or Commissioners to inquire of Felonies in the County where such Offences of Accessary c. shall be committed c. shall be as good and effectual in the Law as if the said principal Offence had been committed c. within the same County where the same Indictment against such Accessary shall be found § 4. N. 2. And that the Iustices of Goal-delivery or Oyer and Terminer Accessary or two of them of or in such County where the Offence of any such Accessary shall be hereafter committed c. upon suit to them made shall write to the Custos Rotulorum or Keepers of the Records where such Principal shall be hereafter attainted or convicted to certify them whether such Principal be attainted or convicted or otherwise discharged of such principal Felony who upon such Writing to them or any of them directed shall make sufficient Certificate in Writing under their Seal or Seals to the said Iustices whether such Principal be attainted and convicted or otherwise discharged or not 3 4 Ed. 6. p. 667. Acts made in the Session of this present Parliament Parliament holden upon Prorogation at Westminster the fourth day of November in the third year of the Reign of our most Dread Soveraign Lord Edward the sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth the Supream Head and there continued and kept to the first day of February in the fourth year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord as followeth Cap. 1. Where in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the seven and thirtieth year of the Reign of the most excellent Prince of Famous Memory King Henry the eighth viz. 37 H. 8. Cap. 1. § 2. N. 2. Patents it was Enacted that no person or persons should from the making of the said Act be nominated and appointed to the Office or Offices of Custos Rotulorum within any Shire of this Realm of England Wales or other the Kings Dominions Marches or Territories of the same but such as should have a Bill signed with the Kings hand for the same § 1. N. 2. Which Bill signed viz. 37 H. 8. Cap. 1. § 2. N. 3. Chancery should be a sufficient Warrant by Authority of the said Act to the Lord Chancellor of England and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being to make from time to time Commission or Commissions assigning and authorizing thereby the same person to be Custos Rotulorum untill the King had by another Bill assigned with his own hand appointed and ordained another person to have occupy and exercise the same Office of Custos Rotulorum § 1. N. 3. And Viz. 37 H. 8 Cap. 1. § 2. N. 4. Peace that the said person appointed and assigned to be Custos Rotulorum as is abovesaid should and might occupy exercise and enjoy the said Office of Custos Rotulorum by himself or by his sufficient Deputy learned in the Laws of this Realm and meet and able to supply the said Office according to the Tenor of the said Grant or Commission as by the same Act among other things more at large it doth and may appear § 2. N. 1. Since the making of which Statute viz. 37 H. 8. Cap. 1. § 2. Patents divers and many persons being in the said Offices of Custos Rotulorum in divers Shires of the Realm have departed this present Life and dyed so that there hath not come to the hands of the Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal any Bill or Bills assigned with the Kings Majesties hand for the naming appointing or assigning of any new Custos Rotulorum in the same Shires and so the said Offices have remained void for a long time to the great let of Iustice § 2. N. 2. And also for that it shall be very tedious and much to the molesting of the Kings Majesty upon every avoidance of such Custos Rotulorum by death or otherwise Officer to move his Majesty for the signing of Bills for other persons to be elected named chosen and appointed to supply the said Offices of Custos Rotulorum being void § 2. N. 3. And for that the nomination and appointing of the said Office of Custos Rotulorum long before the making of the said Statute c. viz. 37 H. 8. Chancery C. 1. did appertain and belong to the Office of the Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being § 3. N. 1. Be it therefore Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord Prerog with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that the Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being shall at all time and times hereafter and from time to time without any Bill or Bills to be assigned with the Kings hand name elect assign and appoint such person and persons to be Custos Rotulorum within every Shire of this Realm of England Wales and other the Kings Dominions Marches and Territories of the same or by any of them as by the discretion of the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being Deputy § 3. N. 2. shall be thought able and meet to have and exercise the same And that the said person or persons so to be appointed elected named and assigned by the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being shall and may occupy exercise and enjoy the same Office of Custos Rotulorum by himself or by his sufficient Deputy or Deputies Patents in as ample and large manner and