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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

punishment vpon them as shal be due to such as neglect their owne duties and Our Royall command published vpon so important an occasion And We doe hereby will require and command all and euery Our Iudges of Assize Maiors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Constables Headboroughs and other Our Officers Ministers and Subiects whom it may concerne that they carefully and effectually obserue and performe all and euery the Premisses as they will answere the neglect thereof at their vttermost perils And whereas Wee haue lately commanded a Booke to be printed and published containing certaine Statutes made and enacted heretofore for the reliefe of the Poore and of Souldiers and Mariners and for punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds and for the reliefe and ordering of persons infected with the Plague and also containing certaine Orders heretofore and now lately conceiued and made concerning health All which are necessarie to be knowen and obserued by Our louing Subiects that thereby they may the better auoid those dangers which otherwise may fall vpon their persons or estates by their neglect thereof Wee haue thought it fit hereby to giue notice thereof to all Our louing Subiects to the end that none may pretend ignorance for an excuse in matters of so great importance And Wee doe hereby declare that whosoeuer shall bee found remisse or negligent in the execution of any part of the Premisses shall receiue such condigne punishment for their offence as by the Lawes of this Realme or by Our Prerogatiue Royall can or may be iustly inflicted vpon them Giuen at Our Court at Whitehal the three and twentieth day of April in the sixt yeere of Our Reigne of England Scotland France and Ireland God saue the King Anno xliij Reginae Elizabethae ❧ An Acte for the reliefe of the Poore BE it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that the Churchwardens of euery Parish and foure three or two substantiall housholders there as shall be thought meete hauing respect to the proportion and greatnes of the same Parish and Parishes to bee nominated yeerely in Easter weeke or within one moneth after Easter vnder the hand and Seale of two or more Iustices of the Peace in the same Countie whereof one to be of the Quorum dwelling in or neere the same Parish or diuision where the same Parish doeth lie shall bee called Ouerseers of the poore of the same Parish And they or the greater part of them shal take order from time to time by and with the consent of two or more such Iustices of Peace as is aforesayd for setting to worke of the children of all such whose parents shal not by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them bee thought able to keepe and maintaine their children And also for setting to worke all such persons married or vnmarried hauing no means to maintaine thē vse no ordinary daily trade of life to get their liuing by and also to raise weekly or otherwise by taxation of euery Inhabitant Parson Vicar and other of euery occupier of Lands Houses Tithes impropriate or Propriations of tithes Colemines or saleable vnderwoods in the said Parish in such competent summe and sums of money as they shal thinke fit a conuenient stocke of Flaxe Hempe Wooll Threed yron other necessary ware stuffe to set the poore on work and also competent summes of money for and towards the necessary reliefe of the lame impotēt old blind and such other among them being poore and not able to worke also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices to bee gathered out of the same Parish according to the ability of the same Parish and to do and execute all other things aswell for the disposing of the said stocke as otherwise concerning the premisses as to them shal seem conuenient Which said Church wardens Ouerseers so to be nominated or such of them as shall not be let by sicknesse or other iust excuse to bee allowed by two such Iustices of Peace or more as is aforesaid shall meete together at the least once euery moneth in the Church of the said parish vpon the Sunday in the afternoone after diuine Seruice there to consider of some good course to bee taken and of some meet order to be set down in the premisses shal within foure daies after the end of their yeere after other Ouerseers nominated as aforesaid make yeeld vp to such two Iustices of peace as is aforesaid a true and perfect account of al summes of money by them receiued or rated and sessed and not receiued and also of such stocke as shal be in their hands or in the hands of any of the poore to worke and of all other things concerning their said office and such summe or summes of money as shall be in their hands shal pay and deliuer ouer to the said Church-wardens and Ouerseers newly nominated and appointed as is aforesaid vpō paine that euery one of them absenting themselues without lawfull cause as aforesaid frō such monethly meeting for the purpose aforesaid or being negligent in their office or in the execution of the orders aforesaid being made by and with the assent of the said Iustices of Peace or any two of them before mentioned to forfeit for euery such default of absence or negligence twenty shillings And be it also enacted that if the said Iustices of Peace doe perceiue that the Inhabitants of any parish are not able to leuy amōg themselues sufficient summes of money for the purposes aforesaid that then the said two Iustices shall and may taxe rate and assesse as aforesaid any other of other Parishes or out of any parish within the Hundred where the said Parish is to pay such summe and summes of money to the Churchwardens Ouerseers of the sayd poore Parish for the said purposes as the said Iustices shal think fit according to the intent of this Law And if the said Hundred shal not be thought to the said Iustices able and fit to relieue the sayd seuerall parishes not able to prouide for themselues as aforesaid Then the Iustices of Peace at their generall quarter Sessions or the greater number of them shal rate and assesse as aforesayd any other of other Parishes or out of any Parish within the said Countie for the purposes aforesaid as in their discretion shall seeme fit And that it shall be lawfull aswell for the present as subsequent Churchwardens and Ouerseers or any of them by warrant from any two such Iustices of Peace as is aforesaid to leuie aswel the said summes of money and all arrerages of euery one that shall refuse to contribute according as they shall be assessed by distresse and sale of the offendors goods as the summes of money or stock which shal be behind vpon any account to be made as aforesayd rendring to the parties the ouerplus and in defect of such distresse it shal be lawfull for any

