STatuta bonum publicum concernencia edita in parliamento tento apud westmonesterium xiv die Octobris Anno regni Illustrissimi Domini nostri Regis Henrici septimi ¶ The statutes concerning the common we'll made in the parliament held at westminster the fourteenth day of Octobre. In the reign of our sovereign lord the king. king henri the eleventh. the eleventh year. ¶ The table of every chapiter or act following/ ¶ That men going to battle with the prince &c. shall not be attainted Capitulo. primo. ¶ For punishment of vagabonds & beggars Capitulo. ii ¶ That acts afore made against unlawful reteynours. riots & c should be put in execution Capitulo. iii ¶ That one weight and one measure shall be used. thorough all this ream Capitulo. four ¶ The names of towns limited for the safe custody of weights & mesures according to the kings standard Capitulo four ¶ For putting away wears in the port of Southampton Capitulo. .v. ¶ For packing & payen custumes of woollen clothes Capitulo. vi ¶ For punishment of riots Capitulo. vii ¶ For punishment of usurers Capitulo. viii ¶ An act concerning the Inhabitants of north & south Tyndale Capitulo. ix ¶ For levying of the arrearages of the benevolence last granted Capytulo ten ¶ An act concerning taking of apprentices in the city of Norwyche Capitulo. xi ¶ For writs to be given and learned counsell to be assigned to the poor people with out payen any money therefore Capytulo. xii ¶ That horses shall not be conveyed out of the land without the kings licence neither mare's over the price of six shillings and eight pence Capitulo. xiii. ¶ That strangers made deynezyns shall pay custom & subsidies as strangers Capitulo. xiiii ¶ Against untrue demeaing of sheriffs and their officers in holding their counties Capitulo. xu ¶ For keeping of the watch in Calyce Capitulo. xvi ¶ Against destroying of partridges & pheasants with unlawful gins Capytulo xvii ¶ Not being with the king intime of need &c. Shall lose fees & annewytees to them granted Capitulo. xviii ¶ Against unlawful making of feather beds. pylowes and matresses Capitulo xix ¶ Against women covert making alienation of lands moved by the first baron Capitulo. twenty ¶ For inquest hereafter to becharged within London Capitulo. xxi. ¶ For wages of hyies in husbandry & of Artyfycers & labourers Capitulo. xxii ¶ For gauging and packing of Salmon Elys and hearying Capitulo xxiii ¶ For punysshing of perjury & lessing the penalytee in attaint Capitulo xxiiii ¶ For punyssing of periowrie by examination of the Chasiceler treasurer Capitulo xxv ¶ For holding the sheriffs Turns within counties of Such. Surt and Sussex. Capitulo. xxvi ¶ For fustians to be shorn with the broad Shere Capitulo. xxvii. The king our sovereign lord Henry the seven after the conquest by the grace of god king of Englond and of France & lord of ireland. at his parliament holden at Westm. the xiiii day of October in the xi year of his reign to the honour of god and holy church. And for the common profit of the ream by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in the said parliament assembled and by authority of the same parliament hath do to be made certain statutes & ordinances in manner & form following. That men going to battle with the prince &c: shall not be attained Capitulo Primo THe king our sovereign lord calling to his remembrance the duty of alligeaunce of his subgettes of this his ream. & that they by reason of the same are bound to serve their prince & sovereign lord for the time being in his wars for the defence of him & the land against every rebellion power and might reared against him. and with him to enter & abide in service in battle if case so require/ And that for the same service what fortune ever fall by chance in the same battle against the mind and will of the prince. as in this land sometime passed hath be seen/ That it is not reasonable but against all laws reason and good conscience that the said subgettes going with their sovereign lord in wars attending upon him in his person. or being in other places by his commandment within this land or without. any thing should lose or forfeit for doing their true duty & service of alligeaunce. It be therefore ordained enacted and established by the king our sovereign lord. by advise and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and comyns in this present parliament assembled. & by authority of the same that from henceforth no manner of person ne persons what so ever he or they be that attend upon the king & sovereign lord of this land for the time being in his parson. and do him true and faithful service of alligeaunce in the same. or be in other places by his commandment in his wars within this land or without. that for the same deed and true service of allygeaunce he or they be in no wise convict or attain of high treason ne of other offences for that cause by act of parliament or otherwise by any proses of law whereby he or any of them shall mow forfeit life lands tenementis rents possessions hereditaments goods cataylles or any other things but to be for that deed & service utterly discharged of any vexation trouble or loss/ ¶ And if any act or acts or other professes of the law hereafter thereupon for the same hap to be made contrary to this or denaunce/ that thenn the act or acts or other process of the law whatsoever they shall be. stand & be utterly void/ provided always that no parson ne persons shall take any benefice or advantage by this act which shall hereafter decline from his or their said allygeaunce. For punishment of vagabonds & beggars Caplon ij FOr asmuch as the kings grace most entirely desireth among all earthly things the prosperity & restfulnes of this his land & his subjects of the same to live quietly & surely to the pleasure of god & according to his laws willing always of his pity intending to reduce them thereunto by softer means than by extreme rigour therefore purveyed in a statute made in the time of king Richard the second. considering also the great charges that should grow to his subgettes for bringing of vagabonds to the gaols according to the same statute and the long abiding of them therein. whereby by lyklehede many of them should lose their lives. In modring of the said statute his highness will by th'authority of this present parliament it be ordained & enacted. that where such misdoers should be by examination committed to the common jail there to remain as is aforesaid. that the sheriffs/ Mayres/ Bayllifs high Constables & petty Constables and all other governors & officers of cities burgh's towns townshypns villages & other places. within three days after this act proclaimd. make due search and take or cause to be take all such vagabonds idle & suspect persons living suspecyously. and them so taken to sit in stocks there to remain by the space of three days & three nights. and there to have none other sustenance but breed & water. and after the said three days & three nights to be had out and set at large and then to be commanded to avoid the town/ And if eftsoons he be take in such default in the same town or towneshyp then he be set in like wise in stocks by the space of uj days with like diet as is before rehearsed. & if any person or persons give any other meet or drink to the said misdoers being in stocks in form afore said or the same prisoners favour in their misdoing. that thenn they forfeit for every time so doing twelve d/ ¶ And also it is ordained by the said authority. that all manner of beggars not able to work within uj weeks next after proclamation made of this act go rest and abide in his hundred where he last dwelled. or there where he is best known or borne. there to remain or abide without begging out of the said hundred upon pain to be punished as is before said/ And that no man be excused by that he is a clerk of one university or of other without he show the letters of the Chancellor of the university from whence he saith he cometh/ nor none other calling himself a Souldeour Shypman/ or Travelling man without he bring a letter from his cappytayne or from the town where he landed. and that he then to be commanded to go the straight high way in to his country/ ¶ And over this it is ordained by auctotoryte abovesaid. that if any Shyreff or other office afore rehearsed execute not the premisses as is abovesaid of every vagabunde· hermit or beggar able to labour or clerk Pylgreme or shipman as oft as any such cometh in his sight or that he hath thereof knowledge within the Town where he hath authority rule or governance. that as often as any such of the said misdoers abiding there by the space of a day departen unexamyned and unpunished as is above said. for every misdoer so deparded. he to lose twenty d/ ¶ And that the lord of every let within this realm and the sheriff in his Turn. have authority to inquire thereof in his let and Turn. and the lord of the let to have for every default found as is above said twenty d/ and the sheriff to inquire in his Turn of such escapes within the jurisdiction of his Turn/ And to have twenty d. for every such default found in his Turn/ and that the penaltee limited by this ordinance to be forfeited by any office or any other person for none punishment of vagabonds & other misruled persons within every city where Mayre and aldermen been/ that the perfect of every such penalty be unto the alderman of every ward where such forfeiture is had or made to his own ¶ And also it is ordained & enacted by the said authority that it shall be lawful to every man Entitled to have the said penalty dystreyne for it in like wise as the lord of any let may do for amerciaments & fines had assessed in the same let and furthermore it is ordained & enacted by the said authority that none apprentyse ne servant of husbondris ladourer ne servant artificer play at the tables from the tenth day of jenuary next coming but only for meet & drink ne at the tenies clossh dice cards bowls nor any other unlawful game in no wise out of christmas. and in christmas to play only in the dwelling house of his master or where the master of any of the said servants is present upon pain of empresomentee by the space of a day in the stocks openly And that the household where dising carding tennis playing bowls closshe or any other unlawful 'gan afore rehearsed shall be used otherwise than is afore rehearsed. and that lawfully be presented before justices of the peace. the mayr shiref in his turn or steward in his let or by examination had afore the said justices of peace that process be made upon the same as upon inditement of trespass against the kings peace. And that the said misdoer be admitted to no fine under the some of vi s. viii. d. And that it be lawful to two of the justices of the peace whereof one shall be of the Quorum within their authority to reject & put away comen ale selling in towns & places where they shall think convenient & to take surety of the keepers of ale houses of their goodbehaving by the. discretion of the said justices. and in the same to be advised & agreed at the time of their session's/ ¶ provided alway that diminution of punishment of vagabonds and beggars aforesaid may and shall be had for women great with child and men and women in extreme sickness by him that hath authority to do the said punishments this act notwithstanding/ That acts made against unlawful reteynours: riottes & cetera should be put in execution Capitulo:: iij: THe king our sovereign lord calling to his remembrance that many good statutes and ordinances be made for the punishment of riottes unlawful assembles reteyndours and giving & receiving of lyverees signs & tokens unlawfully. extorciones mayntenaunces imbracery exsesyve taking of wages contrary to the statute of laboreres and artificers. the use of unlawful games inordinate apperayll and many other great enormities & of fences which been committed and done daily contrary to the good statutes for many & divers beautiful consideration. severely made and ordained to the high dyspleysure of almighty god and the great let of the common law we'll of this land. notwithstanding that generally by the justyces of the peace in every Shire within this realm in the open sessions is given in charge to inquire of many offences committed contrary to divers of the said statutes & divers enquests thereupon there straightly sworn and charged before the said justyces to inquire of the premisses & therein to present the truth which are letted to be found by imbracery maintenance corruption and favour by occasion whereof the said statutes be nor can not be put in dew execution/ For reformation whereof for so much that before this time the said offences extortions contempts and other the premisses might not nor as yet may be conveniently punished by the dew order of the law except it were first found and presented by the udyte of: xii. men thereto duly sworn. Which for the causes afore rehearsed will not find nor present the truth. Wherefore be it by the advise and assent of the lords spiritual. and temporal and the comins in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same enacted ordained and established. that from henceforth aswell the justyces of Assize in the open sessions to be holden afore them and every of them. as the justices of the peace in every Countee of the said realm upon information for the king to fore them to be made. have full power and authority by their discretion to here & determine all offences and contempts commyted & done by any person or persons against the form ordinance and effect of any statute made and not repelled. And that the said justyces upon the said information have full power and authority to award and make like process against the said offenders & every of them as they should or might make against such person or persons as been presented and endited before them of trespass done to the kings peace. and the said offender/ or offenders duly to punysshe according to the purport form and effect of the said statutes. ¶ And also be it enacted by the said authority. that the person which shall give the said information for the king/ shall by the discretion of the said justyces content and pay to the said person or persons against whom the said information shall be so given. his reasonable costs and damages in that behalf sustained if that it be tried or found against him that so giveth or marketh any such information. ¶ provided always that any such information extend not to treason murder or felony nor to any other offence wherefore any person shall lose life or Member. nor to lose by ner upon the same Information any lands tenements goods cattles to the party making the same information/ ¶ provided also that the said information shall not extend to any person dwelling in another Shire than there as the said information shall be given or made. Saving to every person & persons cities & Towns all their liberties & fraunchyces to them & every of them of right belonging and appertaining/ That one weight & one measure shall be used thorough all this realm Capitulo:: iiij: PRayen the comyns in this present parliament assembled where divers acts statutes and ordinances in the times of the noble progenitors and predesessours of our now sovereign lord the king have been made the one measure & one weight should be used through out this noble realm/ and also that in every city Burgh and town within the same realm upon certain & several pains in the said statutes and ordinances limited/ should be common balance with common weights and comen mesures marked according to the estandarde of the Exchequer. by the which and other like balances weights & mesures marked according to the said estandarde. all men should buy & sell in avoynding of all fraud & discord in that. behalf to be used which acts statutes & ordinances have not be observed & kept as now in this present parliament it hath be openly by diverse persons of divers parties of this realm remembered to the great hurt & vexacon of divers and many of the kings subgett of this his realm. For remedy whereof be it of your abundant grace & charge our most gracious sovereign lord by th'assent of the lords spiritual & temporal & by the comyns in this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same enacted & established That unto the knights & citizens of every shire and city assembled in this present parliament. barons of the .v. ports & certain burgesses of Burgh towns or they from departed this present. parliament be delivered of every weigh & measure which now our soveraye lord hath caused to be made of brass for the common we'll of all his subject & lieges within this his realm Englond according to the king our sovereign lords standard of his Echequer of weight and mesures as they been in the exchequer of our said sovereign lord and that the said knights citizens and burgesses to whom the said weights & mesures shall be delivered as is afore said surely convey or cause the same to be conveyed on this half the feast of Ester next coming by the said Citeyzins to their cities and by the said knights unto such Burgh or town corporate/ or market Town within the shire for which they been elected as is specified & contained in a sedule unto this present bill annexed. there to remain for ever in the keeping of the Mayor Baylly or other heed office for the time being of the same city Burgh or town as the kings standard of weight and measure/ And that thinhabitants of all cities burgh's and market Towns within every of the said Shires. shall