person or persons as had hath or hereafter shall haue any office or ministery in any Ecclesiasticall Court of this Realme vnder any Archbishoppe or Bishoppe in any the tymes or reignes aforesayde or such person or persons as shall wylfully refuse to obserue the orders rites for diuine seruice that be aucthorised to be vsed obserued in the Church of England after that he or they shal be publikely by the Ordinary or some of his officers for ecclesiasticall causes admonished to kepe and obserue the same or such as shall openly aduisedly depraue by wordes writinges or any other open facte any of the Rites Ceremonies at any tyme vsed aucthorised to be vsed in the Church of Englande or that shal say or heare the priuate Masse prohibited by the lawes of this Realme and that all such persons shal be compellable to take the othe vpon the seconde tender or offer of the same and incurre the penalties for not takyng of the sayde othe and none other AND forasmuch as it is doubtfull whether by the lawes of this Realme there be any punishment for suche as kyll or slea any person or persons attainted in or vpon a premunire Be it therefore enacted by aucthoritie aforesaid that it shall not be lawfull to any person or persons to slea or kyll any person or persons in any maner attaynted or hereafter to be attaynted of in or vpon any premunire by pretence reason or aucthoritie of any iudgement geuen or hereafter to be geuen in or vpon the same or by pretence reason or force of any worde or wordes thing or thinges conteyned or specified in any statute or lawe of prouision premunire or in any of them Any law or statute or opinion or exposition of any lawe or Statute to the contrary in any wyse notwithstandyng Sauyng alwayes the due execution of all and euery person and persons attaynted or to be attaynted for any offence wherevpon iudgement of death nowe is or ought to be or hereafter may lawfully be geuen by reason of this Statute or otherwyse And sauyng alwayes all and euery such payne of death or other hurte or punishment as heretofore might without daunger of law be done vppon any person or persons that shall sende or bryng into this Realme or any other the Quenes dominions or within the same shall execute any summons sentence excommunication or other proces agaynst any person or persons from the Byshop of Rome for the tyme beyng or by and from the See of Rome or thaucthoritie or iurisdiction of the same See Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that no person or persons shall hereafter be endyted for assisting aydyng mainteynyng comfortyng or abettyng of any person or persons for any the said offences in extollyng settyng forth or defending of the vsurped power and aucthoritie of the Bishop of Rome vnlesse he or they be therof lawfully accused by suche good and sufficient testimony or profe as by the Iurye by whom he shall so be endyted shal be thought good lawfull and sufficient to proue hym or them gylty of the sayde offences ¶ An Act for the maintenaunce and encrease of Tyllage The .ii. Chapter FOrasmuch as the Statute made in the fourth yere of the raigne of the late prince of worthy memorye Kyng Henry the seuenth for the kepyng vp of houses of husbandry and one other Statute made in the .vii. yere of the raigne of the late Kyng of moste famous memory Kyng Henry the eyght entituled an Acte to auoyde lettyng downe of Townes and also one other Acte made in the .xxvii. yere of the reigne of the same late kyng Henry the eyght entituled an Acte concerning the decay of houses and inclosures are very good and profytable lawes for the common wealth of this Realme It is therefore ordeyned and establyshed by the Quene our Soueraigne Ladye with the assent of the Lordes Spirituall and Temporall and the commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the aucthoritie of the same that the sayde Actes and euery of them and euery braunche and article in the same and euery of them conteyned shall from henceforth be put in due execution and remayne and continue in force for euermore And also where by an Acte made in the .xxvii. yere of the reigne of our sayde late Soueraigne Lorde Kynge Henry the eyght whereby diuers sundrye religious houses of Monkes Channons and Nunnes whiche myght not dispende in landes tenements and hereditamentes aboue the clere yerely value of two hundreth poundes were geuen to the sayde late Kynge Henry the eyght his heyres and successours for euer It is among other thynges enacted and ordeyned that all and singuler persons and bodyes polytyke and corporate to whom the sayde late kyng Henry the eyght his heyres or successours after the makynge of the same Acte shoulde geue graunt lette or demyse any Scite or precincte with the houses thervppon buylded together with the demeanes of any Monasteries Priories or other religious houses that shoulde be dissolued or geuen to the sayde late kyng Henry the eyght by that Acte and the heyres successours or assignes of euery suche person bodye polytyke and corporate shoulde kepe or cause to be kepte an honest contynuall house and householde in the same Scite or precincte and shoulde occupye or cause to be occupyed yerelye as much of the demeanes in ploughyng and tyllyng of husbandrye that is to saye as muche of the sayde demeanes whiche then were commonlye vsed to be kepte in tyllage by the Gouernours Abbottes or Pryours of the same houses Monasteries or Priories or by theyr fermour or fermours occupying the same within the tyme of twentie yeres nexte before that Acte vppon payne to forfayte to the kynges hyghnesse for euery moneth so offendynge .vi. li. xiii s. iiii d. to be recouered to his vse in anye of his Courtes of Recorde And ouer that by the same Statute it is enacted that all Iustices of peace in euery Shyre where any suche offence should be committed and done contrary to the true meanyng intent of that Acte or statute shoulde in euery quarter and generall Sessyons within the limittes of their Cōmission enquire of the premisses and shoulde haue full power and aucthoritie to heare and determine the same and to taxe and assesse no lesse fine for euery the sayde offences then is before limitted for the sayde offence and estreates therof to be made and certified into the Kynges Exchequer accordynge and at suche tyme and fourme as other estreates of fynes issues and amerciamentes bee made by the same Iustyces as by the same Acte more at large doth appeare Whiche parte of the sayde Acte concernyng kepynge of house and householde in the sayde Scites and precinctes and occupying of such demeanes of the same in tyllage as is aforesayde then was and yet is thought very beneficiall to the common wealth and moste nedefull to be put in due execution BE IT therefore enacted by the aucthoritie
sole lawe statute in the same an vniforme order prescribed limitted concerning the wages other orders for apprētises seruaūtes labourers there is good hope y t it wyll come to passe that y e same law being duely executed shuld banyshe ydlenes aduaunce husbandry yelde vnto the hyred person both in the tyme of scarsitie in the tyme of plentie a conuenient proportion of wages Be it therfore enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliamēt that as much of all the estatutes heretofore made euery braunch of thē as touch or concerne the hiring keping departing working wages or order of seruaūtes workmen artificers apprentices labourers or any of them the penalties forfaitures concernyng the same shal be frō after the last day of Septēber nexte ensuing repealed and vtterly voyde of none effect and that all the said statutes and euery braunch therof for any matter conteined in them and not repealed by this statute shal remayne and be in full force effect Any thing in this statute to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that no maner of person or persons after the foresayde last day of September nowe nexte ensuyng shall reteyne hyre or take into seruice or cause to be reteyned hired or taken into seruice nor any person shal be reteined or hired or takē into seruice by any meanes or colour to worke for any lesse tyme or terme then for one hole yere in any of the sciences craftes misteries or artes of Clothyers Wollen cloth weauers Tuckers Fullers Clotheworkers Sheremen Dyers Hosiers Taillers Shomakers Tanners Pewterers Bakers Brewers Glouers Cutlers Smythes Farrors Curryers Sadlers Spurryers Turners Cappers Hat-makers or Felt makers Bowyers Fletchers Arrowhead makers Butchers Cookes or Myllers And be it further enacted that euery person beyng vnmarryed and euery other person beyng vnder the age of .xxx. yeres that after the feast of Easter nexte shall marry and hauyng ben brought vp in any of the sayde artes craftes or sciences or that hath vsed or exercised any of them by the space of three yeres or more and not hauyng landes tenementes rentes or hereditamentes copy holde or free holde of one estate of inheritaunce or for terme of any lyfe or lyues of the clere yerely value of xl.s nor beyng worth of his owne goodes the clere value of x.li and so alowed by two Iustices of the peace of the countie where he hath most cōmonly inhabited by the space of one hole yere and vnder their handes and seales or by the Maior or other head officer of the citie borough or towne corporate where such person hath most commonly dwelled by the space of one whole yere and two Aldermen or two other discrete Burgesses of the same citie borough or towne corporate if there be no Aldermen vnder theyr handes and seales nor beyng reteyned with any person in husbandry or in any of the aforesayd artes and sciences accordyng to this Statute nor lawfully reteyned in any other arte or science nor beyng lawfully reteyned in householde or in any office with any noble man gentelman or others according to the lawes of this Realme nor hauing a conuenient ferme or other holdyng in tyllage whervpon he may employ his labour shall during the tyme that he or they shal so be vnmaried or vnder the sayde age of .xxx. yeres vpon request made by any person vsyng the art or mistery wherin the sayd person so required hath ben exercised as is aforesayde be reteyned and shall not refuse to serue accordyng to the tenor of this Statute vpon the payne and penaltie hereafter mentioned And be it further enacted that no person which shall reteyne any seruaunt shall put away his or her sayd seruaunt and that no person reteyned accordyng to this Statute shall depart from his maister maistres or dame before the ende of his or her terme vppon the payne hereafter mentioned vnlesse it be for some reasonable and sufficient cause or matter to be alowed before two Iustices of peace or one at the least within the sayde Countie or before the Maior or other chiefe officer of the Citie Borough or Towne corporate wherein the sayde maister maistres or dame inhabiteth to whom any of the parties greued shall complayne which said Iustices or Iustice Maior or chiefe office shall haue take vpon them or hym the hearyng and orderyng of the matter betwixt the said maister maistres or dame seruaunt accordyng to the equitie of the cause And that no suche maister maistres or dame shall put away any such seruaunt at th ende of his terme or that any such seruaunt shall depart from his said maister maistres or dame at th ende of his terme without one quarter warnyng geuen before th ende of his sayde terme eyther by the sayde maister maistres or dame or seruaunt the one to the other vpon the payne hereafter ensuyng And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayd that euery person betwene the age of .xii. yeres the age of threescore yeres not being lawfully reteyned nor apprentice with any Fysherman or Mariner haunting the seas nor being in seruice with any kyddyer or carier of any corne grayne or meale for prouision of the Citie of London nor with any husbandman in husbandrye nor in any Citie Towne corporate or market Towne in any of the artes or sciences limitted or appoynted by this estatute to haue or take apprentices nor being reteyned by the yere or halfe the yere at the least for the dyggyng sekyng fyndyng gettyng meltyng fynyng working trying making of any Syluer Tin Lead Iron Copper Stone Sea cole Stone cole Moore cole or Cherk cole nor being occupied in or about y e makyng of any glasse nor being a gentelmā borne nor being a student or scoller in any of the vniuersities or in any scoole nor hauyng landes tenements rentes or hereditamentes for terme of lyfe or of one estate of inheritaūce of the clere yerely value of xl.s nor beyng worth in goodes and cattels to the value of x.li nor hauyng a father or mother then lyuyng or other auncestour whose heyre apparaunt he is then hauyng landes tenementes or hereditaments of the yerely value of x.li or aboue or goodes or cattels of the value of .xl. li. nor beyng a necessary or conuenient officer or seruaunt lawfully reteyned as is aforesayde nor hauyng a conuenient ferme or holdyng whervpon he maye or shall employe his labour nor being otherwyse lawefully reteyned according to the true meanyng of this statute shall after the foresaide last day of September nowe next ensuing by vertue of this estatute be compelled to be reteyned to serue in husbandrye by the yere with any persō that kepeth husbandry wyl require any such persō so to serue within the same shire where he shal be so required AND be it further enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliamēt that if any person after he hath reteined any seruaunt shall put away the
other places hauyng aucthoritie by this present Acte to name and nominate the sayde Collectours of or for the sayde fyftenes and tenthes shall vpon their nomination and election had and made take by aucthoritie of this present Parliament sufficient Recognisaunces or obligation of euery parson so by them to be named to be bounde to the Quenes Maiestie in the double summe of the summe of their collection and to be indorsed vpon such condition that yf the sayde Collectour or Collectours do truely content and paye to the vse of the Quenes hyghnesse in her receipt of theschequer before the .x. daye of Nouember in euery of the sayde two yeres so much of the summe of money allotted and appoynted to his collection as the same Collectour shall haue collected and gathered and do lykewyse after the sayde .x. day of the moneth of Nouember in euery of the said two yeres content and pay to the Quenes Maiesties vse at the same receipt the residue of his collection and charge within one moneth nexte after suche tyme as he shall haue gathered and collected the same residue that then the sayde Recognisaunce or obligation to be voyde or els to stande in his full strength and vertue Whiche Recognisaunce or obligation so taken the sayde knightes of the Shire Citezins and Burgeses and euery of them takyng any such Recognisaunces or obligation shall certifie and delyuer to the Lorde Treasourer and Barons of the same Exchequer before the sayd .x. day of Nouember in euery of the sayde yeres vpon payne of forfaiture of x.li to the Quenes hyghnesse for euery Reccognisaunce or obligation so to be taken and not certified And that euery such collectour vpon requeste to hym made shall make and knowledge the same Recognisance or obligation accordyngly vpon lyke payne and forfaiture of .x. pounde to the Quene for his refusall therof And that the Treasourer and Barons of the Eschequer vppon the payment of the same collection or at the sayde dayes shal cansell and delyuer the sayde Recognisaunce or obligation to the sayde Collectour or Collectours without any other warraunt or without any fee or rewarde to be payde to any parson for the same And furthermore for the great and wayghtie considerations aforesayde we the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons of this present Parliament assembled do by our lyke assent and aucthoritie of this Parliament geue and graunte to your hyghnesse our sayde Soueraigne Lady the Quenes Maiestie your heyres and successours one entier Subsedye to be rated taxed leuied and payde at two seuerall paymentes of euery parson spirituall and temporall of what estate or degree he or they be according to the tenor of this Acte in maner and fourme folowyng That is to say aswell of euery parson borne within the Realme of Englande Wales or other the Quenes dominions as of all and euery fraternitie Guylde Corporation Mistery Brotherhed and Cominaltie corporated or not corporated within this Realme of Englande Wales or other the Quenes dominions beyng worth three poundes for euery pounde aswell in coyne the value of euery pound that euery such parson Fraternitie Guylde Corporation Mistery Brotherhead Cominaltie corporate or not corporate hath of his or theyr owne or any other to his or their vse as also plate stocke of marchaūdizes all maner of corne blades housholde stuffe and of all other goodes moueable aswell within this Realme as without and of all suche summes of money as to hym or them is or shal be owyng whereof he or they truste in his or theyr conscience surely to be payde Excepte and out of the premisses deducted such summes of money as he or they owe in his or theyr consciences intendeth truely to paye and except also thapparell of suche parsons theyr wyues and chyldren belongyng to theyr owne bodies sauyng Iewels golde syluer stone and pearle shall paye to and for the fyrst payment of the sayde subsedy xx.d of euery pound and to and for the seconde payment of the sayde Subsedye xii.d of euery pounde And also euery Alien and straunger borne out of the Quenes obeysaunce aswell denizen as others inhabytyng within this Realme of euery pounde that he or they haue in coyne and the value of euery pounde in plate corne grayne marchaundyzes householde stuffe or other goodes iewelles cattelles moueable or vnmoueable as is aforesayde aswell within this Realme as without and of all summes of money to hym or them owyng wherof he or they trust in his or theyr consciences to be payde Excepte and of the same premisses deducted euery such summe or summes of money which he or they do owe and in his or theyr conscience or consciences intende truely to paye shall paye of and for euery pounde to and for the fyrste payment of the sayde Subsedye iii.s.iiii.d and to and for the seconde payment of the sayde Subsedye ii.s of euery pounde And also that euerye Alien and straunger borne out of the Quenes dominions beynge denizen or not denizen not beynge contributorye to any the Rates aforesayde shall paye to and for the fyrste payment of the sayde Subsedye iiii.d and to and for the seconde payment of the sayde Subsedy iiii.d for euery pool And the master or he or she with whom the same Alien is or shal be abydyng at the tyme of the taxation or taxations thereof to be charged with the same for lacke of paymente thereof And further be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that euery parson borne vnder the Quenes obeysaunce and euerye Corporation Fraternitie Guylde Mistery Brotherhed and Cominaltie corporate or not corporate for euery pounde that euery of the same parson and euery Corporation Fraternitie Guyld Mistery Brotherhead and Cominaltie corporate or not corporate or any other to his or theyr vse hath in fee simple fee tayle for terme of lyfe terme of yeres by execution wardeshyp or by copye of court roll of and in any honours castelles manours landes tenementes rentes seruyses hereditamentes annuities fees corrodies or other yerely profites of the yerelye value of xx.s aswell within auncient demeane and other places priuileged or els where and so vpwardes shall pay to and for the fyrst payment of the sayde Subsedye ii.s.viii.d of and for euery pounde and to and for the seconde payment of the sayd Subseyde xvi.d of and for euery pound And euery Alien borne out of the Quenes obeysaunce in such case to pay at the first of the sayd paymentes v.s.iii.d of euery pound and at the second payment ii.s.viii.d of and for euery pounde And that al sūmes presented and chargeable by this Act eyther for goodes debtes or eyther of them or for landes and tenements and other the premisses as is in this Acte conteyned shal be at eyther of the sayde paymentes set and taxed after the rate and porcion accordyng to the true meanyng of this Acte landes and tenementes chargeable to the dismes of the clergie and yerely wages due to seruauntes for their yerely seruice other then
the town or place that he or they come from testifiynge the same for the which he shall pay not aboue one peny other then such persons as shal be reteyned in seruice accordyng to the fourme of this estatute may repayre and resorte in haruest of hey or corne from the countryes wherin their dwellynge places are into any other place or Countie for the only mowynge reapynge and getting of hey corne and grayne and for the onely workyng of haruest workes as they might haue done before the makynge of this estatute Any thynge herein conteyned to the contrary notwithstandynge And be it further enacted by the auctoritye aforesayde that two Iustices of peace y e Maior or other head officer of any citie borough or towne corporate two Aldermen or two other discrete Burgeses of the same Citie borough or towne corporate yf there be no Aldermen shall and may by vertue hereof appoint any such woman as is of the age of .xii. yeres and vnder the age of .xl. yeres and vnmaryed and forth of seruice as they shall thynke meete to serue to be reteyned or serue by the yere or by the weke or day for suche wages and in such reasonable sorte and maner as they shall thynke mete And if any such woman shall refuse so to serue then it shal be lawfull for the sayde Iustices of peace Maior or head officers to comit such woman to ward vntill she shal be bounden to serue as is aforesaide And for the better aduauncement of husbandry and tillage and to the intente that such as are fyt to be made apprentices to husbandry may be bounden therevnto Be it enacted by the auctoritie of this present Parliament that euery person being an housholder and hauing and vsynge halfe a ploughe land at the least in tillage may haue and receaue as an apprentice any persone aboue the age of tenne yeres and vnder the age of .xviii. yeres to serue in husbandry vntil his age of xxi yeres at the least or vntill the age of .xxiiii. yeres as the parties can agree and the saide reteynour and takyng of an apprentice to be made and done by indenture And be it further enacted that euery person being an housholder and .xxiiii. yeres olde at the least dwelling or inhabityng or whiche shall dwell and inhabite in any cytie or towne corporate and vsynge and exercisyng any arte mystery or manuell occupation there shal and may after the feaste of Saint Iohn Baptist next comminge durynge the tyme that he shall so dwell or inhabite in any such Citie or towne corporate and vse and exercise any suche art mystery or manuell occupacion haue and reteyne the sonne of any free man not occupying husbandry nor being a labourer inhabiting in the same or in any other Citie or towne that now is or hereafter shal be and continue incorporate to serue and be bounde as an apprentice after the custome and order of the Citie of London for seuen yeres at the least so as the terme and yeres of suche apprentice do not expire or determine afore suche apprentice shal be of the age of .xxiiii. yeres at the leaste Prouyded alwayes and be it enacted that it shall not be lawfull to any person dwellynge in any Citie or towne corporate vsynge or exercisynge any of the mysteries or craftes of a marchaunt trafficquinge by trafficque or trade into anye the partes beyonde the Sea Mercer Draper Goldsmyth Irenmonger Inbroderer or Clothear that doth or shal put clothe to makynge and sale to take anye apprentice or seruaunt to be enstructed or taught in any of the arts occupations craftes or mysteries whiche they or any of them do vse or exercise except suche seruaunt or apprentice be his son or els that the father or mother of suche apprentice or seruaunt shall haue at the tyme of takynge of suche apprentice or seruaunt landes tenements or other hereditamentes of the clere yerely value of xl.s of one estate of enheritaunce or free hold at the leaste to be certified vnder the handes and seales of three Iustices of the peace of the shire or Shires where the said landes tenementes or other hereditamentes do or shal lye to the Maior Bailyf or other head officers of such Citie or towne corporate and to be enrowled amonge the recordes there And be it further enacted that from and after the saide feast of Saint John the Baptist nexte it shal be lawfull to euery person beinge an housholder and .xxiiii. yeres olde at the least and not occupying husbandry nor beynge a laborer dwellinge or inhabitynge or that shall hereafter dwell or inhabit in any towne not beynge incorporate that nowe is or hereafter shal be a market towne so longe as the same shal be wekely vsed kept as a market towne and vsyng or exercisynge any arte mysterye or manuell occupation durynge the tyme of his abode there and so vsyng and exercisyng suche art mystery or manuell occupation as aforesayde to haue in like maner to apprentice or apprentices the child or children of any other artificer or artificers not occupying husbandry nor beyng laborer whiche nowe doe or hereafter shall inhabyte or dwell in the same or in anye other suche market towne within the same Shyre to serue as apprentice or apprentices as is aforesayd to any suche arte mystery or manuell occupation as hath ben vsually exercised in any suche market towne where suche apprentice shal be bounde in maner and forme aboue sayd Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that it shall not be lawfull to any person dwellynge or inhabitynge in any suche market towne vsinge or exercisynge the feate mistery or art of a marchant trafficquinge or trading into the parties beyond the Seas Mercer Draper Goldsmith Irenmonger Imbroderer or Clothear that doth or shal put cloth to making sale to take any apprentice or in any wise to teach or instructe any persone in the artes sciences or misteries last before recited after the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist aforesaid except such seruaunt or apprentice shal be his sonne or els that the father or mother of suche apprentice shall haue landes tenementes or other hereditamentes at the tyme of taking of suche apprentice of the clere yerely value of three poundes of one estate of inheritaunce or freeholde at the least to be certifyed vnder the handes and seales of three Iustices of the peace of the Shyre or shyres where the sayd landes tenementes and other hereditamentes do or shall lye to the head officers or head officer of suche market towne where suche apprentice or seruaunt shal be taken there to be enrolled by suche head officer alwayes to remayne of recorde And be it further enacted that from and after the saide feast it shal be lawfull to any person vsynge or exercisinge the art or occupation of a Smith whelewright Plowewright Mylwright Carpenter Rough mason Plasterer Sawyer Lyme burner Brycke maker Bricklayer Tyler Slater Helyer Tylemaker Linnen weuer Turner Couper Myllers Earthen potters Wollen weuer weuinge
