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A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142

or Receiuer Generall of the Muster Rolles who commonly is like to abide about the Court or London so as they shall need at the first prouision for the bearing of their charges to such places Be it therefore enacted that it may bee lawfull for the Treasurers of the Countie where they shall arriue in their discretion vpon their Certificate though not allowed to giue them any conuenient relief for their iourney to cary them to the next Countie with a testimoniall of their allowance to passe on towards such a place And in like maner shal it be lawfull for the Treasurer of the next Countie to do the like And so from Countie to Countie in the direct way till they come to the place where they are directed to finde their maintenance according to the tenure of this Statute And for the better execution of this Acte in all the branches thereof Be it enacted that euery the Treasurers in their seuerall Counties shall keepe a true booke of computation of all such summes as they leuie and also a Register of the names of euery such person vnto whom they shall haue disbursed any reliefe And shall also preserue or enter euery Certificate by warrant whereof such reliefe hath beene by them disbursed And also that the Muster master or Receiuer generall of the Muster Rolles shall keepe a booke wherein shall be entred the names of all such whose Certificates shall bee by him allowed with an abstract of their Certificates And that euery Treasurer returning or not accepting the Certificate brought vnto him from the sayd Muster-master shall write and subscribe the cause of his not accepting or not allowing thereof vnder the said Certificate or on the backe thereof And bee it further enacted That if any Treasurer shall wilfully refuse to distribute and giue any reliefe according to the forme of this Acte That it shall be lawfull for the Iustices of peace in their quarter Sessions to Fine such Treasurers by their discretions as aforesayd The same Fine to be leuied by distresse and sale thereof to bee prosecuted by any two of them whome they shall authorize And be it also enacted that euery Soldier or Mariner that shall be taken begging in any place within this Realme after the Feast of Easter next Or any that shall counterfeit any Certificate in this Acte expressed shall for euer lose his Annuitie or Pension and shall be taken deemed and adiudged as a common Rogue or Vagabond person and shall haue and sustaine the same and the like paines imprisonment and punishment as is appointed and prouided for common Rogues and Vagabond persons Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that all the surplusage of money which shall bee remaining in the Stocke of any County shall by ●he discretion of the more part of the Iustices of Peace in their quarter Sessions be ordered distributed and bestowed vpon such good and charitable vses and in such forme as are limited and appointed in the Statutes made and now in force concerning reliefe of the poore and punishment of Rogues and Beggers Prouided alwayes that the Iustices of peace within any County of this Realme or Wales shall not intromit or enter into any City Borough Place or towne corporate where is any Iustice of Peace for any such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for the execution of any Article of this Acte But that it shal be lawfull to the Iustice and Iustices of the peace Maiors Bailiffes and other head Officers of those Cities Boroughs Places Towns corporate where there is any Iustice of Peace to proceede to the execution of this Act within the precinct and compasse of their liberties in such maner as the Iustices of Peace in any County may doe by vertue of this Act. And that euery Iustice of Peace within euery such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate for euery offence by him committed contrary to the meaning of this Statute shal be fineable as other Iustices of peace at the large in the counties are in this Act appointed to be And that the Maior and Iustices of Peace in euery such Borough Place and Towne Corporate shall haue authority by this present Acte to appoint any person for the receiuing of the sayd money and paying the same within such Citie Borough Place or Towne corporate which person so appointed shal haue authority to do all such things and be subiect to all such penalties as high Constables by vertue of this Acte should haue or be And be it enacted that all forfeitures to bee forfeited by any Treasurer Collector Constable Churchwarden or other person for any cause mentioned in this Act shal be imployed to the reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as are by this Acte appointed to take and haue reliefe And after that reliefe satisfied then the ouerplus thereof with the ouerplus of the stocke remaining in any the sayd Treasurers hands shall bee imployed as is before mentioned to the charitable vses expressed in the said Statutes concerning the reliefe of poore and for punishment of Rogues and Beggers except the sayd Iustices or the more part of them shall thinke meete to reserue and keepe the same in stocke for the maintenance and reliefe of such Souldiers and Mariners as out of the same Countie may afterward bee appointed to receiue reliefe and pensions And that the relief appointed to be giuen by this Acte shall be giuen to Souldiers and Mariners out of the County or place where they were pressed so far forth as the Taxation limited by this Acte will extend And if the whole Taxation there shal be before imployed according to the meaning of this Act or that they shall not be prest men then out of the place where they were borne or last inhabited by the space of three yeres at his or their election Prouided alwayes and be it enacted that euery pension assigned heretofore to any Souldier or Mariner or that shall be assignen before the said feast of Easter next notwithstanding the discontinuance of the said two former Actes shal stand in force and shal yeerely from and after the said feast of Easter next be satisfied and payed out of such Taxations and forfeitures as shall bee made collected and leuied by force of this Act so long as the saide pension shall remaine in force without such reuocation or diminishing as is before in this Acte mentioned Which clause of reuocation or diminishing before mentioned shall extend aswell to pensions heretofore assigned as to such as at any time hereafter before or after the said feast of Easter shall bee assigned to any person or persons And be it also enacted that all arrerages of Taxations heretofore made by vertue of the said former Statutes or any of them which shall be or remaine at the said feast of Easter next vncollected and not receiued or leuied shall and may by authoritie of this Act be had receiued and leuied by such persons and in such

