default of prosecution the King hath two yeares after that one yeare but this is to be understood where a shorter time is not limited by any stat XVII All sutes for using unlawfull games or any Art or Mystery without being brought up in it and for not having Bowes and Arrowes according to the statute shall be prosecuted at the Assises or Sessions of the Countie or at the Leete within which the offence was committed and not elsewhere 18. XVIII Stat. 21. Jac. 4. Actions popular shall be prosecuted before Just of Ass Nisi prius G.D. Oyer and Ter. or of P. onely in the Counties where the Offences were committed except for Recusancie maintenance Champertie buying of Titles concealing of Customes c. or transporting of Gold Silver Munition Wooll Wooll fels or Leather XIX Upon default of proving that the Offence was committed in the same Countie the defendant shall be found not guilty XX. The Informer shall make oath that the offence was committed in the same Countie where the Action is laied and within one yeare before the sute commenced XXI The defendant in a popular Action may plead the generall issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence Alehouses Drunkennesse I. Stat. 5. 6. E. 6.25 None shall keepe Alehouse without Licence granted either in Sess or by 2. Just 1. Qu. in paine of 3. dayes Imprisonment without Baile and not to be enlarged without Recognisance by himselfe and two Sureties that he shall not keepe Alehouse any longer the certificate of which recognisance and offence shall be a sufficient conviction at the Qu. Sess to fine him xx s. 30. II. The Qu. Sess or two such Justices have power to put downe Alehouses at their discretion and to take Bond and suretie of Alehouse-keepers by Recognisance that they use not unlawfull games or other disorder in their houses for which Recognisance the parties bound shall pay 12. d. and whereof certificate shall be made at the next Qu. Sess by the two Justices that take it in paine of five markes III. Just of P. have power to inquire after the breach of this last Recognisance to award processe thereupon and to heare and determine the same at their discretions IV. This Act shall not restraine the selling of Ale and Beere in Townes where Faires are kept during the time of the Faire 34. V. Stat. 1. Jac. 9. No Innekeeper Victualler or Alehousekeeper shall suffer any town-dwellers to sit tippling in his house in paine of x. s. nor sell lesse then a full Ale quart of the best Ale or Beere or two quarts of the small for one penny in pain of 20. s. And here the view of one Justice or proofe by two witnesses upon oath before one Justice is sufficient conviction 16.22.23 28. VI. The penalties aforesaid are given to the poore of the parish where the offence is committed and are to be levied by the Constable and Churchw by distresse which after six dayes may bee sold to satisfie the penaltie and for default of distresse the partie delinquent must suffer imprisonment till hee pay the penaltie VII Here every officer that neglects to levie the said penalties or to certifie within 20. daies the default of distresse shall forfeit likewise to the poore xl s. to be levied upon warrant from one Justice by distresse and fale as aforesaid and upon default of distresse shall incurre commitment as before VIII The Officers or other parties receiving these penalties shall be accomptable to the succeeding Officers and other parishioners IX None shall intermeddle to put this Act in execution within either of the Universities save onely the Magistrates of the same X. Stat. 4. Jac. 4. None shall sell Ale or Beere to an unlicensed Alehouse-keeper save only for the expence of his houshold in paine of 6. s. 8. d. for every Barrell and so more or lesse according to that proportion XI This Offence shall bee prosecuted in the Qu. Sess and the forfeiture shall be equally divided betwixt the prosecutor and the poore of the Parish XII The Officer that shall levie the poores Moity shall deliver it to the Church-wardens and Overseers of the Parish or one of them and they shall in convenient time make distribution thereof to the poore in paine that both the Officer and they shall forfeit respectively double the value of that Moity to be recovered and imployed as aforesaid XIII Stat. 4. Jac. 5. One convicted of Drunkennesse in Court or before a Judge or Justices in their severall limits shall forfeit v.s. to the poore to be levied and imploied as the penalties of 1. Jac. 9. and in case hee be not able to pay it shall remaine in the stockes six houres 6.7 and 28. XIV Here the officer which neglects to levie the said penaltie shall forfeit 10. s. to be levied and imployed as aforesaid XV. A towne-dweller which is convict to sit tippling in any Inne Victualling house or Alehouse by the view of one Justice or the proofe of two witnesses shall forfeit ten groates to be levied and imployed as aforesaid and being not found able to pay it shall remaine in the stooks foure houres 24. XVI These offences as also those mentioned in 1. Jac. 9. shall be inquired of heard and determined at the Assises at the Sessions in corporate townes and in Leetes XVII One convicted the second time of drunkennesse shall be bound in ten pounds with two sureties to the good behaviour 25. XVIII All Constables Churchwardens Headboroughs Tithingmen Ale-cunners and Sidemen shall bee charged in their oathes to present the said offences 27. XIX This Act shall not restraine Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction nor the two Universities XX. None shall be twice punished for one offence XXI The offenders against this Act shall be prosecuted within six months XXII Stat. 7. Jac. 10. An Alehouse-keeper lawfully convicted for any of the offences forbidden by the stat of 1. Jac. 9. or 4. Jac. 5. shall be disabled to keepe Alehouse within three yeares after 26. XXIII Stat. 21. Jac. 7. One witnesse or the parties owne confession shall be sufficient to prove the breach of 1. Jac. 9. and 4. Jac. 5. and the oath of the partie confessing shall bee sufficient to convince any other XXIV No person whatsoever shall sit tippling in any Inne Alehouse or victualling house in paine of the forfeiture mentioned in 4. Jac. 5. to be levied and imploied as there is expressed And here the view of one Justice the parties owne confession or proofe by one witnesse shall be sufficient conviction The delinquents oath shall likewise be taken to convince any other XXV The like view proofe or confession shall convince a drunkard as well for the penaltie of 5. s. as for the binding of him to the good behaviour according to 4. Jac. 5. XXVI An Alehouse-keeper offending against 1. Jac. 9. or 4. Jac. 5. according to the alterations of this Act is disabled to keepe Alehouse within three yeeres after XXVII All Constables Churchwardens Headboroughs
XIX If any servant or other shall be convicted before two Just of P. or a Chiefe officer as aforesaid by his own Confession or the testimony of two honest men to have assaulted his Master Mistris Dame or Overseer he shall suffer one whole yeares imprisonment or lesse if the Justice or chief ossicer shall think fit And if the party shall be thought to deserve a more severe punishment then to receive such open punishment life and member excepted as the Just in Sess or the chief officer and 4 of the discreetest men in the Corporation shall think convenient XX. Artificers shall work in Hay time and Harvest in paine of Imprisonment in the stocks two dayes one night which the Constable shall inflict upon them in pain of xl s. XXI It shall be lawfull for Labourers other then such as are retained in Service according to this statute to go to other shires to work in Hay time and Harvest so that they bring with them a testimoniall under the hand and seale of one Just of P. or a chiefe officer testifying that they have not sufficient work in the place where they lived the winte before for which testimoniall they shall only pay 1. d. XXII Every unmarried woman sit to serve being above 12 years old and under xl shal by two I. of P. a Chief Officer or two Burgesses be compellable to serve for convenient time and wages in pain of Imprisonment XXIII Husbandmen being housholders using halfe a plough land at least in tillage may take by Indenture Apprentices above the age of ten years and under 18. to serve in husbandry untill the age of xxi yeares at least or 24. yeares as the parties can agree XXIV Every householder of the age of 23. yeares dwelling in a towne Corporate and using there any art or mystery shall and may take an Apprentice for seaven yeares at least Howbeit the terme ought not to expire before the Apprentice accomplish the age of 24. yeares XXV Merchants Mercers Drapers Goldsmiths Iremongers Embroyderers and Clothiers dwelling in Corporate townes shall take no Apprentices but their owne Children or such whose Parents have Inheritance or Freehold of xl s. per Annum to be certified under the hands and seales of three Just of P. of the County where such lands lye to the Head officer of the said Corporation who shall cause the same to be recorded XXVI Artificers in market townes not Corporate being housholders and of the age of 24 yeares may take other Artificers Children to serve as Apprentices XXVII Merchants Mercers Drapers Goldsmiths Iremongers Embroyderers and Clothiers dwelling in Market townes not corporate shall take no Apprentices but their owne Children or such whose Parents have inheritance or Freehold worth 3. l. per Annum to be certified under the hands and Seales of three Just of P. as aforesaid XXVIII Smiths Wheelewrights Plough-wrights Millwrights Carpenters rough Masons Plasterers Sawyers Lime-burners Brickmakers Bricklaiers Tylers Slnters Helyers Tilemakers Linnen Weavers Turners Coopers Millers Earthen Potters Woollen Weavers of Huswifes Cloth only Fullers Wool burners Thatchers and stringers may take Apprentices though their Parents have no Land XXIX None which hath not served seaven yeares in any Art or Mystery shall use the same or set any other to work thercin which have not served out that time in paine to forfeit xl s. for every moneth See Actiors popular 17. XXX Woollen Clothweavers ohter then such as inhabite Cumberland Westmerland Lancaster or Wales or in Cities Corporations or Market townes shall take no Apprentices nor teach any their art save their own Children or such whose parents have Inheritance or Freehold worth 3. l. per Annum to be certified under the hands and seales of 3. l. of P. of the County where the lands lye in pain to forfeit xx s. for every moneth And the Indenture shall within 3. moneths be registred in the parish where the Master dwels the Fee of which registring is 4. d. XXXI Every Clothworker Fuller Sherman Weaver Taylor and Shoomaker shall for every three Apprentices keep one Journeyman and for every Apprentice above three another Journeyman in paine of ten pounds XXXII This Act shallnot preiudice worsted makers nor worsted weavers in Norwich or Norfolk XXXIII If any person fit to make an Apprentice refuse to serve upon demaund one I. of P. Maior or Head officer unto whom complaint there of shall be made have power o commit him to ward untill he shall be willing to serve accordingly XXXIV If there shall arise any difference betwixt the Master the Apprentice one I. of P. in the Country or the Maior or Head officer in a Corporation or Market town shall have power to reconcile it if they can if not then to bind over the Master to the next Qu. Sess where the I. of P. or any four of them 1. Qu. or the the Head officer with the consent of three of his brethren shall upon default found in the Master in writing under their hands and seales have power to discharge the Apprentice of his Service and if default shall be found in the Apprentice then to inflict such punishment upon him as in their discretions shall be thought fit XXXV None shall be bound to enter into an Apprentyship other then such as be under the age of 21. years XXXVI Justices of P. in their severall Divisions and Head officers in townes corporate shall meet twice every year viz. once betwixt Michaelmas and Christmas and another time betwixt the Lady day and Midsommer to give order for the due execution of this statute XXXVII Justices of P. and Head officers shall have 5. s. for every day they sit about the execution of this Statute to be allowed them out of the Fines which accrew upon the Breach thereof so that their sitting be only for matters contained in this Statute and not above 3. dayes at one time XXXVIII The forfeitures abovesaid except those otherwise limited shall be divided betwixt the Queene and the prosecutor And all Just of P. or any two of them 1. Qu. and every Head officer shall have power to hear and determine the breach of this statute upon Indictment or otherwise and to award proces and execution accordingly And shall yearly in Michaelmas terme by Estreat certifie into the Exchequer the fines which accrue upon this Statute in like manner as they ought to doe in other Cases XXXIX This act shall not restraine the Cities of London and Norwich from taking of Apprentices as in times past XL None shall take Apprentices otherwise then is limited by this Act in paine of ten pounds and all indentures otherwise made shall be void XLI An Apprentice shall be bound by his Indenture notwithstanding his non age of 21. years XLII The Inhabitants of Godalming in Surrey may take and use such Arts and Apprentices as market townes may doe by vertue of this Act. XLIII The Fines accrewing by this Act in townes corporate shall be appointed by the
Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his subjects of their allegiance and obedience to his Majestie or to give licence or leave to any of them to beare armes raise tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall person state or government or to any of his Majesties subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I doe sweare from my heart That notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of excommunication or deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his Sce against the said King his heires or successors or any absolution of the said subjects from their obedience I will beare faith and true allegiance to his Majestie his heires and successors and him them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons their crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make knowne unto his Majesty his heires and successors all treasons and traiterous conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them And I doe further sweare That I doe from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and hereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their subjects or any other whatsoever And I do beleeve and in my conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve mee of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full authority to be lawfully ministred unto mee and doe renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these expresse words by mee spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So help mee God LXXXIX Unto this Oath the party taking it shall subscribe his name or mark XC No indictment against a Recusant shall be reversed for lack of form other then by direct Traverse to the point of not coming to Church or not receiving the Sacrament as aforesaid XCI The party conforming himself shall from thenceforth be admitted to discharge or reverse an indictment XCII None shall go out of this Realm to serve any forrein Prince or State without first taking the Oath aforesaid in pain to be adjudged a felon And if hee hath born office amongst souldiers before his departure out of the Realme hee shall enter into bond unto the Kings use with the condition following upon the like pain of being adjudged a felon XCIII The condition is this That if the within bounden c. shall not at any time then after be reconciled to the Pope or See of Rome nor shall enter into nor consent unto any practice plot or conspiracie whatsoever against the Kings Majestie his heires and successors or any his or their estate and estates Realms or Dominions but shall within convenient time after knowledge thereof had reveale and disclose to the Kings Majesty his heires and successors or some of the Lords of his or their honourable privie Councell all such practices plots and conspiracies That then the said Obligation to be void XCIV None but the Customer and Controller of a Port or their Deputies shall have power to take such bond or to minister the Oath in such case for which bond they shall only take 6. d. and nothing for the Oath And shall once every yeer certifie into the Exchequer every such bond in paine of 5. l. and every such Oath in pain of 20. s. XCV To absolve or withdraw any of the Kings subjects from their naturall obedience to his Majesty to reconcile them to the Pope or See of Rome or to move them to promise obedience to any pretended authority of the See of Rome or to any other Prince or State Or to be absolved withdrawn reconciled or to make promise as aforesaid shall be adjudged high Treason XCVI This last clause shall not extend to any reconciled as aforesaid for and touching the point of so beingreconciled only that shall returne into this Realme and within six dayes after before the Bishop of the Diocesse or two Justices of P. jointly or severally of the County where hee shall arrive submit himselfe to the King and his lawes and take the Oath of Supremacie and also the Oath abovesaid which said Oathes the said Bishop and Justices respectively shall by this Act have power to minister to such persons and shall certifie them in at the next generall Sess in pain of 40. li. XCVII Here the tryall of Treason shall be before Justices of Ass and G. D. of that County for the time being and may also be before the Justices of the Kings Bench But Peers in this case shall be tryed by their Peers XCVIII If any person repaireth not every Sunday to some Church or Chappel proof thereof being made to a Justice of P. by the parties owne confession or the evidence of one witnesse the same Justice hath power to call the party before him and if the party give not the Justice a good reason of his absence the Justice may give warrant to the Church-warden of the parish under his hand and seale to levie xii d. for every such default by distresse and sale of goods and in default of distresse the Justice may commit the offender to prison untill he pay the forfeiture aforesaid which shall be imployed ployed for the use of the poore But this offence must be prosecuted within one moneth after it is committed and none punished by this Law shall also be punished by the forfeiture of 12. d. upon the Statute of 1. El. 2. which see in Sacraments 24. XCIX None shall keep or retaine any person in their house servant or other which shall forbeare to come to Church by the space of a month together in paine to forfeit 10. l. for every month they so keep them Howbeit Children may relieve their Father or Mother and Guardians their Wards or Pupils C. The Sheriffe upon a lawfull Writ may justifie to breake a house for the taking of a Recusant Excommunicate CI. The Justices of the Kings Bench and Justices of Ass and G. D. may heare and determine all the offences committed against this Act and so may Justices of P. all save Treason CII The offences made felony by this Act shall not cause losse of Dower corruption of blood or disherison of heire CIII Here if an action shall be brought against an Officer for the execution of this Act
of the case originall matter as of the defaults aforesaid directed to sufficient men in the County at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor which Commissioners shall presently returne into the Chancery the enquests and matters before them found VIII Here during the Sheriffes or under-Sheriffes remaining in his Office the Coroners shall Impanell the Jury each of them having lands worth 10. l. per anuum at least and upon each of which for making default the Coroners shall returne Issues viz. for the first day 20. s. for the second 40. s. for the third 100. s. and for every day after double And all this the Coroner shall do in paine of 40. l. But in case the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe reputed in default be discharged of their office the new Sheriffe shall do that which the Coroners are above enjoyned to do and shall incurre the like penalty if they therein make default IX The Lord Chancellour upon knowledge of any such offence shal send the Kings Writ to the Justices of P. Sheriffe and under-Sheriffe of the same County to put the said Statute of 13. H. 4.7 in execution upon the paine therein contained but although no such writ be sent yet shall they not be excused of the said paine if they make not execution of the same Statute X. A Riot c. shall be repressed and inquired of at the Kings charge which the Sheriffe shall disburse by indenture betwixt the Justices of P. and him and shall be answered him againe upon his accompt in the Exchequer XI Persons guilty of heynous Riots shall suffer one whole yeares imprisonment without baile but petty Rioters shall be imprisoned as shall seeme best to the King and his Councell And greater Fines shall be set upon Rioters then in time past in ayde and supportation of the Justices and other Officers in that behalfe XII All the Kings liege people upon warning shall be assistant to the Justices Commissioners Sheriffe and under-Sheriffe aforesaid upon paine of imprisonment and to make fine and ransome to the King XIII Bailiffes of Franchises shall cause sufficient men to be impannelled upon such enquests if any such be found within their liberties And the Ordinances and paines aforesaid shall extend to Corporations and Liberties where they have Justices of P. within themselves XIV Stat. 2. H. 5.9 Upon a Bill of complaint for any Riot c. preferred by the party grieved to the Lord Chancellor for the time being together with a suggestion testifying the same under the seales of two Just of P. and the Sheriffe of the County the said Lord Chancellor shall send forth a Capias returnable in the Chancery at a certaine day by which if the parties offending or any of them be taken they shall be committed to ward or let to mainprife at the discretion of the said Lord Chancellor and shall be proceeded against as the Law requireth But if the Sheriffe returne Non est inventus a Writ of Proclamation to be proclaimed two County Court dayes shall goe out returnable in the Kings Bench at a certaine day before which if they render not themselves they shall be adjudged convict and attainted of the offence suggested XV. If the offence be committed within the County Palatine of Lancaster or other Franchise where there is a Chancellor and Seale The Lord Chancellor of England shall send a Writ to the said Chancellor commanding him to make such execution as in this Act is comprised 17. XVI Stat. 8. H. 6.14 Two Justices of P. of the Counties where Riots are supposed to be committed shall testifie that the common fame runneth in the same Counties of the same Riots before the Capias shall be awarded according to the Stat. of 2. H. 5.9 XVII If the offence be committed within a Liberty where there is a Chancellor and a Seale upon information of the Riot c. from a Justice of P. and Sheriffe there the said Chancellor hath power to award Writs of Capias and Proclamation as the Chancellor of England hath XVIII Stat. 19. H. 7.13 If any Riot c. be committed the Sheriffe upon a Precept directed unto him shall returne 24. persons whereof every one shall have free-hold within the same County worth 20. s. per annum or Copy-hold worth 26. s. 8. d. per an or Copy-hold and Free-hold together worth 26 s. 8. d. per annum for to inquire of the same Riot c. And shall returne Issues upon every Juror making default viz. for the first day 20. s. and for the second 40. s. And all this the Sheriffe shall do in paine of 20. l. XIX If the said Riot c. be not found by reason of any maintenance or embracery of the said Jurors then shall the Justices and Sheriffe or under Sheriffe besides the Certificate they are to make according to the Stat. of 13. H. 4.7 certifie the names of such maintainers and embraceors together with their misdemeanors in paine to forfeit 20. l. a piece which Certificate shall have like force of proving the offence as a verdict of 12. men And then such maintainers and embraceors shall forfeit 20. l. a piece and remaine in prison at the discretion of the Justices Robbery Stat. 8. El. 4. A Cut-purse Pick-pocket or other person whatsoever which feloniously and privily taketh away any money or other goods from the person of another without his knowledge shall not have the benefit of Clery S. Clergy Felony 15. Hue and Cry Rogues S. Vagabonds Rome S. Recusants Sacraments and Service Divine I. Stat. 50. E. 3.5 and 1. R. 2.15 None shall arrest Priests or other Clerks while they attend Divine Services in paine of imprisonment and to be ransomed at the Kings will so that no collusion or fained cause be found in them II. Stat. 1. E. 6.1 None shall speake or do any thing in contempt of the most holy Sacrament in paine of imprisonment and to make fine and ransome at the Kings will III. Three Just of P. 1. Qu. have power to take information by the oaths of two lawfull persons at least concerning the offence aforesaid and to bind over by Recognisance every Accuser and Witnesse in 5. l. a piece to appeare at the next Sess to give evidence against the offenders who are there to be inquired of before three such Justices or more by the oathes of 12. men and also indicted if the matter alledged against them shall be found true IV. Three such Justices or more have likewise power to send out two Capias an Exigent and a Capias utlagatum against such offenders into all Counties and Liberties and upon their appearance to determine the contempts and offences aforesaid or to take baile for their appearance to be tried as aforesaid V. The Justices also have power to direct a Writ in the kings name to the Bishop of the Diocesse where the offence was committed by which he shall be required to be present himselfe or some for him sufficiently learned at the