huswyfes or houshold cloth only and none other cloth Fuller otherwyse called Tucker or walker burner of ore and woade ashes Thatcher or Shingler wheresoeuer he or they shal dwell or inhabite to haue or receaue the sonne of any persone as apprentice in maner and fourme aforesaid to be taught and instructed in these occupations only and in none other albeit the father or mother of any suche apprentice haue not any landes tenementes nor hereditamentes And be it further enacted by the auctoritie aforesayd that after the first day of May next comminge it shal not be lawfull to any persone or persones other then suche as nowe do lawfully vse or exercise any arte mistery or manuell occupation to set vp occupye vse or exercise any craft mistery or occupation nowe vsed or occupied within the Realme of England or Wales except he shal haue ben brought vp therin seuen yeres at the least as apprentice in maner and fourme aboue said nor to set any person on worke in suche mistery art or occupation beinge not a workeman at this day except he shal haue ben apprentice as is aforesaide or els hauing serued as an apprentice as is aforesaid shall or wil become a Iorneyman or be hyred by the yere vpon paine that euery person willingly offendinge or doinge the contrary shall forfeit and lose for euery default xl.s for euery moneth Prouided alwaies and be it further enacted by the auctoritie aforesayd that no person or persons vsynge or exercisyng the art or mistery of a wollen cloth weuer other then such as be inhabityng within the counties of Cumberland Westmerland Lancaster and Wales weauing Fryzes Cottons or houswyfes cloth only makyng and weauing wollen cloth commonlye solde or to be solde by anye clothe man or clothear shall take and haue any apprentice or shall teache or in any wyse instructe any person or persons in the science art or occupation of weauinge aforesaid in any village towne or place Cities townes corporate and market townes only except vnlesse such person be his sonne or els that the father or mother of suche apprentice or seruaunt shall at the tyme of the takynge of suche person or persons to be an apprentice or seruaunt or to be so instructed haue landes and tenementes or other hereditamentes to the cleare yerely value of three poundes at the least of an estate of inheritaunce or frehold to be certifyed vnder the handes and seales of three Iustices of the peace of the Shire or shires where the sayde landes tenementes and other hereditamentes do or shal lye The effect of the indenture to be registred wythin three monethes in the parishe where suche maister shall dwell and to paye for suche registringe iiii.v vpon paine of forfeyture of xx.s for euery moneth that any person shall otherwyse take any apprentice or set any suche person on worke contrary to the meanynge of this article And be it further enacted by the auctoritie aforesayde that all and euery person or persons that shall haue three apprentices in any of the sayd craftes mysteries or occupations of a clothmaker Fuller Shereman Weuer Tailor or shomaker shall reteyne and kepe one Iorneyman and for euery other apprentice aboue the nomber of the said three apprentices one other Iorneyman vpon paine for euery default therin tenne poundes Prouided alwayes that this acte nor any thynge therin conteyned shall not extend to preiudice or hinder any liberties heretofore graunted by any acte of Parliament to or for the companye and occupation of Worsted makers and Worsted weuers within the Citie of Norwych and els where within the Countie of Northfolck which liberties be in force vntil the beginninge of this present Parlyament Any thynge herein conteyned to the contrary in any wyse notwithstandynge And be it further enacted that if any person shal be required by any housholder hauinge and vsynge halfe a ploughe land at the least in tyllage to be an apprentice and to serue in husbandry or in anye other kynde of art mistery or science before expressed and shall refuse so to do that then vpon the complaint of suche housekeeper made to one Iustice of the peace of the Countie wherin the sayd refusall is or shal be made or of suche housholder inhabitinge in any Citie towne corporate or market towne to the Maior Bayliffes or head officer of the saide Citie towne corporat or market towne if any suche refusall shall there be they shal haue ful power and auctoritie by vertue hereof to sende for the same person so refusyng And if the said Iustice or the sayd Maior or head officer shall thinke the saide person mete and conuenient to serue as an apprentice in that art labour science or mistery wherin he shal be so then required to serue That then the saide Iustice or the saide Maior or head officer shall haue power and auctoritye by vertue hereof if the said person refuse to be bounde as an apprentice to commit hym vnto ward there to remayne vntyll he be contented and wil be bounden to serue as an apprentice shulde serue accordinge to the true intent and meanynge of this present acte And if any suche maister shall mysuse or euill intreate his apprentice or that the said apprentice shall haue any iuste cause to complaine or the apprentice do not his duetie to his maister Then the said maister or prentice beinge greued and hauinge cause to complayne shall repaire vnto one Iustice of peace within the sayde Countie or to the Maior or other head officer of the Citie towne corporate market towne or other place where the saide maister dwelleth who shal by his wysdome and discretion take such order and direction betwene the saide maister and his apprentice as the equitie of the cause shall require And if for wante of good conformitie in the said maister the saide Iustice of the peace or the saide Maior or head officer can not compound agree the matter betwene hym and his apprentice then the saide Iustice or the saide Maior or other head officer shall take bande of the said maister to appeare at the next Sessions then to be holden in the said Countie or within the said Citie towne corporat or market towne to be before the Iustices of the said Countie or the Maior or head officer of the said towne corporate or market towne if the saide maister dwell within any such and vpon his apparaunce hearing of the matter before the said Iustices or the said Maior or other head officer if it be thought mete vnto them to discharge the saide apprentice of his apprenticehod that then the said Iustices or foure of them at the least wherof one to be of them Quorū or the said Maior or other head officer with the consent of three other of his brethren or men of best reputation within the said Citie towne corporate or market towne shal haue power by auctoritie hereof in writing vnder their handes and seales to pronounce and declare that they haue discharged the
of and we also generally tastyng and sensibly feelyng from the hyghest of vs to the lowest through all degrees places and tymes an vniuersall and most blessed fruite of Iustice both for our lyues landes goodes and behauours without acception of persons to the inestimable yea and vnaccustomed comfort and ioy of all your good and faithfull Subiectes to the singuler recōmendation of your Maiesties happynesse to al posteritie being hytherto neuer compelled to taxe or reprehende muche lesse to drawe bloud of any person for any offence to your Maiesties royall person a blessednes neuer enioyed so long by any of your progenitours to our knowledge Which princely and notable actes with many others not here for length to be rehearsed haue ben and for continuance therof muste nedes be so burdenous and chargeable to your Maiestie that though we can not in dede fynde an example of any one meete present or gyfte by name of Subsedye or any other reliefe or ayde graunted to any of your progenitours sufficient to recompence and acquite some one of these your many princely and notable actes or the charges therin susteyned yet we meaning and freely of our selues intending accordyng to our bounden duties to make some kynde of declaration specification and recognition of our great debtes of seruyce to your Maiestie being not able to make any full satisfaction as your Maiesties most humble obedient and louyng Subiectes humblye on our knees beseche your hyghnes that at this tyme in steade of satisfaction for our great debtes due for your princely demerites and charges our small gyfte maye not be measured with your actes or with our owne debtes to your Maiestie but of your accustomed clemencie accepted ioyntlye with the treasure of our humble infinite inmeasurable thoughtes and intentions of our hartes towardes your Maiestie and that for thacception therof it may be by your hyghnesse the Lordes spirituall and temporall and commons in this present Parliament assembled and by aucthoritie of the same enacted as foloweth And be it enacted that your highnesse towardes the said great costes and inestimable charges shall haue by aucthoritie of this present Parliament two whole Fyftenes and Tenthes to be payed taken and leuyed of the moueable goodes cattalles and other thynges vsuall to suche Fyftenes and Tenthes to be contributorye and chargeable within the Shires Cities Boroughes Townes and other places of this your Maiesties Realme in maner and fourme aforetyme vsed Except the sūme of .xii. M. poundes thereof fully to be deducted That is to saye vi M. poundes of eyther of the sayde whole Fyftenes Tenthes of the sūme that one whole Fyftene and Tenth attayneth vnto in reliefe comforte and discharge of the poore Townes Cities and Boroughes of this your sayde Realme wasted desolate or destroyed or ouergreatly impoueryshed after suche rate as was and hath afore this tyme ben had and made to euery Shyre and to be deuyded in suche maner and fourme as heretofore for one whole Fyftene Tenthes hath ben hadde and deuyded And the sayde two Fyftenes and Tenth the exceptions and deductions aforesayde therupon had deducted and alowed to be payde in maner and fourme folowyng That is to saye the firste whole fyftene and tenth except before excepted to be payd to your highnes in the receipt of your hyghnesse Exchequer before the tenth day of Nouember next commyng And the sayde seconde fyftene and tenth except before excepted to be payde to your hyghnesse in the receipt of your Exchequer before the tenth daye of Nouember in the yere of our Lorde God M.D.lxiiii And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayd that the knyghtes elected and returned of and for the Shyres within this Realme for this present Parliament Citezins of Cities Burgeses of Boroughes and Townes where collectours haue ben vsed to be named and appoynted for the collection of anye fyftene and tenth before this tyme graunted shall name and appoynt yerely before the laste day of August in eyther of the sayde two yeres sufficient and hable parsons for the collection of the sayde fyftenes tenthes in euery of the sayde Shires Cities Boroughes Townes the sayde parsons then hauyng landes tenementes and other hereditamentes in his or theyr owne right of an estate of enheritaūce of the yerely value of .x. pounds or in goodes worth a hundreth pounde at the least And also such parson or parsons so by them to be named and appoynted for the collection of eyther of the sayde Fyftenes Tenthes shal be by them seuerally appoynted and allotted into Hundrethes Rapes Wapentakes Cities Boroughes and Townes And also the said parsons so named and appoynted for the collection of the same Fyftenes Tenthes shal be charged and chargeable vpon his or theyr accompte or accomptes in thexchequer to be made with al such summe or summes of money as the Hundredes Rapes Wapentakes Cities Boroughes and Townes where he or they shal so happen to be appoynted shall amount vnto and of no more summe or summes And vpon the payment of suche summes of money as he or they shal be charged with shal be discharged and haue his and theyr Quietus est the non accomptyng or non payment of any other his felowes or the insufficiencie of them or any of them notwithstandyng And the names and surnames of euery the sayde collectours for the sayde fyftenes tenthes duryng eyther of the sayde two yeres together with the place allotted to theyr collection and charge the sayde Knyghtes Citezins and Burgeses for the Shires Cities and Boroughes wherevnto they be elected named and retourned shall certifie before the Quene in her Chauncery before the .xx. day of October in euery of the same two yeres accordyng to the tenor of this acte And if defaute of any suche certifying be hadde or made in fourme as is aforesayde then the Lorde Chauncelour of Englande or keper of the greate Seale for the tyme beyng shall immediatly after name and appoynt Collectours for the collection of eyther of the sayde fyftenes and tenthes in maner and fourme as the sayde knyghtes of the Shires Citezins of Cities and Burgeses of Boroughes shoulde haue done and as afore tyme hath ben vsed The whiche sayde Collectours and euery of them shall haue lyke alowaunce vpon their accomptes for their fees wages and rewardes for the collection of the sayde fyftenes and tenthes in as large maner and fourme as any Collectour or Collectours of fyftenes and tenthes haue had at any season in tyme past And that the Barons of the Quenes Eschequer for the tyme beyng shall and may from tyme to tyme awarde suche processe for the speedy payment therof agaynst the Collectour and Collectours for the same as by their discretions shal be thought conuenient Prouided alway and be it enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that the sayde Lorde Chauncelour or keper of the greate Seale for the tyme beyng knyghtes of the Shires Citezins of Cities Burgeses of Boroughes Townes and
the Quenes seruantes takyng yerely wages of .v. poundes or aboue only excepted foreprised And that al plate coyne iewels goodes debtes and cattels parsonalles being in the rule and custody of any parson parsons to the vse of any corporation fraternitie guylde mistery brotherhead or any cōminaltie being corporate or not corporate be shal be rated set a charged by reason of this Acte as the value certified by the presentours of that certificate to be sworne of euery pounde in goodes and debtes as is abouesaide of euery pounde in landes tenementes annuities fees corrodies or other yerely profites as is abouesayde and the sūmes that are before rehersed set and taxed to be leuyed and taken of them that shal haue such goodes in custody or otherwise charged for landes as is before rehearsed And the same parson or parsons and bodye corporate by aucthoritie of this Acte shal be discharged agaynst hym or them that shall or ought to haue the same at the tyme of the payment or deliuery thereof or at his otherwyse departure from the custody or possession of the same Except and alwayes foreprised from the charge and assessement of this Subsedie all goodes catteles iewels and ornamentes of Churches and Chappelles whiche haue ben ordeyned and vsed in Churches or Chappelles for the honor and seruyce of almightie God And the first payment of the sayd Subsedye shal be by the aucthoritie aforesayde taxed assessed and rated accordyng to this Act in euery Shyre Lath Wepentake Rape Citie Borough Towne euery other place within this Realme of Englande Wales and other the Quenes dominions before the .xx. daye of Apryll next commyng And the seconde payment of the sayd Subsedye shal be by the aucthoritie aforesayde taxed assessed and rated before the .x. day of December next cōmyng And the particuler sūmes of euery Shire Riding Borough Towne and other places aforesayd with the particuler names of such as are chargeable for and to the first payment of the said Subsedye to be taxed and set by the Cōmissioners to the same limitted or two of them at the leaste with the names of the high Collectours and in the same fourme shal be certified into the Quenes Exchequer before the .xx. daye of Maye nexte commyng And the particuler summes of euery Shire Rydyng Borough Towne and other places aforesayde with the particuler names of suche as are chargeable for and to the seconde payment of the sayd Subsedye to be taxed and set by Commissioners to the same to be limitted or two of them at the least with the names of the hygh Collectours and in the same fourme shal be certified into the Quenes Exchequer before the .xx. day of Ianuary whiche shal be in the yere of our Lorde God a Thousande fyue Hundreth Threescore and three And the sayde summes in maner and fourme aforesayde to be taxed for the first payment of the sayde Subsedye shal be payde into the Quenes receipte of her Exchequer aforesayde to the vse of our sayde Soueraigne Lady before the fyrst day of Iune next cōmyng And the sayd summes in maner and fourme aforesayd to be taxed for the seconde payment of the sayd Subsedye shal be payde into the receipte aforesayde to the vse aforesayde before the .xx. day of February whiche shal be in the yere of our Lorde God a Thousande fyue Hundreth Threescore and three And the summe abouesayde of and for the saide Subsedye shal be taxed sette asked and demaunded taken gathered leuyed and payde to the vse of our sayde Soueraigne Ladye her heyres and successours in fourme abouesayde aswell within the liberties fraunchises sanctuaryes auncient demeane and other whatsoeuer place exempt or not exempt as without except such Shires places and parsons as shal be foreprised in and by this present Acte any graunt charter prescription vse or libertie by reason of any letters patentes or other priuiledge prescription alowaunce of the same or whatsoeuer other matter of discharge heretofore to the contrary made graunted vsed or obteyned notwithstandyng And it is further enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that euery such parson aswell such as be borne vnder the Quenes obeysaunce as euery other parson straunger borne denizen or not denizen inhabytyng within this Realme or within Wales or other the Quenes dominions which at the tyme of the sayde assessynges or taxations or of eyther of them to be had or made shal be out of this Realme and out of Wales and haue goodes or cattels landes or tenementes fees or annuities or other profites within this Realme or in Wales shal be charged and chargeable for the same by the certificate of the inhabytauntes of the parties where such goodes cattelles landes tenementes or other the premisses then shal be or in suche other place where such parson or his factour deputie or atturney shal haue his most resorte vnto within this Realme or in Wales in lyke maner as yf the sayde parsone were or hadde ben at the tyme of the sayde assessyng within this Realme And that euery parson abydyng or dwellyng within this Realme or without this Realme shal be charged or chargeable to the same Subsedye graunted by this Act accordyng and after the rate of such yerely substaunce or value of landes and tenementes goodes cattelles and other the premisses as euery parson so to be charged shal be set at in the tyme of the sayde assessyng or taxation vpon hym to be made and in none otherwyse And further be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that for thassessyng and orderyng of the sayde Subsedye to be duely had the Lorde Chauncelour of Englande or the keper of the greate seale the Lorde Treasourer of Englande the Lorde Steward of the Quenes Maiesties housholde the Lorde President of the Quenes honorable Counsell and the Lorde Priuie seale for the tyme beyng or two of them at the least wherof the Lord Chauncelour of England or keper of the great seale for the tyme being to be one shall and may name appoynt of and for euery Shire and Rydyng and other places aswell within this Realme as in Wales and other the Quenes dominions and also of and for euery Citie and Towne beyng a Countie of it selfe and of for the Isle of Wyght such certeyne numbre of parsones of euery of the same Shires Ridinges Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes and Isle of Wyght and euery other place other the inhabitantes of the same to be Commissioners of and within the same wherof they be inhabitauntes and also of and for the honorable housholde of the Quenes Maiestie in what Shire or other places the sayde housholde shall happen then to be And the Lorde Chauncelour or keper of the great Seale other with hym before named in lyke maner may name appoynt of euery other such Borowe and Towne corporate aswell in Englande as in Wales other the Quenes dominions as they shall thinke requisite vi.v.iiii.iii or .ii. of the head officers and