form as if the said Act viz. 37 H. 8. Cap. 1. had never been had ne made § 4. N. 1. the before rehearsed Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all such as now have any of the said Offices of Custos Rotulorum by the Kings Letters Patents or Commission to them or any of them made shall and may enjoy Franchise have and exercise the said Offices by vertue of the same Letters Patents or Commission by himself § 5. N. 1. or his sufficient and able Deputy instructed in the Laws of this Realm any thing in this present Act had or made to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also that it be Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishop of Durham the Bishop of Ely and every of their Successors the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster for the time being and all and every Person and Persons Corporations and Bodies Corporated to whom the Kings Majesty or any of his Noble Progenitors by his or their Letters Patents or Act
whereof § 2. N. 1. be it ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament that if any person or persons of what estate or degree soever he or they be at any time after the first day of April next coming falsly and deceitfully obtain and get into his or their hands or possession any Mony Goods Cattel Iewels or other things of any other Person or Persons by colour and means of any such false token or counterfeit Letter made in any other mans name as is aforesaid that then every such Person and Persons so offending and being thereof lawfully convict by Witnesses taken before the Lord Chancellor of England for the time being or by Examination of Witnesses or Confession taken in the Star-Chamber at Westminster before the Kings most honourable Council or before the Iustices of Assize in their Circuits for the time being or before the Iustices of Peace within any part of the Kings Dominions in their general Sessions or by Action in any of the Kings Courts of Record Imprisonment Shall have and suffer such Correction and punishment by Imprisonment of his Body sitting upon the Pillory or otherwise § 2. N. 2. by any Corporal Pain except pains of death as shall be unto him or them limited adjudged or appointed by the Person or Persons before whom he shall be so convict of the said Offences or any of them Process And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid § 3. N. 1. that as well the Iustices of Assize for the time being as also two Iustices of the Peace in every County whereof the one to be of the Quorum shall have free Power and Authority to call and convent by Process or otherwise to the said Assizes or general Sessions any person or persons being suspected of any of the Offences aforesaid and to commit him or them to Ward or let him or them to Bail till the next Assizes or general Sessions there to be examined and further to be ordered by their discretions as is abovesaid § 4. N. 1. Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Franchises that Iustices of Peace within every City Borough Town and Franchise within this Realm or other the Kings Dominions shall have like Iurisdiction Power and Authority at their general Sessions and otherwise to do and execute all and every thing and things in all points as other Iustices of Assizes in their Circuits or Iustices of the Peace in the Counties by Virtue of this Act be limited and appointed to do and execute for the Punishment and Correction of like Offenders as by this foresaid Act is specified and declared § 4. N. 2. Saving to the Party greived by such deceit Collusion such Remedy by way of Action or otherwise of and for the same Mony Goods Cattels Iewels or other things so obtained as he might have had if this Act had never been had ne made anything in the same contained to the contrary in any-wise notwithstanding § 5. N. 1. Provided alwayes France and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Kings Highness Council of his Town of Calice or three of them for the time being shall have such and like Authority for the Examination Bailment and Punishment of such Offender or Offenders and for such Offences hereafter to be committed and done within the Town and Marches of Calice and County of Guiâ—nes as the aforesaid Iustices of Assize or Iustices of Peace have by force of this Act whithin their Iurisdictions and Authorities C. ◠§ 16. N. 2. And that the same Iustices of Peace Games viz. before whom any is brought for using Cross-bow Hand-gun Hagbut or Demyhake not measure c. upon a due Examination and Proof thereof before him had or made by his disretien shall have full Power and Authority to send or commit the same Offender or Offenders to the next Goal there to remain till such time as the said Penalty or Forfeiture Viz. of 10 l. shall be truly contented and paid by the same Offender § 19. N. 1 And be it further Enacted Justices c. that it shall be lawful to all Iustices of Peace in their Sessions c. to inquire hear and determine every such Offence c. committed and done contrary to the tenor of this present Act. C. 9. § 10. N. 3 And that Iustices of Assize of Goal-delivery Iustices of Peace Games and Stewards