paid within six weeks as aforesaid shall suffer one whole yeers imprisonment and for the third offence shall forfeit all their goods and chattels and suffer imprisonment during life XXIV Every person shall resort to their parish Church or upon let thereof to some other every Sunday and Holiday upon paine to be punished by censures of the Church and also to forfeit xii d. to be levied by the Church-wardens there for the use of the poor upon the offenders goods by way of distresse See Recusants 98. XXV Justices of Oyer and Terminer and of Ass and Maiors and head Officers of Corporations have power to hear and determine these offences unto whom the Arch-Bish or Bishop of the Diocesse may associate himself if he please Howbeit note that by the Stat. of 23. El. 1. Justices of Peace have also power to meddle therein which see in Title Recusants 27. XXVI None shall be impeached by this Act unlesse the offence be presented at the next Sessions of Oyer and Terminer or Ass after it is committed and here tryall of a Peer shall be by Peers XXVI This Act shall not restrain Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction Howbeit none shall be punished twice for one offence Sacriledge See Clergie Schoole-masters See Recusants 26 67. Scotland See Corn 1. Horses 9 10. Seminary Priests S. Recusants Servants S. Labourers Service divine S. Sacraments Sewers I. Stat. 23. H. 8.5 Commissioners of Sewers before they can have power to execute their Commission shall take the Oath ordained by this Statute before the L. Chancellour or those whom he shall depute by Dedimus for that purpose or else before the Justices of P. in Sess II. The form of the Oath is this Yee shall sweare That you to your cunning wit and power shall truly and indifferently execute the authority to you given by this Commission of Sewers without any favour affection corruption dread or malice to be borne to any manner person or persons And as the case shall require you shall consent and endeavour your selfe for your part to the best of your knowledge and power to the making of such wholsome just equall and indifferent Laws and Ordinances as shall be made and devised by the most discreet and indifferent number of your fellowes being in Commission with you for the due redresse reformation and amendment of all and every such things as are contained and specified in the said Commission And the same Laws and Ordinances to your cunning wit and power cause to be put in due execution without savour meede dread malice or affection As God you help c. III. Stat. 13. El. 9. A Commission of Sewers shall continue in force ten yeares and the orders made by their Commissioners one yeare longer during which time of one yeare the Justices of Peace of that County or six of them 2. Qu. have power to execute such Commission and Orders as fully as the Commissioners themselves unlesse in the interim a new Commission be sent forth Sheep S. Cattell Sheriffes I. Magna Charta 9. H. 3.17 No Sheriffe Constable Escheator Coroner or any other our Bailiffes shall hold Pleas of our Crowne II. Stat. 1. H. 4.11 If a Sheriffe commit extortion and be thereof attainted he shall be punished for the same at the Kings will III. Stat. 23. H. 6.10 No Sheriffe shall let to farme his County or Bailiwicks neither shall he his under-Sheriffe or any other Bailiffe returne upon Enquests any Bailiffe Coroner Steward or any servant of theirs neither shall they take any thing for arresting or for omitting to arrest save onely the fees that follow viz. for the Sheriffe 20. d. for the Bailiffe that makes the arrest 4. d. and for the Gaoler when the party is committed 4. d. Neither shall any Sheriffe under-Sheriffe Sheriffes Clerk Steward or Bailiffe of Franchise Servant Bailiffe or Coroner take above 4. d. for the Copy of a Pannell IV. Sheriffes and other Officers shall let to Baile persons by them arrested upon reasonable Sureties having sufficient within the County persons in ward by Condemnation exemption Capias utlagatum or Excommunicatum surety of Peace or committed by command of the Justices and Vagabonds refusing to serve only excepted V. The said Officers shall take no bond of any arrested person but for appearance and to themselves onely and shall not take for it more then 4. d. and bonds otherwise taken colore officii shall be void VI. Sheriffes shall make Deputies in the Kings Courts at Westminster to receive Writs to be delivered unto them VII Sheriffes under-Sheriffes Clerks Bailiffes Gaolers Coroners Stewards Bailiffes of Franchises and all other Officers which do contrary to this Act shall forfeit for every such offence treble damages to the party grieved and besides 40. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor VIII Justices of Assise of both the Benches and of Peace have power to heare and determine these offences IX If the Sheriffe returne a Cepi Corpus or Reddidit se he shall be chargeable to have the body of the party ready at the day of returne mentioned in the Writ X. The Warden of the Fleet or of the Gaole of the Kings Palace at Westminster shall not be prejudiced by this Ordinance XI Stat. 11. H. 7.15 No Sheriffe under-Sheriffe or Shire-Clerk shall enter in the County Court any Plaint in the absence of the Plaintife or his Attourney nor above one Plaint for one cause in paine of 40. s. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XII A Justice of Peace upon complain made hath power to examine the abovesaid Officers and Plaintife concerning the premisses and finding any of the same Officers guilty shall within three months after certifie that examination into the Exchequer in paine of 40. s. upon which examination the said Officers shall be convicted to pay the abovesaid forfeiture of 40. s. without farther inquiry XIII The Defendant in the County Court shall have lawfull summons and if the Bailiffe be therein found faulty he shall forfeit 40. s. And here also examination and certificate shal be made by a Justice of Peace as aforesaid XIV Before the Sheriffe issue forth any Estreats out of the County Court two Just of P. 1. Qu. shall view them and there being two parts of them indented and sealed by the said Justices and Sheriffe one of them shall remaine with the Justices and the other with the Sheriffe and here the Officer that collects them shall make oath before the said Justices to levy no more then what is contained in them in paine of 40. s. who may be convict of that offence by the examination of one Just of P. as aforesaid XV. The Justices of P. which are to have the controllement of the Sheriffe and his Estreats shall be named at Michaelmasse Sess by the Custos Rotulorum or in his absence by the eldest of the Quorum And the said Justices of P. upon information of the party grieved may make out like Processe against the
are to passe and the time of their passage or having a testimoniall exceed the time therein limited above fourteen dayes or Counterfeit a testimoniall or produce one which they know to be counterfeited shall in all these cases suffer as Felons without benefit of Clergie 51. XXXIV Iust of Ass G. D. and of P. in their Sess have power to proceed against these offenders as in case of felonie without Clergie unlesse some sufficient man allowed by the Iustices will enter into a Recognisance of x. l. to the Q. to retaine the offender for one whole yeare and to bring him to the next Sess of P. G. D. after the year ended And if he within the yeare depart that service without licence he shall afterwards suffer as a felon without Clergy XXXV Souldiers or Marriners which fall sick in their passage home shall be excused though they exceed the time limited in their testimoniall So that they performe this Act in convenient time after their Recovery XXXVI If when they come home they cannot get worke the two next Just upon their complaint shall take order that they may be provided of work or otherwise shall tax the whole hundred for their Relief untill work may be had XXXVII The Souldier or Marrinet licenced by a Iust of P. to whom he shall make his poverty knowne having not wherewithall to beare his charges home may ask and take Relief So it be in his direct way home and within the time limited by his Licence XXXVIII These offences shall cause no Corruption of Blood XXXIX Stat. 43. El. 3. The more part of the Just of P. yearely in their Easter Sess have power to charge every parish towards a weekly reliefe of maymed Souldiers and Mariners so that no parish pay weekly above 10. d. nor under 2. d. nor any County which consists of above 50. parishes pay above 6. d. one parish with another which summes so taxed shall be assessed in every parish by the parishioners or in their default by the Churchwardens and Constables or in their default by the next Justice or Justices of Peace XL. The Const or Churchw of every parish have power to levie the tax of exery person refusing to pay it by distresse and Sale and in their default the said Justice or Justices next adjoyning XLI The tax being thus levied the Const or Churchw shall deliver it quarterly ten dayes before every quarter Sess to the high Const of their Division who shall deliver it over to the Treasurers of the County at the same quarter Sess XLII The Treasurers shall be Subsidie men viz. of x. l. in lands or xv l. in goods and shall not continue in their office above one year rendring up their Accompts yearly at Easter Sess or within ten dayes after to their Successors XLIII The officer or his executor c. that failes in payment of the Summes levied shall forfeit viz. the Churchw or Const xx s. high Constable xl s. which the Treasurers have power to levy by distresse and Sale in augmentation of their Stock XLIV The Treasurer or his executor c. that hath beene negligent to execute his office or to render the Accompt within the time above limited shall be fined by the I. of P. in the Sess 5 l. at least XLV The maymed Souldier or marriner which was prest shall repaire if he be able to travell to the Treasurers of the County where he was prest if he were not prest then to the Treasurers of the County where he was born or where he last dwelt by the space of three yeares at his election But if he be not able to travell then to Treasurers of the County where he lands XLVI He shall bring to any of the Treasurers aforesaid a Certificate under the hand and Seale of the chief Commander and of the Captaine under whom he served containing the particulars of his hurts and services which Certificate shall be also allowed by the Muster-Master Generall or the Receiver generall of the Muster-Rolls under one of their hands XLVII Vpon such a Certificare the Treafurers aforesaid may allow him Reliefe to maintayne him untill the next Q. Sess at which the more part of the Justices may allow him a pension which the Treasurers shall pay him quarterly untill it shall bee revoked or altered by the said Iustices And this Allowance to him that hath not borne office shall not exceed x. l. To an officer under a Lievtenant xv l. and to a Lievtenant xx l. XLVIII When Souldiers or Marriners arrive far from the place where they are to receive relief the Treasurers there shall give them relief and a Testimoniall whereby they may passe from Treasurer to Treasurer untill they shall come at the place required and this shall be done upon the bare Certificate of the Commander and Captaine although they have not as yet obtained any allowance thereof from the said Muster-Master or Receiver generall of the Muster Rolls XLIX The Treasurers shal register their Receits and disbursments and enter the names of the parties relieved and also the Certificates by warrant whereof the disbursments are made The Muster-Master also or Receiver aforesaid shall register the names of the parties and the Certificates by him allowed And the Treasurer returning or not allowing the Muster-Masters Certificate shall hereupon subscribe or endorse the cause of his disallowance L. Iustices of P. in Sess have power to fine a Treasurer that wilfully refuseth to give relief which any two of them appointed by the rest may levy by distresse and Salc of his goods LI. A Souldier or Marriner that begs or counterfeits a Certificate shall suffer punishment as a common Rogue and shall lose his pension if he have any 3.3 LII The Surplusage of this Contribution shall be imployed by the more part of the Justices in Sess upon charitable uses according to Statutes made for reliefe of the poore and punishment of Rogues LIII In Corporations the Justices there shall put this Act in execution and not the Iustices of the County and shall be lyable to fines as well as other Iustices if they misuse their power therein and shall appoint a Collector of this tax which shall have the power and be subject to the penalties limited by this Act to high Constables of Counties LIV. The forfeitures accruing by this Act shall be imployed as the Surplusage abovesaid or otherwise kept in angmentation of the Stock as the more part of the Justices in Sess shall direct LV. When out of the County where the party was prest a fit pension cannot be satisfied it shall be supplyed by the Counties where he was born or where he last dwelt by the space of three yeares LVI This Act shall not prohibit the City of London to make a tax if need require differning from that above limited 35. so that no parish pay above 3. s. weekly nor above or under 12. d. weekly one parish with another S. Boatmen 7. Felonie 16. Recusants 112.
third and for every default after the double VI. The Sheriffe or Bailiffe that shall neglect his duty here in shall forfeit xx l. to be recovered against him as well before the Justices aforesaid as before Just of Ass by Indictment or Bill and to be divided betwixt the K. and the prosecutor VII In an assise of Novel disseisin or Action of trespasse against the party guilty of forcible entry forcible detainer or Alienation as aforesaid the party grieved shall recover treble damages VIII Head officers and Just of P. of Corporations have like power within their Franchises that other Just of P. have within Counties IX This Statute shall endamage none where peaceable possession hath been enjoyed by the space of three yeares X. Stat. 32 H. 8.33 A disseisor dying seised taketh not away title of entry from the disseisee or his heire except the disseisor enjoyed the tenements peaceably without entry or claime of the disseisee 5. years before his death XI Stat. 31. El. 11. There shall be no Restitution upon an Indictment of forcible entry or detainer where the defendant hath been three years next before in quiet possession and his estate therein not ended XII Stat. 21. Iac. 15. Vpon force or detainer as aforesaid a Justice or Just of P. have power to give restitution of possession aswell unto Tenants for years by Elegit Statute merchant or staple Coppiholders or Guardians by Knight service as unto those that Clayme Free hold or Inheritance S. Maintenance 14. Forests S. Horses 5. Hunters Forestallers Regrator Ingrossers I. Stat. 5.6 E. 6.14 He that shall buy or contract any Merchandize Victuall or other thing in the way before it shall be brought by land or by water unto any Port rode Faire or Market where it should be sold or shall disswade prople from bringing any such commoditie to any such place or being brought shall perswade them to enhaunce the price thereof shall be adjudged a Forestaller II. A Regrator is he that buyes any grain victuall or other commodity in a Faire or Maket and sells thesame againe in the same Fair or Market or some other Fair or Market within four Miles III. An Ingrosser is he that buyes or gets into his hands any grain growing upon the ground or other commodity above mentioned with an intent to sell the same againe IV. The party guilty of any of the offences abovesaid shall forfeit for the first offence the value of the goods so bought or had and suffer two moneths Imprisonment without Baile for the second the double value and six moneths Imprisonment without Bail and for the third shall forfeit all his goods be set upon the Pillory and suffer imprisonment at the K. pleasure V. This Act shall not restraine the buying of Barly or oates to be converted into Mault or oatmeale nor the Provision of Victualling any towne corporate Ship Castle Fort or of Barwick Holy-Iland c. or any Fishmonger In-holder Victualler Butcher Poultrer or peopledwelling within one Mile of the main Sea which use to buy and sell fish for any thing concerning their severall Mysteries or trading they retayling the same againe at reasonable prices nor any Badger Lader Kidder or Carrier assigned to that office by three Just of P. and delivering the Commodity out of his hand within one moneth after he buyes it nor the taking of any thing reserved upon any lease so that all these things be done without fraud or forestalling VI. He that buyeth graine in any market for change of seed shall bring as much the same day and sell it if he can according to the present Price of graine there in paine to forfeit double the value of the graine so bought VII He that byues any Cattle and sells the same againe alive within five weeks shall forfeit double the value therof during which time he ought to keepe them upon pastrue which he hath either by graunt or prescription VIII Justices of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine the aforesaid offences by Inquisition presentment Bill or Information or by the Testimony of two Witnesses and to extract the one half of the forfeitures to the use of the King and cause the other halfe to be levied to the use of the prosecutor by Fieri facias or capias and when the prosecution shall be at the Kings suite only to extract the whole to the Kings use IX None shall be punished twice for the same offence X. This Act shall not restraine the Transporter of Graine or Cattle from Port to Port allowed by three Justices of P. and not fore-stalling so that he imbark the same within 40. dayes after he buyes them and brings back from some Just of P. or Head-Officer a Certificate of their unlading agreeable to his Cocket XI The offences against this Statute shall be prosecuted within two yeares XII This Act shall not restrain a Drover allowed by there Just of P. 1. Qu. and selling his Cattel at 40. miles distance from the place where he bought them Howbeit such allowance ought not to continue above one yeare Vide Stat. 31. E. 1. Stat. of Clothes 25. E. 3.3 and Stat. 2. R. 2.2 And also Actions popular 15. Badgers 2. Weights 18. Franchises S. Liberties Fruiterers S. Victuall 10 Fuell Stat. 7. E. 6.7 A Justice of P. hath power to commit to the Pillory such as are not able to pay the forfeitures for breaking the Assise of Fuell For the Assise of Fuell and the penalty of breaking the same Sec 43. El. 14. Games S. Playes Gaole Gaolers S. Prisons Gold Silver Goldsmiths I. STat. 8. H. 5.3 None shall gild any thing but Silver or the Ornaments of holy Church nor silvers any thing but Knights spurres or the apparell of a Baron or above that estate in pain to forfeit ten times the value of the thing so gilt and to suffer one yeares imprisonment II. Just of P. have power to heare and determine these offences and the prosecutor shall have one third part of the forfeiture III. Stat. 2 H. 6.14 Goldsmiths that work any silver not of the finenesse of Sterling or shall not set their mark thereon shall forfeit double the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the Prosecutor IV. Justices of P. have power to heare and determine these offences V. Stat. 18. El. 15. Two and twenty caracts are the measure for the finenesse of gold and eleven ounces and a half for that of silver S. Actions popular 18. Felony 4. Graine S. Corne. Green Waxe S. Estreats Guns and Crosse-bowes I. Stat. 33. H. 8.6 None shall shoot in or keep in his house any Crosse-bow Hand-gun Hagbut or Demy-hake unlesse his lands be of the value of a 100. li per Annum in pain to forfeit x. l. for every such offence II. None shall shoot in or have any handgun under the length of one yard nor hagbut or demy-hake under the length of three quarters of a yard in pain to forfeit 10. li. And it
superfluous number of Maulsters and also of the Buyers of Barly to be converted into Mault VII If any man shall be convicted by the testimony of two witnesses or his owne Confession to have disobeyed the restraint aforesaid he shall suffer three dayes imprisonment withont baile and there shall still remain untill he shall before some I. of P. become bound by recognisance in xl l. to obey the said Restraint IX Justices of P. of the County shall not execute this law within Corporations but only the Justices and chiefe officers of the same Corporations X. Those which have Barley of their own growing Tith Corne or rent Corne may convert it into Mault notwithstanding this Statute XI Maulsters shall not meddle with the execution of this Act. S. Forestallers 5. Measures S. Weights Millers S. Weights 12. Money I. Stat. 25. E. 3.2 It shall be high Treason to counterfeit the Kings money or to bring into this Kingdome counterfeit mony knowing it to be false II. Stat. 3. H. 5.7 Just of Ass and Just of P. shall have power by Commission the Kings to heare and determine the offences of bringing in of false money as also of counterfeiting washing or Clipping it and of every other falsity concerning money III. Stat. 1. M. 6. It shall be adjudged high Treason to counterfeit forraine Coyn currant in England IV. Stat. 1.2 P. M. 11. It shall be high Treason to bring into this Kingdome any counterfeit forraine Coine to the intent to utter it here knowing the same to be false V. Stat. 5. Elizab. 11. It shall be high Treason to clip wash round or file currant money whether English or Forraine for which the offender shall suffer as in case of high Treason and also shall forfeit his goods and Chattels for ever and his lands also during life VI. Stat. 14. El. 3. It shall be misprision of Treason to counterfeit forrain Coine not currant in England for which the offender shall suffer imprisonment and forfeit such lands and goods as in case of misprision of Treason for concealment of high Treason VII Stat. 18. El. 1. It shall be high treason to diminish shale or lighten any Currant Coine English or forraine for which the offender shall forfeit his goods and Chattels for ever and his lands during life But here there shall be no Corruption of Blood or losse of Dower VIII A Peere of the Realme guilty of this offence shall be tryed by his Peeres Mortuaries I. Stat. 21. H. 8.6 None shall take or demand for a mortuary any thing at all where by the Custome they have not been usually paid nor upon the death of a woman Covert a Child any person not keeping house a wayfaring man one not residing in the place where he happens to die or where the goods of the dead person debts deducted amount not to the value of x. markes or above the summe 3. s. 4. d. when they exceed not xxx l. or above 6. s. 8. d. when they exceed xxx l. and not xl l. or above x. s. when they amount to xl l. or above in pain to forfeit so much as they shall take above the severall summes limited by this Act besides xl s. to the party grieved to be recovered by Action of Debt II. Mortuaries for wayfairing men and all other which die out of their place of Residence shall be paid only in the place where they had their most habitation at the time of their death and no more but one Mortuary upon one death III. Lesse Mortuaries already setled by Custome shall not be encreased by this Act And there also persons exempted by this Act shall not hereafter be chargeable See the stat 29. H. 8.15 Note that I. of P. may punish those for extortion which take more then this statute allowes Vide Lambert 435. Rast in Tabula Murder I. Stat. 52. H. 3.25 Murder from henceforth shall not be judged before the Justices where it is found misfortune only but it shall take place in such as are slaine by felony and not otherwise II. Stat. 6. E. 1.9 No Writ shall issue out of the Chancery for the death of a man but the delinquent shall be imprisoned till the comming of the Justices in Eyre or Justices of G. D. and having put himselfe upon the Country if it shall be found by misfortune or in his own defence upon report thereof by the Just the King if he please may take him to his grace III. An Appealor which declares the deed the year the day the houre the time of the King the place where the weapon by which the party was slain and prosecutes his Suit within a yeare and a day shall not be barred for default of fresh Suit IV. Stat. 2.3 E. 6.24 If one be stricken or poisoned in one County and die thereof in another an Indictment found against the Offender in the County where the party died shall be as effectuall as one found in the County where he was first stricken or poysoned And there also may an Appeale be sued as well against the Accessaries as Principall V. An Indictment found against an Accessary to any such Murder or Felony in another County then where the principall offence was committed shall be as effectuall as if it had been found in the same County And the Justices before whom such Accessary shall be tried or tvvo of them shall write to the Custos Rotulorum of the other County for a Certificate of the proceeding against the Principall and shall give Judgement accordingly S. Eastardy 4. Clergie Felony 15. Newes Stat. West 1.3 E. 1.33 None shall report any false or slanderous nevves or tales whereupon discord may arise betweene the King and his People or the great men of the Realme in pain of Imprisonment till he produce the Author See also 2. R. 2.5 12. R. 2.11 S. Pishdayes 11. Oatmeale S. Forestallers 5. Oathes S. Recusants 8.88 Sewers 2. Sheriffes 17. Ordinary S. Ecclesiasticall Court Oldfeild Dike in the Isle of Ely S. Felony 13. Outlawed persons S. Bailement 1. Sheriffes 4. Outlawries S. Certificate Pannell S. Jurors Pardon I. Stat. 2. E. 3.2 No Pardon shall be granted of Manslaughter Robery Felony or other trespasses against the Peace but only where the King may doe it saving his oath viz. where one slayeth another in his owne defence or by misfortune II. Stat. 4. E. 3.13 10. E. 3.2 The statute of 2. E. 3.2 shall be duly put in Execution III. Stat. 10. E. 3.3 Those which obtaine the Kings Pardon for Felony shall within three months after such Pardon produce before the Sheriffe and Coroners six sufficient mainprisors or Sureties who shall under their seales be bound for the good behaviour of the party pardoned which Mainprises shall be returned into the Chancery within three weeks after the said 3. months IV. If the party pardoned faile to procure such surety or having procured beare himselfe otherwise against the Peace then he ought the pardon shall be holden for
