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A23017 Anno quinto reginæ Elizabethe. At the parliament holden at Wesmynster the .xii. of Ianuary, in the fyfth yere of the raigne of our soueraigne lady, Elizabeth by the grace of god, of England, Fraunce, and Irelande, quene, defendour of the the fayth. [et]c. To the hygh pleasure of almyghtye God, and the weale publique of this realme, were enacted as foloweth; Laws, etc. England and Wales. 1564 (1564) STC 9464.5; ESTC S113166 167,827 188

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daye of Iuly yerely certifie into the sayde Court of Chauncerye their resolutions and determinations therin to the intente that proclamations may accordynglye be renued and sent downe And if it shall happen that there be no nede of anye reformation or alteration of the rates of the sayde wages but that the former shal be thoughte mete to be contynued then the proclamations for the yere past shall remayne in force vntill newe proclamations vppon newe rates concernynge the sayde wages shal be sent downe accordynge to the fourme of this Estatute And be it further enacted by auctoritie of this present Parlyament that if all the sayd Iustices of peace resiant within Countyes where they are or shal be Iustices of peace Maiors and head officers do not before the tenth daye of Iune nexte commynge and afterwarde yearelye appeare and assemble at the sayde generall Sessions or within syxe weekes nexte after the sayde generall Sessions and lymitte and rate the wages of the sayde seruauntes and laborers or shall not consider whether the former rates made be mete to be continued or to be altered and reformed in manner and fourme aforesayde or be negligent or remisse in the certificat therof in fourme aboue written that then euery Iustice of peace of the Countie and euery Maior and head officer of the Citie or towne corporate in whom any suche defaulte or negligence shal be founde beinge within the sayde countie Citie or towne corporate at the tyme of the sayde nexte assemblye or at the tyme of the saide Sessions or at the tymes of the sayde rates of wages to be set within syxe wekes nexte after euerye suche Sessions and not visited wyth any suche sickenes as he coulde not trauell thyther without perill and daunger of his lyfe or not hauynge anye other lawfull and good excuse to be allowed by the Iustices then assembled for the ratinge and taxynge of wages as is aforesayde or by the more parte of them vppon a corporall othe and affidauit to be taken and made openlye before the sayde Iustices vppon the holy Euangelistes by some credyble person assessed and taxed in the booke of Subsedye of that Countie to the cleare value of fyue poundes at the leaste or by suche other person as the most parte of suche Iustices shall allowe and accepte to take suche othe shall for suche defaulte or negligence forfeyte vnto the Queenes Maiestie her heyres and successours tenne poundes of laweful money of Englande And be it further enacted by the auctoritie aforesayde that yf any person after the sayde proclamation shal be so sent downe and published shal by any secret waies or meanes directly or indirectly reteyne or kepe any seruaunt workeman or laborer or shall geue any more or greater wages or other commoditie contrarye to the true intent and purporte of this statute or contrary to the rates or wages that shal be assessed or appointed in the sayde proclamations that then euery persone that shall so offende and be thereof lawfully conuicted before any the Iustices or other head officers aboue remembred or eyther of the sayde Presidentes and Councelles shall suffer imprisonment by the space of tenne dayes without bayle or maynepryce and shall lose and forfeyte fyue poundes of lawfull money of England And that euery person that shal be so reteyned and take wages contrary to this estatute or any braunche therof or of the sayde proclamation and shal be thereof conuicted before the Iustices aforesayde or any two of them or before the Maior or other head officers aforesayde shall suffer imprisonment by the space of .xxi. dayes wythout bayle or mayneprice And that euery reteyner promyse gifte or payment of wages or other thinge whatsoeuer contrary to the true meanynge of this estatute and euery writinge and bond to be made for that purpose shal be vtterly voyde and of none effect And be it enacted by the auctoritie aforesaid that if any seruaunt workeman or laborer shall wilfully or maliciously make any assaulte or affray vpon his Maister Maistres or dame or vppon any other that shall at the tyme of suche assaulte or affray haue the charge or oversight of any suche seruaunte workeman or laborer or of the worke wherein the sayde seruaunt workeman or laborer is appointed or hyered to worke and beinge therof conuicted before any two of the Iustices Maior or head officer aforesayde where the sayde offence is committed or before eyther of the sayde Lordes Presidents and Councell before remembred by confession of the sayd seruaunt workeman or laborer or by the testimony witnesse and othe of two honest men that then euery suche offendor shall suffer imprisonment by the space of one hole yere or lesse by the discression of two Iustices of