on this half the fest of the nativity of saint Ikn Baptist next coming make or cause to be made coming mesures and weights according to the weights & mesures above said to remain within the said cities burgh's & market towns/ & every of them and the weights and mesures to be viewed examined printed signed and marked by the Mayor Baylly or other heed officer in whose possession the aforesaid have authority & power to make sign and print under the sign & print for the same with a letter. H. crowned to be printed to assign and print like weights and mesures unto every the kings leyges and subgettes duly requiring the same. taking for marking of every bushel i d. and from the said feast of the nativity of saint. Ihonn Baptist no merchant neother person ne persons within any city or market town buy ne sell with any weight or measure except it be markid signed or printed in manner and form afore said. ne any other person or persons out of the said Cyttes burgh's and marked towns except it be like and equal with the said estandarde/ and that every person aswell without cities burghs & market towns as within. buy and sell with a bushel sealed signed or marked after the form aforesaid and none otherwise. and that all the Mayres Bayllyes and other heed officers of every city Burgh or market Town shall cause twice in the year or oftener as they shall think nesessary. all weights and mesures within the said cities burgh's and market towns to be brought afore them and to be duly viewed and examined and such as they shall upon the said examination find defectife. immediately to be broken and brent and the party or parties which in that behalf hath offended and be found defectyf. shall forfeit for the first time vi s. viii. d. the forfeiture thereof to be unto the said Mayor Bayly or any other having jurisdiction and correction in that behalf and at the second time the said offender like wise to forfeit xiii s. iiii. d. and at the third time like wise to forfeit twenty s. and for further punysshent to be set upon the pillori to the ensample of other. And two justyces of peace whereof one shall be of the Quorum have authority aswell by examination as by enqere to here and determine the defawtes of the said Mayres Bayllyes and other heed officers in that behalf. and also of all buyers and selers doing contrary to this present act and ordinance/ and to set fine and mercement upon the offenders by their discretion And the said weights & mesures so found defectif to be forfeited & brent Be it also enacted that there be but onnely viii bushels raised and stricken to the quarter of corn. and xiiii li. to the stone of will and xxvi. stone to the Sack/ ¶ Be it also ordained by th'authority above said that the justices of peas above said have authority to make like process against all persons founden as is above said defectyf/ and for such fines and amerciaments as upon them shall be sessed as if they were indited afore theiym breaking of the kings peace/ And that whereby other statutes and ordinances afore limited. it is ordained that every city Burgh & town that hath a Constable should have common weights and mesures. sealed upon penalties in the same limited. that those penalties in that behalf extend not to any town which is no city Burgh nor market town. ¶ provided always that this act shall not extend nor be prejudicial to any person selling or buying by water measure with in the ship board/ And that it be by th'authority abovesaid enacted the premises or any other ordinance afore made notwithstanding/ that the said water measure within the ship bord· shall only contain: v. pecks after the said standard razed and stricken. provided also that the examination of defawtes abovesaid and punishment to the offenders of every offence commyted hereafter within any of the said .v. ports/ shall be had done & admystred by the lord warden of the said .v. ports or by his lieutenant of the same for the time being & none other the premisses notwithstanding/ provided always yn this act of weights and mesures extend not nor be in no wise hurtful or prejudicial to the prince within the duchy of Corneu all for any weights appertaining to the Cunage of tin within the counties of Cornwall & devonshire/ but that all such weights be used ordered demeaned and corrected as it hath been used & accustomed before this time/ the said act & ordinances notwithstonding The names of the Towns limited for the safe custody of weights and mesures according to the kings estandarde for the shires following as particularly appeareth ¶ Westml the town. of Appulby ¶ Northumbc the town. of newcastle ¶ Cumbr the city of Carleof ¶ Lanc. the town of Lancaster ¶ Eborum. the city of York ¶ Lincoln. the city of Lincoln. ¶ Derb. the town of Derby. ¶ Notingh. the town of Nottingham ¶ Leyc. the town of leicester. ¶ Warr̄. the city of coventry ¶ Rotel. the town of uppyngham/ ¶ North. the town of Northampton ¶ Bed. the town of Bedford ¶ Buk. the town of Bukyngham ¶ Canterbr the town of cambridge ¶ Hunt: the town of Huntyngdon ¶ Norff. the city of Norwych ¶ Suff. the town of saint Edmondes bury ¶ Essex. the town of Chelmesford. ¶ Hearts. the town of hertford ¶ Mydd. In Westmynester ¶ Kanc. the town of maydestone. ¶ Surrey the town of Gulford ¶ Sussex. the town of Lewes. ¶ Oxon. the town of Oxenford ¶ Berk. the town of reading ¶ Salop'. the town of Shrewesburi ¶ Staff. the town of Stafford ¶ Hereford the city of hereford. ¶ Glouc. the town of Gloucestre. ¶ Wigorn̄. the city of Worceter. ¶ Wiltes. the city of new Salesbury. ¶ Such. the city of Wynchester. ¶ Somns. the town of Ilchestr. ¶ Dors. the town of Dorchestre ¶ Devon. the city of Excestre. ¶ Cornub. the town of Lustudyell ¶ Lodon. the same city ¶ Bristol. the same town ¶ Quinque portus the castle of Dover. ¶ Cuntas Coventr. the same city. ¶ Suthampton. the same town. ¶ Cuntas Cestr the same town. For putting away wears in the port of southāpton Caplo v FOr asmuch as the ports havens rivers creaks and aryvell of ships within this realm of Englond. and the costs of the same been now of late greatly annoyed and hurt & decayed/ and in especial the port of Southampton the which before this time hath been the greatest haven succour and resceyte aswell for merchants & ships of this ream of England. as of Carrikes Galeys & other ships and merchants of other regions and countries there aryving and resorting to the profit of our sovereign lord the king the great increase of the merchants of this land and the common we'll and comfort all the country thereto adjoining the which is now lately greatly decayed/ and is like shortly more to decay by reason and occasion of divers and many wears and other engines for fishing there made levied fired and had between a certain place in the said haven called calshord & another place in the said haven called Redbrydge directly/ So that by reason by the said wears & engines within few years. no ship of great burdom shall mow come or aryue in the said haven without due & hasty remedy be purveyed in this behalf/ For remedy whereof & for the common weal of this ream of Englond & th'increase of the merchants of the same The king our soveraye lord by thassent of his lords spiritual & temporal & the cōȳs● this present perl yament assembled and by authority of the same ordaineth establyssheth & enacteth that it be lawful to every man to abate pluck & take away all and every of the said wears & engines and every of them at all times at thyr pleysure being in the said haven between the said places called Calshorde & Redbryge directly without trouble let or vexation of any man and that no man let trouble vex hurt or sue the pluckers up takers away of the said wears and engines or them upon pain of forfeiture of xl. li. of every of them that so letteth trowblyth sueth vexith or hurteth/ And that if any person or persons from henceforth make levy fix or set any wears or engines for fishing stone timber or earth in the said haven directly between the said places thenne he or they that so do. shall forfeit. C.li the one half of either of the said sums to be to the king our sovereign lord and that other half to him or them that will sue in that behalf by action of debt plaint or bill or in formation in the kings Exchequer/ And that the defendant in such action plaint bill of information be not essoined nor any protection be allowed for him nor be admitted to wage his law in that behalf/ And this act to endure the space of twenty years now next ensuing/ For packing and paying custumes of woollen clothes Capitulo vi WHere as in the parliament holden at westminster the twelfyth year of the rain of king Edward the forth late king of england among other things it was ordained established and enacted that where any woollen clothes were or should be packed in any port within this realm of England and then to be carried from thence to any port within this realm to be carried over the see. that then the same clothes so to be packed & carried. should be packed in the presence of the custumers & countrollers of the port where the same clothes should be so packed/ And that the custumes and subsidies of the said clothes due to the king should be paid and content unto the Collectors of the custom within the same port as in the said act plainly appeareth. which act for divers and many causes and considerations is thought hurtful & prejudicial aswell unto the king our sovereign lord as to the merchants In consideration whereof be it ordained established & enacted by the king our sovereign lord by the assent of the lords spiritual & temporal & the Comyns of this present parliament assemblid & by authority of the same. that from henceforth the custom and subsydee of all woollen cloches to be shipped or carried over the see where so ever they been packed. shall be paid to the Custumers of the port or ports where any such clothes shall be lade or shipped or to their deputes. this act or any other act here before made to the contrary notwithstanding. For punishment of riots Capitulo seven Prayen the comyns of this your land in this present parliament assemblid that where for the great surety rest peace and tranqyllyte of your said comyns true lyege men and subgettes inhabited in this your realm diverse and many good statues acts & ordinances have been made in times past ordained and stablished to subdue and punish riottes for the unlawful reysinge & leading of your people riottes routs and other unlawful assembles. whereby many evil deeds jeopardees perils fere & dread to your subgettes have grown and there upon great penalties set upon the said rioters and offenders as in divers remembered statutes acts & ordinances in the days of your noble progenitors at several times made ordained and provided more at large doth and may appear/ yet the same acts notwithstanding. some persons not dreading god. their sovereign lord ne the punishment of the laws made & had in this beal●e. oft-times aswell by colour of such offices as they have obtained. as Receynours stewards and bailiffs of lordship's and other offices. as by privy reteynders by other promise covenant & otherwise and clamynge also duty of their tenants & servants where none such duty is to go with them when such assemble ryotte or rout shall be. And after the same divers of the said servants and persons oft times retret and absent themseless by the agreement covin and counsel of the said masters and of the said principal rioters So that they may not be taken ne brought to answer to the law as the laws require/ And if any indictments be had. it shall be made upon such persons as so retret and absent themself and no thing founden against the said principal riottours in deceit and fraud of the said good statutes acts and ordinances thereof made to the great courage and boldness and comfort of the said evil doers. most danger jeopardy and peril of your said well disposed subgettes and to the wert ensample that thereby may ensue if hasti remedy therein be not provided. It may therefore please your highness of your most loving dysposicionn that ye bear & owe to the comen we'll of this your land and to the great surety of your subgettes of the same. by the advise of the lords spiritual and temporal and the comens in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same to do ordyne enact & stablissh. that what so ever ꝑsone or persons within this your realm of what estate degree or condition he be. that hereafter unlawfully raise assemble or lead your people within this your realm without your commandment or authority of your law and commit any riot that thenne if the party grieved or any other ꝑsone in the king's behalf complain to the justices of the peace within the Country where such riot is done or to oni of them having authority to inquire of the same where such riot and unlawful assemble shall be made by bill conteininge the riot & the circumstance of the same and of what Town Shire. mystery or condition every of the persons against whom the same complaint be made/ is dwelling. or else. if the said rioters be endited thereof. then theru upon the said justices and every of them have authority & power in the next general sessions of the peace within the same Count to be holden after the complaint so to them made or inditememt thereof had afore the same justice to do make proclamation that the said master or masters principal or princypalls leader or leders that unlawful cause the said people to gather or rise. that they appear personelly at the next general sessions of the peace after the said proclamation so made. & every other person or persons that were present and attendant upon him or them by his or their commandment procuring or assent contained in the said proclamation at the said ryotte rout and assemble and every of them personelly to appear at the said next sessions of the peace next after the said proclamation to be holden within the said county/ At which day if the said master or masters principal or principals leader or leders or any other or the foresaid offenders appear. thenne he or they to be put to answer thereunto if it seem the said justyces reasonable and be put to ●uffycient bail by reconnaissance before the said justyces to appear personelly from lessyons to sessions unto the time that the complaint he discussed. And if he or they refuse so to do then he or they be committed to ward there to remain till they will/ And if any of the persons against whom such complaint or indictment is had or made dwelling other Countee than in the same Countee where such ryotte rout and assemble is made/ That then the justyces to or a fore whom the same complaint or indictments is had or made/ do send a transcrypte of the same complaint or indytement to some justice of the peace in the county where such person is dwelling desiring him to cause proclamation to be made in the next general sessions of the peace in that county to be holden that the same person or persons appear at the next general sessions of the peace in the there where the said riot is done next after the same proclamation to be holden. And if the same person or persons dwelling in a foreign shire appear. then lyke order to be had for him or them so appearing as is afore specified for & to them that been dwelling in the said shire where the said riot is supposed to be done or made/ And if the same person or persons or any of them against whom such proclamation is made in the county where the said riot is supposed to be done and they be dwelling at the time of the same proclamation making in the same County make default and appear not at the said general sessions to him or them limited in the said proclamation and eftsoons after that make default and appear not at the next general sessions after that/ So that like proclamation be made as is aforesaid. ¶ And if any of the said rioters against whom proclamation is made in a foreign shire where they be dwelling make default at the day and place in the said proclamation to them limited then he or they in whether of he said Shires they dwell that so make default/ to stand and be adjudged and convict upon the same default of the said riot and unlawful assemble if he or they were thereof convict by the due order of the law/ without he or they can make such lawful excuse as the said justyces shall think reasonable by their discretion. And thereupon such process to be awarded against them as is accustomed upon condemnations of trespass in your comen bench at the suit of the party. And that the said justices of the pease have authority and power to here & determine the rehearsed causes as well upon bill before them as by enditementes and upon the same bill or indictments to proceed & determine the same by inquests according to the course of the common law. And the party thereby and thereupon to stand convict as perfitly as if they were thereupon convict by due process of the law. And if the said master or masters principal or princypalles leader or leders or any other afore rehearsed offender be convict upon the premisses then he or they be committed to prison. there to remain and abide without bail or mainprize by such time and space as shall be thought reasonable by dyescretion of the said justices. And then he or they depart out of prison/ to pay their fine sessed after the discretion of the said justices his or their haviour & offences considered ¶ And that it be enacted by the said authority that by the discretion of the said justices and as they see need every of the said master or