none V. Stat. 14. E. 3.15 No pardon of the death of a man or other Felony shall be granted but only where the King may doe it saving the oath of his Crowne and if any pardon be granted against the Statutes made before this time it shall be holden for none VI. Stat. 27. E. 3.2 Pardons which have not in them the suggestion whereupon they are granted and also the suggestors name shall be void so are those likewise which are granted upon false suggestions VII Stat. 13. R. 2.1 In a Pardon the offence committed shall be specified otherwise it shall not be allowed VIII No pardon of Treason or Felony shall passe without warrant of the Privy Seale IX If the offence pardoned be afterwards found wilfull murder that Pardon shall not be allowed X. Stat. 5. H. 4.2 If an approver shall commit felony after he is pardoned he that procured his pardon shall forfeit C. l. whose name shall also for that purpose be inserted in the said Pardon Parks S. Hunting Parliament I. Stat. 23. H. 6.11 The Sheriffe the next County Court after he shall have received the writ for assessing the wages of the Knights of the Parliament shall make proclamation that the Coroners Chiefe Constables Bayliffes and all other that will appeare at the next County Court to Assesse the same Wages at which last County the Sheriffe and the other officers shall be present in proper person in pain that every one which makes default shall forfeit xl s. II. The Sheriffe or other officer which levies more then is assessed shall forfeit xx l. to the King and x. l. to the prosecutor III. Justices of both the Benches Just of Assise G. D. and of P. have power to heare and determine these abuses as well at the Suit of the King as of the party IV. This Assessment shall not be levied but only in places where it hath been formerly levied and hereafter in every writ for that purpose this Act shall be inserted V. Stat. 35. H. 8.11 Two Justices of P. in every County of Wales and Monmouthshire have power to tax the Cities Burroughs and townes there what proportion every of them shall pay towards the Charges of their Burgesses for the Parliament VI. It appeares by the preamble of this Statute that the Wages of a Knight of the Parliament is 4. s. the day and of a Burgesse 2. s. or more Partridges S. Hawkes Paving I. Stat. 13. El. 23. An Act made for the paving of certaine streets and Lanes about Aldgate and white Chappell in the suburbs of London and for clensing certaine ditches thereabouts and that I. of P. of London and Middlesex may inquire and assesse fines for defaults to the Queenes use II. Stat. 23. El. 12. This Statute is an Addition of the former by vertue whereof I. of P. there have power to make a Scavenger Penall Statutes S. Actions Popular Perjury I. Stat. 5. El. 9. None shall suborne a Witnesse to give testimony in any Court of Record concerning any lands goods Debts or damages in paine of xl l. And if the offender being convicted thereof hath not wherewithall to satisfie the said Forfeiture he shall suffer six moneths imprisonment without Baile stand upon the Pillory one whole houre in the next or same market Towne where the offence was committed and be for ever after disabled to give Testimony in any Court of Record untill the Judgement given against him be reversed by Attaint or otherwise See Maintenance II. He that commits wilfull perjury shall forfeit xx l. suffer six moneths Imprisonment without Baile and be ever after disabled to give Evidence untill the Judgement given against him shall be reversed as aforesaid And here also if he hath not wherewithall to discharrge the fine in the Country the Sheriffe or in a Corporation the Head officer shall cause him to be set upon the Pillory in some market place and to have both his eares nailed III. The Forfeitures abovesaid shall be divided bet wixt the Queene and the party grieved IV. Judges of the Courts where such offences shall happen to be committed I. of Ass G. D. and of P. have power to heare and determine the same offences V. This statute shall be proclaimed at every Assise VI. This Act shall not extend to any Court ecclesiasticall but that they may there proceed as in times past VII This Act shall not restraine the pow-of the Star Chamber to punish haynous Perjuries VIII Howbeit none served with a Processe out of a Court of Record to testifie as a witnesse being tendred convenient charges and having no reasonable let shall therein make default in pain to forfeit x. l. and to yeild such further Recompence to the party grieved as the Judge of the same Court shall think fit according to the damage sustained which said summes shall be recovered by the said party grieved in any of her Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt wherein no wager essoine or protection shall be allowed Petty Treason S. Clergy Pewter S. Brasse Physitians I. Stat. 14. H. 8.5 None shall practice Physick in the Country without a Testimoniall of his sufficiency from the Colledge of Physitians in London unlesse he be a Graduate of one of the Universities II. Stat. 1. M. 9. Sess 1 Just of P. Maiors Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables and other officers shall assist the President of the Colledge of Physitians in London and all persons authorised by them for the due execution of their Lawes and Statutes in pain to run in Contempt of the Queenes Majestic her heires and successors Pillory S. Weights Plague I. Stat. 1. Jac. 31. The Maior Bayliffes Head officers or Just of P. of a Corporation or any tvvo such Justices have power to tax the Inhabitants there towards the reliefe of those which are infected with the Plague and to make warrant under their hands and seales for any person to levy the said tax upon the goods of those which shall refuse or neglect to pay the same And if no goods can be found to satisfie the tax upon the parties refusall of it to commit him to Prison there to remaine untill the tax be satisfied II. If the Corporation shall not be able to relieve the persons infected upon Certificate thereof to the Just of P. of the County thereunto adjoyning or any tvvo of the said Justices shall have like povver to tax levy and imprison as aforesaid within five Miles distance of the said Corporation III. In townes and places not corporate or where there are no Justices or Head officers as aforesaid tvvo Justices of P. of the County shal tax levy and imprision as aforesaid vvithin five Miles distance of the towne or place so infected IV. These taxes shall be certified in at the next Qu. Sess of the Corporation or County respectively and shall there be ordered as by the Justices there or the more part of them shall be thought fit V. The Constable or other officer which wilfully neglects to levy the
tax upon a warrant as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such default x. s. to be imploied upon the charitable uses aforesaid VI. If any infected person residing in an infected house after command by a Justice or other officer presume to come forth the Watchmen may resist him and if any hurt happen to him thereupon the Watchmen shall not be impeached therefore VII If any person having a sore upon him go abroad and converse in Company he shall suffer as a Felon and if he have no sore he shall be punished as a vagabond according to the Statute of 39. El. 4. See Vagabonds 3. c. VIII No Attainder of Felony by vertue of this Act shall extend to Corruption of Blood or forfeiture of goods or Lands IX It shall be lawfull for the Just of P. and Head officers to appoint Scarchers Watchmen Examiners Keepers and Buriers and to minister unto them oathes for the due performance of their offices and to give them other directions as in their discretion shall be thought fit X. Justices of P. or Head officers shall not by force of this Act meddle in the Universities Cathedrall Churches or Colledges Playes and Games I Stat. 33. H. 8.9 None shall keep or maintain a house or place of unlawful games in pain of xl s. and none shall use or haunt such places in paine of 6. s. 8. d. II. In every Placard to keep common Gaming the Games there to be used shall be inserted as also the persons who shall play thereat and every Placard otherwise granted shall be void The G antee also of such a Placard shall be bound by recognisance in the Chancery with good sureties not to use it contrary to the from thereof III. It shall be lawfull for Justices of P. in every County and for Head Officers in Corporations as well within Liberties as without to enter and resort into all such houses and places where such unlawfull Games are suspected to be used and aswell the Keepers thereof as the resorters thereunto to arrest and imprison untill they shall severally give good Security at the discretions of the said Justices or officers not to keep or use such games any more IV. Every Maior Sheriffe Bayliffe Constable and other Head officer within every City Borough or towne shall make due search as aforesaid once every moneth at least in pain to forfeit xl s. for every such default V. No Artificer or his Journeyman No Husbandman Apprentice Labourer Servant at husbandry Mariner Fisherman Waterman or Servingman shall play at Tables Tenis Dice Cards Bovvles Clash Coyting Logating or any other unlawfull game out of Christmas or then out of their Masters house or presence in paine of xx s. And none shall play at Bowles in open places out of his Garden or Orchard in pain of 6. s. 8. d. VI. All Informations or suits upon this Statute shall be prosecuted within one year and the forfeitures thereof which happen within a Leet or Liberty shall be divided betvvixt the King the Lord therof in all other places betwixt the King the prosecutor VII Proclamation of this Act shall be made quarterly in every Market Tovvne as also at every G. D. Ass and Sess VIII This Act shall not restraine a servant by his Masters Licence to play at Cards dice or Tables with the Master himselfe or other gentleman resorting to the Masters house and if the Master hath Freehold of 100. l. per annum he may also licence his servant to play at Bovvles or Tenis IX Stat. 2.3 P. M. 9. All Licences to keep houses and places of unlavvfull Games shall be void X. Stat. 3. Jac. 21. None shall in any stage play Shew May-game or Pageant profanely use the name of God Christ Jesus the Holy Ghost or Trinity in pain of x. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor S. Actions Popular 17. Alehouses 2. Holydayes 1. Ponds S. Hunters Poore People I. Stat. 43. El. 1. The Churchwardens of every parish and 4.3 or 2. housholders there according to the greatnesse of the parish to be nominated yearly in Easter week or within one moneth after under the hands and seales of two Justices of P. 1. Qu. shall be called Overseers of the Poore for the same parish II. These Officers or the greater part of them shall take order vvith the Consent of tvvo such Just for the setting of poore people to work and for raising by taxation a convenient stock to work upon to relieve impotent persons to put forth Apprentices and to performe all other things concerning the premisses III. These officers or such of them as shall not be let by some just excuse to be allowed two such Justices shall meet monethly in the Church upon the Sunday after Evening prayer and there consider of some meet direction in the premisses And shall within foure dayes after the end of their yeare and other Overseers nominated yeeld up a true accompt to such tvvo Justices pay the Surplusage thereof to their successors and use all possible diligence in their office in pain to forfeit for every such default xx s. IV Where the Inhabitants of any parish are not able to relieve themselves tvvo such I. may tax other parishes and places and the vvhole Hundred also if need require and where the whole Hundred is not able Just of P. in Sesâ— may tax the County in part or wholly at their discretions V. It shall be lavvfull for the said officers upon warrant from two such Just to levy such tax or surplusage by distresse and sale of goods and in default of distresse tvvo of the said Just have power to commit the party to Prison there to remain without Baile untill it be discharged and also to commit persons which refuse to work to the house of Correction VI. The said officers or the greater part of them vvith the assent of two I. of P. may bind poore Children Apprentices viz. a man child till 24. yeares of age and a woman Child till 21. yeares or Marriage VII The said officers shall with the Consent of the Lord of the Mannor first obtaind in writing under his hand and Seale either of themselves or by vertue of a Sess order erect Cottages upon the wast and lodge Inmates therein notwithstanding the statute of 31. El. 7. But those Cottages shall not be afterwards otherwise imployed then to lodge impotent persons therein upon the paines mentioned in the said statute of 31. El. VIII Justices of P. in Sess shall rectifie unjust taxes whose order therein shall be binding to all parties IX The Father Grandfather Mother Grandmother and Children of every poore person shal be assessed towards their reliefe as the Just of P. in Sess of the County where such Father c. dwels shall limit and appoint in paine to forfeit 20. s. a month X. Officers in Corporate townes and Aldermen of London have in their severall precincts like authority that Just of P. have in the Counties which
LXIX Every married woman shall be bound by this Act save only by the clause of Abjuration LXX Stat. 1. Jac. 4. All the aforesaid Statutes made in the time of Queene Eliz. shall be duely put in execution against all such as do not conforme themselves as aforesaid LXXI Where the Ancestor dies a Recusant the heire being none or conforming himselfe and taking the Oath of Supremacy before the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse the lands shall be freed from all penalties LXXII If an heire within age after he shall have accomplished the age of 16. years doth still continue a Recusant his lands shall not be freed untill he do conforme and take the Oath of Supremacy as aforesaid LXXIII A third part of every Recusants lands shall remaine cleere unto him from seisure or extent and the other two parts shall remaine in the Kings hands both before and after the Recusants death untill the King shall be fully satisfied all the arrerages for the 20. l. a month according to 23. El. 1. LXXIV None shall send any child or other person under their government beyond the Seas to be instructed in the Popish Religion in paine of 100. l. and they which are so sent shall be incapable as to themselves only of any grant or Inheritance due unto them or to others for their use LXXV Ifa woman or child under the age of 21. yeares be suffered to passe the Seas without the licence of the King or of six of the Privy Councell under their hands except Saylors Ship-boyes or Merchants Factors or Apprentices the Officers of the Port shall forfeit their Offices and all their goods the Owner of the Ship his Ship and Tackle and the Master of the Ship all his goods and besides shall suffer a yeares imprisonment without Baile 119. LXXVI None out of the Universities shal keep Schoole except a Free Schoole or in some persons house that is no Recusant or by licence of the Bishop or Ordinary in paine to forfeit 40. s. a day LXXVII The forfeitures of this Act shall be divided bewixt the King and the Prosecutor LXXVIII Stat. 3. Jac. 4. A Recusant that conformes shall within one yeare after and so once every yeare at least receive the blessed Sacrament in paine to forfeit for the first yeare 20. l. for the second 40. l. and for every default after 60. l. and if after he hath received it he make default therein by the space of a whole yeare he shall forfeit 60. l. LXXIX These forfeitures may be recovered before Just of P. in Sess or in any other Court of record and are to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecuter LXXX The Church-wardens and Constables of every Parish or one of them or if there be none such then the High Constable of the Hundred there shall present once every yeer at the Generall Sessions of Peace the monethly absence from Church of every Popish Recusant and their children being above the age of nine yeers and their servants together with the age of their children as neer as they can know them in pain to forfeit respectively for every such default 20. s. which presentment the Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk shall record without fee in pain of 40. s. LXXXI If upon such presentment being the first the Recusant be convicted the Officer that presents him shall have 40. s. to be levied by warrant upon the Recusants goods and estate as the more part of the Justices of Peace shall think fit LXXXII Just of Ass G. D. and P. have power to heare determin of all Recusants offences as well for not receiving the Sacrament according to this Act as also for not coming to Church according to former laws And likewise to make proclamation that they shall render themselves to the Sheriffe or Bailiffe of the Liberty where they are before the next Ass G. D. or Sess respectively which if they do not that default being recorded shall be taken for as sufficient a conviction of them as a tryall by verdict LXXXIII Every offender not repairing to Church as aforesaid after their first conviction shall pay into the Exchequer in such of the Terms of Easter and Michaelmas as shall happen next after such conviction the summe then due for the forfeiture of 20. l. a moneth and yeerly after that in the same Terms according to the rate of 20. l. a moneth except where the King shall be pleased to take two third parts of their lands and leases in lieu thereof or that they conform themselves and come to Church LXXXIV Every conviction shall before the end of the Term next following be certified into the Exchequer in such convenient certainty that the Court may thereupon award Processe for the seisure of all the offenders goods and two parts of his lands and leases in case the 20. l. a moneth be not paid as aforesaid LXXXV The King may refuse 20. l. a moneth and take two third parts of the Recusants lands and leases but here he shall not include the Recusants Mansion house nor demise his two parts to a Recusant or to any other for a Recusants use And the Kings lessee for his two parts shall give such security against committing of waste as by the Court of Exchequer shall be thought sufficient LXXXVI It shall be lawfull for the Bishop of the Dioccsses or two Justices of P. one Quorum out of Sess to tender the Oath hereafter following to any person eighteen yeers old or above except noble men and noble women which stands convicted or indicted of Recusancy hath not received the Sacrament twice in the yeer next before or passing thorow the Countrey and examined upon oath confesseth or at least denyeth not that he or she is a Recusant or that he or shee hath not received the Sacrament twice in the yeer next before which Bishop or Justices shall certifie the name and dwelling of the person so taking the same Oath at the next generall Sess where the Clerk of the P. or Town Clerk shall record them LXXXVII If the parties refuse to answer upon oath or to take the Oath aforesaid tendered unto them the Bishop or Justices aforesaid shall bind them over to the next Ass or Sess where if they again refuse it they shall incurre a Praemunire except women covert who in that case shall only suffer imprisonment till they take it LXXXVIII The tenour of the Oath is as followeth 1 A. B. doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and deelare in my conscience before God and the world That our Soveraigne Lord King James is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And That the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other meanes with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majeslies Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forrain
he may plead the Generall Issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence CIV This Act shall not abridge the Jurisdiction of Ecclesiasticall Censures CV None shall be punished for his wives offence neither shall any married woman be chargeable with any penalty or forfeiture by force of this Act. CVI. Six of the Privy Councell whereof the Lord Chancellor Lord Treasurer or Principall Secretary shall be one have power to minister the Oaths abovesaid to Noblemen being 18. yeares old and to Noblewomen also of like age and unmarried who shall take the same Oaths accordingly in paine to incurre a Praemunire Vide infra 128. CVII The Warden of the Cinque Ports or some authorized by him shall take the bond and minister the Oath aforesaid where any person passeth beyond Sea out of them of any of their members CVIII Stat 3. Jac. 5. The person that within three dayes notice shall discover to a Just of P. any that entertaines a Popish Priest or any which have heard or said Masse shall have a thrid part of the forfeiture due for the same offences if the whole exceed not 150. l. and then onely 50. l. thereof to be delivered unto him by the Sheriffe or other Officer which shall have power to levie the same CIX No convicted Recusant shall come into the Court without command from the King or warrant from the Privy Councell under their hands in paine of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the Discoverer CX A Popish Recusant convicted or indicted or any person not coming to Church by the space of 3. months together which remains in London or within ten miles distance thereof shall within ten dayes after such conviction or Indictment depart from thence and also shall deliver their names in London to the Lord Maior there and in the Country to the next Just of P. in pain of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor Howbeit this clause shall not extend to Tradesmen or such as have no other habitation then in London or within ten miles distance as aforesaid CXI It shall be lawfull for a Recusant to go about his necessary occasions as farre as a license obtained from the King or from three of the Privy Councell under their hands or foure of the next Justices of Peace under their hands and seales with the assent in writing of the Bishop Lieutenant or any deputy Lieutenant of the same County shall give him leave notwithstanding the Statute of 35. El. 2. which lecence shall not be granted by the said Justices till the party hath made oath of the true reason of his journey and that he will make no causelesse stayes CXII No convicted Recusant shall practise the Common Law Civill Law Physick or Art of Apothecary or be an Officer of or in any Court or beare any Office amongst souldiers or in a Ship Castle or Fortresse in paine of 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor 130. CXIII No Popish Recusant convict or whose wife is a Recusant convict shall exercise any publique Office in the Common-wealth by himselfe or his deputy unlesse he bring up his children in the true Religion together with his children servants repaire to the Church and receive the Sacrament at such times as by the Law are limited 130. CXIV A married woman being a Popish Recusant convict her husband being none that doth not conforme her selfe as aforesaid by the space of one whole yeare before her husbands death shall forfeit two third parts of her Dower or Joynture and shall be incapable of being Executrix or Administratrix to her husband and of enjoying any part of her husbands goods CXV A Popish Recusant after conviction shall be reputed to all intents as a person excommunicate untill he shall conforme go to Church receive the Sacrament and take the Oath of obedience ordained by 3. Jac. 4. Howbeit he may sue for his interest in lands not seised into the Kings hands CXVI A Popish Recusant convict which is married otherwise then in open Church and by a lawfull Minister according to the Orders of the Church of England shall not be tenant by the Counrtesie And a woman in this case shall be disabled to enjoy her Dower Joynture Widowes estate or any of her husbands goods And where the man cannot be tenant by the Courtesie he shall forfeit 100. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor CXVII Every Popish Recusant shall within one moneth after the birth of his child cause it to be baptized by a lawfull Minister in pain to forfeit 100. l. if he out-live the moneth if not then his wife is to pay the same forfeiture which shall be divided into there parts whereof the King shall have one the prosecutor another and the poor of the parish the third CXVIII Every Popish Recusant shall be buried in the Church of Church-yard and according to the Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realm in pain that his executor or administrator or the party that caused him to be otherwise buried shall forfeit 20. l. to be divided into three parts and disposed as aforesaid CXIX A child being no Souldier Mariner Merchant or Apprentice or Factor to a Merchant shall not be sent or go beyond sea without the licence of the King or of six of the privie Councell whereof the principall Secretary shall be one in pain to be thereby incapable to enjoy any lands or goods by descent or grant untill being eighteen yeers of age or above he take the said oath of Obedience before some Justice of Peace of the County where his parents doe or did dwell And in the mean time the next of his kin being no Popish Recusant shall enjoy the lands and goods but shall be accountable to the other in case he after conform himself as aforesaid And he that so goes out of the kingdome without licence shall forfeit 100. l. to be divided and imployed as aforesaid CXX A Popish Recusant convict shall be disabled to present to a Benefice or to grant any avoydance of a Benefice but in stead of him the Chancellor and Scholers of the Universities of Oxford or Combridge shall present within severall Counties respectively for which see the Statute at large Howbeit they shall not conferre it upon a man already Beneficed CXXI A Popish Recusant shall not be an Executor Administrator or Guardian but the next of the kin being no Recusant and unto whom the land cannot lawfully descend shall have the wardship and tuition of an heir or orphan in that case CXXII A grant of the Kings Ward to a Popish Recusant convict shall be void CXXIII None shall bring from beyond sea print sell or buy any Popish Primers Ladies Psalters Manuals Rosaries Popish Catechismes Missals Breviaries Portals Legends or lives of saints in what language soever they shall be printed or written nor any other superstitious books printed or written in the English tongue in pain to forfeit xl s. for every
