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A74019 Anno XIIII. et XV. Henrici VIII. The Kynge our soueraygne lorde Henrye the viij. after the conquest, by the grace of God king of England and of Fraunce and lorde of Irelande, at his parlyamente holden at London, the xv. day of April in the xiiii. yeare of his moste noble reygne: and from thence adiourned to Westminster the last day of Iuly the xv. yeare of his sayde reigne, and there holden to the honour of Almightye God and of holye Churche, and for the wealthe and profytte of thys hys realme, by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporall, [and] the commons in thys presente parliament assembled, [and] by aucthoritye of the same, hath, doo, to be ordeined, made, [and] enacted, certaine statutes and ordynaunces in maner and fourme folowing.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) 1575 (1575) STC 9363.4; ESTC S121456 28,836 29

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our soueraige lord by the assent of his lordes spiritual and temporall and the commons in this present parliament assembled by auctoritie of the same that euery person and persons hauing landes tenementes hereditamentes fees anuities or other yerely profites in his owne right or in his wiues to the yerely value of one hundred poundes from hensforth may lawfully vse and shote in crosbowes and hand gonnes and in euery of them retayne and kepe the same Any thing contained in the acte made at a parliament holden at westminster in the sixt yere of the raygne of our soueraigne lord for reformacion of shotyng in crosbowes and hand gonnes and for keping of the same notwithstanding And further be it enacted by auctoritie aforesaid that al licences grauntes and placardes made by our sayde soueraigne lord to any person or persons before the .xx. day of August in the .xv. yere of his raigne for showting in crosbowes or hand gonnes or for kepynge of the same or any of them shal be from the feast of sainct Michael the archangel next comming vtterly voyd and of none effecte And be it further enacted by the auctoritie aforesayde that euery person not hauing in vse or possession landes teūtes fees annutties or other yerely profites to the yerely value of C. poundes as aforesayde offending contrary to the sayd acte made in the sayd .vi. yere shall forfaite for euery tyme that he shal so offende but onely xl.s and the crosbowes hand gonnes to he had recouered seased leuied according to the sayd former act any thing contained in the sayd former acte of or for any greater penalti notwithstanding And that it shal be leful to all Iustices of peace in their sessions and stewardes bailiffes in their leetes to enquire of euery person persones other than be prouided for by this present acte offending contrary to the said form●t acte of or for any great penalty notwithstanding ¶ And that it shall be lefull to all iustices of peace in their sessions and stewardes and bailiffes in their leetes to enquire of euery person persons other than be prouided for by this present acre offendinge contrary to the sayd former act that vpon all presentmentes had before iustices of peace in their sessions processes shal be made for leuiynge of the sayde xl.s to the kinges vse in such fourme and in lyke maner as is made vpon̄ enditemēts of riottes and vpon euery presentmente had in any leetes the lorde and owners of the leetes to leuie and haue the sayd penalty if xl.s by way of distresse accion of dette or otherwise in the which the offender shal not be admitted to wage his law ne any essoyne or protection to be alowed ¶ And be it further enacted by auctoritye afore sayde that no lordes or owners of leetes beare or mayntaine any of their tenauntes or seruauntes within the iurisdiction of their leetes to do or offend contrary to the sayd former act vpon peine to forfane for euery time so doing xl.s the one halfe therof to the king our soueraigne lorde and the other halfe to the parti that wil sue for the same by action of dette byl plaint or informacion in which sute no wager of law ne essoyne or protection shal be alowed or admitted The olde act in al other poyntes not otherwise prouided for in this acte to be of force and effecte ¶ An act concerning the six clerkes of the Chauntery to be maried Cap. viii IN most humble wise besecheth your trew faithful subiectes dayly seruauntes the sixe clerkes of your high courte of Chaūcerie that wheras of olde tyme accustomed hath bene vsed in the said court the al maner clerkes and ministers of the same courte wryting to the great sease shold be vnmaried except onlye the clerke of the crowne so that as wel the coursetoures other clerkes as the sixe clerkes of the said Chauncerie wear by the same custome estrained from mariage wherby all those that contrarye to the same dyd mary were no longer suffered to write in the said Chauncery not onely to their great hinderance losing therby the benefite of their longe studie and tedious laboures and peines in youthe takine in the sayd court by also to the great decaye of the trew course of the sayd court ¶ And for as muche as the sayde custome taketh no place nor vsage but onely in the office of the sayde sixe clerkes but that it is permitted