as shall be therevnto appoynted by the Quenes Commyssyon shall then haue vehemente suspecte to beof more greater value or substaunce in Landes goodes Cattelles or summes of money owynge to them or other substaunce before sayde then vppon suche parsone or parsones shal be certyfyed the same Commyssyoners shall make their precepte or preceptes directed to the Constable Baylyffes or other offycers commaundyng the same Constable Baylyffes or other officers to whom suche precepte shal be directed to warne suche parsones whose names shal be comprysed in the sayde precepte at theyr mansyons or to theyr parsones that the same parsones named in suche preceptes and euerye of them shall parsonallye appeare before the sayde Commyssyoners at the same newe prefyxed daye and place there to bee examyned by all wayes and meanes other then by corporall othe by the sayde Commyssyoners of theyr greateste substaunce and beste value and of all and euerye Summes of money owynge to them and other whatsoeuer matter concernynge the premysses or any of them accordynge to this Acte At whiche daye and place so prefyxed the sayde Commyssyoners then and there beynge or as manye of theim as shall be therevnto appoynted by the Quenes Commyssyon shall cause to be called the sayde parsons whose names shal be comprysed in the sayde precepte as is before sayde for theyr examination And yf any of those parsones whiche shoulde be warned as is before sayde to be examyned whiche at anye tyme after the warnyge and before the prefyxed daye shal be within suche place where he maye haue knowledge of his sayde appearaunce to be made make defaulte and appeare not vnlesse a reasonable cause or els a reasonable excuse by the othes of twoo credyble parsones before the sayde Commyssyoners be truelye alledged for his discharge that then euery of them so makyng defaulte to be taxed and charged to the Quenes Maiestie with and at the double summes of the rate that he shoulde or ought to haue ben sette at for and after the beste value of his landes or substaunce vppon hym certyfyed yf he hadde appeared by the discressyon of the Commyssyoners there beynge Whiche Commyssyoners shall trauayle with euerye of the other parsones so then and there appearynge whose names shal be expressed in the sayde precept or preceptes and in whom any vehement suspecte was or shal be had fourme abouesayde by all suche wayes and meanes they can other than by corporall othe for the better knowledge of theyr best value eyther in hereditamentes or possessions eyther els in goodes or debtes And that euery Spirituall parson at eyther of the sayde taxations of the sayde Subsedye shal be rated and sette accordynge to the rate abouesayde of and for euery pounde that the same Spirituall parson or any other to his vse hath by discent bargayne or purchase in fee Simple fee Tayle terme of lyfe terme of yeres by execution by warde or by copye of court roll in anye Manours Landes Annuittes or Hereditamentes after the true iuste and yerely value therof after and accordynge as other the Quenes Maiesties subiectes borne within this Realme be charged in fourme aboue remembred so that it extend to the yerely value of xx.s or aboue And it is further enacted that yf the sayde taxours and assessours shall not duely behaue them selues in theyr inquirye taxation assessement or certificat but shall affectionallye corruptlye or parciallye demeasne them selues in that behalfe in suche wyse that the Commyssyoners shall by theyr consideration deame them offenders worthy of punyshement for not doyng theyr dueties therin that then foure or more of the Commissioners in that Countie for this Subsedye shall haue power and aucthoritie by theyr discressions eyther to charge the sayde assessours vpon theyr corporall othes for the better seruyce aforesayde in that behalfe or els by theyr discression to taxe and sette vpon eyther of the sayde assessours for theyr misdemeanour in that behalfe suche a fine or payne as they shall thynke good so that it exceade not the summe of tenne poundes and the same fine or payne at theyr discressions to estreate Euery which fine so taxed and sette by foure of the Commissioners or more and beyng estreated with the Sedule or bokes of that lymytte shal be leuyed and aunswered to the Quenes vse in lyke maner and fourme to all intentes and purposes as any other summe that shal be taxed and become due by vertue of this estatute and Acte of Subsedye and not in any other wyse or maner And yf anye parson certified or rated by vertue of this Acte be he Commyssyoner or other to anye maner of value doth fynde hym selfe grieued with the same presentment sessyng or taxyng and therevppon complayne to the Commissyoners before whom he shal be rated sessed or taxed or before two of them before the same taxation be certified into the courte of the Exchequer that then the sayde Commyssyoners or two of them shall by all wayes and meanes examine particularly and distynctlye the parson so complaynyng vpon his othe and other his neyghbours by theyr discressyon of euery his landes and tenementes aboue specified and of euery his goodes cattelles and debtes aboue mentioned And after due examination and parfecte knowledge thereof hadde and perceaued by the sayde Commyssyoners or two of them whiche shall haue power by aucthoritie aforesayde the sayde Commyssyoners or two of theim to whom anye suche complaynte shal be made by theyr discressyon vppon the othe of the sayde parson so complaynynge maye abate defaulke encrease or enlarge the same assessemente accordynge as it shall appeare vnto theim iuste vppon the same examination And the same summe so abated defaulked encreased or enlagred shal be by them estreated in fourme as hereafter ensueth And yf it be proued by wytnesse or by the parties owne confession or other lawefull wayes or meanes within a yeare after anye suche othe made that the same parson so taxed and sworne was of anye better or greater value in landes goodes or other thynges aboue specified at the tyme of his sayde othe then the same parson so sworne dyd declare vpon his sayde othe that then euery suche parson so offendynge shall lose and forfeyt to the Quenes Maiestie so much in lawfull money of England as he the same parson so sworne was sette or taxed to pay And also it is enacted by the same aucthoritie that euerye parson to bee rated at the sayde taxation as is aforesayde shall be rated taxed and sette and the summe on hym sette to bee leuyed at suche place where he and his famylye at the tyme of the same presentemente to bee made shall kepe his house or dwellynge or where he then shal be moste conuersaunte abydynge or resyaunte or shall haue his moste resorte at the tyme of the sayde certyfycate to bee made and no where els And that no Commyssyoner for this Subsedye shall bee rated or taxed for his goodes or landes but in the Shyre and other place where he shal be Commyssyoner And
and certyfyed at dayes and places aboue specyfyed by the Lorde Chauncellor or keper of the great Seale and Treasourer and other such parsons as therto shal be named And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that after the taxes and assesses of the sayd summes vpon and by the sayde assessyng and certificat as is aforesaide made by the sayde Commyssyoners or as manye of them as shal be therevnto appoynted by the Quenes Maiesties Commissyon shall with all spede and without delay by the wrytyng estreated of the sayde taxe thereof vnder the seales and signes manuell of the sayde Commissioners or as many of them as shal be appoynted at the leaste to be made shal be delyuered vnto sufficient and substanciall inhabitauntes Constables Subconstables Baylyffes other officers ioyntly of Hundredes Townes Paryshes and other places aforesayde within theyr limittes or to other sufficient parsons inhabitauntes of the same onely by the discression of the sayde Commissioners and as the place and parties shall require aswell the particuler names and surnames as the remembraunce of all summes of money taxed and set of and vpon euery parson aswell men as wemen chargeable to this Acte householder and all other the inhabitauntes dwellers within the sayd Paryshes Townes and places contributory to this Acte of Subsedy By aucthoritie of which wrytyng or estreate so delyuered the sayde officers and other parsons so named and deputed seuerallye shall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this Acte immediatly after the delyuery of the sayd wrytyng or estreate to demaunde leuie and gather of euery parson therein specified the summe and summes in the same wrytyng or estreate comprysed and for non payment therof to distrayne the same parson or parsons so beyng behynde by theyr goodes and cattels and the distresse so taken to kepe by the space of eyght dayes at the costes and charges of the owner therof And if the said owner do not pay such sūme of money as shal be taxed by aucthoritie of this Acte within the same .viii. dayes then the same distresse to be appreased by foure three or two of the inhabitauntes where such distresse is taken and also then to be solde by the sayde Constable or other Collectours for the payment of the sayde money and the ouerplus commyng of the sale and kepyng therof yf any be to be immediatly restored to the owner of the same distresse Which sayd officers and other parsons so deputed to aske take gather and leuie the sayde summes shall aunswere and be charged for the porcion onely to them assigned and limitted to be gathered leuyed and comprysed in the sayde wrytyng or estreate so to them as is aforesayd delyuered to the vse of our Soueraigne Lady the Quenes Maiestie and her heyres and successours and the sayde summe in that wrytynge or estreate comprysed to paye vnto the hygh Collectour or Collectours of that place for the collection of the same in maner and fourme vnder wrytten thervnto to be named and deputed And the same inhabitauntes and officers so gathering the same particuler sūmes for theyr collection therof shall reteyne for euery xx.s so by them receaued and payde two pence that to be allowed at the payment of theyr collection by them to be made to the hygh Collectour or Collectours And further be it enacted by the sayde aucthoritie that the sayde Commissioners or the more part of them as shall take vppon them execution and busynes of the sayde Cōmission shall for eyther of the same paymentes of the sayde Subsedye name suche sufficient and hable parsons whiche then shall haue and possede landes and other hereditamentes in theyr owne ryght of the yerely value of xx.li or goodes to the value of two hundreth markes at the least And the parsons seuerally by the discressions of the same Cōmissioners in Shires Ridinges Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes corporate or other whatsoeuer places aswell within places priuileged as without not beynge foreprised within this Acte to be hygh Collectours haue theyr collection and receipt of the sayd summes set and leuiable within the precincte limit and boundes where they shal be so limitted to gather and receaue To euery of the which Collectours so seuerally named the sayde Commissioners or two of them at the least shall with all spede without delaye after the sayd whole summe of the sayde Subsedye be sette by all the limittes of the same their Commission or in suche limittes as the hygh Collectours shal be so seuerally assigned shall vnder the seales signes manuell delyuer one estreate indented in parchment to euery of the sayde hygh Collectours comprysyng in it the names of all such parsons as were assigned to leuie the sayde particuler sūme and sūmes of euery Hundred Wapentake Towne or other place aforesayde with the names and surnames of the parsones so chargeable accordyng to the estreate so first thereof made as is aforesayde and delyuered And the Collectours so to be assigned shal be charged to aunswere the whole summe comprised in the sayde estreate limitted to his collection as is aforesayde Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that the sayde Commissioners hauyng aucthoritie by this Acte to name and nominate the sayde hyghe Collectours of the said Subsedy shall immediatly vpon the nomination and election take by aucthoritie of this presente Parliament sufficient Recognisaunces or obligations without any fee or rewarde to be payde therefore of euerye parsone so by them to be named to be hygh Collectour to be bounden to the Quenes Maiestie in the double sūme of the sūme of his collection and to be endorsed and made vpon such condition that is to say for the collection of the said first paiment of the said Subsedye that yf the saide Collectour his heyres or executours do truelye content and paye to the vse of the Quenes Maiestie her heyres or executours in the receipt of the said Exchequer before the sayde first day of Iune next commyng so muche of the sayde sūme of money allotted appoynted to his collection as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge within one moneth nexte after such tyme as he hath gathered collected the same residue that then the said Recognisaunces or obligation to be voyde or els to stande in full strength vertue And for the collection of the seconde payment of the sayd Subsedy vpon condition that yf the said Collectour his heyres or executours do truely content and pay to the vse of the Quenes Maiestie her heyres or successours in her receipt of the Exchequer before the .xx. day of February whiche shal be in the yere of our Lorde God M.D.lxiii so much of the saide sūme of money allotted and appoynted to his collection as he shal collecte and gather and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge within one moneth next after such tyme as he hath gathered and collected the same residue
aforesayde that the sayde braunches and articles of the sayde estatute last aboue mentioned made in the sayde .xxvii. yere of our sayde late Soueraigne Lorde Kynge Henrye the eyght and euery penaltie and thyng touchyng the same be also from henceforth put in due execution and shall remayne and continue in theyr full force and vertue accordyng to the good entente and meanyng of the same laste recited Statute Any thyng in this present Acte to be hereafter conteyned to the contrary notwithstandyng AND forasmuche as there haue ben sythens the makynge of the sayde Statute certayne other lawes and Statutes made in the tyme of our late Soueraigne Lorde king Edwarde the syxte and in the tyme of our late Soueraigne Kynge Phillip and Quene Mary for the reedifying of decayed houses of husbandrye and for the encrease of tyllage whiche beyng in some partes thereof vnperfecte and in some places to mylde and gentle haue not brought to the decayed state of tyllage and of houses of husbandrye that longe loked for remedye whiche was then hoped for Be it therefore enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that the sayde lawes and Statutes made in the tymes of the sayde late kyng Edwarde the syxt and Kynge Phillip and Quene Marye touchynge and concernynge the decaye of houses of husbandrye and for the encrease of Tyllage and euerye article and thynge in them and euery of them conteyned shal be form hencefoorth repelled and made voyde to all intentes and purposes And be it also further enacted and established by thaucthoritie aforesayd that from after the feast of Thannunciation of our Lady which shal be in the yere of our Lord God a thousand fiue hundred threscore and foure all such landes and groundes or so muche in quantitie as in any Towne Village Hamlette Lordshyp place knowen or paryshe within the Realme of Englande or Wales haue bene eared ploughed and put in tyllage in any one yere so kept in tillage by the space of foure yeres any time sithens the feast of S. George the Martir in the .xx. yere of the reigne of King Henry theight other then the sayd demeanes of the sayd late Monasteries Priories and religious houses geuen as is aboue rehearsed to the sayde late kynge Henry theight in the sayde .xxvii. yere of his reigne shal be eared ploughed vsed and kept in tillage or caused to be eared ploughed vsed and kept in tyllage for euer accordynge to the nature of the soyle and custome of the countrey by the occupyer or occupiers therof without fraude or collusion vpon paine that euery offendour contrary to this Act shal lose and forfayte yerely for euery acre ten shillinges which forfayture shall go and be in maner and fourme folowynge That is to say to such person or persons as ben next in reuertion or remaynder therof for tearme of lyfe lyues or in tayle their executours or administratours And that by thaucthoritie of this Act it shal be lawfull for him or them to leuye the same penaltie and forfayture of x.s for euery acre by distres and to iustifie or make their aduouries or cognisaunces for the same in such maner and fourme as any person or persons may do for rentes reserued vpon estate or estates made for tearme of yeares of any landes or tenementes or otherwyse shall and may sue for the same penaltie and forfayture by action of debt byll playnt or information in any Court of recorde of the Quene our soueraigne Lady her heires or successours wherin no wager of law essoygne or protection shal be allowed or admitted for the partie defendant And if they or any of them do not distrayne or otherwise clayme or demaunde the sayde penaltie and forfayture by any the wayes or meanes aforesayde within the space of one whole yere next after the offence done in fourme aforesayde and pursue for the same with effect without fraude or couyn and do not recouer and myght haue recouered the same with suche spede as maye be by the due order of the lawe That then after such default it shal be lawefull for him or them to whom the reuertion or remaynder of the fee symple of the sayde landes shall appertayne their executours or administratours to distrayne auowe or make cognisaunce and iustifie or otherwise to sue for the sayd forfayture and paynes in fourme aforesayd at any time within one yere next ensuynge any suche default And in his or their default the sayde penaltie or forfayture to go and be to the immediate Lorde or Lordes of the fee or fees of whom the sayde landes ben holden to be recouered in maner and fourme aforesayde so that he or they do take and sue for hys or theyr remedie therin within one yere next ensuinge any suche default in maner and fourme aforesaide And in his and theyr default the said penaltie and forfayture to go and be to the Quenes highnes her heyres and successours to be recouered by any of the meanes or remedyes aforesayd at any tyme or tymes at her or theyr wylles and pleasures or otherwyse to any other person or persons that wyll sue aswell for the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours as for him or them selues for the same paynes and forfaytures vppon whiche suite the one moytie shal be and go to the Quenes Maiestie her heyres or successours and the other to him or them that so wyll sue for the same by action of debte byll playnt or information in any of the Quenes Courtes of record wherin no essoyne protection or wager of lawe shal be admitted or allowed for the partie defendaunt AND be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that yf any person or persons beynge an occupier and owner of any suche landes and groundes as is aforesayde of any estate of inheritaunce shall offende agaynst the fourme of thys Act That then the sayde penaltie and forfayture shall goe and be to the next immediate Lorde or Lordes of the fee or fees thereof his or theyr executours or administratours to bee recouered by suche wayes and meanes as before is limitted appoynted so that he or they do pursue and take theyr remedye for the same in fourme aforesayd within one yeare next after suche offence committed And yf any suche occupier and owner shal be a Coppyholder or a customary tenaunt that then the saide penaltie or forfayture to go and be to the Lorde or Lordes of the manour of whom the same Coppye or customary tenementes bene holden theyr executours or administratours so that he or they do pursue and take theyr remedy for the same in such maner and fourme and within the time last before limitted And in euery suche default of the saide Lord or Lordes of the fee or fees and of the Lord or Lordes of the sayde manour or manours as is aforesayde or of anye of them the sayde penalties and forfaytures to go and bee to the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours or to suche other person or persons as wyll sue for the same aswell
and purposes as the same and euery of them were before the makyng of this Acte And that the sayde Actes and Statutes nowe by this present Acte repelled shall for and in respect only of the sayde informations and suites and euery of them so nowe dependynge stande remayne and be in such lyke force and effecte as they and euery of them were before the makyng of this Acte Any thyng herein conteyned to the contrary therof notwithstandyng And where as some doubt and question hath heretofore rysen and ben moued vpon certayne wordes conteyned in the sayd Statute made in the sayde fourth yere of the reigne of the late Kyng Henry the seuenth that is to saye vppon these wordes house or houses letten to ferme with .xx. acres of lande at least or more lying in tyllage and husbandrye whether the same .xx. acres of lande or more shoulde be accompted and taken to be all earable lande and wholly put in tyllage or not and also what quantitie and measure euery acre shoulde be of and conteyne For a playne and perfecte declaration and interpretation wherof Be it enacted and declared by thaucthoritie of this present parliament that the sayde Statute is and shal be expounded and taken to extende to house or houses that nowe haue or hath or at any tyme heretofore sythens the fyrst yere of the reigne of the sayde late kyng Henry the .vii. haue or hath had or that hereafter shall haue .xx. acres of grounde to the same house or houses lying or belongyng or with the same commonly occupyed or vsed although the same grounde hath not ben is or shal be all whollye vsed as earable lande and put in tyllage but onely some part therof and that the content of euery acre shal be taken and rated after the rate and measure limitted and appoynted in the ordinaunce or treatise De terris mensurandis Any ambiguitie doute or thyng whatsoeuer to the contrary therof notwithstandyng Prouided alwayes and be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that yf any person or persons hath or at any tyme hereafter shall sustayne any penaltie forfaiture or losse for or by reason of any offence cōmitted or done contrary to the tenour or effecte of this Act or any other of the Actes before recited confirmed that then he or they shall not be eftsones sued vexed or impeched for the same offence Any thyng in this Acte or in any other of the Actes aforesaide had or made to the contrary therof notwithstandyng And to thintent that the offendour of this Act or of any the Actes before specified by this Act confirmed thoffences cōmitted and done against any of the same may be the better knowen that the more due executiō therof may be had Be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that the Lord Chaūcellour or Lord keper of the great Seale of England for the tyme beyng shal haue full power auctoritie by vertue of this Act from time to time to awarde direct a Cōmission or Cōmissions vnder the great Seale of Englande into euery shire or countie within this Realme Wales to such persōs as by his wisdome discression shal be thought most mete conuenient aucthorising them or foure of thē at the least by vertue therof of this Act to enquire search out within euery Towne Vyllage Parishe Hamlet within their Cōmission by the othes of .vi. lawful indifferent persons or otherwyse according to their good discressions of the offences cōmitted or done against this Statute or any other the Statutes before mentioned by this Acte confirmed whether any person or persons to whom any penaltie or forfaiture is geuē limitted or appoynted by the same or any of them haue taken the benefite or aduantage of the sayde forfaitures and paynes or not according to the same lawes and statutes And that within three monethes next after euery such enquitie and search the said Cōmissioners or foure of them at the least shal make certificat therof and of their doinges by vertue of the saide Cōmission vnder their handes and seales into the high Court of Chauncery vpon payne of forfaiture of euery such Cōmissioner xx.li sterlyng to the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours And that the same Cōmissioners or two of them at the least shall haue aucthoritie power by vertue of this act to direct their precept to the Sheriffes of the countie being within the limittes of their Cōmission to warne as many honest men of his Baylywyke as the said Commissioners shal appoynt by whom the trueth in the premisses may be best knowen to enquire and true presentment make of all and euery offences cōmitted or done contrary to the sayde Actes or any of them and to set such reasonable fines and amerciamentes vpon such persons as shal make default of their apparaunces or making theyr apparaunces shall neglect to do their dueties in about the execution of the premisses as to the same Cōmissioners or foure of them shal be by their discressions thought mete and conuenient so that the same fines or amerciamentes for any one default excede not the sūme of xx.s And that the same fines amerciamentes so by them taxed set shal be yerely well and truely estreated into the court of the Exchequer there to be leuied to the vse of our Soueraigne Lady the Quene her heires successours as other fines amerciaments haue ben there accustomed vsed to be leuied And that if the Sheriffe to whō such precept shal be awarded shal be remisse or negligēt in seruing of the precept returnyng of the same at the tyme place appoynted prefixed in the sayde precept that then the said Cōmissioners or foure of them shall for euery such default assesse taxe vpon the sayde Sheriffe .x. li. and shall estreate the same into the sayde Courte of Exchequer to be leuied to the Quenes Maiesties vse her heyres successours as is aforesayde Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that it shal not be lawful to any Sheriffe vnder Sheriffe or Sheriffes deputie to infringe or enter into any libertie or fraūches for th execution of any such precept But shall make his mandatum to the Baylyffe of the fraunches or libertie for thexecutyng seruing of the same and that the Baylyffe of euery such fraunches or libertie shal serue execute the said precept according to the tenor therof in such like maner fourme as the Sheriffe should or ought to haue done if it had ben within his Baylywyke vpon payne of forfaiture of v.li to be estreated and leuyed as is aforesaid Prouided also be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that the puttyng of any landes or tenementes hereafter frō pasture to tyllage accordyng to the tenor and effect of this Acte shall not in any wyse extende to be any cause of breach or forfaiture of any bonde couenaunt payment or conditiō made or hereafter to be made
