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ANNO QVARTO HENRICI VIII THe Kynge our soueraygne lorde Henrye the viij after the conquest by the grace of God king of England and of Fraunce and lorde of Irelande at his parlyamente holden at Westminster the iiij day of Nouember in the fourh yere of his most noble reygne after the prorogation to the honour of God and holye churche and for the common weale profite of this his realme by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporall the commons in thys presence parliament assembled by aucthoritye of the same hath doo to be ordeined made enacted certaine statutes and ordynaunces in maner and fourme folowing THE TABLE AN acte concerninge makinge of bulwarkes on the sea-side Cap. i. An act concerning punishment for murther Cap. ii An act concerning iuryes in London Cap. iij. An act of proclamacions to be made before exigents be awarded in forrayne countyes Cap. iiii An act repelling penaltyes for geuinge of wages to labourers and artificers Cap. v. An act concerning customers comptrollers for sealyng of cloth of gold siluer and al other maner of silkes and corses Cap. vi An act concerning peuterers and true weightes beames Cap. vii An act concerning Richard Strode Cap. viii FINIS TABVLAE HENRICI OCTAVI An act concerning making of Bulwarkes on the sea syde Cap. i. PRayen the commons in this presente parliament assembled that for as muche as the lande of Britayne and also the hauen of Brest lyeth streight agaynst the South sea costes of the county of Cornewal and that the Frenchmen our auncient ennemies and Britaynes enemyes by reason of their fishyng vpon the sea costes know as well euery hauen and creeke wythin the sayd countie as euery lāding place in as large maner as anye subiecte of our soueraine lorde the kinges doth And that the sayde countye is lxx myle in length and the substaunce thereof righte little more than vi mile in breade from the south sea to the north sea by reason wherof they also know that great multitude of people cannot shortly resorte to put them of at their landing and that in diuers and many of the sayd landinge places nother pile blockhouse ne bulwarke is made to greue or annoye them at theyr landing which consideracions vnto our said enemies greate audacitie comforte and courage geeueth to arriue and lande in the same parties to the great annoyaunce of our sayd souereigne lord his subiectes there and to the vtter vndoing of diuers and many of them vnlesse a remedy be the sooner prouided Therefore be it enacted by the king our soueraigne lord his lords spyrituall and temporall the commons in this present parliament assembled and by auctority of the same that the Iustices of the peace and sheriffe of the sayd county do ryde and view all the sayde South coste from Plymmouth westward to the lands end And that done incōtinent to appoint wythin themselues suche boroughes townes and paryshes as they shall thincke reasonable to make bulwarkes brayes walles ditches all other fortifications for the same cause in maner forme and fashion as shall bee thoughte by theyr discretion in euery of the sayd landing places betweene this and the fyrst day of March next now comming And farther be it enacted by the sayde auctoritie that euery Mayre and constable of the sayde countie by the sayd Iustices of peace or sheriffe appointed do commaunde all thinhabitauntes within the precincte of theyr office to be at the sea side wyth such instrumentes as they haue or can get for the making of the sayde bulwarkes and other the premisses in such lāding places as shal be assigned by the sayd Iustices of the peace or Sheriffe And that the said maire or constables do commit to warde all such wilfull personnes as wyll not obey come nor sende any other person to the sea syde● to make the said bulwarkes and other the premisses at the day and time by the sayde Maire or constables to bee appointed and there to remaine withoute bayle or mainprise by the space of tenne dayes or lesse at the discretion of the sayde Mayre or Constables And if any of the sayde Mayres or Constables do not their duetie as is aforesayd that than the Iusticees of the peace nexte adioyning do committe to warde the same Mayre or Constable so offending there to remayne wythoute bayle or maynepryse by the space of a moneth or els at the discretion of the Iustice of peace And also be it enacted by the said auctority that good and substanciall bulwarkes braies walles ditches and all other fortifications in euery lāding places in maner fourme fashion as is aforesaide as wel frō Plimmouth aforesayd by the sea costes Estward as in al other parts within the realme of England be made there as the Iustices of the peace Sheriffe within that shyre where any such landing places be shal thincke nedeful And that euery Iustice of peace Mayre and constable within euery shyre where any suche landinge places bee haue lyke and as good auctority by this present acte to commaund the inhabitantes of euery borough towne and parish adioyninge to the sea syde or els where after the discretions of the Iustices of peace to make the sayd bulwarkes other the premisses and also commit to warde all such wilfull persons as will not obey in like maner as the Iustices of the peace Maires constables of the said countie of Cornewall may do by any of the actes aforesayd And ouer this be it enacted by the sayde auctority that it be lawfull for euery of the kynges subiectes within this realme of Englande by the aduise and assignement of the sayde Iustices of the peace or sheriffe to make all maner of bulwarkes and other the premisses in euery mans grounde of what estate or degree he be of and also to digge and to delue as wel for earth stones and turfes as to cut and to hew heth in any mans grounde for the makynge of any suche bulwarkes and other the premisses as ofte and as many times as neede shal requyre and the sayd erth stones turfes and heth to take and occupie and cary awaye oute of the saide grounde to any other mans ground for the making of any such bulwarkes and other the premisses in whose ground so euer the sayde earth stones turfes and heth happen to bee wythout any interruption or let of any person or persons being lord or lords of any such ground or hauinge any other interest in the same And without any maner of payment to be demaūded for any of the premisses or any maner of action by any maner or person or persōs at any time hereafter to be attempted or in any wyse mainteyned against any of the kinges subiectes for any such matter or cause And this acte to endure to the next parliament An act for punishment of murther Cap. ii WHere as robberies murders felonies daily encrease more and more and bene committed and done in more heynous open and