and suffered for maintenance of the sayd courte that as wel the said coursetoures as the other clerkes aforesaid may and doe take wiues and mary at their lybertye after the lawes of holy churche and of longe tyme haue so done without interruption or left of any person It may therefore please your highness of your most aboundant grace with the assent of the lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons in this present parlyamente assembled and by auctoritye of the same in consideration of the premisses ●nd also for that the sayd custome is not groūded vpon any law to ordeine enacte and establishe that Iohn Treuerthen Rycharde Welles Oliuer ●…der Iohan Croke Wyllyam Iessen and Iohn Lemsey nowe beynge in the office of the sixe clerkes of the Chauncery euery of them and all other whiche in time to come shal be in the same office euery of them may and do take wiues mary at their liberty after the laws of holy churche And that they and euery of them so maryed maye haue holde and enioyne their sayd office of sixe clerkes in as ample large and like manner as they did or should do before the sayd espouselles or as if they had neuer ben maried the sayd custome or any other custome or ordinaunce heretofore had or made to the contrary notwithstandinge Prouided alwaye that by any thinge in this acte conteined the maister of the Rolles for the time being be not preiudiced either in the geuing and disposicion of the sayde offices from time to time as hath beene heretofore accustomed the forfaiture of that office by reason of mariage onely excepte And that the sayd officers which nowe be hereafter shal be do geue such attendance vnto the sayd maister of the Rolles for the tune being as heretofore in the sayd offices hath bene accustomed ¶ An act cōcerninge the liberty of Cordwainers or showmakers Cap. ix PRaien the commons in this presente parliament assembled that where in the parliament holden at Westmin in the fourth yere of the reigne of the excellēt prince of famous memory Edward the .iiij. late kinge of Englande your noble graunfather among other things it was ordeined established and enacted that no person cordwainer of the city of London or within three myles next about the same vpon any sonday of the yeare in the feastes of the Natiuity or Ascencion of our lord or Corpus Christi should sell commaund or make to be solde any showes bootes or galeges or vpon any of the sayd sondaies or
feastes should put vpon the foote or legges of any person or persōs any showes boot●… or galeges vpon peine to forfaite and lose twenty shillynges sterlitge as often and whansoeuer any person shoule doe contrary to the sayd ordinaunce or any parcell thereof And where by the same estatute it is ordeyned and prouyded that the same acte should not extende to the domage or preiudice nor any manner be hurtefull or preiudiciall to the Deane and Chapiter for the time beinge of the free chapell of the kynge of Sainct Martins le graunde of London nor to any person or persons Dwellinge Abidinge or Beinge within any place or places in sainct Martyns lane in London or wythin any place or places within the precincte fee or fraunchyse of the sayde Deane or of the sayde Deane and chapiter Wherefore to the honour of almighty god and to the intent that the kinges subiectes may be hereafter at their liberty as well as the sayd inhabitauntes within the liberties and precinct of the said sainct Martines the graund be it enacted by the auctority of this presente parliament that the sayd estatute made in the parliament holden at westminster in the sayd fourth yere of the reigne of kinge Edwarde the fourth stande and be from henceforth vtterly voyde and of none effect ¶ An act concenigne the huntinge of the Hare Cap. x. FOr as muche as our soueraygne lorde the kynge and other noble men of thys realme of Englande before this time hathe vsed and exercised the game of huntynge of the Hare for their dysporte and pleasure whyche game is nowe decayed and almooste vtterly dystroied for that that diuers persons in dyuers partyes of thys Realme by reason of the trasinge in snow haue killed and destroied and dayly do kill and dystroy the same Hares by x.xij or .xvj. vpon a daye to the dyspleasure of our said soueraigne lorde the kinge to other noble men of this his realme Wherefore be it enacted by our sayd soueraigne lorde by the lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons in thys presente Parlyamente assembled and by auctoritye of the same that no person or personnes of what estate degree or condicion they be from hēceforth trace distroye and kill no Hare in snow with any dogge bytche nor otherwyse And that the Iustice of the peace within euery shire at euery sessions of the peace and stewardes of leetes shall haue full auctority anb power to power to enquyre of such offenders And after such inquisitions found the sayd Iustices of the peace stewardes of leetes for euery Hare so killed shall seasse vpon euery such offender vi.s.viij.d to be forfaited to our sayd soueraygne lorde that shall be so founden by the Iustices of peace in their sessions the forfaiture found in euery leete to be to the lorde of the leete ¶ An acte concerninge clothes called Vesses made in the county