such book to be divided into three parts and imployed as aforesaid CXXIV Two Justices of Peace and all Maiors Bailiffes and head Officers have power to search the houses and lodgings of Popish Recusants convict and of every person whose wife is a Popish Recusant convict for Popish books and reliques and to burn or deface such as they shall finde in their custodie but such as are of value shall be defaced in open Sess and afterwards restored to the owner CXXV All the Armour Gunpowder and Munition of a Popish Recusant convict shall be taken from him by warrant from foure Justices of Peace at the generall Sess other then such weapons as shall be allowed unto him by the same Justices which said Armour and Munition shall be kept at the costs of such Recusant in such places where the said Justices shall appoint and shewed at every Muster as his armes together with his horse which hee shall buy provide and maintain for that purpose according to his ability as other subjects do And here the Recusant that refuseth to declare what armour or munition he hath or to deliver it to such persons as shall have power to sease it shall forfeit the same to the King and besides shall upon warrant from any Just of Peace of that County be imprisoned by the space of three moneths without baile CXXVI This Act shall not abridge Ecclesiasticall censures CXXVII Stat. 7. Ja. 6. Who shall take the oath of Obedience by whom it shall be ministred and within what time CXXVIII It shall be lawfull for any of the privie Councell or any Bishop within his Diocesse to require a Baron or Baronesse of eighteen yeers of age or above to take the said Oath And likewise for any two Justices of Peace one Quorum to require any person of the age aforesaid or above and under the degrees aforesaid to take the same Oath CXXIX If any Baron or Baronesse stand presented indicted or convicted for Recusancy three of the privie Councell whereof the Chancellor Treasurer Lord privie Seal or principall Secretary shall be one shall minister unto them the said Oath But if it be any other convicted person under those degrees or if the Minister petty Constables and Church-wardens of any parish or any two of them shall complain to any Justice of Peace of any person suspected for Recusancy then any such Justice may in either of these cases minister the said Oath and upon refusall shall commit the party to prison there to remain till the next Ass or Sess where if he again refuse to take it hee shall incurre a Praemunire except women covert who shall only be imprisoned and there remain without baile till they shall take the said Oath CXXX None refusing the said Oath shall be capable of any office of Judicature or other office being no office of inheritance or ministeriall function or to practise the common Law the civill Law Physick Surgery the art of Apothecary or any liberall science for gain CXXXI If a married woman being a convicted Recusant doe not conform within three moneths after conviction she shall be committed to prison by a privie Councellor or the Bishop of the Diocesse if she be a Baronesse but if any other of a lower degree then shall she be committed by two Justices of P. one Quorum and there shall remain till she conforme as aforesaid unlesse the husband for his wives offence will pay unto the King x. l. for every moneth or yeeld the third part of all his lands at the choice of the said husband CXXXII None shall goe himselfe or send any person whatsoever beyond sea to be trained up in Popery or any maintenance or reliefe to the party so sent or to any School or Religious house there in paine after conviction thereof to be adjudged unable to prosecute any suite in any Court of equity to be committee of any Ward executor or administrator to be uncapable of any legacy or deed of gift or of bearing Office within this Realme and besides to forfeit all his goods and chattels and his lands also during life But if hee conforme within six weeks after his return according to the Statutes in that case provided he shall not incurre the penalties aforesaid CXXXIII These offences shall be heard and determined by the Justices of the Kings Bench Assise Gaol delivery and Oyer and Termin of such Counties where the offenders did last dwell or whence they departed or where they shall be taken See Actions popular 18. Regrators See Forestallers Victuall 2. Riots Routs and unlawfull Assemblies I. Stat. 17. R. 2.8 The Sherisses and all other the Kings Officers shall supprese Riotors and imprison them and all other offending against the peace II. Stat. 13. H. 4.7 The Justices of Peace or two of them at least together with the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe shall by the power of the County suppresse Riots Routs and unlawfull assemblies arrest the offenders and record what shall be done By which record of the said Justices and Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe the offenders shall stand convict as by the Stat. of 15. R. 2.2 in case of forcible Entries And if the offenders be departed the said Justices and Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe shall within a moneth after make enquiry thereof and heare and determine the same according to law See Force 2. III. If upon such inquiry the truth cannot be discovered in manner aforesaid then shall the said Officers within one moneth after such inquiry certifie the fact together with the circumstances thereof unto the King and his Councell which certificate of theirs shall be in the nature of a presentment by twelve whereupon the offenders shall be brought to answer and those that be found guilty shall be punished at the discretion of the King and his Councell IV. If the offenders traverse the said certificate then that together with the traverse shall be sent into the Kings Bench there to be tried V. If the Offencers upon the first precept do not appear before the Councell or in the Kings Bench a second precept shall issue forth upon which if they cannot be found or if within three weeks after Proclamation made agaist them in the next County Court after the delivery of the second precept they doe not make their appearance before the Councell in the Kings Bench or in the Chancery in vacation time upon returne of the said Proclamation they shall stand convict and attainted of the offence committed VI. Justices of Peace dwelling neerest the place where such offences shall be committed and Justices of Assise for the time they shall be in their Session in case any be then committed shall doe execution of this act in pain of 100. l. VII Stat. 2. H. 5.8 If default be found in the Justices of Peace or Assise or in the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe touching the due execution of 23. H. 4.7 at the instance of the party grieved the Kings Commission shall go out to inquire as well of the truth
of the case originall matter as of the defaults aforesaid directed to sufficient men in the County at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor which Commissioners shall presently returne into the Chancery the enquests and matters before them found VIII Here during the Sheriffes or under-Sheriffes remaining in his Office the Coroners shall Impanell the Jury each of them having lands worth 10. l. per anuum at least and upon each of which for making default the Coroners shall returne Issues viz. for the first day 20. s. for the second 40. s. for the third 100. s. and for every day after double And all this the Coroner shall do in paine of 40. l. But in case the Sheriffe or under-Sheriffe reputed in default be discharged of their office the new Sheriffe shall do that which the Coroners are above enjoyned to do and shall incurre the like penalty if they therein make default IX The Lord Chancellour upon knowledge of any such offence shal send the Kings Writ to the Justices of P. Sheriffe and under-Sheriffe of the same County to put the said Statute of 13. H. 4.7 in execution upon the paine therein contained but although no such writ be sent yet shall they not be excused of the said paine if they make not execution of the same Statute X. A Riot c. shall be repressed and inquired of at the Kings charge which the Sheriffe shall disburse by indenture betwixt the Justices of P. and him and shall be answered him againe upon his accompt in the Exchequer XI Persons guilty of heynous Riots shall suffer one whole yeares imprisonment without baile but petty Rioters shall be imprisoned as shall seeme best to the King and his Councell And greater Fines shall be set upon Rioters then in time past in ayde and supportation of the Justices and other Officers in that behalfe XII All the Kings liege people upon warning shall be assistant to the Justices Commissioners Sheriffe and under-Sheriffe aforesaid upon paine of imprisonment and to make fine and ransome to the King XIII Bailiffes of Franchises shall cause sufficient men to be impannelled upon such enquests if any such be found within their liberties And the Ordinances and paines aforesaid shall extend to Corporations and Liberties where they have Justices of P. within themselves XIV Stat. 2. H. 5.9 Upon a Bill of complaint for any Riot c. preferred by the party grieved to the Lord Chancellor for the time being together with a suggestion testifying the same under the seales of two Just of P. and the Sheriffe of the County the said Lord Chancellor shall send forth a Capias returnable in the Chancery at a certaine day by which if the parties offending or any of them be taken they shall be committed to ward or let to mainprife at the discretion of the said Lord Chancellor and shall be proceeded against as the Law requireth But if the Sheriffe returne Non est inventus a Writ of Proclamation to be proclaimed two County Court dayes shall goe out returnable in the Kings Bench at a certaine day before which if they render not themselves they shall be adjudged convict and attainted of the offence suggested XV. If the offence be committed within the County Palatine of Lancaster or other Franchise where there is a Chancellor and Seale The Lord Chancellor of England shall send a Writ to the said Chancellor commanding him to make such execution as in this Act is comprised 17. XVI Stat. 8. H. 6.14 Two Justices of P. of the Counties where Riots are supposed to be committed shall testifie that the common fame runneth in the same Counties of the same Riots before the Capias shall be awarded according to the Stat. of 2. H. 5.9 XVII If the offence be committed within a Liberty where there is a Chancellor and a Seale upon information of the Riot c. from a Justice of P. and Sheriffe there the said Chancellor hath power to award Writs of Capias and Proclamation as the Chancellor of England hath XVIII Stat. 19. H. 7.13 If any Riot c. be committed the Sheriffe upon a Precept directed unto him shall returne 24. persons whereof every one shall have free-hold within the same County worth 20. s. per annum or Copy-hold worth 26. s. 8. d. per an or Copy-hold and Free-hold together worth 26 s. 8. d. per annum for to inquire of the same Riot c. And shall returne Issues upon every Juror making