such book to be divided into three parts and imployed as aforesaid CXXIV Two Justices of Peace and all Maiors Bailiffes and head Officers have power to search the houses and lodgings of Popish Recusants convict and of every person whose wife is a Popish Recusant convict for Popish books and reliques and to burn or deface such as they shall finde in their custodie but such as are of value shall be defaced in open Sess and afterwards restored to the owner CXXV All the Armour Gunpowder and Munition of a Popish Recusant convict shall be taken from him by warrant from foure Justices of Peace at the generall Sess other then such weapons as shall be allowed unto him by the same Justices which said Armour and Munition shall be kept at the costs of such Recusant in such places where the said Justices shall appoint and shewed at every Muster as his armes together with his horse which hee shall buy provide and maintain for that purpose according to his ability as other subjects do And here the Recusant that refuseth to declare what armour or munition he hath or to deliver it to such persons as shall have power to sease it shall forfeit the same to the King and besides shall upon warrant from any Just of Peace of that County be imprisoned by the space of three moneths without baile CXXVI This Act shall not abridge Ecclesiasticall censures CXXVII Stat. 7. Ja. 6. Who shall take the oath of Obedience by whom it shall be ministred and within what time CXXVIII It shall be lawfull for any of the privie Councell or any Bishop within his Diocesse to require a Baron or Baronesse of eighteen yeers of age or above to take the said Oath And likewise for any two Justices of Peace one Quorum to require any person of the age aforesaid or above and under the degrees aforesaid to take the same Oath CXXIX If any Baron or Baronesse stand presented indicted or convicted for Recusancy three of the privie Councell whereof the Chancellor Treasurer Lord privie Seal or principall Secretary shall be one shall minister unto them the said Oath But if it be any other convicted person under those degrees or if the Minister petty Constables and Church-wardens of any parish or any two of them shall complain to any Justice of Peace of any person suspected for Recusancy then any such Justice may in either of these cases minister the said Oath and upon refusall shall commit the party to prison there to remain till the next Ass or Sess where if he again refuse to take it hee shall incurre a Praemunire except women covert who shall only be imprisoned and there remain without baile till they shall take the said Oath CXXX None refusing the said Oath shall be capable of any office of Judicature or other office being no office of inheritance or ministeriall function or to practise the common Law the civill Law Physick Surgery the art of Apothecary or any liberall science for gain CXXXI If a married woman being a convicted Recusant doe not conform within three moneths after conviction she shall be committed to prison by a privie Councellor or the Bishop of the Diocesse if she be a Baronesse but if any other of a lower degree then shall she be committed by two Justices of P. one Quorum and there shall remain till she conforme as aforesaid unlesse the husband for his wives offence will pay unto the King x. l. for every moneth or yeeld the third part of all his lands at the choice of the said husband CXXXII None shall goe himselfe or send any person whatsoever beyond sea to be trained up in Popery or any maintenance or reliefe to the party so sent or to any School or Religious house there in paine after conviction thereof to be adjudged unable to prosecute any suite in any Court of equity to be committee of any Ward executor or administrator to be uncapable of any legacy or deed of gift or of bearing Office within this Realme and besides to forfeit all his goods and chattels and his lands also during life But if hee conforme within six weeks after his return according to the Statutes in that case provided he shall not incurre the penalties aforesaid CXXXIII These offences shall be heard and determined by the Justices of the Kings Bench Assise Gaol delivery and Oyer and Termin of such Counties where the offenders did last dwell or whence they departed or where they shall be taken See Actions popular 18. Regrators See Forestallers Victuall 2. Riots Routs and unlawfull Assemblies I. Stat. 17. R. 2.8 The Sherisses and all other the Kings Officers shall supprese Riotors and imprison them and all other offending against the peace II. Stat. 13. H. 4.7 The Justices of Peace or two of them at least together with the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe shall by the power of the County suppresse Riots Routs and unlawfull assemblies arrest the offenders and record what shall be done By which record of the said Justices and Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe the offenders shall stand convict as by the Stat. of 15. R. 2.2 in case of forcible Entries And if the offenders be departed the said Justices and Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe shall within a moneth after make enquiry thereof and heare and determine the same according to law See Force 2. III. If upon such inquiry the truth cannot be discovered in manner aforesaid then shall the said Officers within one moneth after such inquiry certifie the fact together with the circumstances thereof unto the King and his Councell which certificate of theirs shall be in the nature of a presentment by twelve whereupon the offenders shall be brought to answer and those that be found guilty shall be punished at the discretion of the King and his Councell IV. If the offenders traverse the said certificate then that together with the traverse shall be sent into the Kings Bench there to be tried V. If the Offencers upon the first precept do not appear before the Councell or in the Kings Bench a second precept shall issue forth upon which if they cannot be found or if within three weeks after Proclamation made agaist them in the next County Court after the delivery of the second precept they doe not make their appearance before the Councell in the Kings Bench or in the Chancery in vacation time upon returne of the said Proclamation they shall stand convict and attainted of the offence committed VI. Justices of Peace dwelling neerest the place where such offences shall be committed and Justices of Assise for the time they shall be in their Session in case any be then committed shall doe execution of this act in pain of 100. l. VII Stat. 2. H. 5.8 If default be found in the Justices of Peace or Assise or in the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe touching the due execution of 23. H. 4.7 at the instance of the party grieved the Kings Commission shall go out to inquire as well of the truth
arraignement of the offender and to give advice concerning the offence committed VI. This offence shall be prosecuted within three months and the offender shall be admitted to produce witnesses for his default VII Stat. 2 3. E. 6.1 Every Minister shal use the Church service in such forme as is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer established by this Act and shall not use any other or deprave the same in paine if he be beneficed and convict thereof by the verdict of 12. men his owne confession or notorious evidence of the fact to forfeit to the King for the first offence that of his benefices which the King will choose and to suffer six months imprisonment for the second to suffer one whole yeares imprisonment and to be deprived ipso facto of all his Spirituall promotions whereupon every Patron may present and for the third to suffer imprisonment during life And if he be not beneficed for the first offence he shall suffer six months imprisonment and for the second imprisonment during life VIII If any shall be convicted to have by enterludes playes songs thymes or otherwise depraved the said books or to have compelled or procured the Minister to sing or say any other Church Service or in any other forme then as aforesaid or by any such means to have interrupted or let the Minister to sing or say the said Service they shall for the first offence forfeit x. li. to the King or that not paid within six weeks after conviction shall suffer in stead thereof three moneths imprisonment without baile for the second time offending shall forfeit xx l. or that not paid within six weeks as aforesaid shall suffer six moneths imprisonment without bail and for the third time shall forfeit all their goods and suffer imprisonment during life IX Justices of Oyer and Termin and Justices of Assise have power to hear and determine these offences unto whom the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse may associate himself if he please X. This shall not restrain any private man or publick Colledges to use the said Service in such tongues as they understand the holy Communion only excepted or any other to use Psalms or prayers taken out of the Bible at convenient times not letting thereby the said Service XI The offences aforesaid shall be prosecuted at the next Assise or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer after they are committed And here tryall of Peers shall be by Peers XII Chief Officers of Cities and Corporations shall also heare and determine these offences within their severall prccincts and so likewise shall Ecclesiasticall Magistrates Howbeit none shall be punished above once for one offence XIII Stat. 5 6. E. 6.1 Every person shall resort to his Parish Church or Chappel or upon just let so to doe to some other every Sunday and Holiday in pain to be punished by the censures of the Church XIV The Common prayer book now made perfect and annexed to this Act. together with the addition of consecrating Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons shall be used and esteemed as by the Statute of 2 3. E. 6.1 is ordained under the pains in the same Statute expressed XV. If any shall be convict by verdict of twelve men before Justice of Assise Oyer and Terminer or Peace in Sess to have wittingly heard or to have been present at any other form of Common prayer administration of Sacraments making of Ministers or other rites then what are expressed in the said book or which are contrary to the said Statute of 2 3. E. 6.1 shall for the first offence suffer six months imprisonment without bail for the second twelve months imprisonment and for the third imprisonment during life XVI Stat. 1. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. If any shall disturbe a Preacher lawfully licenced he shall be by the Constables or Church-wardens of the parish brought before a Just of Peace who upon due accusation shall presently commit him to safe custody and within six dayes after together with another Justice shall diligently examine the fact who if they find cause shall commit him to the common Gaole there to remain for three moneths and from thence to the next quarter Sessions at which upon the parties reconciliation and entring into bond for the good behaviour for one whole yeer at the discretion of the Justices in Session he shall be released but if hee persist still in his obstinacie he shall remain in prison without bail untill he shall reconcile and be penitent for his offence XVII Hee that rescues an offender in this kind shall suffer like imprisonment as aforesaid and besides shall forfeit v. li. to the Queen XVIII The inhabitants of a towne that suffer such an offender to escape shall forfeit v. li. being presented before the Justices of Peace in Sess within the County or Corporation where the escape was made XIX Justices of Peace Assise and Oyer and Terminer and Maiors and head Officers of Corporations have power to heare and determine these offences and to impose the fines aforesaid XX. This Act shall not restrain the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiasticall lawes Howbeit none shall be punished twice for one offence XXI Stat. 1. El. 2. Every Minister shall use the Church Service in such forme as is mentioned in the book of Common prayer established by 5 6. E. 6.1 together with the addition of certain lessons to be used on every Sunday in the yeer and the form of the Letany altered and corrected and two sentences only added in the delivery of the Sacraments to communicants XXII If any Minister shall be convicted by the verdict of twelve men his owne confession or notorious evidence of the fact to have refused to use the said Church service or to have used any other rite ceremony order forme or manner then is set forth in the said book or to have depraved the same book or any thing therein contained he shall forfeit being a benefited man for the first offence one whole yeers profit of all his spirituall promotions and suffer six moneths imprisonment for the second shall be deprived ipsofacto whereupon every Patron may present and shall suffer one whole yeeres imprisonment and for the third shall be also deprived as aforesaid and shall suffer imprisonment during life And if he be not beneficed for the first offence he shall suffer one whole yeeres imprisonment and for the second imprisonment during life XXIII If any shall be convicted to have by enterludes playes songs rhymes or otherwise depraved the said book or to have compelled or procured the Minister to sing or say any other Church service or in any other form then as aforesaid or by any such means to have interrupted or let the Minister to sing or say the said service they shall for the first offence forfeit 100. Marks to the Queen or that not paid within six weeks after conviction shall suffer in stead thereof six moneths imprisonment for the second offence shall forfeit 400. Marks or that not
offenders as in Actions of Trespasse XVI Stat. 27. El. 12. Every under-Sheriffe before he intermeddles with his Office shall before one of the Justices of Ass or the Custos Rotulorum of the County or two Justices of Peacethere 1. Qu. take the oath of Supremacy which see in Recusants 8. and also the oath hereunder written in paine to forfeit treble damages to the party grieved if he commit any act contrary to the same oathes or either of them XVII The forme of the other oath is as followeth I A. B. shall not use or exercise the Office of under-Sheriffe corruptly during the time that I shall remaine therein neither shall or will accept receive or take by any colour meanes or devise whatsoever or consent to the taking of any manner of fee or reward of any person or persons for the Impanelling or returning of any Inquest Jurie or Tales in any Court of Record for the King or betwixt party and party above two shillings or the value thereof and such fees as are allowed and appointed for the same by the Laws and Statutes of this Realme But will according to my power truly and indifferently with convenient speed impanell all Jurors and returne all such Writ or Writs touching the same as shall appertaine to be done by my duty or Office during the time that I shall remaine in the said Office So help me God XVIII No Bailiffe of a Franchise Deputy or Clerk of a Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe shall intermeddle with their severall Offices before they have taken the said Oaths as aforesaid altering onely the termes of Office in paine to forfeit 40. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XIX Justices of Ass and Just of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine the defaults and offences aforesaid and upon conviction to award Processe accordingly XX. Stat. 29. El. 4. No Sheriffe under-Sheriffe Bailiffe of a Liberty or any of their Deputies shall either directly or indirectly take more for serving an extent or execution then after the rate of 12. d. for every pound under 100. l. and 6. d. for every pound above 100. l. in paine to forfeit treble damages to the party grieved and besides 40. l. to be divided betwixt the Queen and the prosecutor XXI This Act shall not extend to fees for Executions within Cities or Corporations S. Bailement 2. Indictments 5. Jurors Justices of P. 18. Ship-Wrights S. Labourers 46. Shoo-makers S. Leather Silver S. Gold Skinners S. Labourers 53. Souldiers S. Captaines Stabbing S. Clergie 18 19. Stewards of Courts S. Justices of P. 14 16 28. Strangers S. Aliens Supersedeas I. Stat. 21. Jac. 8. Processe of the Peace or good behaviour shall not issue out of the Chancery or Kings Bench but upon motion in open Court and good cause alledged upon oath which shall also be endorced upon the Writ Howbeit if that cause shall be afterwards disproved the Judge or Judges of the said Courts respectively shall commit the offender to prison till he pay the party grieved all his costs and damages II. All Writs of Supersedeas shall be void unlesse such Processe be likewise granted upon motion as aforesaid and upon such sufficient sureties as shall appeare to the Court upon oath to be Subsidie-men assessed at 5. l. lands or 10. l. goods and also unlesse the prosecution against the party for the Peace or good behaviour be bona fide And here false sureties procured for the gaining of such Writs shall be punished by the Judges III. Certioraries shall not be allowed unlesse the Indictee will become bound with sufficient sureties such as the Justices of P. in Sess shall think fit to pay to the prosecutor within one month after conviction such costs and damages as the said Justices shall assesse Sunday S. Holy-dayes Leather 32. Recusants Swans S. Hawks 7.20 Swearing Cursing I. Stat. 21. Jac. 20. If any shall sweare or curse within the hearing of a Justice of P. or shall be convicted thereof by his own confession or the evidence of two witnesses upon oath before the same Justice they shall forfeit 12. d. to the use of the poore where the offence shall be committed to be levied by the Const Churchw and Overs of the poore there upon warrant from such Justice by distresse and sale of goods And in defect of distresse if the offender be above 12. yeares old he shall upon warrant as aforesaid be set in the stocks three houres but if under then shall he be whipped by the Constable or by the Parent or Master in the Constables presence II. Here if an Officer be sued for the due execution of his Office he may plead the generall Issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence III. This offence shall be complained off and proved as aforesaid within twenty dayes after it is committed And this Act shall be read in every Church twice in the yeare upon Sunday after evening prayer Tanner S. Leather Testimoniall S. Labourers 9 10 11. Tiles I. Stat. 17. E. 4.4 Tile-earth shall be cast up before the first of November stirred and turned before the first of February and not made into Tile before the first of March And shall likewise be well tried and severed from stones malme marle and chalke II. A plaine Tile shall containe in length ten Inches and an halfe in breadth six Inches and a quarter and in thicknesse halfe an Inch and halfe a quarter at least A Roofe or Creast-Tile in length thirteen Inches and in thicknesse as before with convenient deepnesse accordingly A Gutter and Corner-Tile in length ten Inches and an halfe with convenient thicknesse breadth and deepnesse III. If any shall sell Tile otherwise made he shall forfeit to the buyer the double value thereof to be recovered by action of debt and besides shall make fine and ransome at the Kings will IV. Justices of P. shall hear and determine these defaults and offences as well at the suit of the King as of the party grieved and shall not set lesse fine upon an offender against this act then after the rate of v. s. for every thousand of plain tile vi s. viii d. for every hundred of roof-tile and ii s. for every hundred of corner or gutter-tile V. The said Justices have also authority to appoint searchers of Tile who shall diligently execute that office in paine to forfeit to the King for every default x. s. and shall have of every Tile-maker for such search after the rate of i. d. for every thousand of plain Tile ob for every hundred of roof-Tile and qu. for every hundred of corner or gutter-Tile and shall make presentment of all defaults found at the next Sess which shall be as effectuall in law as a presentment of twelve men VI. None shall put any Tile to sale before such search be made in pain to forfeit the same and the Justices of P. have also power to hear and determine the defaults of the said searchers Tinne S. Brasse
