Anno regni Regis Henrici viii Quinto.  
Statuta  
¶ The king our soverreyne lord Henry the viii after the conquest by the grace of god king of England and of France/ and lord of Irlande/ at his Patlyament held at westmester/ the xxiii day of januarii after the last Porrogation. In the .v. year of his most noble Reign to the honour of god & holy Church/ and for the Common wealth & profit of this his Royalme/ by the assent of the Lords spiritual & temporal: & the Commons in this present parliament assembled: and by authority of the same hath do to be ordained made and enacted certain Statutes/ and ordinances in manner & form following.   

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Anno regni Regis Henrici viii Quinto.  

An act concerning ministration of justice to the kings subiectis of his City of Turney.  
Capitulo. Primo  
WHere as the King our sovereign Lord greatly desiring to recover the Realm of France his very true Patrymonye and inheritance & to reduce the same to his obeisance. And for the same purpose and intent lately made Preparations of great Royal Armies as well by see as by land to his right great and marvelous costs and charge/ And sithen that by his great wisdom and singular police hath now reduced the Cities and towns of Tyrrewyn/ and Turney to dew obeisance by reason whereof now shall follow & ensue great Amity Famylyarite & inteecourses in buying & selling of merchandises wares & otherwise between the Cytezens & inhabytauntꝭ of the said cities Towns and Precinctꝭ of the same/ and the kings Natural subiectis inhabytaunces in this his Realm of England/ Therefore the king our sovereign lord willing and intending that true & indifferent justice shallbe ministered in all matters and causes aswell to citizens and inhabytauntes dwelling and inhabyting in the same Cities/ Towns/ & the precinctꝭ of the same/ As to his natural subiectis dwelling within this his Realm of England/ And to the same intent the king our sovereign Lord hath deputed and ordained in the said City and town of tourney and in the Bayllywyke and precinct of the same diverse officers and ministers/ & among other two of them called notaries otherwise called Graffers to accept take and record the knowledge of all contracts bargains conventions pactis and agreements made and to be made within the said City and town of Turney bayllywyke and precinct of the same by all manner of persons that will and shall resort and come before them to make knowledge of the same/ which notaries or Graffers shall present and deliver in writing all such knowledge as shallbe so taken under their notary signs unto an other office of the same City and town/ which our said sovereign Lord hath there made and deputed to accept and take of them the same which office for the more affyrmaunce thereof shall set thereto the Seal of our sovereign lord made and left in the keeping of the same office for the same intent. The king our soveragne Lord by th'assent of his lords Spunall & temporal/ and the Commons in this present parliament assembled and by authority of the same hath ordained and enacted that upon every writing oblygatorie & knowledge to be made of all contractꝭ bargains conventions pactꝭ and agrementꝭ/ signed and Sealed in form above rehearsed/ by any of the kings subjects inhabited in this Realm of England to any citizen or inhabytaunte within the said City and town of Turney Bayllywyke or precinct of the same or by any citizen or inhabytaunt within the same city/ Town/ Bayllywyke or precinct to an other of the same or else by any citizen or inhabytaunte of the same City/ town Bayllywyke or precinct to any of the kings subjects inhabited within the Realm of England/ or by any of the kings subjects inhabited in the Realm of England/ to another of the same subiectis showed and exhybyted to the chancellor of England/ for the time being the same chancellor have full authority and power upon the sight of the same to send a Sargeaunte of Arms or another office to the person so bounden to require and command the parson so bounden to ꝑfourms the contents of every such writing obligatory and knowledge/ and if the same persons so bounden deny so to do and object or allege any cause why he should not so do/ then the same Sergeant or office immediately shall bring the same parson so bounden before the chancellor of England to answer to the premisses. And if the person so bounden and brought before the said chancellor object or allege any matter or cause reasonable why he should not perform the Contentis of the same writing obligatory and knowledge that then he shallbe adjudged to bring in sufficient Gage & pledge to the very value of the contents of the same writing obligatorye into the kings Court of chancery or else to remain in ward/ And than the said chancellor by his wisdom and discretion shall prefix and assign unto him a convenient peremptory day to prove his objection and aligation/ and if the party so bounden prove not his objection and allegation before the said chancellor to be true before or at the said day prefixed/ that then the said party so bounden without delay shall perform the Contentis of the said obligation and knowledge than not performed or else to forfeit the said Gauges and pledges to the party to whom that said obligation or knowledge was made/ And in likewise upon all recognisances to be made before the king in his Chancery or in his Bench or in any other the kings Court of record within the Realm of England/ And also upon all writings obligatory to be made and knoleged before the Mayor of the Staple of calyce of all debtꝭ contracts and bargains by any of the said Citizens or inhabytauntes of the said City or town of Turney or Baylywyke or precinct of the same to any of the kings subjects/ and the same knowledge or writing obligatory be then certified to the bailiff of the same City & Town by the chancellor of England under the kings great Seal of England/ that then the bailie of the same City and Town for the time being or his deputy have full authority and power to send and shall send a Sergeant or other office of the same City and Town to the person so boundem to require and command the same person so bounden to perform the Contents of the same knowledge and writing obligatory/ And if the party so bounden deny so to do and object and allege any cause why he should not so do That then the said Sergeant or office immediately shall bring the person so bounden before the bailie of the said City and Town for the time being to answer to the premisses/ And if the parson so bound & brought before the said Bayllye object and allege any matter or cause reasonable why he should not perform the Contents of the same writing oblygatorie and knowledge/ that then he shallbe adjudged to bring suffycyant gage and pledges to the very value of the Contentis of the same writing oblygatorie or knowledge into the Court before the same bailie or his deputy or else to remain in ward/ And than the said bailie or his deputy by his wisdom and discretion shall prefix & assign unto him a convenient ꝑemtorye day to prove his objection & allegation and if the party so bounden prove not his objection and allegation before the said bailie or his deputy to be true before or at the said day prefyxte/ that then the said party so bounden without delay shall perform the contentis of the said writing obligatory and knowledge than not performed or else to forfeit the said Gayges and pledges to the party to whom the said obligation or knowledge was made/ This act to endure during the kings pleasure.   