peace if it be without a towne corporate and if it be within any town corporate then by the discression of the Maior or head officer of the same towne corporate with two others of the discretest persons of the same corporation at the least And if the offence shal require further punishement then to receaue suche other open punishment so as it extend not to lyfe nor lymme as the Iustices of peace in open Sessions or the more part of them or the said Maior or head officer and sixe or foure at the least of the discretest persones of the same corparation before whom the offence shal be examined shall thinke conuenient for the qualitie of the sayde offence so done and committed Prouyded alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritye aforesayde that in the tyme of hey or corne haruest the Iustices of peace and euery of them also the Constable or other head officer of euery towneship vpon request for the auoyding of the losse of any corne grayne or hey shal may cause all suche artificers and persons as be mete to labour by the discressions of the sayd Iustices or Constables or other head officers or by any of them to serue by the daye for the mowing reapyng shearing gettyng or Innyng of corne grayne and hey accordynge to the skill and qualitye of the person and that none of the sayde persons shall refuse so to do vpon paine to suffer imprisonment in the stockes by the space of two dayes and one night And the Constable of the towne or other head officer of the same where the saide refusal shal be made vpon complainte to hym made shal haue auctoritye by vertue hereof to set the sayd offendour in the stockes for the tyme aforesayde and shal punishe hym accordingly vpon payne to lose and forfeyte for not doynge therof the summe of xl.s Prouided also that all persons of the counties where they haue accustomed to go into other Shires for haruest worke and hauynge at that tyme no haruest worke sufficient in the same towne nor countie where he or they dwelt in the winter then last past bryngynge with hym or them a testimoniall vnder the hand and seale of one Iustice of the peace of the shyre or other head officer of
diuers Cities and Townes within this Realme of England much therby impaired the whole Realme greatly endomaged and other countreis notably enriched the people therof wel set on worke to their cōmodities liuinges in the artes and sciences aforesayde and to the great discourage of the skylfull workmen of this Realme being in very dede nothing inferiour to any straunger in the faculties aforesayde For reformation wherof Be it enacted by our soueraigne Lady the Quenes highnes and by the Lordes spirituall and temporall and the commons of this present Parliament assembled by the aucthoritie of the same that no person or persons whatsoeuer frō or after the feast of the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist now next ensuyng shall bring or cause to be brought into this Realme of Englande frō the partes of beyonde the seas any Gyrdels harnesse for gyrdels Rapiers Daggers Kniues Hiltes Pummelles Lockets Chapes Dagger blades Handels Scabberdes and Sheathes for kniues Saddels Horse harnesse stirrops Bittes Gloues Pointes Leather laces or Pinnes being redy made or wrought in any partes of beyond the Seas to be solde bartred or exchaunged within this Realme of England or Wales vpon payne to forfaite all such wares so to be brought contrary to the true meaning of this Acte in whose handes soeuer they or any of them shal be founde or the very value thereof th one halfe of the forfaiture to be to our soueraigne Lady the Quenes hyghnes her heires successours the other moitie therof to him or them that wyll sease the same or sue therfore in any court of Record of the Quenes Maiestie her heires successours by action of debt byll plaint information or otherwise where no wager of lawe essoigne or protection shal be to him or them alowed This Act to continue and endure to the ende of the next Parliament An Acte touchyng Tanners Curryours Shoemakers and other artificers occupying the cuttyng of Leather ¶ The .viii. Chapter WHere before this time diuers many good estatutes haue ben made for the true tanning currying and working of leather as a thing very necessary for the cōmon wealth cōmoditie for the Quenes Maiesties subiectes for that euery sort of people of necessitie must vse haue leather for diuers and sundrye purposes which notwithstandyng leather was neuer worse tanned curryed or wrought then now a dayes it is by reason wherof diuers persons are not onely put to great losse charge other inconueniences but also do take diuers and sundrye diseases to the shortenyng of theyr lyues as by the complayntes of diuers persons exhibited in this Parliament it manifestly appeareth Be it therfore enacted by the Quenes Maiestie with thassent of the Lordes cōmons in this present parliament assembled and by thaucthoritie of the same that from after the feast of Pentecost next cōming no Butcher or other person shall gashe slaughter or cut any hyde of any Bull Oxe Steare or Cowe in fleyng therof or otherwise wherby the same shal be impaired or hurt And that no Tanner or other person or persons vsing or occupying the craft or mistery of tannyng