Tithes I. Stat. 27. H. 8.20 If the Judge of an Ecclesiasticall Court make complaint to two Justices of Peace one Quorum of any contumacie or misdemeanour committed by a defendant in any suit there depending for matter of Tithes the said Justices shall commit the said defendant to prison there to remain till he shall find sufficient surety to be bound before them by recognisance or otherwise to give due obedience to the processe proceedings decrees and sentences of the said Court II. Stat. 32. H. 8.7 If in such a Court after sentence for Tithes the defendant appealeth the Judge there shall compell the party appellant by processe and censures ecclesiasticall to satisfie the other party his reasonable costs and in case of contumacie or disobedience upon complaint thereof two such Justices shall proceed as aforesaid Howbeit here the Judge shall take surety of the plaintife to repay the costs in case the cause passe against him Toll S. Fish 17. Transportation S. Actions popular 18. Corn Leather 58. Recusants 75. Treason S. Bailment 1. Trespasse I. Stat. 43. El. 7. If any shall be convicted by his own confession or by the testimony of one witnesse upon oath before one Justice of Peace or head Officer to have unlawfully cut and taken away any grain growing robbed any orchard or garden digged up or taken away any fruit trees broken any hedges pales or other fences cut or spoiled any woods or under-woods standing and growing or the like or to have been accessary thereunto shall for the first offence pay unto the party grieved such damages and within such time as by the said Justice or head Officer shall be appointed And in case the party offending shall not by the said Justice or Officer be thought able to discharge the said damages or shall not discharge them according to the order then shall the said offender be by them or either of them respectively committed to the Constable or other officer of the place where the offence was committed or the party apprehended to be whipped and for every other offence committed afterwards and proved as aforesaid the party offending shall receive the like punishment of whipping II. The Constable or other inferiour officer that herein refuseth or neglecteth to do his duty shall by any such Justice of Peace or head Officer be committed to prison without baile till hee whip or cause to be whipped the party offending as is above limited III. No Justice of Peace shall execute this Statute for offences done to himselfe unlesse hee be affociated with one or more Justices of Peace whom the offence doth not concerne Vagabonds Rogues 1. Stat. 39. El. 4. Justices of Peace within every County and Corporation have power in Sess to give order for the erection of houses of correction and also for the maintenance and government of the same and for the punishment of offenders which shall be thither committed II. All Scholars and seafaring men which beg All wandring persons which either beg use unlawfull games and playes faine themselves to have skill in Physiognomie Palinestry or the like or pretend to tell fortunes All persons that are or pretend to be collectors for Gaoles and Hospitals All Fencers Bearwards common Players and Minstrels wandring abroad other then such as shall be authorised by Noble-men under their hands and seales All Juglers Tinlkers Pedlers and petty chapmen wandring abroad All labourers which wander and refuse to work for wages reasnably taxed having not living otherwise to maintain themselves All persons delivered out of Gaoles which beg for their fees or otherwise do travell begging All Which wander abroad begging pretending losse by fire or otherwise And all such persons not being felons wandring and pretending themselves to be Egyptians shall be adjudged Rogues Vagabonds and sturd Beggars 16. III. If any such vagabond shall be taken begging wandring or misordering him or her selfe he or she by the appointment of any Justice of P. Constable Headborow or Tithingman there the two last being assisted by the Minister and one other of the parish shall be stripped naked from the middle upwards openly whipped till their body be bloudy and forthwith sent the next way from parish to parish by the Officers of each parish towards the place of their birth but if it cannot be known then towards the place where they last dwelt by the space of one whole yeer before such punishment and if that cannot be known then to the towne thorow which they last passed without punishment And if it cannot be discovered where they were born or last dwelt as aforesaid then are they to be conveyed by the officer there to the house of Correction or common Gaole of the County to be imployed in work or placed in some service and so to continue by the space of one yeer or in case they be not able of body that towne is to keep them till they may be placed in some Alms-house within the same County IV. After which whipping the vagabond shall have a testimoniall under the hand and seale of the said Justice Constable Head-borow Tithingman and Minister or any two of them testifying the day and place of his punishment the place to which he is to be conveyed and the time limited for his passage thither which time if by his owne default he exceeds hee shall from time to time incurre the like punishment till hee arrive at the place limited the substance of which testimoniall shall be registred by the said Minister in a book provided for that purpose in pain of v.s. V. If any such rogue seeme dangerous or will not be reformed two Justices of P. one of Quorum shall commit him to the house of Correction and if at the next quarter Sess by the more part of the Justices there he shall not be thought fit to be delivered he shall by them be banished and at the charge of that County shall be conveyed to such parts beyond the seas as shall by six or more of the privie Councell for that purpose be assigned to her Majesty her heirs and successors whereof the Lord Keeper or Treasurer to be one or otherwise adjudged to the gallies of this Realme as the said Justices shall think fit And if a rogue so banished return without licence he shall suffer as a felon to be tryed in the County where he shall be apprehended 17. VI. If a Constable Headborow or Tithingman be found negligent in the due execution of this act they shall forfeit x. s. for every default and none shall make rescous against any Officer or hinder the execution of this law in pain of v. li. and to be bound to the good behaviour 18. VII None shall transport such a rogue out of Ireland Scotland or the Isle of Man being born in any of those places in pain to forfeit xx s. to the use of the poor where he lands And if any such shall be hereafter found in England or Wales they shall suffer punishment and be
fingula praemissa secundum leges statuta Regni nostri Angliae prout in hujusmodi casu fieri consuevit aut debuit audiendum terminandum ad eosdem delinquentes quemlibet eorum pro delictis suis per fines redemptiones amerciamenta forisfacturas ac alio modo prout secundum legem consuetudinem Regni nostri Angliae aut formam ordinationum vel statutorum praedictorum fieri consuevit aut debuit castigandum puniendum Proviso semper quod si casus difficultatis super determinatione aliquorum praemissorum coram vobis vel aliquibus duobus vel pluribus vestrum evenire contigerit tunc ad judicium inde reddendum nisi in praesentia unius Justiciariorum nostrorum de uno vel de altero Banco aut unius Justiciariorum nostrorum ad Assisas in Comitatu praedicto capiendas assignatorum coram vobis vel aliquibus duobus vel pluribus vestrum minime procedatur Et ideo vobis cuilibet vestrum mandamus quod circa custodiam pacis ordinationum statutorum omnium singulorum caeterorum praemissorum disigenter intendatis ad certos dies loca quae vos vel aliqui hujusmodi duo vel plures vestrum ut praedictum est ad hoc provideritis super praemissis faciatis inquisitiones praemissa omnia singula audiatis terminetis ac ea faciatis expleatis in forma praedicta facturi inde quod ad justiciam pertinet secundum legem consuetudinem Regni nostri Angliae Salvis nobis ametciamentis aliis ad nos inde spectantibus Mandamus etiam tenore praesentium Vicecomiti nostro B. quod ad certos dies loca quae vos vel aliqui hujusmodi duo vel plures vestrum ut praedictum est ei ut praedictum est scire feceritis venire faciat coram vobis vel hujusmodi duobus vel pluribus vestrum ut dictum est tot tales probos legales homines de Balliva sua tam infra libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas in praemissis melius sciri poterit inquiri Assignavimus denique te praefatum I. C. custodem Rotulorum pacis nostrae in dicto Comitatu nostro Ac propterea tu ad dies loca praedicta brevia praecepta processus indictamenta praedicta coram te dictis sociis tuis venire facias ut ea inspiciantur debito fine terminentur sicut praedictum est In cujus rei testimonium c. Datum c. As concerning the Oath of Office Justices of Peace were at first enjoyned to take it by the Statute of 13. R. 2.7 which Statute you may hereafter see in Title Justices of Peace Clause 16. And afterwards by the Statutes of 1. Eliz 1. and 7. Jac. 6. they were also ordained to take the Oathes of Supremacie and Obedience which Oathes you shall also hereafter finde in Title Recusants 8 and 88. The Oath of Office is this that followes Yee shall sweare That as Justice of the Peace in the County of B. in all articles in the Kings Commission to you directed yee shall doe equall right to the poore and to the rich after your cunning wit and power and after the lawes and customes of the Realme and statutes thereof made And yee shall not be of counsell of any quarrell hanging before you And that yee hold your Sessions after the forme of Statutes thereof made And the issues fines and amerciaments that shall happen to be made and all forfeitures which shall fall before you yee shall cause to be entred without any concealment or imbezzelling and truely send them to the Kings Exchequer Yee shall not let for gift or other cause but well and truely you shall doe your Office of Justice of the Peace in that behalfe And that you take nothing for your Office of Justice of the Peace to be done but of the King and fees accustomed and costs limited by the Statute And yee shall not direct or cause to be directed any Warrant by you to be made to the parties but ye shall direct them to the Bailiffes of the said County or other the Kings Officers or ministers or other indifferent persons to doe execution thereof So help you God Lastly for conclusion of this Preface I conceive it not impertinent to annex thereunto the substance of two Statutes necessary to be knowne by every Iustice of Peace before he enters upon his Office the first is 2. H. 5. Stat. 2. Cap. 1. which provides That Justices of Peace shall be made of the most sufficient persons dwelling within the Counties by the advice of the Chancellour and of the Kings Counsell and that no forraine dweller shall exercise such Office except Lords Justices of Assise and chiefe Stewards of the lands and Seigniories belonging to the Duchie of Lancaster And concerning their residence in the Country see more hereafter in Title Justices of Peace 20. The other Statute is 4. H. 7. cap. 12. whereby the King commandeth all Justices of Peace diligently to exercise their Office to the end that his people by that meanes living in peace and enjoying their owne husbandry may flourish Hee also chargeth all both poore and rich that shall suffer any grievance from others wherein a Justice of Peace may intermeddle that they forthwith make complaint thereof to the next Justice of Peace and having no remedie there to the Justices of Assise if it be not long before their coming into that Country but if it be then to the Chancellour for the time being and then the King will send for the Justice so neglecting his duty and in case he shall find him guilty thereof will cause him to be put out of the Commission and otherwise punished according to his demerits c. An Alphabeticall Table by the perusall whereof the Reader may the better acquaint himselfe with the Titles contained in this Book A ABjuration 1 Actions popular 1 Ale-houses 4 Aliens 10 Almes-houses 10 Archery 10 Apprentices 12 Armour 12 Arrests 12 Arrow heads 13 Artificers 13 Assise of Ale and Beer 13 Attainders 13 B Badger 13 Bailiffes 14 Bailinent 15 Bakers 17 Barges 17 Bastardie 17 Beer 18 Bell-metall 18 Benhurst hundred 18 Bigamie 18 Boat-men 18 Books 21 Bowes 23 Brasse 23 Bridges 25 Brewers 26 Buggery 27 Burglary 27 Burning of houses c. 28 Butchers 29 Butter 29 Buts 30 Buying of Tiles 30 C Calves 30 Captains 30 Carre-men 41 Carrier 41 Cattle 41 Certificate 44 Cerciorari 44 Challenge 45 Champertie 45 Cheese 45 Citation 45 Clergie 45 Clerk of the Peace 48 Clerk of the Crowne 48 Clerk of Assise 48 Clerk of the Market 48 Cloth 48 Coine 48 Commons 48 Commissions 48 Conies 49 Conjuration 49 Conspiracie 49 Conspirators 49 Convictions 49 Cooks 49 Copper 49 Corn 49 Coroners 51 Costermongers 52 Cottages 52 Covin 53 Counterfeit letters c. 53 Counterfeiters of the Ks. seal or coin 53 Coupers 53 Crosse-bowes 54 Currier 54 Cursing 54 Custome
Tithingmen Ale-cunners and Sidemen shall be charged in their oathes to present the offences committed against 1. Jac. 9. and 4. Jac. 5. according to the alterations of this Act. XXVIII Stat. 1. Car. 4. The Inne-keeper Alehouse-keeper or Victualler which suffers any person whatsoever to sit tippling in his house shall incurre the penaltie of 1. Jac. 9. to be proved levied and imployed as in that statute is appointed XXIX Vintners which doe also keepe Innes or Victualling houses shall bee taken to be within this Act as also within the stat of 1. Jac. 9. and 4. Jac. 5. XXX Stat. 3. Car. 3. None shall keepe Alehouse without licence in paine to forfeit 20. s. to the poore which the Const and Churchw upon warrant from the Justice before whom the offence is proved shall levie by distresse which within three daies may be sold to satisfie the penaltie And in case the delinquent hath not wherewithall the said Justice shall commit him to the Const to be openly whipped And here the view of one Just the confession of the partie or proofe by two witnesses is sufficient Conviction XXXI Here the officer that neglects to execute the warrant or to punish the offender shall suffer imprisonment without baile or pay 40. s. to be imployed as aforesaid XXXII In this case if the Alehouse-keeper offend the second time he shall be committed to the house of correction for one Month and for the third offence shall not be thence enlarged but by order of Sessions XXXIII The Offender once punished by this Act shall not bee againe punished by 5. 6. E. 6.25 contrà XXXIV This Act shall not restraine the selling of Ale and Beere in Faires Aliens S. Archerie 9. Brasse 9. Victuall 3. Almes-houses S. Poor people 15. Archerie I. Stat. 33. H. 8.9 Parents and Masters shall provide for each of their sons and male-servants betwixt the ages of 7. and 17. a Bow and two shafts and cause them to exercise shooting in paine of 6. s. 8. d. II. Sonnes and maleservants betwixt the ages of 17. and 60. shall be furnished with a Bow and two Arrowes and practise shooting therewith in paine of 6. s. 8. d. III. None under the age of 24. yeares shall shoot at any standing marke except at Rovers changing his marke every shoot in paine of 4. d. a shoot and none above that age shall shoot at any marke of 11. score distance or under in paine of 6. s. 8. d. a shoot IV. None under the age of 17 yeares shall shoot with a Bow of Ewe except his parents be worth 10. l. per Annum in lands or 40. markes in goods in paine of 6. s. 8. d. V. The Inhabitants of every towne shall continue their Buts in good repaire in paine of 20. s. for every three months default VI. For every Bow made of Ewe the Bowyer not inhabiting in London or the Suburbs thereof shall make foure and the Inhabitant there two Bowes of other wood in paine to forfeit for every such Bow unmade 3. s. 4. d. 12. VII Fletchers of London may sell seasonable timber to forraigne Fletchers without prejudice VIII Artificers of Archerie not Freemen nor paying scot and lot shall remove their abode from London and the Suburbs thereof to what other place they shall be assigned by his Majesties Councell the Lord Chancelor Treasurer Privy Seale or one of them in paine of xl s. for every day they make their abode contrarie to this Act. IX Aliens shall not convey Bowes and Arrowes out of the Realme without his Majesties Licence in paine of Imprisonment without baile untill they shall make fine to the King to be set by at least two Justices in Sessions or give security for the same neither shall they use shooting in paine to forfeit their Bowes and Arrowes to bee taken from them by any of the Kings Subjects X. Justices of Ass G.D. and of P. in Sess and Stewards in Leets shall heare and determine the Breach of this Act. XI The one Moity of all these forfeitures is given to the prosecutor and the other where there is no Leet is given to the King and where there is a Leet to the Lord of that Leet XII Stat. 8. El. 10. The clause of 33. H. 8.9 which enjoynes to make Bowes of other wood then Ewe shall not binde any Bowyer dwelling in London West minster or Southwarke S. Arrowheads 1. Actions popular 17. Apprentices S. Labourers Armour Armed men I. Stat. 2. E. 3.3 None shall come with force and Armes before the Kings Justices or other his Ministers nor goe or ride armed in affraie of peace in paine to forfeit their Armour and to suffer imprisonment at the Kings pleasure II. Justices of P. and other officers have power to put this Act in execution and the Justices of Ass shall inquire of their default in that behalfe III. Stat. 7. R. 2.13 None shall ride in Harnesse contrary to 2. E. 3.3 in paine to forfeit the same IV. Stat. 20. R. 2.1 The statutes of 2. E. 3.3 and the 7. R. 2.13 shall be duly observed upon the paines contained in the said Stat. of 2. E. 3.3 and besides to make fine to the King S. Recusants 125. Arrests S. Sheriffes Arrow-heads I. Stat. 7. H. 4.7 Justices of Peace have power to punish such as make defective Arrow-heads Artificers S. Labourers 20. Assise of Ale and Beere S. Victuall 5.7 Weights Attainders S. Certificate 1. Badger Lader Kidder Carrier Drover Transporter of Graine c. I. STat. 5. El. 12. None but a married man and housholder of the age of xxx yeares at least shall take upon him to bee a Badger c. neither hee without Licence in open Sess of the Countie where hee hath dwelt by the space of three yeares before under the hands and seales of at least three Justices 1. Qu. in paine of 5. l. which Licence shall remaine in force for one yeare only from the date thereof And all Licences otherwise granted shall be void II. The Justices of Peace in Sess shall at their discretions take Recognisances of Badgers c. that they shall not forestall or ingrosse or put in practice any Act contrary to 5. 6. E. 6.14 III. The Clerke of the Peace shall write and enter the Licence and Recognisance and his Fees shall be viz. for writing the Licence 12. d. for writing the Recognisance 8. d. and for entring them both into a Register Booke 4. d. which Booke hee shall bring to every Sessions IV. This shall not give liberty to any Badger c. to buy graine out of the Market to sell againe unlesse there be speciall words in his licence to warrant the same in paine to forfeit for every time so offending 5. l. V. The one Moity of these forfeitures is given to the Queene and the other to the Informer VI. The Queenes Moity shall be estreated according to the usuall manner and the Informers levied by fieri facias or Capias But
when the sute is wholly the Queenes the whole forfeiture shall be estreated for her use VII Justices of P. have power to heare and determine these offences in Sessions by inquisition or verdict or otherwise upon the oath of two witnesses at their discretions and to make processe thereupon VIII This Act shall not restraine Purveyors of Cities and townes corporate neither yet the Inhabitants of the Counties of Westmerland Cumberland Lancaster Chester and Yorke IX Stat. 13. El. 25. The Statute of 5. El. 12. is confirmed S. Forestallers 5.12 Bayliffes S. Sheriffes Bailement I. Stat. 3. E. 1.15 Persons outlawed and such as have abjured the Realme Provours and such as be taken with the manner Prison-breakers theeves openly defamed Appellees by Provours during the life of such Provours house-burners Counterfeiters of the Kings Seale or Coyne excommunicate persons and Traitors are not replevisable by common writ or without writ II. Persons guiltie of Larcenie by enquests taken before Sheriffes or Bailiffes or of petty Larcenie not before detected nor accessary to any felony or onely guilty of some light suspition are baileable by good sureties for which the Sheriffe shall be answerable III. Stat. 5. E. 3.8 Marshals of the Kings Bench shall not baile felons IV. Stat. 3. H 7.3 Two Justices 1. Qu. have power to let to baile persons baileable by law untill the next Quar. Sess or G.D. and shall there certifie the same in paine of 10. l. V. Stat. 1. 2. P.M. 13. None shall be let to baile which are forbidden to be bailed by 3. E. 1.15 VI. None arrested for Manslaughter or felony or suspition of the same being baileable by law shall be let to baile save only in open Sess or by two Just 1. Qu. being both present at the time of such bailement which then shall be certified together with the examination of the Prisoner and the Information of the Accusers under their owne hands at the next Gaole delivery and the said examination and Information shall be taken before the bailement VII The said Justices have power to bind by Recognisance all such as can declare any thing materiall against the Prisoner to appeare at the next Gaole delivery and shall there make certificate of the said Recognisance VIII The Justices that offend any Branch of this Act are lyable to be fined by the Justices of Gaole delivery IX This Act shall not restraine Justices within London and Middlesex to let to baile I risoners as heretofore they have used only they shall certifie their examinations Bonds and bailements at the next Gaole delivery of their Jurisdiction in paine to bee fined as aforesaid X. Every Habeas Corpus or Certiorari for the Removall of a Prisoner shall be signed by the Chiefe Justice or one of the Justices of the Court out of which the Writ issues in paine of five pounds to be forfeited by the Writer XI Stat. 2.3 P.M. 10. One accused of Manssaughter or Felony which for want of baile is to be sent to the Gaole must be examined by the Justice before he sends him thither and the Accusers must bee bound over to give in evidence against him whose Information must also be taken and committed to writing within two daies after at the farthest and all certified in at the next Gaole delivery as by the stat of 1.2 P.M. 13. is limitted upon the penaltie therein expressed Bakers S. Victuall 2.10 Weights 2 4 5 9. Barges S. Boatemen Bastardie I. Stat. 18. El. 3. The two next Justices 1. Qu. may take order as well for the punishment of the mother and reputed father of a Bastard Child as also for the reliefe of the Parish where it is borne by charging the said mother and father with the sustentation thereof by payment of mony weekly or otherwise II. If the mother or father performe not the said Justices order they shall suffer imprisonment without baile except hee she or they give securitie to performe it or else to appeare at the next Quarter Sess and also to abide the order of the greater part of the Justices there if any shall be there made if not then to performe the order made by the two Justices 5. III. Stat. 7. Jac. 4. Justices of Peace shall commit to the house of correction lewd women which have Bastards that may be chargeable to the Parish there to be punished and set on worke one whole yeere and if they offend againe they shall not be from thence enlarged without putting in good securitie not to offend so againe IV. Stat. 21. Jac. 27. It shall be murther for a mother to conceale the death of her Bastard child unlesse she can prove by one witnesse at least that it was still-borne V. Stat. 3. Car. 4. All Justices of Peace within their severall limits and Sess may doe and execute all things concerning that part of 18 Eli. 3. which concernes Bastards that by the Justices of Peace in the severall Counties are by the said statute limited to be done Beere S. Corne 1. Bell-metall S. Brasse 15. Benhurst hundred in Com. Berk. S. Hue and Crie 8. Bigamie I. Stat. 1. E. 6.12 A Bigamus being a felon shall be admitted to his Clergy as well as any other II. Stat. 1. Jac. 11. A Bigamus shall suffer death as a Felon unlesse he or she have had no notice that the husband or wife was living within seven yeares before or the Marriage severed by divorce III. This felonie shall cause no corruption of blood or losse of dower or inheritance Boatmen Watermen Barges Boats c. I. Stat. 26. H. 8.5 Justices of the Peace within the Counties of Glocester and Summerset in Sess shall bind keepers of Ferries over Severne by Recognisance with good sureties that they shall not transport any Passenger out of England into Wales or the Forrest of Deane or from thence into England before Sun rising or after Sun set unlesse such as they know and will answer for And besides the parties so offending shall thereby incurre fine and imprisonment II. Stat. 2. and 3. P. M. 16. At the first Court of Aldermen in London next after the first of March out of the Watermen betwixt Gravesend and Windsor there shall be eight chosen for overseers which shall have power to keepe good order amongst the rest III. Two Watermen shall not carry any but where one of them hath exercised that profession two yeares before that time and hath been allowed by the greater part of the said Overseers under their knowne seale in paine to be committed to one of the Counters by the said Overseers for one month or for lesse time as the offence may deserve IV. No single man which is no householder nor retained as an Apprentice or as a servant for one yeare at least shall exercise that profession betwixt the places aforesaid in paine of like imprisonment V. The Lord Maior and Aldermen of London and the Justices of Peace within the Counties adjoyning to the River of Thames upon