default viz. for the first day 20. s. and for the second 40. s. And all this the Sheriffe shall do in paine of 20. l. XIX If the said Riot c. be not found by reason of any maintenance or embracery of the said Jurors then shall the Justices and Sheriffe or under Sheriffe besides the Certificate they are to make according to the Stat. of 13. H. 4.7 certifie the names of such maintainers and embraceors together with their misdemeanors in paine to forfeit 20. l. a piece which Certificate shall have like force of proving the offence as a verdict of 12. men And then such maintainers and embraceors shall forfeit 20. l. a piece and remaine in prison at the discretion of the Justices Robbery Stat. 8. El. 4. A Cut-purse Pick-pocket or other person whatsoever which feloniously and privily taketh away any money or other goods from the person of another without his knowledge shall not have the benefit of Clery S. Clergy Felony 15. Hue and Cry Rogues S. Vagabonds Rome S. Recusants Sacraments and Service Divine I. Stat. 50. E. 3.5 and 1. R. 2.15 None shall arrest Priests or other Clerks while they attend Divine Services in paine of imprisonment and to be ransomed at the Kings will so that no collusion or fained cause be found in them II. Stat. 1. E. 6.1 None shall speake or do any thing in contempt of the most holy Sacrament in paine of imprisonment and to make fine and ransome at the Kings will III. Three Just of P. 1. Qu. have power to take information by the oaths of two lawfull persons at least concerning the offence aforesaid and to bind over by Recognisance every Accuser and Witnesse in 5. l. a piece to appeare at the next Sess to give evidence against the offenders who are there to be inquired of before three such Justices or more by the oathes of 12. men and also indicted if the matter alledged against them shall be found true IV. Three such Justices or more have likewise power to send out two Capias an Exigent and a Capias utlagatum against such offenders into all Counties and Liberties and upon their appearance to determine the contempts and offences aforesaid or to take baile for their appearance to be tried as aforesaid V. The Justices also have power to direct a Writ in the kings name to the Bishop of the Diocesse where the offence was committed by which he shall be required to be present himselfe or some for him sufficiently learned at the
such as be insufficient untill they shall be tried by Triers to be hereafter appointed by this Act. XXXVII There shall be appointed six triers of insufficient Leather and Leather wares which shall be seized within the said jurisdiction of London And when any insufficient Learther or wares made of Leather are seised within any other jurisdiction the chief officer or the Lord of the Liberty or his Deputy shall cause tryall thereof to be made by the oath of six honest men upon some Market day and within 15. dayes after such seisure made XXXVIII The Lord Maior of London and the Head officer and Lord or Deputy aforesaid shall appoint Triers in their severall jurisdictions in pain of 5. l. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor And those Triers shall doe their duties in that office without delay in paine to forfeit for every default 5. l. XXXIX Foure of the Triers in London shall by yearly changed and other four placed in their roomes and none shall continue that office here above one yeare and if any shall happen to be Trier two years together he shall not be chosen againe within three yeares after in pain to forfeit for every moneth he continues otherwise in that Office x. l. XL. No Searcher and sealer of Leather shall refuse within convenient time to doe his office or allow any wares which are insufficient in pain of xl s. And shall not take Bribes or exact more then due Fees in pain of xx l. nor being lawfully elected shall refuse the office in pain of x. l. XLI All red tanned Leather which shall be brought within the aforesaid jurisdiction of London shall be carried to Leaden Hall before it be housed and there searched sealed and registred by the officers aforesaid for which if it were sealed before out of the said jurisdiction they shall take halfe Fees only XLII None shall sell any tanned Leather within the abovesaid Jurisdiction of London before the Officers there have searched and sealed it in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof XLIII None shall withstand the searchers and Sealers in the due execution of their office nor the seising of insufficient wares in paine of 5. l. XLIV The abovesaid Searchers and Searchers and Sealers shall register all tanned Leather sold in Faires or Markets together with the Prices thereof and the names and dwelling places of the buyerand seller being thereunto required by the said Buyer and Seller taking as well of the buyer as of the seller 2. d. for every ten hides backes or buts of Leather and 2 d. for every six dozen of Calfe skins or Sheep skins and no more XLV None shall sell any tanned Leather red and unwrought before it be registred in pain to forfe it the value thereof XLVI None shall buy any tanned Leather before it be searched and sealed nor carry it out of the Faire or Market before it be registred in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof XLVII The Currier within the jurisdiction of London aforesaid which currieth not his Leather sufficiently and every other Artificer there using tanned and curried Leather which putteth into his Wares Leathers insufficiently tanned or curried shall forfeit for every such default the said Wares and the just value thereof XLVIII No such Artificer shall sell any wares but in open Shop Faire or Market where due search may be made in paine to forfeit the wares otherwise sold and besides x. s. for every such offence XLIX Here the summes of money aforesaid forfeited shall be divided into three parts whereof the King is to have one the prosecutor another and the City Corporation or Lord of the Liberty the third L. The Value of the wares forfeited within the jurisdiction of London after praisement shall also be divided into three parts whereof one shall be given to the seisor another to the Chamber of London and the third to the poore And in all other places one third part to charitable uses another to the Head officer or Lord of the Liberty and the third to the Seisor or Seisors for their paines LI. None shall buy any forfeited wares to sell them againe in pain to forfeit for every parcell thereof 3. s. 4. d. LII This Act shall not prejudice the authority of the Universities so that their Officers observe the provisions of this Act under the Penalties therein contained LIII The Hides or Skins of Oxe Steer Bull Cow Calfe Deere Goates and Sheep being tanned or tawed salt hides are reputed Leather within the Letter of this Statute LIV. Justices of Ass Just of G. D. Just of P. Stewards of Leets the Maior of London and Head officers within their several precincts have power to heare and determine these offences LV. The Kings Steward of a Leet or Liberty shall have the same authority and be subject to the like penalties that a Lord of a Leet hath and is subject to LVI It shall be lawfull for all Artificers save only Shoomakers betweene September and the twentieth of Aprill to use dry curried and frised Leather being well tanned according to this Act. LVII This Act shall extend to Wales LVIII If any Customer or other such Officer having notice of the transporting of any Leather doe not use his best indeavour to seise it or being transported doe not disclose it within forty dayes he shall forfeit for the first default 100. l. and for the second lose his place And every such Officer for making a false Certificate of the Arrivall of any Leather shall also forfeit 100. l. LVIX This Act shall not extend to Scottish Hides brought to Barwick LX. Licences to dispence with the Offences prohibited by this Act shall be void LXI Stat. 4. Jac. 6. There shall be no penalty for housing buying or selling Sheep-skins unsealed LXII None shall sell tanned Leather by weight in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof to be divided betweene the King and the prosecutor See Actions popular 18. Labourers 53. Letters of Administration S. Ecclesiasticall Court Liberties and Franchises Stat. 27. H. 8.24 All Stewards Bayliffes and other Ministers of Liberties and Franchises which have used to attend the Just of Ass G. D. and of P. shall doe it still and shall also make due execution of all Process directed unto them the said bayliffes likewise or their Deputies shall give attendance and assistance upon the Sheriffe at all Courts of G. D. for execution of Prisoners there according to Justice S. Sheriffes Maineprise S. Bailment Maintenance Champerty Embracery and Buying of Titles I. STat. West 1.3 E. 1.25 None of the Kings officers shall either by himselfe or others maintain Pleas Suites or Matters hanging in the Kings Court for land tenements or other things for to have part or profit thereof in pain to be punished at the Kings pleasure II. Stat. West 1.3 E. 1.28 No Clerk of the King or of any Justicer shall receive the presentment of any Church for which there is
when the sute is wholly the Queenes the whole forfeiture shall be estreated for her use VII Justices of P. have power to heare and determine these offences in Sessions by inquisition or verdict or otherwise upon the oath of two witnesses at their discretions and to make processe thereupon VIII This Act shall not restraine Purveyors of Cities and townes corporate neither yet the Inhabitants of the Counties of Westmerland Cumberland Lancaster Chester and Yorke IX Stat. 13. El. 25. The Statute of 5. El. 12. is confirmed S. Forestallers 5.12 Bayliffes S. Sheriffes Bailement I. Stat. 3. E. 1.15 Persons outlawed and such as have abjured the Realme Provours and such as be taken with the manner Prison-breakers theeves openly defamed Appellees by Provours during the life of such Provours house-burners Counterfeiters of the Kings Seale or Coyne excommunicate persons and Traitors are not replevisable by common writ or without writ II. Persons guiltie of Larcenie by enquests taken before Sheriffes or Bailiffes or of petty Larcenie not before detected nor accessary to any felony or onely guilty of some light suspition are baileable by good sureties for which the Sheriffe shall be answerable III. Stat. 5. E. 3.8 Marshals of the Kings Bench shall not baile felons IV. Stat. 3. H 7.3 Two Justices 1. Qu. have power to let to baile persons baileable by law untill the next Quar. Sess or G.D. and shall there certifie the same in paine of 10. l. V. Stat. 1. 