ANNO QVINTO REGINAE ELIZABETHE. At the Parliament holden at westminster the xii of january, in the fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith. etc. To the high pleasure of almighty God, and the weal public of this Realm, were enacted as followeth. ANNO. 1563.   

The Table,  

AN Act for th'assurance of the queens majesties royal power over all states and subjects within her highness dominions. Cap. i.  
An Act for the maintenance & increase of tillage. Cap. two.  
An Act for the relief of the poor. Cap. iii.  
An Act touching divers orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of husbandry, and apprentices. Cap. iiii.  
An act touching certain politic constitutions, made for the maintenance of the navy. Cap. v.  
An act against such as shall sell any ware for Apparel without ready money. Cap. vi.  
An act for the avoiding of divers foreign wares, made by handy crafts men beyond the seas. Cap. seven.  
An act touching Tanners, Curryours, Shoemakers, and other Artificers occupying the cutting of Leather. Cap. viii.  
An act for the punishment of such persons as shall procure or commit any wilful perjury. Cap. ix.  
An act to revive a Statute made Anno xxi H. viii. touching servants embeaseling their master's goods. Cap. x.  
An act against the clipping, washing, rounding, or filing of the coins. Ca xi  
An act touching badgers of corn, & drovers of cattle to be licenced. Cap. xii.  
An act for the reviving of a Statute, made An. two. & iii Phil. & Marie. for the amending of high ways. Cap. xiii.  
An act against the forging of Evidences and writings. Cap. xiiii.  
An act against fond and fantastical prophecies. Cap. xv.  
An act against conjurations, enchantments, & witchcrafts. Cap. xvi.  
An act for the punishment of the vice of Bogorye. Cap. xvii.  
An act declaring th'authority of the Lord keeper of the great Seal of England and the Lord chancellor, to be one. Cap. xviii.  
An act for the repeal of a branch of a Statute, made. An. i Ed. vi. touching the conveying of Horses & geldings out of the Realm. Cap. nineteen.  
An act for the punishment of vagabonds, calling themselves Egyptians. Cap. xx.  
An act for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish, Dear, or Hawks. Cap. xxi.  
An act against the carrying of Sheep skins and pelts over the Sea, not being Staple ware. Cap. xxii.  
An act for the due execution of the writ de excommunicato capiendo. Cap. xxiii.  
An act for the reviving of a Statute, made An. xxiii. H. viii. touching the repairing of jails. Cap. xxiiii.  
An act to fill up juries de circumstantibus, lacking in Wales. Cap. xxv.  
An act for the enrolment of Indentures of bargain and sale, in the queens majesties courts of Record at Lancaster, Chester, & Durham. Cap. xxvi  
An act touching fines to be levied in the county palatine of Durham. Cap. xxvii  
An act for the translating of the Bible and the divine service into the Welsh tongue. Cap. xxviii.  
An act for the confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Clergy. Cap. xxix.  
An act of a subsidy and two Fystenes and tenths, granted by the Temporalty. Cap. thirty.  
An act of the queens Majesties most gracious general and free pardon. Cap. xxxi.    

¶ An Act for th'assurance of the queens majesties royal power over all states and subjects within her highness dominions.  
FOr preservation of the Queen's most excellent highness, her heirs, and successors, and the dignity of the imperial crown of this Realm of England, and for avoiding both of such hurts, perils, dishonours, and inconveniences as have before time befallen, aswell to the queens majesties noble progenitors, Kings of this Realm, as for the whole estate thereof, by means of the jurisdiction and power of the See of Rome, unjustly claimed and usurped, within this Realm, and the dominions thereof, and also of the dangers by the fawters of the said usurped power, at this time grown to marvelous outrage and licentious boldness, and now requiring more sharp restraint and correction of laws, than hitherto in the time of the queens Majesties most mild and merciful reign have been had, used, or established:  
Be it therefore enacted, ordained, and established, by the Queen our sovereign Lady, and the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that if any person or persons, dwelling, inhabiting, or resiant within this Realm, or within any other the queens dominions, signories, or countries, or the Marches of the same, or else where, within or under her obeisance and power, of what estate, dignity, pre-eminence, order, degree, or condition soever he or they be, after the first day of Apryll, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M.D.lxiii. shall by wryring, ciphering, printing, preaching, or teaching, deed or act, advisedly & wittyngly, hold or stand with, to extol, set forth, maintain, or defend, the authority, jurisdiction, or power of the bishop of Rome, or of his See, heretofore claimed, used, or usurped within this Realm, or in any dominion or country, being of, within, or under the queens power or obeisance, or by any speech, open deed, or act, advisedly and wittingly attribute any such manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence to the said See of Rome, or to any Bishop of the same See for the time being, within this Realm, or in any the queens dominions or countries: that then every such person or persons so doing or offending, their abettors, procurers and counsellors, and also their aydours, assistentes, and comfortours, upon purpose & to th'intent to set forth, further, and extol, the said usurped power, authority or jurisdiction of any of the said Bishop or Bishops of Rome, and every of them, being thereof lawfully indicted or presented within one year next after any such offences by him or them committed, and being lawfully convicted or attainted at any time after, according to the laws of this Realm, for every such default and offence, shall incur into the dangers, penalties, pains, and forfeitures, ordained and provided by the Statute of provision and praemunire, made in the xvi. year of the reign of king Richard the second.  
And it is also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that aswell justices of Assize in their circuits, as justices of peace within the limits of their Commission & authorities, or two of every such justices of peace at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall have full power & authority by virtue of this Act, in their quarter or open sessions, to inquire of all offences, contempts, & transgressions perpetrated, committed, or done, contrary to the true meaning of the premises, in like manner and form as they may of other offences against the queens peace, and shall certify every presentment afore them or any of them, had or made, concerning the same or any part thereof, before the Queen, her heirs, and successors, in her or their court commonly called the kings Bench, within. xl. days next after any such presentment had or made, if the Term be then open, & if not, at the first day of the full Term next following the said xl days, upon pain that every of the justicers of Assize, or justicers of the peace, before whom such presentment shallbe made, making default of such certificate contrary to this Statute, to lose and forfeit for every such default one hundredth pounds to the queens highness, her heirs, and successors.  
AND it is enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices of the kings Bench, aswell upon every such certificate, as by inquiry before themselves, within the limits of their authorities, shall have full power and authority to hear, order, and determine every such offence, done or committed contrary to the true meaning of this present Act, according to the laws of this Realm, in such like manner and form to all intentes and purposes, as if the person or persons against whom any presentment shallbe had upon this statute, had been presented upon any matter or offence expressed in the said statute, made in the said xvi year of king Richard the second.  
And moreover, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that aswell all manner of persons, expressed and appointed, in, and by the Act made in the first year of the queens majesties reign that now is, entitled (an Act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the estate Ecclesiastical & Spiritual, and abolishing all foreign powers repugnant to the same) to take the oath expressed and set forth in the same, as all other persons which have taken or shall take orders, commonly called ordines Sacros, or Ecclesiastical orders, have been or shallbe promoted, preferred, or admitted to any degree of learning, in any university within this Realm, or dominions to the same belonging, and all schoolmasters, and public and private teachers of children, as also all manner of person and persons, that have taken, or hereafter shall take any degree of learning, in, or at the common laws of this Realm, aswell Vtterbarresters, as Benchers, readers, ancients in any house or houses of Court, and all principal treasurers, and such as be of the grand company in every Inn of Chancery, and all Attorneys, Prothonotaries, and Philizers towards the laws of this Realm, and all manner of Sheriffs, escheators, and Feodaries, and all other person and persons which have taken, or shall take upon him or them, or have been, or shallbe admitted to any ministry or office, in, at, or belonging to the common law, or any other law or laws, or to, or for the execution of them, or any of them, used or allowed, or at any time hereafter to be used or allowed within this Realm, or any of the dominions or countries belonging, or which hereafter shall happen to belong to the Crown or dignity of the same, and all other officers or ministers, of, or towards any Court, whatsoever and every of them: shall take and pronounce a corporal oath upon the Evangelists, before he or they shallbe admitted, allowed, or suffered to take upon him or them to use, exercise, supply, or occupy any such vocation, office, degree, ministry, room, or service, as is aforesaid, and that in the open court whereunto he doth or shall serve or belong. And if he or they do not or shall not serve or belong to any ordinary or open Court, than he or they shall take and pronounce the oath aforesaid, in an open place before a convenient assemble to witness the same, and before such person or persons as have or shall have authority by common use or otherwise, to admit or call any such person or persons as is aforesaid, to any such vocation, office, ministry, room or service: or else before such person or persons, as by the queens highness, her heirs, or successors, by Commission under the great Seal of England shallbe named or assigned, to accept & take the same, according to the tenor, effect, & form of the same oath, verbatim, which is, & as it is already set forth, to be taken in the foresaid Act made in the first year of the queens majesties reign.  
And also be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that every Archbishop and Bishop, within this Realm and dominions of the same, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, to tender or minister the oath aforesaid, to every or any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical person within their proper diocese, aswell in places and jurisdictions exempt, as else where.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Lord Chancellor or keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, shall and may at all times hereafter, by virtue of this Act without further warrant, make and direct Commission or Commissions, under the great Seal of England, to any person or persons, giving them or some of them thereby authority to tender & minister the oath aforesaid, to such person or persons as by the aforesaid Commission or Commissions, the said Commissioners shallbe authorized to tender the same oath unto.  
And be it also further enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that if any person or persons, appointed or compellable by this Act, or by the said Act made in the said first year, to take the said oath, or if any person or persons, to whom the said oath by any such Commission or Commissions, shallbe limited and appointed, to be tendered as is aforesaid, do or shall at the time of the said oath so tendered, refuse to take or pronounce the said oath, in manner and form aforesaid: that then the party so refusing, and being thereof lawfully indicted or presented, within one year next after any such refusal, and convicted or attainted at any time after, according to the laws of this Realm, shall suffer and incur the dangers, penalties, pains, and forfeitures ordained & provided by the statute of provision and praemunire aforesaid, made in the xvi year of the reign of king Richard the second.  
And furthermore, be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every such person and persons, having authority to tender the oath aforesaid, shall within xl days next after such refusal or refusals of the said oath, if the Term be then open, and if not, then at the first day of the full Term next following the said xl days, make true certificate under his or their seal or seals, of the names, places, & degrees of the person or persons so refusing the same oath, before the Queen, her heirs, or successors, in her or their court commonly called the kings Bench, upon pain that every of the said persons, having such authority to tender the said oath, making default of such certificate, shall for every such default forfeit. C.li to the queens highness, her heirs, or successors. And that the Sheriff of the county, where the said court commonly called the kings Bench, shall for the time be holden, shall or may by virtue of this Act, empanel a jury of the same county, to inquire of, & upon every such refusal & refusals: which jury shall or may, upon every such certificate & other evidence to them in that behalf to be given by virtue of this Act, proceed to indite the person & persons so offending, in such sort & degree, to all intentes & purposes, as the same jury may do of any offence or offences against the queens majesties peace, perpetrated, committed or done within the same County, of, & for the which the same jury is so empaneled.  
AND for stronger defence and maintenance of this Act: It is further ordained, enacted, & established by th'authority aforesaid, that if any such offender or offenders, as is aforesaid, of the first part or branch of this statute, that is to say, by writing, ciphering, printing, preaching, or teaching, deed, or act, advisedly and wittingly, hold or stand with, to extol, set forth, maintain, or defend, the authority, jurisdiction or power of the Bishop of Rome, or of his See, heretofore claimed, used, or usurped, within this Realm, or in any dominion or country, being of, within, or under the queens power or obeisance: or by any speech, open deed, or act, advisedly & wittingly attribute any such manner of jurisdiction, authority, or pre-eminence to the said See of Rome, or to any Bishop of the same See for the time being, within this Realm, or in any the queens dominions or countries, or be to any such offender or offenders, abetting, procuring, or counselling, or aiding assisting, or comforting, upon purpose & to the intent to set forth, further, & extol the said usurped power, authority, or jurisdiction, after such conviction & attendour, as is aforesaid, do eftsoons commit or do the said offences, or any of them, in manner and form aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted & attainted, as is aforesaid, and also, that if any the persons above named, and appointed by this Act to take the oath aforesaid, do after the space of three months next after the first tender thereof, the second time refuse to take & pronounce, or do not take or pronounce the same, in form aforesaid, to be tendered: that then every such offender and offenders, for the same second offence & offences, shall forfeit, lose, and suffer such like, and the same pains, forfeitures, judgement, and execution, as is used in cases of high treason.  
Provided always, that this Act nor any thing therein contained, nor any atteindour to be had by force & virtue of this Act, shall not extend to make any corruption of blood, the disheriting of any heir, forfeiture of dower, nor to the prejudice of the right or title of any person or persons, other than the right or title of the offender or offenders, during his, her, or their natural lives only. And that it shall and may be lawful to every person and persons, to whom the right or interest of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, after the death of any such offender or offenders should or might have appertained, if no such atteyndour had been, to enter into the same without any Ouster le main to be sued, in such sort as he or they might have done if this Act had never been had ne made.  
Provided also, that the oath expressed in the said Act made in the said first year, shallbe taken and expounded in such form as is set forth in an admonition annexed to the queens majesties Injunctions, published in the first year of her majesties reign, that is to say, to confess and acknowledge in her Majesty, her heirs and successors, none other authority, then that was challenged and lately used by the noble king Henry the eight, and king Edward the sixth, as in the said Admonition more plainly may appear.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act shallbe openly read, and published, and declared at every quarter Sessions by the Clerk of the peace, and at every let and Laweday by the Steward of the Court, and once in every Term in the open hall of every house and houses of Court and Chancery, at the times and by the persons thereunto to be limited and appointed by the Lord chancellor or keeper of the great Seal for the time being.  
And be it further enacted, that every person, which hereafter shallbe elected or appointed a Knight, Citezin, or Burgess, or Baron for any of the five ports, for any Parliament or parliaments hereafter to be holden: shall from henceforth before he shall enter into the Parliament house, or have any voice there, openly receive and pronounce the said oath before the Lord Steward for the time being, or his deputy or deputies for that time to be appointed. And that he which shall enter into the Parliament house without taking the said oath, shallbe deemed no Knight, Citezin, Burgess, nor Baron for that Parliament, nor shall have any voice: But shallbe to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as if he had never been returned nor elected Knight, Citezin, Burgess, or Baron for that Parliament, and shall suffer such pains and penalties, as if he had presumed to sit in the same without election, return, or authority.  
Provided alway, that forasmuch as the queens Majesty is otherwise sufficiently assured of the faith and loyalty of the Temporal Lords of her high court of Parliament: therefore this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to compel any Temporal person, of, or above the degree of a Baron of this Realm, to take or pronounce the oath abovesaid, nor to incur any penalty limited by this Act, for not taking or refusing the same: Any thing in this Act to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that charitable giving of reasonable alms to any of the offender or offenders above specified, without fraud or covin, shall not be taken or interpreted to be any such abetment, procuring, counselling, aiding, assisting, or comforting, as thereby the giver of such alms shall incur any pain, penalty, or forfeiture appointed in this Act.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that if any peer of this Realm, shall hereafter offend contrary to this Act, or any branch or article thereof, that in that and all such case & cases, they shallbe tried by their peers, in such manner and form as in other cases of treasons they have used to be tried, and by none other means.  
Provided also further & be it enacted, that no person shallbe compelled by virtue of this Act to take the oath above mentioned, at or upon the second time of offering of the same, according to the form appointed by this statute, except the same person hath been, is, or shallbe an ecclesiastical person, that had, hath, or shall have in the time of one of the reigns of the queens majesties most noble father, brother, or sister, or in the time of the reign of the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, charge, cure, or office in the Church, or such person or persons as had, hath, or hereafter shall have any office or ministry in any Ecclesiastical Court of this Realm, under any Archbishop, or Bishop, in any the times or reigns aforesaid: or such person or persons as shall wilfully refuse to observe the orders & rites for divine service, that be authorized to be used & observed in the Church of England, after that he or they shallbe publicly by the Ordinary or some of his officers for ecclesiastical causes, admonished to keep and observe the same: or such as shall openly & advisedly deprave by words, writings, or any other open fact, any of the Rites & Ceremonies at any time used, & authorized to be used in the Church of England: or that shall say or hear the private Mass prohibited by the laws of this Realm, and that all such persons shallbe compellable to take the oath upon the second tender or offer of the same, and incur the penalties for not taking of the said oath, and none other.  
AND forasmuch as it is doubtful whether by the laws of this Realm there be any punishment for such as kill or slay any person or persons attainted in or upon a praemunire: Be it therefore enacted by authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, to slay or kill any person or persons in any manner attainted, or hereafter to be attainted, of, in, or upon any praemunire, by pretence, reason, or authority of any judgement given or hereafter to be given, in, or upon the same, or by pretence, reason or force of any word or words, thing or things contained or specified in any statute or law of provision & praemunire, or in any of them: Any law or statute, or opinion, or exposition of any law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Saving always the due execution of all and every person and persons, attainted or to be attainted, for any offence whereupon judgement of death now is, or aught to be, or hereafter may lawfully be given by reason of this Statute or otherwise: And saving always all and every such pain of death, or other hurt or punishment, as heretofore might without danger of law be done upon any person or persons that shall send or bring into this Realm, or any other the queens dominions, or within the same shall execute any summons, sentence, excommunication, or other process, against any person or persons, from the Bishop of Rome for the time being, or by and from the See of Rome, or th'authority or jurisdiction of the same See.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shall hereafter be indicted for assisting, aiding, maintaining, comforting or abetting of any person or persons for any the said offences, in extolling, setting forth, or defending of the usurped power and authority of the Bishop of Rome, unless he or they be thereof lawfully accused by such good and sufficient testimony or proof, as by the jury by whom he shall so be indicted, shallbe thought good, lawful, and sufficient to prove him or them guilty of the said offences.   