betwene any person or persons bodies politike or corporate whiche in any wyse is or shal be repugnaunt or contrariaunt to this Acte Prouided alwayes and be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that this Acte or any thyng therin conteyned shall not extend to geue any benefite aduantage or libertie to any person or persons which at any time sythens the sayd feast of S. George the Martir hath conuerted or employed or hereafter shall conuert or employ any more grounde to the kepyng of Connyes not beyng lawfull warren then fyue acres at the moste and the same to be within one myle of his dwellyng house and also not noysome or hurtfull to the corne of any person or persons other then of the owner of the same grounde so that he or they put and kepe in tyllage as much or as many acres of his owne proper grounde lying within the sayde Manour Lordship or Paryshe as the sayde Conygree shall conteyne aboue the sayde numbre of fyue acres that hath not heretofore ben liable to be continued in tyllage by force of any lawe or Statute Any thyng in this Act before mentioned to the contrary therof notwithstandyng And where also by the sayde estatute of Henry the .vii. the meaning of the makers therof appeareth to be that euery house of husbandrye hauyng .xx. acres of lande or more belongyng or lying therevnto or with the same commonly occupyed vsed or demysed the same .xx. acres or more shoulde not be seuered or deuyded from the sayde house or houses but shoulde be demysed occupyed or vsed together for the better maintenaunce of euery suche house houses and of tyllage and husbandry Be it therfore enacted and declared by aucthoritie of this present Parliament that no person or persons whatsoeuer hauyng or that hereafter shall haue any such houses or house of husbandry with .xx. acres of lande or more belongyng or lying therevnto or with the same commonlye occupyed vsed or demysed shall from and after the fyrst day of this present Parliament seuer or deuide the sayde .xx. Acres of lande or more nor any part therof from any of the sayde house or houses vnlesse the same be kept in tyllage or otherwyse for the profyte of husbandry accordyng to the nature of the ground or according to the custome of the Manours where the same lande shall so be vpon the paynes forfaitures conteyned in the sayde estatute of Henry the .vii. to be taken in suche fourme as by the same statute appeareth excepte he or they shall lay assigne to the sayde house or houses or to any other house or houses beyng within the same Parishe or Lordeship or within two myles of the said houses being also not bounde to be mainteined and vpholden by fourme of the said statute of king Henry the .vii. as much other lande within the same Paryshe Lordship or within two myles as is abouesaid for in liew of such or so much of the former land as ought to haue cōtinued by force of the said statute with the former house can not cōueniently be returned to the same former house And be it further enacted by auctoritie aforesayde that yf any such house or houses of husbandrye and lande be deuided or seuered the one frō the other by reason of any lease or leases for terme of lyfe lyues or for terme of yeres made or graunted before the fyrste daye of this present Parliament that then whensoeuer the said lease or leases shal end or determine by any maner of meanes so as the same house or houses and landes therevnto belongyng shal be discharged of all such leases the same house and houses and landes so demised shall not afterwards be seuered or deuided th one from thother but shall go be kept and occupyed together at all tymes after accordyng to the declaration before mencioned vpon the paynes and forfaitures last before specified and to be taken also as in the sayde Statute is mencioned Excepte by the returnyng or reuniting of the same lande to the sayde house there shall or may growe any manifest decay of any other houses newly edified or of any other farmes that hath ben by meanes of distribution or seueraunce of the same lande or landes or any part therof made or assigned to be seuerall tenementes or holdes And where in the sayde Statute made in the sayde .vii. yere of the reigne of the sayde kyng Henry the .viii. amonges other thynges in the same it is enacted that yf sythens the fyrste daye of the same Parliament any landes whiche at the same fyrst daye or sythens the same fyrst day were commonly vsed in tyllage were inclosed or from thenceforth shoulde be inclosed and turned onlye to pasture whereby any house of husbandry then was or therafter shuld be decayed that then all such landes should be by the owner or owners therof theyr heyres successours or assignes or other for them within one yere next ensuing the same decay put in tyllage and exercised vsed and occupyed in husbandry and tyllage as they were the first day of the same Parliament or at any tyme sythens and after the maner and vsage of the countrey where suche landes dyd lye as by the sayd Act more playnely may appeare And forasmuch as vpon the said part of the sayd statute diuers doubtes and questions haue ben moued heretofore Be it therfore enacted declared by the auctoritie aforesayde that yf at any tyme sythens the makyng of the sayd Acte before the sayde feaste of S. George in the sayde .xx. yere of the reigne of the sayde late kyng Henry the .viii. any landes belongyng to any suche house of husbandry as is aforesayd haue ben turned from tyllage to pasture by any person or persons that then the same landes or so much other landes being within the same Paryshe Lordship or Manour that heretofore was not liable or bounde by any lawe or statute to be kept in tyllage shal be turned agayne into tyllage within one yere next after the session of this present parliamēt kept in tyllage for euer according to the custome of the country nature of the soyle whether the said house whervnto the said landes dyd belong be decayed or no or whether the same landes were enclosed or not enclosed or whether some part therof not the whole were kept in tyllage or not vpon the paynes conteyned in the same statute made in the sayd .vii. yere of the reigne of the said late king Henry the .viii. Prouided alwayes and be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that yf any person or persons whatsoeuer hauing any pasture heath wast or barren ground which hath not ben heretofore cōmonly vsed to be eared or tylled for corne and yet neuerthelesse the same person or persons to thintent to better amende the said ground not to vse the same for tyllage haue or hath at any tyme heretofore turned or put the same into tyllage or at any tyme hereafter shall turne
feaste of saint Michael the Archangell next comming it shal be lawfull to all and euery person and persons beinge subiectes of the Quenes Maiestie her heires or successours only out of such portes or crekes as by the Quenes Maiesties proclamation hereafter shal be published and appointed and not els where to lode carrie or transporte any Wheate Rye Barley Malte Pease or Beanes into any partes beyonde the Seas to sell as a marchaundise in shippes Crayers or other vessels whereof any Englishe borne subiect then shal be the only owners so that the price of the sayde Cornes or graynes so caryed or transported exceade not the prices hereafter followinge at the tymes hauens and places where and when the same Corne or grayne shal be shipped or laden Vide. the quarter of Wheate at x.s the quarter of Rye Pease or Beanes at viii.s the quarter of Barley or malte at vi.s.viii d. of curraunte money of England Any lawe vsage or estatute heretofore made to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstandyng And where doubte hath heretofore ben whether the statute in the xviii yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the .vi. heretofore made against Souldiours reteyned which departe from their Captaines without lycense did or ought to extended vnto Mariners gonners seruing on the Seas takynge wages of the kinge or Quene of this Realme Be it expressed ordeined enacted and declared by aucthoritie of this present Parlyament that the said estatute made in the saide .xxiii. yere of the reigne of Kynge Henry the .vi. in all paynes forfeytures and other thinges did doth and hereafter shall extende aswell to all and euery Mariner and gonner hauinge taken or shall hereafter take prest or wages to serue the Quenes Maiestie her heires or successours to all intentes and purposes as the same did or doth vnto any souldyer Any diuersities of opinion doubte matter or thing to the contrary hereof in any wyse notwithstandyng And where an estatute concernynge sowyng of Flaxe and Hempe was made and prouided in the Parlyament holden the .xxiiii. yere of the reigne of our late soueraigne Lorde Kynge Henry the eyght to be vniuersall through euery Countie of this Realme for the better prouision of nettes for helpe and furtheraunce of fishinge and for eschewinge of Idelnes Be it ordeined enacted by aucthoritie of this present Parliament that in euery suche Countie of this Realme or parte of such Countie where by the Quenes Maiesties proclamation it shall hereafter be published the saide estatute to be commodious or profitable for the common wealth The said estatute and euery clause article and prouision therein conteyned be and shal be reuyued and stande in full force and strength to be executed and perfourmed from the feaste of saint Michaell the Archangell nexte comminge in all thinges other then in the proportion of a Roade or fourth parte of an acre in the paine of iii.s.iiii.d by the said estatute limitted In place whereof be it ordeyned and enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that in euery case and degree where by the saide former estatute one Roade or fourth parte of an Acre is lymitted to be sowne with lynseade otherwise flaxe seade or hempe seade from the saide feaste of Saint Michaell the Archangel nexte comming In steade and lewe of the saide Roade or iiii parte of an Acre one whole Acre or lesse as by proclamation in fourme aforesaide shal be limitted shal be sowen with lynseade otherwise flaxe seade or Hempe seade vpon payne of forfeyture of fyue poundes for euery suche defaulte or offence And further be it ordeyned and enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that all and euery suche of the offences before mentioned as hereafter shal be done on the mayne Sea or costes of the Sea beinge no parte of the bodye of any Countie of this Realme without the precincte iurisdiction and liberties of the Sinque portes and out of any hauen or peere shal be tryed and determined before the Lorde Admirall of England or his Lieuetenaunt deputie or deputies other Iustices of Oyer and terminer according to the fourme of the saide estatute of Anno .xxviii. Henrici .viii. for causes of pyracie And if the same shal be done on the mayne Sea or costes of the Sea within the iurisdiction or libertie of the Synque ports out of any hauen or porte then the same to be tried and determined before the sayde Lord warden of then sayd Syncque portes or his Lieuetenaunt or Iudge or before Iustices of Oyer and terminer according to the true fourme of the sayde estatute of Anno .xxxviii. Henry .viii. for causes of pyracie And for all and singuler suche other of the offences before mentioned as shal be done in the lande or within any hauen or peere all Iustices of the peace in their Sessions and Maiors Sheriffes and Bailifes and other head officers in Cities and townes corporate in their Sessions or other Courtes within the limittes of their commissions or aucthorities shal haue full power and aucthoritie to inquire of the offenders of this acte aswel by the othes of .xii. men as otherwise by information and therevpon to heare and determine the same And if any person or persons shal be presented before the saide Iudges Iustices or officers within the lymittes of their auctorities or anye information gyuen to them of any offender of this acte that then they shal haue ful power and aucthoritie vpon any suche presentment or Information to make proces againste the offenders of this acte lyke as is commonly vsed vpon enditementes of Trespasse And yf any be presented and afterwarde be conuicted by confession or otherwise that then euery suche person shall suffer no lesse forfeiture or punishement then herein is before lymitted All whiche forfeytures to be leuied in maner and fourme following That is to saye suche forfeytures concernyng eatyng of fleshe as are before lymitted to certeine vses to be to the same vses in that behalfe before expressed and all such forfeytures as accordinge to the tenour of this acte shal be determinable before the saide Iudges Iustices or other officers of the Admiralties aforesaide or before Commissioners of Oyer and terminer in that behalfe shal be to the vse of the Lord Admirall of England or Lord warden of the Syncque ports where such offence shal be presented or where as the Iurisdiction of the cause shal apperteyne And all such forfeitures as accordyng to the tenour of this acte shal be determinable before Maiors Sheriffes Bayliffes or other head officers of Cities or townes corporate shal be to the common vse of the Corporation of the saide Citie or towne corporate where suche offences shal be presented or wheras the Iurisdiction of the cause shall apperteyne And all suche forfeytours as accordynge to the tenour of this acte shal be determinable before the Iustices of the peace shal be to the vse of the Quenes Maiestie her heires and successours And if any person shal be conuict by confession or otherwise vpō any
Townes or any of them to discharge the said wynes so to be brought so that there be not brought and discharged by the same straungers in any such straungers shyppes bottomes or vesselles in any one yere in or at the sayde Hauens Portes and Townes or any of them aboue one hundred Tonnes at the most This Acte or any thyng therin conteyned to the contrary therof notwithstandyng Prouided also that it shall and may be lawfull to and for any person or persons beyng straungers borne to bryng yerely in any shippe vessel or bottome wherof any straunger or straūgers borne is or shal be owner or owners into the Hauen Porte and Towne of Chepestowe in the Countie of Monmouth any wynes made in any of the sayde dominions or countreys belongyng to the sayde Crowne of Fraunce ouer and besydes all Rochell wynes heretofore in this Acte allowed to be brought and in the same Port and Towne to discharge the sayde wynes so that there be not brought and discharged by the same straungers in any suche straungers shyppes bottomes or vesselles in any one yere in or at the sayde Hauen Port and Towne aboue one hundred Tonnes at the most This Acte or any thing therin conteyned to the contrary notwithstandyng Prouided also that it shall and may be lawefull to and for any person or persons beyng straungers borne to bryng yerely in any shyppe vessell or bottome whereof any straunger or straungers borne is or shal be owner or owners into the Hauens Portes and Townes of Cardife Caneruon Beawmarrys and other Hauens Portes and Townes in Southwales and Northwales or any of them and into the Hauen Port and Towne of Newporte in the sayde Countie of Monmouth any of the sayde wynes made in any of the sayd dominions or countreys belongyng to the said Crowne of Fraunce ouer and besydes all Rochell wines heretofore in this Acte alowed to be brought and in and at the same Portes and Townes or anye of them to discharge the sayde wynes so to be brought so that there be not brought and discharged by the same straungers in any such straungers shyppes bottomes or vessels in any one yere in or at the said Hauens Portes Townes or any of them aboue one hundred Tonnes at the most This Acte or any thing therin conteyned to the contrary therof notwithstandyng Sauing vnto the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours all such dueties and thynges whiche her hyghnes her heyres and successours ought to haue enioy be aunswered and payde for the sayde three hundred Tonnes of Wynes mentioned in the said three laste prouisos to be brought and discharged as in the same three prouisos ben mentioned and declared Any thing in this Acte to the contrary therof notwithstandyng Prouided also and be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that this Acte or any thyng or thynges therein conteyned shall not in any maner of wyse extende to geue vnto the Lorde Admirall of Englande for the tyme beyng or to any his Viceadmiralles Iudge or Iudges of the Admiraltie his or theyr deputie or deputies or to any other the officers or ministers of the Admiraltie or to any others hauyng or claymyng any Admirall power iurisdictions or aucthoritie within this Realme and Wales or any other the Quenes dominions any other power ryght iurisdiction preheminence or aucthoritie then he or they or any of them lawfully haue hath or had or ought to haue and enioye before the makyng of this Acte other then for suche of the offences specified in this Acte as hereafter shal be done vppon the mayne Sea within the iurisdiction of the Admiraltie This Acte or any article braunche clause prouision or thing therin conteyned to the contrary therof notwithstandyng This Act shall continue and endure vntyll the ende of ten whole yeres to be accompted from the feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell whiche shal be in the yere of our Lorde God M.D.lxiiii and from thence to the ende of the nexte Parliament then folowyng the ende of the sayde ten yeres An Acte agaynst such as shall sell any Ware for Apparell without redy money ¶ The .vi. Chapter BE IT enacted by aucthoritie of this present Parliament that whatsoeuer person after the feast of Easter next shall sell or by any meanes delyuer to any person hauyng not in possession landes or fees to the clere yerely value of three thousand poundes auerrable and triable by bookes of Subsedyes or by any other sufficient true way or meanes any maner of foreyne stuffe or wares not growen or fyrst wrought in any the Quenes Maiesties dominions of what kynde nature name or condition so euer the same be appertaynyng or tendyng to the apparellyng clothyng deckyng garnyshyng or adornyng of the bodye or the part of the body of any maner of person for all the which stuffe or wares or for the workemanship therof or any part therof the seller delyuerer or worker theyr executours or administratours shal not haue receaued the whole money or full satisfaction eyther in hande or within .xxviii. dayes after the sale delyuery or makyng therof that in euery such case the seller delyuerer worker or maker theyr executours and administratours shal be without all remedy by order of any lawe custome or decree to recouer or demaunde any money or recompence for the sayde stuffe or wares or for the workmanshyp of any parte thereof what assuraunce soeuer he or they shall haue by bonde suertie promise or pawne of the partie or of any other on his or theyr behalfe to the contrary And that all bondes and assuraunce whatsoeuer made in that case and for that purpose by any meanes or wayes directly or indirectlye shal be vtterly voyde to all intentes And this Acte shall endure onely to th ende of the next Parliament An Act for the aduoydyng of diuers forreyne wares made by handy craftes men beyonde the Seas ¶ The .vii. Chapter WHere as heretofore the artificers of this Realme of England aswel within the Citie of Londō as with in other Cities Townes Boroughes of the same Realme that is to wit Gyrdlers Cutlers Sadlers Glouers Poyntmakers suche lyke handycraftes men haue ben in theyr sayde faculties greatlye wrought and greatly set on worke aswell for the sustentation of them selues theyr wyues and families as for a good education of a great part of youth of this Realme in good arte and laudable exercyse besydes the manifolde benefites that by meanes or by reason of theyr knowledges inuentions and continuall trauell dayly and vniuersally came to the whole estate of the common wealth of this sayde Realme Yet notwithstandyng so nowe it is that by reason of the aboundaunce of forreyne wares brought into this Realme from the partes of beyonde the Seas the sayde artificers are not only lesse occupyed and thereby vtterly impouerished the youth not trayned in the said sciences exercises and thereby the sayde faculties thexquisite knowledges therof lyke in short tyme within this Realme to decay but also