of leather shall after the feast of S. Michaell tharchangell next cōmyng by him selfe or any other person or persons offer or put to sale any such hyde or skyn so gashed flaughtered or cut vpon payne of forfaiture for euery such hyde or skynne so offred or put to sale xx.d And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no Butcher or other person or persons after the said feast of Pentecost shal kyll any Calfe to sell being vnder fyue wekes olde vpon payne to forfait for euery Calfe so to be kylled and solde vi.s viii d And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no person or persons occupying the craft or occupation of a Butcher shal after the feast of Pentecost next cōming occupy or vse by himselfe or any other person or persōs the feat craft or mistery of a Tanner duryng the tyme that he shall so vse the crafte or occupation of a Butcher vpon payne of forfaiture of vi.s.viii.d for euery day that he shall so vse the feate craft or mistery of a Tanner And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid that no person or persons whiche at the feast of S. Michaell tharchangell whiche was in the first yere of the Quenes Maiesties reigne that nowe is had not landes tenementes rentes profites or hereditamentes of estate of inheritaunce or for terme of lyfe or lyues of the clere yerely value of xl.li or aboue or whose Tanhouse was not at the saide feast is or shal be hereafter in a Citie Borough Towne corporate or market Towne where searchers sealers of leather hath ben shal be vsually appoynted except such person persons as then had any Tanhouse and dyd then occupy the mistery of tannyng of leather and except an apprentice or apprentices to a Tanner or Tanners except such as were then or since or hereafter shal be brought vp instructed or taught as couenaunt or hyred seruaunt for that purpose by the space of .vii. yeres in the mistery or craft of tannyng of leather and except the wyfe and such sonne or sonnes of a Tanner as hath ben brought vp hath vsed the mistery of tanning of leather by the space of foure yeres aforesaid or the sonne or daughter of a Tanner or suche person who shall marry such wyfe or daughter to whom he hath or shall leaue a Tanhouse and fattes shall tanne any leather or shall vse take or haue any profite gayne or cōmoditie of or by the said mistery or craft of tanning of leather vpon payne of forfaiting of all such leather by him or them so tanned or whereof he or they shall receaue any profyte or commoditie by tannyng or the iust value therof And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaide that after the feast of Pentecost next commyng no person or persons whatsoeuer which shall after the sayde feast of Pentecost occupy or vse by hym or them selfe or by any other person or persons the crafte or mistery of tannyng of leather shall suffer any hyde or skynne to lye in the lymes any longer tyme then the heere falleth of or maye be taken of nor in any wise to be put into the limes after the heere maye be taken of nor shall vse employ occupye or put by them selues or by any other person or persons any thing in any lycour stuffe or workmanshyp in or about the tannyng of leather but only lyme Culuer donge or Hen donge and that in colde water onlye and wooses made of colde water and Oken barke onlye without any mixture of any other thyng or thynges nor shall by hym selfe or by any other person or persons put any hyde or skynne in any tanne wooses or licour made whot or warmed in any fat or vessel to be set or couered in any tanne hyll or otherwyse nor shall ouerlyme any hydes or skynnes in the lyme pyttes nor
meanyng and purport of this Acte or if any Shoemaker Cordwayner or Cobler within the Citie of London or three myles compasse of the same after the sayde feaste of Saint Michaell tharchangell nexte put any tanned leather into any shoes bootes buskynnes startvppes slyppers pantofles or other thinges made of tanned leather which shall not be well and perfectly tanned accordyng to the purport and true meanyng of this Acte or after the sayde feaste do put any curryed leather into any bootes buskynnes startvppes shoes slyppers pantofles or other thynges made of leather which shall not be well and sufficiently tanned and curryed and also sealed as is aforesayde or do make bootes buskynnes shoes startvppes slyppers pantofles or other thynges made of Englyshe tanned leather in other maner then is aboue specified and ordeyned or yf any Shoemaker Sadler or other artificer vsyng cutting or working of leather do make any wares of any tanned leather insufficiently tanned and of tanned or curryed leather beyng not sufficientlye tanned and curryed as is aforesaide or do not make theyr wares belongyng to theyr seuerall occupations sufficiently and substauncially That then the Wardens of euery of the sayde companyes of Sadlers Curryers Shoemakers and other artificers vsyng and exercysyng cuttyng of tanned leather for the tyme beyng shall forfaite lose for euery such default and offence to be committed or done by any person or persons vnder theyr order suruey or searche .v. li. Prouided alwaye and be it enacted that no maner of person or persons shall after the sayde feast of Saint Michaell vtter