masters principal or princypalles leader or leders and other the said offenders so covicte be bound to the kings pease from henceforth in such some or sums of money as shall be considered by the said justices/ And the said surety to stand by the discretion of the said justyces And if it be so that the said riot & unlawful assemble be committed with the number of xl. persons or above or with less number than xl and that by the discretion of the said justice it be thought heinous. that then if the said master or masters principal or princypalles. leader or leders that have appeared and so thereof be convict. that then they remain in prison unto the time that they have found sufficient surety to appear afore the king and his counsel at a certain day by the said justyces to be limited at the which day or afore the keeper of the gaol rolls of the said records shall do to be sent under his seal the said hole record of the conviction to the king our sovereign lord and his counsel to th'intent that his highness and his Counsel may award such emprysonement and fines of the said master or masters principal or principals leader or leders as by his highness and by his said Counseyl shall be thought convenient/ And if the party complaynaunt as is aforesaid can not prove the matter of his said bill to be true than he to pay reasonable costs and damages of the party vexed as shall be thought resanable by discretion of the same justyces/ and they to make against the same complaynaunt not proving the matter of his said bill to be true. such process against him for the said costs and damages as is afore limited against the said ryotours convict of the said riot for the payment of their said fines. And if the said complaynaunt or complaynauntes have not sufficient whereof to restore the party and parties so vexed or troubled in form aforesaid/ that then he immediately be rommytted to the comen jail by the said justices there to remain the space & time as shall be thought by the said justices convenient and reasonable. And that this act endure but unto the next parliament/ For punishment of usurers Capitulo viii praying the comyns in this present parliament assembled that where in the parliament holdenat northcōtre the third year of your most noble reign It was enacted ordained and established that of for and upon bargeynes grounded in usury coloured by the means of new chevisance or exchange contrary to the law of natural justices to the great displeasure of god and of our said sovereign lord and the common hurt of this his land. that certain punisshmentes and penalties should run upon the offenders in that behalf as in the said act more at large is contained which act was and is so obscured dark & defuse. that the true intent of the makers thereof can not perfectly be understand wherefore and for the plain explanation and declaration of usury and penalties to be hereafter excuted upon th'offenders in the same/ The king our sovereign lord by th'assent and advice of the lords spiritual & temporal and the comyns in this present parlyamen assembled & by authority of the same ordaineth enactyth and establysshth that all manner of person or persons leaning money to and for a time taking for the same lone any thing more besides or above the money lent by way of contract of covenant at the time of the same lone. Saving lawful penalties for none payment of the same money lent: and that all manner of person and persons which hereafter sell oni goods catelles' or merchandises to any person or persons being in necessity. and the seller himself or by his brokar or factor in that behalf again buy the same goods catelles' or merchandises of the same person to whom they were sold being in necessity of his brokar or factor in that behalf within three months after they been sold fore a less some of money than they were sold for knowing the same goods so bought again/ afore by the same bier or buyers to be sold after the form afore said/ And that every person & persons leaning or taking any money to any person or persons to a certain time and taketh lands renementes or any hereditaments or other bounds for surety perfit and sure repayment of his or their money lent at the time assigned without condition or adventure/ and also at the time of the same lone or taking of the said money covenauntyth appoyntyth or contractyh covenaunten appoynten or contracten that he or they that so lean or take money/ shall have the revenues and profits of the lands tenements or hereditaments of him that so borroweth or taketh money by a certain time that then every person hereafter upon any of the promises convicted. forfeit the moyte of the value in money of the said money goods cattles merchandises as is above said so sold or lent after such value as they been sold or lent for after any form aforesaid. whereof the king shall have the one moyte of the same forfeiture/ and the party that will sue the other moyte/ And if no man will sue. then the king have the hole/ And this suit for the said penalty and forfeiture to be aswell at the kings suit as any other that will sue by information in any of the kings Courts of record. And such process to be had in the same. as is used in other actions of de●te at the comen law in the same Courts. ¶ provided always that in the courts of Chancery & Exchequer they shall make such process as hath be used afore time Informations afore them commenced wherein the defendant shall not wage his law nor protection ne essoin de service le roy in the same allowable/ And that the same act and ordinance made the said third year and all thing there in contained be from henforth utterly void and of none effect Reserving alweye to the spiritual jurisdiction their lawful punysshmentes in every cause of Usury/ An act concerning thinhabitantes of North and South Tyndale Capitulo ix FOr asmuch as thinhabitants & dwellers within the lord shypp and bounds of North Tindale and South Tindale not only in their own persons but also often times accompanied and confedred with scots ancient enemies to this realm. have at many seasons in times passed committed & done and yet daily and nightly committed and do great and hanoyous murders treasons robberies felonies depredations riottes and other great trespasses upon the king our sovereign lords true and faithful lyege people and subgettes inhabitors and dwellers within the shires of Northumbrelonde Cumbre land westmerlonde Examshire the bisshiprishe of Duram & in a part of York shire which treasons murders robberies felonies and other the promises. have not in time passed in any manner of form be punished after thorder & course of the comen law by reason of such franchises as was used within the same while it was in the possession of any other lord or lords. than our sovereign lords. and thus for lack of punishment of the said treasons murders robberies felonies and other the premises. the kings true and faithful liege people and subgettes inhabiters and dwellers within shires and places before rehearsed. can not be in any manner of surety of their bodies or goods neither yet lie in their own houses but either to be murdered or take or carried in to scotland and there raunsonned to their great destruction of body and goods and utter empoverisshing for ever on less due & hasti remedi be had & found in the premis-inconsideration whereof the king our sovereign lord for very zeal & gracious favour that he beareth to the comen weal of this his realm not willing his true & faithful lyege people subgettes to fail of remedi in the pmmysses. hath ordained establysshid & enacted by th'assent of his lords spiritual and temporal and the comens of the same his realm in this pnsent parliament assembled & by authority of the same that the said lordship & bounds of north & south tindale now being in his hands & allondes & tenements with in the same in whose possession so ever they be & every part yer of stand & be from henceforth gildable and part of the shire of northhumbrelonde aforesaid and no franchise ne fraunchysed but that all manner of the kings writs shall run & all his officers. as well the warden or wardens of the Este and mydyll Marches of England towards scotland their lietenaunde or lieutenants the justices of peace sheriff escheator Coroners Bayllyes and other officers and their deputies and every of them of and within the County of Northumbrelonde afore said and all there warrauntes and precepts shall be obeyed & of great authority in the law by reason of this act within the said lordeshype and bounds of North and South Tyndale and in every part thereof as in oni other party of the said shire of Northumbrelonde. and over this that no person or persons of what estate degree or condition he or they be of that now hath or that hereafter shall have authority or power in his or their own right or any other man's to dimit or let to farm for year or years term of life or at will any lands or tenement within the lordship & bounds of North & South Tyndale aforesaid. let or dimit to farm for year or years term of life at will any lands or tenements within the said lordship & bounds aforesaid but that the less or loesses before he or they take or occupy beforce of any such leas any such lands and tenements find good and suficient surety at the ieest two persons having lands and tenements within the said shire of Northumbrelonde not being within the said lordship and bounds of North & South Tindale to the full yearly value of forty shillings over and above all manner charges and repryces/ by reconnaissance to the king our sovereign lord in. xx.li. before two at the least of the justyces of the peace of the said Shire of Northumbrelonde for the time being whereof one shall be of the Quorum. upon this condition that if the said less or lessees within viii days warning to them or any of them personally or openly at his or their own house or in his or thyr paryssh church yeven by any of the said justices of the peace. the Shyref of the said County of Northumbrelond and warden of the Eest & middle Marches for against scotland or his lietenaunt personally appear not before the same justices of the peace warden or lietenaunte at any sessession or sessions jail deliver warden court at such place and day within the said shire of Northumbrelonde. or day or days of trues wheresoever it. shall fortune them to be assigned and as they or any of them shallbe therun to as before is rehearsed warned. there and then to answer all such treesons felonies murders and trespassers or attemptates contrary to the trues from henceforth by them or any of them to be done/ that then the said some of. xx.li. shall be forfeited the one half thereof to the king our sovereign lord and the other half to him or them that will sue therefore giving thereof to the justices before whom the reconnaissance is or shall be taken after thexecution thereof he had of is said part so recovered xl shillings. And that the said justyers of peace afore whom the said reconnaissance is or shall be taken as before is rehearsed and all other justyces of the peace within the said shire of Northumbrelonde for time beynnge shall by reason of this said act havefull authority to inquire there of & to take presentments and informations thereupon & to award process & execution of and for the same some upon any presentment or information made thereon in like and as ample form as the kings justices of his Bench shall or may do of or for any reconnaissance taken afore them forfeited for the keeping of the kings peace/ And if any person or persons after the feast of Ester next coming take upon him or them to let or dymytte as before is rehearsed any lands or tenements within the said lordship or bounds of North and South Tyndale where no such surety is before had and found as before is rehearsed. that person & persons that so let or dimitten shall by this same act for every acar of ground and every mese and mansion or dwelling place within the said lordship and bounds aforesaid by him or them so let or dymitte forfeit xl shillings. the one half to the king and the other to him or them that will sue therefore/ And that the justyces of the peace of the said Shire of Northumbrelonde for the time being/ shall have like authority in all things concerning this forfeiture as by this act & ordinance is given to they y in reconnaissance afore expressed. and that all manner of leasses dinussions made or to be made of any lands or tenements within the said lordship and bounds of North & South Tyndale for the which no such surety shall be had & found at the said feast of Ester. and so forth as tofore is rehercid. be and stand from thence forthward void & of none effect And if any person or persons of what estate degree or condition he or they be of/ take upon him or them after the said feast of Ester to enter occupy dwell hold or inhite any lands tents or ground which the said lordship and bounds of North and South Tyndale not being his own inheritance in fee simple or in fee tail without unlawful or sufficient authority and sufficient surety by him or them found as before is rehearsed except he be a lord spiritual or temporal of this realm/ that he & they so doing have ymprysonement by the space of a year without bail or mainprize and so to continue till he have found sufficient surety to the king by reconnaissance afore the justyces of peace of the said County to be of good beringe against the king and all his liege people/ For levying of the arrearages of the benevolence last granted Capitulo x: PRayen the comyns in this present parliament assembled that where divers and many of your subgetes severally granted to your highness divers sums of money of their free wills and benevolence for the defence of this your realm toward the charge and great expenses that your highness sustained and bare for the said defence aswell in your said voyage royal in the parties of France beyond the see as on this side in and for about the same which voyage your said highness took upon you in your most royal person ●o the great jeopardy and labour of the same aswell for the said defence of this your said realm as for the surety profit we'll & commodity of us all your true lyege men and subgettes inhabited in the same/ of which sums of money divers your said subgettes inhabited in the same of which sums of money divers your said subgettes full lovingly have made to you true payment according to their grants and other many several sums of money by divers your subgettes to you in that party granted as yet remain not content ne paid. part whereof rest in the hands of the said grauntours and part in the hands of the commissioners Collectors & receivers in that party assigned for the levy rearing and keeping of the same which is not only to the damage loss and hurt of your said highness/ but also to the murmur grudge & myscontenting of such your said subgettes as haven made their said payments in that behalf/ Wherefore may it please your said highness by the advise and assent of your lords spiritual and temporal and the Comyns in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ to ordain enact and establyssh that proclamation be made in every Shire town and hundred within this your ream/ that every person & persons which have not content and paid the sums of money by them granted to your highness for the causes remembered/ That such commissioners Collectors receivers & other persons deputed to receive the same that they do make payment thereof within three months next after the said proclamation made to the said commissioners Collectors receivers or other persons that hereafter shall be thereunto deputed or assyngned by your highness by your letters patents under your great seal in like wise to be proclaimed/ And that the said commissioners have authority and power to make process to take every such person or persons as so shall make default of payment by his body. and the same to commit to the common jail there to remain and abide without bail or maynnpryse unto the time he hath paid his said duties or ellys-find sufficient surety for the payment of the same to the said commissioners agreeable/ And if any such person that hath made payment of his said duty granted. be decessed. that then the goods and catayles of him decessed being in the hands of his executures of admistratours not administered be charged and chargeable to the said payment/ And that the said commissioners have like authority & power to do ordain and award process for the levy of the same/ as the Barons of the kings Exchequer do and may do for the kings duties resting afore them of record in the said Exchequer ¶ And the said commissioners collectors or receivers afore this time thereunto deputed or that hereafter for and to the same shall be deputed having and taking the receipt of the same your money or any peril thereof. be severally countable for the portions by them several received before your treasurer of your wars that was by you assigned in your said viage royal or any other person or persons that hereafter by your highness shallbe thereunto deputed and assigned of and for all such sums of money as they severely have received or shall come to their hands before such Auditors as by your highness shall be assigned in that party. And if any of the said commissioners Collectors or receivers come not to make their accounts at such day and place as shall be limited in your prive seal to them directed in that party that then upon certificate of the deliver of the said writs