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A22844 Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London. 1630 (1630) STC 9342; ESTC S125901 56,831 142

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maner and forme as in euery respect Taxations made by vertue of this Act are appointed to be collected receiued and leuied and shall be imployed to the vses expressed in this Acte and no otherwise Prouided alwayes and bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid that if the sayd rate shall be thought not to bee sufficient for the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as shal be to be relieued within the Citie of London That then it shall bee lawfull for the Maior Recorder Aldermen of London or the more part of them to rate and taxe such reasonable taxe summe and summes of money for the sayd reliefe as shal be to them thought fit and conuenient So as such summe and summes of money so to bee rated doe not exceede three shillings weekely out of any Parish And so as in the totall the summe shall not exceede or be vnder twelue pence weekely out of euery Parish one with another within the said Citie and the liberties thereof This Acte to endure to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer Anno xxxix Reginae Elizabethae An Acte for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdie Beggars FOr the suppressing of Rogues vagabonds and sturdie Beggers Be it enacted by the Authoritie of this present Parliament that from and after the feast of Easter next comming all Statutes heretofore made for the punishment of Rogues Vagabonds or sturdie beggers or for the erection or maintenance of houses of correction or touching the same shall for so much as cōcerneth the same be vtterly repealed And that from and after the said feast of Easter from time to time it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Iustices of Peace of any Countie or city in this Realme or the Dominions of Wales assembled at any Quarter Sessions of the Peace within the same County City Borough or Towne Corporate or the more part of them to set downe order to erect to cause to be erected one or more houses of Correctiō within their seueral Counties or cities for the doing performing wherof for the prouiding of stocks of money and al other things necessary for the same and for raising and gouerning of the same and for correction and punishment of offenders thither to be committed such orders as the same Iustices or the more part of them shal from time to time take reform or set downe in any their sayd quarter Sessions in that behalfe shal be of force and be duely performed and put in execution And be it also further enacted by the authoritie aforesayd That all persons calling themselues Schollars going about begging all Seafaring men pretending losses of their ships or goods on the Sea going about the countrey begging All idle persons going about in any country either begging or vsing any subtile craft or vnlawfull games and playes or faining themselues to haue knowledge in Physiognomie Palmestry or other like craftie Science or pretending that they can tell destinies Fortunes or such other like fantasticall imaginations All persons that be or vtter themselues to be Proctors procurers Patent gatherers or Collettors for Gaoles prisons or Hospitals All Fencers Bearewards Common Players of Interludes and Minstrels wandering a●road other then Players of Interludes belonging to any Baron of this Realme or any other honourable personage of greater degree to bee authorized to play vnder the hand and Seale of Armes of such Baron or personage All Iuglers Tinkers Pedlars and pety Chapmen wandering abroad All wandering persons and common Labourers being persons able in body vsing loytering and refusing to worke for such reasonable wages as is taxed or commonly giuen in such parts where such persons doe or shall happen to dwell or abide not hauing liuing otherwise to maintaine themselues All persons deliuered out of Gaoles that begge for their Fees or otherwise doe trauaile begging All such persons as shall wander abroad begging pretending losses by fire or otherwise And all such persons not being felons wandering and pretending themselues to bee Egyptians or wandering in the habite forme or attire of counterfeit Egyptians shal be taken adiudged and deemed Rogues Vagabonds and sturdie beggers and shall susteine such paine and punishments as by this Acte is in that behalfe appointed And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that euery person which is by this present Act declared to be a Rogue Vagabond or sturdie begger which shall be at any time after the said Feast of Easter next comming taken begging vagrant wandering or misordering themselues in any part of this Realme or the Dominion of Wales shal vpon their apprehension by the appointment of any Iustice of the Peace Constable Headborough or Tythingman of the same Countie Hundred Parish or Tything where such person shall be taken the Tythingman or Headborough being assisted therein with the aduise of the Minister and one other of that Parish be stripped naked from the middle vpwards and shall bee openly whipped vntill his or her body be bloodie and shal be forthwith sent from Parish to Parish by the Officers of euery the same the next straight way to the Parish where hee was borne if the same may be knowen by the parties confession or otherwise And if the same be not knowen then to the Parish where he or shee last dwelt before the same punishment by the space of one whole yeere there to put him or her selfe to labour as a true Subiect ought to doe Or not being knowen where hee or she was borne or last dwelt then to the Parish through which he or she last passed without punishment After which whipping the same person shall haue a testimoniall subscribed with the hand sealed with the seale of the same Iustice of the peace Constable Headborough or Tythingman of the Minister of the same parish or of any two of them testifying that the same person hath beene punished according to this Acte mentioning the day and place of his or her punishment and the place whereunto such person is limited to go and by what time the sayde person is limited to passe thither at his perill And if the said person through his or her default do not accomplish the order appointed by the said testimoniall then to be eftsoones taken whipped and so as often as any default shal be found in him or her contrary to the forme of this statute in euery place to bee whipped till such person be repaired to the place limited The substance of which testimoniall shall be registred by the minister of that parish in a booke to be prouided for that purpose vpon paine to forfeit 5. shillings for euery default thereof and the party so whipped not knowen where hee or shee was borne or last dwelt by the space of a yeere shall by the officers of the sayd Village where hee or she so last past thorow without punishment bee conueyed to the house of Correction of the limit wherein the