2. P.M. 13. None shall be let to baile which are forbidden to be bailed by 3. E. 1.15 VI. None arrested for Manslaughter or felony or suspition of the same being baileable by law shall be let to baile save only in open Sess or by two Just 1. Qu. being both present at the time of such bailement which then shall be certified together with the examination of the Prisoner and the Information of the Accusers under their owne hands at the next Gaole delivery and the said examination and Information shall be taken before the bailement VII The said Justices have power to bind by Recognisance all such as can declare any thing materiall against the Prisoner to appeare at the next Gaole delivery and shall there make certificate of the said Recognisance VIII The Justices that offend any Branch of this Act are lyable to be fined by the Justices of Gaole delivery IX This Act shall not restraine Justices within London and Middlesex to let to baile I risoners as heretofore they have used only they shall certifie their examinations Bonds and bailements at the next Gaole delivery of their Jurisdiction in paine to bee fined as aforesaid X. Every Habeas Corpus or Certiorari for the Removall of a Prisoner shall be signed by the Chiefe Justice or one of the Justices of the Court out of which the Writ issues in paine of five pounds to be forfeited by the Writer XI Stat. 2.3 P.M. 10. One accused of Manssaughter or Felony which for want of baile is to be sent to the Gaole must be examined by the Justice before he sends him thither and the Accusers must bee bound over to give in evidence against him whose Information must also be taken and committed to writing within two daies after at the farthest and all certified in at the next Gaole delivery as by the stat of 1.2 P.M. 13. is limitted upon the penaltie therein expressed Bakers S. Victuall 2.10 Weights 2 4 5 9. Barges S. Boatemen Bastardie I. Stat. 18. El. 3. The two next Justices 1. Qu. may take order as well for the punishment of the mother and reputed father of a Bastard Child as also for the reliefe of the Parish where it is borne by charging the said mother and father with the sustentation thereof by payment of mony weekly or otherwise II. If the mother or father performe not the said Justices order they shall suffer imprisonment without baile except hee she or they give securitie to performe it or else to appeare at the next Quarter Sess and also to abide the order of the greater part of the Justices there if any shall be there made if not then to performe the order made by the two Justices 5. III. Stat. 7. Jac. 4. Justices of Peace shall commit to the house of correction lewd women which have Bastards that may be chargeable to the Parish there to be punished and set on worke one whole yeere and if they offend againe they shall not be from thence enlarged without putting in good securitie not to offend so againe IV. Stat. 21. Jac. 27. It shall be murther for a mother to conceale the death of her Bastard child unlesse she can prove by one witnesse at least that it was still-borne V. Stat. 3. Car. 4. All Justices of Peace within their severall limits and Sess may doe and execute all things concerning that part of 18 Eli. 3. which concernes Bastards that by the Justices of Peace in the severall Counties are by the said statute limited to be done Beere S. Corne 1. Bell-metall S. Brasse 15. Benhurst hundred in Com. Berk. S. Hue and Crie 8. Bigamie I. Stat. 1. E. 6.12 A Bigamus being a felon shall be admitted to his Clergy as well as any other II. Stat. 1. Jac. 11. A Bigamus shall suffer death as a Felon unlesse he or she have had no notice that the husband or wife was living within seven yeares before or the Marriage severed by divorce III. This felonie shall cause no corruption of blood or losse of dower or inheritance Boatmen Watermen Barges Boats c. I. Stat. 26. H. 8.5 Justices of the Peace within the Counties of Glocester and Summerset in Sess shall bind keepers of Ferries over Severne by Recognisance with good sureties that they shall not transport any Passenger out of England into Wales or the Forrest of Deane or from thence into England before Sun rising or after Sun set unlesse such as they know and will answer for And besides the parties so offending shall thereby incurre fine and imprisonment II. Stat. 2. and 3. P. M. 16. At the first Court of Aldermen in London next after the first of March out of the Watermen betwixt Gravesend and Windsor there shall be eight chosen for overseers which shall have power to keepe good order amongst the rest III. Two Watermen shall not carry any but where one of them hath exercised that profession two yeares before that time and hath been allowed by the greater part of the said Overseers under their knowne seale in paine to be committed to one of the Counters by the said Overseers for one month or for lesse time as the offence may deserve IV. No single man which is no householder nor retained as an Apprentice or as a servant for one yeare at least shall exercise that profession betwixt the places aforesaid in paine of like imprisonment V. The Lord Maior and Aldermen of London and the Justices of Peace within the Counties adjoyning to the River of Thames upon
mute or make no direct answer thereunto see 2.3 E. 6.33 XII A Pecre of the Realme for his first offence of Felonie though he cannot read shall be admitted to his purgation as a Clerk convict XIII Stat. 4.5 P. M. 4. Accessaries before the face which are found guilty of Petty Treason Murder Burglary Robbery or house-burning or which upon their Arraignement for these offences stand mute challenge above xx or answer not directly shall not enjoy the benefit of Clergie XIV Stat. 8. El. 4. He that is delivered to the Ordinarie and admitted to his Clergie shall notwithstanding his Purgation answer for offences formerly committed XV. Stat. 18. El. 7. An offender admitted to his Clergie after burning in the hand shall not be delivered to the Ordinary as hath beene used but shall thereupon be enlarged by the Justices before whom such Clergie shall be granted or by them deteyned longer in Prison at their discretion so it be not for longer time then one whole year XVI He that shall be admitted to his Clergie shall notwithstanding that answer for other felonies XVII Stat. 1. Ia. 8. He that stabs or thrusts any person not having a weapon drawne or not striking first so that he dies thereof within six moneths after although it be not of malice forethought shall not enjoy the benefit of Clergie XVIII This Act shall not extend to charge any with stabbing or thrusting when it is done only Se defendendo by misfortune or in chastising his Childe or servant with no purpose to commit Manslaughter S. Burglary Clerk of the Peace I. Stat. 37. H. 8.1 The Custos Rotulorum shall appoint the Clerke of the Peace who may execute the same Office by a deputy if he please II. This Act shall not restraine the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of Duresme or Ely nor any other who by the Kings Letters Patents or otherwise have before the making of this Act power to choose a Clerk of the Peace within any precinct or liberty S. Badger 3. Certificate 1. Clerk of the Crown S. Certificate Clerk of Assise S. Certificate Clerk of the Market S. Weights Cloth S. Drapery Coine S. Money Commons S. Horses Commissions S. Just of P. Conies S. Hunting Conjuration S. Witchcraft Conspiracy S. Labourers 3. Masons Conspirators I. Who be Conspirators See Stat. 33. E. 1. II. Their punishment and what Justices shall inquire of them viz. Just of both the Benches of Assise See Stat. 28. E. 1.10 Mainteynance 8. S. Felony Convictions S. Certificate 1. Cookes S. Victuall Copper S. Brasse Corne. I. Stat. 2. P. M. 5. None shall transport any Corne Bcere Butter Cheese Hering or wood beyond the Seas or into Scotland in paine that the owner shall forfeit the Vessell wherein it shall be carried the owner of the goods double that value and the Master of the ship all his goods and suffer one yeares imprisonment without Bayle The one Moyty of these forfeitures to be to the K. and Q. and the other to the prosecutor II. If one licenced to transport Corne victuall or wood transport more then his licence will warrant he shall forfeit the treble value and suffer one years imprisonment without Baile III. Hee that hath licence to transport Corn victuall or wood shall imbark all at one place in paine to forfeit the same and besides all his goods The one Moity to the King and Queen and the other to the prosecutor IV. Justices of Peace within three years after the abovesaid offences shall be committed have power to hear and determine the same and also to examine the Masters and Marriners of ships concerning the premisses V. This Act shall not restraine lthe transportation of Graine when Wheat is sold for 6. s. 8. d. Rye for 4. s. Barly for 3 s. the quarter save only to the K. and Q. enemies nor the victualling of ships nor be prejudiciall to the Admiralls jurisdiction VI. Stat. 13. El. 13. The Lord presidents and the Councells in the North and Wales the Justices of Assise in their Circuits and the Justices of Peace in their Sessions have power to licence or prohibite the transportation of Corne at their discretions Provided their order be first approved by the Queene or her Councell which also may be countermanded by the Q. proclamation if there be cause for it VII Stat. 3. Car. 4. Corne may be transported to the Kings Allies when wheate is sold for 32. s. Ry for xx s. Pease and Beans for 16. s. and Barly or Mault for 16. s. the quarter or under S. Badger Forestallers 6.10 Corners I. Stat. 3. E. 1. Officium Coronatoris See the Statute at large II. Stat. 3. H. 7.1 A Coroner shall execute his office according to law in paine of 5. l. and shall have for his Fee 13. s. 4. d. of the goods of the Murtherer if he have any if not then out of such Amerciaments as shal be set upon the Towneship that suffered the Murtherer to escape III. Stat. 1. H. 8.7 Where one is slaine by misadventure the Coroner shall then also execute his office without Fee in paine of 40. s. IV. Justices of Peace have power to enquire of and punish the defaults and extortions of Coroners V. Stat. 1.2 P. M. 13. The Coroner shall bind by Recognisance all such as can declare any thing materiall against the Murtherer to appeare at the next G. D. and shall there make Certificate of the said Recognisance as also of the Evidence and inquisition taken before him and all this in paine to be fined by the Just of the said G. D. Costermongers S. Victuall 10. Cottages I. Stat. 31. El. 7. None shall erect or convert a Building to be a Cottage for habitation unlesse he lay foure acres of land of an Inheritance so neere unto it that they may be conveniently occupied with it in paine to forfeit to the Q. Majesty x. l. for every such erection or Conversion and 40. s. a moneth for the Continuance II. No owner or occuptier of any Cottage shall place or willingly suffer any more families then one to co-habite therein in pain to forfeit to the Lord of the Leet x. s. for every moneth he so continues them together III. Justices of Assise Justices of Peace in their Sessions and Lords of Leets have power to hear and determine these offences IV. This Statute shall not restraine the erecting making or continuing of Cottages in Market townes or for Labourers in mynes or quarries within one Miles distance from the said Mynes or Quarries or Sea-faring men within one Miles distance from the Sea or a Navigable River or for a Keeper Warrener shepherd Heards man or impotent person Covin Collusion S. Actions popular 1 2 3 4. Counterfeit Letters or tokens I. Stat. 33. H. 8.1 A person convict of getting into his hand money or goods by a false token or Counterfeit letter shall suffer such corporall punishment as shal be prescribed by them before whom hee shall be so convicted death