or prive seals made by him that the same delivered upon his oath unto the chancellor of england for the time being. the said chancellor for the same time being have authority and power to make commissions under your great seal to certain persons by his discretion to be limited and chosen to take the bodies of the said persons that so shall make default and them to commit to ward on less then he make before the said Tresorers or commissioners such excuse as to them shall seem reasonable. there to remain till they have made their accomtes of and for the premisses and satisfied content and paid the duty by them dew upon their said accounts treasurer of your wars or to such other person or persons to your use as your grace shall depute and assign in that party to receive the same/ ¶ And ●uer this be it enacted by the said authority. that if any travers fortune to be ●ytwene the said commissioners afore this time assigned to receive the kings said duties collectors and the said grauntoures of and for paying & not flying receiving or not receiving of the said some or sums of money or any part thereof that then if the said grauntours show acquytaunce writings bills or byllettes whereby it may appear afore the commissioners hereafter to be assigned the commissioners or Collectors afore this time assigned in form rehearsed have received the some or sums of money or any part thereof that shall be in travers/ or that the said grauntours offer to bring two witness or more that will witness and testify the said payment or that any grantor or grauntours deny the grant of any such some or sums of money or any part thereof of them demanded. that thereupon the said commissioners hereafter to be assigned. have authority and power to here the hole matter evidence writings witness and proves concerning the said travers and denying of the said grants and then to charge and discharge every of the said persons by their discretions as they shall seem best/ and the same charge or discharge to bind and discharge every of the said parties against the kings highness as if it were adjudged before the Auditors assigned by due oryginal in any of the kings courts of record between party & party in action of accounts or elliss that the king were plaintiff in the said action of account ¶ Be it also ordained by the said authority that the said commissioners hereafter to be assigned by the kings highness/ shall by their discretion upon their account and full payment made of all sums of money by them received or to be received by the collector or receivers of the said sums of benevolence shall by theyr-dyscrecyons allow unto the said receivers & Collectors/ such their reasonable costs & rewards as they for the gathering of the said sums have sustened/ provided always that this act shall not extend to charge any heir of any man that hath afore time granted any some of money by way of his beneunlence An act concerning taking of apprentices in the city of Norwyche Capitulo Vndecimo PRayen the comens in this present parliament assembled that where the city of Norwyche which is an ancient city. is greatly decayed. the especial cause whereof is for asmuch as there is a statute made at westminster the seventh year of the reign of king Herry the fourth containing among other things. that no man nor woman shall put son or daughter to be apprentyse within any city or town within the realm but if they have lands or rents to the value of twenty s. at the leeste by the year and that to be testified under the Seals of two justices of peace where the said child was borne. by force of which statute many and divers great vexations troubles & losses have be done to the Cyteyzins of the said city aswell for the receiving of their own children as other to be their apprentices whereby the most substantial craft in the said Cite called wortedewevers & Clothier's by which crafts the we'll of the said city hath and should be maintained supported and continued among other divers crafts there used been greatly decayed. by reason whereof the young people of the said city been given to ydylnesse vices and other divers misgovernance. And if no remedy herein be had/ it is like to be the utter destruction of the said city. wherefore pleas it your highness of your most benign grace in consideracon of the premises by th'assent of the lords spiritual & temporal & the comyns in this present parliament assembled & by auctorryte of the same/ to enact/ ordained & established that the said Citeyzyns & every of them for ever from henceforth shall be at their liberties to receive and to take to their apprentices the son or daughter of any person or persons which will put their said sons or daughters to be apprentices in the said city the statute aforesaid and the pains in the same contained not withstondding. And that they and every of them for ever from henceforth shall be forprised and except out of every punishment and hurt contained in the said statute/ ¶ Moreover where in the said city in time paste hath of long time be used. that there should no man take upon him to shear worsteds called tenyerdes Stamyns ne other worsteds but if he had be apprentyse to thoccupation or shearing of worsteds by the space of vij years. So that he might have the knowledge and cunning in that craft how be it now of late many and divers persons aswell alyence strangers as other foreigns not dwelling nor inhabited have within your said city by supportation and maintenance of divers persons inhabitants in the said city for their singular lucre. take upon them the occupation of shering of worsteds and stamyns which have not the sight nor cunning in that occupation nor have be apprentyse to the same by whom great hurts and divers losses have be for the default of cunning by cutting and other wise of the said worsteds/ to the owners and other your subgettes in this your realm. infamy also and slander aswell to thoccupations of worsteds and worsted shermen/ as to the merchants which put them so hurt and kit in the shering to sale/ And if ready remedy be not had in these premisses and reformation both the said occupation of worsted making and also of worsted shering which god forbid/ is likely to be destroyed for lack of good policy and order/ Wherefore it may pleas your highness by th'authority aforesaid for the common weal of your merchants and other your subgettes of this your realm/ and for the conservation and sustaining of the said occupation of worsteds and worsted shering to enact ordain and establish. that from henceforth no man shall take upon him to shear worsteds within the said city but if he hath be apprentyse to the said occupation of worsted shering by the space of vii year or such as the masters of the said occupation within the said city for the time being approving their cunning with the advise of the Mayor for the time being will admit. And they that take upon them the contrary & the maintainers of him or them so mysdoing as afore is said each of them to forfeit for every defawt twenty shillings half to you gracious and sovereign lord. and half to the said Mayor and masters of the said occupation of worsted shering for that time being/ And that no man inhabitant in the said city cytezyn or other being no shereman keep any sherman of worsteds within his house after the feast of Ester next coming under the pain of xl. s. as oft as he be in default in the same/ th'one half to. be employed to you our sovereign lord/ and tother half to the said mayre & masters of the said occupation of shering of worsted And that the said masters of the said occupation of shearing of worsted have free search of the said craft of worsted shearing in every place aswell within the dwelling places of shermen dies and calenderers of the. same worsteds & other inhabitants in the said city & precyncte of the same. and if any cytezin or inhabitant of the said city. deny the said wardens of worsted shering due search or go contrary to this provision & ordinance/ shall forfeit the sum. of xl s. for every default/ the moyte thereof to you sovereign lord and tother moyte to the foresaid Mayor and masters of the said ocupation/ The said pains to be levied after the form and ordinance purveyed for the correction of the craft & occupation of worsted wevers within the said city/ provided always that the said occupation of worsted shering shall make or do to be made none ordinance concerning the said occupation among themselves but such as the mayre for that time being with his brethrens aldermen shall think necessery and profitable to the kings subgettes. For writs to be given & learned counseyl to be assigned to the poor people without payeng any money therefore Caplo xii PRayen the comens in this present parlianient assembled that where the king our sovereign lord of his most gracious disposition willeth and intendeth indifferent justice to be had and ministered according to his comen laws to all his true subgettes as well to the poor as rich which poor subgettes be not of ability ne power to sue according to the laws of this land/ For the redress of Injuries and wrongs to them daily done aswell concerning their persons their Inherytaunces as other causes. For remedy whereof in the behalf of the poor persons of this land not able to sue for their remedy after the course of the common law/ Be it ordained and enacted by your highness and by the lords spiritual & temporal and the comyns in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ that every poor person or persons which have or hereafter shall have cause of action or actions against any person or persons within this realm. shall have by the discretion of the Chancellor of this realm for the time being writ or writs original & wryttes of (sub pena) according to the nature of their cause therefore no thing paying to your highness for the seals of the same nor to any person for the writing of the same writ or writs to be hereafter sued. And that the said Chancellor for the same time being shall assign such of the clerks which shall do and use the making & writing of the same writs to write the same ready to be sealed/ And also learned counsel & attorneys for the same without any reward taking therefore/ And if the said writ or writs be returned/ if it be afore the king in his bench/ the justyces there shall assign to the same poor person or persons counsel learned by their discretions which shall give their counseyls no thing taking for the same and in likewise the same justyces shall appoint attorney & attorneys for the same poor person or persons & all other officers requylyte and necessary to be had for the speed of the said suits to be had & made which shall do their duties without any reward for their counseyls help and business in the same and the same law and order shall be observed and kept of all such suits to be made afore the kings justice of his comen place and barons of his Exchequer/ And all other justices in courts of record where any such suits shallbe. That horses shall not be conveyed out of the land without the kings licence: nor maares over the price of vi shillings viii pence: Capitulo xiv FOr as much as many horses & mares of the breed of this land now of late have be carried & conveyed out of the same in to the parties of beyond yese which causeth not only the smaler number of good horses to be workmanship this realm for the defence thereof but also the great & good plenty of the same to be in the said parties beyond the se that in times paste were wont to be within this land/ & over that the price of every of them to be greatly enhanced hereto the loss & noyance of all the kyngꝭ subgettes within the same. For remedy whereof it be ordained enacted & established by the king our sovereign lord by the advise of the lord spiritual & temporal & the commons in this pnsent parliament assembled & by authority of the same/ that from henceforth no manner of person ne persons carry or convey any horse out of this land without the kings special licence upon pain of forfeiture of the same/ Or any maare above the value of vi shillings viii pence without the kings special licence upon the said pain of forfeiture of the same maare/ the owner thereof or his deputy receiving for the same maare vi shillings viii pence at the time of the seasire upon the said forfeiture or else it to be not forfeit and at the time of seasire of the said maare or maares they shall be praised by the heed officers of the town where any such maare is taken and there openly to be sold to the best price/ and the half deal of the over price of her being above vi shillings viii pence/ to be to the king and the other half to him that so seizeth. and the kings part thereof to be delivered to the Custumer of the said port/ And that no manner person ne persons hereafter ca●y or convey any maare or maares out of this land except every of the said maares so carried be of the age of iii years at the least and not over the price of vi shillings viii pence paying to the king for every of them not above the value of vi shillings viii pence so to be carried or conveyed in the same port. such custumes as hath be for maares before used. And that for every maare of more ●alue hereafter by the kings licence after the form aforesaid conveyed or ca●ed beyond the see/ the owner thereof or his deputy assign or servant shall pay vi shillings viii pence for the custom of the same before it be shipped under the pain of forfeiture of every maare so shipped or they been custumed/ ¶ And over that be it enacted that if any person at the port will give for any of the maares so to be carried vii shillings. that it be lawful to him so giving and paying the said vii shillings to take the said maare if she be not afore taken by the kings office nor the kings licence be not in the behalf aforesaid for the same maare to be carried obtained/ ¶ Provided always that it shall be leeful to every person or persons being Deynezyns hereafter to carry horse beyond the see the kings licence in that behalf not obtained for their own uses not in tending at the time of the shiping of the same nor then fully purposed to sell him and that intent to be known by the oath of him that shall do ship the same horse taken before the custumer or searcher of the same port this act notwithstanding That strangers made deynezens shall pay custom & subsidiees as strangers Capitulo xiiii WHere the king our sovereign lord is greatly dysceved in his custumes and subsidies by merchants strangers such as the king our sovereign lord hath granted by his letters patents to be deynezyns and to pay none other custumes ne subsidies for their merchandise Inward & outward but as a deinezinge under colour where of they custom not all oonli their own merchandise under the form aforesaid but also they colourably enter in to the Custumers' books the merchandise of other strangers calling & saying the said gods of other merchants to be the gods of them so made denesins/ to the great loss & defraud to the king our sovereign lord/ wherefore be it enacted by the king our sovereign lord the lords spiritual & temporal & the comyns of this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same that all merchants strangers & other that be made deynezins the king's letters patents or otherwise/ peye from henceforth such custumes & subsidees for their gods & merchandise Inward and outward as they should have paid if such letters patents & grants had never to them be made. Against untrue demeaning of sheriffs & their officers in holding their counts Capitulo xv: WHere as great extortion is yearly used and had within divers Countess within this realm of England by the subtlety & untrue demeanor of sheriffs undersheriffs Shire clerks or any other officers holding or keeping the counties in the name of a Shyref. that is to say if any man affirm a plaint before the sheriffs in the counties/ the said sheriffs undershirifs or his shire clerk or before any other of the said officers will enter or cause to be entry in to their books in the same playntyfs name divers and many plaints both of debt trespass and covenant at their pleasure and unknowing to the said playntif in whose name the said plaints been affirmed/ to th'intent that if the defendant appear not at every shire day or court having the same plaint he shall lose for his default made at every plaint four d/ where divers times by covin between the said sheriffs undershirefs shire clerks and the other foresaid officers/ the said defendants being never attatched summon nor warned according to the due form of the comen law/ wherefore the same parties so put in suit have no knowledge of any such suit had again them and over that the same sheriffs undersheriffs shire clerks will cause divers plaints to be take in the names of such persons that are not in plain life/ where the said defendant shall have like loss as is before rehearsed/ So that by the unlawful demeanour of the said sheriffs undersheriffs shire clerks for time being & the bailiffs of the hundreds for their default and negligence in their offices and covyne between the said sheriffs undersheriffs shire clerks and other of the foresaid officers causeth the amercyamentes to be in one year after the books be ingroced to a monute to great and importunable sums of money which sums of money been yearly levied of the poor comens in the said Counties by the sheriffs undersheriffs & shire clerks and other deputies being of none substance neither of haucour/ which deputies taketh and levyeth more by