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A84520 A collection of certaine statutes in force, vvith full and ready notes in the margent, containing their effect in briefe. As also the ordinances for the better observation of the Lords day, and the fast dayes. Published for the better caution of such as are inclinable to delinquency against the severall effects of those statutes and ordinances. And also for the better information of all such officers and ministers as are by late speciall warrants authorised and commanded to put the same statutes and ordinances in execution. For the better suppressing 1. Of unlawfull pastimes and abuses on the Lords day. 2. Of prophane swearing and cursing. 3. Of the loathsome sin of drunkennesse. 4. Of the severall offences committed by inne-keepers, ale-house-keepers, and unlicensed ale-house-keepers. 5. Of unlawful games. And severall other abuses. Being appointed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London to be published in all congregations within his jurisdiction. England and Wales.; W. B., co-author. 1644 (1644) Wing E887; Thomason E16_26; ESTC R8377 42,137 48

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wage his Law nor any protection or essoine shall be allowed And to the intent that every person may have knowledge of this Act and avoid the danger and penalties of the same be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that all Majors Bailiffs Sheriffs and all other head Officers shall four times in the yeer that is to say every quarter once make open Proclamation of this present Act in every market to be holden within their severall jurisdictions and authorities And also that the Justices of Gaole-delivery Assises and Justices of Peace do cause the same to be Proclaimed in their severall circuits and sessions before them holden and that this Statute shall begin to take his effect concerning the penalties of the same from the said Feast of S. John Baptist now next coming and to continue and endure for ever Provided alway and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any person or persons having taken by lease whether it be by word writing or otherwise any house alley or place wherein any such unlawfull game now is and at the time of such lease made was used that then every such Lessee shall at the liberty of him or them to whom such lease is made their executors administrators or assignes from the said Feast of the nativity of S. John Baptist be utterly void except it be for breach of covenants or agreements or payment of rent due or to be due at the said Feast or any time before so that then at the same Feast or within one moneth next after the same the said Lessee give knowledge to such Lessor or Lessors their heirs and assignes that he will no longer occupy the same and that then it shall be lawfull for the inheritor lessor or owner thereof or to his heirs or assignes in the same house alley or place to re-enter Provided also and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid Every Master may licence his servant to play at Cards Dice or Tables with their master or other gentlemen in his house or presence that it shal be lawfull for every Master to licence his or their servants to play at Cards Dice or Tables with their said Master or with any other Gentleman repairing to their said Master openly in his or their house or in his or their presence according to his or their discretion And that it shall be lawfull to every such servant for every time so being commanded or licenced by his said Master as is aforesaid to play at Cards Dice or Tables with his said Master or other Gentleman so to him repairing any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid Leases of houses where unlawfull games be used The servant by Litense may play with his Master that it be lawfull to every Noble-man and other having Manors Lands Tenements or other yeerly profits for tearm of life in his own right or in his wives right to the yeerly value of a hundred pound or above to command appoint or licence by his or their discretion his or their servants or family of his or their house or houses for to play within the precinct of his or In what cases servants may play at Dice Cards tables Bowls or Tennis their houses gardens or orchards at Cards Dice Tables Bowles or Tennis as well amongst themselves as other repairing to the same house or houses And that they so playing by commandment appointment or licence as is aforesaid shall not incurre any danger or penalty contained in this Act for the same this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Anno secundo tertio Philippi Mariae CAP. IX All Licences to keep houses for unlawfull Games shall be void MOst humbly beseecheth the Queens most excellent Highnesse your loving and obedient Subjects the Commons in this your present Parliament assembled that where by reason of divers sundry licences heretofore granted to divers persons as well within the City of London and the Suburbs of the same as also in divers other places within your Highnesse Realm for the having maintaining and keeping of houses gardens and places for bowling tennice dicing white and black making and marring and other unlawfull games prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm divers and many unlawfull The inconveniences of permitting houses for unlawfull games assemblies conventicles seditions and conspiracies have and been daily secretly practised by idle and mis-ruled persons repairing to such places of the which robberies and other misdemeanors have ensued to the breach of your Highnesse peace For remedy whereof it may please your Highnesse that it may be enacted by your Highnesse the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled that from after the Feast of the birth of our Lord God next coming every licence placard or grant made toany person or persons for the having maintnance or keeping of any bowling-allies dicing-houses or other unlawfull games prohibited by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm shall be from the said Feast utterly void and of none effect All licences to keep such houses shall be void Statute 33. H. 8. 9. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled For the better observation of the Monethly Fast VVHereas the Kings most Excellent Majesty upon the request of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by and with their advice and consent considering the lamentable and distressed condition of his good subjects in the Kingdom of Ireland that there might be a generall humiliation of all the estates of this Kingdom before Almighty God in Fasting and Prayer was graciously pleased to command the keeping of a monethly Fast and to the end that all persons might the better take notice thereof and to leave such without excuse as should not duly keep and observe the same did afterward The Fast commanded to be kept by the Kings Proclamation of the 8. of January 1641. by his Proclamation of the 8. of January 1641. appoint that the same should be generally publikely and solemnly holden and kept as well by abstinence from food as by publike prayers preaching and hearing of the Word of God and other Religious and holy duties in all Cathedrals Collegiate and Parish Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales without any exception on the last Wednesday of every moneth to continue during the troubles in the said Kingdom of Ireland All which his Majesty did straitly This Fast to continue during the troubles of Ireland on the last Wednesday of every month charge and command should be reverently and devoutly performed by all his Subjects as they desire the blessing of Almighty God and would avoid his heavy indignation against this land and people and upon pain of such punishments as may justly be inslicted upon all such as shall contemne or neglect so religious a work and