torelease that behaviour XV. Stat. 23. El. 10. None shall kill or take any Fesants or partridges with any net or Engine in the night time in paine to forfeit for every Feasant xx s. and for every Partridge x. s. which if the offender pay not within ten dayes he shall suffer one Moneths Imprisonment without Baile and enter into Bond with good Sureties before some Just of P. not to offend in the like kind within two years after XVI The forfeitures aforesaid shall be recovered in any Court of Record and divided betwixt the Lord of the liberty or manor where the offence is committed and the prosecutor but in case the Lord shall dispense with the offender the poore of the parish are to have his Moity to be recovered by any of the Churchwardens XVII None shall hawk or hunt with his Spaniels in standing graine or before it is stocked except in his owne ground or with the owners consent in paine to forfeit xl s. to the owner of the said ground to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII Just of Ass Just of P. in Sess and afterwards in Leets have power to heare and determine these offences And one Just of P. may examine such an offender and bind him over with good Sureties to answer it at the next generall Sess if the offence be not before determined at the Assises or in a Leet XIX This Act shall not restrain Fowlers which unwillingly take Feasants or Partridges and forthwith let them go at large XX. Stat. 1. Jac. 27. Every person convicted by his own confession or upon oath by two witnesses before two or more I. of P. to have killed or taken any Feasant Partridge Pigeon Duck Heron Hare or other game or to have taken or destroied the Egs of Feasants Partridges or Swans shall by the said Just be committed to prison without baile unlesse he immediately pay to the use of the Poore where the offence was committed or he apprehended xx s. for every fowle Hare or Egge so killed taken or destroied and after one moneths commitment shall before two or more Just of P. be bound with two sufficient Sureties in xx l. a piece with condition never to offend in the like kind againe XXI Every person convicted as abovesaid to keep a Grayhound dog or net to kill or take Deer Hare Fesant or Partridge unlesse he have inheritance of 10. l. per Annum a lease for life of xxx l. per Annum or be worth 200. l. in goods or otherwise be the Son of a Baron or Knight or heire aparant of an Esquire shall suffer imprisonment as aforesaid unlesse he forthwith pay xl s. to the use abovesaid XXII None shall sell or buy to sell again any Deere Hare Feasant or Partridge except Feasants or Partridges by them reared up or brought from beyond Sea in paine to forfeit for every Deere xl s. Hare x. s. Feasant xx s. and Partridge x. s. XXIII The forfeitures abovesaid shall be divided betwixt the prosecutor and the Poor of the parish where the offence is committed XXIV Just of Ass I. of P. in Sess and two or more Just of P. out of Sess have power to heare and determine these offences XXV None shall by any former law suffer punishment for the same offence for which he shall be punished by this Law XXVI This Act shall not restraine one licenced in open Sess to kill Hawkes meate but the he shal there become bound by recognisance in xx l. not to kill any of the games prohibited by this Law nor to shoot within 600 pace of a Hearnery within 100 pace of a Pigeon house or in a Park Forest or Chase Whereof his Master is not owner or keeper The Clerk of the P. his Eee for such a licence is 12.d XXVII Stat. 7. Jac. 11. Every person convicted by his owne confession or by two witnesses upon oath before two or more Just of P. to have hawked at or destroyed any Feasant or Partridtge betwixt the first of Iuly and the last of August shall suffer one moneths Imprisonment without Baile unlesse he forthwith pay to the use of the Poore where the offence was committed or he apprehended xl s. for every time so hawking and xx s. for every Feasant or Partridge so destroyed or taken XXVIII He that shall be punished by this law shall not again be punished by any other law for the same offence XXIX This offence shall be prosecuted within six moneths after it shall be committed XXX It shall be lawfull for the Lord of a mannor or any having free warren Inheritance of xl l. per Annum Freehold of lxxx l. per Annum or goods worth 400. l. or their servants licenced by them to take Fesants or Partridges within their own grounds or precinct so they do it in the day time and only betwixt Michaelmas and Christmas XXXI If any of meane Condition shall be convicted by his owne confession or by one witnesse upon oath before two or more I. of P. to have killed or taken any Fesant or Partridge with dogs nets or engines he shall by the said Justices be committed to prison without Baile unlesse he forthwith pay to the use of the poor where the offence was committed xx s. for every Feasant or Partridge so killed or taken and also become bound before one or more I. of P. in a recognisance of 20. l. never to offend in the like kind againe XXXII Every Cóstable or head-borough upon warrant under the hāds of two or more I. of P. hath power to search the houses of persons suspected to offend against the Law and the dogs or nets there found to kill and cut in pieces at pleasure as things forfeited unto the said officers Hering S. Corne 1. High-Wayes I. Stat. 1. M. Parl. secund cap. 5. Justices of the Counties of Dorset and Sommerset shall assesse those Countries towards the repaire of the Cawsey lying between Shaftsbury and Sherburne See the slatute at large II. Stat. 2.3 P. M. 8. The Constables and Churchwardens of every parish shall yearely upon Tuesday or Wednesday in Easter week call together some of their neighbours and then make choice of two within the parish to be Surveyours of the High-wayes the yeare following who shall forthwith take that office upon them in paine to forfeit 20. s. a piece The said Const and Churchw shall ten also nominate foure dayes betwixt that time and Midsommer to be set apart for the Amendment of the high-wayes and shall give publique notice thereof in the Church the next sunday after Easter III. The officers and dayes being thus appointed every one having a team or a plow-land either in arable or in pasture is chargeabe to send two able men with a Teame and tooles convenient to worke eight houres upon every one of those foure dayes in pain to forfeit x. s. for every day default is made And every Cottager is bound to work himself or to find one to work for him as aforesaid in
or Labourers that conspire together concerning their work or wages shall forfeit for the first offence x. l. to the King and if they pay it not within six dayes after conviction they shall suffer 20. dayes imprisonment and during that time shall have no sustenance but bread and water for the second offence hee shall forfeit 20. l. and that not paid within six dayes as aforesaid shall suffer the Pillory and for the third offence shall forfeit xl l. and that not paid within time limited shall again suffer the Pillory lose one of their eares and be ever after taken as men infamous and not to be credited IV. Just of Ass Just of P. Maiors Bayliffes Stewards in Sess Leets Courts have power to hear and determine these offences V. Stat. 5. El. 4. None shall hire or be hired for lesse time then one whole yeare in the Arts of Clothier Wollen Weaver Tucker Fuller Clothworker Sherman Dyer Hosier Taylor Shoomaker Tanner Pewterer Baker Brewer Glover Cutler Smith Farrier Currier Sadler Spurrier Turner Capper Hat or Feltmaker Fletcher Arrowhead-maker Butcher Cook or Miller VI. Every person unmarried or under the age of 30. years though married having been brought up in any of the Arts above said by the space of three yeares and not worth in lands xl s. per Annum or in goods x. l. and so allowed under the hands and seales of two Just of P. the Head officer or two discreet Burgesses of the place where the party so brought up hath lived by the space of one whole yeare nor already retayned in husbandry the Arts abovesaid or any other Art or Mystery or in any service upon request of any person using the same Art shall not refuse to serve for the wages limited by this statute and being so retained shall not depart from his or their service without one quarters warning before two lawfull witnesses or some lawfull cause to be proved before one Justice of P. or Head officer in paine of imprisonment without baile but upon submission to performe the service they shall be enlarged without Fees which Commitment and enlargement two Just of P. the Head officer or two Burgesses as aforesaid unto whom complaint shall be made have power to command as in their discretions and upon due proofe shall be thought fit VII Every person between the ages of 12. and 60. not already retained in any service nor imployed about husbandry Mines Glasse Coale Fishing Sayling provision of grain or Meale for London nor Gentleman born nor Scholar in an University or School nor worth xl s. per Annum in lands or x. l. in goods nor having a Father Mother or other ancestor whose heire he is worth x. l. per Annum in lands or xl l. in goods shall be compelled to serve in husbandry shall not depart that service otherwise then as is before limited upon the paine above expressed VIII None shall put away his servant before the end of his term without a quarters warning or some lawfull cause to be proved by two sufficient Witnesses before the Just of Oy and Term. Just of Ass Just of P. in Sess a Head Officer or two discreet Aldermen or Burgesses in paine of xl s. IX No servant having served in one City or towne shall goe to serve in another without a Testimoniall viz. in a towne corporate under the seales of the town two housholders there and in the Country under the seales of the Constable or Constables and two housholders there which testimoniall shall be made and delivered to the party and also registred by the Minister of the place where the servant last dwelt for which the Minister is to have 2. d. X. The forme of the Testimoniall is this Memorandum that A. B. Servant to C. D. of E. in the County of F. Husbandman or Taylor c. in the said County is licenced to depart from his said Moster and is at his liberty to serve elsewhere according to the Statute in that case made and provided In witnesse c. XI The servant which sheweth not such a Testimoniall to the chief officer in a Corporation or to the Minister or some officer in any other place where he is to dwell shall suffer imprisonment till he procure one and if he produce not one within xx 1. dayes after his imprisonment or shew a false one he shall be punished by whipping as a vagabond And the Master that retaines a servant without such a testimoniall shall forfeit five pounds XII Those that work by the day or week shall continue at work betwixt the middle of March and the middle