¶ An Act for the maintenance and increase of tillage. The ii Chapter.  
FOrasmuch as the Statute made in the fourth year of the reign of the late prince of worthy memory King Henry the seventh, for the keeping up of houses of husbandry, and one other Statute made in the vii year of the reign of the late King of most famous memory King Henry the eight, entitled an Act to avoid letting down of Towns, and also one other Act made in the xxvii year of the reign of the same late king Henry the eight, entitled an Act concerning the decay of houses and enclosures, are very good and profitable laws for the common wealth of this Realm.  
It is therefore ordained and established by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Acts, and every of them, and every branch and article in the same, and every of them contained, shall from henceforth be put in due execution, and remain and continue in force for evermore.  
And also, where by an Act made in the xxvii year of the reign of our said late Sovereign Lord King Henry the eight, whereby divers & sundry religious houses of Monks, cannons, and Nuns, which might not dispend in lands, tenements, and hereditaments above the clear yearly value of two hundredth pounds, were given to the said late King Henry the eight, his heirs, and successors for ever: It is among other things enacted and ordained, that all and singular persons, and bodies politic and corporate, to whom the said late king Henry the eight, his heirs or successors, after the making of the same Act, should give, grant, let, or demise any Scite or precinct, with the houses thereupon builded, together with the demeans of any Monasteries, Priories, or other religious houses, that should be dissolved or given to the said late king Henry the eight by that Act, and the heirs, successors, or assigns of every such person, body politic and corporate, should keep or cause to be kept an honest continual house and household in the same Scite or precinct, and should occupy or cause to be occupied yearly, as much of the demeans in ploughing and tilling of husbandry (that is to say) as much of the said demeans which then were commonly used to be kept in tillage by the Governors, abbots, or priors of the same houses, Monasteries, or Priories, or by their farmer or farmers occupying the same, within the time of twenty years next before that Act, upon pain to forfeit to the kings highness, for every month so offending vi li. xiii. s. iiii. d. to be recovered to his use in any of his Courts of Record. And over that, by the same Statute it is enacted, that all justices of peace in every Shire where any such offence should be committed and done, contrary to the true meaning & intent of that Act or statute, should in every quarter and general sessions within the limits of their Commission, inquire of the premises, and should have full power and authority, to hear and determine the same, and to tax and assess no less fine for every the said offences, then is before limited for the said offence, and estreats thereof to be made and certified into the Kings Exchequer, according and at such time and form, as other estreats of fines, issues, and amerciaments be made by the same justices, as by the same Act more at large doth appear. Which part of the said Act concerning keeping of house and household in the said Scites and precincts, and occupying of such demeans of the same in tillage, as is aforesaid, then was, and yet is thought very beneficial to the common wealth, and most needful to be put in due execution.  
BE IT therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said branches and articles of the said statute last above mentioned, made in the said xxvii year of our said late Sovereign Lord King henry the eight, and every penalty and thing touching the same, be also from henceforth put in due execution, and shall remain and continue in their full force and virtue, according to the good intent and meaning of the same last recited Statute: Any thing in this present Act to be hereafter contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
AND forasmuch as there have been sithence the making of the said Statute, certain other laws and Statutes made in the time of our late Sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, and in the time of our late Sovereign King Philip and Queen Mary, for the re-edifying of decayed houses of husbandry, and for the increase of tillage, which being in some parts thereof unperfect, and in some places to mild and gentle, have not brought to the decayed state of tillage, and of houses of husbandry, that long looked for remedy, which was then hoped for: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said laws and Statutes made in the times of the said late king Edward the sixth, and King Philip and Queen mary, touching and concerning the decay of houses of husbandry, and for the increase of tillage, and every article and thing in them and every of them contained, shallbe form henceforth repelled and made void to all intentes and purposes.  
And be it also further enacted and established by th'authority aforesaid, that from & after the feast of Thannunciation of our Lady, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, a thousand five hundred threescore and four: all such lands and grounds, or so much in quantity as in any Town, Village, Hamlette, Lordship, place known, or parish within the Realm of England or Wales, have been eared, ploughed, and put in tillage in any one year, & so kept in tillage by the space of four years, any time sithence the feast of S. George the Martyr in the twenty year of the reign of King Henry th'eight (other than the said demeans of the said late Monasteries, Priories, and religious houses, given as is above rehearsed to the said late king Henry th'eight in the said xxvii year of his reign) shallbe eared, ploughed, used and kept in tillage, or caused to be eared, ploughed, used, and kept in tillage for ever, according to the nature of the soil and custom of the country, by the occupier or occupiers thereof, without fraud or collusion, upon pain that every offender contrary to this Act, shall lose and forfeit yearly for every acre ten shillings, which forfeiture, shall go and be in manner and form following. That is to say, to such person or persons as been next in reversion or remainder thereof, for term of life, lives, or in tail, their executors or administrators. And that by th'authority of this Act, it shallbe lawful for him or them to levy the same penalty and forfeiture of. x.s. for every acre by distress, and to justify or make their advouries or cognisances for the same, in such manner and form, as any person or persons may do for rents reserved upon estate or estates made for term of years, of any lands or tenements, or otherwise, shall and may sue for the same penalty and forfeiture by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any Court of record of the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs or successors, wherein no wager of law, essoign or protection, shallbe allowed or admitted for the party defendant. And if they, or any of them do not distrain, or otherwise claim or demand the said penalty and forfeiture by any the ways or means aforesaid, within the space of one whole year next after the offence done in form aforesaid, and pursue for the same with effect, without fraud or covin, and do not recover (and might have recovered the same) with such speed as may be by the due order of the law: That then after such default, it shallbe lawful for him or them to whom the reversion or remainder of the fee simple of the said lands shall appertain, their executors or administrators to distrain, avow, or make cognisance, and justify, or otherwise to sue for the said forfeiture and pains in form aforesaid, at any time within one year next ensuing any such default. And in his or their default, the said penalty or forfeiture, to go and be to the immediate Lord or Lords of the fee or fees, of whom the said lands been holden, to be recovered in manner and form aforesaid, so that he or they do take and sue for his or their remedy therein, within one year next ensuing any such default, in manner and form aforesaid. And in his and their default, the said penalty and forfeiture to go and be to the queens highness, her heirs, and successors, to be recovered by any of the means or remedies aforesaid, at any time or times, at her or their wills and pleasures, or otherwise to any other person or persons that will sue, aswell for the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, as for him or themselves for the same pains and forfeitures, upon which suit, the one moiety shallbe and go to the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors: and the other, to him or them that so will sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of the queens Courts of record, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law, shallbe admitted or allowed for the party defendant.  
AND be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, being an occupier and owner of any such lands and grounds as is aforesaid, of any estate of inheritance, shall offend against the form of this Act: That then the said penalty and forfeiture, shall go and be to the next immediate Lord, or Lords of the fee or fees thereof, his or their executors or administrators, to be recovered by such ways and means, as before is limited & appointed, so that he or they do pursue and take their remedy for the same in form aforesaid, within one year next after such offence committed. And if any such occupier and owner, shallbe a Coppyholder, or a customary tenant, that then the said penalty or forfeiture, to go and be to the Lord or Lords of the manor, of whom the same copy or customary tenements been holden, their executors or administrators, so that he or they do pursue and take their remedy for the same, in such manner and form, and within the time last before limited. And in every such default of the said Lord or Lords of the fee or fees, and of the Lord or Lords of the said manor or manors as is aforesaid, or of any of them, the said penalties and forfeitures to go and be to the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, or to such other person or persons as will sue for the same, aswell for the Queen, her heirs or successors, as for him or themselves, in such manner and form, as before is declared. In every which suit, none essoygne, protection, or wager of law, shallbe admitted or allowed for the party defendant.  
Provided always, & be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not be prejudicial, ne shall extend to charge any person or persons, that hath or shall turn any ground from tillage to pasture, and shall keep such ground in pasture hole and not converted to tillage, for the only maintenance and keeping of his or their own Horses, geldings, Mares, or draft Oxen, or for the maintenance or keeping of kine or other cattle, for the only victuelles to be spent in his or their own houses, so that the same person or persons hath, or shall not have in his or their possession, occupation, or disposition, other sufficient pasture ground for that purpose, within v. miles of his or their mansion house.  
provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, that shall commonly feed and sell yearly beeves or muttons, to a greater number than he or they shall yearly spend in victuel, in his or their own mansion house or houses, or that shallbe a common fatter of beeves or muttons, or any of them, as a common grazier or shepemaster, to be commonly sold in markets and fairs, or to common Butchers, shallbe taken, expounded, or understand to be such person or persons, as by this proviso last above mentioned, may keep any ground or pasture hole, and not converted to tillage for the maintenance and keeping of kine or other cattle, for the only victuell to be spent in his or their own houses, but been & shallbe excepted out of the same proviso: Any thing in the same proviso contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it likewise enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend unto any lawful Park or parks, or ancient warrens now used with Dear or coneys, or to any Park or parks heretofore lawfully used as parks, and being now disparked, or to any other grounds that heretofore have been by any her highness progenitors, or hereafter shall fortune to be made parks or warrens by licence of our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs or successors, with sufficient clause of dispensation for converting of tillage into pasture, and been or shallbe laid, bestowed and employed to the maintenance and keeping of Dear or coneys, without fraud or covin, and not to the feeding or keeping of any other cattle or beasts, but only mylche kine for him or themselves, or his or their keeper of such Park or Warren, for the provision of his or their house or houses, or for the keeping of his or their horses, geldings, mares, colts, or swine, ne shall extend to any waste grounds, commons, heaths, downs, fens, moors, commonly used as common, nor to any heaths, fens, moors, marshes, being now used in severalty, and not commonly used to be sown and put in tillage sense the said feast of Saint George, in the said twenty year of the reign of king henry the viii nor to any fresh marshes being surrounded with water within the space of six years next before the first day of this present Parliament, nor to any Orchard, Garden, Poole, or pond-yarde, nor to any ground set or sown with Saffron, Hops, Garlic, Onions, Flax, Ode, or Madder, or being without fraud or guile sown with Acorns, or set with any kind of young woods, nor to any wood grounds which be not stubbed, or wherein the wood hath been felled, or hereafter shallbe felled, & the roots and stubbes thereof yet remaining undygged up, nor any meadows or other grounds without fraud or covin, accustomably used to be mown for hay once in the year at the least, during such time as all and every the same shallbe used or put to the uses & intentes before specified: Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. And where in the said first proviso it is mentioned that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be prejudicial to any person or persons for keeping of any ground in pasture or meadow for the only maintenance or keeping of his or their own horses, mares, geldings, or draft oxen, or for the maintenance or keeping of kine or other cattle for the only provision or victuelling of his or their mansion, or dwelling house or houses: Be it declared and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if it shall fortune any such person or persons to be absent, and not resident, at, or upon his or their usual mansion or dwelling house or houses, with his family or household, for and by occasion of service or attendance to be done by any such person or persons, by the express commandment of the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors, within the Realm or without, or else having two or three mansion or dwelling houses, and shallbe resident and dwelling with his family but at one of them, or shallbe within age: That then during and for the time of such service, attendance, minority, and absence (and one year next after) from any his said dwelling houses, or during and for the time that he or they shallbe resident & dwelling with his family, but at or upon one of them, shall and may keep such grounds in pasture or meadow, belonging or usually occupied with any of the said two or three houses, and with no more nor others, in his or their own hands or occupation, or let it out to any other person or persons, without incurring of any danger or forfeiture by virtue of this Act, so that the same person or persons, shall and do keep the same mansion and dwelling house or houses unletten, and in good and sufficient reparations, and meet and convenient for him or them to repair and resort unto at all times for his or their dwelling and abode: Any thing in the said proviso, or in any part of this Act, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the repeal of any Act or Statute now repelled by this present Act, nor any other matter or thing herein contained, shall in any wise extend, or be interpreted, judged, or expounded, to hinder, hurt, or take away any suit, information or informations exhibited, and now depending in the queens majesties court of Exchequer, or in any other court of Record, for, or in any wise concerning the decay of any houses or tenements of husbandry, or for the converting of any lands or tenements from tillage into pasture, contrary to the form and effect of any Statute or Statutes heretofore made: But that all and every such suits and informations, shall stand, remain, and be of as good force and effect in the law, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, as the same and every of them were before the making of this Act. And that the said Acts and Statutes now by this present Act repelled, shall for and in respect only of the said informations and suits, and every of them so now depending, stand, remain, and be in such like force and effect, as they and every of them were before the making of this Act: Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
And where as some doubt and question, hath heretofore risen and been moved, upon certain words contained in the said Statute, made in the said fourth year of the reign of the late King Henry the seventh, that is to say, upon these words: house or houses let to farm, with twenty acres of land at least, or more, lying in tillage and husbandry: whether the same twenty acres of land or more, should be accounted and taken to be all earable land, and wholly put in tillage or not, and also what quantity and measure every acre should be of, and contain.  
For a plain and perfect declaration and interpretation whereof: Be it enacted and declared by th'authority of this present parliament, that the said Statute is, and shallbe expounded and taken, to extend to house or houses, that now have, or hath, or at any time heretofore sithence the first year of the reign of the said late king Henry the vii have or hath had, or that hereafter shall have twenty acres of ground to the same house or houses lying or belonging, or with the same commonly occupied or used, although the same ground hath not been, is, or shallbe all wholly used as earable land and put in tillage, but only some part thereof, and that the content of every acre, shallbe taken and rated after the rate and measure limited and appointed in the ordinance or treatise De terris mensurandis: Any ambiguity, doubt, or thing, whatsoever to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons hath, or at any time hereafter shall sustain any penalty, forfeiture, or loss, for or by reason of any offence committed or done contrary to the tenor or effect of this Act, or any other of the Acts before recited & confirmed: that then he or they shall not be eftsoons sued, vexed, or impeached for the same offence: Any thing in this Act, or in any other of the Acts aforesaid, had or made to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
And to th'intent that the offender of this Act, or of any the Acts before specified, & by this Act confirmed, & th'offences committed and done against any of the same, may be the better known, & that the more due execution thereof may be had: Be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the Lord Chancellor, or Lord keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, shall have full power & authority by virtue of this Act; from time to time to award & direct a Commission or Commissions under the great Seal of England, into every shire or county within this Realm & Wales, to such people, as by his wisdom & discretion shall be thought most meet & convenient, aucthorising them, or four of them at the least, by virtue thereof, & of this Act, to inquire & search out within every Town, village, Parish, & Hamlet within their Commission, by the oaths of vi lawful & indifferent persons, or otherwise, according to their good discretions, of the offences committed or done against this Statute, or any other the Statutes before mentioned, & by this Act confirmed, & whether any person or persons to whom any penalty or forfeiture is given, limited, or appointed by the same, or any of them, have taken the benefit or advantage of the said forfeitures and pains, or not, according to the same laws and statutes. And that within three months next after every such enquitie and search, the said Commissioners, or four of them at the least, shall make certificate thereof, and of their doings by virtue of the said Commission, under their hands and seals, into the high Court of Chancery, upon pain of forfeiture of every such Commissioner. xx.li. sterling to the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors. And that the same Commissioners, or two of them at the least, shall have authority & power by virtue of this act, to direct their precept to the Sheriffs of the county, being within the limits of their Commission, to warn as many honest men of his Baylywyke, as the said Commissioners shall appoint, by whom the truth in the premises may be best known, to inquire, and true presentment make, of all and every offences committed or done contrary to the said Acts, or any of them, and to set such reasonable fines and amerciaments upon such persons as shall make default of their appearances, or making their appearances, shall neglect to do their duties in & about the execution of the premises, as to the same Commissioners or four of them, shallbe by their discretions thought meet and convenient, so that the same fines or amerciaments for any one default, exceed not the sum of. xx.s. And that the same fines & amerciaments so by them taxed & set, shallbe yearly well and truly estreated into the court of the Exchequer, & there to be levied to the use of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, & successors, as other fines & amerciaments have been there accustomed & used to be levied. And that if the Sheriff to whom such precept shallbe awarded, shallbe remiss or negligent in serving of the precept, & returning of the same at the time & place appointed & prefixed in the said precept: that then the said Commissioners or four of them, shall for every such default, assess & tax upon the said Sheriff ten li. and shall estreat the same into the said Court of Exchequer, to be levied to the queens majesties use, her heirs, & successors, as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to any Sheriff, under Sheriff, or sheriffs deputy, to infringe or enter into any liberty or franchises for th'execution of any such precept: But shall make his mandatum to the bailiff of the franchises or liberty for thexecuting & serving of the same, and that the bailiff of every such franchises or liberty, shall serve & execute the said precept according to the tenor thereof, in such like manner & form as the Sheriff should or ought to have done, if it had been within his Baylywyke, upon pain of forfeiture of. u.li. to be estreated and levied as is aforesaid.  
Provided also, & be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the putting of any lands or tenements hereafter from pasture to tillage, according to the tenor and effect of this Act, shall not in any wise extend to be any cause of breach or forfeiture of any bond, covenant, payment, or condition made, or hereafter to be made between any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, which in any wise is or shallbe repugnant or contrariaunt to this Act.  
Provided always and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to give any benefit, advantage or liberty to any person or persons, which at any time sithence the said feast of S. George the Martyr, hath converted or employed, or hereafter shall convert or employ any more ground to the keeping of coneys, not being lawful warren, than five acres at the most, and the same to be within one mile of his dwelling house, and also not noisome or hurtful to the corn of any person or persons, other then of the owner of the same ground, so that he or they put and keep in tillage, as much or as many acres of his own proper ground, lying within the said Manor, Lordship, or Paryshe, as the said Conygree shall contain above the said numbered of five acres, that hath not heretofore been liable to be continued in tillage by force of any law or Statute: Any thing in this Act before mentioned to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
And where also by the said statute of Henry the vii the meaning of the makers thereof appeareth to be, that every house of husbandry having twenty acres of land or more, belonging or lying thereunto, or with the same commonly occupied, used, or demised: the same twenty acres or more, should not be severed or divided from the said house or houses, but should be demised, occupied, or used together, for the better maintenance of every such house & houses, and of tillage and husbandry.  
Be it therefore enacted and declared by authority of this present Parliament, that no person or persons whatsoever, having or that hereafter shall have any such houses or house of husbandry, with twenty acres of land or more, belonging or lying thereunto, or with the same commonly occupied, used, or demised: shall from and after the first day of this present Parliament, sever or divide the said twenty Acres of land or more, nor any part thereof, from any of the said house or houses, unless the same be kept in tillage, or otherwise for the profit of husbandry, according to the nature of the ground, or according to the custom of the Manors where the same land shall so be, upon the pains & forfeitures contained in the said statute of Henry the vii to be taken in such form as by the same statute appeareth, except he or they shall lay & assign to the said house or houses, or to any other house or houses being within the same Parish or Lordship, or within two miles of the said houses, being also not bound to be maintained and upholden by form of the said statute of king Henry the vii as much other land within the same parish, Lordship, or within two miles, as is abovesaid, for & in lieu of such or so much of the former land, as aught to have continued by force of the said statute, with the former house, & can not conveniently be returned to the same former house.  
And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that if any such house or houses of husbandry, and land, be divided or severed the one from the other, by reason of any lease or leases, for term of life, lives, or for term of years, made or granted before the first day of this present Parliament: that then whensoever the said lease or leases shall end or determine by any manner of means, so as the same house or houses, and lands thereunto belonging, shallbe discharged of all such leases, the same house and houses and lands so demised, shall not afterwards be severed or divided th'one from tother, but shall go, be kept, and occupied together at all times after, according to the declaration before mentioned, upon the pains and forfeitures last before specified, and to be taken also, as in the said Statute is mentioned: Except by the returning or reuniting of the same land to the said house, there shall or may grow any manifest decay of any other houses newly edified, or of any other farms that hath been by means of distribution or severance of the same land or lands, or any part thereof, made or assigned to be several tenements or holds.  
And where in the said Statute made in the said vii year of the reign of the said king Henry the viii amongs other things in the same, it is enacted, that if sithence the first day of the same Parliament, any lands, which at the same first day, or sithence the same first day, were commonly used in tillage, were enclosed, or from thenceforth should be enclosed and turned only to pasture, whereby any house of husbandry than was or thereafter should be decayed: that then all such lands should be by the owner or owners thereof, their heirs, successors, or assigns, or other for them, within one year next ensuing the same decay, put in tillage, and exercised, used, and occupied in husbandry and tillage, as they were the first day of the same Parliament, or at any time sithence, and after the manner and usage of the country where such lands did lie, as by the said Act more plainly may appear.  
And forasmuch as upon the said part of the said statute, divers doubts and questions have been moved heretofore: Be it therefore enacted & declared by the authority aforesaid, that if at any time sithence the making of the said Act, & before the said feast of S. George, in the said twenty year of the reign of the said late king Henry the viii any lands belonging to any such house of husbandry as is aforesaid, have been turned from tillage to pasture by any person or persons: that then the same lands, or so much other lands being within the same parish, Lordship, or Manor, that heretofore was not liable or bound by any law or statute to be kept in tillage, shallbe turned again into tillage within one year next after the session of this present parliament, & kept in tillage for ever, according to the custom of the country, & nature of the soil, whether the said house whereunto the said lands did belong be decayed or no, or whether the same lands were enclosed or not enclosed, or whether some part thereof, & not the whole, were kept in tillage or not, upon the pains contained in the same statute made in the said vii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the viii  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons whatsoever, having any pasture, heath, waist, or barren ground, which hath not been heretofore commonly used to be eared or tilled for corn, and yet nevertheless the same person or persons, to th'intent to better & amend the said ground, & not to use the same for tillage, have, or hath at any time heretofore turned or put the same into tillage, or at any time hereafter shall turn or put the same into tillage, and hath or shall keep the same ground for that cause only in tillage by the space of four years togethers, that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not compel any person or persons to continue or put in tillage the said pasture, heath, barren or waste ground so eared: Any thing before expressed in this act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this Act, or any provision, clause, or article therein contained, shall not be understand or expounded to extend or be in any wise prejudicial to those parts or portions of grounds, wherein any ower of Lead, Tin, or Iron, or Coals comely called sea coal, stone coal, or moor coal, have been, are, or hereafter shallbe usually gotten, by means whereof, the same grounds can not conveniently be put & kept in tillage: This Act, or any other law, usage, or custom to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided also that this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to compel any person or persons to put in tillage any lands or grounds within any forest or chase, except the forest of Snowden in North-wales, otherwise then before the making of this Statute, he or they ought, or were bound to do. This Act to endure to the end of the next session of Parliament.  
Provided always, that this statute or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to compel any inhabitant of the counties of Northumberland, Westmoreland, or Cumberland, to re-edify, maintain, or to keep in manurance any house or ground that shallbe overthrown, burned, destroyed, wasted, or decayed by enemies, or by any occasion of wars or invasions, during the wars, or win four years after the conclusion of peace next following such overthrowing, burning, destruction, wasting, or other thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And forasmuch as this Act shall continue but to the end of the next session of Parliament: Be it therefore enacted by auctoriritie aforesaid, that no person or persons, shall from henceforth convert from tillage to pasture, any ground which was in tillage the first day of this Parliament, other than such as they might lawfully have converted from tillage to pasture, before the making of this Act: Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the relief of the poor. ¶ The iii Chapter.  
TO th'intent that idle and loitering persons and valiant beggars may be avoided, and thimpotent, feeble, and lame, which are the poor in very deed, should be hereafter relieved and well provided for:  
Be it enacted by the Queen our sovereign Lady, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that the statute made in the xxii year of the late king of famous memory, king Henry th'eight, and also the statute made in the third and fourth years of the reign of the famous king Edward the sixth, concerning beggars, vagabonds, and idle persons, and every article, clause, branch, sentence, and other things contained in them, and either of them, other than such things as shallbe by this present Act otherwise ordained and provided for: shall stand, remain, and be in their full force and effect, and shallbe also from henceforth, justly and truly put in execution, according to the true meaning of the said several statutes, and every of them.  
AND further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that yearly upon the Sunday next before the feast day of the Nativity of S. john Baptist, commonly called Midsummer day, in every City, Borough, and Town corporate, the Mayor, Bailiffs, or other head officers for the time being: & in every other parish of the country, the Parson, Vicar, or Curate & churchwardens, shall have written in a Register or book to be provided by them, aswell the names of the inhabitants & householders within their city, Borough, Town corporate, or parish: as also the names of all such impotent, aged, & needy persons, as be within their city, Borough, Town corporate, or parish, which are not able to live of themselves, nor with their own labour, & shall openly in the church & quietly after divine service, call the said householders & inhabitants together, among whom the Maior or other head officers, and two of the chief inhabitants in every such City, Borough, and Town corporate, such as the Mayor or other head officers shall think meet. And the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, and Churchwardens in every other parish, shall elect, nominate and appoint yearly two able persons or more, to be gatherers and Collectors of the charitable alms of all the residue of the people inhabiting in the parish, whereof they be chosen Collectors for the relief of the poor, Which Collectors, the Sunday next after their election, or the sunday following if need require, when the people are at the Church at divine service: shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman, what they of their charity will be contented to give weakly towards the relief of the poor, and the same to be written in the said Register or book. And the said gatherers so being elected and chosen, shall justly gather and truly distribute the same charitable alms weakly by themselves or their assigns, to the said poor & impotent persons of the said Cities, boroughs, Towns corporate, and parishes, without fraud or covin, favour or affection, and after such sort, that the more impotent, may have the more help, and such as can get part of their living, to have the less, and by the discretion of the Collectors, to be put in such labour as they be fit & able to do, but none to go or sit openly a begging, upon pain limited in the aforesaid Statutes. And if the said Majors, bailiffs, head officers, Parson, Vicar, Curate and Churchwarden, or any of them, fail in the doing and executing of the premises in form above declared, he or they so making default, to forfeit for every such default. xl.s. to be employed to the use of the poor of that parish, where he or they do inhabit, to be levied by the Collectors of the same parish by way of distress, or otherwise, as is appointed in this Act for levying of like forfeitures.  
And be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons so elected, nominated, & appointed to be gatherer or gatherers as is aforesaid, shall refuse the said office, but shall justly and truly execute the same, by the space of one whole year next ensuing such election, upon pain to forfeit. x.li. th'one moiety thereof to the Churchwardens of the parish where he or they shallbe elected collector, and tother moiety thereof, to the use and relief of the poor of the said parish, to be levied by the Churchwardens where they or he dwelleth, of the goods of the said gatherer or gatherers so refusing, by distress, or else by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, to be brought or pursued by the said Churchwardens of the said Paryshe, where they shall dwell, in any court of Record, or in the court of any Lord of any Manor within the said parish where the said gatherer shallbe so chosen. In which suit, no protection or wager of law shallbe allowed or admitted for the party defendant.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if the said Churchwardens, or either of them, shall refuse to sue for the said forfeiture, or within two months next after the same cause of forfeiture shallbe given, shall not sue or take the remedy for the recovery thereof, in such manner and form as before in this present Act is limited and appointed: that then the same Churchwardens so making default of suit, shall forfeit and lose xx.li. of lawful money of England, the one moiety thereof to him or them that will sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of Record, or in the court of any Lord of any Manor, within the parish where the said Churchwardens shall dwell, and the other moiety to the use of the poor of the said parish. In which suit, no essoign, protection, or wager of law shallbe admitted or allowed for the party defendant.  
And for the better execution of this Act, touching the election of the Collectors for the poor: Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister, of every parish within this Realm, shall yearly for evermore, upon the Sunday before Midsummer day, in the Pulpit or some other convenient place in the Church, give knowledge and warning at th'end of some of the morning service, to the parishioners then and there present, to prepare themselves on the Sunday next after Midsummer day than next following, to come to the Church, and there to elect and choose Collectors and gatherers for the poor, according to the tenor of this Act. And if the Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister, shall make default in giving of the said knowledge: that then he or they so making default, to forfeit & lose. xl.s. towards the reparations of the said Church. And the Churchwardens of the said parish, to sue and distrain for the same, in such form as before is appointed for the other forfeitures.  
AND further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said gatherers or Collectors for the poor, so to be chosen as is aforesaid, shall make their just account quarterly, to the Majors or chief officers of the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns corporate: and in every parish of the said Country, to the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, and Churchwardens of the parish, at which account, such of the parish as will, may be present. And when they go out of their office, they shall deliver or cause to be delivered forthwith upon th'end of their accounts, all such surplusage of money, as then shall remain of their collection undistributed, to be put in their common chest of the Church, or in some other safe place, to the use of the poor, at the oversight and discretion of the Mayor, officers, and others before mentioned. And if the said Collectors, or any of them, do refuse to make their said account within viii days next after request made to them for the same, than the Bishop of the diocese, or the Ordinary of the place, chancellors, or their Commissaries, together with a justice of peace, & the Churchwardens of the said parish, or one of them, shall have authority by virtue of this Act, upon complaint to them made, to commit the said person or persons so refusing, to ward, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he or they so refusing, shall make their said accounts, before such persons as the said Bishop, Ordinary, Chancellors, or Commissaries & justice of peace shall appoint, & to make immediate payment of the sums wherewith by determination of the said account they shallbe charged.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, being able to further this charitable work, do obstinately & frowardly refuse, reasonably to give towards the help & relief of the poor, or do wilfully discourage other from so charitable a deed, the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, & Churchwardens of the parish wherein he dwelleth, shall then gently exhort him or them towards the relief of the poor, and if he or they will not so be persuaded, then upon the certificate of the Parson, Vicar, or Curate of the parish, to the Bishop of the diocese, or Ordinary of the place, chancellors, or their Commissaries, or Guardian of the Spiritualties, the same Bishop, Ordinary, chancellors or Commissaries, or Guardian of the Spiritualties, shall send for him or them, to induce or persuade him or them by charitable means & ways, to extend their charity to the poor, as in this Act is well meant & intended. And if the person or persons so sent for, of his or their froward or wilful mind, shall obstinately refuse to give weakly for the relief of the poor, according to his or their abilities: that then the Bishop or Ordinary of the diocese, chancellors or their Commissaries, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, to bind the said obstinate and wilful persons so refusing, unto the Queen by recognisance, in the sum of ten pounds, with condition thereupon to be endorsed, that the said obstinate person so refusing, shall personally appear before the justices of peace, of the County where the same person shall then inhabit and dwell, if it be out of any City, Borough, or Town corporate: and if it be within any City, Borough, or Town corporate, then before the Majors, bailiffs, or other head officers of every such City, Borough or Town corporate, at the next general sessions to be holden before the said justices within the said County, or at the next Court to be holden before the said Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers within every such City, Borough, or Town corporate, and that the same obstinate person shall not from thence departed without licence of the said justices, if he dwell out of any City, Borough, or Town corporate: or of the said Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers, if he dwell within any such City, Borough, or Town corporate. And if any such obstinate person shall refuse to be bound as is aforesaid: that then the said Bishop, Ordinary, Chancellor, or Commissary, shall have authority by this Act, to commit the said obstinate person to prison, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until the said obstinate person shall become bound, as is aforesaid,  
AND further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said justices, or such of them as shallbe at the said Sessions, or the Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers of every such City, Borough, or Town corporate, if the said obstinate person do appear before them: shall charitably and gently persuade and move the said obstinate persons, to extend his or their charity towards the relief of the poor of the parish where he or she inhabiteth and dwelleth, and if he or she shall obstinately and wilfully stand in the same, and will not be persuaded therein by the said justices, Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers: that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said justices, if it be out of any City, Borough, or Town corporate, and if it be within any City, Borough, or Town corporate, for the Mayor, Bailiffs or other head officers of the same City, Borough, or Town corporate, with the Churchwardens where the said obstinate person shall inhabit, or one of them, to sesse, tax, and limit upon every such obstinate person so refusing, according to their good discretions, what sum the said obstinate person shall pay weakly towards the relief of the poor within the said parish where he or she shall inhabit and dwell. And if the said person so sessed and taxed, shall refuse to pay the sum that shallbe so reasonably limited, taxed, and appointed: then the said justices of peace, or two of them, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, or the said Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers of every such City, Borough, or Town corporate, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, upon complaint and certificate to them by the Collectors and Churchwardens of the same parish, where the said obstinate person shall dwell, to commit the said obstinate person and persons so refusing to pay, to prison to the next jail, there to remain without bail or mainprize, till he or they have paid the said sum so appointed, taxed, & limited, together with tharrearages thereof, if any such shall fortune to be.  
And for the better maintenance of this charitable Act and work, it is ordained and established by th'authority aforesaid, that where as the late king of famous memory king Henry the viii. his heirs or successors, or any other person or persons, by his or their several & lawful erections and foundations, hath or have ordained & appointed any sum or sums of money to the use of the poor, or for the repairing or amending of high ways or bridges, not being taken away otherwise by Act of Parliament, whether the same be in any Cathedral Church, College, or else where, the Bishop of the diocese, or chancellor for the time being, shall from time to time, examine how and after what manner the said money is bestowed, & to call to account the parties which retain the said money, and thereupon to take such order, as the same from thenceforth be distributed to the poor, according to the good intent and purpose of the said noble king that granted the same. And if they shall fail yearly to call to account the persons aforesaid, in form aforesaid, and after account, to order the distribution of the said money in manner before declared, to forfeit for every such default. xx.li. to be employed to the use of the poor, by the oversight of three justices of the peace, within the said county where the person that so should account dwelleth, to be levied by way of distress, or otherwise, as other forfeitures in this statute are appointed to be levied.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, if it shall chance any parish to have in it more poor & impotent folks not able to labour, than the said parish is able to relief: that then in every such parish, not standing in any City or Town corporate, the Parson, Vicar, or Curate of the said parish, and two or three of the chief inhabitants of the same parish, and in every City & Town corporate, the Mayor or chief officers of the same City or Town corporat, & the Parson, Vicar, or Curate of the said parish, calling to them two or three of the chief parishioners of the same parish, such as the said Mayor or head officers shall think meet: shall certify unto the justices of peace of the county where the same parish is, the number and names of the persons with which they be surcharged, & upon such certificate, the said justices of the peace in the same county, or two of them, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall consider & examine the said certificate, aswell by the oath of those that so certified inspection of the said poor persons, to be taken and viewed, at such day, time, & place, as to them shallbe thought meet, as by all other ways and means: and finding the same true, after such oath and allowance by inspection, shall then grant unto such and as many of the said poor folks as by their discretion they shall think good, a sufficient licence under the seal appointed for the limit, to go abroad, to beg, get, and receive the charitable alms of the inhabitants of the country, out of the said parishes, Cities, & Towns so surcharged: in which licence, th'infirmity of the person, the places, towns, & parishes to which such poor folks are by that licence licenced to resort, shall in the same licence be named, limited, and appointed, be it one Hundred or more, in the said County, at the said discretion of the same justices. And if any of the said poor folks so licenced, shall transgress the limits to them appointed, and resort to beg at other places then is in the said licence named, the party so transgressing & offending, to be taken for a valiant beggar, and punished according to the statute made in the said xxii year of king Henry the eight, & his or their licence to be taken from them. And if the said justices of the peace shall fail to appoint a day and time for inspection of the said poor, and examination of the said certificatours, within one month next ensuing the day of receipt of the said certificate, or shalt grant or give licence to any person or persons so certified, to go abroad and beg, before such time as they shall have viewed and seen the said poor persons, & have received oath of the persons that so certified, that the said poor persons for age, impotency, or sickness, in their consciences, & to their knowledge, are not able by any work or labour to earn them necessary meat, drink, and cloth, and the same deposition put in writing, subscribed or marked by the persons deposed, to forfeit for every such default, ten pounds, to be employed to the use of the poor of any parish or parishes within the said County where the said justices dwell, at the oversight & appointment of the Bishop or his chancellor of the same diocese, to be levied in sort & form as other forfeitures in this Statute are appointed.  
And be it further enacted, that where any of the said Cities, boroughs, Towns corporate, or parish, so charged, is situate & standing in one county or two counties of this Realm, or situate and standing in one, and immediately adjoining to another county of the Realm, as the City of Brystoll, and the Towns of Ludloo and Stamforde stand: that in those Cities, the Parson, Vicar, and Curate of the said parish, and the said Mayor, head officers, and inhabitants of every such City, Borough, Town corporate, and parish, shall make certificate unto the justices of the said counties adjoining to the same Cities, boroughs, Towns corporate, & parishes, and the same justices of the said adjoining County or Counties, to do, give licence, and follow the order above remembered, according as other justices of the Counties in which the parish surcharged standeth, is limited and authorized to do.  
And be it also enacted, that in all Cities, boroughs, & Towns corporate, within which be divers parishes, the Mayor & head officers of every the same Cities, boroughs, & Towns corporat, shall consider the state & ability of every such parish. And if the same Mayor and officers shall understand by their discretion, that the parishioners of any one of the said parishes is of such wealth and havor, that they have no poverty amongst them, or be able sufficiently to relief the poverty of the parish where they inhabit & dwell, and also to help and secure poverty else where further: that then the said Mayor and officers, with th'assent of two of the most honest & substantial inhabitants of every such wealthy parish, shall consider the neediness of thinhabitants of tother parish or parishes within the same City or Town corporate, and move, induce, and persuade the parishioners of the wealthier parish, charitably to contribute somewhat, according to their ability, toward the weakly relief, succour & consolation of the poor & needy within the other parish or parishes aforesaid, where need is.  
And be it also enacted, that all and every such poor folks as by any such licence, are to be licenced and authorized to resort out of the limits, liberties, and franchises, of all and every such City, Borough, and Town corporate, into any the said Counties, to beg, get, & gather the charitable alms of good people, shall at all times when the same goeth abroad to beg, wear openly upon him or them, both on the breast and the back of his or their uppermost garment, some notable badge or token, to be assigned unto him by the Mayor or head officers of the same City, Borough, and Town corporate, or Paryshe, with th'assent of the justices of the peace that shall grant the same licence, upon pain to be taken for a valiant beggar, and to be punished as afore is remembered, and shall also carry his licence with him, upon the like pain. This Act to endure to the latter end of the first session of the next Parliament.  
Provided always, & be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every sum and sums of money, from henceforth to be collected or gathered within the City of London & the liberties of the same, by virtue of this Act, shallbe paid over to the governors of the hospital called the hospital of Christ's Church, within the said City of London, for the time being, and shallbe by them from time to time distributed and bestowed for the relief of the poor of the said City, according to their wisdom and discretions: Any thing in this Act mentioned to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every sum and sums of money, from henceforth to be collected or gathered within the City of Coventrie, and the liberties of the same, by virtue of this Act, toward the maintenance and relief of the hospital of poor people, erected in the said City, shallbe paid over to such governor or governors of the said Hospital, as now is or hereafter shallbe admitted and appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen of the said City of Coventrie, or the more part of them, for the time being. And such governor or governors so admitted and appointed as aforesaid, shall from time to time, distribute and bestow, for the relief of thaforesaid poor within the said City, the said sum or sums of money, according to their wisdom's and discretions: Any thing mentioned in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted, that the Curate, Minister, or Reader, together with the Wardens of every Chapel of ease, and where no Wardens are, the Warden or two of the chiefest of the inhabitants resorting & frequenting the said Chapel of ease for hearing divine service, the same inhabitants to be nominated and chosen by the same Curate, Minister, or Reader: And also the Collectors, and all and every other person and persons to whom in this behalf it shall appertain by force of this statute, shall do, execute, perform, and be liable to all and every such ordinance, clause, article, sentence, and penalties specified and contained in this present Act, for and towards the relief of the poor, in like manner & form, as the Vicar, Curate, Churchwardens, and Collectors of every parish Church, shall, may, or aught to do by force of this Act, according to the purport and true meaning of the same, & not to be compellable to come or resort to their parish Church for the same only purpose or intent: Any thing in this Act before specified to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend or be prejudicial to any gift, legacy, conveyance or assignment of any manner of lands or other profit heretofore given, assigned, or bequeathed to the relief of the poor, reparation of high ways, or bridges, upon any manner of condition: but that the same shallbe employed, converted, bestowed, and accounted for, in such manner and form, and upon such condition, as the same lawfully was or ought to be, before the making of this Act.   