entent that the makers of such wares shall auow the same wares by them as is abouesayd to be wrought And that al and euery such wares not sufficiētly made and wrought and not marked in forme abouesayd foundē in the possession of the same maker or seller to be forfayted and if the same ware be solde the sayd maker to forfait the value of the same so vnlawfully wrought and sould the one halfe of the said wares or the value thereof to be the vse of your highnes and the other halfe to be to the vse of the finder or serchers of the same Also that it may by the sayd auctority be enacted and establyshed that if any person or persons hereafter vsyng bying and selling of peauter or brasse that hereafter occupy any disceiuable or false beames or weightes of the said wares that euery suche person or persons vsynge or occupyinge suche dysceyuable and vntrue beames or weyghtes to forfaite xx.s the one half to the kynge and the other halfe to the partye that therefore shall sue by action of det and that in the said action no protection nor essoyne shal be allowed And also the sayde party so offendings shall forfaite his beame to him that shall cease it and if the sayd offender or offenders be not sufficiente to pay the sayde somme or sommes by theym so forfayted that then it shall bee lawfull to the Mayres bayliffes or other heade officers of suche place or places where any such offenders shal be found to put them in the stockes and them so to kepe till the next market day next adioyning in the market place to put them in the pillorie all the market time And furthermore that it be lawfull by the sayd auctority that the maister wardeins of the sayde craft of peuterers wtin euery citie and borough of this realme where such wardeins are and where no such wardens are the head officers or gouernours of the same citie or borough to appoint certeyne persons most expert in knowledge of the same to make serch within the sayd citties or boroughes where they dwell And ouer this the Iustices of peace within euery shyre at the generall sessions holden at Mighelmas shal assigne and appoint two certaine persons hauing experiēce therin to make serch in the premisses in euery part of that shire as well within the fraūches as without sauing in cities or borowes wher serchers be appointed by the heds or gouernours of the same And that all such vnlawfull peauter or brasse as the sayd searchers shall find the one halfe to the vse of your grace and the other half to the said serchers And that in the defaute of the said maisters wardeins of the sayd occupacions not serching informe as is aforesayd and wherby that any such vnlawfull mettels is caste or made or vnlawfull weightes vsed that then it shal be lawfull to any person or persons hauing sufficient cunninge knowledge in the said occupacions by ouersight of the maire bayliffes or heade officers of the sayde citties boroughes and townes to search al the sayd places and to put sayd auctoritie and acte in executiō in forme aforesayd Pleaseth it therfore your grace and wysedomes in so much as the sayd acte is thought good and profitable that it be ordeyned enacted and established by the lordes spyrituall and temporall and the commons in this presente parliamente assembled and by the auctority of the same that the sayd act may endure for euer And ouer that be it enacted by the sayde auctority that if any vntrue or deceyuable mettell or workemanship of Tinne or peauter be founden either in platters chargers disshes saucers potengers trenchers basins flagons bottels pottes saltesels goblettes spones cruettes or candelstickes or any other suche wares of tinne or peauter wheresoeuer it be cast made or wroughte wythin this realme or wythout and brought to be sould within the same realme that than it shal be lawful to the mayre of the cittie of London and the maister and wardēs of the craft of peauterers of the sayd city for the time being and theyr deputies to haue serch of the same wythin the cittie of London and the suburbes of the same And that in all other citties boroughes and townes where any wardeins bee or shall bee the Mayres bayliffes or heade officers and wardeynes to haue like aucthoritie And where no wardeins be than the head officers or gouernours of the same citties boroughes and townes to appoint certaine persons most experte cunning in knowledge of the same to make serch wythin the sayd cities boroughes and townes where they dwell And if any such new wares wrought of tinne and peauter as is aforesayd be found defectise beinge in the possession of the sellar that then same person or person that putteth any such newe wares of peauter to sale shall forfaite the same wares the one halfe to the vse of our soueraigne lord the king and the other halfe to the serchers or finders of the same Prouided alway that this act concerning the forfayture be not preiudiciall nor hurtfull to any person or persons hauing graūt of our soueraigne lord the kinge or of any of his noble progenitours by his letters patents of such forfayture but that they and euery of them shal may enioy the same according to theyr former grauntes and libertyes An act concerning Richard Strode Cap. viii LAmentably complayneth sheweth vnto your most discrete wysedomes in this present parliamēt assembled Richarde Strode gentleman of the county of Deuonshyre one of the burgeis of this honourable house for the burghe of Plimton in the countie aforesayd that where the said Richard condescended and greed with other of this house to put forth certeine villes in this present parliament against certaine persons named tinners in the countie aforesaid for the reformacion of the perishing hurting and destroying of diuers portes hauens and creekes and other villes for the cōmon weale of the sayd countie the which here in this high court of parliament should and ought to be commended and treated of And for because the said Richard is a tinner for the causes and matters afore rehersed one Iohn Furse tinner vnderstewarde of the Steimerie in the sayd countie in and at foure courtes of the sayd Steimerie at diuers places and times before him seuerally holden in the sayde county he and other haue condempned the sayd Richarde in the somme of clx.li. That is to wete at euery court day xl li and that by the procurement of the said Iohn Furse at the sayde foure seuerall courtes and lawdayes in the sayd Steymerie by him holden in this maner published and sayde that the same Richard at the last parliament holden at Westminster woulde auoyded and vtterly destroyed all liberties priuiledges fraūches concerning the Steimerie by reason whereof the sayde Richarde vppon foure billes had and made therof by the sayd Iohn Furse and other caused that the sayd Richard was presented founden