Act against land lords setting of houses to un-free persons ; and also, An act for the purging the city of vagabonds and beggers Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. 1685 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A58542 Wing S1026A ESTC R7018 13708820 ocm 13708820 101517 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Broadsides -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 17th century 2006-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-11 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2006-11 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ACT , Against Land lords setting of Houses to Vn-free Persons ; And also , an Act for purging the City of Vagabonds and Beggers . EDINBURGH , the Twenty Eighth Day of October , One Thousand Six Hundred Eeghty Five Years . THE which day , the Lord Provost , Bailies , Council , and Deacons of Crafts , being conveened in Council , taking to their Consideration , that notwithstanding of diverse Acts of Council made for purging the City of Vagabonds Beggers , and other idle Persons , who daily trouble the Inhabitants , and others His Majesties Leidges resorting thereto ; Yet they are so numerous , that the Citizens and other His Majesties Leidges , cannot without great trouble walk upon the Streets , which is very burdensome to the City , and disgraceful to the place : Considering that by the 15 Act of the third Session of our late Soveraign Lords first Parliament , it is Declared that it shall be leisome to all Persons or Societies , who have , or shall set up any Manufactories within this Kingdom , to seize upon , and apprehend any Vagabonds , who shall be sound Begging , on who being Masterless , and out of Service , and have not wherewith to maintain themselves by their own means and work : And impowering them to employ the saids Vagabond persons and their Bairns , in their common work , and declaring they shall continue therein during their life ▪ time , and shall be subject to their Masters correction and chaftisement , in all manner of correction , ( life and torture excepted ) The saids persons being always employed by the saids Manufactories with advice of the Magistrates of the place where they shall be seized upon . And the Council being now resolved that all the Vagabonds , Beggers , and other idle persons , and their Children that are above the age of 5 years , that can be found upon the Streets of the City , or in any part of the samine , or Suburbs thereof , shall be apprehended and put into the Correction-house , and set at work to Spin and Card , and working such Manufactory work as they shall be employed to do by the Keeper of the Correction-house and his servants , which they judge to be the best expedient for purging the City and Suburbs of the saids idle Persons and Vagabonds , and preventing the increase of them in time coming . Therefore , they hereby Command and Charge these persons who shall receive the Magistrates Commission , to take and apprehend all such Vagabonds , idle Beggers , whores , Thieves , and Masterless persons , and their Children above the age of 5 years , who shall be found within the City , or any part thereof , or Suburbs of the same , and present them to the Magistrates , that thereafter they may be Imprisoned within , the said House of Correction , to be set at work by the said Master of the Correction-house and his Servants , in manner foresaid ; who are to remain therein during all the days of their life-time , conform to the tenor of the said Act of Parliament , during the which space they are to receive all manner of punishment and correction , ( life and torture excepted : ) And in like manner , the Council taking into consideration , that the City hath been , and is greatly abused , by suffering Strangers , Vagabonds , un-free Persons , poor and indigent Bodies , to plant and have their Habitations within this City ; and that by harbouring of the saids persons ( and such as they resett ) the Town is defiled with all kind of Vice , the liberty of Free-men usurped , the City over-burdened with sustaining of that kind of people , their Wives , Children . and such as they resett , particularly in the time of Death , and the Monthly contribution appointed for their own poor , employed and consumed upon them : and that for remeed thereof , the Magistrates and Council by their Act of the Date the 22 th . day of December , 1676. years , did Statute and Ordain , that no persons set their Houses or Lands within the City , or Suburbs thereof , in any time hereafter , to any unfree persons , that are not Landed Gentlemen , or Members of the Colledge of Justice , without a special Ticket from the Bailie of the Quarter in Writt , within whose Bounds the saids Lands lyes , under the pain of an Un-law of Twenty Pounds , to be taken off the Setters or Owners of the saids Lands , or Houses , ilk person to whom their Land or Houses was to be set , with the Escheat of an Years Mail to the Towns use : And where any Lands or Houses are set to such persons that the Owners , or Setters , remove the saids persons instantly ; and that the Bailies shall give no Ticket to the saids unfree persons , but upon Caution to be found Acted in the Town Books , that they shall keep and fulfill the Articles following ; to wit , That they shall receive no Vagabonds , Naughty or Vitious Persons , nor any who are suspect of Theft , or Reset of Theft , or of keeping of Brothel-houses , nor Masterless-persons within their Houses , under the pain of Twenty Pounds , so oft as they failzie Item , They shall use no unlawful Vocation , or usurp the Liberty of a Free-man , under the said pain - Item , That neither they , their Servants , Wives , nor Children , shall be burdenable to the good Town , under the pain of an Un-law of an hundred Merks . Item , That they shall be no ways disobedient to the Church , or Magistrates , or Officers of the said Burgh , under the said pain , and their Penalties to be paid by the saids Cautioners . The Council do revive the foresaid Act , in the whole Heads , Articles and Clauses thereof ; and Ordains the same to take effect , and to be put to due Execution in all time coming . And further , it is Statute and Ordained , that Out-land poor Beggers , and other poor , that hath been Burgess Bairns in this Burgh , remove and dispatch themselves forth of this Burgh , Bounds and Liberties thereof , and to retire to the place , or Paroch where they were born , or formerly recided , so that they be not found nor seen within the samine , at any time hereafter , under the pain of puting them in the Thieves-hole , 48 hours for the first fault , and Scourging of them thereafter ; as they shall be found within the Bound foresaid . And Ordains this presents to be Printed , and Published through the City and Suburbs , by Tuck of Drum , and affixed upon the most conspicuous places of this City , that none pretend ignorance . Extracted by me , JO. RICHARDSONE . Edinburgh , Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson , Printer to His most sacred Majesty , City and Colledge , 1685 This may be Reprinted at London , RLS . November the 13 th . by D. Mallet 1685.