extortion than is contained to their estrettes to the express pillage and empoverysshinge of the said Comens/ ¶ Be it therefore enacted ordained & established by the king our sovereign lord & by th'assent of the lords spiritual and temporal & the comens in this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same that no sheriffs undersheriffs shire clerks hereafter nother any person in their names nor by their commandment shall take & enter no plaints in to their books in no man's name/ on less the parti plaintiff be in his proper person present in the courts or else by a sufficient attorney or deputy that is known to be of good name & disposition and that the same parti plaintiff shall find pledges to pursue his said plaint such persons as. are known there in that counties/ and that the parti playntif shall have but one plaint for one trespass or contract/ And if the said shyrefes undershirefs shire clerks take & enter or cause to be entry any moo plaints than the playntif supposith that he hath cause of action against the defendant/ that then the said sheriffs undshirefs shire clerks that doth enter or cause to be entry any such plaints contrary to the said provision & ordinance/ shall forfeit for every default xl s. the one half thereof to be had to the use of our said sovereign lord the king/ and the other part to him or them that will sue and prove the same matter by action of debt or information in the Exchequer/ And over that the justice of peace in the same Counties and every of them shall have authority upon complaint made by the party so unlawfully grieved to examine the said sheriffs undershirefs or shire clerks and playntifs. And if the said justices of peace or one of them find by their examination default in the said sheriffs undshirefs or other shire clerks in entering of the said plaints dysceyfully for his or their advantage as is before rehearsed contrari to this present act/ that then the said sheriffs undshirefs & shire clerks shall be convict & attaint of the same offence without ferder enquerre or examination and that he shall forfeit upon the same examination xl s. to the use of our sovereign lord the king for every default/ And the said justyces of peas that so/ shall take the examination shall certify the same examination within a quarter of a year in to the kings Exchequer upon pain of xl s. And furthermore that the said sheriffs and undshirefs and shire clerks make or cause to be made a sufficient presept to the bailiffs of the hundreds to attach summon or warn the defendants that are so in suit to appear and answer to the said plaints/ And if there be any default in the said bailiffs of the hundreds in warning of the said defendaunce to appear and answer to the said plaints commended again them their Courts in executing their said office/ that then the same bailiffs shall forfeit for every default unto our sovereign lord the king xl s. and to be attaint and convict thereof by like examination of the justices of peace or every of them as before is rehearsed/ And that the same sheriffs undersheriffs shire clerks and their deputies for the time being shall make none estrettes to levy the said sheriffs lamercyamentes until such time that two justyces of peace whereof one shall be of the Quorum have had the view and oversight of their books/ And that the estrettes be indented betwixt the said justyces of peace and the said sheirefs and undersheriffs and sealed with their seals/ the one part to remain with the said justyces and the other part with the said. sheriffs or undersheriffs to the intent understand if any deceit be or untrue demeaning in them in making of their books. And that those persons shallbe gatherers of the same amercyamentes as bailiffs or other officers be sworn by the said justices that they take no more money than is forfeited & contained in the ostreytes sealed with the seals of the said justyces of peace upon the same pain of forfeiture as before is rehearsed. thereof the same gatherers to be convict by examination of the justices of peace shall be appointed/ & named at the general sessions after the feast of saint Mychell tharchangel by him that is Custos Roculorum of the said counties or else by the eldest of the Quorum in his absence to have the oversight and countrollement of the said sheriffs undersherefs & shire clerks and other of the said officers and of the said sheriffs amerciaments/ and the said justices of peace upon subgestyon or Informacon of the parti so grieved shall make like process as in an action of trespass again the said sheriffs undersheriffs or shire clerks and other that foresaid officers mysdemeaning as before is rehearsed for to appear before them to answer to the said suggestion or information. For keeping the watch in Caleys Capitulo xvi WHere king Edward the third upon the winning of the town of Caleys established & made divers good statutes ordinances and laws with in the same town for the sure & saaf keeping of the same. & there upon for the same intent gave divers tenementis and fair places builded there/ to divers lords & noble men of his army freely to them and their heirs without any rents or charges yielding for the same. save only the finding of certain watches limited to every of the said places for the sure keeping of the same town to th'intent specially that the said watches the said lords & honourable men should the better & more sure & firmly be kept and maintained/ And so it is now that the owners of the premisses consider not their said charges ne do not bear the said watch by them due as is aforesaid by mean whereof the burgesses of the said town for the surety of the same have been many years and yet nightly been fore charged to their great importable loss which they can nor may contyve & sustain without the king our sovereign lord provide for the relief of the same town. For the remedy whereof the king or sovereign lord by th'assent th'advise of the lords spiritual and temporal and the comens of this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same ordaineth and enactith that who that hath any free hold within the town of calais out of the which any yearly charge is going for the sure keeping of the said town for watch or otherwise/ that hereafter ceasses in doing of the said charge by the space of a year and a day/ that then the said fire hold be seized in to the kings hands he to have it to him and his heirs and during the time it be in the hands of the kings highness The treasurer of calais take the proufytes thereof to the kings use and bear the charges yearly going out of the said free hold towards the said keeping of the said town as be fore that time it was accustomed to be are if the said free hold will bear the said charge. ¶ And in like wise be charged the kings Commyttes or his patentis for the keeping of the said town as afore is said/ And for default of the doing of the same by the space of a year & a day the said tenementis ettsones to be seized as is aforesaid. & so from time as oft as the said charge is not content ne paid by the said time/ and during the time the said tenements be in the hands of the king's highness (And if the said treasurer of calais pay not the said charge within a year and a day/ that then the said treasurer forfeit the double value of the same to the king's highness if the reneves be able to find the said watch A yenste destroying of partridges and pheasants with unlawful engines Capitulo xvii ITem for asmuch as divers persons having little substance to live upon use many times as well by nets snares and other engines to take & destroy pheasants & partridges upon that lordships manners lond●s tenements of divers owner's possessioners of the same without licence consent or a grenent of the same owners or possessiones/ by the which the same owners and possessyoners lose not only their pleasure & disport that their friends and servants should have about tha wking and hunting and taking of the same/ but also they lose the profit & avail that by thoccasion should grow to their household to the great hurt of all lords and gentlemen and other having any great livelihood within this realm/ Wherefore it is ordained & enacted by the authority of this present parliament that it shall not be leeful to any person of what condition he be to take or cause to be taken any pheasants or partridges by nets snares or other engines out of his own waren upon the fire hold of any other person without th'assent aggrement and special licence of the owner or possessyoner of the same upon pain of forfeiture of. x.li. the one half thereof to be to the party that will sue for the same by action of debt or by bill or otherwise And the other thereof to the owner or possessyoner of the said ground upon that which the said pheasants and partridges be so taken/ ¶ Also it is ordained by the said authority/ that no manner of person of what condition or degree he be take or cause to be taken be it upon his own ground or any other man's. the eggs of any falcon goshawks laners or swans out of the nest upon pain of imprisonment of a year and a day and fine at king's will/ the one half thereof to the king and the other half to the owner of the ground where the eggs were so taken and that justyces of the peas have authority by this present act/ to here & determine such matter as well by inquisition as information & proves/ ¶ Also it is ordained by the said autoryte-y t no man fro the fest of Pasnext coming. bear any hawk of the breed of Eng●ond called an Nyesse goshawk Tassel Laner Laneret or Falcon upon pain of forfeiture of his hawk to the king and the said hawk to be at the kings pleasure. And that all such persons that bring any Nyesse hawk or hawks from any of the parties beyond the see bring a certificate under the Custumers seal of the port where he first landed with the said hawk or hawks. Or if he come out of Scotlond. then under the seal of the warden or lieutenant of that March that he cometh through testefyenge that the same hawk or hawks be of the parties beyond she see or of scotland upon the same pain. And that person that bringeth any such hawk or hawks to the king/ shall have a reasonable reward of the king or else the same hawk or hawks for their labour/ ¶ Also it is ordained by the same authority that no man take any ayrer falcon goshawk tassel or laner or lanerettes in their waron or woods or in other place/ nor purposely drive them out of their coverts accustomed to breed in to cause them to go to other coverts to breed. nor sle them for any hurt by them done/ but suffer them to pass at their liberties upon pain of. x.li. the one half thereof to the party that will sue for the same by action of debt examination before justyces of the peas information or otherwise/ and the other half to the king/ ¶ provided all way that the moyte of the forfeit above said given to the owner of the ground for taking of swans eggs/ be unto the owner of the said swans and not to the owner of the ground. Not being with the King in time of need et cetera shall let fees and annuytees to him granted Caplo xviij WHere every subject by the duty of his allygeaunce is bounden to serve and assist his prince and sovereign lord at all seasons when need shall require. And most specially such persons as have by him promotion or advancement as grants and gifts of offices fees and annuitees. which own and verily be bounden of reason to give their attendance upon his royal person to defend the same when he shall fortune to go in his person in wars for the defence of the realm or against his rebels and enemies for the subduing and repressing of them and their malicious purpoos/ Wherefore it be enacted and established by the king our sovereign lord by the advise of his lords sperytuall and temporal and the Comyns in this present parliament assembledde and by authority of the same/ ¶ That if any person or persons being within this realm of Englond or Wales having such offices fees or annuytees by any of his rehearsed gifts and grants/ do not give their attendance upon him when he shall fortune to go in wars in his person. in their said persons as their duty bindeth them/ that then they and every of them making thereof default/ the kings special licence not had or else he have such ufayned sickness letting or disease that he may not in his person come to do his personal attendance and service after the form aforesaid/ & that duly proved That then every such person or persons forfeit and lose their said offices fees and annuytees and stand void at the kings pleasure/ any act ordinance or statute to the contrary afore this time had or made/ in any wise notwithstanding. provided that this act extend not to no spiritual person Master of the Rolls ne to none other office and clerks of the Chancery. justyces of either benches Barons of the kings Exchequer & other officers and clerks of the said places. the kings Attourneyes & Solicitor and the Sergauntes of the law/ provided always that this act shall not extend to any person having any such offices of the kings highness and being in his service within his towns & fortalyces of Berwyk & Carlyle ne to the Clerk of the kings Counsel for the time being/ Against unlawful making of Federbeddes pillows & Matrasses Capitulo nineteen TO the right worshipful comens in this present parliament assembled showeth unto your discrete wisdom's the wardens of the fellowship of the craft of Upholders within the city of London/ that where as divers persons within the realm of England out of the said city maketh and doth to be made unlawful and false wares and merchandises to the great rebuke and disclaunder of the said craft and also great jeopardy loss and disobeyed to the kings subgettes. Wherefore there is no sufficient remedy purveyed for so moche as the same wardens have no power nor aucturyte to make due search of such falls deceivable wares and merchandises put to sale out of the said city/ as they have power and authority within the same city/ as in fedbeddes bolsters and pillows made of two manner of corrupt stuffs/ That is to say of scalded feders and dry pulled feders together and of locks and feather together which is courageous for man's body to lie on/ And allo in quyltes materas and cusshons stuffed with horse here. fen down neetes here deres here and goats here which is wrought in lime fats/ and by the heat of man's body the savour and taste is so abominable and courageous that many of the kings subgettes thereby been destroyed/ Which dysceyfull making of the for said cyrrupt and unlawful stuff is to the great loss and empoverysshing of the kings lyege people and also great rebuke and disclander to the said craft of Upholders/ Therefore it may pleas the kings highness by th'advise of of the lords spiritual and temporal and his comens in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ to establyssh ordain and enact that from henceforth no person ne persons shall make ordain utter ne put to sale/ in feyrs nor in markets within this his said ream nigh federbedes bolsters or pillows except they been stuffed with one manner of stuff/ that is to say with dry pulled feathers or else with clean down alone. And with no scalded feathers nor fen down nor none other unlawful & corrupt stuffs as is afore rehearsed/ but uttly to be dampened for ever/ Except if any person or personns for their own proper use in their houses make or do be made any of the foresaid corrupt and unlawful stuff and wares/ So they been not offered to be sold in fairs and markets upon pain of forfeiture/ And also in like wise quiltes matrasses and cussons be stuffed with one manner of stuff/ that is to say with clean wulle or clean flocks alone/ and with none such unlawful afore rehearsed upon pain of loss and for feature of all such unlawful wares and merchandises/ Against women covert making alienation of lands moved by the first baron Capitulo: xx FOr certain reasonable considerations. be it ordained enacted and established by the king our sovereign lord and by th'assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the comens in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ that if any woman which hath had or hereafter shall have any estate in dower or for term of life or in tail jointly with her husband or only to herself or to her use/ any manners lands tenements or other hereditaments of thenherytaunce or purchase of her husband or given to the said husband and wife in tail or for term of life by any of the ancestors' of the said husband or by any other person seized to those of the said husband or of his ancestors' and have or shall hereafter being sole or with any other after taken husband/ dyscontinued or dyscontinue aliened released or confirmed alien release or confirm with warranty or by covin suffered or suffer any recover of the same again them or any of them or any other seized to their use or to the use of either of them after the form aforesaid/ That all such recoveries discontynaunce alienations releasses confirmations and warantees so had and made/ and from henforth to be had and made/ be utterly void and of none effect/ And that it shall be leeful to every person & persons to whom the interest title or inheritance after the decease of the said women of the said manners lands & tenements or other hereditaments being discontinued aliened or suffered to be recovered after the first day of Decembre next coming in the form aforesaid should appertain to enter in to all & every of the premisses/ and peaceable to possede & enjoy the same in such manner & form as he or they should have done/ if none such discontinaunce warranty nor recover had be had nor made/ and over this be it ordained & enacted by the said authority/ that if any of the said husbands & women or any other seized or that shall be seized to the use of them of the estate afore specified after the said first day of Decembre do make or cause to be made or suffer oni such discontynuaunce alienations warantes or recovers in form aforesaid that thenne it shall be leeful to the person or persons to whom the said manners lands tents should or ought to belong after the deceas of the said woman/ to enter in to the same and them to possede and enjoy accordynnge to such title & interest as they should have had in the same if the same woman had be deed no discontinuaunce warantie nor recoveries had as against the said husband during his life/ if the said discontinuance alienation waranties and recoveries be hereafter had by or against the same husbands & women during the coverture & e●posell betwixt them/ Provided always that the said women after the deceas of their said husband may re-enter in to the manners lands & tents & them to enjoy according to their first estate in the same/ ¶ And over this it be ordained & enacted by the said authority that if the said woman at the time of such discontynuaunce alienations recoverees waranties after the said day of Decembre in form aforesaid to be had & made of any of the premisses be sold that then she shall be berred & excluded of her title & interes in the same from henceforth/ And that the person & persons to whom the title interst & possession of the same should belong after the deceas of the said woman shall immediately after the said dyscontynuaunce alienations waranties and recoveries. enter in to the same manners lands tents & other hereditamen and them to possede & enjoy according to his or their title in the same/ provided also that this act extend not to avoid any recover dyscontinuaunce or warranty after the form aforesaid afore this time had made or suffered but only where the said husband and woman or either of them now being alive or any other to their use now have entries & title to the said manners lands tents or other hereditaments alyened dyscontinued or suffered to be recovered after the form aforesaid and thereof now taking thissues & proffites or any other person or persons to their use▪ provided also that this act extend not to any such recovery or discontinuance to be had with the heirs next in heritable to the said woman or he or they the next after the death of the same woman should have of estate of inheritance in the same manners lands or tents be assenting or agreeable to the said recoveries where the same assent & aggrement be of record or in rolled/ Provided also that it shall be leeful to every such woman being sole or married after the death of her first husband/ to give sell or make dyscontinuance of any such lands term of her life only after the course and use of the comen law before the making of this present act/ For enquests hereafter to be charged wythyn London Capitulo: xxi WHere as perjury is moche and customably used within the city of London among such persons as passen & been empaneled upon issues joined between party & parti in the courts of the same city to the great displeasure of almighty god and also to the dysherytaunce & many fold wrongs of the kings subgettes for asmuch as there is empaneled in the same enquests persons of little substance discretion & reputation/ & also none attaint ne other sufficient punishment is for such perjured persons before this time purveyed and ordained within the same city Therefore it may pleas the kings highness by th'advise & assent of the lords spiritual & temporal & and that commons in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same to establish ordain and enact/ that no person ne persons hereafter be empaneled summonde or sworn in any jury or enquests in courts within the same city/ except he be of lands tents or goods & cattles to the value of xl marc/ And that no person nor persons hereafter be empaneled summoned nor sworn in jury or inquest in any court within the said city for lands or tents or action personal wherein the debt or damages amountyth to the some of xl marc or above. except he be in lands tenntes gods or cattles to the value of. C. marc and the same matter and cause alleged by any of the said parties by way of challenge & so founden/ shall be admitted and taken in every of the same courts as principal challenge/ And that every such person hereafter to be empaneled or summoned to appear in any jury or inquest before any of the said judges of the same city making default at first summons lose & forfeit in issues xii d. and at second default two s. and so at every such default after that/ the issues & penalties to be dowbled/ and all such issues left in the mayors court/ shall be forfeited levied & perceived to those & behoof of the mayre & coinaltie of the said city/ And all such issues lost in the sheriffs court or courts/ shall be forfeited levied and perceived to those of the sheriffs of the same city for the time being towardis their feeferm. And also be it enacted by like authority that the party grieved by any untrue or false verdict hereafter to be given in any of the courts of the said city shall and may have and sue attaint by bill in the hustynges of london holden for comen pleas before the mayr and aldermen of the same city for the time being & thereupon a presepte to be awarded and made by the same mayr to every alderman of the said city or his deputy in his absence to present and certiefie the names of four indifferent and discrete persons of good fame and every of them of substance of. C li. or more cyteizyns of the same city dwelling in his ward to the mayr and aldermen of the said city for the time being at the Hustynges of coen pleas within the same city than next ensuenge to be hold/ of which persons so presented and certified the said Mayr and vi aldermen or more holding the same court of Hustynges/ shall take name and impanell xlviij by their discretion thought most able sufficient and indeferent/ And the mayr and his successors mayors of the said city shall do to be summoned the said xlviij persons so by the said mayr and aldermen named and empaneled and also the juryours of the petty jury and the party or parties named as tenants or defendants in the said bill of attaint to appear before the mayr and aldermen of the same city at the Hustynges of comen pleas than next to be hold in the same city/ And if the same attaint then or any other time hap to remain untaken for or by default of juriours by challenge or otherwise/ that upon every tales granted the said Mayr and aldermen shall impanell the said persons which were certified by the said aldermen or their deputies and omitted out of the said panel or put therein other person or persons being citizens of the said city and of the substance of. C.li or more. And also that all the plea and pleas to be alleged or pleaded by or for the tenant or defendant tenants or defendants or by any of the juriours of the petty jury in the same atteynte & triable by oni jury or inquest/ shall be tried within the same city and by thenquestes of the same & in none other place ne county/ And that none of the said peti Iury ne other parties named in any such bill of atteynte/ shall or may have any challenge to tharray or to any person or poll therein being empaneled for lack of sufficiens of gods or of lands/ Over that be it provided & enacted that the judgement in any such attaint shall not extend to any lands or tents ne to other punishment of the petty jury ne other process to be in the same attaint than is limited & appointed in this present act/ And if the xxiiii persons of the said xlviii persons sworn in the same attaint find that the juriours named in the petty jury have made & yeven an untrue verdict/ that then the judgement shall against the party defendant in the same atteynte as is used in atteynte sued by writ at comen law And furthermore the judgement in the same attaint shallbe again the petty jury that every of the jurors of the same petty jury shall forfeit & lose: xx.li. or more by the discretion of the mayre & aldmen of the said city keeping the same Hustynges or any other Hustynges of comen pleas to such use & behof as other issues & penalties been forfeited & lost in any action or plaint commenced before the mayre & aldermen of the same city & his body to be ympresoned there to remain without bail or mainprize vi months or less by the discretion of the mayre & aldermen of the same cite for the time being and to be dysabled for ever to be sworn in any jury before any temporal judge/ ¶ And over that it be enacted by the same authority/ that if it be founden by the grand jury in the same attaint that petit jury have given a true verdict that then the grand jury shall have authority and power to inquire if any of the petty jury took or perceived any some of money or other reward or promise of money or other reward of them named defendants or tenants in the same attaint/ or if any other person or persons by the commandment covine or assent of any of them to or for th'intent of their verdict giving whereupon the same attaint is grounded/ And after any such corruption by the said grand jury is founden that then the juror or jurors of the said petty jury that is found so defectyf in taking and perceiving any sums of money or other reward or promise of reward/ shall lose forfeit and pay to the plaintiff or plantifs named in the said attaint ten times the value of that some/ other reward so taken perceived or promised in form abovesaid & to suffer ympresonement with out baill or maynpryse vi months or less by the discretion of the said Mayor & aldermen. and to be disabled for ever to be sworn in any jury before any temporal judge. ¶ And over that be it enacted that such defendant or tenant defendaundes or tenants in the same attaint shall lose forfeit and pay to such use and behof as other penalties been forfeited within the same city ten times the value of that some of money or other reward by him or them so yeven to any of the said petty jury/ And the same defendant or tenant defendants or tenants to be ympresoned there to remain without bail or mainprize during vi months or less by the discretion of the said mayr & aldmen/ And if any debts damages or costs be recovered in any action whereupon such atteynt is grounded & but the same atteynt that found that the petty jury have given a falls serement/ that then for the recover & restytution of the same debt damages & costs/ the plaintiff or playntyfs in every attaint shall & may sue an action of debt against the same defendant or tenant by writ bill or plaint in every of the kings courts wherein the same defendant or tenant & every of them shall not be received to do his law/ And over that be it enacted that if any playntyf or playntyfs in any such attaint commenced before the said mayr and aldermen upon any record remaining within the same city and therein be none suyyte/ or if the first serement therein be affirmed/ that then he or they shall have ymprysonement and make fine by the discretion of the mayr & aldermen of the said city for the time being/ And that fine to be and go to the Mayor & commonalty of the said city/ & if there be two or more playntyfs in any such attaint ordained by this statute/ & any of them day or be nonsuyte/ the other by this act shall be enabled to sue for the proceeding in the same attaint/ and notwtstondynge the death of the defendant or tenant defendants or tenants or any of the petty jury named in the same attaint so that there be two of the same petty jury on live/ the same attaint shall not abate/ And also be it ordained by the same authority/ that if any of the juryours of the said grand jury empaneled & summoned in form aforesaid at the summons make default so that the ateynt remaineth to be taken for default of jurors/ that then every of the same jurous so making default/ lose & forfeit for the first default xl s. and at the second default. u.li/ And at every default after that. x.l/ And like process to be made & sued therayenst the grand jury and the petty jury/ And the party and parties/ as is to be made and sued in attaint sued at the comen law/ And that the same process to be retornable at every Hustynges of comen pleas and that the atteynte remain not to be taken after the first summons returned for or by the default of the defendante or tenant defendant or tenants/ or of any of the petty jury named in the same attaint by this act ordained. And that the said issues or penalties forfeited by any of the said grand jury/ be forfeit levied and perceived to those of the wayr and coinaltie of the said city And that no protection nor essoin be allowed in this attaint by this act purveyed/ provided always that upon all atteyntes hereafter to be commenced within the said city upon only record wherein the trial and inquest was by half tongue That the said mayr and aldermen shall impanell the graundez jury in the same attaint/ the tone half of strangers of good fame/ and of the substance of goods to the value of. C.li and more inhabyting wythyn the same city at large And the residue of the same grand jury to be of like value and substance of goods empaneled of citeyzins as is aforesaid/ And over this be it enacted by the said authority that no act of attaint of the petty jury made in this present parliament nor no thing therein ronteyned other than this present act nor none other penalty or punishment in oni other act than is afore contained in this present act/ be hurtful nor extend to any jury or inquest hereafter to be taken before any judge of & within the same city For wages of hynes in husbandry and artificers and labourers Capitulo xxii WHere divers statutes before this time have been made and ordained for servants of husbandry & also for labourers and artificers by divers and many rial and noble progenitors unto our sovereign lord the king now being/ & in especial a statute made by the right noble christian prince of blessed memory king Henry the vi uncle unto our said sovereign lord the xxiii year of his of his rain/ which notwithstondyng great & many defawtes daily increase rest and continue among labourers & artificers/ some by cause the said statutes be not executed & some by cause the remedy by the said statutes is not very perfit nor giveth certain ne hasty remedy so that daily by their subtle imagination in defraud of the said statutes many of the king our sovereign lord subjects been hurt deceived let and damaged in their building & husbandry ¶ Be it therefore established enacted & ardeyned by authority of this present parliament/ first that no bailiff of husbandry shall take for his wages by the year above xxvi s. viiij d. & for his clothing .v. s. with meet and drink. No chief hive as a carter or chief shepherd above twenty s. by the year/ & for his clothing vi with meet and drink. No comen servant of husbondry above xvi s. viii. d by the year. and for his clothing four s. with meet and drink/ No woman servant above ten s. by the year/ & for her clothing four s. with meet & drink/ No child within th'age of xiiij years above vi s. viii. d. by the year. & for his clothing four s. with meet & drink/ And that no artificer ne labourer hereafter named take no more ne greater wagis then in this statute is limited upon the pain assessed aswell unto the taker as to the yever/ that is to say A fremason master carpynter rough mason brykleyer master tiler plumber glasyer carver nor joiner fro Ester unto michaelmas every of these artificers aforesaid vi d. by the day without meet or drink/ & with meet and drink four d. And fro michaelmas unto Ester v d. without meet or drink/ & with meet & drink three d/ & that the wages of a shypwright fro the fest of Candelmas to the fest of saint mychel charchangel shall not exceed the form ensuing. That is to say a mastership carpynter taking the charge of the work having men under him by the day .v. d. with meet & drink & without meet & drink vij d And other shypcarpenter called an hewer/ by the day four d. with meet and drink/ without meet and drink vi d. An able clyncher by the day three d/ with meet and drink/ & without meet & drink .v. d/ a holder by the day two d with meet and drink/ and without meet and drink four d/ A master calker by the day iiij. d with meet & drink/ and without meet and drink vi d/ Another mean calker by the day three d with meet & drink & without meet & drink .v. d/ A calker labouring by the tide for aslong time as he may above the water & bineth the water. shall not exceed for his wages for every tide four d with meet & drink. And from the fest of mychelmes to Candelmas the wages of a master shypwryght by the day iiij d with meet and drink/ and without meet and drink uj d. An hewer by the day iij. d. with meet and drink/ & without meet and drink .v. d. An able clyncher by the day two d. ob with meet and drink. & without meet & drink four d. ob. An holder by the day i d. ob with meet and drink. and without meet and drink three d A master calker by the day three d. with meet and drink. and without meet and drink .v. d. An other mean calker by the day two d. ob with meet and drink. & without meet and drink four d. ob. ¶ Be it also enacted that in such shires & countries that where it hath be and is now used to give lass wages that in