or sell or cause to be vttered or solde within the saide Citie of London or within three myles compasse of the same any maner of wares apperteynyng to the crafte or mistery of anye artificer cuttyng of leather but onely in open shoppe common fayer or market whereby the sayde Wardens may haue the true search of the same in aduoydyng the penalties vpon them by this Act set vpon paine of forfaiture of all suche wares so solde x.s for euery tyme. Prouided alwaye and be it enacted that all and euery artificer dwellyng or inhabytyng or which hereafter shall dwell or inhabite within the Citie of London or three myles compasse of the same vsyng or exercysyng any manuell occupation of cuttyng or workyng of leather into made wares shall contribute paye and be vnder the suruey and search of the Wardens of such companies of the sayde Citie of London as the artificers commonly vsing the lyke occupation beyng free men of the same Citie of London and of the same company be touchyng and concernyng onelye theyr wares and stuffe made of or with leather in lyke maner fourme as other free men of the same company doth to the Wardens of theyr company within the sayde Citie All which paynes penalties and forfaitures aforesayde of summes of money aforesayde excepte such paynes penalties and forfaitures as are before or hereafter by this Acte shall otherwyse be disposed shal be deuyded into three equall partes one parte whereof shal be to our Soueraigne Lady the Quene her heyres and successours and an other part to hym or them that shall fyrste sue for the same in any of the courtes of Recorde of the Quenes Maiestie her heyres and successours by action of debte byll playnt information or otherwyse In which suite no wager of lawe or essoigne shal be admitted or alowed and the thirde part therof shall go to the Citie Borough Towne or Lorde or Lordes of liberties where the offence shal be committed or done And all suche leather shoes bootes buskynnes startvppes slyppers pantofles wares stuffe and other thynges whatsoeuer made of tanned leather or curryed leather which shal be seased by vertue of this Acte or shal be founde insufficiently wrought tanned or curryed and declared by this Acte to be forfaited and shal be seased by the sayde searchers or any other person fyndyng the fault therof shal be distributed as hereafter ensueth That is to saye such leather or stuffe so seased within the Citie of London or within thre myles compasse of the same to be brought to the Guylde hall in London there to be praysed by indifferent persons and the value thereof to be deuided into three partes wherof one part to be to the first seaser and seasers of the sayde vnlawful stuffe and an other part to the vse of the Chamber of London and the other part to be distributed to the poore folkes aswell beyng within the newe Hospitall of S. Bartilmewes in London as to such poore housholders as shal be inhabiting within the Citie of London or the circuite aforesayd at the discressions of suche persons as the Maior of the same Citie and foure Aldermen of the same for the tyme beyng shall appoynt for the same And that al such leather bootes shoes saddels wares stuffe thinges made of or with leather as is aforesaide which shal be founde within any other citie borough towne or place win this Realme out of the sayd Citie of London and three myles compasse vnsufficiently wrought tanned or curryed as is aforesayd shal be seased taken as forfaited shal be brought to the cōmon hall of euery such Citie Borough Towne or to some conuenient and open place to be appoynted by the Lorde of the libertie or his deputie where no cōmon hall is there to be praysed as is aforesayde one part of the said value therof to be disposed vnto the poore and in other dedes of charitie in those parties after the discressiō of the Maiors Baylyffes Headboroughes Lordes of liberties an other parte to be delyuered to the Maiors Baylyffes other head officer of any Citie Borough or Towne corporate to the vse of the cominaltie of such citie borough or towne corporate where no suche officers be then to the Lorde or Lordes of the libertie where any such forfaiture shal be cōmitted or seasour had the third part to the fyrst seaser or seasers of such leather stuffe or wares insufficiently tanned curryed or wrought as is aforesayde for his theyr paynes Prouided alwayes that no person to whom any such vnlawefull leather or stuffe shal be geuen by this Act shall geue or sell any suche leather or stuffe to any person or persons that shall sell the same vppon payne that the byer shall forfaite for euery parcell of suche vnlawefull leather or stuffe to be solde contrarye to the true meanyng of this last clause iii.s.iiii.d Prouided alway that this Act nor any thing therin conteyned shal not in any wise be preiudicial or hurtful to the Chauncelours Vicechauncelours Proctours Taxours and Scholers their officers ministers assignes or fermers of the vniuersities of Oxforde or Cambridge or any of them of for or concernyng the aucthoritie of search of tanned leather or any of the forfaitures of the same which they lawfully had or myght haue had before the makyng of this present Act so as they do in all thynges obserue such order in about or