An act for true making of clothes in devon called white straits.  
Ca. ii  
PRayen the Commons and Inhabytauntꝭ cloth makers and buyers of the same within the County of devonshire/ that where diverse & many clothes called white straits be and have be continually made within the said County to the great profit of the kings subjects there the which clothes were wont to be well and sufficiently made and bear their breed yard broad and half querter Raw and xu yards of length/ and that no man in times paste hath used to make them/ but that the maker thereof hath set his special mark upon every of the said clothes so by him or them made/ whereby every man may know their own clothes from other men's by reason of their said several markis/ So it is that now adays the said clothes be not sufficiently made ne bear their length and breed according as they should do ne marked with every man's own mark/ Whereof great inconvenience doth daily Ensue/ and increase to then poverysshing and hurting aswell of the kings subjects buyers and sellers of the same/ as merchants strangers/ Wherefore the premises considered that it may be therefore/ enacted by the king our sovereign Lord/ by the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and the common in this present parliament assembled/ & by the authority of the same/ That from the fest of Penthecoste next coming no person make no such clothes called white straits to sell without that it be when he is raw ready to be toked of the breed of a yard & half quarter/ and of length xu yards/ And that no person make no such clothes/ but if he set his specy all mark upon everich of the said clothes so by him or them made/ And that no person use no mark on his clothes such as any other person doth and hath used before him upon pain of a forfeiture of every of the said clothes the one half to the king/ and the other half to him that so seassyeth the said clothes so made or marked contrary to the form and effect afore expressed. And this Act to endure unto the next parliament.   