said Village standeth or to the common Gaole of that Countie or place there to remaine and be imployed in worke vntill hee or she shal be placed in some seruice and so to continue by the space of one yeere or not being able of body vntill he or she shall be placed to remaine in some Almeshouse in the same Countie or place Prouided alwayes and be it enacted If any of the sayd Rogues shall appeare to be dangerous to the inferiour sort of people where they shall bee taken or otherwise be such as wil not be reformed of their roguish kind of life by the former prouisiō of this Act That in euery such case it shal may be lawfull to the said Iustices of the limite where any such Rogue shall be taken or any two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum to commit that Rogue to the house of correction or otherwise to the Gaole of the County there to remaine vntill their next quarter Sessions to be holden in that Countie 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 shal bee conueyed vnto such parts beyond the Seas as shall bee at any time hereafter for that purpose assigned by the priuie 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 be 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 felonie The sayd felonie 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 aforesayd that if any Towne Parish or Village the Constable Headborough or Tithingman be negligent do not his or their best endeuours for the apprehension of such Vagabond Rogue or sturdy Begger which there shall be found contrary to the forme of this present Act and to cause euery of them to be punished and conueied according to the true meaning of this present Act that then the said Constable Headborough or tithingman in whome such default shall bee shall lose and forfeite 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 rescusse against any officer or person authorized by this present Acte 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 shal 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 Realms 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 Mannisk 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 aforesayd shall be 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 Acte and from thence to bee transported at the common charge of the Countrey where they were set on land into those partes from whence they came or were brought And that euery Constable Headborough and Tythingman neglecting the due performance therof shall forfeit for euery such offence ten shillings Bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no diseased or impotent poore person shal at any time resort or repaire from their dwelling places to the Citie 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 be licensed to passe thither by two Iustices of the Peace of the Countie where such person doeth 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 trauell and 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 Acte And that the inhabitants of the same Citie of Bath and towne of Buxton shall not in any wise be charged by this Acte with the finding or reliefe of any such poore people Prouided alwayes that the Iustices of peace within any County of this Realme or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any Citie Borough or Towns corporate where be any Iustice or Iustices of the Peace for any such Citie Borough or Towne Corporate for the execution of any Branch Article or sentence of this Acte for or concerning any offence matter or cause growing or arising within the Precincts Liberties or Iurisdictions of such City borough or townes corporate But that it may and shal be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bayliffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughes and Townes Corporate where there be such Iustices of the Peace to proceed to the execution of this Acte within the precinct and compasse of their Liberties in

such maner and forme as the Iustices of Peace in any Countie may or ought to doe within the same Countie by vertue of this Acte Any thing in this Acte to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the poore people for the time being in the Hospitall called Saint Thomas Hospital otherwise called the Kings Hospital in the Borough of Southwarke neere adioyning to the Citie of London but that the Maior Communaltie and Citizens of the sayde Citie of London for the time being shall and may haue the rule order and gouernment of the sayd Hospitall and of the poore people therein for the time being any thing in this Acte to the contrary notwithstanding Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thing therein contained or any authority thereby giuen shall not in any wise extend to disinherite preiudice or hinder Iohn Dutton of Dutton in the Countie of Chester Esquire his heires or assignes for touching or concerning any liberty preeminence authoritie iurisdiction or inheritance which the said Iohn Dutton now lawfully vseth or hath or lawfully may or ought to vse within the County Palantine of Chester and the Countie of the Citie 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 Acte except such as are otherwise limited and appointed by this present Act shall wholly goe and be imployed to the vse of the reparations and maintenance of the said houses of Correction and stocke and store therof or reliefe of the poore where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the Iustices of the Peace of the same limit Citie 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 Citie Borough or Towne corporate bee leuied 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 bee prooued 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 authoritie aforesaid that any two or more Iustices of the Peace within all the said seueral Shires Cities Boroughs or Townes corporate wherof one to be of the Quorum shall haue full power by authority of this present