of September from 5. in the morning till betwixt 7. and 8. at night except two houres allowed for breakfast dinner and drinking and halfe an houre for sleeping from the middest of May til the middest of August all the rest of the yeare from twylight to twylight except an houre and a halfe allowed for Breakfast and Dinner in paine to have one penny defalked out of their Wages for every houres absence XIII None that takes work by Great shall leave the same before it be quite finished except for not payment of his Wages the Queenes service licence of the Workmaster or other lawfull cause in paine to suffer one moneths imprisonment without Baile and to forfeit five pounds to the party grieved besides his Costs and dammages to be recovered at the common Law for the losse sustained XIV None retained in service to work shall depart without Licence in paine of one moneths imprisonment XV. Such Wages of Labourers Artificers and others as have been formerly rated or concerne husbandry shall be yearly assessed for the County by the Sheriffe and I. of P. in Sess and in Corporations by the Head Officer at their Easter Sessions or within six weeks after and before the 12. of July following shal be certified under their hands and seales into the Chancery whereupon the Lord Chancellor or Keeper shall send downe printed proclamations thereof into every County and Corporation before the first of September then next following with the said Sheriffe Justices and Head officers shall before Michaelmas after cause to be inrolled and proclaimed But here when the old Rates shall be certified to stand no proclamation is needfull 56.58 XVI A I. of P. or chief officer which shall be absent at the taxing of Wages being not letted by sicknesse or some other reasonable cause to be allowed by the Justices upon Affidavit shall forfeit x. l. XVII None shall give greater wages then those so rated as aforesaid in paine of 5. l. and ten dayes imprisonment without Baile and if any person shall be convicted before two I. of P. or a Head officer of taking more wages he shall suffer 21 dayes imprisonment without Baile XVIII Every retainer promise gift or payment of wages or other thing contrary to the true meaning of this Act and every writing and Bond to be made for that purpose shall be voied
Head officer to be collected as other fines and Amerciaments for the use of the same townes XLIV When an Apprentice departs from his Masters service into another County or Corporation it shall be lawfull for the Just of P. or Head officers there being Justices of P. to direct a Capias to the Sheriffe or other chiefe officer for his apprehension and being taken the said Just of P. or Head officer shall commit him to ward untill he give good Security that he will honestly serve out his time XLV Notwithstanding this Act high Constables have power to keep their Statute Sessions so that they there doe nothing repugant thereunto XLVI Stat. 5. El. 5. Every housholder using the trade of the Seas Fisher Gunner or Shipwright may take Apprentices according to the custome of the City of London so that the Apprentice be seaven yeares old the Indenture inrolled in a corporate towne for which Inrolment the officer shal not take above 12. d. XLVII Stat. 8. El. 11. None shall make any Hat or Felt with forraine stuffe unlesse he hath served Apprentice to that Art seaven yeares at least in pain of forfeiting the Hats or Felts so made and 5. l. for every mone the continuance in so doing XLVIII No Hatmaker shall have above two Apprentices at one time nor them for lesse time then seaven yeares a pecce in pain to suffer one moneths imprisonment for every one he keepes more and to be for ever after disabled to keep any more then one XLIX This Act shal not restraine Hatmakers to imploy their Children L. Stat. 1. Jac. 17. None shall make any Hat or Felt of any Stuffe what soever which hath not served an Apprentice seaven yeares in that Art in pain of 5. l. for every month neither shall he have above two Apprentices at one time or imploy any Journeyman in that Art which hath not served the like time upon the like pain LI. This Act shall not restraine Hatmakers to imploy their Children so that they be bound for seaven yeares and their terme doe not expire untill they shall have accomplished the age of 21. yeares LII The forfeitures of this Statute as also those of the 8. El. 11. shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor LIII Stat. 3. Jac. 9. None shall imploy any Journeyman or apprentice in the Art of Skinner unlesle he use the same Art himselfe and hath served seaven yeares therein as an Apprentice in pain of forfeiting double the value of the Skins dressed to be divided betwixt the King and the proecutor or Seisour LIV. Stat. 1. Jac. 6. The statute of 5. El. 4. Shall give power to the Justices of P. to rate the Wages of any Labourers Weavers Spinsters and workmen or workwomen whatsoever LV. The rating of such wages in Sess by the more pact of the Justices within any particular Ryding or Division where generall Sess have been used severally to be kept shall be as effectuall as those rated at the generall Sess of the whole County LVI The Sheriffe and Head officers within their severall precincts shall cause the said rates to be proclaimed in such sort as if they had been sent downe printed from the Lord Keeper which all persons shall be bound to observe upon the paines and penalties mentioned in the said Statute of 5. El. 4. LVII A Clothier convicted before the Justices of Ass or P. in Sess or before two Just of P. 1. Qu. by his own confession or the evidence of two Witnesses not to have observed the said Rates shall forfeit x. s. to the party grieved to be levied upon warrant from the same Just by distresse and sale of goods LVIII None shall incurre any danger for not making Certisicate of the Rates into the Chancery according to 5. El. 4. LVIX A Clothier being also a Just of P. shall not be a Rater of Wages for any Artificer that depends upon making of Cloth S. Masons Poore people 6. 20. c. Lader S. Badger Larceny S. Bailement 2. Trespasse Latten S. Brasse Leather Tanner Currier and Shoomaker I. Stat. 5.6 E. 6.15 None shall buy or ingrosse Leather to the intent to sell the same againe in pain to forfeit the same Leather or the value there of be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or Seisor II. This Statute shall not restrain Girdlers and other Artificers to sell their necks Wombes and Shreds nor the buying of so much Leather as the party which buyes it hath licence to transport III. None shall transport any Shooes Bootes Buskins Stertups or slippers in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor or seisor IV. No Girdler or other cutter of Leather in London shall curry it in his owne house in paine to forfeit the same Leather to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor V. Stat. 1. M. Parl. 2.8 No Artificer using the Mystery of Leather buying shall buy any Leather and sell the same againe to be transported in pain to forfeit the same to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor VI. Curriers of London shall use their own stuffe in pain to forfeit the Leathers otherwise curried to be divided as aforesaid VII No Currier shall curry any hides betwixt Saint Jamestide and the Lady day but onely such as have been sufficiently dipped twice in the Pan inpaine to forfeit the same to be divided as aforesaid VIII A Currier shall dresse his Leather within the space of 5. dayes in Summer and of x. dayes in Winter in pain to forfeit to the party grieved for every hide otherwise dressed 10. s. IX Stat. 5. El. 22. None shall make Pelts or buy any skins of Stag Hind Buck Doe Goat Fawne or Kid except to make tawed or tanned Leather or parchment or otherwise to convert them to his owne use in pain to forfeit the value thereof and besides 2. s. 6. d. for every pelt or skin so made or bought X. Stat. 18. El. 9. The penalty of transporting Leather XI Stat. 1. Jac. 22. None shall gash any hide in paine of xx d. nor water them except in June July and August nor put them to Sale being putrified in pain to forfeit for every hide so watred or put to sale 3. s. 4. d. XII None shall kill any Calfes under 5. weeks old in pain to forfeit for evey Calfe so killed 6. s. 8. d. XIII No Butcher shall exercise the Mystery of a Tanner in pain of 6. s. 8. d. for every day he so continues both professions XIV None shall be a Tanner but such as have served seaven years as Apprentices or hired servants in that trade or the widow or children of a Tanner having a tan fat left them and having been brought up in that profession by the space of 4. yeares in paine to forfeit all the Leather they tan or the full value thereof XV. None that useth the cutting or working of Leather shall be a Tanner in
paine to forfeit all the Leather he tans or the value thereof XVI None shall buy any rough Hides or Calfeskins in the haire but only such as doe and may lawfully tan them except salt Hides for the necessary use of Ships in pain to forfeit them or their just value neither shall any forestall hides but buy them in open Faire or Market except of such as kill beasts for their own provision in pain to forfeit for every hide otherwise bought 6. s. 8. d. XVII None shall buy any tanned Leather unwrought but only such as will and shall convert the same into made wares XVIII This Act shall not restraine Artificers from buying tanned Leather every Munday at Leaden Hall to be converted into made wares being first duly searched sealed and registred as hereafter is limited nor Sadlers and girdlers from selling their Necks and Shreds of tanned red Leather XIX The Tanner that overlimes his Hides or useth in his tanning any thing save Ash-bark Oakbark Tapwort Mault Meal Lyme Culverdung or Hendung or suffers them to be frozen or to be parched with the fire or sun or tannes hides which are rotten by long lying or otherwise or continues not utter sole Leather 12 moneths in the Woozes and upper Leathers 9. moneths or doth negligently work his hides in the Woozes not renuing and strengthning them as often as need shall require or doth work them in any other sort then is by this statute limited shall forfeit every Hide so tanned and put to Sale or the full value of the same XX. No Tanner shall by mixtures raise any Hide for sole Leather which shall not be fit for that use in pain of forfeiting the same XXI None shall put to sale any tanned Leather red and unwronght but in open Fair or Market unlesse the same hath been searched and sealed in some Faire or Market before neither shall any offer to sell any such Leather before it be searched and sealed in paine to forfeit for every hide otherwise put to sale 6. s. 8. d. and for every dozen of Calfeskins or Sheepskins 3. s. 4. d. besides the hides and skins themselves or the full value there of XXII None shall put to sale any Leather insufficiently tanned or dried in pain to forfeit the whole or at least so much as shall be so misused XXIII No Tanner shall hasten the tanning of his Leather by giving it unkind heates with hot woozes or otherwise in paine of x. l. and