An act concerning white wolleyn clothes of .v. marks and under may be carried over the sees unshorn.  
Ca. iii  
WHere in this present parliament before the first prorogation thereof it was ordained and enacted/ that no wolleyne Cloth above the price of iiii. marks should be conveyed over the see unrowed/ unbarbed/ & unshorn upon certain penalties in the same Act expressed more at large/ Which Act put in execution shall not only turn to the abatementꝭ of the kings customs/ but also grow to the utter undoing of his subjects cloth makers & merchants conuayers of the said clothes/ For asmuch as wool is risen of a far greater price than it was at the making of the said act/ For where a cloth was then comynally sold at four markis is now sold for. v markis. And also by force of the said act the merchants sulde be bound to dress every white cloth above the value of four markis on thyssyde the see after they have bought them/ which white cloth so dressed when they be brought in to the parties beyond the see and thereby the buyers of them died & put in colours/ then they must be newly dressed/ barbed/ shoren/ and rowed/ And so they shallbe thereby the lass in substance of themself/ and the worse to the seal & sold for lass price by ten or xii s. a peace beyond the see then they should be if they were undressed. ¶ Wherefore be it ordained and enacted by like authority that every white wolleyn cloth sold at .v. markis and under may be carried and conveyed into parties beyond the see there to be sold at the pleasure of the buyers of the said Cloth unbarbed/ unshorn/ & unrowed any act or actis to the contrary made notwithstanding/ And over this be it ordained & enacted by the said authority/ that if any person or persons convey or cause to be conveyed into the parties beyond the see any white wolleyn Cloth unrowed/ unbarbed/ and unshorn above the value of .v. markis in other form than afore is said/ That than the person or persons so of fending shall forfeit the value of the said Cloth or clothes so carried or conveyed in to the parties beyond the see/ The one moyte of the same forfeiture to be to our said sovereign lord the king/ And the other moyte to every person/ which will or shall sew by bill writ Information or other wise against any person for the same/ And that the defendant in any plea upon any such action be not admitted to wage his law nor any protection or esson for any such defendant be allowed in the same.   

An act for advoding deceits in worsteds.  
Ca. four  
PRayen the Commons in this present parliament assembled that where as worsteds which been truly made shorn died and calendred as of old time hath been accustomed to be made shorn died & Calendred have been one of the goodliest merchandise & greatest commodity for this Realm/ & not only worn within this Realm/ But also much worn and used in other Realms/ And so it is that now of late diverse strangers beyond the see have taken upon them to dry Calendre worsteds with gums oils and presses so that a course piece of worsted not being past the value of xxvi s. viii. d. Is and shallbe made by their said gums oils/ & presses to show like to the value of xl s. or better/ And if the same worsted so dry calendred taketh any wete incontinent it wool show spot and show fowl/ And ever after continue still soul and wollnat endure to the great disobeyed & hurt of the werers thereof & loss of the said Commodite/ & for the said disceytꝭ & falseness the said dry calendring is shurned & abhorred in the parties beyond the see/ So that no person done shall use in those parties any such worsteds to dry pear/ And also now of late the said Strangers called dry calendars be comen into this Realm & here with in the same use the said dry calendring of worsted & of the great hurt of the said common well & commodity of this Realm a foresaid/ wherefore be it enacted ordained & established by the assent of the lord spiritual & temporal/ & the Commons in this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same that no person ne persons within this said Ryalme hereafter do take upon him or them to dry calendar any worsted within this said Realm upon pain to forfeit for every worsted that is so dry calendred one. C. s. And over that where as the said old calendring of worsteds called wet calendring have been used well & substantially in times passed in the City of Norwych & yet is by persons having cunning in the same/ Be it therefore furthermore enacted or deigned & established by the authority aforesaid that no person ne persons hereafter do take upon him or them to were calendar any worsted/ but only such persons as have been bound apprentices to other persons of the same craft or occupation of wete calendre of worsteds by the space of vii years or be cunning in the same/ & their cunning approved & admitted by the Mayre of the said city of Norwyche for the time being & the two Masters of the said craft & occupation yearly to be chosen within the said city of Norwyche/ or in the County of Norff of the craft of wete calendering upon pain of every such person or persons/ which hereafter shall do the contrary to forfeit for every piece so calendred against the ordynauncꝭ & puruyauncꝭ aforesaid. C. s. The one moyte of which penaltes & forfaytours above specyfied & of every of them to be to the king our sovereign lord/ And the other moyte thereof to be to the Masters of the said occupation of wete calendering/ for the time being/ And that it shallbe lawful to the Masters of the said occupation for the time being/ & their successors to show for the one moyte of all such penalties hereafter to be forfeited against every such person or persons as hereafter shall do the contrary to the form & effect of this statute by action of debt by writ at the Common law or by bill or plaint after the Custom of such City/ port/ or town/ where shall happon any such forfeiture to be or fall/ or by information in the kings Exchequer/ And that no protection or essoin ne no wager of law for the defꝭ in any such action plaint or information be alloweable before any manner of justycꝭ/ where any such suit or Information shallbe used for the said forfeiture/ And this Act to endure to the next parliament.   