¶ An Act touching divers orders for Artificers, Labourers, servants of husbandry, and apprentices. ¶ The four Chapter.  
ALthough there remain and stand in force presently a great number of Acts & statutes concerning the retaining, departing, wages, and orders of apprentices, servants, & labourers, aswell in husbandry as in divers other arts, mysteries & occupations: yet partly for the imperfection & contrariety that is found & do appear in sundry of the said laws, and for the variety & number of them, and chiefly for that the wages & alowaunces limited & rated in many of the said statutes, are in divers places to small, and not answerable to this time, respecting the advancement of prices of all things belonging to the said servants & labourers, the said laws can not conveniently, without the great grief & burden of the poor labourer & hired man, be put in good & due execution. And as the said several acts & statutes were at the time of the making of them, thought to be very good & beneficial for the common wealth of this Realm: (as divers of them yet are) So if the substance of as many of the said laws as are meet to be continued, shallbe digested & reduced into one sole law & statute, & in the same an uniform order prescribed & limited, concerning the wages & other orders for apprentices, servants, & labourers, there is good hope that it will come to pass, that the same law (being duly executed) should banish idleness, advance husbandry, & yield unto the hired person both in the time of scarcity, & in the time of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages.  
Be it therefore enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that as much of all the statutes heretofore made, & every branch of them, as touch or concern the hiring, keeping, departing, working, wages, or order of servants, workmen, artificers, apprentices & labourers, or any of them, & the penalties & forfeitures concerning the same, shallbe from & after the last day of September next ensuing, repealed and utterly void & of none effect, and that all the said statutes and every branch thereof, for any matter contained in them, and not repealed by this statute, shall remain and be in full force & effect: Any thing in this statute to the contrary notwithstanding.  
AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no manner of person or persons after the foresaid last day of September now next ensuing, shall retain, hire, or take into service, or cause to be retained, hired, or taken into service, nor any person shallbe retained or hired, or taken into service by any means or colour, to work for any less, time or term, then for one hole year, in any of the sciences, crafts, mysteries, or arts of Clothier's, woollen cloth weavers, Tuckers, Fuller's, Clotheworkers, Sheremen, Dyers, Hosiers, Taillers, Shoemakers, Tanners, Pewterers, Bakers, Brewers, glovers, Cutlers, Smiths, Farrors, curriers, Saddlers, Spurryers', Turner's, Cappers, Hat-makers, or Felt makers, Bowyers, fletcher's, Arrowhead makers, Butchers, Cooks, or millers.  
And be it further enacted, that every person being unmarried, and every other person being under the age of xxx years, that after the feast of Easter next shall marry, and having been brought up in any of the said arts, crafts, or sciences, or that hath used or exercised any of them by the space of three years or more, and not having lands, tenements, rents, or hereditaments, copy hold, or free hold, of one estate of inheritance, or for term of any life or lives, of the clear yearly value of. xl.s. nor being worth of his own goods the clear value of. x.li. and so allowed by two justices of the peace, of the county where he hath most commonly inhabited by the space of one hole year, and under their hands and seals, or by the Mayor or other head officer of the city, borough, or town corporate, where such person hath most commonly dwelled by the space of one whole year, and two Aldermen, or two other discrete Burgesses of the same city, borough, or town corporate if there be no Aldermen, under their hands and seals, nor being retained with any person in husbandry, or in any of the aforesaid arts and sciences, according to this Statute, nor lawfully retained in any other art or science, nor being lawfully retained in household, or in any office with any noble man, gentleman, or others, according to the laws of this Realm, nor having a convenient ferme, or other holding in tillage, whereupon he may employ his labour: shall (during the time that he or they shall so be unmarried, or under the said age of xxx years, upon request made by any person using the art or mystery wherein the said person so required hath been exercised, as is aforesaid) be retained, and shall not refuse to serve, according to the tenor of this Statute, upon the pain and penalty hereafter mentioned.  
And be it further enacted, that no person which shall retain any servant, shall put away his or her said servant, and that no person retained according to this Statute, shall departed from his master, masters, or dame, before the end of his or her term, upon the pain hereafter mentioned, unless it be for some reasonable and sufficient cause or matter, to be allowed before two justices of peace, or one at the least, within the said County, or before the Mayor or other chief officer of the City, Borough, or Town corporate, wherein the said master, masters, or dame inhabiteth, to whom any of the parties grieved shall complain, which said justices or justice, Mayor, or chief office, shall have, & take upon them or him, the hearing and ordering of the matter, betwixt the said master, masters, or dame, & servant, according to the equity of the cause. And that no such master, masters, or dame, shall put away any such servant at th'end of his term, or that any such servant shall departed from his said master, masters or dame, at th'end of his term, without one quarter warning given before th'end of his said term, either by the said master, masters, or dame, or servant, the one to the other, upon the pain hereafter ensuing.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that every person between the age of xii years, & the age of threescore years, not being lawfully retained, nor apprentice with any fisherman or Mariner haunting the seas, nor being in service with any kyddyer or carrier of any corn, grain, or meal, for provision of the City of London, nor with any husbandman in husbandry, nor in any City, Town corporate, or market Town, in any of the arts or sciences limited or appointed by this statute to have or take apprentices, nor being retained by the year, or half the year at the least, for the digging, seeking, finding, getting, melting, fining, working, trying, making of any Silver, Tin, Led, Iron, Copper, Stone, Sea coal, Stone coal, Moor coal, or Cherk coal, nor being occupied in or about the making of any glass, nor being a gentleman borne, nor being a student or scholar in any of the universities, or in any school, nor having lands, tenements, rents, or hereditaments, for term of life, or of one estate of inheritance, of the clear yearly value of. xl.s. nor being worth in goods and cattles to the value of. x.li. nor having a father or mother then living, or other ancestor, whose heir apparent he is, then having lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the yearly value of. x.li. or above, or goods or cattles of the value of xl li. nor being a necessary or convenient officer, or servant lawfully retained as is aforesaid, nor having a convenient ferme, or holding whereupon he may or shall employ his labour, nor being otherwise lawfully retained, according to the true meaning of this statute: shall after the foresaid last day of September now next ensuing, by virtue of this statute, be compelled to be retained to serve in husbandry by the year, with any person that keepeth husbandry, & will require any such person so to serve, within the same shire where he shallbe so required.  
AND be it further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that if any person after he hath retained any servant, shall put away the same servant before th'end of his term, unless it be for some reasonable and sufficient cause, to be allowed as is aforesaid, or if any such master, masters, or dame, shall put away any such servant at th'end of his term, without one quarters warning given before the said end, as is above remembered: that then every such master, masters, or dame so offending, unless he or they be able to prove by two sufficient witnesses such reasonable & sufficient cause of putting away of their servant or servants during their term, or a quarter's warning given afore the end of the said term, as is beforesaid, before the justices of Oyer & terminer, justices of assize, justices of the peace in the quarter Sessions, or before the Mayor or other head officer of any city, borough, or town corporate, & two Aldermen, or two other discrete burgesses of the same city, borough or town corporate, if there be no Aldermen, or before the Lord precedent & counsel established in the marches of Wales, or before the Lord precedent and counsel for the time being established in the North parties, shall forfeit the sum of xl.s. And if any servant retained according to the form of this statute, depart from his master, masters, or dames service before the end of his term, unless it be for some reasonable & sufficient cause to be allowed as is aforesaid, or if any servant at th'end of his term departed from his said master, masters, or dames service, without one quarters warning given before th'end of his said term, in form aforesaid, & before ii lawful witnesses, or if any person or people compelable & bounden to be retained & to serve in husbandry, or in any other the arts, sciences or mysteries above remembered, by the year or otherwise, do (upon request made) refuse to serve for the wages that shall be limited, rated, & appointed, according to the form of this statute, or promise or covenant to serve, & do not serve according to the tenor of the same: that then every servant so departing away, & every person so refusing to serve for such wages, upon complaint thereof made by the master, masters or dame of the said servant, or by the party, to or with whom the said refusal is made, or promise not kept, to ii justices of the peace of the county, or to the Maior or other head officer of the city, borough, town corporate, & ii Aldermen, or ii other discrete Burgesses of the same city, borough or town corporat, if there be no Aldermen, where the said master, masters, or dame, or the said party to or with whom the said refusal is made & promise not kept dwelleth, or to either of the said Lords presidents & counsel of Wales, & the North, the said justices, lords presidents & counsels, & also the said Majors or other head officers, & other persons of cities, boroughs or towns corporate, or any of them, as is aforesaid, shall have power by force of this statute, to hear & examine the matter, and finding the said servant or the said party so refusing, faulty in the premises, upon such proofs & good matter, as to their discressions shallbe thought sufficient, to commit him or them to ward, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until the said servant or party so offending, shallbe bound to the party to whom th'offence shallbe made, to serve and continue with him for the wages that then shallbe limited and appointed, according to the tenor & form of this statute, and to be discharged upon his delivery, without paying any fee to the jailor where he or they shallbe so imprisoned.  
AND be it likewise enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that none of the said retained persons in husbandry, or in any the arts or sciences above remembered, after the time of his retainer expired, shall departed forth of one City, Town, or Parish, to another, nor out of the Lathe, Rape, Wapentake, or Hundred, nor out of the County or Shire where he last served, to serve in any other City, Town corporate, Lathe, Rape, Wapentake, Hundred, Shire, or County, unless he have a testimonial under the Seal of the said City or Town corporate, or of the Constable or Constables, or other head officer or officers, and of two other honest householders of the City, Town, or Paryshe where he last served, declaring his lawful departure, and the name of the Shire and place where he dwelled last before his departure, according to the form hereafter expressed in this Act, which certificate or testimonial shallbe written and delivered unto the said servant, and also registered by the Parson, Vicar, or Curate of the parish where such master, masters, or dame doth or shall dwell, taking for the doing thereof ii.d. and not above, and the form thereof shallbe as followeth: Memorand. that A B. late servant to C D. of E. husbandman, or Taillour. &c. in the said County, is licenced to departed from his said master, and is at his liberty to serve else where, according to the Statute in that case made and provided. In witness whereof. &c. dated the day, month, year, & place. &c. of the making thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons that shall departed out of service, shallbe retained or accepted into any other service, without showing before his reteinor such testimonial as is above remembered, to the chief officer of the town corporate: and in every other town & place, to the Constable, Curate, Churchwarden or other head officer of the same where he shallbe retained to serve, upon the pain that every such servant so departing without such certificate or testimonial, shallbe imprisoned, until he procure a testimonial or certificate, the which if he cannot do within the space of xxi days next after the first day of his imprisonment: then the said person to be whipped & used as a vacanbond, according to the laws in such cases provided. And that every person retaining any such servant without showing such testimonyall of certificate, as is aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence five pounds. And if any such person shallbe taken with any counterfeit or forged testimonial, then to be whipped as a vagabound.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that all artificers and labourers, being hired for wages, by the day or week, shall betwixt the mids of the months of March and September, be and continue at their work, at or before five of the cloak in the morning, and continue at work, and not depart, until betwixt seven and eight of the clock at night (except it be in the time of breakfast, dinner, or drinking, the which times at the most, shall not exceed above two hours and a half in the day, that is to say, at every drinking, one half hour, for his dinner one hour, and for his sleep when he is allowed to sleep, the which is from the midst of May, to the midst of August, half an hour at the most, and at every breakfast one half hour, and all the said artifiters and labourers, between the midst of September, and the midst of March, shallbe and continue at their work, from the spring of the day in the morning, until the night of the same day, except it be in time afore appointed for breakfast and dinner, upon pain to lose and forfeit one penny for every hours absence; to be deducted and defaulked out of his wages, that shall so offend.  
And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every artificer and labourer, that shallbe lawfully retained in, or for the building or repairing of any Church, House, Ship, Mylne, or every other piece of work taken in great, in task or in gross, or that shall hereafter take upon him to make or finish any such thing or work, shall continue, and not depart from the fame, unless it be for not paying of his wages or higher agreed on, or otherwise lawfully taken or appointed to serve the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, or for other lawful cause, or without license of the master or owner of the work, or of him that hath the charge thereof, before the finishing of the said work, upon pain of imprisonment by one month without bail or mainprize, and the forfeiture of the sum of five pounds to the party, from whom he shall so depart, for the which the said party may have his action of debt against him that shall so depart, in any of the queens majesties courts of record, over & beside such ordinary costs and damages, as may or aught to be recovered, by the comen laws, for or concerning any such offence. In which action, no protection, wager of law; or essoign, shallbe admitted. And that no other artificer or labourer retained in any service, to work with the queens Majesty, or any other person, depart not from her said Majesty, or from the said other person, until such time as the work be finished, if the person so retaining the artificer or labourer so long will have him and pay him his wages, or other duties, upon pain of imprisonment of every person, so departing, by the space of one month.  
And for the declaration and limitation, what wages servants, labourers and artificers, either by the year or day, or otherwise shall have and receive: Be it enacted, by the authority of this present parliament, that the justices of peace of every shire, riding, and liberty, within the limits of their several commissions, or the more part of them, being then resyant within the same, and the Sheriff of that County, if he conveniently may, and every Mayor, bailiff, or other head officer within any City or town corporate, wherein is any justice of peace within the limits of the said City, or town corporate, and of the said corporation, shall before the tenth day of june, next coming, and afterward, shall yearly at every general Sessions first to beeholden and kept after Easter, or at sometime convenient, within six weeks next following every of the said feasts of Easter, assemble themselves together, and they (so assembled) calling unto them such discrete and grave persons of the said County, or of the said City or town corporate, as they shall think meet, and confetring together, respecting the plenty or scarcity of the time, and other circumstances necessarily to be considered, shall have authority by virtue hereof, within the limits and precincts of their several commissions, to limit, rate, and appoint the wages, aswell of such and so many of the said artificers, handy crafts men, husbandmen, or any other labourer, servant, or workmen, whose wages in time past hath been by any law or statute rated and appointed, as also the wages of all other labourers, artificers, workmen, or apprentices of husbandry, which have not been rated, as they the same justices, Majors, or head officers within their several commissions or liberties, shall think meet, by their discretions to be rated, limited or appointed, by the year, or by the day, week, month, or otherwise, with meat and drink, or without meat and drink, and what wages every workman or labourer shall take by the great, for mowing, reaping or threshing of corn and grain, and for mowing or making of hay, or for ditching, paling, railing, or hedging, by the rod, perch, lug, yard, pole, rope, or foot, and for any other kind of reasonable labours or service, and shall yearly before the xii. day of july, next after the said assessment and rates so appointed and made, certify the same, engrossed in parchment with the considerations & causes thereof, under their hands and seals, into the queens most honourable Court of Chancery, whereupon it shallbe lawful to the lord chancellor of England, or L. keeper of the great seal for the time being, upon declaration thereof, to the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, or to the Lords and others of the privy Council, for the time being, attendant upon their persons, to cause to be printed and sent down before the first day of September next after the said certificate, into every county, to the Sheriff, and justices of peace there, and to the said Mayor, bailiffs and head officers, ten or twelve proclamations or more, containing in every of them; the several rates appointed by the said justices, and other head officers as is aforesaid, with commandment by the said proclamations to all persons, in the name of the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, straightly to observe the same, and to all justices, Sheriffs, and other officers, to see the same duly and severely observed, upon the danger of the punishment and forfeitures limited and appointed by this statute. Upon receipt whereof, the said Sheriffs, justices of peace, and the Mayor and head officer in every City or town corporate, shall cause the same proclamation to be entered of record, by the clerk of the peace, or by the clerk of the City or town corporate: and the said Sheriffs, justices, and other the said Mayor and head officers, shall forthwith in open markets, upon the market days before Michaelmas then ensuing, cause the same proclamation to be proclaimed in every City or market town, within the limits of their Commission, and the same proclamation to be fixed in some convenient place of the said City and town, or in such of the most occupied market towns, as to the said Sheriffs, justices of peace, and to the said Mayor and head officer, shallbe thought mete.  
And if the said Sheriffs, justices of peace, or the Mayor and head officers, shall at their said general Sessions, or at any time after, within six weeks then following, upon their assembly and conference together, think it convenient to retain and keep for the year then to come, the rates and proportion of wages, that they certified the year before, or to change or reform them, or some part of them: then they shall before the said xii day of july, yearly certify into the said Court of Chauncerye their resolutions and determinations therein, to the intent that proclamations may accordingly be renewed and sent down. And if it shall happen that there be no need of any reformation or alteration of the rates of the said wages, but that the former shallbe thought meet to be continued: then the proclamations for the year past, shall remain in force until new proclamations, upon new rates concerning the said wages, shallbe sent down, according to the form of this statute.  
And be it further enacted by authority of this present parliament, that if all the said justices of peace, resiant within Counties, where they are or shallbe justices of peace, Majors and head officers, do not before the tenth day of june next coming, and afterward, yearly appear and assemble at the said general Sessions, or within six weeks next after the said general Sessions, and limit, and rate the wages of the said servants and labourers, or shall not consider whether the former rates made, be meet to be continued, or to be altered, and reform in manner and form aforesaid, or be negligent, or remiss in the certificate thereof in form above written: that then every justice of peace of the County, and every Mayor and head officer of the City or town corporate, in whom any such default or negligence shallbe found, being within the said county, City or town corporate, at the time of the said next assembly, or at the time of the said Sessions, or at the times of the said rates of wages to be set, within six weeks next after every such Sessions, and not visited with any such sickness, as he could not travel thither without peril and danger of his life, or not having any other lawful and good excuse to be allowed by the justices, then assembled for the rating and taxing of wages, as is aforesaid, or by the more part of them, upon a corporal oath and affidavit to be taken and made openly before the said justices upon the holy Evangelists, by some credible person, assessed and taxed in the book of subsidy of that County, to the clear value of five pounds at the least, or by such other person as the most part of such justices shall allow and accept to take such oath: shall for such default or negligence, forfeit unto the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors, ten pounds of lawful money of England.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person, after the said proclamation shallbe so sent down, and published, shall by any secret ways or means, directly, or indirectly, retain, or keep any servant, workman or labourer, or shall give any more, or greater wages, or other commodity contrary to the true intent and purport of this statute, or contrary to the rates or wages that shallbe assessed or appointed in the said proclamations: that then every person that shall so offend, and be thereof lawfully convicted before any the justices, or other head officers above remembered, or either of the said Presidents and Councils, shall suffer imprisonment by the space of ten days, without bail or maynepryce, and shall lose and forfeit five pounds, of lawful money of England. And that every person, that shallbe so retained and take wages, contrary to this statute, or any branch thereof, or of the said proclamation, and shallbe thereof convicted before the justices aforesaid, or any two of them, or before the Mayor, or other head officers aforesaid, shall suffer imprisonment, by the space of xxi days, without bail or mayneprice. And that every retainer, promise, gift, or payment of wages, or other thing whatsoever, contrary to the true meaning of this statute, and every writing and bond to be made for that purpose, shallbe utterly void, and of none effect.  
And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any servant, workman, or labourer, shall wilfully or maliciously make any assault, or affray, upon his Master, Mistress, or dame, or upon any other, that shall at the time of such assault or affray, have the charge or oversight of any such servant, workman, or labourer, or of the work wherein the said servant, workman, or labourer is appointed or hired to work, and being thereof convicted before any two of the justices, Mayor, or head officer aforesaid, where the said offence is committed, or before either of the said Lords Precedents, and Council before remembered, by confession of the said servant, workman, or labourer, or by the testimony, witness, and oath of two honest men: that then every such offendor, shall suffer imprisonment by the space of one hole year or less, by the discretion of two justices of peace, if it be without a town corporate: and if it be within any town corporate, then by the discretion of the Mayor, or head officer of the same town corporate, with two others of the discretest persons of the same corporation at the least. And if the offence shall require further punishment, then to receive such other open punishment, so as it extend not to life, nor limb, as the justices of peace in open Sessions, or the more part of them, or the said Mayor, or head officer, and six, or four at the least, of the discretest persons of the same corporation, before whom the offence shallbe examined, shall think convenient for the quality of the said offence so done and committed.  
provided always, and be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that in the time of hay or corn harvest, the justices of peace, and every of them, & also the Constable or other head officer of every township, upon request, & for the avoiding of the loss of any corn, grain, or hay, shall & may cause all such artificers and persons, as be meet to labour, by the discretions of the said justices or Constables, or other head officers, or by any of them, to serve by the day, for the mowing, reaping, shearing, getting, or Inning of corn, grain and hay, according to the skill and quality of the person, and that none of the said persons shall refuse so to do, upon pain to suffer imprisonment in the stocks, by the space of two days and one night. And the Constable of the town, or other head officer of the same, where the said refusal shallbe made, upon complaint to him made, shall have authority by virtue hereof, to set the said offender in the stocks, for the time aforesaid, and shall punish him accordingly, upon pain to lose and forfeit for not doing thereof, the sum of. xl.s.  
Provided also, that all persons of the counties where they have accustomed to go into other Shires for harvest work, and having at that time no harvest work sufficient in the same town nor county, where he or they dwelled in the winter than last passed, bringing with him or them a testimonial under the hand and seal of one justice of the peace of the shire, or other head officer of the town or place that he or they come from, testifying the same, for the which he shall pay not above one penny (other than such persons as shallbe retained in service, according to the form of this statute) may repair and resort in harvest of hay or corn, from the countries wherein their dwelling places are, into any other place or County, for the only mowing, reaping and getting of hay, corn and grain, and for the only working of harvest works, as they might have done before the making of this statute: Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that two justices of peace, the Maior, or other head officer of any city, borough or town corporate, & two Aldermen: or two other discrete burgesses of the same City, borough, or town corporate, if there be no Aldermen, shall and may by virtue hereof, appoint any such woman, as is of the age of xii years, and under the age of xl years, and unmarried, and forth of service, as they shall think meet to serve, to be retained or serve by the year, or by the week or day, for such wages, and in such reasonable sort and manner, as they shall think meet. And if any such woman shall refuse so to serve, than it shallbe lawful for the said justices of peace, Mayor or head officers, to commit such woman to ward, until she shallbe bounden to serve, as is aforesaid.  
And for the better advancement of husbandry and tillage, and to the intent that such as are fit to be made apprentices to husbandry, may be bounden thereunto: Be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that every person being an householder, and having, and using half a plough land at the least in tillage: may have and receive as an apprentice, any person above the age of ten years, and under the age of xviii years, to serve in husbandry, until his age of xxi. years at the least, or until the age of xxiiii years, as the parties can agree, and the said retainer and taking of an apprentice, to be made and done by indenture.  
And be it further enacted, that every person being an householder, and xxiiii years old at the least, dwelling, or inhabiting, or which shall dwell and inhabit in any city or town corporate, and using, and exercising any art, mystery or manuel occupation there, shall and may after the feast of Saint john Baptist next coming, during the time that he shall so dwell or inhabit, in any such City or town corporate, and use, and exercise any such art, mystery or manuel occupation: have and retain the son of any free man, not occupying husbandry, nor being a labourer, & inhabiting in the same, or in any other City or town, that now is, or hereafter shallbe, and continue incorporate, to serve and be bound as an apprentice, after the custom and order of the City of London, for seven years at the least, so as the term and years of such apprentice, do not expire or determine, afore such apprentice shallbe of the age of xxiiii years at the least.  
provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful to any person dwelling in any City or town corporate, using or exercising any of the mysteries, or crafts of a merchant trafficquinge by traffic, or trade into any the parts beyond the Sea, Mercer, Draper, goldsmith, Irenmonger, Inbroderer, or Clothear, that doth or shall put cloth to making and sale, to take any apprentice or servant, to be instructed or taught in any of the arts, occupations, crafts or mysteries, which they or any of them do use or exercise, except such servant or apprentice be his son, or else that the father or mother of such apprentice or servant, shall have at the time of taking of such apprentice or servant, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of. xl.s. of one estate of inheritance, or free hold at the least, to be certified under the hands and seals of three justices of the peace, of the shire or Shires, where the said lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, do or shall lie, to the Mayor, Bailyf, or other head officers of such City or town corporate, and to be enrolled among the records there.  
And be it further enacted, that from and after the said feast of Saint John the Baptist next, it shallbe lawful to every person being an householder, and xxiiii years old at the least, and not occupying husbandry, nor being a labourer, dwelling or inhabiting, or that shall hereafter dwell, or inhabit in any town, not being incorporate, that now is, or hereafter shallbe a market town, so long as the same shallbe weakly used & kept as a market town, and using or exercising any art, mystery, or manuel occupation, during the time of his abode there, and so using, and exercising such art, mystery, or manuel occupation as aforesaid, to have in like manner to apprentice, or apprentices, the child or children of any other artificer, or artificers, not occupying husbandry, nor being labourer, which now do, or hereafter shall inhabit or dwell in the same, or in any other such market town, within the same Shire, to serve as apprentice, or apprentices, as is aforesaid, to any such art, mystery, or manuel occupation, as hath been usually exercised in any such market town, where such apprentice shallbe bound in manner and form above said.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful to any person, dwelling or inhabiting in any such market town, using or exercising the feat, mystery, or art of a merchant, trafficquinge or trading into the parties beyond the Seas, Mercer, Draper, Goldsmith, Irenmonger, Embroiderer, or Clothear, that doth, or shall put cloth to making & sale, to take any apprentice, or in any wise to teach or instruct any person in the arts, sciences, or mysteries last before recited, after the feast of Saint john Baptist aforesaid, except such servant or apprentice shallbe his son, or else that the father or mother of such apprentice, shall have lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, at the time of taking of such apprentice, of the clear yearly value of three pounds, of one estate of inheritance, or freehold, at the least, to be certified under the hands and seals of three justices of the peace, of the Shire or shires where the said lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, do or shall lie, to the head officers, or head officer of such market town, where such apprentice or servant shallbe taken, there to be enroled by such head officer, always to remain of record.  
And be it further enacted, that from and after the said feast, it shallbe lawful to any person, using or exercising the art or occupation of a Smith, whelewright, Plowewright, Mylwright, Carpenter, Rough mason, Plasterer, Sawyer, lime burner, brick maker, Bricklayer, Tyler, Slater, Helyer, Tylemaker, Linen Wever, Turner, Couper, Myllers, Earthen potters, woollen weaver, weaving huswyfes or household cloth only, and none other cloth, Fuller, otherwise called Tucker, or walker, burner of ore and woad ashes, Thatcher, or Shingler, wheresoever he or they shall dwell, or inhabit, to have or receive the son of any person, as apprentice, in manner and form aforesaid, to be taught and instructed in these occupations only, and in none other, albeit the father or mother of any such apprentice have not any lands, tenements, nor hereditaments.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that after the first day of May, next coming, it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, other than such as now do lawfully use or exercise any art, mystery, or manuel occupation, to set up, occupy, use, or exercise any craft, mystery or occupation, now used or occupied within the Realm of England, or Wales, except he shall have been brought up therein seven years at the least as apprentice, in manner and form above said, nor to set any person on work in such mystery, art, or occupation, being not a workman at this day, except he shall have been apprentice, as is aforesaid, or else having served as an apprentice, as is aforesaid, shall or will become a jorneyman, or be hired by the year, upon pain that every person willingly offending, or doing the contrary, shall forfeit and lose for every default. xl.s. for every month.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, using or exercising the art or mystery of a woollen cloth Wever, other than such as be inhabiting within the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Wales, weaving Fryzes, Cottons, or houswyfes' cloth only, making and weaving woollen cloth, commonly sold, or to be sold by any cloth man or clothear: shall take and have any apprentice, or shall teach, or in any wise instruct any person or persons, in the science, art or occupation of weaving aforesaid, in any village, town or place (Cities, towns corporate, and market towns only except) unless such person be his son, or else that the father or mother of such apprentice or servant, shall at the time of the taking of such person or persons to be an apprentice or servant, or to be so instructed, have lands and tenements, or other hereditaments, to the clear yearly value of three pounds, at the least, of an estate of inheritance or frehold, to be certified under the hands and seals of three justices of the peace, of the Shire or shires where the said lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, do or shall lie. The effect of the indenture, to be registered within three months, in the parish where such master shall dwell, and to pay for such registringe. iiii.v. upon pain of forfeiture of. xx.s. for every month that any person shall otherwise take any apprentice, or set any such person on work, contrary to the meaning of this article.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person or persons, that shall have three apprentices in any of the said crafts, mysteries, or occupations, of a clothmaker, Fuller, Shereman, Wever, Tailor, or shoemaker, shall retain and keep one jorneyman, and for every other apprentice, above the number of the said three apprentices, one other jorneyman, upon pain for every default therein ten pounds.  
Provided always, that this act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to prejudice or hinder any liberties heretofore granted by any act of Parliament, to or for the company and occupation of Worsted makers, and Worsted wevers within the City of Norwych, and else where within the County of Northfolck, which liberties be in force, until the beginning of this present parliament: Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted, that if any person shallbe required by any householder, having and using half a plough land, at the least in tillage, to be an apprentice, and to serve in husbandry, or in any other kind of art, mystery, or science before expressed, and shall refuse so to do: that then upon the complaint of such housekeeper, made to one justice of the peace, of the County wherein the said refusal is or shallbe made, or of such householder inhabiting in any City, town corporate, or market town, to the Mayor, Bailiffs, or head officer of the said City, town corporat, or market town, if any such refusal shall there be, they shall have full power and authority by virtue hereof, to send for the same person so refusing: And if the said justice, or the said Mayor or head officer, shall think the said person meet and convenient to serve as an apprentice in that art, labour, science, or mystery, wherein he shallbe so then required to serve: That then the said justice, or the said Mayor or head officer, shall have power and authority by virtue hereof, if the said person refuse to be bound as an apprentice, to commit him unto ward, there to remain until he be contented, and willbe bounden to serve as an apprentice should serve, according to the true intent and meaning of this present act.  
And if any such master shall misuse or evil entreat his apprentice, or that the said apprentice shall have any just cause to complain, or the apprentice do not his duty to his master: Then the said master, or apprentice, being grieved and having cause to complain, shall repair unto one justice of peace, within the said County, or to the Mayor or other head officer of the City, town corporate, market town, or other place where the said master dwelleth, who shall by his wisdom and discretion take such order and direction between the said master and his apprentice, as the equity of the cause shall require. And if for want of good conformity in the said master, the said justice of the peace, or the said Mayor or head officer, can not compound, & agree the matter between him and his apprentice: then the said justice, or the said Mayor, or other head officer, shall take band of the said master, to appear at the next Sessions, then to be holden in the said County, or within the said City, town corporat, or market town, to be before the justices of the said County, or the Mayor or head officer of the said town corporate, or market town, if the said master dwell within any such, and upon his appearance, & hearing of the matter before the said justices, or the said Mayor, or other head officer, if it be thought meet unto them, to discharge the said apprentice of his apprenticehod, that then the said justices or four of them at the least, whereof one to be of them Quorum, or the said Mayor or other head officer, with the consent of three other of his brethren, or men of best reputation within the said City, town corporate or market town, shall have power by authority hereof, in writing under their hands and seals, to pronounce and declare, that they have discharged the said apprentice of his apprenticehode, and they cause thereof, and the said writing so being made and enrolled by the clerk of the peace, or town clerk, amongs the records that he keepeth, shall be a sufficient discharge for the said apprentice against his master, his executors and administrators, the indenture of the said apprenticehode, or any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. And if the default shallbe found to be in the apprentice, than the said justices, or the said Mayor, or other head officer, with the assistentes aforesaid, shall cause such due correction, & punishment to be ministered unto him, as by their wisdom and discretions shallbe thought mete.  
provided always, and be it enacted, by authority of this present parliament, that no person shall by force or colour of this statute, be bounden to enter into any apprenticeship, other than such as be under the age of xxi years. And to th'end that this statute, may from time to time be carefully diligently put in good execution, according to the tenure and true meaning thereof:  
Be it enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that the justices of peace of every County, dividing themselves into several limits, and likewise every Mayor and head officer of any City, or town corporat, shall yearly between the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, & the Nativity of our Lord, and between the feast of the Annunciation of our Lady, and the feast of the Nativity of Saint john the Baptist, by all such ways & means, as to their wisdom's shallbe thought most meet, make a special and diligent inquiry of the branches and articles of this statute, and of the good execution of the same, and where they shall find any defaults, to see the same severely corrected and punished, without favour, affection, malice or displeasure.  
And in consideration of the pains and travel that the said justices of peace, and the said Mayor, and head officer, shall take and sustain, in, and about the execution of this statute, it is further ordained and enacted, by authority of this present parliament, that every justice of peace, Mayor, or head officer, for every day that he shall sit in, & about the execution of this statute, shall have allowed unto him five shillings, to be allowed and paid unto him, or unto the said Mayor or head officer, of the fines and forfeitours of the pains and penalties that shallbe forfeited, and due unto the Queen's Majesty, her heirs or successors, by force of this statute, in such manner and form, as the said justices have been heretofore commonly paid, for their coming & charges at the quarter Sessions, so that the sitting of the said justices, or Mayor, or head officer, be not at any one time above iii days, and for the matters contained in this statute.  
And be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that the one half of all forfeitures and penalties, expressed and mentioned in this statute, other than such as are expressly otherwise appointed, shallbe to our sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors; and the other moiety to him or them that shall sue for the same, in any of the queens majesties Courts of record, or before any of the justices of Oyer & terminer, or before any other justices, or Precedent and Counsel before remembered, by action of debt, Information, bill of complaint, or otherwise: in which actions or suits, no protection, wager of law or, essoygne shallbe allowed, & that the said justices, or two of them, whereof one to be of the Quorum, and the said Presidents and Counsel as is aforesaid, and the said Majors, or other head officers of Cities or towns corporate, shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all and every offence and offences, that shallbe committed or done against this statute, or against any branch thereof, aswell upon indictment to be taken before them, in the Sessions of the peace, as upon Information, action of debt, or bill of complaint, to be sued, or exhibited by any person. And shall, and may by virtue hereof, make process against the defendant, and award execution, as in any other case they lawfully may by any the laws and statutes of this Realm, and shall yearly in Michaelmas term, certify by estreat the fines and forfeitours of every the offences contained in this statute, that shallbe found before them, into the court of the Exchequer, in like sort and form, as they be bound to certify the estreats for other offences and forfeitours to be lost, before them: Any thing in this statute, contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this act or any thing therein contained or mentioned, shall not be prejudicial or hurtful to the Cities of London, and Norwych, or to the lawful liberties, usages, customs, or privileges of the same Cities, for or concerning the having, or taking of any apprentice or apprentices, but that the citizens and Freemen of the same Cities, shall and may take, have and retain apprentices there, in such manner and form, as they might lawfully have done before the making of this statute: This act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it also further enacted, that all Indentures, covenants, promises, and bargains, of, or for the having, taking, or keeping of any apprentice, otherwise hereafter to be made or taken, then is by this statute limited, ordained and appointed, shallbe clearly void in the law to all intentes and purposes, and that every person, that shall from henceforth take, or newly retain any apprentice, contrary to the tenor and true meaning of this act, shall forfeit and lose for every apprentice so by him taken, the sum of ten li.  
And because there hath been, and is some question and scruple moved, whether any person, being within the age of xxi years, and bounden to serve as an apprentice, in any other place then in the said City of London, should be bounden, accepted, & taken as an apprentice.  
For the resolution of the said scruple and doubt: Be it enacted, by authority of this present parliament, that all and every such person or persons, that at any time or times, from henceforth shallbe bounden by Indenture, to serve as an apprentice, in any art, science, occupation or labour, according to the tenor of this statute, and in manner and form aforesaid, albeit the same apprentice, or any of them, shallbe within the age of xxi years, at the time of making of their several Indentures: shallbe bounden to serve, for the years in their several Indentures contained, as amply and largely to every intent, as if the same apprentice were of full age at the time of the making of such Indentures: Any law, usage or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the inhabitants now dwelling or inhabiting, or that hereafter shall dwell, or inhabit within the town of Godalming, within the County of Surray, within the limits of the Watch of the said town, may use and exercise such arts, mysteries and occupations, and take, and use apprentices and servants, in such manner and form, as the inhabitants within market towns by this statute may lawfully do.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all manner amerciaments, fines, issues and forfeitures, which shall rise, grow, or come by reason of any offences or defaults mentioned in this act, or any branch thereof, within any City, or town corporate, shallbe levied, gathered and received, by such person or persons of the same City or town corporate, as shallbe appointed by the Mayor, or other head officers mentioned in this said act, to the use and maintenance of the same City or town corporate, in such case and condition, as any manner other amerciaments, fines, issues or forfeitures have been used to be levied and employed, within the same City or town corporate, by reason of any grant or charter from the queens Majesty that now is, or of any her graces noble progenitors, made and granted to the same City, borrow, or town corporate, any thing or clause before mentioned and expressed in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any lawful retainings or covenants, had or made before the making of this act, but that all and every the parties to such retainings or covenants, shall and may have the same and like avantages of such retainings & covenants, and of the statutes heretofore in that behalf provided, as if this act had never been had, nor made: Any clause of repeal or other matter whatsoever in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any servant or apprentice of husbandry, or of any art, science, or occupation aforesaid, unlawfully depart or flee into any other Shire, that it shallbe lawful to the said justices of peace, and to the said Majors, Bailiffs, and other head officers of Cities and towns corporate, for the time being justices of peace there, to make and grant writs of Capias, so many and such as shallbe needful to be directed to the Sheriffs of the Counties, or to other head officers of the places, whither such servants or apprentices shall so depart or flee, to take their bodies returnable before them, at what time shall please them, so that if they come by such process, that they be put in prison till they shall find sufficient surety, well and honestly to serve their masters, mistresses, or dames, from whom they so departed or fled, according to the order of the law.  
Provided always, that it shallbe lawful to the high Constables of hundreds in every Shire, to hold, keep, and continue petty Sessions, otherwise called statute Sessions within the limits of their authorities, in all Shires wherein such Sessions have been used to be kept, in such manner and form as heretofore hath been used and accustomed, so as nothing be by them done therein contrary or repugnant to this present Act.   