and to stand upon the Pillory three dayes in the next market XXIV None shall buy or ingrosse Barke to the intent to sel the same again in pain to forfeit it or the value thereof neither shall any fel Oak trees apt for barking where Bark is worth 2. s. the Cart load timber for the present and necessary repair of houses Ships and Mills excepted but only between the first of Aprill and the last of June in pain to forfeit the trees otherwise felled or the double value of the same XXV Purveyers of trees for the Kings use shall fell them only in barking time except for the present repaire of the Kings houses or Ships and shall take no more therof from the owner then what may serve the Kings present occasion in paine to forfeit to the party grieved for every tree otherwise felled or the Lops and tops thereof taken away xl s. XXVI A Currier shall not curry a Hide or Skin which is not sufficiently tanned and dried and that in his owne house scituate in some Corporate or Market towne and not else where neither shall he gash or any other way spoile or impaire them but work them sufficiently in all points in pain to forfeit for every skin or hide so spoiled otherwise then by gashing 6. s. 8. d. besides the value of the same skin or hide And for gashing them to forfeit to the party grieved twice so much as he impaites them by gashing XXVII No Artificer within London or within three miles distance from it shall put any Leather to be curried save only to some person free of the Company of Curriers in London in pain to forfeit the same or the value thereof XXVIII None within the aforesaid Jurisdiction of London shall use or put into made wares any curried Leather before the same be searched and sealed in pain to forfeit for every Hide or Skin 6. shillings eight pence and also the value of every such Hide or Skinne XXIX A Currier shall not use the Art of a Tanner Cordwainer Shoomaker Butcher or of any other Artificer which useth the cutting of Learther in paine to forfeit for every hide or skin he currieth during that time 6. s. 8. d. XXX No currier sufficient stuffe being tendred unto him shall refuse sufficiently to curry Leather within eight dayes in summer and 16. dayes in Winter after he shall or may take it in hand in pain to forfeit for every Hide or piece of Leather not curried accordingly x. s. XXXI The Wardens of the Company of Curriers or officers by them appointed shall within one day after request made unto the them search and seale Leather curried for which the Currier shall pay after the rate of a 1. d. for every Dicker of hides and of as much for every six dozen of Calfe skins And the Currier shall forfeit for every hide not searched and sealed as aforesaid 6. s. eight pence XXXII Shoomakers shall make their bootes c. of good and sufficient stuffe sow them well and not put them to sale upon Sundayes in pain to forfeit for every such default or offence 3. s. 4. d. and also the full value of all other wares otherwise made or sold XXXIII The Masters and Wardens of the Companies of Shoomakers Curriers Girdlers and Sadlers within the jurisdiction of London aforesaid or the more part of them shall once every quarter or oftner if need reqire make search and view of all wares made of tanned Leather in pain to forfeit 40. l. for every yeares default to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor and shall also have power to seise all insufficent Wares found upon search XXXIV The said Masters and Wardens shall only search the wares of such as use their own professions and Coachmakers shal be under the survey and search of the Company of Sadlers XXXV The Maior and Aldermen of London shall within the said jurisdiction and upon the like paine of xl l. to be imploiod as aforesaid choose and sweare 8. expert men out of some of the 4. Companies abovesaid to be searchers and Sealers of all tanned Leather there whereof one shall be assigned to keep the Seale XXXVI Head Officers and Lords of Liberties shall yearely in all other parts of the Kingdome upon the like pain of xl l. to be imployed as aforesaid appoint and sweare two three or more honest and skilfull men to be searchers and sealers of Leather who shall have power to seale sufficient wares and likewise to seize and retaine
Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his subjects of their allegiance and obedience to his Majestie or to give licence or leave to any of them to beare armes raise tumult or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall person state or government or to any of his Majesties subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I doe sweare from my heart That notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of excommunication or deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his successors or by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his Sce against the said King his heires or successors or any absolution of the said subjects from their obedience I will beare faith and true allegiance to his Majestie his heires and successors and him them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons their crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make knowne unto his Majesty his heires and successors all treasons and traiterous conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them And I doe further sweare That I doe from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and hereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their subjects or any other whatsoever And I do beleeve and in my conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve mee of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full authority to be lawfully ministred unto mee and doe renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these expresse words by mee spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So help mee God LXXXIX Unto this Oath the party taking it shall subscribe his name or mark XC No indictment against a Recusant shall be reversed for lack of form other then by direct Traverse to the point of not coming to Church or not receiving the Sacrament as aforesaid XCI The party conforming himself shall from thenceforth be admitted to discharge or reverse an indictment XCII None shall go out of this Realm to serve any forrein Prince or State without first taking the Oath aforesaid in pain to be adjudged a felon And if hee hath born office amongst souldiers before his departure out of the Realme hee shall enter into bond unto the Kings use with the condition following upon the like pain of being adjudged a felon XCIII The condition is this That if the within bounden c. shall not at any time then after be reconciled to the Pope or See of Rome nor shall enter into nor consent unto any practice plot or conspiracie whatsoever against the Kings Majestie his heires and successors or any his or their estate and estates Realms or Dominions but shall within convenient time after knowledge thereof had reveale and disclose to the Kings Majesty his heires and successors or some of the Lords of his or their honourable privie Councell all such practices plots and conspiracies That then the said Obligation to be void XCIV None but the Customer and Controller of a Port or their Deputies shall have power to take such bond or to minister the Oath in such case for which bond they shall only take 6. d. and nothing for the Oath And shall once every yeer certifie into the Exchequer every such bond in paine of 5. l. and every such Oath in pain of 20. s. XCV To absolve or withdraw any of the Kings subjects from their naturall obedience to his Majesty to reconcile them to the Pope or See of Rome or to move them to promise obedience to any pretended authority of the See of Rome or to any other Prince or State Or to be absolved withdrawn reconciled or to make promise as aforesaid shall be adjudged high Treason XCVI This last clause shall not extend to any reconciled as aforesaid for and touching the point of so beingreconciled only that shall returne into this Realme and within six dayes after before the Bishop of the Diocesse or two Justices of P. jointly or severally of the County where hee shall arrive submit himselfe to the King and his lawes and take the Oath of Supremacie and also the Oath abovesaid which said Oathes the said Bishop and Justices respectively shall by this Act have power to minister to such persons and shall certifie them in at the next generall Sess in pain of 40. li. XCVII Here the tryall of Treason shall be before Justices of Ass and G. D. of that County for the time being and may also be before the Justices of the Kings Bench But Peers in this case shall be tryed by their Peers XCVIII If any person repaireth not every Sunday to some Church or Chappel proof thereof being made to a Justice of P. by the parties owne confession or the evidence of one witnesse the same Justice hath power to call the party before him and if the party give not the Justice a good reason of his absence the Justice may give warrant to the Church-warden of the parish under his hand and seale to levie xii d. for every such default by distresse and sale of goods and in default of distresse the Justice may commit the offender to prison untill he pay the forfeiture aforesaid which shall be imployed ployed for the use of the poore But this offence must be prosecuted within one moneth after it is committed and none punished by this Law shall also be punished by the forfeiture of 12. d. upon the Statute of 1. El. 2. which see in Sacraments 24. XCIX None shall keep or retaine any person in their house servant or other which shall forbeare to come to Church by the space of a month together in paine to forfeit 10. l. for every month they so keep them Howbeit Children may relieve their Father or Mother and Guardians their Wards or Pupils C. The Sheriffe upon a lawfull Writ may justifie to breake a house for the taking of a Recusant Excommunicate CI. The Justices of the Kings Bench and Justices of Ass and G. D. may heare and determine all the offences committed against this Act and so may Justices of P. all save Treason CII The offences made felony by this Act shall not cause losse of Dower corruption of blood or disherison of heire CIII Here if an action shall be brought against an Officer for the execution of this Act