of Franchises Leets and Law-days have Power to inquire of all the Premises viz. of Archery in their Sessions Leets and Law-days and hear and determine the same and also by their discretion examin all persons lacking and not having Bows Shafts and Arrows according to the form aforesaid § 14. N. 1. Be it further Enacted Process c. that it shall be lawful to all and every the Iustices of Peace in every Shire Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and other head-Officers within every City Town and Borough within this Realm from time to time as well within liberties as without as Need and Case shall require to come enter and resort into all and every Houses Places and Alleys where such Games viz. Bowling Coyting Cloysh Cayls half-Bowl Tennis Dicing Table or Carding or any unlawful now Game hereafter to be invented c. shall be suspected to be holden exercised used or occupyed contrary to the form of this Statute § 14. N. 2. And as well the Keepers of the same as also the persons there haunting Imprisonment resorting and playing to take arrest and imprison and them so taken and arrested to keep in Prison unto such time as the Keepers and Maintainers of the said Plays and Games have found Sureties to the Kings use to be bound by Recognizance or otherwise no longer to use keep or occupy any such House Play Game Alley or Place § 14. N. 3. And also that the persons there so found be in likewise bound by themselves or else with Sureties by the discretion of the Iustices Mayors Recognizance Sheriffs c. no more to play haunt or exercise from thenceforth in at or to any of the said places or at any of the said games Parliament Forasmuch as before this time divers and sundry good Laws Statutes Cap 10. Provisions and Ordinances have been made by the Kins Majesty our Natural Soveraign Lord and other his most Noble Progenitors for the Increase and Advancement of the Publick and Common-Wealth of this Realm of England and of his Highness Subjects of the same amongst which some special notable and profitable Laws Statutes Ordinances and Provisions be very requisite convenient and expedient for the same Common-wealth duly and diligently to be put in daily Exercise and Execution Process And such as have been and be Authorised to put in due and just Execution such special and notable Laws Statutes and Ordinances § 1. N. 2. and to correct and
South for the time being 3 H. 5. St. 2. C. 7. § 1. N. 3. And that the Iustices of Peace through the Realm Mony shall have power by the Kings Commissions to enquire of all such matters viz. as well of Counterfeiting and of bringing of false mony into the Realm as of clipping washing and every other Falsity of the said mony and thereupon make Process by Capias only against these which before them shall be thereof Indicted 8 H. 5. C. 3. § 1 N. 4 And the Iustices of Peace shall have power to enquire thereof Mettle viz. of Guilding or Silvering of Mettles c. and that to determin Statuta Hen. 6. 2 H. 6. Cap. 8. § 2. N. 2. AND that the Iustices of Peace within the Counties Ireland and the Mayors and Bailiffs within Cities and Burroughs Enfranchised have power to take before them viz. of Irish men that enter this Realm such manner of Surety of good abearing and to do Execution upon them which shall abide or do against the said Ordinances from henceforth C. 11. § 1. N. 5. And the Iustices of Peace in all Counties of England and Mayors and Bailiffs having power to enquire of the Peace shall enquire Measures hear and determin all the same defaults viz. in the Contents of Vessels of Wine Eels Herring Salmon c. C. 14. § 1. N. 8. And the Iustices of Peace Mayors and Bailiffs Mettle and all others having power as Iustices of Peace shall hear enquire and determin Viz. of Gold-smiths and others not working Silver by the touch or Sterling allay by Bill Plaint or in other manner all that do contrary to the said Ordinances and thereof make due Execution by their discretions 6 H. 6. Cap. 3. The Iustices of Peace and cheif Officers in Cities Apprentice c. shall make Proclamation what every Artificer and Workman shall take for Wages and the Penalty of a Servant Artificer or Labourer that taketh more 8 H. 6. Cap. 5. § 2. N. 7. And that the Iustices of Peace Mayors Measures Bailiffs and Stewards of Franchises have power by Authority aforesaid to Examin the Trespassers in this Case viz. of false Weights and to enquire in special of Offenders against this Ordinance and to do Execution of them that be found faulty by Enquests or by Examination to be made by the said Iudges or Officers in this case in the manner as afore is said Force Item Whereas by the noble King Richard late King of England Cap. 9. after the Conquest the second at his Parliament holden at Westminster the Morrow after All Souls the fifteenth year of his Reign viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. amongst other things it was Ordained and Established that the Statutes and Ordinances made and not repealed of them that make Entries with strong hand into Lands or Tenements or other Possessions whatsoever and them hold with Force and of them that make Insurrections