of Suffolke Cap. xj HVmbly shewen vnto your highnes your true subiectes clothiers of your Coūty of suffolke that where in the sixte yere of your most noble reigne it was is enacted amōges other thinges cōcerninge making of cloth the any person or persons shall not put any cloth to sale which whan it is full wet shall shrinke more than one yard in length one quarter of a yard in bredth for the more part therof and clothes called narrowes or straits after the rate vpō peine to forfaite for euery cloth otherwise put to sale vi.s.viij.d beside to deduct of his price for the same to be rebated to the bier therof as muche after the rate as the same cloth so otherwise put to sale beinge full wette shal be shronke more than one yarde of that it was in lengthe time of the same sale and as it shall beynge wette lacke of the bread of one yarde three quarters of a yard And in the same act was and is a prouiso made after the forme folowing Prouyded alwaye that this acte extende not to wollen clothes called kendalles nor clothes called carpenell whytes commonly made for lyning of hosen nor to any clothes called Tostockes made in the countye of Deuonshyre nor to any wollen clothes made in the county of Cornewall nor for any Cottons or plaine lininge or frise made or to bee made in wales Lancasshyre and Chesshyre or any of them So it is moste gracious soueraigne lorde that Vesses otherwise called Set clothes of diuers colours be made in your sayde county of Suffolke which be made to be worne and be worne in farre coūtreis not in Englande and be of small prices not aboue xl.s. a clothe that doe not holde the length nor breadth whan they be wet which the byers do know wel whā they bie them so that therin is no deceite which clothes in the thirde yeare of the reigne of your most noble father kinge Henry the seuenth were prouided for so that they might lawfully be solde without any penalty or forfayture though they lacked in length or breadth whan they were full wet and so they haue vsed to do time out of minde And in the prouiso made in the sayde acte of the sixte yeare of youre moste noble reygne they were forgetten not prouided for which should be to the vtter impoueryshinges of the clothiers of your sayde county and all other that be wrought by reason of clothe makinge wythin the sayde countye of Suffolke if no remedy should be therfore prouided Wherefore your humble subiectes humbly beseech your highnes that it be enacted by all the lordes spirituall and temporall and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled with your most royall assente to the same that all clothes called Vesses otherwise called Sette clothes what colour so euer they be of not beynge aboue the value of xl.s a clothe shall not be forfait for that they lacke in length breadth whan they be full wet after the iale of them afore this time made or hereafter be made The sayd act made in the sixte yere of your most noble reigne or any other acte heretofore made to the contrary notwithstandinge An act concerning coiners that shall coine and make any money at any mint within this realme of Englande Ca. xij BE it enacted by the kynge our soueraigne lorde and the lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons in this present parliament assembled and by auctoritye of the same that all suche coiners as shall coyne and make any money at any mint with in thys Realme of Englande shall make and coyne of euerye hundred poundes woorthe of Goolde that they shall strycke into coyne xx.li. in the coyne of halfe angelles commonly called peeces of golde of xl.d And of euery hundred poundes worthe of Bullyon Plate or Siluer that they shall strike into coyne as many grotes as shall amount to the summe of fifty poundes sterlinge as many halfe grotes called pence of two pence as shall amounte to the summe of xx.li sterlinge as many pence as shall amounte to
of Cranbroke fro the bridge called hempstede bridge diuiding the sayd hundred of Cranbroke and the hundred of Roluinden in the same weld of your sayd county to a crosse called Contenden crosse standinge nighe to a greate Oke named Hempstede oke which is in length vpon a hundred foure score and ten perches which common way so vsed is in diuers places thereof ryght deepe annoyous for the passage of your people and also is not so directely leading betwene the sayd bridge and crosse neither so cominodious for your people as an other way of lyke bredth in other places within and ouer the landes of the sayd maner mought be made In consideracion wherof in maye please your highnesse of your blessed disposicion with the assente of the lordes spiritual and temporall and the commons in this presente parliamente assembled and by the auctoritye of the same to enacte ordayne that it shal be lefull to your sayde besecher his heires and assignes owners of the sayde maner of Hempstede at his and their propre costes charges at any time on this side the .xxvii. day of May which shall be in the yere of our lord god M.D.xxvii by the ouersighte and assent of two Iustices of peace of the said county of Kente and .xii other discrete men inhabitauntes within the sayde hundredes of Cranbroke Roluiden to assigne limitte and laye ouer and thoughe the landes of