¶ An Act touching certain politic constitutions, made for the maintenance of the navy. The .v. Chapter.  
FOr the better maintenance and increase of the navy of this Realm of England: Be it enacted by the queens most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority aforesaid, that from the first day of April, Anno Domini. M.D.lxiiii. and so from thence fourth, it shallbe lawful to all and every of the subjects of our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, at his & their will and pleasure to carry and transport out of this Realm, in the Ships or other vessels of any the subjects aforesaid, all and every kinds of hearing and other Sea fish, to be taken upon the Seas by any of the subjects aforesaid (and act of parliament or law to the contrary notwithstanding) and that all and every person and persons, which shall by virtue of this act transport or carry any hearringes, or other Sea fish, from or out of any port or harborough of this Realm, to any place out of the dominions of the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, shallbe free from payment of any custom, subsidy or poundage money for the same fish so carried or transported, during the space of four whole years, beginning at the said first day of April, M.D.lxiiii. and so further, during her majesties pleasure.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from the first day of may next coming, it shall not be lawful to any person or persons in any port, City, town, market, or other place within this Realm, to set price, make any restraint, or take, or demand tolle or tax of any Sea fish to be brought into this Realm or any part hereof, being taken by any of the subjects aforesaid, in the Ships or other vessels of the same subjects, upon pain to every person offending contrary to the meaning hereof, to forfeit the value of the fish so restrained, prised, tolled, or taxed: Any liberty, custom, grant, privilege or other matter whatsoever to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this present act, nor any thing therein contained, shallbe prejudicial or hurtful to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Kings town upon Hull, or their successors Majors and Burgesses of the same town, or to any other officer, or minister of the same town at any time hereafter: but that they and every of them may receive, have, and take all and every such tolle, customs, and sums of money of all and every such person and persons, as is limited, appointed and set fourth by them to be taken, in an act of parliament made in the xxxiii year of the reign of our late Sovereign lord King Henry the eight. And that neither the said Mayor and Burgesses of Kyngston upon Hull, nor any inhabitaunte there, or any of them, shall take any advantage of that article of this statute, for the carriage of any hearrynges or salted fish to any the parties beyond the Sea: Any thing in this present act mentioned, contained, specified, or declared in any wise to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no purveyor or other person whatsoever, shall from the said first day of may, by virtue of any commission, or otherwise, take any hearing or Sea fish from any of the subjects afore mentioned, that shall take the same in the Ships or other vessels of the said subjects, as it is abovesaid, otherwise then by agreement of the owners or sellers of the same fish, upon pain for every purveyor and other person whatsoever offending contrary to the tenor of this act, to forfeit the double value of the hearringes or fish so to be taken. And it shallbe lawful for any person, being owner or seller of any such Sea fish so taken, as is aforesaid, to withstand any person that will (by any colour of purveying or otherwise) demand any such fish, or the tolle of any such fish without the good will of the owner or seller as aforesaid.  
Provided, that the fish called Composition fish, heretofore granted to the queens Majesty by the subjects of this Realm, traveling into Iseland, shallbe taken by her majesties officers and purveyors, in such sort as the same hath been lawfully used to be taken before the making of this act: and saving to the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, and to all other persons, such fishes as be known and used to be called Regal fishes, whereunto her Majesty, or the said other persons, have, or shall have right or interest, for such recompense as heretofore hath been accustomed.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from the said first day of April, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, M.D.lxiiii. it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, to buy of any stranger borne out of the queens majesties obeisance, or out of any strangers bottom, any hearringe, being not sufficiently salted packed and Casked, upon pain to every person and persons so buying, to forfeit the hearringes so by him or them to be bought, or the value thereof. Provided always, that this branch of this act shall not extend to any hearringes to be bought, which by reason of shipwreck shallbe brought into this Realm, but that it shallbe lawful to all and every person and persons, to buy all such hearringes so brought in by Shipwreck as aforesaid, as he or they lawfully might have done before the making of this act: Any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding.  
Be it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from the feast of saint john baptist next ensuing, it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, to cause to be laden and carried in any bottom or bottoms whereof any stranger or strangers borne, then be owners, ship masters, or part owners, any kind of fish, victual, wares, or things, of what kind or nature so ever the same shallbe, from one port or creak of this Realm, to an other port or creak of the same Realm, upon pain to every one that shall offend, contrary to the true meaning of this branch of this present Act, to forfeit all the goods so laden or carried, or the value thereof. And that from hencefourth all English hoys & plates may cross the Seas, as far as Cane in Normandy, and eastward as far as Norwey: the statute made in the first year of the queens majesties reign, to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.  
And forasmuch as there is much deceitful packing, used in Cod and lings, brought in Barrels or other cask into this Realm: Be it therefore enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the first day of April, in the year of our Lord God. M.D.lxiiii. it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, to bring into this Realm, any Cod or lings in barrels, or other casks, but louse in bulk, and by tale to be sold within this Realm, upon pain for every one that shall offend contrary to the tenor hereof, to forfeit all the Cod & lings, so to be brought in, or the value thereof.  
And be it further enacted, that from the feast of S. Michael tharchangel next following, no person of persons whatsoever, shall bring into this Realm of England, or any part of the same, any wine coming out of any of the dominions or countries belonging to the Crown of France, or any woad called Tholosse woad in any other vessel or vessels, but only in such vessel and vessels, whereof some Subject or Subjects of the queens Majesty, her heirs or Successors, shallbe then only owner, or part owner, upon pain to forfeit all wines and woad, brought contrary to the meaning hereof, according to the meaning of an statute, made in the time of the reign of King Henry the seventh, concerning wine of the Duchy of Gascoyn and Guyon (Except that there may be brought into Wales, or any port within the county of Monmouth, Rochel wines.)  
Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from henceforth it shallbe lawful to all & every owner & owners of ships or vessels, and to every householder using & exercising the trade of the Seas, by fyshinge, or otherwise, and to every Gonner or Gonners, commonly called cannoneers, and to every Shipwright, to take and keep one or more apprentice, or apprentices, to be brought up in the said trade or trades, every of the same apprentice, or apprentices, to be to them bound for ten years or under. And every apprentice so taken, being above seven. years of age, shall be by the same covenants bound, ordered, and used to all intents, according to the custom of the City of London, so that the same covenant or bond of Apprentishippe be made by writing, indented and enroled in the town where the same apprentice shallbe then inhabited, if it be a town corporate: and if the town be not incorporate, then to be enroled in the next town incorporate to the habitation of every such Apprentice. And that the officers of every such town corporate, shall take for every such enrolment, not above. xii.d. Any law, statute, or other matter, whatsoever to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted, that so much of the Statute, made in the .v. and vi years of the late King Edward the vi entituled An act against Regrators, forestallers, and Ingrocers: And so much of all other statutes against all regrators, forestallers, and Ingrocers, as doth and may concern the buying of Sea fish unsalted, or mud fish, or any wine, oil or salt, to be taken and brought in any English subjects Ships, Crayers, or other vessel, unto any port, creak, or place of this Realm: shall from henceforth, to all intents, constructions and purposes, be utterly repelled and void, for so much of the said oils, wine, Sea fish, mud fish and salt, as any Bier or Byers, upon the Sea by way of fishing or regrating, shall or do bring and discharge in any port or haven within this Realm. And for increase of provision of fish by the more usual and common eating thereof: Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from the feast of Saint Michael The archangel in the year of our Lord God. M.D. three score and four, every wednesday in every week through the whole year, which heretofore hath not by the laws or customs of this Realm bene-used and observed as a fish day, and which shall not happen to fall in Christmas week, or Easter week, shallbe hereafter observed and kept as the Saturdays in every week be, or aught to be, and that no manner of person shall eat any flesh on the same day, otherwise then ought to be upon the common Saturday.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, for the benefit & commodities of this Realm, to grow aswell in maintenance of the Navy, as in sparing & increase of flesh, victual of this Realm: that from & after the feast of Pentecoste next coming, it shall not be lawful to any person or persons within this Realm to eat any flesh, upon any days now usually observed as fish days, or upon any wednesday now newly limited to be observed as fish day, upon pain that every person offending herein shall forfeit. iii.li. for every time he or they shall offend, or else suffer three months close imprisonment without bail or mainprize. And every person or persons within whose house any such offence shallbe done, and being privy, or knowing thereof, and not effectually punishing or disclosing the same, to some public officer, having authority to punish the same, for every such offence, to forfeit forty shillings. All which forfeitures for not abstaining from meats, shallbe divided into three equal parts: That is, one part to the use of the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, the other part to the informer, the third, to the common use of the parish, where the offence is or shallbe committed, and to be levied by the Church wardens, after any conviction in that behalf.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that this act, nor any thing herein contained, concerning eating of flesh, shall in any wise extend to any person or persons, that shall hereafter have any special licence, upon causes to be contained in the said license, and to be granted according to the laws of this Realm in such cases provided. Al and every which said licence and licenses shallbe void to all intents, unless the same contain the conditions hereafter mentioned: That is to say, every licence made to any person or persons, being of the degree of a Lord of parliament, or of their wives, shallbe upon condition, that every such person so to be licensed, shall pay to the poor men's box within the parish where they shall dwell or remain, in the feast of the Purification of the blessed virgin Mary, or within vi. days after the same feast. xxvi.ss. viii. d. The same to be paid within one month next after the same feast, upon pain of forfeiture of every such licence. And every licence to any person of the degree of a Knight, or a knights wife, shallbe upon condition, that every such person so licensed, shall pay yearly. xiii.ss. iiii. d. to the use aforesaid, and in form afore mentioned. And every licence to any person or persons, being under the degrees abovesaid, shallbe upon condition, that every such person so licenced shall pay yearly. vi.s.viii.d. to the said use, and in form afore mentioned.  
Provided always, that no license shall extend to the eating of any Byefe, at any time of the year, nor to the eating of any Veal in any year, from the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, until the first day of may.  
Provided also, that all persons which by reason of notorious sickness, shallbe enforced for recovery of health to eat flesh, for the time of their sickness, shallbe sufficiently licensed by the bishop of the diocese, or by the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, of the parish where such person shallbe sick, or of one the next parish adjoining, if the said Parson, Vicar, or Curate of his or their own parish be wilful, or if there be no Curate within the same parish. Which license shallbe made in writing, signed with the hand of the bishop of the diocese, or of the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, and not endure longer than the time of the sickness. And that if the sickness shall continue above the space of viii days, after such license granted: then the licence shallbe registered in the Church book, with the knowledge of one of the Church wardens, and the party licenced shall give to the Curate. iiii.d. for the entry thereof: And that licence to endure no longer, but only for the time of his, her, or their sickness. And if any licence by any Parson, Vicar or Curate, be granted to any person or persons, other than such as evidently appear to have need thereof by reason of their sickness: not only every such license shallbe void, but also every such Parson, Curate, or vicar shall forfeit for every such license otherwise granted, five marks.  
Provided also, and be it enacted, that all licenses heretofore granted to any subject of this Realm, by any of the late Kings, or by the late Queen Mary, or by the queens Majesty now being, or by any archbishop of this Realm, having authority so to do, shallbe of as good force in law for the wednesday, now limited, and other accustomed fish days, as they were before the making of this Act for the said other accustomed fish days, so as the parties licensed do hereafter observe all such conditions as be limited in this statute, to such as hereafter shall obtain any licenses. And such persons also as heretofore were or aught to be licensed, by reason of age or other impediment, or cause, by order of the Ecclesiastical laws, shall enjoy the same privilege and accustomed licenses, any thing in this Act to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that no forfeiture of Ship, Crayer, or other vessel, or of any apparel of the same, nor any other penalty or forfeiture, shallbe extended or grow against any owner or owners of any Ship, Crayer, or other vessel for the transporting or carrying of any Wheat or other Corn, or things prohibited by the statute made in the Parliament holden the first and second years of King Phillippe and Queen Mary, unless the same owner or owners shallbe witting, knowing, aiding, or consenting to the prohibited transporting or carrying: the said statute, or any thing therein mentioned to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that all and every person and persons, which be, or shallbe, by the laws and statutes of this Realm, or otherwise, aucthorysed to sell wines by retail, in the several Counties and places where they be, or shallbe so authorized: shall and may from henceforth sell the said wines, by pint, quart, pottle, gallon, or otherwise, at such price or prices, and in such form, as shallbe limited by the queens majesties proclamation in that County or place, made with the assent of such lords and other persons, as by the statute made in the xxviii year of the reign of King Henry the eight, were authorized to set price upon wines in gross, without any pain or forfeiture for the same: Any law, usage, or statute heretofore made or had to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority of this present parliament, that from and after the feast of saint Michael the Archangel next coming, it shallbe lawful to all and every person and persons, being subjects of the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, only out of such ports, or creeks, as by the queens majesties proclamation hereafter shallbe published and appointed, and not else where, to load, carry or transport any Wheat, Rye, Barley, Malt, Pease or beans, into any parts beyond the Seas, to sell as a merchandise, in ships, Crayers, or other vessels, whereof any English borne subject then shallbe the only owners, so that the price of the said Corns or grains so carried or transported, exceed not the prices hereafter following, at the times, havens, and places where and when the same Corn or grain shallbe shipped or laden: Vide. the quarter of Wheat at. x.s. the quarter of Rye, Pease or beans, at. viii.ss. the quarter of Barley or malt at. vi.s.viii. d. of curraunte money of England: Any law, usage, or statute heretofore made to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
And where doubt hath heretofore been, whether the statute in the xviii. year of the reign of King Henry the vi heretofore made against Soldiers retained, which depart from their Captains without license, did or ought to extended unto Mariners & gunners serving on the Seas, taking wages of the king or Queen of this Realm: Be it expressed, ordained, enacted, and declared, by authority of this present parliament, that the said statute made in the said xxiii year of the reign of King Henry the vi in all pains, forfeitures and other things, did, doth, and hereafter shall extend, aswell to all and every Mariner and gunner, having taken or shall hereafter take priest or wages to serve the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors, to all intentes and purposes, as the same did or doth unto any soldier: Any diversities of opinion, doubt, matter, or thing to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
And where an statute concerning sowing of Flax and Hemp, was made and provided in the parliament holden the xxiiii year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord King Henry the eight, to be universal through every County of this Realm, for the better provision of nets, for help and furtherance of fishing, and for eschewing of idleness:  
Be it ordained & enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that in every such County of this Realm, or part of such County, where, by the queens majesties proclamation it shall hereafter be published, the said statute to be commodious or profitable for the common wealth: The said statute, and every clause, article and provision therein contained, be and shallbe revived, and stand in full force and strength to be executed and performed, from the feast of saint Michael the Archangel next coming, in all things other then in the proportion of a Road or fourth part of an acre, & in the pain of. iii.s.iiii.d. by the said statute limited. In place whereof, be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in every case and degree, where by the said former statute, one Road or fourth part of an Acre is limited to be sown with lynseade, otherwise flax seed, or hemp seed, from the said feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming: In stead and lieu of the said Road or iiii. part of an Acre, one whole Acre, or less, as by proclamation in form aforesaid shallbe limited, shallbe sown with lynseade, otherwise flax seed, or Hemp seed, upon pain of forfeiture of five pounds, for every such default or offence.  
And further be it ordained, and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every such of the offences before mentioned, as hereafter shallbe done on the main Sea or costs of the Sea, being no part of the body of any County of this Realm, & without the precinct, jurisdiction and liberties of the Sinque ports, and out of any haven or peer: shallbe tried and determined before the Lord Admiral of England, or his lieutenant, deputy, or deputies, & other justices of Oyer and terminer, according to the form of the said statute of Anno xxviii Henrici viii for causes of piracy. And if the same shallbe done on the main Sea, or costs of the Sea, within the jurisdiction or liberty of the Synque ports, & out of any haven or port: then the same to be tried and determined before the said Lord warden of then said Syncque ports, or his lieutenant, or judge, or before justices of Oyer and terminer, according to the true form of the said statute of Anno xxxviii Henry viii for causes of piracy. And for all and singular such other of the offences before mentioned, as shallbe done in the land, or within any haven or peer: all justices of the peace in their Sessions, and Majors, Sheriffs and bailiffs, and other head officers in Cities and towns corporate, in their Sessions, or other Courts within the limits of their commissions or authorities shall have full power and authority to inquire of the offenders of this act, aswell by the oaths of xii men, as otherwise by information, and thereupon to hear and determine the same. And if any person or persons shallbe presented before the said judges, justices, or officers within the limits of their authorities, or any information given to them of any offender of this act: that then they shall have full power and authority upon any such presentment, or Information to make process against the offenders of this act, like as is commonly used upon enditementes of Trespass. And if any be presented, and afterward be convicted by confession, or otherwise, that then every such person shall suffer no less forfeiture or punishment then herein is before limited: All which forfeitures to be levied, in manner and form following. That is to say, such forfeitures concerning eating of flesh, as are before limited to certain uses, to be to the same uses in that behalf before expressed, and all such forfeitures, as according to the tenor of this act shallbe determinable before the said judges, justices, or other officers of the Admiralties aforesaid, or before Commissioners of Oyer and terminer in that behalf, shallbe to the use of the Lord Admiral of England, or Lord warden of the Syncque ports, where such offence shallbe presented, or where as the jurisdiction of the cause shall appertain. And all such forfeitures, as according to the tenor of this act, shallbe determinable before Majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, or other head officers of Cities or towns corporate, shallbe to the common use of the Corporation of the said City or town corporate, where such offences shallbe presented, or whereas the jurisdiction of the cause shall appertain. And all such forfeytours, as according to the tenor of this act, shallbe determinable before the justices of the peace, shallbe to the use of the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors. And if any person shallbe convict by confession, or otherwise upon any Information, made by any person or persons against any offender or offenders of this act, in any cause (save for the eating of flesh, first before specially limited) that then every such person so convict upon any Information, shall lose such forfeiture as is before limited, the one half thereof to be to such as so shall make the Information, and the other half to those which upon presentment, without special Information, are before limited to have the whole forfeiture. And that for the levying of every forfeiture growing by this statute, aswell the said Lord Admiral of England, Lord warden of the Syncque ports, their lieutenants; and judges, as the said justices, Majors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs and other head officers within the limits of their Commissions or authorities, have and shall have full power and authority to make such process, as they shall think good by their discretions.  
Provided always, that none Information at the su●e of an person concerning this act, shallbe of any effect to put any person to answer or loss of forfeiture, except the said Information be commenced within half a year next after the offence done contrary to this act, nor that any Information or presentment for the queens Majesty, her heirs or successors, or for the Admiral, warden of the Sinque ports, Majors or other officers aforesaid, be of any effect, to put any person to any answer or loss of any forfeiture by virtue of this act, except the said Information or presentment be within one year next after the offence done and committed contrary to this act.  
Provided and be it likewise enacted, that it shallbe lawful to any person, or persons, to have at his or their table upon every wednesday, being ordered by this statute to be observed as a fish day, one only usual competent dish of flesh, of one kind and no more, so that he, she, or they have also served to the same table and mess at the same meal, their full competent usual dishes of Sea fish, of sundry kinds, either fresh or salt, and that without fraud or covin, and so shall also order, that the same fish be meet and seasonable, and that it shallbe eaten or spent in like manner, as upon Fridays or Saturdays in like cases are used.  
And that also such persons as have, or hereafter shall have, upon good and just considerations, any lawful licence to eat flesh upon any fish day (except such persons, as for sickness shall for the time be licenced by the Bishop of the diocese, or by their Curates, or shallbe licenced by reason of age, or other impediment allowed heretofore by the Ecclesiastical laws of this Realm) shallbe bound by force of this statute, to have for every one dish of flesh served to be eaten at their table, one usual dish of Sea fish, fresh or salt, to be likewise served at the same table, and to be eaten or spent without fraud or covin, as the like kind is, or shallbe usually eaten or spent on Saturdays.  
And that these two articles and clauses next above, shallbe taken and interpreted from time to time, in the favour of expense of Sea fish, and that the offender or offenders herein, shallbe punished in like manner, as is ordered by this statute, for punishment of such as shall eat flesh upon Fridays, Saturdays, or other fish days.  
And because no manner of person shall misjudge of the intent of this statute, limittinge orders to eat fish, and to forbear eating of flesh, but that the same is purposely intended and meant politicly for the increase of Fishermen, & Mariners, and repairing of port towns and navigation, and not for any superstition to be maintained in the choice of meats: Be it enacted, that who soever shall by preaching; teaching, writing, or open speech notify, that any eating of fish, or forbearing of flesh mentioned in this statute, is of any necessity for the saving of the soul of man, or that it is the service of God, otherwise then as other politic laws are and be: that then such person shallbe punished, as spreaders of false news are or aught to be.  
Be it enacted in the favour of fishermen & Mariners, haunting the sea as fishermen or Mariners, that none of them shall hereafter at any time be compelled against his or their will, to serve as any soldier upon the land, or upon the sea, otherwise then as a Mariner, except it shallbe to serve under any Captain of some ship or vessel for landing, to do some special exploit, which Mariners have used to do, or under any other person having authority to withstand any invasion of enemies, or to subdue any rebellion within the Realm, and also except all such persons as by tenure, lawful custom, or covenant, be or shallbe otherwise bound to serve.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to take away or diminish any liberty, privilege, franchises, forfeiture or amerciament, fines, issues, wrecks of the Sea, or any other lawful inheritance or free hold, from any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, their heirs or successors, for or touching any lawful liberty, authority, or jurisdiction admiral, or for conservation of any water, that they or any of them now have lawfully, or hereafter shall have: Any thing in the same to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no fisherman using or haunting the sea, shallbe taken by the queens majesties Commission to serve her highness as a Mariner on the Sea: but that the said Commission be first brought by her highness taker or takers, to two justices of peace, next adjoining and inhabiting to the said Sea costs, Towns, or other places, where the said Mariners are so to be taken, to the intent the said justices may choose out, and cause to be returned such sufficient number of able men, as in the said Commission shallbe contained, to serve her Majesty as is aforesaid.  
Saving always to the Sinque Portes, and also to the town of great Yarmouth, all such lawful liberties as they justly have before the making of this Act, touching the free fair kept at Yarmouth, other then in buying of strangers, and taking of toll, as the same be before prohibited.  
Provided always, that any thing in this Act contained, shall not be hurtful or prejudicial to any authority, style, pre-eminence, dignity, or jurisdiction, belonging to the office of the Lord warden of the Sinque Portes.  
Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons being strangers borne, to bring yearly in any Ship, Bottom, or Vessel, whereof any stranger or strangers borne, is or shallbe owner or owners, into the Havens, Ports, and Towns of the Isle of man, or into any of them, any of the wines made in any of the dominions or countries belonging to the Crown of France, and in the same Ports and Towns, or any of them, to discharge the said wines so to be brought, so that there be not brought and discharged by the same strangers, in any such strangers ships, bottoms, or vessels, in any one year, in, or, at the said Havens, Ports, and Towns, or any of them, above one hundred Tons at the most: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons being strangers borne, to bring yearly in any ship, vessel, or bottom, whereof any stranger or strangers borne is or shallbe owner or owners, into the Haven, port, and Town of Chepestowe, in the County of Monmouth, any wines made in any of the said dominions or countries belonging to the said Crown of France, over and besides all Rochel wines heretofore in this Act allowed to be brought, and in the same Port and Town to discharge the said wines, so that there be not brought and discharged by the same strangers, in any such strangers ships, bottoms, or vessels in any one year, in, or at the said Haven, Port, and Town, above one hundred Tons at the most: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons being strangers borne, to bring yearly in any ship, vessel, or bottom, whereof any stranger or strangers borne, is or shallbe owner or owners, into the Havens, Ports, and Towns of Cardife, Caneruon, Beawmarrys, and other Havens, Ports, and Towns in South-Wales and North-wales, or any of them, and into the Haven, Port, and Town of Newporte, in the said County of Monmouth, any of the said wines made in any of the said dominions or countries belonging to the said Crown of France, over and besides all Rochel wines heretofore in this Act allowed to be brought, and in and at the same Ports and Towns, or any of them, to discharge the said wines so to be brought, so that there be not brought and discharged by the same strangers in any such strangers ships, bottoms, or vessels in any one year, in, or at the said Havens, Ports, & Towns, or any of them, above one hundred Tons at the most: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
Saving unto the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, all such duties and things which her highness, her heirs, and successors ought to have, enjoy, be answered and paid, for the said three hundred Tons of wines, mentioned in the said three last provisos, to be brought and discharged, as in the same three provisos been mentioned and declared: Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing or things therein contained, shall not in any manner of wise extend to give unto the Lord Admiral of England for the time being, or to any his Viceadmiralles, judge or judges of the Admiralty, his or their deputy or deputies, or to any other the officers or ministers of the Admiralty, or to any others having or claiming any Admiral power, jurisdictions, or authority within this Realm and Wales, or any other the queens dominions: any other power, right, jurisdiction, pre-eminence, or authority, than he or they, or any of them lawfully have, hath, or had, or aught to have and enjoy before the making of this Act, other then for such of the offences specified in this Act, as hereafter shallbe done upon the main Sea, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty: This Act or any article, branch, clause, provision, or thing therein contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.  
This Act shall continue and endure until the end of ten whole years, to be accounted from the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M.D.lxiiii. and from thence, to the end of the next Parliament then following the end of the said ten years.   