diuers Cities and Townes within this Realme of England much therby impaired the whole Realme greatly endomaged and other countreis notably enriched the people therof wel set on worke to their cōmodities liuinges in the artes and sciences aforesayde and to the great discourage of the skylfull workmen of this Realme being in very dede nothing inferiour to any straunger in the faculties aforesayde For reformation wherof Be it enacted by our soueraigne Lady the Quenes highnes and by the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons of this present Parliament assembled by the aucthoritie of the same that no person or persons whatsoeuer frō or after the feast of the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist now next ensuyng shall bring or cause to be brought into this Realme of Englande frō the partes of beyonde the seas any Gyrdels harnesse for gyrdels Rapiers Daggers Kniues Hiltes Pummelles Lockets Chapes Dagger blades Handels Scabberdes and Sheathes for kniues Saddels Horse harnesse stirrops Bittes Gloues Pointes Leather laces or Pinnes being redy made or wrought in any partes of beyond the Seas to be solde bartred or exchaunged within this Realme of England or Wales vpon payne to forfaite all such wares so to be brought contrary to the true meaning of this Acte in whose handes soeuer they or any of them shal be founde or the very value thereof th one halfe of the forfaiture to be to our soueraigne Lady the Quenes hyghnes her heires successours the other moitie therof to him or them that wyll sease the same or sue therfore in any court of Record of the Quenes Maiestie her heires successours by action of debt byll plaint information or otherwise where no wager of lawe essoigne or protection shal be to him or them alowed This Act to continue and endure to the ende of the next Parliament An Acte touchyng Tanners Curryours Shoemakers and other artificers occupying the cuttyng of Leather ¶ The .viii. Chapter WHere before this time diuers many good estatutes haue ben made for the true tanning currying and working of leather as a thing very necessary for the cōmon wealth cōmoditie for the Quenes Maiesties subiectes for that euery sort of people of necessitie must vse haue leather for diuers and sundrye purposes which notwithstandyng leather was neuer worse tanned curryed or wrought then now a dayes it is by reason wherof diuers persons are not onely put to great losse charge other inconueniences but also do take diuers and sundrye diseases to the shortenyng of theyr lyues as by the complayntes of diuers persons exhibited in this Parliament it manifestly appeareth Be it therfore enacted by the Quenes Maiestie with thassent of the Lordes cōmons in this present parliament assembled and by thaucthoritie of the same that from after the feast of Pentecost next cōming no Butcher or other person shall gashe slaughter or cut any hyde of any Bull Oxe Steare or Cowe in fleyng therof or otherwise wherby the same shal be impaired or hurt And that no Tanner or other person or persons vsing or occupying the craft or mistery of tannyng of leather shall after the feast of S. Michaell tharchangell next cōmyng by him selfe or any other person or persons offer or put to sale any such hyde or skyn so gashed flaughtered or cut vpon payne of forfaiture for euery such hyde or skynne so offred or put to sale xx.d And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no Butcher or other person or persons after the said feast of Pentecost shal kyll any Calfe to sell being vnder fyue wekes olde vpon payne to forfait for euery Calfe so to be kylled and solde vi.s viii d And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no person or persons occupying the craft or occupation of a Butcher shal after the feast of Pentecost next cōming occupy or vse by himselfe or any other person or persōs the feat craft or mistery of a Tanner duryng the tyme that he shall so vse the crafte or occupation of a Butcher vpon payne of forfaiture of vi.s.viii.d for euery day that he shall so vse the feate craft or mistery of a Tanner And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no person or persons whiche at the feast of S. Michaell tharchangell whiche was in the first yere of the Quenes Maiesties reigne that nowe is had not landes tenementes rentes profites or hereditamentes of estate of inheritaunce or for terme of lyfe or lyues of the clere yerely value of xl.li or aboue or whose Tanhouse was not at the saide feast is or shal be hereafter in a Citie Borough Towne corporate or market Towne where searchers sealers of leather hath ben shal be vsually appoynted except such person persons as then had any Tanhouse and dyd then occupy the mistery of tannyng of leather and except an apprentice or apprentices to a Tanner or Tanners except such as were then or since or hereafter shal be brought vp instructed or taught as couenaunt or hyred seruaunt for that purpose by the space of .vii. yeres in the mistery or craft of tannyng of leather and except the wyfe and such sonne or sonnes of a Tanner as hath ben brought vp hath vsed the mistery of tanning of leather by the space of foure yeres aforesaid or the sonne or daughter of a Tanner or suche person who shall marry such wyfe or daughter to whom he hath or shall leaue a Tanhouse and fattes shall tanne any leather or shall vse take or haue any profite gayne or cōmoditie of or by the said mistery or craft of tanning of leather vpon payne of forfaiting of all such leather by him or them so tanned or whereof he or they shall receaue any profyte or commoditie by tannyng or the iust value therof And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaide that after the feast of Pentecost next commyng no person or persons whatsoeuer which shall after the sayde feast of Pentecost occupy or vse by hym or them selfe or by any other person or persons the crafte or mistery of tannyng of leather shall suffer any hyde or skynne to lye in the lymes any longer tyme then the heere falleth of or maye be taken of nor in any wise to be put into the limes after the heere maye be taken of nor shall vse employ occupye or put by them selues or by any other person or persons any thing in any lycour stuffe or workmanshyp in or about the tannyng of leather but only lyme Culuer donge or Hen donge and that in colde water onlye and wooses made of colde water and Oken barke onlye without any mixture of any other thyng or thynges nor shall by hym selfe or by any other person or persons put any hyde or skynne in any tanne wooses or licour made whot or warmed in any fat or vessel to be set or couered in any tanne hyll or otherwyse nor shall ouerlyme any hydes or skynnes in the lyme pyttes nor
Maiestie intituled an Acte for true currying of leather One other Act made in the third and fourth yeres of our sayde soueraigne Lorde kyng Edward the syxt intituled an Acte for bying rough hydes and Calues skinnes And as much of an Acte made in the .v. and .vi. yeres of our sayde late soueraigne Lorde kyng Edwarde the .vi. intituled an Acte agaynst regrating of tanned leather as doth prouide or geue libertie to any person or persons to carry ouer any shoes bootes buskynnes startvppes slippers and other made wares to the towne of Callyce And one other Acte made in the first yere of our soueraigne Lady the Quenes Maiestie intituled an Acte touchyng Shoemakers Curryers And one other act made in the saide fyrst yere intituled an Acte touchyng sellyng of tanned leather shall from and after the sayde feast of Saint Michaell nexte commyng be vtterly repealed An Act for the punishement of such persons as shall procure or commit any wylfull periury ¶ The .ix. Chapter WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxii yere of the raigne of the late king of famous memorye kyng Henry the .viii. emongest other thinges it was ordeyned enacted established that no person or persons of what estate degree or conditiō soeuer he or they were should frō thenceforth vnlawfully suborne any witnes or witnesses by letters rewardes promises or by any other sinister labour or meanes for to maynteyne any matter or cause or to the disturbāce or hinderaunce of Iustice or to the procurement or occasion of any maner of periury by false verdict or otherwise in any of the kinges courtes of the Chauncery the Starre chamber the white hall or els where within any the kynges dominiōs of England or Wales or the marches of the same where any persō or persons haue or from thenceforth shoulde haue aucthoritie by vertue of the kinges Cōmission patent or writ to holde plea of land or to examine heare or determine any tytle of landes or any matter or witnesses concerning the title right or interest of any landes tenementes or hereditamētes vpon payne of forfaiture for euery such offence x.li th one moitie therof to be to the kyng thother to the partie that would sue for y e same as by the same estatute amonges diuers other thynges more plainly it doth appeare Sithens y t makyng wherof for that the said penaltie is so smal towardes the offendours in y t behalfe the said offence of subornation sinister procuremēt of false witnesse hath neuerthelesse greatly encreased and augmēted by reason of the wylfull periury cōmitted by the same suborned witnesses diuers sundry of the Quenes Maiesties subiectes haue susteyned disherison great impoueryshment aswell of theyr landes tenementes as also of theyr goodes cattelles Be it therfore enacted by our soueraigne Lady the Quene by the assent of the Lordes spirituall temporall and the cōmons in this present parliament assembled by thaucthoritie of the same that all euery such person and persons which at any tyme after the .x. day of April next cōming shal vnlawfully corruptly procure any witnes or witnesses by letters rewardes promises or by any other sinister vnlawfull labour or meanes whatsoeuer to commit any wylful corrupt periury in any matter or cause whatsoeuer now depending or which hereafter shall depend in sute varyaunce by any writ action hyll complaynt or information in any wyse touching or concerning any landes tenementes or hereditamentes or any goodes cattels debtes or damages in any of the courtes before mentioned or in any of the Quenes Maiesties courtes of Record or in any leete viewe of franke pledge or lawdaye auncient demeane court hundred-courte courte baron or in the courte or courtes of the Stannery in the counties of Deuon and Cornwal or shall lykewyse vnlawfully and corruptly procure or suborne any witnes or witnesses which shall from and after the said tenth daye of Apryll be sworne to testifie in perpetuam rei memoriame that then euery such offendour or offendours shal for his hers or their said offence being therof lawfully conuicted or attainted lose and forfaite the sūme of fortie poundes And if it happen any such offendour or offendours so beyng conuicted or attaynted as aforesaid not to haue any goodes or cattelles landes or tenementes to the value of xl.li that then euery such person so beyng conuicte or attaynted of any the offences aforesayde shall for his or theyr sayde offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one halfe yere without bayle or mainprise and to stand vpon the pyllory by the space of one whole houre in some market Towne next adioynyng to the place where the offence was committed in open market there or in the market towne it selfe where the offence was cōmitted And that no person or persons beyng so conuicted or attaynted to be from thenceforth receaued as a witnes to be deposed or sworne in any Court of Record within anye of the Quenes hyghnes dominions of England Wales or the marches of the same vntyll such tyme as the iudgement geuen agaynst the sayde person or persons shal be reuersed by attaynt or otherwyse and that vpon euery such reuersall the parties grieued to recouer his or theyr damages agaynste all euery such person and persons as dyd procure the sayde iudgement so reuersed to be fyrst geuen agaynst them or any of them by action or actions to be sued vppon his or theyr case or cases accordyng to the course of the common lawes of this Realme And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that yf any person or persons after the sayde tenth day of Apryll next commyng eyther by the subornation vnlawfull procurement sinister perswasion or meanes of any others or by theyr owne act consent or agrement wylfully and corruptly commit any maner of wylful periury by his or their deposition in anye of the Courtes before mentioned or beyng examined ad perpetuam rei memoriam that then euery person and persons so offendyng and beyng thereof duely conuict or attaynted by the lawes of this Realme shal for his or their sayde offence lose and forfait twentie poundes and to haue imprisonment by the space of .vi. monethes without bayle or mainprise and the othe of such person or persons so offendyng from thenceforth not to be receaued in anye Courte of Recorde within this Realme of Englande or Wales or the marches of the same vntyll such tyme as the iudgement geuen agaynst the sayd person or persons shal be reuersed by attaynt or otherwyse And that vpon euery such reuersall the parties grieued to recouer his or theyr damages agaynst all and euery such person and persons as dyd procure the sayde iudgement so reuersed to be geuen agaynst them or any of them by action or actions to be sued vpon his or theyr case or cases accordyng to the course of the cōmon lawes of this Realme And yf it happen the said offendour or offendours so offendyng not
persons shal be thervnto licenced and shall haue speciall and expresse wordes conteyned in such licence or licences that he or they may so do vpon payne to forfait for euery such tyme that any such person or persons shall do to the contrary v.li The moitie of all whiche forfaitures afore rehearsed shal be to the Quene our soueraigne Lady her heyres and successours and the other moitie to hym or them that wyll sue for the same in any of the Quenes courtes of Record by byll plaint action of debt or information in the which byll playnt action or information no wager of lawe essoigne or protection shal be admitted Be it also enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayd that the Iustices of the peace in euery countie within this Realme or Wales at the quarter sessions shall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this Acte to enquire heare and determine all and euery the defaultes and offences perpetrated committed or done contrary to this Acte within the Countie where any suche sessions shal be kept by inquisition presentment byll or information before them exhibited and by examination of two lawfull witnesses or by any of the same wayes or meanes by the discression of the said Iustices and to make proces thervpon as though they were indicted before them by inquision or by verdict of .xii. men or mo And vpon the conuictiō of the offender by information or sute of any other then the Quene to make extractes of the moitie of the forfaitures to be leuyed to the Quenes vse as they vse to do of other fines and amerciamentes growen in the sessions of peace to awarde execution of the other moitie for the complaynant or informer againste the offender by Fieri facias or Capias as the Quenes Iustices at Westminster maye do and vse to do And yf any suche conuiction or attaynder shall hereafter happen to be at the Quenes suite only that then the whole forfaitures to be extracted and leuyed to the Quenes vse onlye Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thyng therin conteyned shall not in any wyse extende to the preiudice of the libertie of anye Citie or Towne corporate but that they and euery of them shall and may lawefully assigne and licence Purueyours for the prouision of the same Citie or Towne corporate in suche maner and fourme as they myght lawefully haue done before the makyng of this Acte Prouided further that this Acte nor any thyng therein conteyned shal be in any wyse hurtfull or preiudiciall vnto any the inhabitauntes within the Counties of Westmerlande Cumberlande Lancaster Chester and Yorke or any of them but that they maye do as heretofore they haue lawfully vsed to do Any thyng in this present Acte to the contrary notwithstandyng An Acte for the reuiuing of a Statute made Anno. ii .iii. Phil. Marie for the amending of hygh wayes ¶ The .xiii. Chapter WHERE in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the second third yeres of the raignes of the late Princes Kyng Philip Quene Mary Amongest other good Actes then had and made one necessary Statute was prouided establyshed for the amendment and reparation of the hygh wayes within this Realme whiche Acte was made to endure and continue for seuen yeres and after the expiration of the sayde seuen yeres tyll the ende of the Parliament then next ensuyng as by the same statute more playnely appeareth Whiche seuen yeres forasmuch as they be nowe expired and ended and the sayde Acte is very beneficiall and moste necessary to be continued for the ease and common weale of the people of this lande Be it therefore enacted by the Quenes excellent Maiestie the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons in this Parliament assembled by the aucthoritie therof that the sayde Acte made in the sayde second and third yeres of the raigne of Kyng Philip Quene Mary touchyng and concernyng the reparation and amendement of the hygh wayes and euery article and braunche of the same shall from henceforth be stande and continue in full force effect and strength for and duryng the terme of .xx. yeres next folowyng from and after the begynnyng of this present Parliament and after thexpiration of the sayde .xx. yeres to th ende of the Parliament then nexte after the ende of the sayde .xx. yeres to be holden and kept And forasmuch as the sayde Statute made in the seconde and thirde yeres of kyng Phillip and Quene Mary in diuers partes of this Realme serueth not to so good purpose and effect as it may be made for that such substaunce and matter as is most fytt and conuenient for the reparations of the sayde wayes cannot be lawfullye hadde fetched and taken out of the seuerall groundes and soyle therevnto nygh or adioynyng beyng no great losse or detriment to the owners of the same seuerall groundes soyle whereby the amendement of the sayde wayes is lyttle encreased or els of very small and slender continuaunce to the great and continuall charge and trouble of the poore people inhabytynge thereaboutes For reformation wherof and that the reparations of the sayde hygh wayes may hereafter in good due maner well and sufficientlye be made Be it further by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament enacted that from henceforth it shall and may be lawfull to all and euery Superuisour and Superuisours and orderers of the workes for the tyme beyng for the amendement of the sayde hyghe wayes therevnto elected and appoynted accordyng to the Statute made in the seconde and thirde yeres of kyng Phillip and Quene Mary for the better reparation and amendement of the wayes within theyr seuerall paryshes and limittes where they shal be so made Superuisours if it shal be so to them thought necessary to take and carry away of the rubbyshe or smallest broken stones of any quarry or quarryes lying and beyng within the paryshe where they shal be Superuisours without licence controlment or impechement of the owner or owners so muche as by theyr discressions shal be demed and adiudged necessarye for the amendement of the saide wayes And that for default of any quarrye or quarryes not beyng within theyr sayde paryshe or limittes or in defaulte of rubbyshe not to be founde in any suche quarry or quarryes it shall and may be lawfull to euery such Superuisour or superuisours for the vse aforesayde in the seuerall groundes of any person or persons beyng within the paryshe and limittes where they shal be Superuisours and nyghe adioynyng to the waye or wayes wherin such reparations shal be thought necessary to be made and wherein grauell sande or sinder is lykely to be founde to dygge or cause to be dygged for Grauell Sande or Sinder and lykewyse to gather stones lying vppon anye landes or groundes within the paryshe and meete to be vsed to suche seruyce and purpose and thereof to take and carrye awaye so much as by discression of the sayde Superuisours shal be thought necessarye to be imployed in
the begynnynge of this present Parliament and from thence vntill the ende of the Parlyament then nexte after to be holden ¶ An Acte against the forgyng of Euidences and Wrytynges The .xiiii. Chapter FOrasmuche as the wicked perniciouse and daungerous practise of makinge forging and publishinge of false and vntrue Charters euidences dedes and writynges hath of late tyme ben very muche more practised vsed and put in bre in all partes of this Realme then in times passed not only to the high displeasure of God but also to the greate iniurye wronge hurte domage disherison and vtter vndoing of diuers the Quenes Maiesties subiectes of this Realme and to the greate subuersion of Iustice and trueth which semeth to haue growen and happened chieflye by reason that the paynes and punishments limitted for suche greate and notable offences by the lawes and statutes of this Realme before this time haue ben and yet are so small mylde and easye that suche euil people haue not ben nor yet are afrayed to enterprise the practisynge and doinge of suche offences Be it therfore enacted by the Quenes moste excellent Maiestie with the assent of the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the aucthoritie of the same that if any person or persons whatsoeuer after the firste daye of Iune nowe nexte comming vpon his or their owne head and imagination or by false conspiracie and fraude with others shall wittingly subtillye and falsely forge or make or subtellye cause or wittinglie assent to be forged or made any false dede Charter or writinge sealed court roole or the will of any person or persons in writtinge to the intent that the state of freeholde or inheritaunce of any person or persons of in or to any landes tenementes or hereditamentes freeholde or Copie holde or the right tytle or interest of any person or persons of in or to the same or any of them shall or maye be molested troubled defeated recouered or charged or after the saide firste daye of Iune shall pronounce publishe or shewe forth in euidence any suche false and forged dede Charter wrytynge Court roole or will as true knowing the same to be false and forged as is aforesaide to the intent aboue remembred and shal be therof conuicted either vpon action or actions of forger of false dedes to be founded vpon this statute at the suite of the partie greued or otherwise accordinge to the order and due course of the lawes of this Realme or vpon bill or information to be exhibited into the Court of the Starre chamber according to the order and vse of that courte shall paye vnto the partie grieued his double costes and damages to be founde or assessed in that Court where suche conuiction shal be and also shal be set vpon the Pyllorye in some open market towne or other open place and there to haue both his eares cut of also his nosetrelles to be slyt and cut and seared with an hot yron so as they maye remaine for a perpetual note or marke of his falshead and shall forfait to the Quene our soueraigne Lady her heires and successours the whole issues and proffites of his landes tenementes duringe his life and also shall suffer and haue perpetuall imprisonment during his life The said damages and costes to be recouered at the suite of the partie greued as is aforesaid to be first payde and leuyed of the goodes and Cattels of the offendour and of the yssues and profites of the said landes tenemētes and hereditamentes of such partie conuicted or of one or both of them the saide title of our saide soueraigne Ladye the Quene her heyres or successours to the same notwithstandyng And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that if any person or persons after the saide first daye of Iune vpon his or their owne head or imagination or by false conspiration or fraude had with any other shall wittingly subtelly and falselye forge or make or wittinglye subtelly and falsely cause or assent to be made and forged any false Charter dede or writinge to the intent that any person or persons shall or may haue or clayme any estate or interest for tearme of yeres of in or to any manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes not being copie holde or any annuitie in fee simple fee taile for terme of lyfe lyues or yeres or after the said day shal as is aforesaid forge make or cause or assent to be made or forged any obligation or bill obligatorie or any acquittaunce release or other discharge of any debte accompte action suite demaunde or other thing personall or if any person or persons after the saide firste day of Iune shall pronounce publishe or geue in euidence any suche false or forged Charter dede writynge obligation bill obligatorie acquittaunce release or discharge as true knowynge the same to be false and forged and shal be thereof conuicted by any the wayes or means aforesaide that then he shall paye vnto the partie greued his double çostes and damages to be founde and assessed in suche courte where the saide conuiction shal be had and shal be also set vpon the Pyllorie in some open market towne or other open place and there to haue one of his cares cut of and also shall haue and suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole yere without bayle or mainprise And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that the partie and parties greued by reason of any the offences aforesaide shall and maye at his and their pleasure haue and sue his action of forger of false dedes vpon this statute against any the offendours in the same by originall writte out of the Quenes highnes Courte of Chauncerie and shall and maye haue lyke processe vppon the same as in cases of trespasse at the common lawe or maye at his pleasure take his suite against any suche offendours in any the premisses by byl before the Quenes highnes her heyres and successours in her Court commonlye called the kynges Benche or in the Court of the Exchequer in whiche suites no essoygne iniunction or protection shal be allowed for the partie defendaunt And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that yf the partie defendaunt shal be conuicted for any the offences aforesaid accordyng to the order and fourme aboue lymitted and shall haue receaued thereupon punishement corporall accordynge to this acte that then he shall not eftsones be empeached for the same offence And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that although the partie or parties plaintife in any suche action or byll to be sued as is aforesaid shal after verdyt passed against the defendaunt or defendauntes happen to releasse or discharge the iudgemēt or execution vpon the same or otherwise suffer the same to be discontinued that yet neuerthelesse the same releasse discharge or discontinuaunce shall extende onelye to discharge suche costes and damages as the same plaintifes shoulde haue had against the defendaunt