only excepted II. The Lord Keeper the Star Chamber Justices of Assife Justices of P. in Sess and Just of P. in Corporate townes have power to heare and determine this offence III. Two Just of P. 1. Qu. have power to commit or bind over such an offender to the next Assise or Sess IV. The party grieved notwithstanding the punishment inflicted is left to his remedie at law for the Recovery of his goods against the party offending Counterfeiters of the Kings Seal or Coyne S. Bailment 1. Coopers 1. Stat. 8. El. 9. Coopers shall sell their Ale Becre and Sope Vessell at such rates as shall be prescribed by I. of P. in their Sess after Easter in paine to forfeite 3. s. 4. d. for every Vessell otherwise sold Crossebowes S. Gunnes Currier S. Leather Cursing S. Swearing Custome Customers S. Actions popular 15 18. Recusants 75 94. Cutpurse S. Robbery Cutting out off tongues c. S. Felony 5. Cutting off a pond head S. Fishing Deeds S. Inrolment Deere S. Hunting Divine Service S. Sacraments Dying and Dyers S. Drapery Drapery Clothing I. STat. 3.4 E. 6.2 Just of P. Head-officers shall in their severall precincts appoint and sweare overseers for the due observing of this Statute concerning the well ordering of Cloth 9. II. An overseer so by them chosen shall undertake that office in paine of xl s. and none shall interrupt him in the execution of his office in paine of xx l. III. The forfeitures for defaults in Cloth making mentioned in this Statute shall be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record or before Just of P. in their severall limits within one year after the offence committed and the one Moity thereof shall be given to the King and the other to the Overseer that discovers the said defaults vide Stat. 5.6 E. 6.6 IV. Stat. 23. El. 9. Two Just of P. of the County or the Head officer of a Corporation may command logwood which some deceiptfully use for Dying of Cloth to be seised and openly burnt V Stat. 39. E. 11. A Just of P. of the County or Head officer of a Corporation being also a Just of P. there have power to call before them and examine the Servants of persons supected to use logwood in dying and if they shall find cause to bind over to the next Qu. Sess both the evidence and party offending and upon the Delinquents refusall to be bound shall commit him to prison till he find sureties They shall also certisie in at the same Sess the examinations by then taken where if the party offending be convicted he shall suffer the Pillory and forfeit xx l. the one Moity to the Q. and the other to the prosecutor VI. Stat. 39. El. 20. None shall stretch or straine any Clothes made on the North side of Trent in paine of five pounds nor use any Engine to that purpose in paine of xx l. VII Northerne Clothes shall be made of such weight length and bredth as by former Statutes is provided upon the paines in the same Statutes contained VIII A seale of leade shall be set to every Northern Cloth expressing the length and weight thereof in pain to forfeit the same And here the offender shall also forfeit for every yard that it wants of due length 4. s. and for every pound that it wants of due weight 2. s. IX Overseers shall be appointed and sworn in the County by two Just of P. in Corporations by the head officer calling to him the next Just of P. to make search once a moneth at least for defects in Northerne Clothes and if they shall find any stretched strained or sealed with false seales they shall make presentment thereof at the next Qu. Sessions And here he that denies or withholds any faulty Clothes shall for the first offence forfeit x. l. for the second xx l. and for the third being thereof lawfully convicted by verdict and two witnesses shall suffer the Pillory X. The Overseer that refuseth to appear or to undertake that office shall forfeit 5. l. the one Moity to the Queen the other to the officers that made him overseer XI The overseers shall fix a Seale of lead tosuch Clothes expressing the length and bredth of the same together with the word Searched which shall exempt them to be searched else where XII If any save the said overseers set to or take away any seale from the said Clothea without warrant they shall forfeit to the Queene for the first offence x. l. and for the second being thereof lawfully convicted by verdict and two Witnesses xx l. and besides suffer the Pillory XIII Justices of P. Headconstables and overseers shal search seise ropes wrinches other Engines used for the unlawfull stretching of Northerne Clothes and none shall withstand them upon the forfeitures above mentioned for resisting the Overseers 9. XIV The Justice that shall be found negligent in the due execution of this Act shall forfeit 5. l. And this and all other forfeitures of this Act except that mentioned Clause 10. shall be divided into three parts whereof the Queene is to have one the Informer another and the poored of the place where the offence is committed the third XV. Justioes of P. have power to heare and determine these offences in their Sess and Just of Assise to convict the Just of P. that are negligent upon proofe by two witnesses but upon neglect of justice by the said Justice of P. and Just of Assise the abovesaid penalties are recoverable in any other Court of Justice and in that case the one half thereof shall go to the Q. and the other to the Informer XVI The owners of Northerne Clothes brought up to be sold in London shall cause them to be brought to Blackwell Hall to be searched drie without wetting in paine of xl.s. but here the Searcher shall not make his search at such times when it may be a hinderance to the owners market in paine of v. l. These penalties are likewise given to the Queene and the Informer XVII Stat 7. Jac. 7. The Sorrer Carder Kember Spinster or Weaver of Wooll or yarne that shall be found by his owne confession or the testimony of one Witnes to imbesill or detaine any part thereof from the true owner shall incurre whipping and the stocks to be inflicted upon them in the Country by any two Just of P. and in a Corporation by the Head officer and another joyned with him And here also the Receiver there of shall incurre the like punishment and those also in Essex which use a Reel lesse then two yards about XVIII Stat. 7. Jac. 16. Certaine course Clothes made in the North shall not be searched or sealed nor any Custome or Aulnage payed for them XIX Stat. 21. Jac. 18. Divers good provisions for the well ordering of Cloth and divers penalties to be inflicted for the deceitfull making of the same XX. Any two Just of P. may call before them any person suspected for
making deceiveable Cloth and if upon confession of the party or testimony of two witnesses they shall find any guilty thereof and make Certificate accordingly under their hands and seales to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the parish where the offence is committed those officers shall levie the penalties forfeitedby distresse the delinquent shall suffer imprisonment See Labourers 54. and Weights 35. Drover S. Badger Holy-dayes 2. Drunkennesse S. Alehouses Ecclesiasticall Court 1. STat. 21. H. 8.5 Nothing shall be given for the Probate of a Will or for letters of Administration when the goods of the Dead exceed not 5. l. save only 6 d. to the Scribe or Register Neverthelesse the Judge shall not refuse to prove such a testament being exhibited unto him in writing with wax ready to be sealed and proved communi forma but shall dispatch the aprty without delay II. For the Probate of a Will and all other things concerning the same when the goods of the dead exceed 5. l. but not xl l. the Judges Fee is 2. s. 6. d. and the Registers for registring of it 12. d. and when they exceed xl l the Judges Fee is 2. s. 6. d. as before and the Registers as much or the Registers may refuse the 2. s. 6. d. and take a 1. d. for every ten lines of the Will each line being conceived to containe ten Inches in length And for these fees they shall dispatch the party without any frustratory delay III. For letters of Administration when the goods of the dead exceed 5. l. but not xl l. the Officers Fees are only 2. s. 6. d. IV. Lands devised to be sold shall not be accounted any of the Testators goods V. The Judge shall not refuse to receive an Inventory indented which the executor or administrator tenders him in Court together with his oath to verifie the same VI. The Fee for the copy either of a will or Inventory is the same with that above allowed to the Scribe for Registring the will or else the Scribe or Register may take a x. d. for every ten lines of the length aforesaid VII The officer that takes more then his due Fee shall forfeit that excesse to the party grieved and besides x. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the said party grieved VIII Stat. 23. H. 8.9 The Fee for the seale of the Citation is 3. d. See Tithes Egyptians 1. Stat. 1. 2. P. M. 4. He that transports into this Kingdome or Wales certaine lewd people which cal themselves Egyptians shall forfeit xl l. II. Their continuing in England or Wales by the space of a moneth shall be adjudged Felony without Clergie III. Hi that obtaines License letter or Pasport for them shall forfeit xl l. IV. The forfeitures aforesaid shall be equally divided betwixt the K. and Q. Majesties and the prosecutor V. Stat. 5. El. 20. Any person whatsoever consorting with Egyptians by the space of a moneth shall be adjudged a felon without Clergie VI. This act shall not include Children within foureteene yeares of Age nor People in Prison so they void the Kingdome within foureteen dayes after tehy shall be enlarged or reforme their course of life VII None borne within this Kingdome and Wales shall be compellable to void the Land by the Stat. of 1.2 P. M. 4. but only to leave their naughty Course of life Embracery S. Maintenance Enditements S. Indictments Enquests S. Jurors Escapes S. Felony 7. Escheators 1. Stat. 23. H. 6.17 An Escheator shall not take above xl s. for the execution of one Writ in one County and that only when his labour and Costs require it otherwise he ought to take lesse II. Stat. 12. E. 4.9 None shall take upon him to be an Escheator or Deputy to an Escheator unlesse the Escheator himselfe hath Freehold within the County worth xx l. per Annum in paine of xl l. III. His Deputy or Farmor shall be a sufficient man and shall Certifie into the Exchequer his deputation within twenty dayes next after it is made upon the like paine of fortie pound IV. Justices of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine these defaults and to give Judgement for the recovery of the said forfeitures which are to be distributed betwixt the K. and the prosecutor V. This Stat. shall not restraine Corporations which have power by their Charter to appoint Escheators VI. Stat. 1. H. 8.8 No Escheator or other person whatsoever shall sit by vertue of any Commission to inquire of Lands unlesse his lands be worth forty marks per Annum in paine of xx l. VII Stat. 33. H. 8.22 An Escheator shall not take for the finding of an office of lands that exceed not the cleare yearely value of 5. l. per Annum above 15. s. viz. for his owne Fee 6. s. 8. d. for writing the office 3. s. 4. d. for the charges of the Jury 3. s. and for the officers above that are to receive the office 2. s. Estreates 1. Stat. 9. E. 3.5 Just of Ass G. D. and Oy and Term. before they send their Records into the Exchequer shall take Estreats out of them II. Stat. 31. E. 3.3 A man or town charged in the Exchequer by the Estreats of the Justices with the detaining of the goods of fugitives or Felons shall be discharged upon producing another that is chargeable III. Stat. 42. E. 3.9 The party Chargeable by the Estreats of greene wax upon payment thereof shall see the schedules themselves under seale and totted for default whereof if he shall be afterwards damnified the Sheriffe shall pay him treble damages to be recovered before Just of P. or other Justices and shall besides make fine to the King S. Indictments 5. Iurors 9. Iuft of P. 18. Excommunicate persons S. Bailment 1. Fighting Sheriffs 4. Extortion S. Actions popular 15. Faires S. Horses 11 c. 16 c. Fasting dayes S. Fishdayes Feasants S. Hawkes Felony I. STat. 9. H. 3.22 The King shall have Annum diem et vastum in Felons lands and then they shall be delivered to the Lords of whom they are holden II. Stat. 3. E. 1.12 Notorious Felons which refuse lawfull triall shall suffer strong and hard Imprisonment III. Stat. 1. E. 2. It shall be Felony for any person to break Prison being in for Feonly otherwise not IV. Stat. 5. H. 4.4 It is felony to multiply gold or Silver V. Stat. 5. H. 4.5 It is felony to cut out the tongue or put out the eyes of any of the K. Subjects VI. Stat. 8. H. 6.12 Imbezeling of a Record whereby any judgement shall be reversed is Felony VII Stat. 1. R. 3.3 Justices of P. have in Sess power to enquire of the Escape of Felons VIII Officers shall not seise the goods of any arrested or imprisoned for suspicion of Felony before his conviction in paine to forfeite double the value of the goods so taken IX Stat. 3. H. 7.14 Conspiring by any of the Kings sworne Servants to destroy the King any Lord
to withstand the Purveyour But Composition Fish and Regall Fish are excepted XIX None shall buy any herrings of any stranger borne being not sufficiently salted Packed and Casked in paine to forfeit the said Herrings or value thereof But here those Herrings that happen by Shipwrack are excepted XX. The Stat. of 5.6 E. 6.14 shall not extend to hinder the buying of Sea Fish unsalted or Mud fish out of English Bottomes XXI When the offences aforesaid shall be committed at land or within any haven or Peere Just of P. Maiors and other head-officers in their Sess have power to heare and determine them by the oathes of 12. men or otherwise by Information or the the parties Confession XXII Here the forfeitures abovesaid happening in Corporate towns shall wholly accrew to the Corporation but happening elsewhere in the Country prosecuted meerly at the Qu. Sute by Information or otherwise shall totally accrew to the Qu. And in these two Cases the sute ought to be commenced within one yeare next after the offence committed but being prosecuted by an Informer they shall be divided betwixt the Qu. and the Informer And here the sute ought to be commenced within six moneths XXIII Stat. 1. Jac. 23. In the Counties of Somerset Devon and Cornewall it shall be lawfull for the Huors of Fish to goe upon any mans ground neere the Sea Coast to discover fish and for Fishermen to drie their Seanes and Nets there without danger of committing trespasse XXIV Stat. 3. Jac. 12. None shall erect a Weare or Weares along the Sea shore or in any Haven or Creeke or within five Miles of the mouth of any Haven or Creek or shall willingly destroy any Spawne or Fry of Fish in paine of ten pound to be divided betwixt the K. and the prosecutor neither shall any fish in any of the said places with any Net of a lesse Mash then three Inches and a half betwixt knot and knot except for the taking of Smoulds in Norfolk only or with a Canvas net or other Engine whereby the Spawne or fry of fish may be destroyed in paine to forfeit the said net or Engine and 10. s. in money to be divided betwixt the poore of the parish and the prosecutor and to be levied in Corporations by the Head officers and in other places by distresse and sale of goods upon warrant of a Just of P. directed unto the Constable and Churchwardens of the same parish for that purpose S. Hawkes 11. Hunters 1. Lahourers 46. Fish Dayes I. Stat. 2.3 E. 6.19 None shall eate flesh in Lent or upon Frydayes Saturdayes Embring dayes or any other dayes reputed fish dayes in paine of 10. s. ten dayes Imprisonment and during that time to abstainc from flesh and for every time offending afterwards to incurre double punishment II. Justices of G. D. and of P. have power to heare and determine this offence and the forfeiture above said shall be divided betwixt the K. and the Informer being prosecutor within three moneths after the offence committed III. This Act shall not restraine any person having the K. Licence to cate flesh or being aged weak sick in prison Lievetenant of the Kings Army or Governor of a Fort nor any woman with Child or in Childbed IV. Stat. 5.6 E. 6.3 The evens of all Holydayes commanded by this Statute except S. Jo. the Evangelist and Philip and Jacob shall be observed for fasting dayes in pain of Ecclesiasticall Censure V. When the Holyday Even happens Sunday the Saturday is to be fasted VI. Stat. 5. El. 5. None shall eate flesh upon dayes usually observed as fish-dayes in paine of 3. l. or three moneths imprisonment without bayle And they that wittingly suffer any such offence to be committed within their house and doe not discover it to an officer that may punish it shall forfeit xl s. VII These forfeitures shall bee divided into three parts whereof the Queene shall have one the poore of the parish another the Informer the third VIII Notwithstanding this Act licences may be granted upon just causes on these conditions following viz. To a Peere or his Lady if he pay yearly for it to the poore of the parish where he dwels 26. s. 8. d. to a Knight or his Lady if he pay 13. s. 4. d. and to any other inferiour person if he pay 6. s. 8. d. But here no licence must extend to the eating of Beefe at any time or to the cating of Veale betwixt Michaelmas and May day IX The Minister of the parish may grant a Licence to a sick person during the time of his sicknesse and if the sicknesse continue above eight dayes shall in the presence of one of the Churchwardens register the same and have 4. d. for the Registring of it but here if he grant the Licence without just cause he shall forfeit five Markes X. Justices of P. Maiors and other Chief Officers have power in Sess within their severall Jurisdictions to heare and determine these Offences as well by the oathes of twelve men as otherwise by Information XI If any shall by preaching or otherwise avouch or notifie that any eating of fish or forbearing of flesh is necessary for the saving of the soule or the service of God otherwise then as other Politique lawes be shall be punished as a spreader of false news See Newes XII Stat. 35. El. 7. The above said penalty of 3. l. is mitigated to xx s. and that of xl s. to 13. s. 4. d. Fishmonger S. Victuall 2. Force Forcible Entry I. Stat. 5. R. 2.7 None shall enter into lands or tenements by force in paine of Imprisonment and Ransome at the Kings pleasure II. Stat. 15. R. 2.2 When forcible entry is made into lands or into Church-livings one or more Just of P. taking sufficient power and going to the place so kept by force may commit the offender to the next Gaole there to remaine convict by the Justices record till he hath made fine and Ransome to the King And herein the Sheriffe and all others shall be Assistants in pain of Imprisonment great fines making III. Stat. 8. H. 6.9 The Stat. of 15. R. 2.2 shall be duly put in execution both against forcible entry and also against forcible detainer although it be after peaceable entry and all this at the Costs of the party grieved IV. When complaint of any such entry or detainer shall be made to any Justice or Justices of P. he or they by precept shall command the Sheriffe to summon a sufficient Jury and having by them made Inquity of the force committed shall cause the tenements to be reseised and that as well in the absence as presence of the party offending And here the Alienation of Tenements so entred into or detained by force for maintenance shall be adjudged void V. If the Jurors make default Issues are to be set upon them by the Sheriffe thus xx s. upon the first precept xl s. upon the second C. s. upon the
I. Stat. 3. E. 1.9 All persons shall be ready to pursue felony in paine of Imprisonment and great Fines making II. Stat. of Winchester 13. E. 1.1.2 28. E. 3.11 Fresh Suit shall be made after selons from town to town and from Country to Country And if they be not taken within 40 dayes the Hundred shall be answer able for the damages or two Hundreds when the felony shall be committed in the division of those two Hundreds III. Stat. 27. El. 13. The Hundred where fresh Suit shall cease shall answer half the damages to the Hundred wherein the felony shall be committed to be recovered in any Court at Westminster in the name of the Clerk of the P. of the County wherein the felony was committed and here the death or change of the Clerk of the P. shall not abate the Suit IV. When in this case damages are recovered against one or some few Inhabitants of the Hundred and the rest refuse to contribute thereunto two Just of P. 1. Qu. dwelling within or neere the same Hundred shall for the levying thereof set a tax upon every parish within that Hundred according to which the Constables and headboroughs of every towne shall tax the particular Inhabitants and levy the money upon them by distresse and sale of goods and deliver the mony levyed to the said Just or one of them V. No Hundred shall be chargeable when any one of the malefactors shall be apprehended or when the Action is not prosecuted within one year after the Robbery committed VI. No Hue and Cry shall be deeemed legall unlesse the pursuit be both by horse and foot VII No person robbed shall maintain an Action in this case unlesse with all convenient speed he make the Robbery knowne to the next towne village or hamlet and within twenty dayes before the Action brought make oath before a Just of P. dwelling within or neere the Hundred where the Robbery was committed whether he know the parties that robbed him or any of them And if he know them shall enter into sufficient Bond before the same Justice to prosecute the person or persons so by him knowne by Indictment or otherwise according to the Law VIII Stat. 39. El. 25. A remedy for the Inhabitants of the Hundred of Benhurst in the County of Berks for Recovery of such summes of money as shall be gained from them by force of the Stat. of 27. El. 13. S. Burglary 1. Hunters Hunting I. Stat 1. E. 1.20 Trespassers in Parks or Ponds shall give treble damages to the party grieved suffer three yeares imprisonment be fined at the Kings pleasure and give surety never to offend in the like kind again and if they cannot find surety they shall abjure the Realme or being fugitive shall be outlawed II. If they be attainted to have taken tame Beasts they shall be prosecuted as Felons III. Stat. 21. E. 1. A Forester Parker or Warriner shall not be questioned for killing a Trespasser that after the peace cried unto him will not yeeld himself so it be not done out of some other former Malice IV. Stat. 13. R. 2.13 No lay man which hath not lands of xl s. per Annum nor Clerk which hath not x. l. Revenue per Annum shall have or keepe any Greyhound Hound Dog Ferret net or Engine to destroy Deere Hares Conies or any other Gentlemans game in pain of one whole yeares imprisonment which I. of P. have power to inflict V. Stat. 1. H. 7.7 If any shall hunt within Forests Parks or Warrens in the night time or disguised one of the Kings Counsell or a Just of P. to whom information here of shall be made shall by his warrant cause the offender to be brought himselfe or some other Counsellor or Just of P. to be examined where if he conceale the fact such hunting shall be deemed felony but being confessed the offence is onely finable at the next generall Sess And here a rescous of the execution of any such warrant shall also be deemed felony VI. Stat. 19. H. 7. None shall keep any Deeres Haies or Buckstalles save in his own Forest or Park in pain to forfeit for every moneth they are so kept xl l. neither shall any stalk with any bush or beast to any Deer except in his own Forest or Park in pain of x. l. VII None shall take an old Heron without his owne ground in paine of 6. s. 8. d. nor a yong Heron in pain of x. s. for which forfeitures every man that will may sue by Action of Debt or otherwise VIII Any two Just of P. in Sess may examine the offenders abovesaid and commit them to Prison till they shall have satisfied the said forfeitures whereof the said Justices are to have the tenth part for their paines IX Stat. 3. Jac. 13. None shall without the owners licence kill or chase any Deer or Conies in any Parkes or inclosed grounds in paine to yeeld treble dammages to the partie grieved to suffer three moneths imprisonment and to be bound with good sureties to the good behaviour for seaven years after or to remain still in Prison till he find such sureties But here the party grieved being satisfied hath liberty to release the behaviour X. Just of Oy and Term. Just of Ass and Just of P. in Sess have power to heare and determine these offences and Just of P. in Sess upon Confession and satisfaction to the party grieved have power to release the behaviour XI If any person not having xl l. per Annum in lands or 200 l. in goods or some inclosed ground used for Deere or Conies worth xl s. per Annum at least shall use any Gun Bow or Crossebow to kill any Deer or Conies or shall keep any Buckstall Ferret dog net or other Engine it shall be lawfull for any person having lands worth 100 l. per Annum to take such Gun c. from any such person and to convert the same to his own use XII This Act shall not extend to any Park or inclosed ground hereafter to be made and used for Deere or Conies without the Kings Licence XIII Stat. 7. Jac. 13. It shall be in the election of the party grieved whether he will take for satisfaction x. l. in money or treble dammages as by the Stat. 3. Ja. 13. is limited S. Hawkes 11.21.22 Jesuites S. Recusants Images S. Bookes Imbracery S. Embracery Imbezeling of a Record S. Felony 6. Indictments I. STat. 1. E. 3.17 Indictments before Sheriffes Bayliffes or others shall be delivered by Indenture to the Justices when they come to make deliverance II. Stat. 7. H. 5. A remedy against such as doe indict or appeale others of Treason or Felony supposed to be committed in a place within the County of Lancaster where there is no such place concerning which Just of P. within that County have power to inquire and to inflict punishment viz. Imprisonment Fine and Ransome S. Stat. 9. H. 5.1 18. H. 6.12 33. H. 6.2 III.