to be prosecuted by any two of the said Iustices of Peace whom they shall authorize Prouided alwayes that this Act shall not take effect vntill the Feast of Easter next And be it enacted that the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties reigne entituled An Acte for the reliefe of the poore shall continue and stand in force vntill the Feast of Easter next And that all Taxations heretofore imposed and not payed nor that shal be payed before the said feast of Easter next And that all Taxes hereafter before the sayd Feast to be Taxed by vertue of the sayd former Act which shall not be payed before the sayd Feast of Easter shall and may after the said Feast of Easter be leuied by the Ouerseers and other persons in this Act respectiuely appointed to leuie taxations by distresse and by such warrant in euery respect as if they had bene taxed imposed by vertue of this Act were not payd Prouided alwayes that whereas the Iland of Fowlenesse in the Countie of Essex being inuironed with the Sea and hauing a Chappell of ease for the inhabitants thereof and yet the said Iland is no Parish but the Lands in the same are scituated within diuers Parishes farre distant from the same Iland Be it therefore enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the said Iustices of peace shall nominate and appoint Inhabitants within the saide Iland to be Ouerseers for the poore people dwelling within the sayde Iland and that both they the sayd Iustices and the said Ouerseers shall haue the same power and authoritie to all intents considerations and purposes for the execution of the parts and articles of this Acte and shall be subiect to the same paines and forfeitures and likewise that the inhabitants and occupyers of lands there shall be liable and chargeable to the same paiments charges expences and orders in such manner and forme as if the same Iland were a Parish In consideration whereof neither the sayd inhabitants or occupiers of land within the sayd Iland shall not be compelled to contribute towards the reliefe of the poore of those Parishes wherein their houses or landes which they occupy within the sayd Iland are situated for or by reason of their sayd habitations or occupyings other then for the reliefe of the poore people within the sayd Iland neither yet shall the other inhabitants of the Parishes wherein such houses or lands are situated be compelled by reason of their resiancie or dwelling to contribute to the reliefe of the poore inhabitants within the sayd Iland And be it further enacted that if any Action or Trespasse or other suite shal happen to be attempted brought against any person or persons for taking of any distresse making of any sale or any other thing doing by authority of this present Acte The defendant or defendants in any such action or suit shall may either plead not guilty or otherwise make Auowry Cognisance or Iustification for the taking of the sayd distresses making of sale or other thing doing by vertue of this Act alleaging in such Auowry Cognisance or Iustification That the sayd distresse sale trespasse or other thing whereof the plaintife or plaintifes complained was done by authority of this Acte and according to the tenor purport and effect of this Acte without any expressing or rehearsall of any other matter of circumstance contained in this present Acte To which Auowrie Cognisance or Iustification the plaintife shall be admitted to reply That the Defendant did take the sayd distresse made the said sale or did any other Acte or Trespasse supposed in his declaration of his owne wrong without any such cause alleaged by the said Defendant whereupon the issue in euery such Action shall be ioyned to be tried by verdict of twelue men and not otherwise as is accustomed in other personall actions And vpon the triall of that issue the whole matter to be giuen on both parties in euidence according to the very trueth of the same And after such issue tryed for the defendant or non-suite of the Plaintife after appearance the same Defendant to recouer treble dammages by reason of his wrongfull vexation in that behalfe with his costes also in that part susteined and that to be assessed by the same Iurie or writ to enquire of the dammages as the same shall require Prouided alwayes that this Acte shall endure no longer then to the end of the next Session of Parliament Anno xliij Reginae Elizabethae ❧ An Acte for the necessary reliefe of Souldiers and Mariners WHereas in the fiue and thirtieth yeere of the Queenes Maiesties Reigne that now is An Acte was made intituled An Acte for the necessary reliefe of Souldiers and Marriners And whereas in the nine and thirtieth yeere of her Maiesties Reigne there was also made another Acte intituled An Acte for the further continuance and explanation of the sayd former Bee it enacted by authority of this present Parliament that both the sayd Actes shall be and continue in force vntill the feast of Easter next and shall bee from and after the sayd feast discontinued And forasmuch as it is now found more needefull then it was at the making of the sayd Actes to prouide reliefe and maintenance to Souldiers and Marriners that haue lost their limmes and disabled their bodies in the defence and seruice of her Maiestie and the State in respect the number of the sayd Souldiers is so much the greater by how much her Maiesties iust and honourable defensiue warres are increased To the ende therefore that they the said Souldiers and Mariners may reape the fruits of their good deseruings and others may be incouraged to performe the like endeuours Be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that from after the sayd feast of Easter next euery parish within this Realme of England and Wales shall bee charged to pay weekely such a summe of money towards the reliefe of sicke hurt and maimed Souldiers and Mariners that so haue been as afore is said or shall lose their limmes or disable their bodies hauing been prest and in pay for her Maiesties seruice as by the Iustices of Peace or the more part of them in their generall quarter Sessions to be holden in their seuerall Counties next after the feast of Easter next so from time to time at the like quarter Sessions to be holden next after the feast of Easter yeerely shall be appointed so as no parish be rated aboue the summe of ten pence nor vnder the summe of two pence weekely to be payd and so as the totall summe of such taxation of the Parishes in any County where there shall be aboue fifty Parishes doe not exceede the rate of sixe pence for euery Parish in the same Countie which summes so taxed shall bee yeerely assessed by the agreements of the parishioners within themselues or in default therof by the Churchwardens and the pety Constables of the