those shires and countries they shall so give ¶ And the taker of wages be compelled according as they have less used to take this act notwtstondyng/ And that thou master mason and master carpynter which shall take the charge of the work having under any of them vi men/ shall have vij d. without meet & drink. & v. d. by the day with meet and drink/ And that every person and artificer specyfied in this statute being not retained in any service for any work be compelled to serve every other person for such wages as in this statute before is limited/ And not artificer retained in service to work with the kings highness or any person depart not from his said highness or from the said other person till such time as the work be finished if the person so retaining thartificer so long will have & pay his wages upon pain of imprisonment of any person so departing by the space of a month & to make fine of twenty s. always provided & foreseen that if the same artificer be desired unto the kings service & work that then he may lawfuly departed. So that enter & be in the kings service and work. And it is feather ordained be the said authority/ that other labourer & artificer not afore named. shall take from Ester till michaelmas for every day that he so laboureth except the season of harvest four d. without meet or drink/ and two d. with meet and drink/ And from michaelmas to Ester three d. with without meet or drink and i d. ob with meet and drink. And in the said time of harvest every mower shall take by the day four d. with meet and drink/ and without meet and drink vi d. A repar & carter every of them ·iij. d. by the day with meet and drink and without meet and drink .v. d. A woman laborar & other labourers every of them two d. ob by the day with meet and drink and with out meet or drink four d. ob/ And that no artificer nor labourer working but the half day/ take no wages but for the half day & nothing for the hole day/ And if any company of husbandry hyne carter shepherd common servant or child servant above specyfyed not retained in any service or work refuse to serve according to th'ordinance above specified/ then the same person to be committed to ward by the Constable or their heed office within the city Town or village where the party so refusing is/ at complaint of him that will retain such servant there to remain till he have found surety to serve according to the said ordinance/ ¶ furthermore if any artificer or labourer being not retained in any service or work refuse to serve after the rate of this statute or take greater or more wages than therein is limited for the same artificers & labourers/ or if any artificer or loborer take wages for the hole day where he worketh but the half day/ that then every artificer and labourer offending in any of the forsaid articles/ forfeit for every default as oft as they offend twenty s. and they to be convicted for every such default by presentment afore the justyces of peace in the sessions according to the common law or by examination of the same justyces in the same sessions/ or by examination of ij. justyces of the peace out of the sessions in any place within the shire where they been justyces/ and where such default shall be made/ and that the said for feature of twenty s. be levied of their lands goods and catayles so offending. And furthermore where divers artificers & labourers retained to work and serve waste moche part of the day and deserve not their wages/ sometime in late coming unto their work/ early departing therefro long sitting at their breakfast at their dinner & nonmete/ and long time of sleeping at after none to the loss and hurt of such persons as the said artificers and labourers been retained within service/ It is therefore established enacted and ordained by authority aforesaid every artificer and labourer be at his work between the mids of the month of March and the mids of the month of September before five of the clock in the morning/ And that he have but half an hour for his breakfast and an hour and an half for his dinner at such time as he hath season for sleeping to him appointed by this said statute/ And at such time as is here appointed/ that he shall not sleep/ then he to have but one hour for his dinner and half an hour for his noonmete/ And that he depart not from his work between the mids of the said months of March & September till between vij & eight of the clock in the evening/ And if they or any of them offend in any of these articles/ that then their defawtes be marked by him or his deputy that shall pay their wages/ and at weeks end their wages be abated for such rate of time as they have offended contrary to this statute/ And that fro mids of September to the mids of March/ every artyfyand labourer be at their work in the springing of the day and depart not till night of the same day/ And that the said artificers and labourers sleep not by day/ but only from the mids of the month of May/ unto the myddyl of the month of August/ ¶ And also it is enacted by the said authority that no person from henceforth give no more wages to any bailie of husbandry hyne shepherd or other afore named nor to any artificer or loborar in this statute spefycyed than in the same statute is limited & assigned upon pain of forfeiture for every such default xl. s. And that the party so offending/ be convict thereof afore the justyces of peace aswell by presentment in the sessions as by examination of two justyces of peace out of the sessions in like wise as is before rehearsed of labourers & artificers/ Also it is established & enacted that by the said authority/ that if any artificer or labourer retained in service with any person for building or reparcayon make or cause to be made any assemble to assault harm or hurt any person assigned to control and over see them in their working/ that he or they so offending have ymprysonement for a year without letting to bail or main prise/ and fetther to make fine at king's will/ This act to begin and take effect at saint Gregoryes day next coming and in the mean time the same to be proclaimed in every good city burgh and Town of this realm. For Gawging and packing of salmon Elys and hearing Capitulo twenty-three WHere at a parliament holden at westminster in the xxij year of the rain of king Edward the four among other things/ it was enacted ordained and establyssed that no merchant stranger nor deynezyn after the ieest of saint Mychell tharchaungell than next coming/ should sell nor put to sale any salmon by but barrel half barrel or on other vessel/ afore it should be see but if the same but should hold & contain lxxxiiij galons/ the barrel xlij galons. the half barrel xxi galons well and truly packed upon pain of forfeiture for every but barrel & half barrel so lacking their said measure vi s. viii. d/ Also that no such merchant being under the said kings obeisance after the fest of saint Mychell should sell nor put to sale/ any manner salmon by but barrel or other vessel but if it should be well & truly packed/ that is to say the great salmon by itself without meddling of any grylles or broken belied salmon with the same/ & that all small fish called grislꝭ should be packed by themselves only without any meddling upon pain of for feature & losing of ·vi. s. viii. d. for every but barrel or demi barrel contrary to the said act meddled packed & put to sale/ And that no such matchaunt nor other person should put any hearing to sale/ by barrel demi barrel or fyrkyn/ but if the same barrel contain xxxij galons the half barrel & fyrkyn after the same rate/ And that the same herrings should be well truly & justly laid and packed/ and should be of one time taking and salting/ And that the same hearing should be as good & aswell packed in the mids and every part of the same barrel & other vessel as it should be at any of the ends of the same barrel and vessel upon pain for forfeyting and losing of three s four d for every barrel half barrel and fyrkyn so lacking their said measure. and also upon pain of forfeytur, & losing of three s viij d. for every barrel half barrel and fyrkyn of hearing contrary to the said act sorted laid or packed/ Also that no such merchant nor paling man should sell or or put to sale any etysby barrel half barrel or fyrkyn. but if the barrel should contain xlij galons the half barrel and fyrkyn after the same rate. Nor that any such merchant nor paling man should meddle any gall bitten ●●oruen or piled ●●es with good eels/ but that the same good eels should be well & justly packed and sold by themselves/ nor should meddle with the said good eels nor put to sale any red eels by on pain of forfryture and lessing of vi shillings for every barrel half barrel and fyrkyn so lacking their said measure. and upon pain of losing 〈…〉 every barrel half barrel and fyrkynne so as is aforesaid medeled and contra● to the said act packed or put to sale/ ¶ Also that no merchant after the said feast should sell/ nor put to sae any barelled fish. but if the same fish should well and truly packed. that is to say the tale fish by themselves and the small fish called gulls by themselves without any meddling of the said small fish with the great fish and without meddling and packing of Thokis or broken belied fish with the said tale fish or small fish. And that neither the tale fish nor small fish should be laid double in packing/ And that every tale fish should contain in length from the bone of the fin to the third joint of the tale xxvi inches at the least/ And that the napes of all such barelled fish should be no longer than the little bone that syttyth upon the great fynne/ And that the bone of every such salt fish should be take away unto the navel of the same fish/ And that every such fish should be plaited down to an handful of the tail upon pain of forfeiture of losing of three s four d. for every barrel of fish which from henforth should be found packed sorted & meddled naped laid double or not boned nor splatted according to the said act. And also in eschewing of the comen hurts and deceits above rehearsed/ the said late king ordained and enacted by the said authority that all Mayres bailiffs and governors of cities towns burghs mark●ttis and all other places of this realm for the time bring where they should be Mayres bailiffs and governors should have power and authority to name and choose a discrete & expert person or persons duly to search and gawge all such vessels as been above rehearsed that they hold be truly packed and keep their true measure & assize according to th● ordinance above said as in the foresaid act thereof made more plainly appeareth and for asmuch as in the said act is no certent appointed how moche every such gawger packer and searcher should take for his labour in executing of their said office/ they been their own judges and at their pleasures take for the same gauging packing & searching by way of extortion such great sums of money as them liketh/ whereby the kings true subgettes are greatly empoverisshed & wronged/ That it might therefore pleas the kings highness by th'advise of the lords spiritual and temporal and the comyns in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same to confirm ratify and establyssh the said act & every thing therein comprised/ And over that by the same authority to ordain and establyssh that every such gawger packer and searcher take no more for gawging of a barrel salmon barrel hearing barrel fish barrel elys half barrel and fyrkyn for every piece so gawged but a ferthing/ and for his labour for searching and packing if it be need of a barrel salmon from heed to heed i d. and for his labour for boning naping and packing of a barrel fish if it be need. i. d and for his labour in searching and packing of a barrel hearing from heed to heed if it be needful two d. and for searching and packing of every barrel of elis two d. And for searching and packing of every half barrel of hearing from heed to heed i d/ and for every half barrel elys searching and packing i d/ And for searching and packing of every fyrkyn of hearing if it be needful ob/ and over the that all and every such gawger searcher and packer that mysbehaven or offend in any thing concerning the said offices of gawger searcher & packer contrary to this act and so proved before any of the said mayors bailiffs or governors of any city town burgh market or any other place within this realm where he or they so be gawgers packers or searchers gawger packer or searcher shall lose and forfeit his said office & the same from thenceforth no longer to enjoy/ Any lease grant or grants thereof made notwithstondynge/ & for ferder punishment to have and suffer ymprysonement by the space of xl days with out bail or maynpryse/ provided always that the said searcher & packer or any of them/ shall no thing receive of the said fees by colour of their office but only for such butts barels half barels & fyrkyns as by them shall hereafter be sufficiently searched & packed & be not afore sufficiently packed/ This present act to begin and take effect at the feast of Ester next coming and not before/ For punishing of perjury and leasing the penalty in attaint Capitulo xxiv THe king our sovereign lord of his most goodly and gracious disposition calling to his remembrance how that perjury in this land is in manifold causes by unreasonable means detastly used to the dysherytaunce & great damage of many & great number of his subgettes well disposed/ & to the most high displeasure of almighty god/ the good statutes against all officers having return of writ & and their deputies making panelles percyally for rewards to them yeven against unlawful maintainers imbrasours and jurrours/ and against jurors untruly lyeving their verdict notwithstanding For reformation of the same by the king our sovereign lord & the lords spuall and temporal and the comens in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same. be it enacted ordained and established that upon every untrue verdict hereafter yeven betwixt party and party in any suit plaint or demand before justyces of record where the thing or demand & verdict thereupon gived extendeth the value of. xl.li. & concerneth not the jeopardy of man's life. the party grieved by the same verdict shall have a write of attaint against every person hereafter so giving an untrue verdict and every of them and against the party which shall have judgement upon the same verdict/ And that in the same attaint there shall be awarded against the petyte Iury. the party & the grand jury Some resom & distress infinite which grand jury shall be of like number as the grand jury is now in attaint & every of them that shall pass in the same shall have lands & tenements to the value of twenty marc. by the year of fire hold out of ancient demean & upon the distress which shallbe delivered of record upon the same open visitation to be made in the court there the distress shallbe awarded more than xu days afore the retourn of the same distress/ every such distress shall be made upon the land of every of the said grand jury as in other distress is & hath be used And if the said party defendant or the petty jurors or any of them apere not upon the distress than the grand jury to be taken against them & every of them that shall so make default/ And if any of the said petyte jury appear/ then the party complaynaunt in the behalf shall assign the false serement of the first verdict untruly yeven/ whereunto they of the petyte jury shall have none answer if they be the same persons/ and the wryt process return & assignment good and law full/ except that the demandant or plaintiff in the same attaint/ hath afore by nonsuyte or discontynued his suit of attaint taken for the same verdict/ or hath for the same verdict in a writ of attaint had judgement against the said petty jury/ but only that they made true verdict/ which issue shall be tried by xxiiij of the said grand jury/ and the party shall plead that they gave true verdict or oni other matter which shall be a sufficient bar of the said attaint/ and that plea notwithstanding the grand jury to be taken without delay to inquire whether the first jury gave true verdict or no/ & if they find that the said petit jury gave an untrue verdict/ then every of the said petyte jury to forfeit. xx.li. whereof the one half shall be to the king our sovereign lord & the other half to the party that sucth/ And over that that every of the said petyte jury shall severalll make fine and ransom by the discretion of the justices before whom the said false serement shall be found after their several offences defawtes & suffyciencie/ of every of the said petyte jury And after that that those of the said petyte jury so attainted/ shall never after be of no credence nor their oath accept in any court/ And if such plea as the party pleadeth which is abarre of the said attaint be found or deemed against him that so pleadeth then the party that so sueth shall have judgement to be restored to that he lost with his reasonable costs and damages. For e'en always that any outlawre in any action or cause personel or excomengement pleaded or allayed in the party plaintiff or demandant shall be taken but as a void plea. & to that he shall not be put to answer. And that in all tha foresaid process such day shall be yeven as is in a write of dower and none assoyne or protection to lie nor to be allowed in the same/ And if the said grand jury appear not upon the first distress had against them. so that the