Stat. 6. H. 6.1 Upon an Indictment of any person in the Kings Bench a Capias shall be awarded against him returnable at least six weekes after before any Exigent shall be Awarded IV. Stat. 8. H. 6.10 10. H. 6.6 Vpon Indictments or appeales before Just of P. or others of persons dwelling in forraine Counties the Exigent shall be staid till the returne of a Capias directed to the Sheriffe of such forraine County for the arresting of the party indicted V. Stat. 1. E. 4.2 Sheriffes shall deliver all Indictments and presentments taken in their Turnes unto the Justices of the P. at their next Sess in pain of 40. l. who shall arraign deliver make process and proceed thereupon as if they were taken before them and shall deliver indented estreats of the Fines to the sheriffe to be levied to his own use And here if the sheriffe levy any fine or cōmit any to prisō by colour of any such indictment or presentment otherwise then by warrant from the Justices as aforesaid he shall forfeit C. l. Howbeit Sheriffes of London shall not be restrained by this Act nor those who have had fines formerly granted unto them VI. Stat. 37. H. 8.8 The words cum baculis cultellis arcubus sagittis shall not of necessity be put in an-indictment but it shall bee adjudged good without those words or the like See Certificate Certiorari 1. Murder 4 5. Informations and Informers S. Actions popular Ingrossers S. Forestallers Inholders I. Stat. 21 Jac. 21. The Statute of 32. H. 8.41 together with other statutes concerning horsebread is repealed II. Inholders and Hostlers shall make no horsebread shall sell their hay provender and victualls at reasonable prices and shall take nothing for litter III. This Act shall not restraine those that dwell in a thorough fare which is no market town and wherein there is no Baker to make horsebread according to the just Assise IV. Just of Oy and Term. I. of P. sheriffes in turnes stewards in Leets have power to hear and determine these offences V. If any Inholder or Hostler which hath power by this Act to make horsebread observe not the Assise or if he or any other offend this Law in any other kind whatsoever for the first offence they shall be fined for the second suffer a moneths imprisonment without bail for the third be set upon the Pillory and for the fourth shall be forejudged from ever keeping an Inne again See Alehouses 5 15 26 28. Butter 1. Forestallers 5. Inmates S. Cottages Inquests S. Jurors Inrolments Stat. 27. H. 16.8 Bargaines and sales to raise an use of Inheritance or Freehold must be by Deed indented and inrolled within six moneths in some Court of Record at Westminster or in the County where the Land lieth before the Custos Rotulorum two Just of P. and the Clerk of the Peace or two of them whereof the Clerk to be one and here the Fee to be paid for such Inrolment when the land is not worth xl s. per Annum is 2. s. and when it is worth more x. s. to be equally divided betwixt the Justice or Justices then present and the Clerk of the P. who ought to inroll them in Parchment and deliver them up to the Custos Rotulorum within one yeare after See Stat. 5. El. 26. Concerning the inrolment of Deeds in the Counties of Lancaster Chester and the Bishoprick of Duresme and in Corporate townes there Inventories S. Ecclesiasticall Court I. Stat. 5. E. 3.10 Justices have power to imprison a Juror sworn before them that shall be attainted to be Ambidexter and besides he shall be ransomed at the Kings will II. Stat. 25. E. 3.3 An indictor shall not be put on Enquests upon delivering of Endictees III. Stat. 34. E. 3.8 A corrupt Juror shall be fined and suffer one yeares Imprisonment And here the prosecutor shall have halfe the Fine and the party grieved his dammages IV. Stat. 38. E. 3.12 If a Juror be attainted to have taken any thing by way of corruption he shall suffer one whole yeares imprisonment and forfeit ten times so much as he hath so taken to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor and all Embracors in that kind shall incurre the like punishment Howbeit theso offences shall not be prosecuted by Justices ex officio but at the suit of the party grieved or some other V. Stat. 11. H. 4.9 Jurors in indictments shall be teturned by the Sheriffes or Bay liffes and not nominated by any other VI. Stat. 2 H. 5.3 Jurors ought to have lands worth xl s. per annum ultra reprise And in the County Palatine of Lancaster there lands ought to be worth 5. l. per annum S. stat 7. H. 5.1.18 H. 6.12.33 H. 6.2 VII Stat. 3. H. 8.12 Panells of Jurors returned by the Sheriffe to inquire for the King shall be reformed by the Just in Sess 1 Qu. at their discretions and the Sheriffe shall returne that Panell reformed in pain of xx l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor who shall not lose his part by the Kings pardon VIII Stat. 27. El. 7. No Sheriffe or Bayliffe shal return Jurors without addition of their dwelling place nor collect any issues made out against them without such addition IX No Clerke shall estreat any issues against any Juror without such addition in pain to forfeit 5. markes to the King and as much to the party grieved See Actions Popular 8. Justices of P. 25.28 Justices of Peace I. Stat. 27. E. 1.3 Justices assigned to take Assises in every County after the Assises taken shall deliver the Gaoles but if one of them be a Clerk the other that is lay associating unto him one of the most discreet Knights of the County shall deliver the Gaoles II. Stat. 1. E. 3.16 The King will that in every County good men and lawfull which be no maintainers of evill or Barretors in the Country shall be assigned to keep the Peace III. Stat. 2. E. 3.2 Clergy men shall not be Justices of Oy and Term. or Justices of G. D. IV. Stat. 4. E. 3.2 Good and discreet persons shall be assigned in all Shires of England to take Assises Juries and Certifications and to deliver the Gaoles three times in the yeare at least V. There shall also be assigned good and lawfull men in every County to keep the peace and such as shall be indicted or taken by them and are not bailable by Law shal not be let to mainprise by the Sheriffe or any other Minister nor otherwise delivered then at the common law VI. the Just of G. D. shall have power to deliver the Gaoles of those that stand indicted before the Keepers of the Peace which Keepers shall send those indictments before the said Just of G. D. and shall have power to punish Sheriffes Gaolers and others which do any thing contrary to this Act. VII Stat. 18. E. 3.2 Two or three of the best of Reputation in the Counties
shall be assigned keepers of the Peace by the Kings Commission who together with other wise and learned in the Law shall have power to heare and determine Felonies and Trespasses done in the same Counties and to inflict punishment according to Law and reason VIII Stat. 34. E. 3.1 There shall be assigned in every County for the keeping of the Peace one Lord and three or four of the most worthy of the County with some learned in the Law who shall have power to arrest and Chastise rioters Barretors and other offenders according to the law and their owne discretions to bind people of evill fame to the good behaviour and to heare and determine felonies and trespasses done in the same County IX All generall inquiries heretofore granted within any seigniories for the mischiefes done there shall from henceforth cease and be repealed X. The fines imposed by I. of P. for trespasses shall be reasonable and just XI Stat. 42. E. 3.4 All commissions of inquirie except of Escheatorship shall be directed to the Justices of the one Bench or other to the Just of Ass or to the most worthy in the Country and to none other XII Stat. 12. R. 2.10 In every Commission there shall be but six Justices assigned who shall keep their Sess every quarter at least in pain to be punished at the discretion of the Kings Councell XIII Every Justice of P. shall have for his wages 4. s. a day and the Clerke of the P. 2. s. for so longtime as the Sessions shall last to be paid by the Sheriffe out of the Amerciaments arising at the same Sessions XIV No steward of any Lord shall be assigned in any Commission neither shall any association be made to the Justices of Peace after the first Commission XV. Judges and Serjeants at Law shall not be bound to attend the Sessions but when they may conveniently intend it XVI Stat. 13. R. 2.7 Notwithstanding the Stat. of 12. R. 2.10 which prohibits the stewards of Lords to be Justices the most sufficient Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of the Law shall be put in Commission and sworne to put in execution without favour all statutes which concern their office XVII Stat. 14. R. 2.11 There shall be 8. Justices of Peace assigned in every County XVIII Double estreats of Amerciaments at the Sessions shall be made containing the names of all the Justices there present and the number of dayes they sit and one of them delivered to the Sheriffe out of which he is to answer the Justices their wages by indenture according to which the Sheriffe shall be again allowed the wages in the Exchequer upon his accompt But no Duke Earle Baron or Baronet although he be Justice of Peace and hold Sess with the other eight shall have any wages allowed him XIX Stat. 17. R. 2.10 In every Commission of Peace two men of Law of the same County shall be assigned to goe and proceed to the deliverance of Theeves and Felons XX. Stat. 2. H. 5.4 Justices of the Peace in every Shire named of the Quorum shall be resiant within the same Shire except Lords Judges Serjeants at law the Kings Atturney and shall keep their Sessions sour times in the year viz. in the first week after Michaelmas Epiphany Easter and the translation of Saint Thomas being the third of July and more often if need require XXI Stat. 11 H. 6.6 No suit before Justices of P. shall be discontinued by a new Commission of Peace XXII Stat. 14. H. 6.4 Just of Peace in Middlesex are not compellable to keep their Sess above twice in the yeare notwithstanding the stat of 12. R. 2.10 Yet may they keep them oftner if need be at their discretions XXIII Stat. 18. H. 6.11 None except men learned in the Law or inhabiting Corporations shall be Justices of Peace unlesse their lands be worth xx l. per Annum XXIV If any be put into the Commission not having lands of that value and doe not within one moneth after his notice thereof acquaint the Lord Chancellor therewith or doe make warrant by force of such Commission he shall forfeit to the King xx l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XXV Stat. 3. H. 7.1 Justices of P. have power to impannell an Enquest to inquire of the concealements of a former Enquest and to Assesse in open Sessions the Amerciaments of the first Enquest at their discretions XXVI Just of P. shall at the next generall Sess certifie recognisances taken for keeping of the Peace where if the party being called do not appear those Recognisances shall be certified into the Chancery Kings Bench or Exchequer XXVII Stat. 33. H. 8.10 37. H. 7. All Just of P. shall at their generall Sess endeavour amongst themselves to understand the meaning and intents of all statutes which concern vagabonds Retayners giving Liveries Signes Tokens or Badges maintenance embracery Bowstaves and Archery unlawfull games Forestallers and Regrators victuall victuallers and inholders and of all other statutes made in this present Parliament and shall then also advise amongst themselves how the same may be best put in due Execution XXVIII All processe and proceedings shall be continued from Sess to Sess And the said Justices shall in Sess have power to enquire hear and determine the breach of the said statutes as well by verdict as by any other information or Confession of the party and to make processe by Venire facias Capias Exigent under the Seal of the same Justices or two of them and also to reform panels of Jurous according to which the Sheriffe shall make his Return upon the paine limited by the Stat. of 3. H. 8.12 XXIX Stat. 1. E. 6.7 Preferment of a Justice or Commissioner to a higher dignity as to be a Duke Archbishop Marques Earle Vicount Baron Bishop Knight Judge Serjeat at Law or Sheriff shall not diminish his power 31. XXX No Suit before any Justices or Commissioners shall be discontinued by a new Commission or by the alteration of any of their names XXXI Stat. 1. M. 8. None shall be Justice of Peace during his Shrevalty notwithstanding the statute of 1. E. 6.7 XXXII Stat. 2.3 P. M. 18. A new Commission of the Peace or G. D. for the whole County shall not be a Supersedeas to a former like Commission granted to a City or towne Corporate there being no Countie XXXIII Stat. 1. E. 1. 7. Jac. 6. Every Justice of Peace ought to take the oaths of Supremacy and obedience which see in Recusants 8.88 Kidder S. Badger Kings Bench S. Poore People 15. Labourers Artificers Servants Apprentices I. STat. 21. H. 8.7 Servants that go away with or otherwise imbezill their Masters or Mistresses goods to the value of xl s. worth with an intent to steale them being put in trust therewith shall be punished as Felons II. This Act shall not extend to Apprentices nor servants under the age of eighteene years III. Stat. 2.3 E. 6.15 Artificers workmen
Head officer to be collected as other fines and Amerciaments for the use of the same townes XLIV When an Apprentice departs from his Masters service into another County or Corporation it shall be lawfull for the Just of P. or Head officers there being Justices of P. to direct a Capias to the Sheriffe or other chiefe officer for his apprehension and being taken the said Just of P. or Head officer shall commit him to ward untill he give good Security that he will honestly serve out his time XLV Notwithstanding this Act high Constables have power to keep their Statute Sessions so that they there doe nothing repugant thereunto XLVI Stat. 5. El. 5. Every housholder using the trade of the Seas Fisher Gunner or Shipwright may take Apprentices according to the custome of the City of London so that the Apprentice be seaven yeares old the Indenture inrolled in a corporate towne for which Inrolment the officer shal not take above 12. d. XLVII Stat. 8. El. 11. None shall make any Hat or Felt with forraine stuffe unlesse he hath served Apprentice to that Art seaven yeares at least in pain of forfeiting the Hats or Felts so made and 5. l. for every mone the continuance in so doing XLVIII No Hatmaker shall have above two Apprentices at one time nor them for lesse time then seaven yeares a pecce in pain to suffer one moneths imprisonment for every one he keepes more and to be for ever after disabled to keep any more then one XLIX This Act shal not restraine Hatmakers to imploy their Children L. Stat. 1. Jac. 17. None shall make any Hat or Felt of any Stuffe what soever which hath not served an Apprentice seaven yeares in that Art in pain of 5. l. for every month neither shall he have above two Apprentices at one time or imploy any Journeyman in that Art which hath not served the like time upon the like pain LI. This Act shall not restraine Hatmakers to imploy their Children so that they be bound for seaven yeares and their terme doe not expire untill they shall have accomplished the age of 21. yeares LII The forfeitures of this Statute as also those of the 8. El. 11. shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor LIII Stat. 3. Jac. 9. None shall imploy any Journeyman or apprentice in the Art of Skinner unlesle he use the same Art himselfe and hath served seaven yeares therein as an Apprentice in pain of forfeiting double the value of the Skins dressed to be divided betwixt the King and the proecutor or Seisour LIV. Stat. 1. Jac. 6. The statute of 5. El. 4. Shall give power to the Justices of P. to rate the Wages of any Labourers Weavers Spinsters and workmen or workwomen whatsoever LV. The rating of such wages in Sess by the more pact of the Justices within any particular Ryding or Division where generall Sess have been used severally to be kept shall be as effectuall as those rated at the generall Sess of the whole County LVI The Sheriffe and Head officers within their severall precincts shall cause the said rates to be proclaimed in such sort as if they had been sent downe printed from the Lord Keeper which all persons shall be bound to observe upon the paines and penalties mentioned in the said Statute of 5. El. 4. LVII A Clothier convicted before the Justices of Ass or P. in Sess or before two Just of P. 1. Qu. by his own confession or the evidence of two Witnesses not to have observed the said Rates shall forfeit x. s. to the party grieved to be levied upon warrant from the same Just by distresse and sale of goods LVIII None shall incurre any danger for not making Certisicate of the Rates into the Chancery according to 5. El. 4. LVIX A Clothier being also a Just of P. shall not be a Rater of Wages for any Artificer that depends upon making of Cloth S. Masons Poore people 6. 20. c. Lader S. Badger Larceny S. Bailement 2. Trespasse Latten S. Brasse Leather Tanner Currier and Shoomaker I. Stat. 5.6 E. 6.15 None shall buy or ingrosse Leather to the intent to sell the same againe in pain to forfeit the same Leather or the value there of be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or Seisor II. This Statute shall not restrain Girdlers and other Artificers to sell their necks Wombes and Shreds nor the buying of so much Leather as the party which buyes it hath licence to transport III. None shall transport any Shooes Bootes Buskins Stertups or slippers in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or seisor IV. No Girdler or other cutter of Leather in London shall curry it in his owne house in paine to forfeit the same Leather to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor V. Stat. 1. M. Parl. 2.8 No Artificer using the Mystery of Leather buying shall buy any Leather and sell the same againe to be transported in pain to forfeit the same to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor VI. Curriers of London shall use their own stuffe in pain to forfeit the Leathers otherwise curried to be divided as aforesaid VII No Currier shall curry any hides betwixt Saint Jamestide and the Lady day but onely such as have been sufficiently dipped twice in the Pan inpaine to forfeit the same to be divided as aforesaid VIII A Currier shall dresse his Leather within the space of 5. dayes in Summer and of x. dayes in Winter in pain to forfeit to the party grieved for every hide otherwise dressed 10. s. IX Stat. 5. El. 22. None shall make Pelts or buy any skins of Stag Hind Buck Doe Goat Fawne or Kid except to make tawed or tanned Leather or parchment or otherwise to convert them to his owne use in pain to forfeit the value thereof and besides 2. s. 6. d. for every pelt or skin so made or bought X. Stat. 18. El. 9. The penalty of transporting Leather XI Stat. 1. Jac. 22. None shall gash any hide in paine of xx d. nor water them except in June July and August nor put them to Sale being putrified in pain to forfeit for every hide so watred or put to sale 3. s. 4. d. XII None shall kill any Calfes under 5. weeks old in pain to forfeit for evey Calfe so killed 6. s. 8. d. XIII No Butcher shall exercise the Mystery of a Tanner in pain of 6. s. 8. d. for every day he so continues both professions XIV None shall be a Tanner but such as have served seaven years as Apprentices or hired servants in that trade or the widow or children of a Tanner having a tan fat left them and having been brought up in that profession by the space of 4. yeares in paine to forfeit all the Leather they tan or the full value thereof XV. None that useth the cutting or working of Leather shall be a Tanner in
debate in the Kings Court without the Kings speciall Licence in paine to lose the Church and his service and that no Clerk of any Justicer or Sheriffe take part in any Suites or use fraud whereby Common right may be delayed in paine to be punished as aforesaid and more grievously if the Trespasse require it III. Stat. West 2.13 E. 1.48 The Chancellor Treasurer Justices any of the Kings Councell Clerk of the Chancery Exchequer or of any Justice or other officer or any of the Kings house Clerk or Lay shall not receive any Church or Advowson of a Church Land or Tenement in Fee by gift by purchase to farme by Champerty or otherwise so long as the same thing is in Plea nor shall take any reward thereof in pain to be punished at the Kings pleasure both the buyer and seller IV. Stat. 28. E. 1.11 None shall take upon him a businesse in Suit with an intent to have part of the things sued for neither shall any upon any such Covenant give up his right to another in pain that the taker shall forfeit to the King so much of his lands and goods as doth amount to the value of the part so purchased for such maintenance to be recovered by any that will sue for the King before the Justices before whom the Plea hangeth V. This statute shall not prohibite any to take Counsell at Law for his Fee or of his parents or next friends VI. Stat. 33. E. 1. He that shall be attainted of Champerty or Maintenance shall suffer three years imprisonment and be fined at the Kings pleasure VII Stat. 1. E. 3.14 None shall take upon him to maintain quarrels and parties in the Country to the Let and disturbance of the Common law VIII Stat. 4. E. 3.11 Justices of the Benches Justices of Assise and of nisi prius shall heare and determine maintenance Conspiracy and Champerty IX Stat. 20. E. 3.4 None shall maintain any quarrels save only their own X. Stat. 1. R. 2.4 No great officer of the King shall maintaine quarrels in the Country in pain of a Fine to be set by the King and his Councell and no other person in pain of Imprisonment and to be fined at the Kings will and if he be the Kings officer or houshold servant he shall also lose his place Stat. 1. R. 2.7 None shall give liveries for maintenance of Quarrels in paine of Fine and imprisonment XII Stat. 1. R. 2.9 All gifts or Feoffments of lands Tenements or goods for maintenance shall be void XIII Stat. 7. R. 2.15 The Statutes of 1 E. 3.14.4 E. 3.11 1. R. 2.4 9. shall be duly executed in all points XIV Stat. 4. H. 4.8 If any make forcible entry into lands by way of Maintenance the Chancellor of England shall grant a speciall Assise without suing to the King and if the Disseisor shall be attainted thereof he shall suffer one whole yeares imprisonment and restore double damages to the party grieved XV. Stat. 32. H. 8.9 All statutes which concerne Maintenance Champerty and Embracery shall be duly put in execution XVI None shall buy any pretended right or Title in any land unlesse the seller hath taken the profits thereof one whole yeare before in pain that both the buyer and seller shall each of them forfeit the value of the same land to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XVII None shall unlawfully maintain any Suit or action retain any person for Maintenance Embrace Jurors or suborn witnesses to the hinderance of Justice or the procurement of perjury in pain to forfeit for every such offence x. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor XVIII Howbeit purchasing of a pretenced Title by him that is already lawfully possessed of the thing whereunto Title is made is lawfull XIX Proclamations shall be made at the Assises of the Statutes made against Maintenance Champerty Embracery and unlawfull Retainers XX. The Offenders against this Act shall be prosecuted within one yeare See Actions Popular 12.15.18 Force 4. Marches Stat. 31. H. 6.3 They may punish such as shall unlawfully against the provision of this Statute attach men dwelling farre off to appeare in the Warden Courts of the Marches neere Scotland Mariners S. Captaines 32.35 c. Markets S. Horses 11 c. Marshalls of the Kings Bench S. Bailement 3. Marshalsey S. Poor people 15. Marshes Stat. 7. Jac. 20. Their power in recovering Marshgrounds in Norfolk and Suffolk Masons Stat. 3. H. 6.1 It shall be Felony to plot confederacies amongst Masons those which assemble upon such confederacies shall suffer Imprisonment and pay fine and ransome at the Kings pleasure Matrimony I. Stat. 7. Jac. 11. It shall be Felony for any person to marry which hath had notice that his or her former husband or wife was living within seaven yeares before II. The Triall in this case shall be in the County where the party delinquent shall be apprehended III. But this Statute shall not extend to question any for Felony where the former marriage was before the latter severed by divorce or declared void in the Ecclesiasticall Court or was made before the age of consent neither shall the breach of statute draw after Corruption of blood losse of Dower or disinherison of heire or heires Mault I. Stat. 17. R. 2.4 Mault made in the Counties of Huntington Cambridge Northampton and Bedford and brought to London for the provision of the Court and City shall be well clensed from Dust and other filth And Maiors Bailiffes and Wardens of townes and places where it is sold have power to make search and to see such defaults redressed II. Stat. 2. E. 6.10 None shall imploy lesse time in the making and drying of Mault except in the moneths of June July and August then three weekes and in these moneths lesse then seaventeen dayes nor put to sale any Mault mingled of good and bad in pain to forfeit for every quarter otherwise ordered or sold 2. s. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor III. None shall put any Mault to sale before by tredding rubbing and Fanning it he shall have conveniently taken out of every quarter halfe a peck of Dust or more in paine to forfeit xx d. for every quarter otherwise sold to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor IV. Justices of Peace in Sessions and Stewards of Leets have power to heare and determine these offences as well by presentment of 12. men as by information of two Witnesses V. Baylisses and Constables of townes and places where faulty Mault is made or mingled as aforesaid have power to make search for it and being found with the Advise of a Justice of P. to make sale thereof at their discretions VI. None shall be punished by this Act which only maketh mault for his owne provision nor unlesse the Action be prosecuted within one yeare VII Stat. 39. El. 16. Justices of Peace in Sess have power at their discretions to restraine the