and that the Iudges before whome the saide action or suite shal be taken shall and may procede to Iudgement of and vpon the residue of the saide penalties and forfaitures and to commaunde execution vppon the same the sayde release discontinuaunce or other discharge had made done or suffered by the partie plaintife in any wise notwithstanding This Acte or any thing therein conteined to the contrary in any wyse notwithstandyng And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that if any person or persons beinge hereafter conuicted or condempned of any the offences aforesaide by any the wayes or meanes aboue limitted shal after any suche his or their conuiction or condempnation eftsones commit or perpetrate any of the saide offences in fourine aforesaide that then euery suche seconde offence or offences shal be adiudged felonye and the parties being therof conuicted or attainted accordinge to the lawes of this Realme shall suffer such paynes of death losse and forfaiture of their goodes cattles landes and tenementes as in cases of felony by the common lawes of this Realme ought to be lost or forfayted without hauinge any aduauntage or benefit of Clergie or Sanctuarye Sauynge to euery person and persons bodyes polytike and corporate their heyres and successours other then the said offendours and suche as clayme to their vses all such rightes titles interestes possessiōs liberties of distresses leasses rentes reuercions offices and other profites and aduauntages which they or any of them shall haue at the tyme of suche conuiction or attaindour of in or to any the landes tenemētes or hereditamētes of any suche persone so as is aforesaide conuicted or attainted or at any tyme before in as large and ample maner to all intentes and purposes as if this Acte had neuer ben had nor made Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that any suche conuiction or attaindour of fellony as is aforesaide or any forfaiture by reason of the same shall not in any wise extende to take awaye the dower of the wife of any suche person attainted nor to the corruption of bloude or disherison of any the heyre or heyres of any suche person or persons so attainted This Acte or any thinge therin conteyned or any other statute lawe vsage custome or thinge heretofore vsed to the contrary in any wise notwithstandyng Prouided also and be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that this Acte or any thinge therein conteyned shall not extende to charge any ordinary or any there Commissaries officials registers or any other their officers or ministers with any the offences aforesaide for puttinge their Seale of office to any will to be exhibited vnto them not knowinge the same to be false or forged or for writing of the sayde will or probate of the same This Acte or any thynge therin conteined to the contrary notwithstandyng And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaid that all and euery Iustices of Oyer and determiner and Iustices of Assise in their circuites and euery of them shall haue full power and aucthoritie in euery of their open and generall Sessions to enquire heare and determine of all and euery the offences aforesayde committed or done within the limittes of their Commission and to make processe for the execution of the same as they maye do against any person beinge indited before them of trespasse or lawfullye conuicted thereof And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesaide that all other statutes heretofore made prouyded for forger of false dedes Charters munimentes or writinges and all and euery penaltie appointed by the same shal from and after the said first daye of Iune be voyde and of none effecte in the lawe Any suche statute or thynge therin conteyned to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Prouided alwayes that this Acte or any thynge therein conteyned shall not extende or be hurtefull in any wyse to any Proctour Aduocat or Register of any Ecclesiastical courte within this Realme for the writyng setting forth or pleading of any proxie made accordynge to the Ecclesiasticall lawes or customes heretofore vsed and allowed by the Ecclesiasticalll courtes of this Realme for the appearaunce of any person or persons beinge cited to appeare in any of the sayde Courtes Ecclesiasticall nor to any Archdeacon or officiall for puttynge their Autentique seale to the sayde proxies or proxie neyther yet to any Iudge Ecclesiasticall for admittynge of the same But that they and euery of them maye hereafter do in all pointes concernynge the same as they and euery of them myght lawfully haue done before the makynge of this Acte Any thinge in this Acte to the contrary in any wyse nothwithstandyng Prouyded alwayes and be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that yf any persone or persons whatsoeuer that hath of his or theyr owne heade or by false conspiracie and fraude with any other wittingly subtelly and falselye forged or made or shall before the sayde firste daye of Iune forge and make any false dede charter or writinge sealed or the wille of any person in writinge or any Courterolle to the entent that the state of freholde or inheritaunce or the right tytle or interest of inheritaunce or freholde of any person or persons of in or to any manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes beyng freholde or copyholde or that by any such forged dede charter Courtroll or writynge before the sayde firste daye of Iune shall or may be molested troubled or defeated of any the saide estates of any landes tenementes or hereditamentes beinge freholde or copyholde or if any person or persons haue heretofore publyshed or shewed forth in euidence or before the sayde first daye shall publyshe or shewe in euidence for the proffe of any title any false and forged dede charter writynge wille or Courtrolle as true knowynge the same to be false and forged as is aforesaide to the intent aboue remembred and shal be thereof attainted or conuicted accordynge to the order of the lawes of this Realme eyther in an action of forget of false faits or in an action vppon the case at the sute of the patrie greued his heires executours or assignees that then the partie so conuicted shall paye and yelde damages and costes of sute to the plaintife as shal be assessed accordyng to the order of the lawes of this Realme in any suche lyke action or sute and shall suffer imprisonment and paye fyne and caunsome at the pleasure of the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours And if any person or persons shall after the sayd first daye of Iune pleade publishe or shewe forth in euidence or otherwise for the proffe of any tytle any false and forged dede charter writynge wille or courtrolle heretofore falselye made and forged or to be falsely made and forged before the sayde first daye of Iune as true knowynge the same to be false and forged to the intent to haue or clayme thereby any estate of inheritaunce freholde or leasse of yeres in or
within the said prouince of Cantorbury may haue vpon euery payment therof made to the Lorde hygh Treasourer or vnder Treasourer of Englande for the tyme beyng or to such person or persons place places to whom and where it shall please your hyghnes to appoynt for the receipte therof in or at the .xiii. day of Ianuary in euery of the sayde three yeres a sufficient acquittaunce in wrytyng of the sayd Lord hygh Treasourer or vnder Treasourer or suche persons as your hyghnes shall assigne for the receipt therof the same acquittaunce witnessing the receipt of as much of the same summe of the said Subsedy as shal be so receaued And euery such acquittaunce in wrytyng sealed and subscribed with the name or names of the sayde Lorde hygh Treasourer or vnder Treasourer for the tyme beyng or of such other person or persons as it shall please your hyghnes to appoynt for the same receipt as is aforesayde maye be good and affectuall in the lawe and also sufficient discharge to all intentes constructions and purposes And that euery person and persons which shall haue and receaue any such acquittaunce shall pay but only iii.s.iiii.d to the Clarke for the wrytyng of the same Prouided alwayes that euery Incumbent makyng suche default of payment after certificat of euery such default made and exhibited into your Maiesties court of Exchequer shall forfait and lose onlye that his benefice or promotion for which he maketh default and for the same shall incurre no other forfaiture losse domage payne or penaltie Any other payne clause article or condition in the sayde Statute of perpetuall Disme to the contrarye notwithstandyng Prouided alwayes that no Spiritual promotion or any landes possessions or reuenues annexed to the same beyng charged by this graunt or Acte of the prouince of Cantorbury or any goodes or cattelles growyng beyng or renewyng of the same or appertainyng to the owners of the sayde Spirituall promotion shal be charged or made contributory to any Fyftene or Tenth or anye other Subsedye alreadye graunted to your hyghnes by the laitie or hereafter to be graunted duryng the tearme of the sayde three yeres Item your sayde Prelates and Clergie further graunt that all Deanes Archdeacons Dignities Preachers and Prebendaries of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches within the sayde prouince shal be charged with this Subsedye for theyr owne promotions onely therof to paye .vi. shyllynges of the pounde within the sayde three yeres as is aboue rehearsed And that those porcions of rentes reuenues and spirituall promotions whiche haue ben geuen or impropried vnto the sayde Cathedrall or Collegiate Churches or any of them by your highnes or any your highnes noble progenitours or any other person or persons whatsoeuer he or they be or were for the yerely maintenaunce of poore men Schoolemaisters Vsshers Grammarians Peticannons Vicars Chorall and Readers of diuinitie Choristers and all other necessary and dayly officers and ministers of such Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches shall not be charged with any parte of this Subsedye Prouided also that euery Parson Vicar or other spirituall person paying any pention wherof none allowaunce is made in the valuation of his sayde promotion or benefice shall and may retayne ii.s of euery pounde of euery such pention euery yere duryng the sayde three yeres to his owne reliefe in consideration that he is charged to paye this Subsedy of .vi. shyllynges of the pounde out of euery pounde of the whole value of his promotion Prouided also that where certayne landes tenementes rentes tythes pencions portions fruites and other hereditamentes lately belongyng to diuers Cathedrall Churches and to other places Ecclesiasticall within the saide prouince of Cantorbury which were geuen and assigned to be bestowed and spent to and on the fyndyng and maintenaunce of certayne Chaunteries Anniuersaries Obites Lyghtes Lampes and other lyke charges intentes and purposes of late came into the handes and possession of the late kynge of famous memory kyng Edwarde the syxt by force of a Statute therof made in the fyrst yere of his gracious reigne as by the sayde Statute more plainely appeareth That the sayd Cathedrall Churches and the Deanes or Presidentes and Chapitours of the same and all other places and persons to whom the sayde landes rentes and all other the premisses or any of them dyd latelye appertayne shall not be charged to and with anye contribution or payment of this Subsedye of and for that parte or portion wherevnto the sayde late kyng was entytled or possessed of nor of and for any of the sayde yerely paymentes goyng out or payde out of the premisses or any part therof But that this saide Subsedye shal be vnderstanded to be chargeable and due onely of all and singuler landes tenementes rentes tythes pencions porcions fruites and other hereditamentes whiche do yet styll remayne not disseuered from the handes and possession of the sayde Cathedrall Churches and other the places and persons aforesaid And that deduction and allowaunce be made to them and euery of them in the payment of the sayde Subsedye out of the whole value taxation and estimation made for the payment of the sayde perpetuall Disme remaynyng of Recorde in your hyghnes court of Exchequer for that rate and portion or yerely payment which came to the handes and possession of the sayde late kyng Edwarde the syxte or otherwyse seuered from the possessions of the sayd Cathedrall Churches and other places and persons aforesayde by force of the Statute premised Prouided alwayes that this Subsedy graunted by the Clergie shall not be demaunded or leuyed out of any benefice house of studentes or Colledge scituate or set within the vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxforde or of any benefice or other reuenues vnto the sayde vniuersities or eyther of them or to any house of studentes or Colledge in the same vnited appropried or appertaynyng or of the Colledges of Wyndsor or Eaten nyghe Wyndsor or of the Colledge called Saint Mary Colledge by Winchester founded by Willyam Wickham sometyme Byshop of Winchester or of any Hospitals or Grāmer Scooles or of any other Church or benefice or of any other reuenues to the said vniuersities houses Colleges Hospitals Almes houses Almes halles or Grammer Scooles or to any of them annexed appropriated or otherwyse appertaynyng Prouided alwayes that all Parsons and Vicars whose benefices be of the valuation of fiue poundes or vnder after the rate of the perpetual Tenth shall not be charged or chargeable with this Subsedy or any part therof Prouided also that euery Priest all other late Ecclesiasticall persons hauyng a pention by reason of the dissolution of the late Monasteries Colledges free Chappels Chauntries Fraternities Guyldes and Hospitals or any other Incorporations within the prouince of Cantorbury or any of them and being of the sūme of xl.s. or vnder and not aboue shall not be charged or chargeable to this said Subsedy or any part therof for any such pention of xl.s or vnder Any thing conteyned in this graunt to the
contrarye notwithstandyng And for the true sure payment of this Subsedy graūted by your said prelates Clergie of the prouince of Cantorbury according to the tenour purport effect true meanyng of this present graunt your said Prelates and Clergie most humbly desire your highnes that this theyr said gift graunt Subsedy euery matter sūme of money clause prouisions sentences in this instrumēt conteyned cōcerning the said Subsedy may be ratified established confirmed by aucthoritie of this your hyghnes court of Parliament Wherefore for the true and sure payment of the sayde Subsedye graunted by the sayde Prelates and Clergie of the sayde prouince of Cantorbury according to the tenour effect and true meanyng of the sayde instrument Be it enacted by the Quenes Maiestie with thassent of the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the aucthoritie of the same that the sayde gyfte and graunt and euery matter summe of money prouision clause and sentence in the sayde instrument conteyned may be ratified establyshed and confirmed by the aucthoritie aforesayde And furthermore be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that euery person that shal be appoynted to the collection gatheryng of the sayde Subsedye shall haue full power and aucthoritie to leuie take and perceiue the same Subsedye by thaucthoritie of the censures of the Churche in maner and fourme as in the sayde instrument of graunt is conteyned without daunger of the lawes of this Realme or by distresse vpon the possession of the fermours or occupyers of the landes and tenementes chargeable by the said instrument for or to the payment of any summe or summes of money or otherwyse by the discretion of the Collectour therof And that no Repleuie Prohibition or Supersedeas shal be alowed or obeyed for any person or persons makyng default of payment of the sayde Subsedye contrary to the tenour of the graunt therof vntyll such time as they haue truely satisfied and contented all such part and portions as to them in that behalfe appertayneth And that euery such fermour and fermours theyr executours and assignes that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to and with the payment of the sayde Subsedye or any parte thereof shall by thaucthoritie aforesayd be alowed and retayne in his handes as much of his yerely rent and ferme as the summe whiche he shall fortune to paye for his Lorde or Leassour shall extende vnto Excepte the sayde fermour or fermours theyr executours and assignes by the lease and graunt that they haue of any parte of the landes tythes profites and tenementes chargeable to this sayde Subsedye or by force of any couenaunte or article therein conteyned be bounden and charged to pay the same thereof to discharge theyr Leassour and Landelorde duryng the tearme mentioned in the sayd Leasse Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that euery laye person hauyng a spirituall promotion chargeable by this Acte and also hauyng temporall possessions goodes cattelles and debtes chargeable to the Subsedye graunted in this Parliament by the Temporaltie shal be charged taxed and sette for his sayde spirituall promocions with the Clergie and for his temporall possessions and cattelles with the Temporaltie and not otherwyse Any thyng before mentioned to the contrary notwithstandyng And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that all and euery graunt and grauntes of all and euery summe and sūmes of money which hereafter shal be graunted to the Quenes Maiestie by the Clergie of the prouince of Yorke shal be of the same strength force and effect in all thynges as the sayde graunt made by the sayde prouince of Cantorbury shal be taxed certified collected leuyed gathered and payde accordyng to the tenour fourme and effecte of this present Acte of Parliament to all intentes constructions and purposes in such maner and fourme as though it were specially playnely and particulerly expressed and rehearsed in this Acte by expresse wordes tearmes and sentences in theyr seuerall natures and kyndes Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that all prouisos before rehearsed conteyned in the sayde graunt of the Prelates and Clergie of the prouince of Cantorburye and the lyke of the same prouisions hereafter to be conteyned in the graunt of the Prelates Clergie of the prouince of Yorke shal be good and effectuall and to be obserued and kepte in euery poynt and article accordyng to the true purport and meanyng of the same ¶ An Acte of the Quenes Maiesties most gracious generall and free Pardon ¶ The .xxxi. Chapter THE Quenes moste excellent Maiestie perceauyng y e good wylles and faythfull hartes of her louyng and obedient Subiectes at al times towardes her hyghnes for the good gouernaunce and defence of this her Realme and doubting that the same her obedient subiectes haue manye and sundrye wayes fallen into the daunger of diuers penalties and forfaitures by the lawes and Statutes of this Realme Hath thaught mete to extende her clemencie and pitie towardes her sayde louyng and obedient subiectes with her liberall and free pardon accordyng to her Princely and Kyngly power and thereby to discharge some parte of such great paynes penalties and forfaitures wherewith her sayde subiectes stande nowe burdened and charged trustyng assuredly that they wyll continue in theyr due obedience and faithfulnesse towardes her Maiestie and hereafter in such fort obey the good lawes Statutes of this Realme and specially such as in this session of Parliament are deuised as to them euery of them of ryght and duetie appertayneth And therefore her Maiestie is well pleased and contented that it be enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament in maner and fourme folowyng That is to saye that all and euery of her sayde Subiectes aswell Spirituall as Temporall of this her hyghnes Realme of Englande Wales the Isles of Iernesey and Gernesey the Townes of Barwicke Newehauen in Normandy theyr heyres successours executours and administratours of them and euery of them And all and singuler bodyes in any maner of wyse corporated Cities Boroughes Shires Rydynges Hundredes Lathes Rapes Mapentakes Townes Vyllages Hamlettes and Tythynges and euery of them and the successour and successours of euery of them shal be by aucthoritie of this present Parliament acquited pardoned released and discharged agaynst the Quenes Maiestie her heires successours and executours and euery of them of al maner of Treasons Felonyes Robberyes offences contemptes alienations trespaces Intrucions Entrees wronges deceiptes misdemeanours forfaitures penalties and profites summes of money paynes of death paynes corporall and pecuniary and generally of all other thynges causes quarrels suites iudgementes and executions in this present Acte hereafter not excepted nor forprysed whiche maye be or can be by her hyghnes in any wyse or by any meane pardoned before and vnto the first day of Ianuary in this present fyfth yere of her moste gracious raigne to euery or any of her sayde