An Act against such as shall sell any Ware for Apparel without ready money. ¶ The vi Chapter.  
BE IT enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that whatsoever person after the feast of Easter next, shall sell or by any means deliver to any person, having not in possession lands or fees to the clear yearly value of three thousand pounds averrable and triable by books of Subsedyes, or by any other sufficient true way or means, any manner of foreign stuff or wares, not grown or first wrought in any the queens majesties dominions, of what kind, nature, name, or condition so ever the same be, appertaining or tending to the apparelling, clothing, decking, garnishing, or adorning of the body, or the part of the body of any manner of person, for all the which stuff or wares, or for the workmanship thereof, or any part thereof, the seller, deliverer, or worker, their executors or administrators, shall not have received the whole money or full satisfaction either in hand, or within xxviii days after the sale, delivery, or making thereof: that in every such case, the seller, deliverer, worker, or maker, their executors and administrators shallbe without all remedy by order of any law, custom, or decree, to recover or demand any money or recompense for the said stuff or wares, or for the workmanship of any part thereof, what assurance soever he or they shall have, by bond, surety, promise, or pawn, of the party, or of any other on his or their behalf to the contrary. And that all bonds and assurance whatsoever made in that case and for that purpose, by any means or ways, directly or indirectly, shallbe utterly void to all intentes. And this Act shall endure only to th'end of the next Parliament.   

An Act for the avoiding of divers foreign wares, made by handy crafts men beyond the Seas. ¶ The vii Chapter.  
WHere as heretofore the artificers of this Realm of England (aswell within the City of London, as with in other Cities, Towns, & boroughs of the same Realm) that is to wit, Gyrdlers, Cutlers, Sadlers glovers, Pointmakers, & such like handicrafts men, have been in their said faculties greatly wrought and greatly set on work, aswell for the sustentation of themselves, their wives and families, as for a good education of a great part of youth of this Realm in good art and laudable exercise: besides the manifold benefits that by means or by reason of their knowledges, inventions, and continual travel, daily and universally came to the whole estate of the common wealth of this said Realm. Yet notwithstanding, so now it is, that by reason of the abundance of foreign wares, brought into this Realm from the parts of beyond the Seas, the said artificers are not only less occupied and thereby utterly impoverished, the youth not trained in the said sciences & exercises, and thereby the said faculties & thexquisite knowledges thereof like in short time within this Realm to decay: but also divers Cities and Towns within this Realm of England much thereby impaired, the whole Realm greatly endamaged, and other countries notably enriched & the people thereof well set on work to their commodities & livings, in the arts and sciences aforesaid, and to the great discourage of the skilful workmen of this Realm, being in very deed nothing inferior to any stranger in the faculties aforesaid.  
For reformation whereof: Be it enacted by our sovereign Lady the queens highness, and by the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, & by the authority of the same, that no person or persons whatsoever, from or after the feast of the Nativity of S. john Baptist now next ensuing, shall bring or cause to be brought into this Realm of England from the parts of beyond the seas, any girdles, harness for girdles, Rapiers, Daggers, Knives, Hilts, Pummelles, Lockets, Chapes, Dagger blades, Handels, Scabberdes', and Sheaths for knives, Saddles, Horse harness, stirrups, Bits, Gloves, Points Leather laces, or pings, being ready made or wrought in any parts of beyond the Seas, to be sold, bartered or exchanged within this Realm of England or Wales, upon pain to forfeit all such wares so to be brought contrary to the true meaning of this Act, in whose hands soever they or any of them shallbe found, or the very value thereof, th'one half of the forfeiture to be to our sovereign Lady the queens highness, her heirs & successors, & the other moiety thereof to him or them that will seize the same, or sue therefore in any court of Record of the queens Majesty, her heirs & successors, by action of debt, bill, plaint, information, or otherwise, where no wager of law, essoign, or protection shallbe to him or them allowed. This Act to continue and endure to the end of the next Parliament.   