Tithes I. Stat. 27. H. 8.20 If the Judge of an Ecclesiasticall Court make complaint to two Justices of Peace one Quorum of any contumacie or misdemeanour committed by a defendant in any suit there depending for matter of Tithes the said Justices shall commit the said defendant to prison there to remain till he shall find sufficient surety to be bound before them by recognisance or otherwise to give due obedience to the processe proceedings decrees and sentences of the said Court II. Stat. 32. H. 8.7 If in such a Court after sentence for Tithes the defendant appealeth the Judge there shall compell the party appellant by processe and censures ecclesiasticall to satisfie the other party his reasonable costs and in case of contumacie or disobedience upon complaint thereof two such Justices shall proceed as aforesaid Howbeit here the Judge shall take surety of the plaintife to repay the costs in case the cause passe against him Toll S. Fish 17. Transportation S. Actions popular 18. Corn Leather 58. Recusants 75. Treason S. Bailment 1. Trespasse I. Stat. 43. El. 7. If any shall be convicted by his own confession or by the testimony of one witnesse upon oath before one Justice of Peace or head Officer to have unlawfully cut and taken away any grain growing robbed any orchard or garden digged up or taken away any fruit trees broken any hedges pales or other fences cut or spoiled any woods or under-woods standing and growing or the like or to have been accessary thereunto shall for the first offence pay unto the party grieved such damages and within such time as by the said Justice or head Officer shall be appointed And in case the party offending shall not by the said Justice or Officer be thought able to discharge the said damages or shall not discharge them according to the order then shall the said offender be by them or either of them respectively committed to the Constable or other officer of the place where the offence was committed or the party apprehended to be whipped and for every other offence committed afterwards and proved as aforesaid the party offending shall receive the like punishment of whipping II. The Constable or other inferiour officer that herein refuseth or neglecteth to do his duty shall by any such Justice of Peace or head Officer be committed to prison without baile till hee whip or cause to be whipped the party offending as is above limited III. No Justice of Peace shall execute this Statute for offences done to himselfe unlesse hee be affociated with one or more Justices of Peace whom the offence doth not concerne Vagabonds Rogues 1. Stat. 39. El. 4. Justices of Peace within every County and Corporation have power in Sess to give order for the erection of houses of correction and also for the maintenance and government of the same and for the punishment of offenders which shall be thither committed II. All Scholars and seafaring men which beg All wandring persons which either beg use unlawfull games and playes faine themselves to have skill in Physiognomie Palinestry or the like or pretend to tell fortunes All persons that are or pretend to be collectors for Gaoles and Hospitals All Fencers Bearwards common Players and Minstrels wandring abroad other then such as shall be authorised by Noble-men under their hands and seales All Juglers Tinlkers Pedlers and petty chapmen wandring abroad All labourers which wander and refuse to work for wages reasnably taxed having not living otherwise to maintain themselves All persons delivered out of Gaoles which beg for their fees or otherwise do travell begging All Which wander abroad begging pretending losse by fire or otherwise And all such persons not being felons wandring and pretending themselves to be Egyptians shall be adjudged Rogues Vagabonds and sturd Beggars 16. III. If any such vagabond shall be taken begging wandring or misordering him or her selfe he or she by the appointment of any Justice of P. Constable Headborow or Tithingman there the two last being assisted by the Minister and one other of the parish shall be stripped naked from the middle upwards openly whipped till their body be bloudy and forthwith sent the next way from parish to parish by the Officers of each parish towards the place of their birth but if it cannot be known then towards the place where they last dwelt by the space of one whole yeer before such punishment and if that cannot be known then to the towne thorow which they last passed without punishment And if it cannot be discovered where they were born or last dwelt as aforesaid then are they to be conveyed by the officer there to the house of Correction or common Gaole of the County to be imployed in work or placed in some service and so to continue by the space of one yeer or in case they be not able of body that towne is to keep them till they may be placed in some Alms-house within the same County IV. After which whipping the vagabond shall have a testimoniall under the hand and seale of the said Justice Constable Head-borow Tithingman and Minister or any two of them testifying the day and place of his punishment the place to which he is to be conveyed and the time limited for his passage thither which time if by his owne default he exceeds hee shall from time to time incurre the like punishment till hee arrive at the place limited the substance of which testimoniall shall be registred by the said Minister in a book provided for that purpose in pain of v.s. V. If any such rogue seeme dangerous or will not be reformed two Justices of P. one of Quorum shall commit him to the house of Correction and if at the next quarter Sess by the more part of the Justices there he shall not be thought fit to be delivered he shall by them be banished and at the charge of that County shall be conveyed to such parts beyond the seas as shall by six or more of the privie Councell for that purpose be assigned to her Majesty her heirs and successors whereof the Lord Keeper or Treasurer to be one or otherwise adjudged to the gallies of this Realme as the said Justices shall think fit And if a rogue so banished return without licence he shall suffer as a felon to be tryed in the County where he shall be apprehended 17. VI. If a Constable Headborow or Tithingman be found negligent in the due execution of this act they shall forfeit x. s. for every default and none shall make rescous against any Officer or hinder the execution of this law in pain of v. li. and to be bound to the good behaviour 18. VII None shall transport such a rogue out of Ireland Scotland or the Isle of Man being born in any of those places in pain to forfeit xx s. to the use of the poor where he lands And if any such shall be hereafter found in England or Wales they shall suffer punishment and be
conveyed the next way home as aforesaid or in case they came by sea to the place where they landed from whence they are to be transported at the charge of that County to the place from whence they came VIII No impotent poor person shall passe to the Bath or Buxton without being licensed to passe by two Justices of P. where they dwell and provided with relief both for their journey and abode there and shall also return within the time limited by their licence in pain to be reputed and punished as Rogues and the city of Bath or towne of Buxton shall not be chargeable with any such IX Justices of P. of the Counties shall not intermeddle in Cities or Corporations but only the Officers of the same who shall have like power there that the said Justices have in Counties X. This act shall not extend to restrain the power which the citie of London hath in the government of St. Thomas Hospitall in Southwark or to prejudice any jurisdiction or inheritance of John Dutton of Dutton in the County of Chester Esquire XI The forfeitures and fines which shall accrue by this act other then that above otherwise limited shall be imployed for the maintenance of houses of correction or the reliefe of the poor where the offence shall be committed at the discretion of the said Justices of P. and may be levied by warrant under the hands and seals of two Justices of P. by distresse and sale of goods And here the confession of the offender or proof by two witnesses before two such Just shall be sufficient conviction XII Two Justices of P. one Quorum shall have full power to hear and determine all causes which may come in question by reason of this act XIII The Lord Chancellor or Keeper for the time being shall have power to make Commissioners to enquire of money given towards the erection or maintenance of houses of correction stocks for the poor or other such like uses XIV A seafaring man suffering shipwrack not having wherewithall to relieve himselfe and having a testimoniall under some Justice of P. his hand and seale near the place where he landed declaring the time and place of his landing the place of his dwelling or birth unto which he is to passe and the time limited for his passage may in the direct way home and within the time so limited for his passage ask and receive necessary reliefe without incurring the penalties of this act XV. This act shall not extend to children under seven years old nor to glassemen which travell without begging by licence under the hands and seals of three Justices of P. one Quorum of the County thorow which they travell XVI Stat. 1. Jac. 7. Noble personages shall authorize none to goe wandring abroad and glasse-men shall be reputed and used as rogues notwithstanding the Statute of 39. El. 4. XVII In stead of banishing an incorrigible rogue or committing him to the gallies as was ordained by 39. El. 4. he shall in open Sess be branded in the left shoulder with a burning iron having a great Roman R upon it as broad as a shilling and from thence shall be sent to the place of his last dwelling or if that cannot be known to the place of his birth after which time if he offend againe hee shall suffer as a felon without benefit of Clergie 5. XXVIII Every person that seeth or knoweth any rogue to beg shall convey or cause him to be conveyed to the next Constable or Tithingman in pain of x. s. to be levied and imployed as the forfeitures of 39. El. 4. and in default thereof then by the Lord of the Leet or his officer in like manner as the persons authorized by the said Statute should have levied and imployed the same And here also if the Constable or Tithingman doe not punish him according to that Statute he shall forfeit xx s. to be also levied and imployed as by the same Statute is appointed XIX This act shall not prejudice the jurisdiction or inheritance of John Dutton of Dutton in the County of Chester Esquire XX. Stat. 7. Ja. 4. There shall be an house of Correction provided in every Shire to set rogues and other idle people to work XXI The Justices in Sess shall from time to time appoint a Governour for the said house who shall have power to set such rogues and idle people to work and to punish them by moderate whipping or putting fetters or gyves upon them which rogues and idle persons shall not be chargeable to the Country nor have other allowance then what they shall deserve by their owne labour XXII The said Justices shall at least twice every yeer within their severall divisions and oftner if need be assemble and meet together for the better execution of this Statute and some foure or five dayes before their meeting shall by warrant command the Constables and Tithingmen of every Hundred Town and Hamlet being assisted with other sufficient men to make a generall privie search in one night within their severall precincts for the finding and apprehending of rogues c. and such as shall be found to bring to the said meeting to be examined punished or sent to the house or houses of Correction there to be set to work XXIII The said Constables and Tithingmen shall appear at the said meeting and there give an account upon oath in writing under the Ministers hand testifying what rogues c. they have taken in the last search or since the last meeting and how many have been punished or otherwise sent to the house of Correction which if they neglect to do or safely to convey such to the house of Correction as by the said Justices warrant shall be committed thither they shall incurre what fine the said Justices shall please to set upon them so it exceed not xl s. XXIV The Governours of the houses of Correction shall have such a summe of money yearly as shall be thought fit by the more part of the Justices of P. in Sess the same to be paid quarterly before hand by the Treasurers of the County the Governours giving security for their continuance in the said service XXV If any lewd woman have a bastard which may be chargeable to the parish the Justices of P. shall commit her to the house of Correction there to be punished and set to work one whole yeer and if she offend again then is she to be committed again there to remain till she put in good sureties for the good behaviour and not to offend so again Persons running away and leaving their charge to the parish shall be deemed and punished as incorrigible rogues And those that threaten so to do it being proved by two witnesses upon oath before two Justices of P. of the same division shall be by the same Justices sent to the house of Correction there to be punished as sturdy rogues unlesse they will put in sufficient sureties to discharge the town and
