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A82394 An act for punishing of such persons as live at high rates, and have no visible estate, profession or calling answerable thereunto. England and Wales. Parliament. 1657 (1657) Wing E1049; Thomason E1065_29; ESTC R210931 1,697 4

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AN ACT For punishing of such Persons as live at high Rates and have no visible Estate Profession or Calling answerable thereunto WHereas divers lewd and dissolute Persons in this Common-wealth live at very high Rates and great Expences having no visible Estate Profession or Caling answerable thereunto to maintain themselves in their licentious loose and ungodly practises do make it their Trade and Livelyhood to Cheat Deboyst Cozen and Deceive the young Gentry and other the good People of this Commonwealth Be it Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector and this present Parliament and the Authority thereof That all and every Iustice of Peace in any County and all and every Iustice of Peace Maior or other head Officer in any City Burrough or Town Corporate shall within their respective Limits have power and Authority by Warrant under his or their hands and Seals to send for every such person or persons and to require of him or them sufficient Sureties aswell for his as their appearance at the next General Sessions for the Peace to be held in such County City Burrough or Town Corporate as for his or their good abearing And in case such person or persons shall refuse or neglect to finde such sufficient Sureties then to send such person or persons to the Common Goal there to remain untill he or they shall finde Sureties as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That at such General Sessions for the Peace to be held within such County City Burrough or Town Corporate as aforesaid such person or persons shall be Indicted for so living at high Rates and great Expences having no visible Estate Profession or Calling answerable thereunto upon which Indictment if he or they shall be legally convicted of the said Offence or Offences then every such person or persons shall be sent to the house of Correction there to be punished and set on work according to the Law and there to continue for the space of three moneths And if such person or persons shall be convicted as aforesaid a second time for the like Offence then such person or persons shall be committed to the house of Correction there to be punished and set on work and there to continue untill he or they shall be discharged by the Iustices in open Sessions And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons at any time after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and seven shall by playing at Cards Dice Tables Tennis Bowles or Shovelboard Cockfighting or by Horse-races or any Game or Games or by bearing any part in the Adventure or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do or shall play as aforesaid directly or indirectly win or gain unto him or themselves any sum or sums of money or other thing valuable whatsoever That then every person and persons so winning or gaining as aforesaid shall forfeit double the sum or value so won or gained One Moyty thereof to the Protector the other Moyty unto the person or persons who shall lose the same so as such loser do or shall prosecute or sue for the same within three Moneths next after such Forfeiture And in default of such prosecution the said other Moyty to such person or persons who shall or will prosecute or sue for the same at anytime within six Moneths next after the said three Moneths expired And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Forfeitures in this Act before mentioned shall or may be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of the four Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign or Wager of Law shall be allowed And that all and every such Plaintiffe or Plaintiffs Informer or Informers shall in every such Suit recover his or their double Costs Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Iudgements Statutes Recognizances Mortgages Bonds Bills Promises Covenants Decrees and other Assurances and Engagements whatsoever that any time since the four and twentieth day of June in the year One thousand six hundred fourty seven have been or shall hereafter knowingly be obtained by or otherwise Made Given Acknowledged or Entred into to any Scrivener or Scriveners or to any other Person or Persons for security or in satisfaction of money or other things since the time aforesaid Plaid for or hereafter to be Plaid for or Lost at Cards Dice Tables Tennis Bowles Shovel-board or by Cock-fighting or by Horse-races or by any Game or Games or by bearing any part in the Adventure or by Betting on the sides or hands of such as Do or shall Play as aforesaid shall be utterly void and of none effect LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1657.