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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B13303	Certaine articles concerning the statute lately made for the reliefe of the poor to be executed in London, by the churchwardens and ouerseers of euery parish, according to the effect of the same statute.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1599 (1599)	STC 9494.9; ESTC S116357	2,989	18

I W CERTAINE Articles concerning the Statute lately made for the reliefe of the poor to be executed in London by the Church-wardens and Ouerseers of euery parish according to the effect of the same Statute Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe Printer to the honourable Citie of London 1599. CERTAINE ARTICLES concerning the Statute lately made for the reliefe of the poore to be executed in London by the Churchwardens and Ouerseers of euery parish according to the effect of the same Statute INprimis the saide Churchwardens and Ouerseers or the greater part of them shall take order from time to time by consent of two or more of the Iustices of peace for setting to worke of the children of all such persons within the same parish whose parentes shall not bee thought by them able to keepe and maintaine their children Wherin it is thought fit that childrē of eight years old or vpwards be set on worke and such as bee twelue yeares old or vpward if they bee not before that time bounden apprentises be at those years bounden apprentises by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers according to the intent of the said Statute Also all such persons maried or vnmaried as hauing no means to maintaine themselues vse no ordinarie trade of life to get their liuing by are to bee set on worke by the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers Wherein it is thought meete that such as willingly submit themselues to the lawe to worke within the parish may be set to worke within their parish in these trades following viz Or in any other trade for which the said persons shall bee founde more meete hauing supply of stocke as the law appointeth that such as will not orderly work within their parish shall bee sent to Bridewell or to other places for that purpose to be appointed there to worke for which purpose the Iustices of peace are readie to giue their warrantes vpon certificate or complaint of the Churchwardens and Ouerseers they hauing authoritie by the statute so to do The Churchwardens and Ouerseers with consent of the two Iustices of peace must make a taxation of euery inhabitant within the parish be they free or not free of the Citie for a conuenient stocke of flaxe hemp wooll thread Iron and other necessarie stuffe to set the poore on worke within the saide parish and for a weekely allowance towardes the necessarie reliefe of the lame impotent old blind and such other amongst them being poore and not able to worke and for putting poore children apprentises Wherein it is thought meete that they hauing due consideration of the necessitie of each person and of their abilities to worke and of their charge do make allowance to euery one ratablie according to their wantes and that the saide Churchwardens and Ouerseers doe collect and distribute the said taxations monethly and dispose of the stocke according to the intent of the Statute And touching such ouercharge as in some parishes shall happen by occasion of the great multitude of the poore there to bee relieued more then the weekely allowance of such parishes will supply the Iustices of peace are to taxe rate and assesse any of any other parishes to pay such summe and summes of mony to the churchwardens Ouerseers of the said poore parish for the purposes aforesaid as they shall thinke fit Which taxation so made by the Iustices of peace the Church-wardens and ouerseers in euery parish are from time to time to receiue collect as the other taxe and to pay the same ouer monthly to the handes of the Treasurer appointed by the Citty for that purpose for the yeare to bee by him distributed according to the direction of the Iustices of the peace and true intent of the saide Statute wherein it is wished for that some Churchwardens be many times very poore that care bee had that such of the Ouerseers or Churchwardens as be of good abilitie may receiue and keepe the money collected vntill it be paid ouer as aboue The Churchwardens and the Ouerseers appointed must meet together at the least once euery moneth in the Church of the said parish vpon the Sunday in the after noone after diuine seruice to consider of some good course to be taken and some meete orders to bee set downe by them in the premisses vppon paine to forfaite twenty shillinges for euery default without lawfull cause The Churchwardens and the Ouerseers must within foure dayes after the end of their yeare which beganne when the said Ouerseers were appointed and after new Ouerseers nominated as aforesaid make and yeeld vp to such two Iustices of peace a true and perfect accompte of all summes of money by them receyued or rated and cessed and not receyued and of such stocke as shall be in their handes or in the hands of the poore to worke and of all other thinges concerning their said office and such summe or summes of money as shall be in their hands shall pay and deliuer ouer to the saide Churchwardens and Ouerseers newly nominated as aforesaide vpon paine to forfaite for euery default in being negligēt in their office or in the execution of the orders aforesaide being made by and with the assent of the said Iustices of peace twentie shillings The Churchwardens and Ouerseers or any of them are by warrant frō any two such Iustices of the peace to leuy aswel the said summes of money of euery one that shall refuse to contribute according as they shall bee assessed by distresse and sale of the offenders goodes as the summes of money or stocke which shall be behinde vpon any account to be made as aforesaid rendring to the party the ouerplus and in default of such distresse it is also lawfull for two Iustices of the peace to commit to prison such as refuse to contribute there to remaine without bayle or mainprise till payment bee made of the saide summe or stocke And it is lawfull for any two such Iustices of peace to commit to prison euery one of the said Churchwardens and Ouerseers which shall refuse to accompt there to remain without bayle or mainprise till hee hath made a true account and satisfied and paid so much as vpon the said account shall be remayning in his hands It is also enacted that such persons as shall goe wandring abroad and beg in any place wheresoeuer by licence or without vnlesse it bee poore people who shall aske reliefe of victuals onely in the same parish where they shall dwell according to the direction of the Churchwardens and Ouerseers shall bee accompted as Rogues and so punished Prouided alwayes neuerthelesse that euery soldier being discharged of his seruice or otherwise lawfullie licensed to passe into his countrie and not hauing wherewith to relieue himselfe in his trauels homewards and euery sea-faring man landing from sea not hauing wherewith to relieue himself in his trauels homewardes hauing a Testimoniall vnder the hand of some one Iustice of the peace of or near the place where he landed or was discharged setting down therein the place time where and when hee landed or was discharged and the place of the parties dwelling or birth vnto which he is to passe and a conuenient time therein to bee limitted for his passage shal and may without incurring the dāger or penaltie of this Act in the vsuall wayes directly to the place vnto which he is directed to passe and within the time in such his Testimoniall limitted for his passage aske and receiue such reliefe as shall be necessary in and for his passage the saide act or any thing therein contayned to the contrary notwithstāding And for that notwithstanding the liberall contribution of the parishioners and the great trauell and care of the Churchwardens and Ouerseers in euery parish to prouide for their owne poore be well effected yet the negligence of the Constables in many places in suffering Rogues to wander beg in the streetes and the frowardnes of some stubborne beggers who will not bee reformed doth breed a great scandall to the city in time wil discourage the better sort to continue any liberal contribution for the poor vnlesse due reformation bee had for the saide Rogues and wandring beggers it is therefore thought meer and so declared that euery Constable and other officer who shall be found negligent or remisse in the execution of the statute lately made for punishment of Rogues and vagabondes shal be censured and punished so farre as the law and authority of the chiefe Magistrate in that place will allow and that diligent inquiry of their defaults shal be made from time to time as shal be needfull FINIS