jury fortheyr default do remain he that so maketh default shall forfeit to the king xx. s./ And upon the second distress xl s. And after making defawt for every such defawt. u.li. And like penalties and forfeitures to be against them and every of them that shall be named named in the tales as is afore expressed against every of the said grand jury aforesaid/ And that for and by the death of the ꝑcy of any of the said petyte jury the said attaint shall not abate nor be deferred against the remnant as long as two of the said petyte jury be alive/ And if hereafter any falls verdict be given in on any action suit or demand afore any justice or record of any thing personal as debt trespass and other like which shall be under the value of. xl.li. that thenne the party grieved shall have attaint with such process and pleas as is afore rehearsed/ And delays to be taken away as afore is remembered/ except that in this case of attaint/ every person of the grand jury that may dyspend .v. mare. by the year of frehold out of ancient demean or is worth. C. marc. of gods and cattles. shall be able to pass in the same attaint/ And if the petyte jury be attainted/ that then they shall in this case of attaint every of them in forfeit. but. u.li. whereof one half shall be to the king & tother half to the party after the form afore rehearsed/ and over that to make fine and ransom by the discretion of the justices as is aforesaid/ And if there be not persons of such sufficiency within the shire where any of the said atteyntes shall be taken as may pass in the same/ be it ordained by the authority above said/ that then the tales shall be awarded in the Shire next adjoininge by the discretion of the justices afore whom the same atteyntes shall be taken which shall be warned to appear upon like pains as is aforesaid and enabled to pass in the said atteyntes as if they were dwelling in the shire where the same attaint shall be taken and that the same laws action & remedy ordained by this present act/ be kept for and to all them that shall be grieved by such untrue verdites of any inheritance in descent reversion or remayndre or of any free hold in reversion or remainder/ And if the party in attaint given by this act be nonsuyt of the same discontinue/ that then the parti so monsute or so discontinuenge the said attaint/ make fine and ransom by the discretion of the justices afore whom the said attaint shall be taken and depending/ And that all atteyntes hereafter to be taken shall be taken afore the king in his bench or afore the justices of the comen place & none in other courts/ And that (Nisi prius) shall be granted by discretion of the justices upon the distress And every of the said petit jury may appear and answer by attorney in the said attaint/ and that the moyte of the said forfeiture of the petit jury shall be levied to those of our sovereign lord by Capias ad satisfaciend) or (Fieri fac) or Elegit) or by action of debt against every person of the petit jury so forfeiting and against his executors and administrators having then sufficient goods of their said testator not administered/ And tother moyt shall by like process be levied to those of the party that sueth any attaint given by this act against every of the said petit jury and his executors or adminystratours having then sufficiency of goods as is aforesaid not administered/ And the judgement of restitution to the party grieved suing this act & execution of the same to be had and like judgement for the party defendant or tenant to be discharged of restitution as afore this present act in case of a grand attaint hath be used/ Be it also ordained and enacted by thauthority abovesaid that in every writ of atteinte hereafter to be taken by or upon this act/ that which shall be such as other writs of atteynt been & aft the Teste of the same write shall be written these words in latin (per statutum anno undecimo henrici septimi editum) ¶ Be it also ordained & enacted by the same authority/ that all penalles hereafter to be returned which been not at the suit of any party that shall be made & put in afore any justices of jail deliver or justices of peace in their open sessions to inquire for the king shall hereafter be reformed by additions and taking out of names of persons by discretion of the same justyces before (whom such panel shall be returned/ And that the same justyces shall hereafter command the Shiref or his ministers in his absence to put other persons in the same panel by their dyscretions. and that panel so hereafter to be made to be good and lawful/ This act to endure only to the next parliament/ For punishment of perjury by examination of the chancellor treasurer etc. Capitulo xxv THe king our sovereign lord well understanding the heinous and detestable perjuries daily committed within this realm in enquestis and juries taken aswell betwixt his highness and other his subgettes. and parti and parti as in enquests of office to the high dysplesur of almighty god and letting of administration of justice the which perjury groweth by unlawful reteyndours maintenance embracing champart●e and corruption of good aswell of the sheriffs as of other officers notwithstanding any laws before this time made for the punishment of such offenders/ wherefore the king our sovereign lord by the advice and assent of his lords spiritual and temporal and of the comens in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same enacteth establysshy●h willeth and commandeth that all the said laws be duly put in execution/ And it be ordained by the said authority that the justyces of peace within this realm in any enquests of office before them or any of them to be taken Admit nor take any panel of such enquests to be returned afore them but if the same panel be first seen/ before them and they to reform it by their discretion if cause be/ and that every panel otherwise received be void and of none effect/ And furthermore be it enacted by the said authority as for any periuri committed by any enquestis between the king and the party. party and party/ whereupon judgement is hereafter given that the party grieved or any other that will complain of any unlawful maintenance ymbracing corruption of any officers whereby the said perjury was induced and of perjury by the said enquests committed/ may complain by byal to be presented afore the justice or justices be whom judgement shall be given Which justice or justices shall be bound to receive it so that the complainaunt present the same bill before the same justice or justices within vi days after the judgement given and find sufficient surety before the same justice or justyces by his discretion to be admitted that will bind them by recognisance or otherwise in such some or sums of money shall be limited by the discretion of the same justice or justices to the several party upon whom he shall complain upon condition that if the party complaynaunt prove not sufficiently the matter of his complaint to be true/ that then the said complaynaunt to pay such costs and damages to the several parties grieved/ and at such tyme. as shall be considered and awarded by the discretion of the said persons that have power by this present act to examine the same/ And that the said justice or justyces after the receit of the said bill of complaint in form rehearsed/ certify the said bill under his or their seal or seals unto the chancellor of England for the time being/ And then the same chancellor shall cause by writ at the suit and costs of the party complaynaunt all such person or persons against whom the said complayntiss so made to come afore the same chancellor and treasurer of England the chief justice of either bench and the clerk of the Rolls for the time being. which shall have full power and authority by this present act by their discretion to examine all such person or persons appearing before them of all things comprised in the bill of complaint and to punyssh all and every such person or persons as by that examination shall be found offend●r or offenders aswell of perjury as other after their discretion/ And over that be it enacted that if the party complaynaunt pursue not or prove not his bill of complaint/ then he to yield to every person by him wrongfully vexed his costs and damages and make fine to the king atter the discretion of them before whom the examination is so had/ And it is ferder ordained that this act extend not to the anyntisement neither undoing of the verdict and judgement yeven/ but that the said verdict and judgement stand in his strength to the time it be undone or avoid by writ of error or attaint or otherwise after such order as the comen law was afore the time of making of this statute this present act notwithstanding/ ¶ And over that be it ordained by the said authority that if perjury be committed by proves in the kings court of the Chancery or before the kings honourable counsell or else where/ that thenne the forenamed Chaunseller upon a bill to him put with like surety as is afore rehearsed/ make like process to call in the supposed perjured persons afore the said chancellor treasurer justyces and clerk of the Rolls and they to have power to here and examine the said persons and if the said persons of the perjury or other mysbehaving before rehearsed so be convict/ that then they to be punished under like form as is afore rehearsed/ provided always that this act begin to take his effect at the feast of the nativity of our lord next coming and no longer to endure but unto the next parliament/ For holding the sheriffs Turns within the counties of Suth. Surr. and Sussex Capitulo xxvi PRayen the comens in this present parliament assembled that where it was established and enacted the first year of the rain of king Richard the third late in deed and not of right king of England/ that no baily nor other office should return or law-day any person but such as be of good name and fame and have lands and tenements of free hold within the same county where they been enhabytaunt of the yearly value of twenty shillings/ at least or else lands and tenements holden by the custom of the Manner called copiholde within the said County of the yearly value of: xxvi. shillings viii pence over all charges at lest as in the said stature more plainly it appeareth/ And that all indictments and presentments taken afore any sheriff in his Torn otherwise/ be void and of none effect. By reason of which statute many sheriffs of the counties of Such Surt and Sussex intending truly/ have lost the profit of many of his or their Tornes and many great myssantes and offences not presented nor the offenders and trespassers in the same punisshid to the great hurt of the inhabitauntes of the same for within some hunders there There been not so many persons of such lands and tenements dwelling out of franchises/ and though they were of that havyour/ they would not appear for the loss of two pence or four pence atte the day of the Turn which small amerciament is of old time used/ whereby the kings said courts in divers parties of the said Counties been lost/ In consideration whereof it may be stablished and enacted by the advise and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the comyns in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ that it shall be leeful to every Shyref of any of the said Countess to impanell and summon xxiiij lawful men of such Inhabytauntes within the precinct of every of his or their Turns/ as own suit to the same Turn or Tornes/ And whereof every of the said xxiiij men have lands and tenements of free hold to the yearly value of x. shillings over all charges/ or lands and tenements of Copy hold to the yearly value of xiii shillings four pence over all charges within any of the said Counties where such Turn or Turns is or to be kept/ And so many there to appear at the day of the Turn before the said sheriff undershiref or clerk to inquire of the articles of the said Turn/ And that every of the said xxiiii men so being empaneled & summoned not appearing be amerced in the said sheriffs Turn or Turns for not doing of their suit to the same xii pence/ provided always that if there be xii of the said Inhabitants so empaneled within the precinct of every Turn appear So that in every Turn there be a lawful jury of them sworn/ that then all the remanaunte of them so empaneled that make default be not. amerced for that default but only for their suyt/ And as it was lawfully used afore the making of the said statute/ And over that be it enacted that after dew and lawful summons had of the Inhabitants as is aforesaid/ if that there appear not xii men in every of the said sheriffs Turns of the said Inhabitants having land and tenements of the yearly value of ten shillings or xiii shillings four pence. as is above said/ And if there be not xxiiij such Inhabitants which may be ympanelled & summoned in manner & form above said in any of the said turns That then it shall be leeful to every sheriff undershiref clerk bailie or other minister to charge and swear any other person or persons in any of the said sheriffs turns where such none sufficient and default of Inhabytauntes and appearance is had/ such as be of good name and fame and the best by his or their discretion that appear afore him or them and none office nor servant to the said shyshyrefs vnd●shy●s clerks bailiffs or ministers/ And that all inditements & presentiments other than felony so taken concerning the said shyryfs turns/ be good & effectuell notwithstanding the said act made in the first year of king Richard aforesaid/ And that the shyryfs undshyrefs clerks nor bailiffs of any of the said counties nor none of them doing according to this present act/ forfeit any thing or be in any wise preiudised for doing any thing contrary to the said statute made in the first year of the said king Richard/ And that every sheriff under sheriff clerk bailie or minister that do contrary to this ordinance in any point forfeit the sum of C. s at every time that they or any of them do the contrary of the same in any point of the same/ Saving to every person & persons their lawful liberties and franchises and tenaun●es & in habytantes of the same/ This act to endure unto the next parliament./ For fustyans to be shorn with the broad shear Capitulo xxvij PRayen the comens in this present parliament assembled that where as fustyans brought from the parties of b●yond these unshorn in to this realm/ have be & should be the most profytablest cloth for doublets & for other wearing clothes greatly used among the comen people of this realm & longest have endured of any thing that hath comen in to the same realm from the said parties as to the intent/ whereof the cause hath been that such fustyans afore this time have be truly wrought & shorn with the broad shear & with none other instrument or other duceyfull mean occupied upon the same/ Now so it is the divers persons by subtlety & undue sleights & means have dysceyvably imagined & contrived instruments of Iron/ with the which yrens in the most highest & secret places of their houses they strike and draw the said irons on the said fustians unshorn/ by means whereof they pluck of both the noppe and the cotton of the the same fustyans and break commonly both the ground and threads in sunder/ & after by crafty slyking they make the same fustyans to appear to the comen people fine hole and sound/ And also they raise up the cotton of such fustyans/ and than take a light candle and set in the fustyan brenning which sengeth & brennyth a way the cotton of the same fustyan from the tone end to that other down to the hard threads in stead of shering & after that put them in colour and so subtilely dress them/ that their false work can not be espied without it be by workmen shearers of such fustyans or by the werers of the same/ And that by such subtleties where as fustyans made in doublets or put to any other use were wont and might endure the space of two years or more will not endure now hole by the space of four months scarcely to the great hurt of the poor comens & serving men of this ream to the great damage loss & deceit of the kings true subgetꝭ buyers & werers of such fustyan/ for remedy whereof be it enacted ordained and established by the king our sovereign lord & the lords spiritual and temporal and the comyns in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same/ that none such iron or instruments nor any other untrue subtle mean of sleight be from henceforth used upon any fystyan within this ream but only by the broad shears upon forfeiture of twenty s. to be levied for every default of every such person or persons hereafter offending and using any such deceivable Instrumentis or sleights as is aforesaid/ The tone half of the forfeitures to be to the king our sovereign lord and that other half to him or them that will sue for the same forfeitures by action of debt bill or information in any of the kings courts of record where the same may be determined after the course of the comen law and that the defendant in such behalf/ in no wise be admitted to wage his law nor that any protection or essoin be in the same allowable/ And over this be it ordained by the said authority/ that the mayr and wardens of shermen of the city of London for the time being have authority to enter and search the werkmenshyp of all manner persons occupying the broad shear as well fustyans as cloth and the execution of this present act to aswell of deynezyns as of forens and strangers/