Riots Routs Ridings and Assemblies in disturbance of the Peace or of the Common Law or in affray of the People should be holden and fully Executed Justices And moreover it is ordained by the same Statute Viz. 15 R. 2. § 1. N. 2. Cap. 2. § 1. N. 2. that at all times that such forcible Entries be made and complaint thereof come to the Iustices of Peace or any of them that the same Iustices or Iustice shall take the power of the County and shall go or one of them shall go to the place where such force is made Force And viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. § 1. N. 3. if they find § 1. N. 3. or he findeth any holding of such place forcibly after such Entry made they should be taken and put in the next Goal there to remain convicted by the Record of the same Iustices or Iustice until they have made Fine and Ransom to the King Process And viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. § 1. N. 4. § 1. N. 4. that all the people of the County as well Sheriffs as others shall be attending to the said Iustices and assist them to arrest such Malefactors upon pain of Imprisonment and to make Fine and Ransom to the King Church And viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. § 1. N. 5. § 1. N. 5. that in the same manner be done of them that make forcible Entries into Benifices or Offices of holy Church as in the same Statute is contained more at Large Collusion And for that the said Statute viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. § 2. N. 1. doth not extend to Entries in Tenements in peaceable manner and after holden with force nor if the persons which enter with force into Lands or Tenements be removed or voided before the coming of the said Iustices or Iustice as before nor any Pain ordained if the Sheriff do not obey the Commands and Precepts of the said Iustices for to execute the said Ordinances many wrongful and forcible Entries be daily made in Lands and Tenements by such as have no Right and also divers Gifts Feoffments and Discontinuances sometimes made to Lords and other puissant Persons and Extortioners within the said Counties where they be conversant to have Maintenance and sometimes to such persons as be unknown to them so put out to the intent to delay and defraud such rightful Possessions of their right and recovery for ever to the final Disherison of divers of the Kings faithful Leige-people and likely daily to encrease if due remedy be not provided in this behalf Assurances Our Lord the King considering the Premises § 2. N. 2. hath ordained that the said Statute viz. 15 R. 2. Cap. 2. and all other Statutes of such Entries of Alienations made in times past shall be holden and duly Executed Force Ioyned to the same viz. to 15. R. 2. Cap. 2. that from henceforth where any doth make any forcible Entry in Lands and Tenements § 2. N. 3. or other Possessions or them hold forcibly after Complaint thereof made within the same County where such Entry is made to the Iustices of Peace or to one of them by the party grieved that the Iustices or Iustice so warned within a convenient time shall cause or one of them shall cause the said Statute viz. 15. R. 2. Cap. 2. duly to be Executed and that at the costs of the Party so grieved Enquest And moreover §. 3. N. 1. though that such persons making suh Entries be present or else departed before the coming of the said Iustices or Iustice in some good Town next to the Tenements so entred or in some other convenient place according to their discretion shall have or either of them shall have Authority and power to enquire by the people of the same County as well of them that make such forcible entries into Lands and Tenements as of them which the same hold with force § 3. N. 2. And if
and Liberty of Hexam c. and shall exercise and use all manner of things within the said Shire and Liberty that appertaineth or belongeth to any Iustice of Peace within any County of this Realm of England to do exercise and use by vertue and authority that they be Iustices of Peace in as large and ample manner as any other Iustice of Peace in any County within this Realm have or might do exercise or use any thing or things in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Cap. 28. 27. § 11. N. 1. And over that it is Enacted Husbandry That all Iustices of Peace in every Shire where every such offence Viz. Of not using Husbandry on dissolved Monastery c. shall be committed and done contrary to the true meaning and intent of this present Act shall in every quarter and general Sessions within the limit of their Commission inquire of the Premises and shall have full power and authority to hear and determine the same 28 H. 8. C. 14. § 4. N. 1. And it is also Enacted Wine That the Iustices of Peace in every Shire of this Realm and all Mayors c and every of them within the limits of their Commissions and authorities as well within Franchises as without shall have power and authority to examine hear inquire and determine the defaults of such as shall attempt to sell any Wines in gross contrary to this Act and to punish the Offenders by Imprisonment or otherwise by their discretions 31 