subscribed by the Justices being observed At another meeting in the Vestry of Margarets Church in Westm on Monday the 10. day of March 1655. Before Sir John Barkstead Knight Lieutenant of his Highness Tower of London Sir John Thorowgood Knight Edward Bulstrode William Wheeler Edw. Grosvenor Francis Blake Francis White and Ralph Hall Esquires his Highness Justices assigned to keep the publick Peace within the Liberty of the late Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Peters Westminster of the City Borrough and Town of Westminster in the County of Middl. And also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdoings committed within the said City and Liberty These Articles aforesaid were agreed upon confirmed and assented unto and also the Articles following were ordered from henceforth to be observed THat all and every licensed Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler that shall permit or suffer any Traveller Waggoner Butcher Higler Drover or any of their Servants to come into his her or their house after twelve of the clock on any Saturday-night or shall suffer any person to travel from his her or their house until after one of the clock on Monday Morning without good and urgent cause to be allowed by some Justice of the Peace or shall permit and suffer any person or persons to be or remain in his her or their houses contrary to the Law in that case made and provided and shall be thereof convict shall forthwith be suppress'd and not again licensed but upon good cause shewed to the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions II. That all such Inn-keepers Alehouse-keepers or Victuallers as shall at any time hereafter be convicted for profane Cursing or Swearing Drunkenness suffering disorders in their houses gaming or playing at Billiard-Tables Shovelboard-Tables Dice Cards Tables Nine-pins Pigeon-holes Bowling Alley or Bowling-Green or any other unlawful game in his her or their House Yard Backside or any other place to his her or their House belonging or who hath or shall keep in his her or their House Billiard-Tables Shovelboard-Tables Dice Cards Tables Nine-pins Pigeonholes Bowling-Alley or Bowling-Green or any of them or any other unlawful game or shall want accommodation of lodging for Souldiers Labourers or Travellers shall be suppress'd and not again licensed but as aforesaid III. That no Bailiff or his Under-officer Follower or Servant nor any Beadle be licensed or allowed to keep any Ale-house or Victualling-house nor they nor any of them or any Constable Brewer or any Parish-officer shall be taken as Surety for any Inn-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler for the performance of the Condition of his Recognizance for Victualling within this City and Liberty