the sayde manour one other way for cariages passages of your grace and of your people and your and their heires and successoures of as great largenesse in bredeth or larger than the sayd olde waye now being is and as cōmodious for the sayd cariages and passages as the same waye now being is or better extending and leading dyrectly betwene the sayde bridge and crosse so that your grace and your people by the sayd new way so to be assigned and layed out shall haue the more easye cariage and passage than is or of late tyme hath bene by the sayd olde waye And that after the sayde new way so layde out and assigned the sayde cariages passages and other businesse there may be as liberally commonly and freely from thens forthe there vsed and had for euer and euery other thinge there exercised kept as before this tyme hath bene had and vsed exercised and kept in the sayd olde waye with out let or interrupcion of the sayd George his heyres or his assignes or any other personne which hereafter shall haue holde or possede the said manet And that immediately after that the sayde new way as is beforesayd to be assigned and limitted shal be as is abouesayd layed out and fully made it shall be lefull to your sayde besecher his heires and assignes owners of the said manour to enclose the said old way and eueri party therof And that fro hensforth to holde in seueralty to them and to their heires and assignes to their owne vse and profit for euer as parcel of the said manour without any commō way or passage their fro thensforth to be had or claimed any prescripciō or vse to the contrarye heretofore had not withstanding ¶ And in consideracion that many other commom waies in the said weld of Kent be so depe and noyous by wearing and course of water and other occasions that people can not haue their cariages or passagss by horses vpon or by the same But to their great peines petil and ieoperdye it may be by the sayd auctoritie enacted and established that if any other persō or persons any tyme hereafter in any place within the sayd weld of your said countye of his good mynd and disposicion without any value of good by him or them to be receiued for the same will for the common weale of your people assigne and lay out a more commodious way in and ouer the lādes thervnto adioyninge wherof the person or other to his vse shal be ceased of fee in estate of inheritaunce that the same new way so to be assigned and layd out by ouersight and assent of two Iustices of peace of the said countye and .xii. other disecrete mē inhabitinge within hundred where any suche new way shal be limitted layde out or inhabiting within the same hundred and other hundreds to that hundred nexte adioyninge shall be frō thensforth holden occupied and vsed in lyke maner as the olde waye ther now is or before hath bene ¶ And that also the same person or persons so disposed willynge and accomplishynge the same shall and may for the saide new waye so assygned and vsed retaine and holde in way of recompence for the same new way so to be geuen the soyle and grounde of the olde way in seueralty as is aboue sayd to him or them and to their heires for euer in lyke maner as is aboue sayd of the sayd new waye to be assigned at Hempstede And that the sayde two Iustices of peace .xii other discrete persons by whose ouersight and assent the sayde new waye at Hempstede or any other waye by vertue of this acte shall be hereafter assigned limitted and layde out shal within thre monethes next after the assignement limittacion laying out of the same make certificate into the kinges most honorable courte of Chauncery vnder their seales of the length and bredeth of the same new way or strete of other thinges adioyning or concerning the same as by their discrecions shal be thought most expedient or requisite for the cōmon welth of the coūtre to be certified And that certificat to be made frō time to time as often as any suche new waye or strete shal be assigned limitted and laied out in forme aboue written ¶ Prouided alway that if any person or persons or bodye politike haue or ought to haue or hereafter shall haue any churche way or other what so euer way or passage ouer or through any maner landes adioyning to any of the sayd olde wayes or stretes which shall be taken and vsed by force ol this acte as seuerall soyle and free holde in recompence for any new waye to be made layed out in fourme aforesaid or haue or ought to haue hereafter shall haue landes or tenementes adioyning to the sayd olde way that they and euery of them their heires and successours shall and maye haue and vse their sayd waye or wayes out of and into the sayd new way ouer and through the land of the sayd olde waye or streete into or ouer the sayd lande or tenement adioyning to the same so to passe and repasse as shal appertaine ouer the same olde waye at such conuenient place or places thereof as therefore shal be limitted and assigned by the sayd two Iustices of peace and other .xii. men and by them to be certifyed into the chauncerie among other thinges by thē to be certified in fourme aforesaide any thing in this acce aboue written notwithstanding An acte concerning shoting in crosbowes and hand gonnes Cap. vii BE it enacted by the kinge