H 8. Ca. 8. § 9. N. 1. Provided also Prerog That if any Proclamation or Proclamations hereafter shall be directed by virtue of this Act viz. For any thing not concerning Inheritance c. to the Iustices of Peace of any Shire or County that then within fourteen dayes after the receipt thereof the same Iusties shall and may by their discretions divide themselves viz. As on Act of Parliament in sundry parts and places within the limits of their Commission for the due and speedy execution of the contents of the same Proclamation or Proclamations C. 14. § 17. N. 3. And also That Iustices of Peace in their Sessions Religion and every Steward Vnder-Steward and Deputy of Steward of any Leet or Law-day in their Leet or Law day shall have like power and authority by virtue of this Act to inquire by the Oaths of twelve lawful men of all and singular the Heresies Contempts and other Offences viz. Against the six Articles c. done perpetrated or committed within the limits of their Commissions and Authorities 1 Ed. 6 Cap. 12 § 4. N. 1. 32 H. 8. Cap. 7. § 4. N. 1. And further be it Enacted c. Tythes That if any Person or Persons after such Sentence definitive given against them Viz. In suit by Ecclesiastical or Lay-man seised of Parsonage c. For tythes obstinately and wilfully refuse for to pay their Tythes or such Sums of Mony so adjudged viz. By the Ordinary wherein they be condemned for the same that then two Iustices of the Peace of the same Shire whereof one to be of the Quorum shall have authority by this Act upon Information Certificate or Complaint to them made by writing by the said Ecclesiastical Iudge that gave the same Sentence to cause the same Party so refusing to be attached and committed to the next Goal and there to remain without Bail or Mainprize till he or they shall have found sufficient Sureties to be bound by Recognisance or otherwise-before the same Iustices to the use of our Sovereign Lord the King to perform the said definitive Sentence and Iudgment 27 H. 8. Cap. 20. § 1. N 5. C. 13. § 8. N. 1. And it is further Enacted c. Cattle That the Iustices of Peace in every Shire Riding and other Place in their Quarter Sessions to be kept and holden by virtue of the Kings Commission of the Peace to them directed and all Stewards of Leets c. shall have authority by this Act to inquire of all defaults Contempts Omissions and Offences contrary to the effects above written c. viz. Of putting in Horses not measure or infected into Forest Common c. Common Which Iustices of Peace in their Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall have power and authority by this Act to hear and determine every such Presentment before themselves found § 8. N. 3. or in any of the said Leets or Lawdays to be presented and certified c. as well by Examination as otherwise Franchise In consideration viz. of the travelling too often of the Gentry c. be it Enacted c. C. 43. § 1. N. 8. That from henceforth the Law and Administration of Iustice and all other things in the said County viz. of Chester in times past used to be had at the said Shire days shall be holden had made done and executed by the Iustices of the said County for the time being at two times in the year only that is to wit at the Sessions next after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and at the Sessions next after Easter yearly for ever during so many days of every of the said time or times as need shall require in like manner and form as it is now used in the County Palatine of Lancaster Parliament Henry the Eighth by the grace of God King of England France and Irelend Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England 33 H. 8. pa. 532. and also of Ireland in Earth Supream Head to the honour of Almighty God and for the concord quiet and wealth of this his Realm and Subjects of the same held his most high Court of Parliament begun at Westminster the sixteenth day of January and continued until the first day of April the three and thirtieth year of his most noble and virtuous Reign wherein were established these Acts following Collusion Forasmuch as many light and evil disposed Persons not minding to get their livings by Truth according to the Laws of this Realm Cap. 1. but compassing and devising daily how they may unlawfully obtain and get into their hands and possession Goods Cattel and Iewels of other Persons for the maintainance of their unthrifty living and also knowing that if they come to any of the same Goods Cattles and Iewels by stealth that then they being thereof lawfully convict according to the Laws of the Realm shall die therefore have now of late falsely and deceitfully contrived devised and imagined privy Tokens and counterfeit Letters in other mens names unto divers persons their special friends and acquaintances for the obtaining of Mony Goods Cattels and Iewels of the same persons their friends and acquaintances by colour whereof the said light and evil disposed Persons have deceitfully and unlawfully obtained and gotten great substance of Mony Goods Cattels and Iewels into their hands and Possessions contrary to right and Conscience Coron For reformation