An Act touching Tanners, Curryours, Shoemakers, and other artificers occupying the cutting of Leather. ¶ The viii Chapter.  
WHere before this time, divers & many good statutes have been made for the true tanning, currying, and working of leather, as a thing very necessary for the common wealth & commodity for the queens majesties subjects, for that every sort of people of necessity must use & have leather for divers and sundry purposes, which notwithstanding, leather was never worse tanned, curried or wrought, then now a days it is, by reason whereof, divers persons are not only put to great loss, charge, & other inconveniences, but also do take divers and sundry diseases, to the shortening of their lives, as by the complaints of divers persons exhibited in this Parliament it manifestly appeareth.  
Be it therefore enacted by the queens Majesty, with th'assent of the Lords & commons in this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that from & after the feast of Pentecost next coming, no Butcher or other person shall gash, slaughter, or cut any hide of any Bull, Ox, steer, or Cow in fleeing thereof or otherwise, whereby the same shallbe impaired or hurt. And that no Tanner or other person or persons using or occupying the craft or mystery of tanning of leather, shall after the feast of S. Michael th'archangel next coming, by himself or any other person or persons, offer or put to sale any such hide or skin so gashed, flaughtered or cut, upon pain of forfeiture for every such hide or skin so offered or put to sale. xx.d.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Butcher or other person or persons, after the said feast of Pentecost, shall kill any Calf to sell, being under five weeks old, upon pain to forfeit for every Calf so to be killed and sold. vi.ss. viii. d.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons occupying the craft or occupation of a Butcher, shall after the feast of Pentecost next coming, occupy or use by himself, or any other person or people, the feat, craft or mystery of a Tanner, during the time that he shall so use the craft or occupation of a Butcher, upon pain of forfeiture of. vi.s.viii.d. for every day that he shall so use the feat, craft, or mystery of a Tanner.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, which at the feast of S. Michael th'archangel which was in the first year of the queens majesties reign that now is, had not lands, tenements, rents, profits, or hereditaments of estate of inheritance, or for term of life or lives, of the clear yearly value of. xl.li. or above, or whose Tanhouse was not at the said feast, is, or shallbe hereafter in a City, Borough, Town corporate, or market Town, where searchers & sealer's of leather hath been & shallbe usually appointed (except such person & persons as then had any Tanhouse, and did then occupy the mystery of tanning of leather, and except an apprentice or apprentices to a Tanner or Tanners, & except such as were then, or since, or hereafter shallbe brought up, instructed, or taught as covenant or hired servant for that purpose by the space of vii years in the mystery or craft of tanning of leather, and except the wife and such son or sons of a Tanner as hath been brought up & hath used the mystery of tanning of leather by the space of four years aforesaid, or the son or daughter of a Tanner, or such person who shall marry such wife or daughter to whom he hath or shall leave a Tanhouse and fats) shall tan any leather, or shall use, take or have any profit, gain, or commodity of or by the said mystery or craft of tanning of leather, upon pain of forfeiting of all such leather by him or them so tanned, or whereof he or they shall receive any profit or commodity by tanning, or the just value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that after the feast of Pentecost next coming, no person or persons whatsoever, which shall after the said feast of Pentecost occupy or use by him or themself, or by any other person or persons, the craft or mystery of tanning of leather, shall suffer any hide or skin to lie in the limbs any longer time than the here falleth of, or may be taken of, nor in any wise to be put into the limbs after the here may be taken of, nor shall use, employ, occupy, or put by themselves, or by any other person or persons, any thing in any liquor, stuff or workmanship in or about the tanning of leather but only lime, Culuer dung, or Hen dung, and that in cold water only, and wooses made of cold water and Oaken bark only, without any mixture of any other thing or things, nor shall by himself or by any other person or persons put any hide or skin in any tan wooses, or liquor made hot, or warmed in any fat or vessel, to be set or covered in any tan hill, or otherwise, nor shall overlyme any hides or skins in the lime pits, nor shall put any hides or skins into any tan fats or vessels before the lime be well and perfectly sokened and wrought out of them and every of them, nor shall suffer his or their leather to be laid, or to hang or to lie wet in any frost until the same be frozen, nor shall dry or parch the leather with the heat of the fire or of the summer sun, nor shall tan, or cause to be tanned any hide or skin being putrefied, rotten, or tainted by long lying, either before the putting of it into the limes, or after in the water or liquor, or by any other means, nor shall negligently work the hides in the wooses, nor shall not renew & make strong the wooses as often as shallbe requisite, nor shall suffer the hides for utter sole and clout leather to lie in the wooses any less time than xii months at the least, and the hides for upper leathers in like wooses any less time than ix months at the least, nor shall insufficiently or imperfectly tan any hide or skin, nor shall tan any Ox hides, Steer hides, or Cow hides but whole, without cutting of any bellies commonly called wombs, or pieces from the same (hides for clouting leather to be cut into three or four bends or pieces, overthwart the whole hide only except) nor shall after the feast of saint Michael the Archangel next coming, put to sale any tanned hide or skin which is or shallbe raised in or by the tanning, workmanship, or otherwise, or by using any other thing or stuff, or in any other sort then by his statute is limited & appointed, upon pain of forfeiture of every Ox hide, steer hide, Cow hide or skin, tanned, used, or put to sale contrary to the true meaning of this present Act, or the just value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that from the feast of Pentecost next coming, no person or people whatsoever, shall put or cause to be put to sale, exchange, or otherwise departed with any kind of tanned leather red & unwrought, but in open fair or market, in the places therefore commonly accustomed, and therefore prepared, nor before the same be searched & sealed, according to the laws & order in this statute hereafter mentioned, nor shall after the feast of S. Michael th'archangel next coming, put to sale, exchange, or otherwise departed with any tanned leather red and unwrought, but sufficiently & well tanned, & thoroughly dried, nor shall put or cause to be put to sale, exchange, or otherwise departed with any ox hide, steer hide, or Cow hide, but only whole without cutting any bellies called wombs or other pieces from it (clouting leather cut into bends as is aforesaid, only excepted) before the same be searched & sealed, upon pain of forfeiture for every hide or piece of leather sold, exchanged, or otherwise departed with, contrary to the true meaning of this Act. vi.ss. viii. d. and for every dozen of calf skins. iii.s.iiii.d. & the hide or hides, skin or skins, & leather in any otherwise sold, exchanged, or bought, or the value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons using the mystery of tanning of leather, by himself, or by any other person or persons, from & after the said feast of Pentecost, shall during that time that he shall use the said mystery, occupy or use the craft or mystery of a shoemaker, currier, butcher, or of any artificer using or exercising cutting or working of leather, upon pain to forfeit & lose all and every such hide & hides, skin & skins so by them or any of them wrought or tanned, during the time that he shall use the mystery or craft of tanning aforesaid, or the just value thereof. It is also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person using the mystery of tanning of leather by himself, or by any other person or persons, shall after the feast of the Nativity of S. john Baptist next coming tan any Bull hide, horse hide, or sheep skin, or put to sale, exchange, or otherwise depart with any Horse hide, Bull hide, or sheep skin tanned, upon pain to forfeit every such bull hide, horse hide, or sheep skin so tanned or put to sale, or the just value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons after the feast of Pentecost next coming, shall bargain, buy, make any contract for, or bespeak any rough hide or calves skins in the here, but only such person or persons as by virtue of this Act may lawfully use the craft or mystery of tanning of leather and shall tan the same, or such person or persons as shall tawe the same (except salt hides for the necessary use of ships) upon pain to forfeit and lose all and every such hides and skins so bought, or the just value thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shall or may after the feast of Pentecost next coming, buy, bargain, bespeak, or take promise to have any tanned leather, not wrought and converted into made wares, but only such person and persons as will and shall work and convert the same leather into made wares, upon pain of forfeiture of the leather so bought, or the value thereof.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that all and every artificer, and other person and persons using to convert tanned leather into made wares, aswell stranger borne, as other, may lawfully buy all kind of tanned leather, to make or convert the same into made wares, at Leaden hall in London, upon every Monday, the same being first duly searched, sealed, and registered, as is hereafter limited.  
Provided also, that Sadlers & Gyrdlers may sell their necks and shreds of tanned leather red, without incurring any pain or forfeiture for the same.  
And forasmuch as Bark is now become scant by unreasonable felling of Oak out of barking time, and thereby the Tanners be destitute of such bark as is necessary: Be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shall from and after the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next, fell or cause to be felled any Oaken trees meet to be barked, where the bark is worth. ii.s. a cartlode, over & above the charge of barking & pilling (timber to be employed or bestowed in or about building or reparations of houses, ships, or mills, or any of them, only except) but betwixt the first day of April, & the last day of june, upon pain of forfeiture of every such Oaken tree so felled, or the double value thereof.  
And for the better preservation of Timber, which by the takers of Timber is spoiled, through the greedy desire of gain, of the lops, tops, or bark of Timber trees: Be it therefore enacted, that no taker or takers, purveyor or purveyors of Timber, or his or their deputy or deputies, shall fell or cause to be felled for the use of the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors, any Oaken Timber tree or trees meet to be barked, but in barking time (trees to be felled for building or repairing of any her majesties Houses or ships, only except) or shall in any wise take or receive any manner of profit, gain, or commodity by any lops, tops, or bark of any tree, to be taken by them or any of them, or shall in any wise take, carry away, give, sell or dispose from the owner, any more of any tree, to be taken as is aforesaid, then only the timber of the same tree or trees, to be used & bestowed, or employed only in, upon, or about the queens majesties buildings, or ships, upon pain of forfeiture to the party grieved, for every tree and for the lops, tops, or bark of every tree taken contrary to the meaning of this article. xl.s. And that it shallbe lawful to the party of whom such tree or trees shallbe taken, or to any other, for, and in his name, to retain, withhold, take, and keep to himself all the bark, lop, and top of such tree or trees: Any Commission or other matter whatsoever, notwithstanding.  
And forasmuch as no Leather can be so well tanned, but it may be marred in the currying: Be it therefore enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that from and after the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next, no person or persons shall curry any kind of Leather in the house of any Shoemaker or other person, but only in his own house, situate in a corporat or market town, nor shall curry any kind of leather except it be well and perfectly tanned, nor shall after the feast of Pentecost next curry any hide or skin, being not thoroughly dry after his wet season, in which wet season he shall not use any stolen, urine, or any other deceitful or subtle mixture, thing, way, or means, to corrupt or hurt the same, nor shall curry any leather meet for utter sole leather, with any other stuff then with hard tallow, nor with any less of that, than the leather will receive, nor shall curry any kind of leather meet for over leather & inner soles, but with good and sufficient stuff, being fresh and not salt, and thoroughly lycoured till it can not receive no more, nor shall burn or scald any hide or leather in the currying, nor shall shave any leather to thin, or shall gash or hurt any leather in the shaving, or by any other means, but shall work the same sufficiently and substantially in all points and respects, upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence or act done contrary to the true meaning of this article (other then in gashing or hurting in shaving). vi.s.viii.d. and the value of every such skin or hide marred by his evil workmanship, and for every offence to be done against this article, in gashing or hurting by shaving, double so much to the party grieved, as the leather shallbe impaired thereby, by the judgement of the Wardens of the curriers, and the Wardens of the company whereof the party grieved shallbe.  
And be it further enacted, that no Cordwayner, Shoemaker, or other person or persons dwelling or inhabiting within the City of London or the liberty of the same, nor any person or people that now is, or hereafter shallbe free of the City of London, dwelling within three miles of the said City, and occupying wet curried leather in his art and occupation, shall put or cause to be put any leather to be curried, but to such person & persons as be or shall be free of the company of the Curriers of the City of London, upon pain of forfeiture of all such curried leather, or the value thereof.  
And be it further enacted, that no person or persons shall by any means occupy or put in any made wares, within the city of Lonlon, or three miles of the same City, any curried leather, before the same shallbe searched, and allowed by the Wardens of the curriers of London for the time being, or such persons as they shall thereto assign, and be sealed with a seal therefore to be prepared, upon pain that every shoemaker, and other artificer cutter of leather, offending against this article, shall forfeit for every hide or skin otherwise curried or employed as is aforesaid. vi.s.viii.d. and the value of every such hide or skin.  
And be it further enacted, that no person occupying the feat or mystery of a Curryour, shall use or exercise the feat or mystery of a Tanner, cordwainer, Shoemaker, Butcher, or other artificer using cutting of leather, during the time that he shall so use or occupy the mystery of a Curryour, upon pain of forfeiture of. vi.ss. viii. d. for every hide or skin that he shall curry during the time that he shall occupy or use any of the mysteries aforesaid, contrary to the meaning of this article.  
And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Curryour or Curryours, using the art of currying of leather, shall after the feast of Pentecost next, refuse to curry any leather, to him or them for that purpose brought by any such artificer as is or shall be a cutter of leather, the same artificer or his servant bringing with him or them good & sufficient stuff, as is before mentioned, for the perfect lycouring of the same leather, and that the said leather in the presence of the said artificer cutters of leather, his servant or servants if he or they will be present, shallbe licoured and curried in all things and degrees perfectly, and if he or they will not be present, it shall nevertheless by likewise licoured and curried in his or their absence perfectly, and with as convenient speed as may be, not exceeding five days in the Summer, and ten days in the Winter, after he shall or may take it in hand, upon pain to forfeit to the party grieved for every hide & piece of leather not in this manner curried, and well & speedily dressed. x.s.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the Wardens of the curriers for the time being, or such persons as they shall assign or appoint (being thereunto required) shall from time to time, search and try all such curried leather, as shallbe brought to any of their company to be curried, and shall with a Seal therefore to be prepared, with convenient speed, not exceeding one day after the currying & request made, seal such leather as they shall find sufficiently curried, taking for every hide so sealed after the rate of. i.d. for the dycker, and for every sire dozen of calves skins. i.d. and not above, to be paid by the Curriour, upon pain of forfeiture for every hide which shall not be searched and sealed as is aforesaid. vi.s.viii.d.  
And forasmuch as Leather well tanned and curried, may by the negligence, deceit, or evil workmanship of the cordwainer or Shoemaker, be used disceiptfully, to the hurt of the occupier or wearer of it: Be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, which after the said feast of Pentecost shall occupy the mystery or occupation of a cordwainer or Shoemaker, shall make or cause to be made any boots, buskins, shoes, startups, slippers, or pantofles, or any part of them, of English leather wet curried (other then Dear skins, calves skins, or goats skins, made or dressed, or to be made or dressed like unto Spanish leather) but of leather well and truly tanned and curried in manner and form above specified, or of leather well and truly tanned only, and well and substantially sewed with good thread, well twisted and made, and sufficiently waxed with wax well rosened, and the stitches hard drawn with handleathers, as hath been accustomed, without mingling or mixing of overleathers, that is to say, part of the over leather being of neats leather, and part of calves leather, nor shall put into any part of any shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, or pantofles any leather made of a sheeps skin, bull hide, or horse hide, nor into the upper leather of any shoes, startups, slippers, or pantofles, or into the neither part of any boots (thinner sole and he'll of the shoe only except) any part of any hide from which the sole leather is cut, called the womb, neck, shank, flank, poll, or cheek, nor shall put into the utter sole any other leather than the best of the Ox or Steer hide, nor into the inner sole any other leather than the wombs, neck, poll, or cheek, nor in the treswelles of the double soled shoes, other than the flanks of any the hides aforesaid, nor shall make or put to sale in any year between the last of September & the twenty of Apryll, any shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, or pantofles, wherein any dry meet for any person to wear exceeding the age of four years, wherein shallbe any dry english leather (other than Calves or goats skins, made or dressed, or to be made & dressed like unto spanish leather, or any part thereof) nor shall show (to th'intent to put to sale) any shoes, boots, buskinnes, startups, slippers, or pantofles upon the Sunday, before the divine service (used in the forenone) be done and ended, upon pain of forfeiture for every pain of shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, or pantofles made, sold, showed, or put to sale contrary to the true meaning of this Act. 3s.. iiii. d. and the just and full value of the same.  
And be it further enacted for the true execution of this statute, that the Mayor of the City of London, and the Aldermen of the same for the time being, or the more part of them, upon pain to forfeit. xl.li. for every year that they make default, the one half whereof to be to the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, and the other half to him or them that will sue for the same: shall yearly appoint four or more expert persons by their discretions, to be searchers, who shallbe sworn before the said Mayor and Aldermen for the time being to do their office truly. Which said searchers shall by virtue of this Act, four times in the year at the least, that is to say, once every quarter of a year or oftener (if need require) as they shall think good, make true search and view of & for all boots, buskins, and other wares and things whatsoever made of tanned leather, in all and every house & houses, place and places, aswell within the said City and suburbs thereof, as in every other place within three miles of the same City, where any Shoemaker, Sadler, Gyrdler, or other artificer using cutting of leather doth or shall dwell, or occupy any of thoccupations of cutting of leather: and after every such search and view, to make true presentment in writing before the said Mayor & Aldermen for the time being, of every default that they or any of them shall find in the making, selling, or putting to sale of any boots, buskyns, startups, shoes, bridals, saddles, or other things, stuff, or ware made of leather contrary to the true meaning of this estatut.  
And be it further enacted, that the said Mayor of the said City of London, & Aldermen for the time being, upon like pain likewise to be levied and employed, shall likewise yearly appoint four or more, other skilful, expert, and honest persons, whereof one shallbe a sealer, and keep a seal for the sealing of leather to be prepared, who shall also be sworn before the said Mayor and Aldermen for the time being, to do their office truly. Which said searchers and sealer, shall view and search all and every tanned hide, skin or leather, which shallbe brought aswell to the market at Leaden hall, as to any other lawful fair or market therefore usually appointed, within three miles of the said City, whether the same be well and sufficiently tanned, according to the purport and true meaning of this statute, or no. And finding it sufficiently and well tanned, in such manner and form as by this statute is appointed (and as it ought to be) shall seal the same with the said seal for that purpose to be provided and prepared.  
AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all other Majors, bailiffs, and other head officers for the time being, in all other Cities, boroughs, and market Towns of this Realm, and all Lords of liberties, fairs, and markets, out of the circuit or compass of the said three miles: shall upon like pain of. xl.li. likewise to be levied and employed every year that they make default herein, appoint and swear yearly ii three or more persons, of the most honest and skilful men within their several offices or liberties, by their discretion, to search and view within the precinct of their said offices, liberties, and authorities, which shall as often as need shallbe or they think good, make like search within their limits, and shall have a mark or seal prepared for that purpose, and that the said searchers, or one of them, shall keep the same seal or mark, and with the same shall seal or mark such leather as they shall find sufficient, and no other. And if the said searchers or any of them, do find any leather sold, or offered to be sold, or brought to be searched or marked insufficiently tanned, or insufficiently curried, or any boots, buskins, shoes, startups, slippers, bridals, saddles, or any other thing made of tanned or curried leather insufficiently tanned, curried, or wrought, contrary to the true meaning of this statute, it shallbe lawful to the said searchers or any of them, to seize as forfeited, all such leather, shoes, and wares made of leather, and to retain the same in their custody, until the same be tried by vi expert men, appointed by such Mayor, bailiff, or other head officer, or Lord of liberty, or his sufficient deputy, within whose precincts or liberties such seysour shall happen to be: the same trial to be within xu days after such seysour at the furthest, upon the oaths of the said triers.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all red tanned leather which shallbe brought into the City of London (whether it be to be sold, or be bought before hand or no) shallbe brought to Leaden hall before it be housed in his or their own houses, and there viewed, whether it hath been searched or sealed, or no, and shall also be registered by the searchers to be appointed as is aforesaid, with half such fees therefore to be paid as is hereafter expressed for leather to be sold in Leaden hall, upon pain that every person housing or not bringing his leather to Leaden hall as is aforesaid, shall forfeit for every hide or skin vi. s.viii. Provided that this article shall not extend to any leather to be bought in Bartilmewe fair, or Southwark market, being searched, sealed and registered according to the true meaning of this Act.  
And also be it further enacted, that if any person will after the said feast wilfully withstand or deny any such search to be made, according to the tenor of this Act as is aforesaid, or will not suffer the said searchers so appointed, to enter into his or their house or houses, or other place, to view and search at their will & pleasure all manner of tanned leather, and all manner of shoes, boots, males, saddles, and all manner of wares wrought and made, or to be wrought and made of leather, and to seize and carry away all such leather, shoes, and wares as they shall find insufficiently tanned, curried or wrought, or made of evil stuff: that then all and every such person and persons so denying and withstanding, and not suffering the said searchers or any of them (so sworn and appointed for the time being, to enter and make search, and seize as is aforesaid) shall lose and forfeit for everytyme so denying and withstanding. u.li.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if the persons so to be appointed for the several searches of leather, and wares made of leather, as is aforesaid, do refuse with convenient speed to seal leather sufficiently tanned, or do make default in their search, or do allow that, which shallbe insufficiently tanned, curried, or wrought, contrary to the true meaning of this Act, or shall either for affection or corruption conceal the faults or any of them found in that behalf: that then the Mayor, bailiffs, Lords of liberties, and other persons, which by virtue of this Act shall appoint such searchers and sealer's, shall forfeit and lose for every such default & offence. xl.s. the moiety of which forfeiture, shallbe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, & successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the queens majesties courts of Record, by bill, plaint, information, or otherwise.  
AND forasmuch as heretofore great deceit hath been used in cutting of the wombs from the backs, for that the Tanner did not cut of so much as was meet, but left more to the back (whereof utter sole leather was made) then was convenient and meet: And forasmuch also as if the Currier should curry the whole hide together, the Shoemaker might then put that part of the hide called the wombs into utter sole leather (which is meet but for inner sole leather) to the great deceit & damage of the wearer of shoes, boots, or other stuff made by the shoemaker or cordwainer: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such persons as shallbe so appointed searchers or sealer's as is aforesaid, shall after the true tanning, and before the currying of any leather brought to be searched and sealed as is aforesaid, by their discretions cut of so much of the hide truly tanned, to be sold to a Shoemaker, cordwainer or Cobbler into wombs, as they shall by their oaths think unmeet to make utter sole leather of, upon pain that the Shoemaker, cordwainer, or Cobbler, shall forfeit for every such hide not cut as is aforesaid. iii.s.iiii.d.  
And be it further enacted, that such person and persons as hereafter shallbe assigned and appointed searchers and sealer's of tanned leather by virtue of this Act; shall within the limits and precincts of every of their searches, keep one book or register, wherein they shall enter all such bargains as shallbe made for leather, hides, or skins, by any person or persons, during and by all the time of the fair or market, being thereto required by the bier or the seller, and also the prices of such leather bought & sold, with the names and dwelling places of the bier and seller, taking for his and their pain and travel therein to be taken, aswell for the sealing of such leather and cutting of the wombs as is aforesaid, as for registering thereof, of the seller of every dycker of leather so entered. ii.d. and so after the rate, and for every sire dozen of calves skins. ii.d. and of the bier after the same rate, and no more or greater sum or sums of money to be paid for entering of the same, upon pain of forfeiture for not entering and registering, or not cutting of, of the wombs as is aforesaid, for every dycker of leather. 3s.. iiii. d. and for every dozen of calves skins. 3s.. iiii. d. and so after that rate.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shall after the first day of May next coming, sell, exchange, or put away, or cause to be sold, exchanged, or put away, any manner of tanned leather red and unwrought, except he or they register or cause to be registered the said tanned leather, and every part and parcel thereof, and the price thereof, upon pain of forfeiture of the value of the leather so sold, exchanged, or put away, and not registered.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to or for any person or persons to buy any tanned leather before the same shallbe searched and sealed, not to carry or cause to be carried out of the fair or market, any leather till it be registered as is aforesaid, upon pain to forfeit the said leather or the value thereof, so bought and not searched and sealed, or carried away and not registered.  
And be it further enacted, that no Cordwayner, Shoemaker, or Cobbler, shall carry or cause to be carried any Ox or Steer hides tanned, whereof any sole leather shallbe cut, out of any fair or market whole, before the wombs be cut of as is aforesaid, upon pain of forfeiture for every hide otherwise carried out of the same fair or market. vi.ss. viii. d. and the hide or the value thereof.  
AND be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any Currier within the said City of London, or three miles compass, after the feast of Saint Michael th'archangel next, do curry any leather insufficiently tanned, or after the said feast next do not curry such leather, as he doth or shall curry, substantially and well, according to the meaning and purport of this Act, or if any Shoemaker, cordwainer, or Cobbler, within the City of London or three miles compass of the same, after the said feast of Saint Michael th'archangel next, put any tanned leather into any shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, pantofles, or other things made of tanned leather, which shall not be well and perfectly tanned, according to the purport and true meaning of this Act, or after the said feast do put any curried leather into any boots, buskins, startups, shoes, slippers, pantofles, or other things made of leather, which shall not be well and sufficiently tanned and curried, and also sealed as is aforesaid, or do make boots, buskins, shoes, startups, slippers, pantofles, or other things made of english tanned leather, in other manner than is above specified and ordained, or if any Shoemaker, Sadler, or other artificer using cutting or working of leather, do make any wares of any tanned leather insufficiently tanned, and of tanned or curried leather, being not sufficiently tanned and curried as is aforesaid, or do not make their wares belonging to their several occupations sufficiently and substantially: That then the Wardens of every of the said companies of Sadlers, curriers, Shoemakers, and other artificers using and exercising cutting of tanned leather, for the time being, shall forfeit & lose for every such default and offence to be committed or done by any person or persons under their order, survey, or search .v. li.  
Provided alway, and be it enacted that no manner of person or persons, shall (after the said feast of Saint Michael) utter or sell or cause to be uttered or sold (within the said City of London, or within three miles compass of the same) any manner of wares appertaining to the craft or mystery of any artificer cutting of leather, but only in open shop, common fair, or market, whereby the said Wardens may have the true search of the same, in avoiding the penalties upon them by this Act set, upon pain of forfeiture of all such wares so sold, &. x.s. for every tyme.  
Provided alway and be it enacted, that all and every artificer dwelling or inhabiting, or which hereafter shall dwell or inhabit within the City of London, or three miles compass of the same, using or exercising any manuel occupation of cutting or working of leather into made wares, shall contribute, pay, and be under the survey and search of the Wardens of such companies of the said City of London, as the artificers commonly using the like occupation being free men of the same City of London and of the same company be, touching and concerning only their wares and stuff made of or with leather, in like manner & form as other free men of the same company doth to the Wardens of their company within the said City. All which pains, penalties, and forfeitures aforesaid, of sums of money aforesaid, (except such pains, penalties, and forfeitures as are before or hereafter by this Act shall otherwise be disposed) shallbe divided into three equal parts, one part whereof shallbe to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, and successors, and an other part to him or them that shall first sue for the same in any of the courts of Record of the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, by action of debt, bill, plaint, information, or otherwise: In which suit, no wager of law or essoign shallbe admitted or allowed, and the third part thereof, shall go to the City, Borough, Town, or Lord or Lords of liberties, where the offence shallbe committed or done. And all such leather, shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, pantofles, wares, stuff, and other things whatsoever made of tanned leather, or curried leather, which shallbe seized by virtue of this Act, or shallbe found insufficiently wrought, tanned, or curried, and declared by this Act to be forfeited, and shallbe seized by the said searchers, or any other person finding the fault thereof, shallbe distributed as hereafter ensueth: That is to say, such leather or stuff so seized within the City of London or within three miles compass of the same, to be brought to the guild hall in London, there to be praised by indifferent persons, and the value thereof to be divided into three parts, whereof one part to be to the first seaser and seasers of the said unlawful stuff, and an other part to the use of the Chamber of London, and the other part to be distributed to the poor folks, aswell being within the new Hospital of S. Bartilmew's in London, as to such poor householders as shallbe inhabiting within the City of London, or the circuit aforesaid, at the discretions of such persons as the Mayor of the same City and four Aldermen of the same for the time being, shall appoint for the same. And that all such leather, boots, shoes, saddles, wares, stuff & things made of or with leather as is aforesaid, which shallbe found within any other city, borough, town, or place win this Realm out of the said City of London and three miles compass, unsufficiently wrought, tanned, or curried, as is aforesaid, & shallbe seized & taken as forfeited, shallbe brought to the common hall of every such City, Borough, & Town, or to some convenient and open place to be appointed by the Lord of the liberty, or his deputy, where no common hall is, there to be praised as is aforesaid, one part of the said value thereof, to be disposed unto the poor, and in other deeds of charity in those parties, after the discretion of the Majors, bailiffs, Headboroughes, & Lords of liberties, an other part to be delivered to the Majors, bailiffs, & other head officer of any City, Borough, or Town corporate, to the use of the commonalty of such city, borough, or town corporate: & where no such officers be, then to the Lord or Lords of the liberty where any such forfeiture shallbe committed, or seasour had, & the third part, to the first seaser or seasers of such leather, stuff, or wares, insufficiently tanned, curried, or wrought as is aforesaid, for his & their pains.  
Provided always, that no person to whom any such unlawful leather or stuff shallbe given by this Act, shall give or sell any such leather or stuff, to any person or persons that shall sell the same, upon pain that the bier shall forfeit for every parcel of such unlawful leather or stuff to be sold contrary to the true meaning of this last clause. iii.s.iiii.d.  
Provided always, that this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise be prejudicial or hurtful to the chancellors Vicechauncelours, Proctors, Taxours, and Scholars, their officers, ministers, assigns, or farmers, of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or any of them, of, for, or concerning the authority of search of tanned leather, or any of the forfeitures of the same, which they lawfully had or might have had before the making of this present Act, so as they do in all things observe such order in, about, or for searching, sealing, & registering of leather, as by this Act is prescribed & appointed, upon the pains herein contained: Any thing therein contained to the contrary hereof, notwithstanding.  
And for the avoiding of all ambiguities and doubts which may and do grow upon the definition and interpretation of this word Leather: It is enacted and declared by these presents, that the hides and skins of Ox, Steer, Bull, Cow, Calf, Dear, red and fallow, Goats, and Sheep, being tanned or tawed, and every salt hide, is, shallbe, and ever hath been reputed and taken for leather.  
And for the better execution of this present Act, be it further enacted, that all justices of Assize, justices of jail delivery, justices of peace, and Stewards of franchises, leets, and lawedayes, within their several precintes, jurisdictions and liberties, and Mayor of London for the time being, within the said City and within three miles compass of the same City, and all other Majors, bailiffs, and other head officers of Cities, boroughs, and Towns, within their several jurisdictions, liberties, precincts, offices, and authorities, shall inquire of all the premises in their sessions, leete, or law day, and hear and determine the same, and also by their discretions examine all persons suspected to offend this Act or any parcel thereof.  
And be it further enacted, that where any manor, liberty, or franchises immediately appertaineth or shall appertain to the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors: the Steward for the time being of every such manor, liberty, and franchises, shall have the like authorities, powers, jurisdictions, and advantages, and also shall bear and pay all the like pains, penalties, and forfeitures as are given, appointed, limited, or laid, by this statute to or upon the Lords of liberties and franchises, as in this statute is expressed.  
And be it declared and enacted, that all currying and dressing of leather, commonly called dry currying and freezing, shallbe construed to be dressing and currying after the manner of Spanish leather, of what colour soever it be, and that to all artificers (other than Shoemakers, yearly between the last of September and the xx. of Apryll) it shallbe lawful to use all kinds of leather dressed and curried in that manner of dry currying and freezing, as they lawfully might before the making of this Act, so that the same leather so to be used be well and sufficiently tanned, according to the form prescribed in this Act, and also well & substantially dressed, curried, and freesed, in the kind of dry currying and freezing abovesaid.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act and every part thereof, shallbe construed and adjudged to extend to Wales, as amply as it doth to this Realm of England, to all intentes, constructions and purposes.  
And forasmuch as (notwithstanding the good laws and great penalties in that behalf provided) great quantities of leather are daily transported out of this Realm, and specially by the negligence and corruption of controllers, customers, searchers, & their deputies: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any leather, wrought, cut, or unwrought, to the intent to be sold or bartered, shall hereafter unlawfully be transported or purposed to be transported into the parts beyond the Sea, from and out of any port, Haven, or creak, of this Realm or Wales, every controller, Customer, Surveyor, collector of tonnage and poundage, and Searcher, and the deputy of any of them, or any other person hearing or knowing by any ways of any leather meant to be transported from any place within his office, and do not his best endeavour to seize the same, or being transported, do not disclose or cause to be disclosed the same within xl days next after such knowledge or hearing the same, in some court of Record, so as the offender may be punished according to the laws in that case provided: shall for every the first offence committed against this article forfeit a C.li and for the second offence shall forfeit his office.  
And be it further enacted, that every Customer, officer, or officers deputy, that shall make any false certificate of the arrival of any leather in any Port, creak, or place of this Realm, shall also forfeit for every such offence a C.li  
Provided alway, that neither this Act, nor any article, exposition, or thing therein contained, shall extend to any Scottish hides to be brought into the town of Berwick out of the Realm of scotland, being registered in a book therefore to be kept, by such person or persons as the Mayor of the said town for the time being shall thereunto name and appoint, with the name and surname of the bier and seller, to th'intent the english hides may be known from the scottish, but that the inhabitants of the said town of Berwick may send, carry, and transport such scottish hides as they lawfully might transport before the making of this Act.  
And forasmuch as the statutes heretofore made touching cordwainers, Curriers, Tanners, and leather, have been thoroughly considered, and so much of them and every of them as seemeth requisite and necessary to be revived and continued, is inserted and enacted in this present Act: Be it therefore enacted, that the Statutes hereafter mentioned, that is to say, one Statute made in the xxv year of King Edward the third, the fourth Chapter. And one other Statute made in the twelfth year of the reign of king Richard the second the xii Chapter. And one other Act or Statute made in the fourth year of king Henry the fourth the xxxv Chapter. And one other act made in the second year of king Henry the sixth the vii Chapter. And one other Act made in the fourth year of king Edward the fourth, entitled cordwainers and Cobblers. And one other Act made in the first year of king Henry the seventh, entitled an Act against Tanners and cordwainers. And one other Act made in the ix year of the reign of the said king Henry the seventh, entitled for curriers and cordwainers. And one other Act made in the third year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, entitled an Act for curriers to have search of leather. One other Act made in the fifth year of our said sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, entitled an Act for strangers for buying of leather in open market. One other act made in the xiiii. or xu years of our said late sovereign Lord, entitled an Act concerning the liberty of cordwainers and Shoemakers. And one other act made in the xxii year of our said sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, entitled an Act concerning Tanners and Butchers. And one other Act made in the xxiiii year of our said late sovereign Lord king Henry the eight, entitled an Act concerning true tanning and currying of leather. And one other Act made in the second and third years of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth the ix Chapter, and revived in the first year of our sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, entitled an Act for true currying of leather. One other Act made in the third and fourth years of our said sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, entitled an Act for buying rough hides and Calves skins. And as much of an Act made in the .v. and vi years of our said late sovereign Lord king Edward the vi entitled an Act against regrating of tanned leather, as doth provide or give liberty to any person or persons to carry over any shoes, boots, buskins, startups, slippers, and other made wares to the town of Callyce. And one other Act made in the first year of our sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, entitled an Act touching Shoemakers & curriers. And one other act made in the said first year, entitled an Act touching selling of tanned leather: shall from and after the said feast of Saint Michael next coming be utterly repealed.   