An act cocerning jurys in London.  
Ca v.  
WHere in this present parliament holden at Westmester the four day of February in the iii year of the reign of our sovereign lord the king and prorogued unto the four day of November in the four year of the reign of our sovereign lord the king and adjourned unto Westmester aforesaid/ for asmuch as after issuis joined in actions and suettes commensed taken or depending in the kings Courtis before himself in his Bench & before his justycꝭ of the comen Bench/ And also in his Exchequer at the kings suete or at the suit of the party tryable in the city of London aswell the king as the parties suffered great delay many times for default of apparens of the juries empaneled to try the said issues/ and many times for lack of jurors not having lands and tents of the yearly value of xl s. It was the said four day of November ordained and enacted by the authority of this present parliament/ that the sheriffs of London for the time being should have full authority & power to return in panelles or Arrays of all actions and suetes then depending or that should depend in any of the said Courts or Exchequer persons being citizens having goods to the value of. C. mark or above to try the issue joined in every such action or suit/ And that the persons so returned having goods to the value of. C. mark or above should be sworn and do in all such juries inlyke wise in every thing as other persons should do having lands tents of the yearly value of xl s. over all charges/ And that the sheriffs of the said city for the time being should return upon the first distress in every such action or suit upon every of the jurors enpaneled to try the issues thereof twenty d. And upon the second distress upon every of the same jurors xl d. And upon every distress after that upon every of the same jurors the double/ till a full jury in every such Action and sure should appear & be sworn to try the issue joined in the same/ And that the sheriffs that should make any return upon such distresses contrary to the form aforesaid should forfeit for every such default ten li. The one half thereof to be to the king/ And the other half to the party that will sew therefore/ And that the defendants in any such action should not be admitted to wage his law nor protection therein for him allowed which statute was only made for the good expedition of justice for to have quick appearance of jurors cytezens of London at saint Marteynes the grant with in the said city/ where all juries were & been bounden only to appear to try the issues joined of all things tryable in London by ꝓcesses of Nisiprius out of the said Courtis & in none other place according to their Ancient liberty privilege and custom/ wherefore for more plain declaration of the same good statute be it ordained and established by the authority of this present parliament that the said Act be exponed interpretated and taken/ that the sheriffs for the time being be bounden to Return at every first distress of Nisiprius to be had at the said saint Marteyns in every such action or suit upon every of the jurors empaneled to try the issues thereof twenty d. And upon the second distress of Nisiprius upon every of the same jurors xl d. And upon every distress of Nisiprius after that every of the same jurors the double/ till a full jury in every such action and suit shall appear & be sworn to try the issue joined in the same/ And that no sheriff of the said city or other/ any thing forfeit by force or colour of the said statute for every return to be made/ except only upon returns to be made contrary to the form declaration interpretation & exposition of this statute/ that is to say/ upon writs of distresses before justyces or justice of Nisiprius within the said city/ And that upon all other writs and processes that be & shallbe awarded out of the said courtis or exchequer It shallbe lawful to the sheriffs for the time being to make their returns according to the order of the law as the sheriffs of London were wont to do before the making of the said statute without any loss or forfeiture.   