chief Officers of the said Cities Boroughs and Market Towns which shall have delivered unto them such weights and measures sealed with the letter H. crowned or with the first letter of the name of the present King of England for the time being shall have authority and power to signe like weights and measures unto any of the Kings subjects duely requiring the same taking for the marking of every bushell only one penny L. None shall use any other weights or measures but such as are so marked LI. Maiors and chiefe Officers shall at least twice every yeer view all measures and weights within their jurisdictions and break or burn them which they finde defective and also inflict punishment upon the offenders viz. for the first offence vi s. viii d. for the second xiii s. iiii d. and for the third xx s. and besides adjudge them to the pillory LII Two Justices of Peace one Quorum have authority as well by examination as inquiry to hear and determine the defaults of Maiors and other head Officers and also of buyers and sellers contrary to this act and to set fines and amerciaments upon the offenders at their discretions and the defective weights or measures are to be forfeited and burnt LIII Eight bushels of corn raised and stricken shall be accounted a Quarter 14. l. a stone of Wooll and 26. stone a sack Howbeit this Act shall not extend to any person selling or buying by water measure within ship-board whereof every bushell shall containe five pecks raised and stricken LIV. Within the Cinque Ports the Lord Warden or his Lieutenant shall order the weights and measures LV. Stat. 12. H. 7.5 A Bushell shall containe 8. gallons of Wheat and every gallon 8. pounds of Wheat Troy weight and every pound 12. ounces and every ounce 20. sterlings or penny weights and every sterling shall weigh 32. graines of Wheat that grew in the midst of the eare of Wheat And a standard for the Kings treasury is to be made according to this Assise LVI Whereas the weights and measures sent downe to Cities and Boroughs last yeare by the Stat. of 11. H. 7.4 were found defective others more perfect shall be sent thither at the charge of the said Cities and Townes according to which all other weights and measures shall be regulated upon the paines in the said Statute contained LVII Stat. 16. Car. 19. There shall be one weight and one measure according to the standard of the Exchequer throughout the Realme and every measure of Corne shall be striked without heape LVIII Whosoever shall sell by or keep any other weight or measure whereby any thing is bought or sold after six months after this Sess of Parliament shall forfeit for every such offence 5. s. being thereof lawfully convicted by the oath of one witnesse before a Justice of P. Maior or other head Officer in their severall precincts respectively who shall have power to administer an Oath in that behalfe which said forfeiture shall be levied by the Church-wardens and Overseers of the poore or one of them where the offence shall be committed to the use of the poore there by distresse and sale of goods rendring the overplus to the party offending And in default of distresse it shall be lawfull for any Justices of P. Maior or other head Officer in their severall precincts respectively to commit such offender to prison untill he shall pay the summe so forfeited LVIX The Clerk of the Market of the King or Princes houshold and his deputies shall only execute their office within the verge and not elsewhere And head Officers of Corporations and Lords of Liberties and their deputies may execute theirs in their severall precincts as they might have done before this Act was made LX. If any of the Officers aforesaid shall seale any weight or measure which is not agreeable to the said standard or shall refuse to seale such as are agreeable thereunto the party paying only such fees for the allowance thereof as are warranted by Statute or some ancient custome they and their deputies respectively shall for every such offence forfeit 5. l. to be levied as aforesaid to the use of the poore where the offence was committed LXI If they shall take any other fine fee reward or summe of money then what are allowed by Statute or some such ancient custome for the signing or examination of any weights or measures which have beene formerly marked or sealed or shall impose any fine or amerciament without a legall triall of the offence or shall otherwise misdemean themselves in the execution of their office and shall be thereof lawfully convict they shall forfeit for the first offence 5. l. for the second 10. l. and for every other offence 20. l. to be levied as aforesaid to the use of the poore where the offence was committed LXII He that is fined or amerced by this Act shall not be again punished for the same offence by force of any former Law or Statute LXIII This Act shall not extend to the measure of Rent-corn nor to Water-measure LXIV If any Officer authorised for the execution of this Statute shall be impleaded for any act he shall do therein he shall plead the generall Issue not guilty and yet give this Statute or any other speciall matter in evidence And if he be found not guilty or the Plaintiffe be non-suited he shall recover treble costs Wild Fowle Stat. 25. H. 8.11 None shall destroy or take away the eggs of any wild Fowle in paine to forfeit for every egge of a Crane or Bustard so taken or destroyed 20. d. of a Bitter Herne or Shovelard 8. d. of a Mallard Tele or other wild Fowle 1. d. to be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor And here Justices of P. shall have power to inquire heare and determine offences of this kind as they use to do in cases of Trespasse S. Hawks 19 20. Hunters 7. Wines I. Stat. 7. E. 6.5 None shall utter Wine by retaile in any other place then in Cities Boroughs Port Townes or Market Towns or in Gravesend Sittingborne Tuxford or Bagshot in paine to forfeit 10. l. for every day that they sell Wine otherwise II. None shall utter Wine by retaile in any City Borough or Corporation but by license of the most part of the Common-Councell Aldermen Burgesses or Communalty there under their common Seale nor in any City Borough Port towne or Market town not Corporate or in Gravesend Sitting-borne or Bagshot without licence of the Justices of P. of the County in Sess under their Seales in paine to forfeit 5. l. for every day that they sell Wine otherwise which said Officers Communalty and Justices have power to continue or change such licences at their discretions but shall not licence above two in one place in paine to forfeit 5. l. a piece except in these hereafter following in which it shall be lawfull to licence more then two viz. in London 40 York 8 Norwich 4 Westminster 3 Bristoll 6 Lincolne 3 Hull 4 Shrewsbury 3 Exeter 4 Salisbury 3 Glocester 4 Westchester 4 Hereford east 3 Worcester 3 South-hampton 3 Canterbury 4 Ipswich 3 Winchester 3 Oxford 3 Cambridge 4 Colchester 3 Newcastle 4 III. None shall sell or utter Wine by retaile to be spent in his or their mansion house or in any other place in their tenure by any colour craft or engine in paine of 10. l. IV. The abovesaid forfeitures shall be divided betwixt the King and the prosecutor V. Justices of P. within every County and Corporation in Sessions Stewards in Leets and Sheriffes in their Turnes have power to enquire by the oaths of twelve men of all offences committed against this Act in which case the forfeitures which shall thereupon grow due shall be divided betwixt the King and the poore of the Towne or place where the presentment shall be found VI. This Act shall not prejudice the liberties of either of the Universities nor charge any person offending unlesse the suit be prosecuted within a yeare S. Weights 6. Witchcraft I. Stat. 1. Jac. 12. If any shall be lawfully convicted to have used or practised the invocation or conjuration of any evill spirit or to have taken up any dead person out of their grave or any part of such person to be used in witchcraft or inchantment or to have used witchcraft wherby any person hath been killed pined or made lame they together with their accessaries shall be adjudged felons without benefit of Clergy II. If any shall be lawfully convicted to have taken upon them by witchcraft inchantment charme or sorcery to discover any place of hidden treasure or where lost or stollen goods are become or to provoke any person to unlawfull love or to destroy or impaire any cattell or goods or to hurt or destroy any person in their body although the same be not effected they shall for the first offence suffer one whole years imprisonment without bail and once in every quarter of that yeer at a Market or Fair stand upon the pillory six hours and there openly confesse the offence committed and for the second offence shall suffer as a felon without benefit of Clergy But here shall be no losse of dower or disherison of heire and in these cases a Peer being an offender shall be tryed by his Peers Witnesse S. Perjury 8. Wood. Stat. 35. H. 8.17 Two Justices of Peace appointed by the more part of the other Justices have power in a form there set down to set out between the lord of a wood and his commoners when they cannot agree the lords part which being as neer a fourth part as can be laid out the said lord or owner shall inclose or sell at his pleasure See Corns Wooll Stat. 2 3. P. M. 13. Justices of P. about Hallifax in Yorkshire have power to punish such of the inhabitants there as having bought wooll doe sell the same again in any other place and not in Hallifax or to the richer sort there or to such as sell it again and not to the poor to be wrought into yarn See Actions popular 18. Writs S. Processe Supersedeas FINIS