Acte to heare and determine all causes that shall growe or come in question by reason of this Acte 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 aswell by the othes 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 mony 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 worke or for the maintenance therof at any time after the seuenteenth day of Nouember in the eighteenth yeere of the Reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiestie 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 imployed And to call all euery such person persons and their suerties 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 to heare and determine the same and to leuie such money and things as they shal find not to haue been duly imployed vpon the said houses of Correction or stocks 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 authoritie 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 sayd Commissioners shall bee deliuered and employed for the erecting or maintenance of the same Prouided alwayes neuerthelesse that euery Seafaring man suffering shipwracke not hauing wherewith to relieue himselfe in his trauailes homewards 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 penaltie 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 shal be necessarie 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 yeeres nor to any such Glassemen as shall be of good behauiour and doe trauaile in or through any Countrey without begging hauing licence for their trauailing vnder the handes and Seales of three Iustices of the Peace of the same Countie where they trauell whereof one to be of the Quorum And be it also further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that this present Act shall be proclaimed in the next quarter Session or Sessions in euery Countie and in such other market Townes or places as by the more part of the Iustices of the Peace in the sayd Sessions shal be agreed and appointed This Acte to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament ❧ Certaine branches of the Statute made in the first yere of the Reigne of King IAMES concerning Rogues Vagabonds and sturdie Beggars FOrasmuch as sithence the

of Peace of the Countie of or neere to the sayde Citie Borough Towne Corporate or priuiledged place so infected or any two of them to be made the said Iustices of or neere the sayd 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 Priuiledged 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 be lawfull for any two Iustices of Peace of the said County wherein the sa●d place infected is or shall be to Taxe and Assesse the inhabitants of the said County within fiue miles of the said 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 party 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 thinke 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 shal seeme fit and conuenient All which taxes and rates made within any such citie borough towne 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 Countie 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 sayd taxe or rate should continue or be enlarged or extended to any other partes of the Countie or otherwise determined then the same to bee so enlarged extended or determined increased or taxed and leuied in maner and forme aforesaid as to the sayd Iustices at the Quarter Sessions respectiuely shal be thought fit and conuenient And euery Constable and other officer that shall wilfully make default in leuying such mony as they shal 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 bee it further enacted That if any person or persons infected or being or dwelling in any house Iniected shall be by the Mayor 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 commaunded or appointed as aforesayd to keepe his or their House for auoyding of further Infection and shall notwithstanding wilfully and contemptuously disobey such direction and appointment offering attempting to breake and goe abroad and to resist or going abroad and resisting such Keepers or Watchmen as shall bee appointed as aforesayd to see them kept in That then it shall be lawfull 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 sayde Keepers Watchmen and any other their Assistants shall not bee impeached therefore And if any infected person as aforesayd so commanded to keepe house shall contrary to such Commaundement wilfully and contemptuously goe abroad and shall conuerse in company hauing any Infectious Sore vpon him vncured That then such person and persons shall bee 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 sayd Offence to be punished as a Vagabond in all respects should or ought to bee by the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yere 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 Felonie 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 be it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesayd That it shall be lawfull for Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffes and other head Officers aforesayd to appoynt within the seuerall Limits Searchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers and Buriers for the persons and places respectiuely infected as aforesayd and to minister vnto them Othes for the performance of their Offices of Searchers Examiners Watchmen Keepers and Buryers 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 authoritie of this present Parliament that no Mayor 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 euery such Cathedrall Church or one of them within such Cathedrall Church and the Prouost or Warden of either of the sayd Colledges within the same shall haue all such power and authority and shall doe and execute all euery such Act and Actes thing and things in this Acte before mentioned within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions abouesayd as wholly absolutely and fully to all intents and purposes as any Mayor Bayliffes head Officers or Iustices of Peace within their seuerall Precincts and Iurisdictions may elsewhere by force of this Acte doe and execute ¶ Orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell to be executed throughout the Counties of this Realme in such Townes Villages and other places as are or may be hereafter Infected with the Plague for the stay of further increase of the same Also an Aduise set downe by the best learned