subiectes bodyes corporate Cities Boroughes Shires Rydynges Hundredes Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Vyllages and Tythynges or any of them And also the Quenes hyghnes is contented that it be enacted by aucthoritie of this present Parliament that her said free pardon shal be as good effectuall in the lawe to euery of her said subiectes bodies corporate and other before rehearsed in against all thynges which be not hereafter in this present Acte excepted and forprysed as the same pardon shoulde haue ben yf all offences contemptes forfaitures causes matters suites quereles iudgementes executions penalties and all other thynges not hereafter in this Act excepted and forprysed had ben perticulerly singulerly specially and plainely named rehearsed and specified and also pardoned by proper and expresse wordes and names in their kyndes natures and qualities by wordes and termes thervnto requisite to haue ben put in and expressed in this present Acte of free pardon And that her sayde Subiectes nor any of them nor the heyres executours or administratours of any of them nor of the sayde bodyes corporate and others before named nor any of them be nor shal be sued vexed or inquieted in theyr bodyes goodes landes or cattelles for any maner of matter cause contempte misdemeanour forfaiture trespas offence or anye other thyng suffred done or committed before the sayde fyrste daye of Ianuarye agaynste her hyghnes her Crowne dignitie prerogatiue lawe or statutes But onely for suche matters causes and offences as be playnely rehearsed in the exceptions in this present Act hereafter mentioned and for none other Any Statute or Statutes lawes customes vsages or president heretofore hadde made or vsed to the contrary in any wyse notwithstandyng Also the Quenes hyghnes of her bounteous liberalitie by aucthoritie of this present Parliament graunteth and freely geueth to euery of her said Subiectes and to euery of the sayde bodyes corporate and other before rehearsed and euery of them all goodes cattelles debtes fines issues profites amerciamentes forfaitures and summes of money by anye of them forfaited whiche to her hyghnes do or shoulde belonge or appertayne by reason of any offence contempt trespas entree misdemeanour matter cause or quarrell suffred done or committed by them or any of them before the sayde fyrste day of Ianuary which be not hereafter playnely forprysed and excepted in this present Act. And that all and euery the Quenes said Subiectes and all and singuler bodyes corporate and other before rehearsed may by hym or them selfe or by his or theyr deputie or deputies or by his or theyr attourney or attourneys according to the lawes of this Realme pleade and minister this present Acte of free pardon for his or theyr discharge of and for euery thyng that is by vertue of this present Acte pardoned discharged geuen or graunted without any fee or other thyng in any wyse paying to any person or persons for writing or entree of the iudgement or other cause concernyng suche plee wrytyng or entree but onely .xvi. pence to be payde to the officer or Clarke that shall entre the plee matter or iudgement for the parties discharge in that behalfe Any Statute vsage or custome to the contrary notwithstandyng AND furthermore the Quenes hyghnesse is contented and pleased that it be enacted by thaucthoritie of this present Parliament that her sayde free pardon by the generall wordes before rehearsed shal be reputed demed adiudged allowed and taken in all maner of Courtes of her hyghnes els where aswell in the wordes and clauses of the exceptions and forprises specified in this present Acte as in all and singuler other clauses wordes and sentences mentioned and rehearsed in the sayde free pardon most beneficially and auayleably to all and singuler her sayde subiectes bodyes corporate and others before rehearsed and to euery of them and moste strongly in barre and discharge agaynst her hyghnes her heyres successours and executours in euery thyng without any ambiguitie question or other delaye whatsoeuer it shal be to be made pleaded obiected or alleaged by the Quene our soueraigne Ladye her heyres successours or executours or by her or any of theyr generall attourney or attourneys or by any person or persons for her hyghnes or any of her heyres successours or executours And further it is enacted by the Quene our soueraigne Lady by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that if any officer or Clarke of any of her hyghnes Courtes cōmonly called the kynges Bench Chaūcery cōmon place or of her Exchequer or any other officer or Clarke of any other of her Courtes within this Realme at any tyme after the .xxvi. day of this present moneth of Apryll make out or write out any maner of writtes or other proces or any extreates sommons or other preceptes whereby any of the sayde Subiectes or any of the sayde bodyes corporate or other before rehearsed or any of them shal be in any wyse arrested attached distreigned sommoned or otherwyse vexed inquieted or grieued in his or theyr bodyes landes tenementes goodes or cattelles or in any of them for or because of any maner thyng pardoned or discharged by vertue of this Acte of free pardon or yf any Sheriffe or Excheatour or any of theyr deputie or deputies or any Bayliffe or other officer by colour of his or theyr office or otherwayes after the sayde .xxvi. day of Apryll do leuye receaue or take any thyng pardoned or discharged by this Acte That then euery such person so offendyng and therof lawfully condempned shall yelde and pay for recompence thereof to the partie so grieued or offended treble damages besydes all costes of the suite and neuerthelesse all and singuler suche writtes proces extreates and preceptes so to be made for or vpon any maner thing pardoned or discharged by this present Acte of free pardon shal be vtterly voyde of none effect Except and alwayes forprised out of this generall and free Pardon all and all maner of hygh Treasons committed or done by any person or persons by any ouert dede or acte agaynste the Quenes moste royall person and all conspiracies and confederacies trayterously had committed or done by any person or persons agaynst the Quenes person And also excepted all and all maner of Treasons committed or done by any person or persons in the parties beyonde the Sea or in any other place out of the Quenes dominions And all suites punyshementes executions paynes of death forfaitures penalties for or by reason or occasion of any of the treasons and offences before excepted And also except and forprised out of this free pardon all and all maner of forgyng and counterfaityng of whatsoeuer money or coyne curraunt in this Realme and all and all maner of offences impeticions punyshementes forfaitures paynes of death iudgementes and executions for the same And also excepted and forprysed out of this generall and free pardon all and euery pyracy and robbery done vppon the Sea and all maner of voluntary murders and wylfull poysonynges and all and
euery burgularye in any dwellyng house and all and euery robbery done vpon any person or persons in any dwellyng house or houses in the day tyme and all robberies done vpon or to any mans or womans person in the hygh way or els where and all and singuler accessaryes of or to any of the sayde offences And also all rapes and carnall rauyshementes of women All wylfull escapes aswell of Traytours and Felons as also of Clarkes attaynted And also excepted out of this generall and free pardon all persons attaynted or outlawed for any treason murther robbery or burgulary And also excepted al and euery maner of takyng from the Quene of any goodes issues rentes reuenues or profytes of any manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes of any Traytour Murderer Felon Clarke or Clarkes being persōs attainted outlawed or fugitiues or of any of them And also excepted out of this pardon all maner of Intrucions had made or done by any person or persons in or vpon any manours landes tenementes or other hereditamentes of our soueraigne Lady the Quene and the takyng of any the issues and profites of the same landes or tenementes of our sayde soueraigne Lady and also all suites and impeticions for the same And excepted also all wastes committed or done in any of the Quenes Wardes landes or in the Wardes landes of anye of the Quenes Committees And also all euery fine and fines for the single and double value of the mariage or mariages of all euery the Quenes wardes at any tyme growen to the Quenes Maiestie or any her noble progenitours And also all euery consealement of any Custome or Subsedy And all and singuler accomptes of al and euery Collectour and Collectours of any Subsedye Fyftene Beneuolence Myse or Contribution And of euery other person whatsoeuer that ought to be accomptaunt to the Quenes hyghnes or to her most noble father Kyng Henry the eyght or to King Edwarde the syxt or Quene Mary or to any of them the heires executours and administratours of euery such accomptaunt And all and singuler arrerages of accomptes and all impeticions suites demaundes and executions for the same And also except all inclosures and decayes of houses of husbandrye and the conuertyng of any lande from tyllage to pasture made done committed or permitted contrary to the fourme and effecte of anye Statute or Statutes heretofore made And excepted and forprised out of this free pardon all issues fines and amerciamentes affered taxed set extreated or entred seuerally or perticulerly touching concernyng any one person or mo persons ioyntly extendyng to the summe of .vi. poundes or aboue And yet neuerthelesse all and singuler other fines aswell fines pro licencia concordandi as other set taxed entred or extreated and all other issues and amerciamentes aswell reall as other which seuerally or perticulerly extende not to the summe of .vi. poundes whether they be totted or not totted taken to the charge of the Sheryffe or not taken to his charge extreated or not extreated or whether they be turned into debte or not turned into debte and not beyng leuied nor receaued by any Sheriffe or Sheriffes Bayliffes ministers or other officers to the Quenes Maiesties vse shal be fully clearely and playnly pardoned and discharged agaynst the Quene our soueraigne Lady her heyres and successours for euer by this present Acte of free pardon And also excepted and forprised out of this free pardon all and all maner of deceiptes and offences of all and singuler monyers and other officers mynters or workemen of or in any of the Quenes myntes within this Realme or any other her dominions and all impeticions and punyshements for the same And also excepted and forprysed out of this general and free pardon all rauyshmentes and wrongfull takyng and withholdyng of any the Quenes Wardes or Wardes landes at any tyme commen or growen to the Quenes handes and not yet discharged And also excepted all tytles and actions of Quare impedit and all homages reliefe and reliefes Rentes seruices Rentes charges Rentes seckes the arrerages of the same not done or payde to the Quenes hyghnes And also excepted all summes of money graunted to the Quenes Maiestie or to any her noble progenitours by waye or meane of Subsedye Fyftene Beneuolence or Contribution or by any of the same wayes or meanes And also all debtes which were or be due to our soueraigne Ladye the Quene or to the moste noble Kyng of famous memory Kyng Henry the seuenth or to Kyng Henry the eyght Kyng Edwarde the sixt or to the late Quene Mary or to any person or persons to any of theyr vses by any condempnation recognisaunce obligation or otherwyse other then such as are due vpon any obligation or recognisaunce forfaited before the sayde fyrst day of Ianuary for non appearaunce in any court or other place or for not kepyng of the peace or not beyng of good behauyour And also excepted forprised out of this pardon al singuler those forfaitures being due or accrewed to our soueraigne Lady the Quene by any penaltie of any Statute or Statutes whiche forfaitures be conuerted into the nature of debt by iudgement or by the agrement of the offendour or offendours or els wherof there is any verdict past for the Quene And also excepted all forfaitures and other penalties and profites growen or due to the Quene by reason of any offence contempt or other Acte hadde suffred committed or done contrary to any Statute or Statutes or contrary to the common law wherof any information is geuen in the Quenes Exchequer or into the Kynges Bench or wherof the Quenes hyghnes by her byll signed or otherwyse heretofore hath made any gyft or assignement to any person or persons And also excepted and forprised out of this generall and free pardon all such persons as the tenth day of this present moneth of April be in prison within the Towre of London or in the pryson of the Marshalsea or in the Fleete and all persons put to execution before the sayde tenth daye of Apryll And also excepted out of this free pardon all offences of forgyng or counterfaityng of any false dedes escriptes or wrytinges And also excepted all penalties forfaitures and tytles of condition accrewed or growen to the Quenes Maiestie by reason of the breache or not perfourmyng of any couenaunt or condition And also excepted out of this generall and free pardon al and euery such person and persons whiche haue heretofore fledde out of this Realme of Englande or any other the Quenes dominions for any offēce of hygh Treason petie Treason or misprision of Treason And also excepted out of this pardon all and euery offence and offences touchyng or concernyng the carrying sendyng or conueying ouer the Seas or out of this Realme of any golde syluer iewels or any coyne of golde or syluer contrarye to the lawes or Statutes of this Realme vnlesse it were or be by the Quenes licence And also excepte all such
persons as be fledde and gone out of this Realme contrary to the lawes and Statutes of this Realme without the Quenes Maiesties licence And also all such persons as haue obteyned and had licence to departe the Realme for a tyme and nowe do abyde out of the Realme without any lawfull excuse after the tyme of theyr licence expired Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that all and euery person and persons which haue tendered and ought to sue lyuery out of our sayde soueraigne Lady the Quenes handes of or for any manours landes tenementes or hereditamentes whatsoeuer they be shall sue his or theyr lyuery and lyueryes out of our sayde soueraigne Ladye the Quenes handes of his or theyr manours landes tenementes and hereditamentes in lyke maner and fourme as they and euery of them should and ought to haue done yf this Acte hadde neuer ben had ne made Any article thyng or thinges in this present Acte of generall and free pardon comprised and specified to the contrary notwithstandyng And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that in case it be obiected to or against any Sheriffe or Sheriffes or other accomptantes in the Quenes court of Exchequer or in any other her courtes that any Sheriffe or Sheriffes or other officers accomptantes haue receaued or taken any such fines issues or amerciamentes as by this present Acte be pardoned and acquited that then euery such Sheriffe Sheriffes and other accomptantes shal be discharged and acquited therof by his or theyr owne corporall othe to be ministred and taken openly before the Barons in the sayde court of Exchequer or before the Iustices in any other court without any further tryall in that behalfe Prouided alwaye that this present Act of free pardon nor any thyng therin conteyned in any wyse extende to discharge remitte or acquite any person or persons for any such issues fines or amerciamentes as any Sheriffe heretofore haue accompted for before the Barons of the Quenes Exchequer or els where and payde the same issues fines and amerciamentes vpon his or theyr sayde accompt determined to the Quenes vse and hath his or theyr Quietus est for the same Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that it shal be lawefull to all and euery Clarke and other officer of any the Quenes Courtes to awarde and make writtes of Capias vtlegatum at the suite of the partie plaintyffe agaynst such persons outlawed as be pardoned by this Acte to thintent to compell the defendaunt and defendauntes to make aunswere to the playntyffe or playntyffes at whose suite he or they were outlawed And that euery person so outlawed shal sue a writte of Scire facias against the partie or parties at whose suite he or they were so outlawed before this pardon in that behalfe shal be alowed to hym that so is outlawed GOD saue the Quene ¶ Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyarde by Richard Iugge and Iohn Cawood Printers to the Quenes Maiestie Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ¶ An Acte of a Subsedye with two Fyftenes and Tenthes graunted by the Temporaltie THE certeyne knowledge and perfite sence that we your Maiesties moste humble subiectes haue and fele of the great felicitie which synce your reigne we hitherto haue enioyed and nowe presently do enioy farre beyonde all other nations our neyghbours yea muche augmented to our happynesse hauyng regarde to the former troublesome times amongst our selues doth vehemently presse and enforce vs first and principally with all our hartes and soules to acknowledge our most bounden dueties to Almightie God the king of kinges for his exceadyng singuler and diuine goodnes shewed to vs his creatures in preseruyng for our safetie after so many stormes your royall princely person our moste gracious Quene and in guydyng directing the same for our happynesse in so vnhappy an age thus happyly quietly and prouidently to gouerne vs his people committed to your charge And nexte for the same great benefites bestowed vpon vs by his mercyfull goodnesse by and through your Maiesties person Regiment to offer our selues most ready with all obeysaunce and loyaltie to serue and most humblye obey your Maiestie as Gods immediate minister in earth and supreme gouernour ouer vs to the vttermost of our power and ende of our lyues And furthermore consyderyng with our selues and beholdyng manyfestlye with our eyes the many notable beneficiall and princely actes done by your Maiestie with thassent of Gods fauour in these fewe yeres for the weale and suretie of this your Realme ¶ First in restoring vs to the fauour knowledge true seruice of almightie God by restauration into this Churche of Englande a sincere vniforme rule and order in Christian religion by delyuery of vs and our consciences from a foreyne vnnaturall tiranny and power notwithstandyng the many great threatnynges of worldly power to the contrary ¶ Next by reducyng this your Realme and all other your dominions from warre wherin you founde it to peace with your neighbours which two godly actes your Maiestie did accomplishe immediatly at your first entrie to this your crowne ¶ Thirdlye by the euident deliuery of this Realme frō the great manifest intended inuasions conspired prepared by strangers the auncient enemies of this Realme ioynyng therwith the princely and vpright preseruation of the libertie of the next Realme and nation of Scotlande from imminent captiuitie and desolation and so without any bluddy battayle most prouidētly though chargeably diuerting the force of the enemie intended against this Realme to their reproffe ¶ Fourthly by repayryng storyng enrychyng buyldyng reenforsyng this your Realme with the worthyest treasures of Armure Munition and all kynd of prouisions offensiue and defensiue for warre and of a princely nauie of Shippes for the seruice and defence of this your countrey and vs your people ¶ And next thereto as it were in a time almost desperate or doubtfull for the weight of the matter by conuertyng of the lothsome an vyle great and long growen bulke of copper and counterfaite moneys eatyng and dayly consumyng the honor and wealth of this Realme lyke a Canker into treasures only of golde and syluer moneys without hauing any peece of copper moneys currant in this Realme a singuler preheminence aboue all countreys in Chirstendome ¶ And lastly by a most prouident seasonable enterpryse nowe taken in hande this yere beyng therto necessaryly prouoked besides the foresight for safetie of your own Realme for the defence also of your Maiesties tender yong Brother and next neighbour the French Kyng beyng forcyblye gouerned agaynste his lawes and libertie by reason of the ambition of certeyn his vncontented subiectes being not disposed to liue as subiectes in quietnes as the experience of them towardes this Realme hath also proued And consequently in this enterprise your Maiestie not forgettyng the iust and seasonable recouery of an auncient porcion of this your crowne lately and vnfortunately spoyled and broken
parsones before the sayde CoÌ„missioners or such number of them as they shall deuide themselues accordyng to the tenor of the saide CoÌ„mission at certeyne dayes and places by the sayd CoÌ„missioners or any number of them as is aforesayde within Cities Boroughes or Townes corporate or without in any other place as is aforesayd by their discressions shal be limitted therevnto to do and accomplyshe all that to them on the parties of the Quenes Maiestie shal be enioyned touching this Acte Commaundyng further by the same precept that he to whose handes such precept shall come shall shewe or delyuer the same to the other inhabitauntes or officers named in the same precept that none of them fayle to accomplyshe the same vpoÌ„ payne of xl.s to be forfaited to the Quenes Maiestie And it is further ordeyned by the aucthoritie of this present Parliament that at the sayde day and place prefixed and limitted in the sayde precept euery of the Commissioners then beyng in the Shire hauyng no sufficient excuse for his absence at the day and place prefixed for that parte wherevnto he was limitted shall appeare in his proper parson and there the same Commissioners beyng present or as many as shal be appoynted by the Quenes Maiesties CoÌ„mission shall call or cause to be called before them the sayde inhabitauntes and officers to whom they haue directed their sayd preceptes which had in coÌ„maundement there to appeare by the sayde precept of the sayde CoÌ„missioners And yf any parson so warned make default vnlesse he then be letted by sickenesse or lawfull excuse and that let then be witnessed by the othes of two credible persons or yf any appearing refuse to serue in fourme folowing to forfeit to the Quenes Maiestie xl.s and so at euery tyme appoynted by the sayd Commissioners for the same taxation vnto such tyme the number of euery such parsons haue appeared and certified in fourme vnder wrytten and euery of them so makyng default or refusyng so to serue to forfeit to the Quenes Maiestie xl.s And vpon the same appearaunce had they shal be charged before the Commâ—â—sioners by all conuenient wayes meanes other then by corporall othe to inquire of the best and most value of the Substaunce of euery parson dwellyng and abydyng within the limittes of the places that they shal be charged with and of other which shall haue his or theyr most resort vnto any of the sayde places and chargeable with any summe of money by this Acte of this sayde Subsedye and of all other thynges requisite touchyng the sayde Acte and according to the intent of the same thervpon as nere as it may be or shall come to theyr knowledge truely to present and certifie before the said Commissioners the names and surnames and the best and vttermost substaunce and values of euery of them aswell of landes tenementes and other hereditamentes possessions profytes as of goodes cattelles debtes other thinges chargeable by the sayde Acte without any conceylement loue fauour affection dread feare or malyce vpon the payne often poundes or vnder to be taxed estreated and leuyed in fourme as hereafter in this present Acte shal be limitted or appoynted And thervpon the sayd CoÌ„missioners shall openly there reade or cause to be read vnto them the sayde rates and openly declare theffect of theyr charge vnto them in what maner fourme they ought and shoulde make theyr certificat accordyng to the rates suÌ„mes therof abouesayde and of all maner of parsons aswell of Aliens and straungers denizens or not denizens inhabytyng within this Realme as of such parsons as be borne vnder the Quenes obeysaunce chargeable to this Act and of the possessions goodes and cattelles of Fraternities Guyldes Corporations Brotherheades Misteries and Cominalties and other as is abouesayde and of parsons beyng in the parties of beyonde the seas hauyng goodes or cattels landes or tenementes within this Realme as is aforesayde and of all goodes beyng in the custody of any parson or parsons to the vse of any other as is abouesayde By the which information and she wyng the sayde parsons should haue suche playne knowledge of the true intent of this present Acte and of the maner of theyr certificate that the same parsons shall haue no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignoraunce And after suche charge and the statute of the sayde Subsedye and the maner of the sayde certificate to be made in wryting conteyning the names and surnames of euery parson and whether he be borne without the Quenes obeysaunce or within and the best value of euery parson in euery degree aswell of yerely value of landes and tenementes and of such lyke possessions and profites as the value of goodes and cattelles debtes and euerye thyng to their certificate requisite and necessarye to them declared the sayde Commissioners there beyng shall by theyr discressions appoynt and limitte vnto the sayde parsons an other daye and place to appeare before the sayde Commissioners and chargyng the sayde parsons that they in the meane tyme shall make diligent inquirye by all wayes and meanes of the premisses and then and there euery of them vppon payne of forfeyture of fortye shyllynges to the Quenes Maiestie to appeare at the sayde newe prefyxed daye and place there to certifie vnto the sayde Commissioners in wrytyng accordyng to theyr sayde charge and accordyng to the true intent of the sayde graunte of Subsedye and as to them in maner aforesayde hath ben declared and shewed by the Commissioners At whiche daye and place so to them prefyxed yf any of the sayde parsons make default or appeare and refuse to make the sayde certificat that then euery of them so offendyng to forfeyte to the Quenes Maiestie fortye shyllynges excepte there be a reasonable excuse of his default by reason of sickenesse or otherwyse by the othes of two credible parsons there witnessed And of suche as appeare ready to make certificate as is aforesayde the sayde Commyssyoners there beyng shall take and receaue the same certificate and euery part thereof and the names values and substaunce of euerye parson so certified and yf the same Commyssyoners see cause reasonable they shall examine the sayde presenters thereof and thervpon the sayde Commissioners at the sayde dayes and place by theyr agrementes among them selues shall from tyme to tyme openly there prefyxe a daye at a certayne place or places within the limittes of theyr Commyssyon by theyr discression for theyr further proceadyng to the sayde assessyng of the same Subsedye and therevpon at the sayde daye of the sayde certificat as is aforesayde taken the same Commyssyoners shall make theyr precepte or preceptes to the Constables Subconstables Baylyffes or theyr officers of suche Hundredes Wapentakes Townes or other places aforesayde as the same Commyssyoners shal be of comprysyng and conteynyng in the same precept the names and surnames of all parsons presented before them in the sayde certificate of whom if the sayde Commyssyoners or as manye of them