An act concerning Surgeons to be discharged of quests and other things.  
Ca vi.  
Sheweth-unto your discrete wisdom's your humble Orators/ The wardens and fesshype of the craft and Mynysteri of Surgyons' enfraunchy said in the City of London/ not passing in number xii persons/ That where as they and their predecessors from the time that no mind is to the contrary aswell in this noble city of London/ As in all other Cities and boroughs within this Reyalme or else wherefore the continual service & attendance that they deyly and nightly at all hours and times give to the kings lege people/ for the relieve of the same according to their science have been exempt and discharged from all officers and business/ wherein they should use or bear any manner of Armour or wepyn/ & with like privilege have been entreated as Harowdes of Arms aswell in battles and fields as other places/ there for to stand unherneysed and unwepenned according to the law of Arms because they be persons that never used Feats of war nor aught to use/ but only the business & exercise of their science to the help and comfort of the kings lyege people in the time of their need/ And in the foresaid city of London from the time of their first Incorꝑation when they have been many more in number than they be now were never called nor charged to be on quest/ watch nor other office whereby they should use or occupy any Armour or defensible gear of war/ where thorough they should be unready & letted to practise their Cure of men being in peril. Therefore for that they be so small number of the said fellowship of the craft and Mystery of surgeons in regard of the great multitude of pacyentis that be and daily chance and infortune happeneth and encreasethe in the foresaid City of London/ And that many of the kings lyege people suddenly wounded and hurt for default of help in time to them to be showed perish/ And so divers have done as evydencly is known by occasion that your said Supplyauntes have been compelled to attend upon shuche Constableshyp/ watches and juries as a foresaid. ¶ Be it enacted & established by the king our sovereign lord and the lords spiritual and temporal/ and by the Commons in this present parliament assembled & by actoryte of the same/ That from henceforth your said supplyauntes be discharged and not chargeable of Constablyshyppe/ watch and all manner of office bearing and Armour/ And also of all enquests and juries within the city of London/ And also that this Act in all thing do extend to all Barboures' surgeons admitted and approved to exercise the said mystery of surgeons according to the form of the statute lately made in that behalf/ So that they exceed ne be at one time above the number of xii parsons.   

An act for Strangers for buying of Leather in open market.  
Cap. seven.  
IN the most humble wise shown and complaineth unto your highness your poor and daily orators the fellowship and broderhed of the blessed trinity at the black Friars in your City of London of the craft of Cordewayners strangers/ that where at your last parliament holden at westm in the third year of your most noble Reign amongis other things it was accorded and enacted by an Act made & granted unto the wardens and fellowship of the Coriours to have search of Leather for certain causes in the said Act largely named & expressed/ That no stranger Alyn not borne within your Realm of England/ Irlande/ Wales/ Calyce/ or the marches of the same dwelling within any Fraunchesed place or places within the precinct of the said City of London and suburbs as in the Fraunchese of saint Katheryns/ saint martin's in the Town of Westmester/ and in the borouhe of Southwerke should buy or cause to be bought to his or to their use any ledder or wares in any secret place/ but only in the open market where it should be seen assailed sealed abled good and sufficiently tanned & coryed/ And also that the wardens of the coryours their successors & assigns should have search in the craft and broderhed of the trinity aforesaid aswell in Fraunchysed places as in any other place for all manner of such ledder or ware in sufficiently Tanned sealed and coryed as often as they should think convenient/ And the same ledder so found insufficient to be forfeited with other pains in the content of the said Act lemytte & expressed sith the making of which statute many & the most ꝑtye of all your said poor orators be fall in great decay ad poverty by the means of which statute the said craft of Coryours wrongfully daily compel your said poor Orators strangers borne under the dominion of th'emperor/ and the prince of Castle to by their ledder and wares of them and of no person else after their own price without any right or conscience In asmuch that be force of the above named Act your poor orators strangers may buy no red ledder as they were wont to do before the making of the said statute/ but it must be coryed/ And so if the said ledder be unlawfully dressed or coryed all the fault return in your said poor orators/ where as a fore time they bought both red ledder and other and saw that it should be sufficiently coryed and dressed or else to be forfeited/ Wherefore your said Orators may not please and serve your lords states & communalty/ of this your Realm as they were wont to do in times passed afore the making of the said Act for as it is openly known the said warden and craft of Coryours daily sell the best Leather in gross to merchants strangers italians and other persons/ so that your poor orators be compelled to take and buy of them unlawful ledder in retale or elleys in gross with overchargeable price for lack of a dew order and provision inconsyderation whereof and for the most comfort and relief of the said broderhed and felyshype of the blessed trinity/ It will please your said hygnes and the lords Spiritual and temporals/ and the Commons in this your present parliament assembled that it may be therefore ordained enacted and established/ by authority of the same that from henceforth it be lawful to all manner of person or persons estranngers being in the felysshyppe of the blessed trinity a four named & to all manner other persons borne under the dominion of the Emperor and the prince of Castle to by all manner of red ledder or other ledder coryed or not coryed in open market and Fairs within this your Realm of england sufficiently wrought assayed and sealed with all lawful search in all places Fraunchysed or Vnfraunchysed as they have done and occupied in times passed afore The making of the above said Act in the third year of your reign without any let interruption and trouble by any person or persons according to the old usance and custom/ The said Act of coryours' statute and ordinance or any other act or actis grauntꝭ statutes or ordinances to the contrary made or to be made notwithstanding.  
¶ provided always that this present act do not extend to any other parson but such as be of the said brotherhood/ and to all other persons borne under the Emperor and the king of castle dominion.  
¶ provided also that this act shall not extend to give any person borne out of the kings obeisance liberty to buy any ledder untanned nor unsuffyciently tanned.  
¶ provided furthermore that no person borne out of the kings obeisance by colour of this act shall have authority to buy any ledder in any secret place/ but only in open markets and Fairs.  
¶ provided also that no person by colour of this Act have authority to buy or sell any ledder within the City of London/ but if either the bier or the seller be a freeman of the said City according to the ancient customs & liberties of the said City and according to diverse statutes in that case made and purveyed except only in saint Bartylmewes' fair.  
¶ provided also that this Act shall not extend to take away or minish any power or authority given by the said former statute unto the wardens of the fellowship of Coryours and to their successors for dew search by them and their deputies to be made in any place or upon any parson for ledder unsuffyciently dressed/ wrought tanned or unsealed nor in the execution of such penalties as be contained in the said former act and statute for the punysshementꝭ of such defaults as shallbe by the said search founden.  
¶ provided also that no parson borne out of the kings obeisance have none authority by reason of this act to begin any new markettꝭ within saint Martens the grant of London or in any other. Fraunchysed place/ but only shall buy in such markets as have been of old time accustomed.   