An Act for the punishment of such persons as shall procure or commit any wilful perjury. ¶ The ix Chapter.  
WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxii. year of the reign of the late king of famous memory king Henry the viii amongst other things it was ordained, enacted & established, that no person or persons of what estate, degree, or condition soever he or they were, should from thenceforth unlawfully suborn any witness or witnesses, by letters, rewards, promises, or by any other sinister labour or means for to maintain any matter or cause, or to the disturbance or hindrance of justice, or to the procurement or occasion of any manner of perjury by false verdict or otherwise, in any of the kings courts of the Chancery, the Star chamber, the white hall, or else where within any the kings dominions of England or Wales, or the marches of the same, where any person or persons have, or from thenceforth should have authority by virtue of the kings Commission, patent, or writ, to hold plea of land, or to examine, hear, or determine any title of lands, or any matter or witnesses concerning the title, right, or interest of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence. x.li. th'one moiety thereof to be to the king, & tother to the party that would sue for the same, as by the same statute amongs divers other things more plainly it doth appear. Sithence that making whereof, for that the said penalty is so small towards the offenders in that behalf, the said offence of subornation & sinister procurement of false witness hath nevertheless greatly increased and augmented, & by reason of the wilful perjury committed by the same suborned witnesses, divers & sundry of the queens majesties subjects have sustained disherison & great impoverishment, aswell of their lands & tenements, as also of their goods & chattels.  
Be it therefore enacted by our sovereign Lady the Queen, by the assent of the Lords spiritual & temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that all & every such person and persons which at any time after the ten day of April next coming, shall unlawfully & corruptly procure any witness or witnesses by letters, rewards, promises, or by any other sinister & unlawful labour or means whatsoever, to commit any wilful & corrupt perjury, in any matter or cause whatsoever now depending or which hereafter shall depend in suit & variance, by any writ, action, hill, complaint, or information, in any wise touching or concerning any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any goods, cattles, debts, or damages in any of the courts before mentioned, or in any of the queens majesties courts of Record, or in any leete, view of frank pledge, or lawdaye, ancient demean court, hundred-courte, court baron, or in the court or courts of the Stannery in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, or shall likewise unlawfully and corruptly procure or suborn any witness or witnesses which shall from and after the said tenth day of Apryll be sworn to testify in perpetuam rei memoriame that then every such offender or offenders, shall for his, hers, or their said offence, being thereof lawfully convicted or attainted, lose and forfeit the sum of forty pounds. And if it happen any such offender or offenders so being convicted or attainted, as aforesaid, not to have any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, to the value of. xl.li. that then every such person so being convict or attainted of any the offences aforesaid, shall for his or their said offence, suffer imprisonment by the space of one half year, without bail or mainprize, and to stand upon the pillory by the space of one whole hour, in some market Town next adjoining to the place where the offence was committed, in open market there, or in the market town itself where the offence was committed. And that no person or persons being so convicted or attainted, to be from thenceforth received as a witness to be deposed or sworn in any Court of Record within any of the queens highness dominions of England, Wales, or the marches of the same, until such time as the judgement given against the said person or persons shallbe reversed by attaint or otherwise, and that upon every such reversal, the parties grieved, to recover his or their damages, against all & every such person and persons as did procure the said judgement so reversed to be first given against them or any of them, by action or actions to be sued upon his or their case or cases, according to the course of the common laws of this Realm.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons after the said tenth day of Apryll next coming, either by the subornation, unlawful procurement, sinister persuasion or means of any others, or by their own act, consent or agreement, wilfully and corruptly commit any manner of wilful perjury, by his or their deposition in any of the Courts before mentioned, or being examined ad perpetuam rei memoriam: that then every person and persons so offending, and being thereof duly convict or attainted by the laws of this Realm, shall for his or their said offence lose and forfeit twenty pounds, and to have imprisonment by the space of vi months without bail or mainprize, and the oath of such person or persons so offending, from thenceforth not to be received in any Court of Record within this Realm of England or Wales, or the marches of the same, until such time as the judgement given against the said person or persons, shallbe reversed by attaint or otherwise. And that upon every such reversal, the parties grieved to recover his or their damages against all and every such person and persons as did procure the said judgement so reversed, to be given against them or any of them, by action or actions to be sued upon his or their case or cases, according to the course of the common laws of this Realm. And if it happen the said offender or offenders so offending, not to have any goods or chattels to the value of twenty pounds: that then he or they to be set on the pillory in some market place within the Shire, City, or Borough, where the said offence shallbe committed, by the Sheriff or his ministers, if it shall fortune to be without any City or Town corporate: And if it happen to be within any such City or Town corporat, then by the said head officer or officers of such city or town corporate, or by his or their ministers, and there to have both his ears nailed, and from thenceforth to be discredited and disabled for ever to be sworn in any of the courts of Record aforesaid, until such time as the judgement shallbe reversed, and thereupon to recover his damages in manner and form before mentioned. The one moiety of all which sums of money, goods, & chattels to be forfeited in manner and form aforesaid, to be to the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs, & successors, & tother moiety to such person or persons as shallbe grieved, hindered, or molested, by reason of any the offence or offences before mentioned, that will sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint, information or otherwise, in any of the queens majesties courts of Record, in the which no wager of law, essoign, protection, or injunction, to be allowed.  
And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that aswell the judge and judges of every such of the said courts where any such suit is or shallbe, and whereupon any such perjury is or shall happen to be committed: as also the justices of Assizes and jail delivery in their several circuits, and the justices of the peace in every County within this Realm or in Wales, at their quarter Sessions, both within the liberties and without: shall have full power and authority by virtue hereof, to inquire of all & every the defaults and offences perpetrated, committed, or done, contrary to this Act, by inquisition, presentment, bill, or information before them exhibited, or otherwise, lawfully to hear and determine the same, and thereupon to give judgement, award process, and execution of the same, according to the course of the laws of this Realm.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices of Assize, of every circuit within this Realm and else where within the queens dominions, shall in every county within their circuits, two times in the year, that is to say in time of their sitings, make open proclamation of this statute, or of the effect thereof, to th'intent no person or persons shallbe ignorant or miscognisaunt of the penalties herein contained.  
Provided also that this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any spiritual or ecclesiastical court or courts within this Realm of England or Wales, or the marches of the same: But that all and every such offender or offenders as shall offend in form aforesaid, shall and may be punished by such usual and ordinary laws as heretofore hath been and yet is used and frequented in the said ecclesiastical Courts: Any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, upon whom any process out of any of the courts of Record within this Realm or Wales, shallbe served, to testify or depose, concerning any cause or matter depending in any of the same courts, and having tendered unto him or them, according to his or their countenance or calling, such reasonable sums of money for his or their costs & charges, as having regard to the distance of the places is necessary to be allowed in that behalf, do not appear according to the tenor of the said process, having not a lawful & reasonable let or impediment to the contrary: that then the party making default, to lose and forfeit for every such offence. x.li. and to yield such further recompense to the party grieved, as by the discretion of the judge of the court out of the which the said process shallbe awarded, according to the loss & hindrance that the party which procured the said process shall sustain by reason of the non appearance of the said witness or witnesses, the said several sums to be recovered by the party so grieved against the offender or offenders, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of the queens majesties courts of Record, in which no wager of law, essoign, or protection to be allowed.  
Provided always that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend in any wise to restrain the power or authority given by Act of parliament, made in the time of king Henry the vii to the Lord chancellor of England, & others of the kings council for the time being, to examine and punish ryotes, routs, heinous perjuries, and other offences & misdemeaninges, which Lord chancellor & other sithence the making of the said act, have most commonly used to hear and determine such matters in the Court at Westminster commonly called the Star chamber, nor to restrain the power or authority of the Lord President and council of the marches of Wales, or of the Lord President and council in the North, nor of any other judge having absolute power to punish perjury before the making of this statute: But that they and every of them shall and may proceed in the punishment of all offences heretofore punishable, in such wise as they might have done, and used to do before the making of this Act, to all purposes, so that they set not upon the offender or offenders less punishment than is contained in this Act. This Act to continue unto the end of the next Parliament.   

An Act to revive a Statute, made Anno xxi H. viii. touching servants embeaseling their masters goods. ¶ The ten Chapter.  
WHERE in the Parliament holden at London the third day of November, in the xxi year of the reign of the late king of most famous and worthy memory king Henry the eight, & from thence adjourned to Westminster, and there holden and continued by divers prorogations unto the dissolution thereof: It was ordained & enacted amongs other things, that all and singular servants to whom any caskets, jewels, money, goods, or chattels, by his or their master or mistress, should from thenceforth be delivered to keep, that if any such servant or servants withdraw him or them from their said masters or mistresses, & go away with the said Caskets, jewels, money, goods, or chattels, or any part thereof, to the intent to steal the same, & defraud his or their said masters & mistresses thereof, contrary to the trust and confidence to him or them put by his or their said masters & mistresses: Or else being in service of his said masters or mistresses, without th'assent or commandment of his masters or mistresses, embesell the same Caskets, jewels, money, goods, or chattels, or any part thereof, or otherwise convert the same to his own use, with like purpose to steal it, that if the said caskets, jewels, money, goods, or chattels that any such servant shall go away with, or which he shall embesell, with purpose to steal it, as is aforesaid, be of the value of. xl.s. or above: That then the same false, fraudulent, and untrue act and demeanout, should from thenceforth be deemed and adjudged felony, and that he or they so offending, should be punished as other felons for felony committed, by the course of the common law, as by the said Act amongs other things therein contained more at large it doth and may appear. Which said Act, in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the .v. day of October in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Mary, and there continued to the xxi day of the same month, that is to say, in the first session of the same Parliament, by the general words of one Act then and there made, entitled an Act repealing of certain treasons, felonies, and praemunire, was from thenceforth utterly repealed and made void.  
And forasmuch as sithence the repeal of the same, the said Act is thought necessary for the common wealth of this Realm: Be it therefore enacted by our Sovereign Laid the queens Majesty, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Act made in the said xxi year, and every clause, article, branch, sentence, and provision therein contained, be from henceforth revived and put in due execution, according to th'intent and meaning thereof, and from henceforth shall stand good, endure, and continue for ever.   

An Act against the clipping, washing, rounding, or filing of the Coins. ¶ The xi Chapter.  
Where as the offences of clipping, rounding, washing, and filing of moneys or coins of this Realm, was declared by an Act of Parliament in the time of king Henry the fift, to be treason to the King and the Realm, and according to the said Act, the same offences were and did continue treason, until the first year of the reign of Queen Mary: At which time, the pains and penalties due for the said offences, were abrogate and taken away, by the general Act of repeal then made. By reason whereof, divers false and evil disposed persons, perceiving themselves to be lose and free from the severity and danger of the said law and penalty, have been of late the more hardy and bold, to attempt and practise, for wicked lucre and gains sake, to diminish, impair, and falsify the moneys and coins current within this Realm, and the dominions of the same, by such clipping, washing, rounding, and filing thereof, (not only) to the great dishonour of the queens Majesty our sovereign Lady that now is, by whose great goodness the new moneys or coins of the same, are now reduced to as much fineness as ever hath been in any time of her noble progenitors (but also) to the great loss and damage of the good subjects of this Realm, and more is like to be hereafter, if the same be not speedily met withal.  
For remedy whereof, be it enacted, declared, and established, by the authority of this present Parliament, that from and after the first day of may next coming: Clipping, washing, rounding, or filing, for wicked lucre or gains sake, of any the proper moneys or coins of this Realm, or of the dominions thereof, or of the moneys or coins of any other Realm, allowed and suffered to be current within this Realm, or the dominions thereof, at this present, or that hereafter at any time shall be the lawful moneys or coins of this Realm or of the dominions thereof, or of any other Realm, and by proclamation allowed and suffered to be current hear, by the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors: shallbe taken, deemed, and adjudged by virtue of this Act, to be Treason, and the offenders therein, their counsellors, consentours, and aydours, shallbe, from and after the same first day of may, taken, deemed, and adjudged as offenders in Treason, & being thereof lawfully convicted or attainted, according to the due order and course of the laws of this Realm, shall suffer pains of death, and lose and forfeit all his and their goods and chattels, and shall also lose and forfeit all his & their lands and tenements, during his and their natural life or lives only.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons, which have any lawful grant to have and enjoy the forfeiture of lands, tenements, goods, or chattels of offenders, and men attainted in high Treason, within any Manor, lordship, Town, parish hundred, or other precinct within this Realm of England or Wales: shall and may at all times hereafter have like liberty, to take, seize, and enjoy all such forfeitures of lands, tenements, goods, and chattels, as shall come or grow within their liberties, by force of the attayndour of any person or persons, for, and upon any offence or offences made treason by this Act, as they or any of them should, ought, or might have, by virtue of any good and lawful grant to them or any of them heretofore had or made.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act nor any thing therein contained, nor any attayndour or attayndours of any person or persons for any offence or offences made treason by this Act, shall in any wise extend, or be judged, interpreted, or expounded, to make any corruption of blood, to any the heir or the heirs of any such offender or offenders, or to make the wife of any such offender to lose or forfeit her dower, of, or in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or her title, action, or interest to the same: Any thing in this Act contained, or any attayndour or attayndours hereafter to be had for any offence or offences made treason by this Act, to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any of the Lords of the Parliament, or Peer of this Realm, for the time being, shall fortune at any time hereafter to be indicted of any offence made treason by this Act: that then they and every of them shall have his or their trial by their peers, as hath been used heretofore in cases of high treason.   

An Act touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of cattle, to be licensed. ¶ The xii chapter.  
WHere in the Session of Parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster the xxiii day of january in the fift year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, amongs other things it was enacted, that whatsoever person or persons, after the first day of May then next ensuing, should engross or get into his or their hands, by buying, contracting, or promise taking (other then by demise, grant, or lease of land or tithe) any Corn growing in the fields, or any other Corn or Grain, Butter, Cheese, Fish, or other dead victuals whatsoever, within the Realm of England, to the intent to sell the same again, shallbe accepted, reputed, and taken an unlawful engrosser or engrossers, with a proviso and ordinance contained in the same Act, that it should be lawful to every person or persons, being a common Badger, Lader, Kydder, or Carrier, which shallbe licensed, assigned, & allowed thereunto by three justices of the peace of the County where the said badger, lader, kydder, or carrier shall dwell, which shall sell or deliver in open fair or market, or to any other victualler, or to any other person or persons, for the provision of his or their house or houses, all such Corn, Fish, Butter, or Cheese, as any such person or persons shall buy or cause to be bought, and that within one month next after he or they shall so buy any such corn, grain, butter or cheese, so that the same shallbe bought without forestall: shall not be in any wise deemed, adjudged, or taken, any offence contrary to the said Act.  
And where also it is provided & enacted by the same Act of Parliament, that it shallbe lawful to all and every person and persons, known for a common drover or drovers, being licenced, authorised & allowed in writing by the justices of the peace, whereof one to be of the Quorum, of the County or Counties where the same Drover or Drovers shallbe most abiding & dwelling, to buy cattle in such Shires or Counties where drovers have been wont in times passed accustomably to buy cattle, at their free liberty and pleasure, and to sell the same again. And that it shallbe lawful to every person and persons which shallbe assigned and allowed by the justices of the peace of the County where he shall dwell, to buy, otherwise then by forestall, Corn, grain, or cattle, to be transported or carried by water from any port or place within this Realm or Wales, unto any other port or place within the said Realm or dominions, as in the said act amongs other things doth appear. Since the making of which Act, such a great number of persons seeking only to live easily and to leave their honest labour, have and do daily seek to be allowed & licenced to the said offices or doings, being most unfit and unmeet for those purposes, and also very hurtful to the common wealth of this Realm aswell by thenhancing of the prices of corn and grain, and other the said victuals, as also by the diminishing of the number of good and necessary husbandmen, which said number of drovers of cattle, and badgers, laders, kydders, & carriers of corn and grain, are many times without good orders, and due consideration, assigned & allowed thereunto, to the great prejudice of the common wealth.  
In consideration whereof, be it enacted by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that no drover of cattle, Badger, lader, kydder, carrier, bier, or transporter of corn or grain, butter or cheese, be from or after the feast of Easter next after the first day of this present Parliament, licenced, admitted, assigned, or allowed to those offices or doings, or to any of them, but only in the general & open quarters Sessions of the peace to be holden in the shire where such person or persons so to be admitted, assigned, or allowed, doth or shall dwell, and hath or shall have dwelled there by the space of three years next before the Teste of his said licence. And that no person or persons after the first day of may next coming be admitted to the said offices or doings, or to any of them, but such only as be or have been married men, and shallbe at the time of such licence to be granted, householders, and not household servants, nor retainers to any person or persons, and of the age of thirty. years at the least. And that all licences being made & granted as is abovesaid, shall have continuance and be good only for one year next after the date thereof, and for no more nor longer tyme. Which said licences and every of them, shall bear date of the day and place where the said Sessions shallbe holden, & shallbe signed and sealed with the proper hands and seals of three of the said justices of the peace being present at the same Sessions at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum, upon pain that every person or persons that shall take any licence contrary to this ordinance, to lose and forfeit to our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, & successors, five pounds sterling. And that all licences made & granted, or hereafter to be made and granted, otherwise then is before expressed, shall from and after the said first day of may next coming, be void and of none effect.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices of the peace, in the said general and open sessions, shall or may by their discretions, take bond and surety from time to time by recognisance, of such as shallbe admitted or allowed hereafter a common drover of cattle, badger, lader, kydder, carrier, or bier of corn, grain, butter, or cheese, that they, nor any of them, shall by colour of his or their licence, forestall or engross, or otherwise practise or do any act or thing contrary to the tenor & true meaning, or in defrauding the said former statute, or of any matter or thing therein contained. All which licences, and every of them, and the said recognisances, shallbe made and written by the clerk of the peace of every County where such licence shallbe granted, or by his lawful deputy, and by none other person or persons. And every person that shall have any such licence, shall pay to the Clerk of the peace or his deputy, for making thereof, xii. d. at the most, and for every recognisance, in form abovesaid to be made and knowledged. viii.d. at the most, and for registering of the same licence and recognisance. iiii.d. at the most. For which said fee, the said Clerk or his deputy, shall have and keep one Register book, and therein shall register and write all the names, surnames, and dwelling places of such as shallbe licenced as aforesaid, with a brief declaration or entry of the said licence, and of the day, time, and place, where such a licence or licences shallbe granted. Which book or register, the said Clerk of the peace, or his deputy, shall have and bring to every sessions, to the intent that it may appear what number of licences be and shallbe from time to time granted, whereby the better consideration may be had thereof.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons, shall or may by authority of any such licence above mentioned, buy any corn or grain out of open fair or market to sell again, unless such person and persons shallbe thereunto licensed, and shall have special and express words contained in such licence or licences that he or they may so do, upon pain to forfeit for every such time that any such person or persons shall do to the contrary. u.li. The moiety of all which forfeitures afore rehearsed, shallbe to the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the queens courts of Record, by bill, plaint, action of debt, or information: in the which bill, plaint, action, or information, no wager of law, essoign or protection shallbe admitted.  
Be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices of the peace in every county within this Realm or Wales, at the quarter sessions, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, to inquire, hear, and determine all and every the defaults and offences, perpetrated, committed, or done contrary to this Act, within the County where any such sessions shallbe kept, by inquisition, presentment, bill or information before them exhibited, and by examination of two lawful witnesses, or by any of the same ways or means by the discretion of the said justices, and to make process thereupon, as though they were indicted before them by inquision, or by verdict of xii men or more. And upon the conviction of the offender, by information or suit of any other than the Queen, to make extractes of the moiety of the forfeitures, to be levied to the queens use, as they use to do of other fines and amerciaments grown in the sessions of peace, & to award execution of the other moiety for the complainant or informer against the offender, by Fieri facias, or Capias, as the queens justices at Westminster may do, and use to do. And if any such conviction or attainder, shall hereafter happen to be at the queens suit only, that then the whole forfeitures to be extracted and levied to the queens use only.  
Provided always, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend to the prejudice of the liberty of any City or Town corporate, but that they and every of them shall and may lawfully assign and licence purveyors for the provision of the same City or Town corporate, in such manner and form as they might lawfully have done before the making of this Act.  
Provided further, that this Act nor any thing therein contained, shallbe in any wise hurtful or prejudicial unto any the inhabitants within the Counties of Westmerlande, Cumberlande, Lancaster, Chester, and York, or any of them, but that they may do as heretofore they have lawfully used to do: Any thing in this present Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.   

An Act for the reviving of a Statute, made Anno. two. & iii Phil. & Marie, for the amending of high ways. ¶ The xiii Chapter.  
WHERE in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the second & third years of the reigns of the late Prince's King Philip & Queen Mary: Amongst other good Acts than had and made, one necessary Statute was provided & established for the amendment and reparation of the high ways within this Realm, which Act was made to endure and continue for seven years, and after the expiration of the said seven years, till the end of the Parliament than next ensuing, as by the same statute more plainly appeareth. Which seven years, forasmuch as they be now expired and ended, and the said Act is very beneficial and most necessary to be continued for the ease and common weal of the people of this land: Be it therefore enacted by the queens excellent Majesty, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this Parliament assembled, & by the authority thereof, that the said Act made in the said second and third years of the reign of King Philip & Queen Mary, touching and concerning the reparation and amendment of the high ways, and every article and branch of the same, shall from henceforth be, stand, and continue in full force, effect, and strength, for and during the term of twenty years next following from and after the beginning of this present Parliament: and after thexpiration of the said twenty years, to th'end of the Parliament than next after the end of the said twenty years to be holden and kept.  
And forasmuch as the said Statute made in the second and third years of king Philip and Queen Mary, in divers parts of this Realm, serveth not to so good purpose and effect as it may be made, for that such substance and matter as is most fit and convenient for the reparations of the said ways, cannot be lawfully had, fetched, and taken out of the several grounds and soil thereunto nigh or adjoining, being no great loss or detriment to the owners of the same several grounds & soil, whereby the amendment of the said ways is little increased, or else of very small and slender continuance, to the great and continual charge and trouble of the poor people inhabiting thereabouts.  
For reformation whereof, and that the reparations of the said high ways may hereafter in good due manner well and sufficiently be made: Be it further by the authority of this present Parliament enacted, that from henceforth it shall and may be lawful to all and every supervisor and supervisors and orderers of the works for the time being, for the amendment of the said high ways thereunto elected and appointed, according to the Statute made in the second and third years of king Philip and Queen Mary, for the better reparation and amendment of the ways within their several parishes and limits where they shallbe so made supervisors (if it shallbe so to them thought necessary) to take and carry away of the rubbyshe or smallest broken stones of any quarry or quarries lying and being within the parish where they shallbe supervisors, without licence, controlment, or impeachment of the owner or owners, so much as by their discretions shallbe deemed and adjudged necessary for the amendment of the said ways. And that for default of any quarry or quarries not being within their said parish or limits, or in default of rubbyshe not to be found in any such quarry or quarries: it shall and may be lawful to every such supervisor or supervisors, for the use aforesaid, in the several grounds of any person or persons, being within the parish and limits where they shallbe supervisors, and nigh adjoining to the way or ways wherein such reparations shallbe thought necessary to be made, and wherein gravel, sand, or cinder is likely to be found, to dig or cause to be digged for Gravel, Sande, or Sinder, and likewise to gather stones lying upon any lands or grounds within the parish, and meet to be used to such service and purpose, and thereof to take and carry away so much as by discretion of the said supervisors shallbe thought necessary to be employed in the amendment of the said high ways.  
Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to any such supervisor, or supervisors by virtue of this Act, to cause any rubbyshe to be digged out of any quarry or quarries, but only shall extend to such rubbyshe as shallbe found there ready digged by the owner or owners of the said quarry or quarries, or otherwise by his or their licence and commandment, nor shall not extend or give authority to any supervisor or supervisors to dig or cause to be digged any gravel, sand, or cinder, in the house, garden, orchard, or meadow of any person or persons, nor that it shall be lawful by this Act to any such supervisor or supervisors to cause any more pits to be digged for gravel in any several and enclosed ground, than one only, and that the same pit or hole so digged for gravel as is aforesaid, shall not by any way be in breadth or length above ten yards over at the most. And that every such supervisor as shall cause any such pit to be made & digged, for gravel, sand, or cinder, as is abovesaid, shall within one month next after any such digging or pit made, cause the same to be filled and stopped by with earth, at the costs & charges of the pashioners, upon pain to forfeit to the owner or owners of the soil wherein any such pit shallbe made and digged, for every default five marks, to be recovered by action of debt, as in other like cases of debt hath been accustomed.  
And forasmuch as the high ways in sundry places of this Realm be full of continual springs and water courses, by continual increase and sinking whereof into the ground, the said ways are not only very deep & dangerous, but also for the most part impossible to be amended and repaired in any good and sufficient manner, without some further remedy provided for the same: Be it therefore by th'authority aforesaid further enacted, that from henceforth every such supervisor & supervisors as is aforesaid, shall by force of this Act, within the parish or limits where he or they shallbe supervisors, have full power & authority to turn any such water course or spring of water, being in any of the said high ways, into any ditch or ditches of the several ground or soil of any person or persons whatsoever next adjoining to the said ways, in such manner and form, as by the discretions of the said supervisors shallbe thought meetest and most convenient.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the hays, fences, dykes, or hedges next adjoining on either side to any high or common fairing way, shall from time to time be dyked, scoured, repaired, and kept low, and all trees and bushes growing in the high ways cut down by the owner or owners of the ground or soil which shallbe enclosed with the said hays, fences, dikes or hedges aforesaid, whereby the said ways may be open and the people have more ready and easy passage in the same.  
And whereas in the said statute made in the said second and third years of the reigns of the said King Philip and Queen Mary, there are but four days yearly appointed for the reparations and amendment of the said high ways: Be it further by this present parliament enacted, that from hencefourth there shallbe yearly six days, during the time and force of this statute, observed, used, and employed in reparation and amendment of the said high ways, in like manner and form as the said four days were limited and appointed to be observed and kept, by the said statute made in the said second and third years of King Phillippe and Queen Mary.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from hencefourth, all and every such supervisor, or supervisors, for the time being, within one month next after default or offence made, done, or committed by any person or persons, contrary to the provision, purport and true meaning of the said statute made in the second and third years of King Philippe and Queen Mary, or contrary to the provision, purport and true meaning of this present Act, shall present every such default or offence, to the next justice of peace, for the time being, upon pain to forfeit for every such default and offence, in such fort not by them presented. xl.s. And that every such justice of peace, to whom any such default or offence shallbe presented, as is aforesaid, shall certify the same presentment so to him made, at the next general Sessions within the said County than next after to be holden, upon pain to forfeit for not certifying of every such presentment, of every such default or offence, as is aforesaid. u.li. And that the justices of peace of every County, where the said defaults or offences shallbe committed, shall immediately have authority to inquire of any such default or offence committed within the limits of their commission, at every their quarter Sessions, and to assess such fines for the same, as they, or two of them, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, shall think meet.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every justice of peace, shall have authority by this statute, upon his own proper knowledge in the open general Sessions, to make presentment of any high way not well and sufficiently repaired and amended, or of any other default or offence committed or done within the County and limits of his commission, contrary to the provision and intent of this statute, or the said statute made in the second and third years of King Phillippe and Queen Mary. And that every such presentment, made by any such justice of peace, upon his own knowledge, as is aforesaid, shallbe as good and of the same force, strength, & effect in the law, as if the same had been presented, found, and adjudged by the oath of xii men. And that for every such default so presented, as is aforesaid, the justices of the peace of the said County shall immediately at the said general Sessions, have authority to assess such fines, as to them or two of them, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, shallbe thought mete. Saving every person and persons, that shallbe touched by any such presentment, to have his or their lawful travers to the same presentment, as they might have upon any Indictement of trespass, or forcible entry, by the laws of this Realm, before the making of this statute.  
And that all such fines, forfeitures, and amerciaments to be assessed by the said justices of the peace, at their general Sessions, in any the cases aforesaid, shallbe estreated by the clerk of the peace of the said County, and shallbe levied in such manner and form, and employed to such uses and intents, as in the said statute made in the second and third years of King Phillippe and Queen Mary, is limited and appointed. This Act to continue for twenty years next after the beginning of this present Parliament, and from thence until the end of the parliament, than next after to be holden.   