that yf any parson chargeable to this Acte at the tyme of the same assessyng happen to be out of this Realme and out of Wales or farre from the place where he shal be knowen then he to be sette where he was laste abydynge in this Realme or within Wales and after the substaunce value and other profytes of euery parsone to be knowen by the examination certificate or other maner of wyse as is aforesayde And that the sayde Commyssyoners or as manye of them as shal be appoynted by the Quenes Maiesties Commyssyon or Commyssyons shall after the rate and rates aforesayde cause euery parsone to be sette rated and taxed accordyng to the rate of the substaunce and value of his Landes goodes Cattelles and other profytes chargeable by this Acte whereby the greateste and moste beste summe or summes accordynge to his moste substaunce by reason of this Acte myght or maye be sette or taxed And that euerye parsone taxed in anye Countie or place other then where he is moste resyaunte or hath his famylye or in anye Countie or place other then where he is a Commyssyoner for this Subsedye yf he be a Commyssyoner vppon certificate made to the sayde Courte of Exchequer vnder the handes and seales of three Commyssyoners for the Subsedye in the same Countie or place where suche parson is moste resyaunte or hath his famylye or where he is a Commyssyoner for the taxation and paymente of this Subsedye testyfying suche his moste resyauncie hauynge of famylye or beynge a Commyssyoner shal be a sufficient discharge for the taxation of that parson in all other places and of and for all other summes of money vppon suche parson so sette and taxed saue onely the taxation made in that Countie or place from whiche suche certificate shal be made as aforesayde and for the summe of money vppon suche parson there assessed or taxed And that such certificate without anye plee or other circumstaunce shal be a sufficient warraunte aswell to the Barons and Auditours of the sayde courte of Exchequer as to all and euery other offycers to whom the alowaunce thereof shall appertayne paying for suche discharge and alowaunce onely two shyllynges and no more Prouyded alwayes that euery suche parson which shal be rated sette or taxed accordynge to the intente and true meanyng of this Acte for payment of and to this Subsedye for and after the yerely value of his landes tenementes and other Reall possessions or profites at any of the sayde taxations shall not after be set and taxed for his goodes and cattelles or other his moueable substaunce at the same taxations and that he that shal be sette charged or taxed for the same Subsedy for his goodes cattelles and other moueables at any of the sayde taxations accordyng to the true meanyng of this Acte shall not after be charged taxed or chargeable for his landes or other reall possessions and profytes abouesayde at the same taxations nor any of them nor that anye parson by any taxation be double charged for the sayde Subsedye nor sette or taxed at seuerall places by reason of this Acte But yf any parson happen to be double sette taxed or charged eyther in one place or at seuerall places then he to be discharged of th one taxation charged with the other accordyng to the meanyng and intent of this Acte Any thyng conteyned in this present Acte to the contrarye notwithstandyng And that it be ordeyned by the sayde aucthoritie of this present Parliament that no parson hauyng two mansions or two places to resorte vnto or callyng hym selfe householde seruaunt or waytyng seruaunt to the Quenes Maiestie or other Lorde or Lady Master or Mysteres be excused vpon his saying from the taxes of the sayde Subsedye in neyther of the places where he maye be sette vnlesse he bryng a certificat in wrytyng from the Commissioners where that he is so sette in dede at one place And yf any parson that ought to be sette by reason of his remouyng or resortyng to two places or by reason of his saying that he els where was taxed or by reason of any priuiledge by his dwellyng or abydyng in anye place not beyng foreprysed in this Acte or otherwyse by his couyn or crafte happen to escape from the sayde taxation and be not sette and taxed and that proued by presentment examination or information before the sayde Commissioners or as manye of them as shal be by the same Commyssyon appoynted or before the Barons of the Quenes Maiesties Exchequer or two Iustyces of the peax of the Countie where suche parson dwelleth then euery suche parson that by suche meanes or otherwyse wyllynglye by couyn shall happen to escape from the sayde taxation or payment aforesayde and not be rated taxed and sette shal be charged vppon the knowledge and profe therof with and at the double value of so muche as he shoulde myght or ought to haue ben sette and taxed at by vertue of this Acte And the same double value to be leuyed gathered and payde of his goodes and cattelles landes and temementes towardes the sayde Subsedye and further to be punyshed according to the discressions of the Barons Iustices and Commissioners before whom he shal be conuicted for his offence and deceite in that behalfe And further be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that the sayde Commyssyoners in euery Commyssyon shall accordyng to theyr diuisions and after they be deuyded haue full power and aucthoritie by this Acte to sette taxe and sesse euery other Commissioner ioyned with them in euery suche Commission and diuision and shall also assesse euery assessour within theyr diuision for his and theyr goodes landes and other the premisses as is abouesayde by the which sayd Commission the sayde Commissioners shall indifferently set taxe and assesse them selues and the saide assessours And that aswel the summes vpon euery of the sayde Commissioners and assessours so sessed rated and taxed as the summes made and presented by the presenters sworne as is abouesayde shal be written certified set and estreated and the estreates thereof to be made with other the inhabitantes of that parties within the limittes of the same Commission and diuision so to be gathered and leuied in lyke maner as it ought or shoulde haue ben yf the sayde Commissioners hadde not ben in the sayde Commission And that all parsons of the estate of a Baron or Barons and euery estate aboue shal be charged with theyr free holde and value as is abouesayde by the Chauncelour or keper of the greate Seale President of the Counsell the hyghe Treasourer of Englande for the tyme beyng and other suche parsons as by the Quenes Maiesties aucthoritie shal be named and appoynted and they to be charged for the sayde seuerall paymentes of the sayde Subsedye after the fourme of the sayde graunt accordynge to the taxation aforesayde And the summes vppon them sette with the names of the Collectours appoynted for the gatherynge and payinge of the same to be estreated delyuered
that all and euery parson and parsons hauyng manours landes tenementes and other hereditamentes chargeable to the payment of the Subsedye graunted to the Quenes Maiestie by this Acte and also hauyng spiritual possessions chargeable to her sayd Maiestie by the graūt made by the Clergye of this Realme in their Conuocation and ouer this hauyng subtaunce in goodes and cattelles chargeable by this saide Acte that then yf any of the sayde parson or parsons be hereafter charged assessed and taxed for the sayde manours landes and tenementes and spirituall possessions and also assessed charged and taxed for his or theyr goodes and cattelles that then he or they shal be onely charged by vertue of this Acte for his and their sayde manours landes tenementes hereditamentes and spirituall possessions or onlye for his sayde goodes and cattelles the best therof to be taken for the Quenes Maiestie and not to be charged for both or double charged for any of them Any thynge in this Acte conteyned to the contrary in any wise notwithstandyng Prouyded alwayes that this graunt of Subsedye nor anye thynge therein conteyned in any wyse extende to charge the Inhabytauntes or dwellers in Irelande Iernesey and Garnesey or anye of them of or concernyng any manours landes tenementes or other possessions goodes cattelles or other moueable substaunce which the sayde inhabytauntes or dwellers or any other to theyr vse haue within Irelande Iernesey and Garnesey or in any of them or of for or concernyng any fees or wages which any of the sayde inhabitauntes or dwellers haue of the Quenes Maiestie for theyr attendaunce and doyng seruyce to our Soueraigne Ladye in Irelande Iernesey and Garnesey or in any of them any thyng in this present Acte to the contrarye in any wyse notwithstandyng Prouyded also that this present Acte of Subsedy ne any thyng therein conteyned extende to any of the Englyshe inhabitantes or resiantes in any of the counties of Northumberlande Cumberlande Westmerlande the Towne or Barwycke the Towne of Newcastell vpon Tine the Bishopricke of Durham ▪ nor to any of them of for or concernyng any manours landes tenementes or other possessions goodes cattelles or other moueable substaunce which the same inhabitantes or dwellers or any other to their vse haue within the sayde counties of Northumberlande Cumberlande Westmerlande or the Towne of Barwycke the Towne of Newcastell vpon Tine or the Byshoprycke of Durham or any of them or of for or concernyng any fees or wages whiche any of the sayde inhabitauntes or dwellers haue of the Quenes Maiestie for theyr attendaunce and doyng seruyce to the Quenes for or within the sayde Counties of Northumberlande Cumberlande Westmerlande the Towne of Barwicke the Towne of Newecastell vpon Tine and the Byshoprycke of Durham or any of them to or for the sayde taxyng leuying gatheryng or payment but that the Englyshe inhabytauntes and resyauntes and euery of them of the sayd Counties Byshoprycke and Townes and euery of them shal be of and from the sayde Subsedye and euery parcell therof and for theyr manours landes tenementes fees wages goodes and cattelles lying and beyng in the sayde Counties Townes and Byshoprycke or any of them vtterly acquited and discharged any thyng in this present Act before rehearsed to the contrary notwithstandyng Prouyded also that all letters patentes graunted by the Quenes Maiestie or any of her most noble progenitours to any Cities Boroughes or Townes within this Realme of any maner of liberties priuileges or exemptions frō the burden charge of any such graūtes of Subsedy which be at this present time in force vayleable shall remayne good and effectuall to the sayde Cities Boroughes and Townes hereafter accordyng to the purportes therof though the inhabitauntes of the same shall vpon the great and wayghtie consideration of the graunt abouesayde be for this graunt charged and contributory in lyke maner fourme and sorte as other Cities Boroughes and Townes whiche be not in any wyse pryuyleged be from suche graunt of Subsedye excepted Prouyded alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayde that no Orphan or Infant within the age of xxi yeres borne within any of the Quenes Maiesties dominions shal be charged to any payment of this Subsedy for his or her goodes and cattels to hym or her left or bequeathed any thing in this Act conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding Prouyded also that this Acte nor any thyng therein conteyned shall not extende to the goodes or landes of anye Colledge Hall or Hostell within the Vniuersities of Oxforde and Cambridge or any of them or to the goodes or landes of the Colledge of Wynton founded by Byshop Wykeham or to the goodes or landes of the Colledges of Wyndsor and Eaton next Wyndsor or to the goodes or landes of any common free Grammer Scole within the Realme of Engalnde or Wales or to the goodes of any Reader Scolemaister or Scoler or any graduate resyant or remayning for studie without fraude or couin within any of the sayde Vniuersities and Colleges or Townes of Cambridge and Oxforde or Suburbes of the same or any of them or to any theyr seruauntes dayly attendaunt vpon any of them nor to the goodes of any officer minister almesman or seruauntes belongyng to any of the said Vniuersities Colledges Halles or Hostelles and dwellynge and resyaunt within the sayd Vniuersities or eyther of them or within eyther of the sayde Townes of Cambridge and Oxforde and Suburbes of the same without fraude or couyn Nor to the goodes and landes of any Hospytall Measondue or Spittell house prepared and vsed for the sustentation and reliefe of poore people any thynge in this Acte conteyned to the contrary in any wyse notwithstandyng Prouyded also that the sayde graunt of Subsedye or any thyng therin conteyned do not in any wyse extende or be preiudiciall or hurtefull to the inhabitauntes or resyauntes at this presente tyme within the fyue Portes corporate or to anye of theyr members incorporate or vnited to the same fyue Portes or to any of the same fyue Portes of or for any part or parcell of the sayde summes graunted in this Parliament of the sayde inhabitauntes nowe resyaunt or any of them to be taxed set asked leuyed or payde But the sayde inhabytauntes and resyauntes in the sayde fyue Portes and theyr members be and shal be of and from the sayde graunt and paymente of the sayde Subsedye durynge theyr resyauncye there and no longer clerely acquyted discharged any matter or whatsoeuer thyng in this Acte had or made to the contrary notwithstandyng Prouyded also and be it enacted that forasmuche as diuers and sundry the Quenes Maiesties tenaūtes and other inhabitantes and dwellers within the counties of Penbroke Carmarthen Cardygan Brecknocke Glamorgan Radnour Mongomery Denbygh Flynt Merioneth Anglesey Carnaruan of the Countie palentine of Chester be at this present tyme charged and chargeable aswell with the seuerall paymentes of diuers great summes of money by the name of Myse due to her Maiestie accordyng to the seuerall customes of the sayde Counties as also with the paymentes of dyuers seuerall Subsedyes lately graunted to our late soueraigne Lorde and Lady kyng Phylyp and Quene Mary and to the Quenes hyghnesse that nowe is and yet vnpayde Be it therefore ordeyned and enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that this Acte of Subsedy or any thyng therin conteyned shall not extnde to charge any of the Quenes tenauntes other inhabitantes and dwellers within any of the sayde Counties of Penbroke Carmarthen Cardygan Glamorgan Brecknocke Radnour Mongomery Denbygh Flynt Merioneth Anglesey Carnaruan and the Countie palentine of Chester beyng charged or chargeable with the sayde Myse or seuerall Subsedyes for or in anye of the paymentes of the sayde Subsedye graunted to the Quenes Maiestie by this Acte vntyll the sayde seuerall dayes and tymes for the paymente of the sayde Myses shal be expyred and vntyll the dayes and tymes aswell of the sayde seuerall Subsedyes lately graunted to our sayde late Soueraigne Lorde and Soueraigne Lady Kyng Phylyp and Quene Mary as also of the sayde Subsedye heretofore graunted to the Quenes Maiestie that nowe is be also past and expyred And that then the fyrst payment of the sayde Subsedye graunted by this present Act shal be made at the receipte of the Quenes Exchequer before the first day of Iune next folowyng after the last dayes of the last payment to be had or appoynted of the saide Myses and of the payment of the sayde former Subsedyes And the seconde payment of this Subsedye to be made by or before the xx day of February next after the sayde payment of the sayde Subsedye Furthermore be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that the tenauntes and dwellers of euery of the sayde Counties in this prouiso remembred shall seuerallye before the feaste of Penthecost nexte ensuyng certifie into the sayde court of Exchequer vnder the seales of two Iustices of peax of euery of the sayde Counties wherof one to be of the Quorum when and what day the laste payment of the sayde seuerall Myses nowe due in any of the sayde Counties shall ende and expyre Prouyded also that the sayde graunt of Subsedye and two Fyftenes and Tenthes do not in any maner of wyse extende or be preiudiciall or hurtefull to the inhabitauntes or resyauntes at this present tyme within the liberties of Romney Marshe of or for any part of the sayde summes graunted in this present Parliament of the sayde inhabitauntes nowe resyauntes or any of them to be taxed sette asked leuyed or payde But that the sayde inhabitauntes nowe resiauntes of Romney Marshe aforesayde and euery of them be and shal be of and from the saide graunt and payment of the sayde Subsedye and Fyftenes and Tenthes duryng theyr resyauncie there and not longer acquyted and discharged Any matter or whatsoeuer thyng in this presente Acte made or had to the contrary notwithstandyng God saue the Quene ¶ Imprynted at London in Powles Churchyarde by Richarde Iugge and Iohn Cawood Printers to the Quenes Maiestie Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis
Cōmission to be certified into the Quenes Maiesties saide Exchequer by the said Cōmissioners In which writing or writinges indented so to be certified shal be plainely declared and expressed the whole entier sūme or sūmes of the sayd Subsedy seuerally limitted to the collection of the sayd Collectours seuerally deputed assigned to the collection of the sayde sūmes so that none of the said Collectours so certified in the said Exchequer shal be compelled there to accompt or to be charged but onlye to and for the summe limitted to his collection and not to or for any sūme limitted to the collection of his felowe but that euery of them shal be seuerally charged for theyr part limitted to theyr collection And if the saide Cōmissioners ioyned in one Cōmission among them selues in that matter can not agree or yf anye of them be not redy or refuse to make certificat with other of the same Commissioners that then the same Cōmissioners may make seueral Indentures in fourme aforesaid of theyr seueral limittes or seperations of Collectours within the limittes of their Cōmission vpō in the Hundredes Wardes Wapētakes Lathes Rapes or such other lyke diuisions within theyr sayde seueral limittes of their Cōmission as the places there shall require to be seuered deuided and as to the same Commissioners shall seme good to make diuisions of their limittes or collections for the seueral charges of the same Collectours so that alway one Collectour shal be charged accompt for his part to him to be limitted only by him selfe and not for any sūme limitted to the part of any of his felowes and the charges of euery of the Collectours to be set and certified seuerallye vpon them and euery such Collectour vpon his accompt and payment of the sūme of money limitted within his collection to be seuerally by hym selfe acquited and discharged in the sayde Exchequer without paying any maner fees or rewardes to any parson or parsons for the same vpon the payne and penaltie last abouesayde and not to be charged for any porcion of any other Collectour And yf any Com̄issioner after he hath taken certificat of them that as is aforesayde shall before any suche Commyssyoner be examined and the summes rated and set and the bookes and wrytynges thereof beyng in his handes or yf any Collectour or other parson charged with any receipte of any parte of the sayde Subsedye or anye other parson taxed or otherwyse by this Acte charged with and for any parcell of the sayde Subsedye or with any other summes or fine amerciament penaltie or other forfeyture happen to dye before the Commyssyoner Collectour or other whatsoeuer parson or parsons haue executed accomplyshed satisfied or sufficientlye discharged that whiche to euerye suche parson shall apperteyne or belong to do accordynge to this Acte then the executours and heyres of euery suche parson and all other seased of anye landes or tenementes that any suche parson beyng charged by this Acte and deceassyng before he be discharged thereof or anye other to his vse onlye hadde of estate of enheritaunce at the time that any such parson was named Cōmissioner Collectour or otherwyse charged with and for any maner of thynge to be done satisfied or payde by reason of this Acte And all those that haue in theyr possessyons or handes any goodes cattelles leasses or other thynges that to any such parson or parsōs at the tyme of his death or any landes or tenementes that were the same parsons at the tyme he was as is aforesayde charged by this Acte shal be by the same compelled and charged to do and accomplyshe to do in euery case as the same parson so beyng charged should haue done and myght haue ben compelled to do yf he hadde ben in playne lyfe after suche rate of the landes and goodes of the sayde Commissioner or Collectour as the partie shall haue in his hande And yf the sayde Commissioners for causes reasonable them mouyng shall thynke it not conuenient to ioyne in one certificat as is aforesadye then the sayde parson or parsons that shall fyrste ioyne together or he that shall fyrste certifie the sayde wrytyng indented as is aforesayde shall certifie all the names of the Commissioners of that Commission wherevpon suche wrytynges shal be there then to be certified with diuision of the Hundredes Wapentakes Wardes Tythynges or other places to and among such Commissioners of the same Commyssyon with the names of the same Commissioners where such seperations and diuisions shal be with the grosse summes of money aswell of and for the sayde Subsedye taxed or set of or within the sayde Hundredes Wardes Wapentakes or other places to hym or them deuided or assigned that shall so certifie the sayde fyrste wrytyng as of fines amerciamentes penalties or other forfeysures yf any happen to be within the same limittes whereof the same wrytynges shal be certified and after such wrytyng indented which as is aforesayde shal be certified and not conteyne in it the whole and full summes set and taxed within the limittes of the same Commission the other Commissioners of the same before the day of payment of the sayde Subsedye shall certifie into the sayde Exchequer by theyr wrytyng or wrytynges indented to be made as is aforesayde the grosse and seuerall summes set and taxed within the places to them lymytted for the sayde Subsedye and other fines amerciamentes penalties and forfeytures with the names of the Hundredes Wardes Wapentakes and other places to them assigned or els by theyr sayde wrytynges indented to certifie at the same place before the sayde day of payment such reasonable causes for theyr excuses why they may not make such certificat of and for the sayde Subsedye fynes amerciamentes and other forfeitures growyng or sette by reason of the causes of theyr lettes or of their non certifying as is aforesayde or els in default therof proces to be made out of the Quenes Maiesties sayde Exchequer agaynst the saide Commissioners and euery of them not makyng certificate as is aforesayde by the discression of the Treasourer or Barons of the sayde Exchequer Prouyded alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde that the Inhabitauntes of the Paryshe of Saint Martin called Stampforde Baron in the Suburbes of the Borowe and Towne of Stampforde in the South part of the water there called Wellande whiche hereafter shal be contributory to the payment of this present Subsedie graunted to the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours shal be assessed rated and taxed for this time by suche Commissioners which shal be appointed for the taxing rating sessing of such Subsedie or Taxe within the Countie of Lincolne and shal be for this tyme contributory and pay the sayde Subsedye to the Collectour or Collectours which shal be assigned appoynted for the leuying and gatheryng of the same with the Aldermen Burgesses of the sayde Borowe and Towne of Stampford Prouided alwayes and be it further enacted by the aucthoritie aforesayde