An act concerning the manner and form of Suit for the kings most gracious Letters of general pardon.  
Cap. viii.  
WHere hit hath pleased the kings highness of his mere motion & most abundant grace to grant to every of his subjects his general pardon/ by his letters patents to be obtained of upon and concerning all and singular articles contained & specyfied in a bill signed with his most gracious hand delivered and remaining in the Custody of his chancellor of England for the warrant for the same. Be it enacted by our said sovereign lord the king with the assent of the lords espirituell & temporal/ & the Commons in this present parliament assembled/ and by th'authority of the same that all & as many/ and every of the kings Subjects the which at any time hereafter will Sue for any of the said Pardons shall have the advantage avail & benefit of the same Pardon in all and every of the kings Courts to him or them to be allowed without writ or writs of allowance thereupon to be made or Sued/ the same parson or parsons paying only such fees aswell of sealing/ as other duyties in the kings Chancery/ And all other the kings Courts as shallbe ordered assigned limited and appointed by our said sovereign lord or by such of his most honourable council/ as his highness Shall thereunto name/ And no more neither Other fees to be Payede for the premisses.   
¶ Finis Anno Quinto.   

¶ Here followeth the Table of Anno Quinto.  

Tabula  
¶ first an Act concerning ministration of justice to the kings subjects of his City of Turney. Capitulo. Primo.  
¶ An act for true making of clothes in devon called white straits. Ca. ii  
¶ An act concerning white  clothes of .v. marks and under may be carried over the sees unshorn. Cap iii  
¶ An act for avoiding deceits in worstedies. Ca. four  
¶ An act concerning juries in london. Ca v.  
¶ An act concerning Surgeons to be discharged of quests & other things. Capitulo. vi.  
¶ An act for Strangers for buying of leather in open market. Cap. seven.  
¶ An act concerning the manner & form of Suit for the kings most gracious Letters of general pardon. Cap. viii.   
¶ Explicit Tabula.