said Just are not to intermeddle in Corporations for the execution of this Law XI When one parish extends into severall Counties or Liberties the Justices or head Officers shall onely intermeddle within their respective limits but the Churchwardens and Overseers shall have mixt Jurisdiction and shall render accompt as aforesaid to the Justices or head Officers of both places XII If it happen no Overseers to be appointed according to this Statute every Just of P. or head Officer of that Division or Corporation shall forfeit 5. l. to be levied by a Sessions warrant and imployed to the use of the poore of the Parish where such default is made XIII The forfeitures of this Statute shal be imployed to the use of the poore as aforesaid and shall bee levied by distresse and commitment as is above remembred in the fifth clause XIV Justices of P. of every County and Corporation or the more part of them at their Easter Sessions shall yearely or as often as they shall thinke fit rate every Parish at a certaine summe to be paid weekly but so as no parish may pay more then six pence nor lesse then a halfe penny and one Parish being considered with another not above two pence a piece through the whole County or Corporation which summes so rated the Church-wardens and Constab of every Parish or any of them or in their default a Just of P. have power to assesse and levie by distresse sale and commitment as aforesaid XV. Justices of P. shall then likewise rate every parish towards the reliefe of the Kings Bench and Marshalsie and also of Hospitals and Almes-houses situate within their severall Jurisdictions appointing onely so much to the said Hospitals and Almes-houses that the Kings Bench and Marshalsie may each of them receive at least 20. s. yearely out of every County And the summes thus to be assessed upon every Parish the Churchwardens there shall collect and pay over quarterly to the high Constable of that respective Division ten dayes before every quarter Sessions and the high Constable shall every quarter Sess pay the same over to the two Treasurers of the County or one of them to be yearely chosen by the more part of the Justices of P. and such Subsidie-men as were taxed in the last rate of Subsidies at 5. l. lands or 10. l. goods which Treasurers so chosen shall yearely at Easter Sessions render a true accompt to their successors and pay the moneys in their hands to the L. Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench and the Knight Marshall by equall portions And here the Churchwarden or his Executors c. which failes in payment to the high Const shall forfeit 10. s. and the high Const or his Executors c. which failes in payment to the Treasurers shall forfeit 20. s. to be levied and imployed by the said Treasurers as aforesaid XVI The stock of every County shall be ordered and disposed to charitable uses as the Justices or the more part of them shall think convenient XVII The Treasurer that refuseth to execute his office to distribute reliefe or to accompt as the more part of the Justices shall direct shall be fined by the same Justices or in their default by the Judges of Assise three pounds at least which fine shall be levied by sale of goods upon the prosecution of any two Justices authorized by the rest XVIII A provision for the Island of Fowlenesse in Essex XIX Upon an Action brought for the due execution of this Act the defendant may plead the generall Issue and yet give speciall matter in evidence and shall also recover treble damages and his costs of suit XX. Stat. 1. Jac. 25. All persons to whom the Overseers of the poore shall according to the Statute of 43. El. 2. bind any children Apprentices may take receive and keep them as Apprentices Stat. 21. Jac. 28. XXI Stat. 3. Car. 4. All persons to whom the Overseers of the poore shall according to the Stat. of 43. El. 2. binde any children Apprentices may take receive and keep them as Apprentices XXII The Churchwardens and Overseers of the poore mentioned in the Statute of 43. El. 2. may with the consent of two or more Just of P. 1. Qu. within their respective limits wherein there shall be more Just of P. then one and where no more shall be then one with the assent of that one Justice set up use and occupie any Trade Mystery or Occupation onely for the setting on worke and better reliefe of the poore of the parish or place where they so beare office respectively Poulters S. Victuall 2. 10. Powdike in Norfolke S. Felony 13. Poysoning S. Murder Presentments S. Indictments Priests S. Recusants Prisons Prisoners Gaoles Gaolers I. Stat. 4. E. 3.10 Sheriffes and Gaolers shall receive offenders without any thing taking in paine to be punished by the Justices of Gaole-delivery II. Stat. 14. E. 3.10 Gaoles which were wont to be in the Sheriffs custodie shall be againe rejoyned to their Baliwicks See Stat. 13. R. 2.15 19. H. 7.10 III. The Gaoler which by dures compels a prisoner to become an Approver shall have judgement of life and member IV. Stat. 5. H. 4.10 Justices of P. shall imprison none but in the common Gaole V. Stat. 14. El. 5. Just of P. in Sess or the more part of them have power to tax every parish in the County but not above 6. d. or 8. d. a piece towards the reliefe of prisoners which tax the Church-wardens of every Parish shall levie every Sunday and pay it in quarterly to the high Constable or in a Corporation to the head Officer and the high Const or head Officer shall pay the same at every Qu. Sess to the Collectors thereof to be appointed by the said Justices who shall distribute it weekly to the said prisoners VI. The Church-wardens high Constables head Officers or Collectors aforesaid which herein shall be found negligent shall forfeit 5. l. to be divided betwixt the Queene and the prisoners VII Justices of P. within the County shall not intermeddle within a Corporation for the execution of this Act but onely the Maior or head Officers of the same VIII Stat. 3. Jac. 10. An offender which is to be conveyed to the Gaole shall beare all charges both of himselfe and of those which guard him IX If he refuse so to do upon warrant from a Just of P. the Constable of the township where he hath any goods being within the same County may sell so much thereof as in the discretion of the said Justice shall be thought sufficient to satisfie the said charges the appraisement thereof to be made by the neighbours there and the overplus to be rendred to the said offender X. If the offender hath no goods to satisfie the charges the Constables Church-wardâ—ns and two or three other honest Inhabitants or in case there be no such Officers there foure of the principall Inhabitants of the Parish where he was taken shall make
not to be delivered but at such a meeting as aforesaid or in open Sess XXVII If the Governours shall not every quarter Sess yeeld to the said Justices a true account of all such persons as shall be committed to their custody if they suffer any within their charge to make escape or to be trouble some to the Country by going abroad or otherwise they shall incurre what fine the same Just in Sess shall think fit to impose upon them XXVIII All fines which shall accrue by this act other then those already limited shall be paid to the Treasurers of the County and by them be accounted for See Labourers 11. Sheriffes 4. Victuall and Victuallers I. Stat. 12. E. 2.6 No person in any City or Corporation which by reason of his Office ought to keep the Assise of Wine and Victuals as long as he shall be attendant upon his Office shall buy or sell Wines or Victuals in paine to forfeit the same to the King whereof the prosecuter shall have the third part by the Kings gift 8. II. Stat. 23. E. 3.6 All Butchers Fishmongers Regraters Hostlers Brewers Bakers Poulters and all other sellers of Victuals shall sell the same at reasonable prises and for moderate gaine in paine upon proofe of the contrary before the Sheriffe or the Kings Bailiffes or before the Constables of the place by the evidence of two true men to forfeit the double value thereof to the party damnified or in his default to him that will sue for the same And all Maiors and head Officers of Corporations have like power and upon neglect of their duty herein shall forfeit the treble value thereof to the party or prosecuter as aforesaid and besides shall incurre a fine to the King to be imposed by Justices to be assigned by the King III. Stat. 6. R. 2.10 Aliens being in amity with the King and Realme may bring in victuall and sell the same in grosse or by retaile without the impeachment of any See Stat. 11 R. 2.7 1. H. 4.17 and 14. H. 6.6 IV. Stat. 13. R. 2.8 Victuallers shall sell their victuals at such reasonable prises as shall be set down by the Just of P. in two of their Sess to be holden betwixt Easter and Mich. in paine to be punished at the discretion of the said Justices where no paine is already limited in certaine 9. V. And here Sheriffes Stewards Maiors Bailiffes and all other which have power to keep Assise of Bread and Ale shall take no fine or amercement for any default touching the Assise for which the offender ought by Law to have bodily punishment VI. Stat. 23. H. 6.13 Justices of Peace shall twice every yeare cause all Statutes concerning Victuallers before this time made to be openly proclaimed in Sess VII Stat. 12. E. 4.8 No person other then Maiors Bailiffes Lords of Leets or others in point of Charter shall execute any Office of searching or surveying of Wine Ale Beere or any other Victuall or of the correction for breaking the Assise thereof in paine to forfeit 40. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecuter And all Letters Patents of the King granted for that purpose shall be void VIII Stat. 3. H. 8.8 When a Victualler in a City or Corporation is chosen to beare an Office by reason whereof he ought also to have the Assising of Victuall during that time two other being no Victuallers shall be joyned and sworne with him truly to Assesse and set prises and Assises of Victuall there IX Stat. 25. H. 8.2 The prises of Victuall in all places except Corporations shall be assessed by the Kings Councellours Justices of either Bench and some other great Officers X. Stat. 2 3. E. 6 15. Butchers Brewers Bakers Poulters Cooks Coster-mongers or Fruiterers which conspire or promise together that they will not sell their victuals but at certain prises shall forfeit for the first offence 10. l. to the King and if they pay it not within six dayes after conviction they shall suffer 20. dayes imprisonment and during that time shall have no sustenance but bread and water for the second offence they shall forfeit 20. l. and that not paid within six dayes as aforesaid shall suffer the Pillory And for the third offence shall forfeit 40. l. and that not paid within the time above limited shall againe suffer the Pillory lose one of their eares and be ever after taken as men infamous and not to be credited XI Just of P. Maiors Bailiffes and Stewards in Sess Leets and Courts have power to heare and determine these offences See Alehouses 5 15 26 28. Butter 1. Corne Forestallers 5. Purveyors 56. Vintners S. Wines Alehouses 29. Under-Sheriffe S. Sheriffes Usury 1. Stat. 37. H. 8.9 None shall sell his wares or merchandise to any and within three months after buy the same againe at a lesser prise knowing them to be the same wares or by any corrupt bargaine of wares money or other thing or by any mortgage of Land take in gaines for giving day of payment more then according to the rate of 10. per centum for one whole yeare in paine to forfeit the treble value of the wares or money so put forth or the treble value of the profits of such lands mortgaged to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor And besides shall suffer imprisonment and make fine at the Kings will II. Stat. 13. El. 8. All bonds contracts and assurances upon Usury in lending or doing any thing contrary to the Stat. of 37. H. 8.9 shall be void and all brokers and soliciters thereof shall be adjudged and used as Councellors Attornies or Advocates in any case of Praemunire III. He that taketh no more then after the rate of 10. l. per centum or lesse shall onely forfeit the interest to be recovered and imployed as the forfeitures of 37. H. 8.9 IV. Justices of Oyer and Terminer of Ass and of P. in their Circuits and Sess and Maiors Sheriffes and Bailiffes of Cities have power to heare and determine all offences committed against 37. H. 8.9 V. This Statute of 37. H. 8.9 shall be construed largely and strongly against the party offending by any way or devise directly or indirectly VI. This Act shall not extend unto any allowances or payments for the finding of Orphans according to the ancient rates of London or of any other City where order is taken for their custody and goods as in London VII The offender against the Stat. of 37. H. 8.9 may also be punished by the Ecclesiasticall Laws VIII Stat. 21. Jac. 17. None shall upon any contract directly or indirectly take for loane of any money or other commodities above the rate of 8. l. per centum for one whole yeare in paine to forfeit the treble value of the money or other things so lent IX No Scrivener Broker or Soliciter shall take or receive directly or indirectly for brokage above the rate of 5. s. for the loane of 100. l. for one whole
who shall have power to hear determine punish all those that shall be thereof found guilty and to command the Sheriffe to imprisō them till they shal make fine to the K. XXII The said Officers shall every yeer the next day after the feast of S. Michael deliver their estreats into the Exchequer and take for their expences a fourth part of that they can levie and shall answer the King the other three parts And the fourth part also of that they cannot levie shall be answered them in the Excheq and the other three parts shall be levied for the Kings use XXIII Stat. 25. E. 3.9 Auncell weight shall be quite put out and weighing shall be by equall balance Stat. 34. E. 3.5 XXIV Stat. 25. E. 3.10 Every measure shall be according to the Kings standard and shall be striked without heap saving the rents of Lords And the King will assigne certain Justices in every County to inquire hear and determine upon the points aforesaid and to inflict punishment according to the trespasse XXV Stat. 27. E. 3.10 There shall be one weight and one measure and none shall use any deceit in weighing commodities by an uneven tong of the balance or by putting hand foor or other touch in pain to forfeit the value of the commodities so weighed to suffer one yeers imprisonment and to be ransomed at the Kings will and the party grieved shall recover quadruple damages XXVI There shall be Justices assigned to inquire of such trespasses to do right as well at the K. suit as at the suit of the party XXVII Stat. 13. R. 2.9 There shall be one weight and measure throughout England and he that shall be convicted to have used any other shall suffer six moneths imprisonment and yeeld double damages to the party grieved XXVIII Stat. 15. R. 2.4 Eight bushels of corn striked shall be accounted a quarter as well by water as by land and none shall buy otherwise in pain to forfeit the corn or malt so bought XXIX Stat. 9. H. 5. Parl. 2.8 The Justices of P. Sheriffes Escheators and other persons to be assigned by the King shall have power by Commission to inquire of the counterfeiters of false weights and to commit them to prison and there to hold them till they shall be acquit or attainted and being anainted they shall still remain in prison till they have made fine and ransome at the discretion of the said Just who shall have power ther of to inquire hear and determine as often as to them shall seem necessary XXX Stat. 2. H. 6.11 The tun of wine shall contain 252. gallons English measure the pipe 126. gallons the barrell of Herrings or Eccles shall contain 30. gallons the butt of Salmon 84. gallons and so of other lesser vessell after the same rate XXXI None shall import or make any vessell contrary to this act in pain to forfeit the commodities therein contained to the lord of the town where they are found wherof the prosecutor shall have the fourth part XXXII Justices of P. and Maiors and Bailiffes having power to inquire of the peace have power to hear and determine these offences XXXIII Stat. 8. H. 6.5 Every Citie Borough and Town within England shall have a common balance with common weights sealed and according to the standard of the Exchequer upon the common costs of the said Citie Borough or Town in the keeping of the head Officer or Constable there in pain that the Citie for such default shall forfeit x. l. to the King the Borough v. l. every other Town xl s. 39 48. XXXIV At this balance all the inhabitants may weigh gratis but a forreiner shall for every draught under xl l. pay a farthing for a draught betwixt xl li. and an hundred an halfpenny and for a draught betwixt an hundred and a thousand a penny whereof the weights shall be maintained and the officers which attend that service rewarded at the discretion of the said inhabitants XXXV None shall buy woollen yarn unlesse he will make cloth thereof nor use weight or measure or any other thing in place thereof which is not sealed according to the standard nor set any thing to the same by way of tacking or hiding or in any other manner that may increase the measure or weight or let the balance to have his natural course upon the pain mentioned in the Statutes of 27. E. 3.10 and 13. R. 2.9 XXXVI Justices of P. Maiors Bailiffes and Stewards of Franchises have power to hear and determine these offences XXXVII Stat. 9. H. 6.8 A weigh of Cheese shall contain 32. cloves and every clove seven pound XXXVIII Stat. 11. H. 6.8 The Stat. of 1. H. 5.10 which see in Purveyors 44. and 8. H. 6.5 shall be duly put in execution XXXIX In every Citie Borough and Town there shall be a common bushell sealed and according to the standard in like manner and pain as in the said Stat. of 8. H. 6.5 is specified for a common balance 48. XL. All Ju. of P. Maiors head Officers shall have power to hear and determine the offences committed against the said Statutes by examination or inquisition and as well at the suit of the King as of the party grieved XLI The Maior of London and all other Maiors and Bailiffes in their oaths shall be charged to keep and execute all the said Statutes and shall be accountable in the Exchequer for all profits and forfeitures which shall grow due thereupon to the King XLII Stat. 1. R. 3.13 The contents of every vessel of wine and oyl And they shall not be sold untill they be gaged by an officer to be appointed by the King for that purpose XLIII Stat. 7. H. 7.4 or according to Rastal cap. 3. Measures and weights of brass shall be fent to every City and Borough there to be kept as their treasure according to which all measures and weights in every County shall be reformed XLIV The Maior or chiefe Officer of every such place shall have a speciall mark wherewith he shall seal the said measures and weights and shall take for sealing of a bushell a penny and of every other measure an halfpenny for an hundred weight a penny for half an hundred an halfpenny and for every lesser weight a farthing XLV If he refuseth or delayeth to seal them or doth any thing contrary to this act he shall forfeit xl s. to be divided betwixt the King and the party grieved and to be recovered by action of debt wherein no wager of law shall be admitted XLVI Justices of P. have power to hear and determine the said defaults XLVII Stat. 11. H. 7.4 Measures and weights of brasse shall be sent to Cities and Boroughs there especially named XLVIII Onely Cities Boroughs and Market Towns shall be enjoyned to have common balances weights and measures and all other towns shall be excused notwithstanding the Statutes of 8. H. 6.5 and 11. H. 6.8 above mentioned XLIX The Maiors and
or Labourers that conspire together concerning their work or wages shall forfeit for the first offence x. l. to the King and if they pay it not within six dayes after conviction they shall suffer 20. dayes imprisonment and during that time shall have no sustenance but bread and water for the second offence hee shall forfeit 20. l. and that not paid within six dayes as aforesaid shall suffer the Pillory and for the third offence shall forfeit xl l. and that not paid within time limited shall again suffer the Pillory lose one of their eares and be ever after taken as men infamous and not to be credited IV. Just of Ass Just of P. Maiors Bayliffes Stewards in Sess Leets Courts have power to hear and determine these offences V. Stat. 5. El. 4. None shall hire or be hired for lesse time then one whole yeare in the Arts of Clothier Wollen Weaver Tucker Fuller Clothworker Sherman Dyer Hosier Taylor Shoomaker Tanner Pewterer Baker Brewer Glover Cutler Smith Farrier Currier Sadler Spurrier Turner Capper Hat or Feltmaker Fletcher Arrowhead-maker Butcher Cook or Miller VI. Every person unmarried or under the age of 30. years though married having been brought up in any of the Arts above said by the space of three yeares and not worth in lands xl s. per Annum or in goods x. l. and so allowed under the hands and seales of two Just of P. the Head officer or two discreet Burgesses of the place where the party so brought up hath lived by the space of one whole yeare nor already retayned in husbandry the Arts abovesaid or any other Art or Mystery or in any service upon request of any person using the same Art shall not refuse to serve for the wages limited by this statute and being so retained shall not depart from his or their service without one quarters warning before two lawfull witnesses or some lawfull cause to be proved before one Justice of P. or Head officer in paine of imprisonment without baile but upon submission to performe the service they shall be enlarged without Fees which Commitment and enlargement two Just of P. the Head officer or two Burgesses as aforesaid unto whom complaint shall be made have power to command as in their discretions and upon due proofe shall be thought fit VII Every person between the ages of 12. and 60. not already retained in any service nor imployed about husbandry Mines Glasse Coale Fishing Sayling provision of grain or Meale for London nor Gentleman born nor Scholar in an University or School nor worth xl s. per Annum in lands or x. l. in goods nor having a Father Mother or other ancestor whose heire he is worth x. l. per Annum in lands or xl l. in goods shall be compelled to serve in husbandry shall not depart that service otherwise then as is before limited upon the paine above expressed VIII None shall put away his servant before the end of his term without a quarters warning or some lawfull cause to be proved by two sufficient Witnesses before the Just of Oy and Term. Just of Ass Just of P. in Sess a Head Officer or two discreet Aldermen or Burgesses in paine of xl s. IX No servant having served in one City or towne shall goe to serve in another without a Testimoniall viz. in a towne corporate under the seales of the town two housholders there and in the Country under the seales of the Constable or Constables and two housholders there which testimoniall shall be made and delivered to the party and also registred by the Minister of the place where the servant last dwelt for which the Minister is to have 2. d. X. The forme of the Testimoniall is this Memorandum that A. B. Servant to C. D. of E. in the County of F. Husbandman or Taylor c. in the said County is licenced to depart from his said Moster and is at his liberty to serve elsewhere according to the Statute in that case made and provided In witnesse c. XI The servant which sheweth not such a Testimoniall to the chief officer in a Corporation or to the Minister or some officer in any other place where he is to dwell shall suffer imprisonment till he procure one and if he produce not one within xx 1. dayes after his imprisonment or shew a false one he shall be punished by whipping as a vagabond And the Master that retaines a servant without such a testimoniall shall forfeit five pounds XII Those that work by the day or week shall continue at work betwixt the middle of March and the middle of September from 5. in the morning till betwixt 7. and 8. at night except two houres allowed for breakfast dinner and drinking and halfe an houre for sleeping from the middest of May til the middest of August all the rest of the yeare from twylight to twylight except an houre and a halfe allowed for Breakfast and Dinner in paine to have one penny defalked out of their Wages for every houres absence XIII None that takes work by Great shall leave the same before it be quite finished except for not payment of his Wages the Queenes service licence of the Workmaster or other lawfull cause in paine to suffer one moneths imprisonment without Baile and to forfeit five pounds to the party grieved besides his Costs and dammages to be recovered at the common Law for the losse sustained XIV None retained in service to work shall depart without Licence in paine of one moneths imprisonment XV. Such Wages of Labourers Artificers and others as have been formerly rated or concerne husbandry shall be yearly assessed for the County by the Sheriffe and I. of P. in Sess and in Corporations by the Head Officer at their Easter Sessions or within six weeks after and before the 12. of July following shal be certified under their hands and seales into the Chancery whereupon the Lord Chancellor or Keeper shall send downe printed proclamations thereof into every County and Corporation before the first of September then next following with the said Sheriffe Justices and Head officers shall before Michaelmas after cause to be inrolled and proclaimed But here when the old Rates shall be certified to stand no proclamation is needfull 56.58 XVI A I. of P. or chief officer which shall be absent at the taxing of Wages being not letted by sicknesse or some other reasonable cause to be allowed by the Justices upon Affidavit shall forfeit x. l. XVII None shall give greater wages then those so rated as aforesaid in paine of 5. l. and ten dayes imprisonment without Baile and if any person shall be convicted before two I. of P. or a Head officer of taking more wages he shall suffer 21 dayes imprisonment without Baile XVIII Every retainer promise gift or payment of wages or other thing contrary to the true meaning of this Act and every writing and Bond to be made for that purpose shall be voied