¶ An Act against the forging of Evidences and writings. The xiiii Chapter.  
Forasmuch as the wicked, pernicious, and dangerous practice of making, forging, and publishing of false and untrue Charters, evidences, deeds, and writings, hath of late time been very much more practised, used and put in bre in all parts of this Realm, then in times passed, not only to the high displeasure of God, but also to the great injury, wrong, hurt, damage, disherison, and utter undoing of divers the queens majesties subjects of this Realm, and to the great subversion of justice and truth, which seemeth to have grown and happened chiefly by reason that the pains and punishments limited for such great and notable offences, by the laws and statutes of this Realm, before this time have been, and yet are so small, mild, and easy, that such evil people have not been, nor yet are afraid to enterprise the practising and doing of such offences: Be it therefore enacted by the queens most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons whatsoever, after the first day of june, now next coming, upon his or their own head and imagination, or by false conspiracy and fraud with others, shall wittingly, subtly, and falsely forge or make, or subtellye cause, or wittingly assent to be forged or made, any false deed, Charter, or writing sealed, court roole, or the will of any person or persons in writing, to the intent that the state of freehold or inheritance of any person or persons, of, in, or to any lands, tenements or hereditaments, freehold or Copy hold, or the right, title or interest of any person or persons, of, in, or to the same, or any of them, shall or may be molested, troubled, defeated, recovered or charged, or after the said first day of june, shall pronounce, publish or show forth in evidence, any such false and forged deed, Charter, writing, Court roole or will, as true, knowing the same to be false and forged, as is aforesaid, to the intent above remembered, and shallbe thereof convicted either upon action or actions of forger of false deeds, to be founded upon this statute, at the suit of the party grieved, or otherwise, according to the order and due course of the laws of this Realm, or upon bill or information to be exhibited into the Court of the Star chamber, according to the order and use of that court: shall pay unto the party grieved, his double costs and damages, to be found or assessed in that Court where such conviction shallbe, and also shallbe set upon the pillory, in some open market town, or other open place, and there to have both his ears cut of, also his nosetrelles to be slit and cut, and seared with an hot iron, so as they may remain for a perpetual note or mark of his falsehood, and shall forfeit to the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs and successors, the whole issues and proffites of his lands tenements during his life, and also shall suffer and have perpetual imprisonment during his life. The said damages and costs to be recovered at the suit of the party grieved, as is aforesaid, to be first paid and levied, of the goods and Cattles of the offender, and of the issues and profits of the said lands, tenements, and hereditaments of such party convicted, or of one or both of them, the said title of our said sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, or successors to the same, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, after the said first day of june, upon his or their own head or imagination, or by false conspiration or fraud had with any other, shall wittingly, subtly, and falsely forge or make, or wittingly, subtly, and falsely cause, or assent to be made and forged, any false Charter, deed, or writing, to the intent that any person or persons, shall or may have, or claim any estate or interest, for term of years, of, in, or to any manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, not being copy hold, or any annuity in fee simple, fee tail, for term of life, lives, or years, or after the said day, shall as is aforesaid, forge, make, or cause, or assent to be made or forged any obligation or bill obligatory, or any acquittance, release, or other discharge of any debt, account, action, suit, demand, or other thing personal, or if any person or persons, after the said first day of june, shall pronounce, publish, or give in evidence any such false or forged Charter, deed, writing, obligation, bill obligatory, acquittance, release or discharge, as true, knowing the same to be false and forged, and shallbe thereof convicted, by any the ways or means aforesaid: that then he shall pay unto the party grieved his double çostes and damages, to be found and assessed in such court, where the said conviction shallbe had, and shallbe also set upon the pillory in some open market town, or other open place, and there to have one of his cares cut of, and also shall have and suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year, without bail or mainprize.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the party and parties grieved, by reason of any the offences aforesaid, shall and may at his and their pleasure, have and sue his action of forger of false deeds, upon this statute, against any the offenders in the same, by original writ out of the queens highness Court of Chancery, and shall and may have like process upon the same, as in cases of trespass at the common law, or may at his pleasure take his suit against any such offenders, in any the premises, by bill, before the queens highness, her heirs and successors, in her Court commonly called the kings Bench, or in the Court of the Exchequer, in which suits, no essoign, injunction or protection shallbe allowed for the party defendant.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if the party defendant shallbe convicted for any the offences aforesaid, according to the order and form above limited, and shall have received thereupon punishment corporal; according to this act: that then he shall not eftsoons be impeached for the same offence.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that although the party or party's plaintiff, in any such action or bill to be sued, as is aforesaid, shall after verdict passed against the defendant or defendants, happen to release or discharge the judgement or execution upon the same, or otherwise suffer the same to be discontinued: that yet nevertheless the same release, discharge, or discontinuance shall extend only to discharge such costs and damages, as the same plaintiffs should have had against the defendant, and that the judges before whom the said action or suit shallbe taken, shall and may proceed to judgement, of, and upon the residue of the said penalties and forfeitures, and to command execution upon the same, the said release, discontinuance or other discharge, had, made, done, or suffered by the party plaintiff in any wise notwithstanding: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, being hereafter convicted or condemned of any the offences aforesaid, by any the ways or means above limited, shall after any such his or their conviction or condemnation eftsoons commit or perpetrate any of the said offences in fourine aforesaid: that then every such second offence or offences, shallbe adjudged felony, and the parties being thereof convicted or attainted according to the laws of this Realm, shall suffer such pains of death, loss and forfeiture of their goods, cattles, lands and tenements, as in cases of felony, by the common laws of this Realm, aught to be lost or forfeited, without having any advantage or benefit of Clergy or Sanctuary. Saving to every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, their heirs and successors, other than the said offenders, and such as claim to their uses, all such rights, titles, interests, possessions, liberties of distresses, leasses, rents, reversions, offices and other profits and advantages, which they or any of them shall have at the time of such conviction or attainder, of, in, or to any the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of any such person, so, as is aforesaid, convicted or attainted, or at any time before, in as large and ample manner to all intentes and purposes, as if this Act had never been had nor made.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that any such conviction or attainder of felony, as is aforesaid, or any forfeiture by reason of the same, shall not in any wise extend to take away the dower of the wife of any such person attainted, nor to the corruption of blood, or disherison of any the heir or heirs of any such person or persons so attainted: This Act or any thing therein contained, or any other statute, law, usage, custom or thing heretofore used to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided also, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge any ordinary or any there Commissaries, officials, registers, or any other their officers, or ministers, with any the offences aforesaid, for putting their Seal of office to any will, to be exhibited unto them, not knowing the same to be false or forged, or for writing of the said will or probate of the same: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every justices of Oyer and determiner, and justices of Assize in their circuits, and every of them, shall have full power and authority in every of their open and general Sessions, to inquire, hear and determine, of all and every the offences aforesaid, committed or done within the limits of their Commission, and to make process for the execution of the same, as they may do against any person, being indicted before them of trespass, or lawfully convicted thereof.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that all other statutes heretofore made provided for forger of false deeds, Charters, muniments or writings, and all and every penalty appointed by the same, shall from and after the said first day of june, be void and of none effect in the law: Any such statute or thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this Act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be hurtful in any wise to any Proctor Advocate, or Register of any Ecclesiastical court within this Realm, for the writing, setting forth, or pleading of any proxy made according to the Ecclesiastical laws, or customs, heretofore used and allowed by the Ecclesiasticalll courts of this Realm, for the appearance of any person or persons, being cited to appear in any of the said Courts Ecclesiastical, nor to any Archdeacon or official, for putting their Authentic seal to the said proxies, or proxy, neither yet to any judge Ecclesiastical for admitting of the same: But that they, and every of them may hereafter do in all points, concerning the same, as they and every of them might lawfully have done, before the making of this Act: Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons whatsoever, that hath of his or their own head, or by false conspiracy and fraud with any other, wittingly, subtly, and falsely, forged or made, or shall before the said first day of june, forge and make any false deed, charter, or writing sealed, or the will of any person in writing, or any Courterolle, to the intent that the state of freehold or inheritance, or the right, title or interest of inheritance or freehold of any person or persons, of, in, or to any manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, being freehold or copyhold, or that by any such forged deed, charter, Courtroll or writing, before the said first day of june, shall or may be molested, troubled, or defeated of any the said estates of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, being freehold or copyhold, or if any person or persons have heretofore published or showed forth in evidence, or before the said first day, shall publish or show in evidence, for the proof of any title, any false and forged deed, charter, writing, will or Courtrolle, as true, knowing the same to be false and forged, as is aforesaid, to the intent above remembered, and shallbe thereof attainted or convicted, according to the order of the laws of this Realm, either in an action of forget of false faits, or in an action upon the case, at the suit of the patrie grieved, his heirs, executors, or assignees: that then the party so convicted, shall pay and yield damages and costs of suit, to the plaintiff as shallbe assessed, according to the order of the laws of this Realm, in any such like action or suit, and shall suffer imprisonment, and pay fine and caunsome at the pleasure of the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors. And if any person or persons, shall after the said first day of june, plead, publish, or show forth in evidence, or otherwise, for the proof of any title, any false and forged deed, charter, writing, will, or courtrolle, (heretofore falsely made and forged, or to be falsely made and forged before the said first day of june,) as true, knowing the same to be false and forged, to the intent to have or claim thereby any estate of inheritance, freehold, or lease of years, in or to any manoves, lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any annuity, rend or profit forth of any manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, or to the intent to alter, defeat, molest, trouble, charge, or recover the estate of inheritance, freehold, or for years of any person, in any manors, lands, tenements, rents or hereditaments: That then every person and persons that shall so offend, and shallbe thereof convicted in form first above remembered, shall pay unto the party grieved, double costs and damages, and shall have imprisonment, loss of ears, slittinge and searing of nose, and forfeiture of lands, in the same manner and form as above is limited for any person that shall offend by forging or publishing of any false deed or writing, as is aforesaid, after the aforesaid first day of june.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act nor any pain, forfeiture, or thing therein contained, shall extend to any Attorney, Lawyer, or counsellor, that shall for his client plead, show forth, or give in evidence any false and forged deed, Charter, will, Courtrolle, or other writing, for true or good, being not party and privy to the forging of the same, for the pleading, showing forth, or giving in evidence of the same: Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any person or persons, that shall plead or show forth any deed or writing exemplified under the great Seal of England, or under the Seal of any other Authentic Court of this Realm, nor shall extend to any judge or justice; or other person, that shall cause any Seal of any Court to be set to any such deed, Charter, or writing, enrolled, not knowing the same to be false or forged: Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act against fond and Fantastical Prophecies. The xu Chapter.  
Forasmuch as sithence the expiration and ending of the Statute made in the time of King Edward the sixth, entituled an act against fond and fantastical prophecies, divers evil disposed persons inclined to the stirring and moving of factions, seditions, and rebellions within this Realm, have been the more bold to attempt the like practice in feigning, imagining, inventing, and publishing of such fond and fantastical prophecies, aswell concerning the queens Majesty, as divers honourable personages, Gentlemen, and others of this Realm, as was used and practised before the making of the said statute, to the great disquiet, trouble, and peril of the queens Majesty, and of this her Realm. For remedy whereof: Be it ordained and enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that if any person or persons, after the first day of may next coming, do advisedly, and directly advance, publish, and set forth by writing, printing, singing, or any other open speech or deed, to any person or persons, any fond, fantastical or false prophesy, upon or by the occasion of any arms, fields, beasts, badges, or such other like things accustomed in arms, cognisances, or signets, or upon, or by reason of any time, year or day, name, bloodshed, or war, to the intent thereby to make any rebellion, insurrection, dissension, loss of life, or other disturbance within this Ream, and other the queens dominions: that then every such person being thereof lawfully convicted, according to the due course of the laws of this Realm, for every such offence shall suffer imprisonment of his body by the space of one year without bail or mainprize, and shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of ten pounds. And if any such offender do after such conviction eftsoons offend in any of the premises, and be thereof lawfully convicted, as is aforesaid, that then every such offender shall for his second offence and conviction as is aforesaid, suffer imprisonment of his body without bail or mainprize during his life, and shall forfeit all his goods and cattles reals and personales. The moieties of every which forfeitures, shallbe to the queens highness, her heirs and successors, and the other moieties thereof, to him that shall or will sue for the same in any of the queens courts of record, by action, bill, plaint or information, in which case no essoign, wager of law, or protection shallbe allowed or admitted.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every justice of assize, justice of Oyer and determiner, justice of peace, shall have full power and authority, by virtue hereof, to inquire, hear and determine, all and every offence or offences abovesaid, committed or done within the limits of their commission, contrary to the tenor and meaning of this Act.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons; shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence hereafter to be committed or done, contrary to this act, unless he be therefore impeached or accused within six months next ensuing any such offence, by him or them committed or done.   

¶ An Act against Conjurations, enchantments, and Witchcrafts. The xvi Chapter.  
WHere at this present, there is no ordinary ne condign punishment provided against the practisers of the wicked offences of conjurations & invocations of evil Spirits, & of Sorceries, enchantments, charms and witchcrafts, the which offences, by force of a Statute made in the xxxiii year of the reign of the late King Henry the viii were made to be felony, & so continued until the said Statute was repealed by the act and statute of repeal made in the first year of the reign of the late King Edward the sixth: Sithence the repeal whereof, many fantastical and devilish persons have devised and practised Invocations and Conjurations of evil and wicked Spirits, and have used & practised witchcrafts, enchantments, charms, and Sorceries, to the destruction of the persons and goods of their niegbours, and other subjects of this Realm, & for other lewd intents and purposes contrary to the laws of almighty God, to the peril of their own souls, and to the great infamy and disquietness of this Realm.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by the queens Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons, after the first day of june next coming, use, practice, exercise any Invocations or Conjurations of evil and wicked Spirits, to or for any intent or purpose, or else if any person or persons, after the said first day of june, shall use, practice, or exercise any witchcraft, enchantment, charm, or Sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be killed or destroyed: that then aswell every such offender or offenders in Invocations or conjurations, as is aforesaid, their aydours and counsellors, as also every such offender or offenders, in witchcraft, enchaunment, charm, or Sorcery, whereby the death of any person doth ensue, their aidours and counsellors being of either of the said offences lawfully convicted and attainted, shall suffer pains of death, as a fellow or felons, and shall lose the privilege and benefit of Clergy and sanctuary. saving to the wife of such person, her title of dower, and also to the heir and successor of such person, his, or their titles of inheritance, succession, and other rights, as though no such attainder of the ancestor or predecessor, had been had or made.  
And further, be it enacted by the authority aforesiade, that if any person or persons, after the said first day of june next coming, shall use, practice, or exercise any witchcraft, enchantment, charm, or sorcery, whereby any person shall happen to be wasted, consumed, or lamed in his or her body, or member, or whereby any goods or Catels of any person shallbe destroyed, wasted, or impaired: then every such offender or offenders, their counsellors and aydours, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall for his or their first offence or offences suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year, without bail or mainprize, and once in every quarter of the said year, shall in some market town, upon the market day, or at such time as any Fair shallbe kept, there stand openly upon the pillory, by the space of vi hours, and there shall openly confess his or her error and offence, and for the second offence; being as is aforesaid, lawfully convicted or attained, shall suffer death, as a fellow, and shall lose the privilege of Clergy and Sanctuary. saving to the wife of such person, her title of dower, and also to the heir and successor of such person, his or their titles of inheritance, succession, and other rights, as though no such attainder of the ancestor or predecessor had been had or made.  
Provided always, that if the offender in any of the cases aforesaid, for which the pains or death shall ensue, shall happen to be a peer of the Realm, than his trial therein to be had by his peers, as it is used in cases of felony or treason, and not otherwise.  
And further, to the intent that all manner of practice, use, or exercise of Whitchcrafte, enchantment, Charm, or Sorcery, should be from henceforth utterly avoided, abolished, and taken away: Be it enacted by the authority of his present parliament, that if any person or persons shall from and after the said first day of june next coming, take upon him or them, by witchcraft, enchantment, charm or sorcery, to tell or declare in what place any treasure of gold or silver should or might be found, or had in the earth, or other secret places, or where goods or things lost, or stolen, should be found or become, or shall use or practise any Sorcery, enchantment, Charm or Witchcraft, to the intent to provoke any person to unlawful love, or to hurt or destroy any person in his or her body, member, or goods: That then every such person or persons so offending and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall for the said offence suffer imprisonment by the space of one whole year without bail or mainprize, and once in every quarter of the said year, shall in some market town, upon the market day, or at such time as any Fair shallbe kept there, stand openly upon the pillory, by the space of six hours, and there shall openly confess his or her error and offence. And if any person or persons, being once convicted of the same offences, as is aforesaid, do eftsoons parpetrate and commit the like offence: That then every such offender, being thereof the second time convicted, as is aforesaid, shall forfeit unto the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, all his goods and chattels, and suffer imprisonment during life.   

¶ An Act for the punishment of the vice of Buggorye. The xvii Chapter.  
WHere in the parliament begun at London the third day of November, in the xxi year of the late King of most famous memory King Henry the eight, and after by prorogation holden at Westminster, in the xxv year of the reign of the said late King, there was one Act and statute made, entituled, an Act for the punishment of the vice of Buggorye, whereby the said detestable vice was made felony, as in the said statute more at large it doth and may appear. Forasmuch as the said statute, concerning the punishment of the said crime and offence of Buggorie, standeth at this present repealed and void, by virtue of the statute of repeal, made in the first year of the reign of the late Queen Mary, Sithen which repeal so had and made, divers evil disposed persons, have been the more bold to commit the said most horrible and detestable vice of Buggorie aforesaid, to the high displeasure of almighty God: Be it enacted, ordained and established by the Queen our sovereign Lady, and by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said statute before mentioned, made in the xxv. year of the said late King Henry the eight, for the punishment of the said detestable vice of Buggorye, and every branch, clause, article and sentence therein contained, shall from and after the first day of june next coming, be revived, and from thenceforth shall stand, remain, and be in full force, strength and effect for ever, in such manner, form, and condition as the same statute was at the day of the death of the said late King Henry the eight, the said statute of repeal made in the said first year of the said late Queen Mary, or any words general or special therein contained, or any other Act or Acts, thing or things, to the contrary notwithstanding.   

An Act declaring th'authority of the Lord keeper of the great Seal of England and the Lord chancellor, to be one. ¶ The xviii Chapter.  
WHere some question hath of late risen, whether like place, authority, pre-eminence, jurisdiction and power, doth belong, and of right aught to belong to the office of the Lord keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, as of right doth and aught to belong to the office of the Lord chancellor of England for the time being, or not.  
For declaration whereof, and in avoiding such question hereafter: Be it enacted and declared by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the common law of this Realm is, and always was and ought to be taken, that the keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, hath always had, used, and executed, and of right aught to have, use, and execute, and from henceforth may have, perceive, take, use, and execute, as of right belonging to th'office of the keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, the same and like place, authority, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, execution of laws, and all other customs, commodities, and advantages, as the Lord chancellor of England for the time being, lawfully used, had, and aught to have, use, & execute, as of right belonging to the office of the Lord chancellor of England for the time being, to all intentes, constructions and purposes, and as if the same keeper of the great Seal for the time were Lord chancellor of England.   

An Act for the repeal of a branch of a Statute, made Anno i Ed. vi. touching the conveying of Horses and geldings out of the Realm. ¶ The xix Chapter.  
WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the first year of the reign of the late king Edward the sixth, brother to our Sovereign Lady the queens Majesty that now is, amongst divers other Statutes, there was one Act and Statute made against the carring and conveying of any Horses, geldings, or Mares out of this Realm: In which Act, amongst other things, there is one proviso or branch contained in these words hereafter following. That is to say: Provided always that it shallbe lawful to every of the kings subjects, that shall pass over beyond the Sea, to ship and carry with them Horses or geldings for their only occupation in their journeys, and not to th'intent to sell the same beyond the Sea, and that intent to be judged by oath of him or them that so will carry over any Horse or gelding, which oath shallbe taken before the Customers or their deputies, or Searcher of every such port where the same Horse or gelding shallbe shipped, before the shipping thereof, as by the same Act and proviso it doth and may appear. And although the same Act and Statute in all parts thereof (except the said proviso) is very beneficial and profitable for this Realm: Yet nevertheless, by colour of the said proviso and branch contained in the said Statute, many evil disposed persons, of a covetous and greedy desire, do daily transport out of this Realm very great numbers of Horses and geldings, and do exchange and sell the same in the parties beyond the Seas, for their own private lucre and gain. And because the trial of such offences is by force of the said proviso and branch, mentioned in the said Statute, no otherwise to be tried or judged but only by the oath of the offender himself: therefore the offenders therein do escape unpunished, and thereby many persons are greatly encouraged daily to commit the like offences, contrary to the true meaning and intent of the said Statute.  
For the redress whereof: Be it enacted by the queens Majesty, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that all the said proviso and branch before rehearsed and mentioned, and contained within the said Act and Statute, and every article and sentence contained within the said proviso, shall from henceforth be repealed, made void, and of none effect, and that all the residue of the said Act and Statute, shall stand, remain, and be in full force and strength: Any thing herein specified to the contrary not withstanding.   

An Act for the punishment of vagabonds, calling themselves Egyptians. ¶ The twenty Chapter.  
WHere as sithence the Act made in the first and second years of the late King & Queen, king Philip and Queen Mary, for the punishment of that false and subtile company of vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians, there is a scruple and doubt risen, whether such persons as being borne within this Realm of England, or other the queens highness dominions, and are or shall become of the fellowship or company of the said vagabonds, by transforming or disguising themselves in their apparel, or in a certain counterfeit speech or behaviour, are punishable by the said Act, in like manner as others of that sort are being strangers borne, and transported into this Realm of England.  
Therefore for thavoiding of all doubts and ambiguities in that behalf, and to th'intent that all such sturdy and false vagabonds of that sort, living only upon the spoil of the simple people, may be condignly met withal and punished: Be it enacted by the Queen our sovereign Lady, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said Statute made in the first and second years of the said late king and Queen, concerning those bagaboundes calling themselves Egyptians, shall continue, remain, and be in full force, strength, and effect.  
And yet moreover, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons, which from and after the first day of may now next ensuing, shallbe seen or found within this Realm of England or Wales, in any company or fellowship of vagabonds, commonly called or calling themselves Egyptians, or counterfeiting, transforming, or disguising themselves by their apparel, speech, or other behaviour, like unto such vagabonds commonly called or calling themselves Egyptians, and so shall or do continue and remain in the same, either at one time or at several times, by the space of one month: That then the same person or persons, shall by virtue of this Act, be deemed and judged a fellow and felons, and shall therefore suffer pains of death, loss of lands and goods, as in cases of felony by the order of the common laws of this Realm, and shall upon the trial of them or of any of them therein, be tried in the county and by the inhabitants of the county or place where they or he shallbe apprehended or taken, and not per medietatem lingue, and shall lose the privilege and benefit of Sanctuary and Clergy.  
Provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this Act shall not in any wise extend to any child or children being within the age of xiiii years, nor to any of the said persons being in prison the last day of this present parliament, so that he or they so being in prison, do within xiiii days next after his or their delivery out of prison, either depart out of this Realm of England and Wales, or put him or themselves to some honest service, or exercise some lawful work, trade, or occupation, and utterly forsake the said idle and false trade, conversation, and behaviour, of the said counterfeit or disguised vagabonds, commonly called or calling themselves Egyptians.  
Provided also, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said Act made in the first and second years of the said late king and Queen, shall not extend to compel any person or persons, borne within any the queens majesties dominions, to departed out of this Realm of England or Wales, but only to constrain and bind them & every of them to leave their said naughty, idle, and ungodly life and company, and to place themselves in some honest service, or to exercise themselves at home with their parents, or else where honestly, in some lawful work, trade, or occupation: Any thing mentioned in the said former Act to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.   

An Act for the punishment of unlawful taking of Fish, Dear, or Hawks. ¶ The xxi Chapter.  
WHERE aswell the queens Majesty, and her most noble progenitors, as also the noble men, gentlemen and divers other persons of great dominions, lordships, manors, & possessions, within this Realm, have of ancient & long time had, and many of them now of late, to their great costs and charges, for the necessary & better provision & maintenance of their households, have erected and made in and upon their several demeans, grounds, & possessions, aswell pools, stanges, stews, motes, pits or ponds, for the only increase of Fish, and have stored the same with Pikerell, bream, Tenche, carp, and divers other good kinds of fish, for the necessary increase of victuals, and for the better maintenance and provision of their houses as is aforesaid, and also have emparked, environed & enclosed many parcels of their said demeans, soils, grounds, and possessions, for the breeding, cherishing, and increase, aswell of red as fallow Deare, within their several parks and enclosures, for the causes afore declared, and also have breeding within their woods & grounds divers Eyries of hawks of sundry kinds, to their great pleasure and commodity. Yet nevertheless, the said several waters, grounds, parks, and enclosures so being had, erected, and made, and also being so stored and replenished, have been from time to time by evil disposed persons, of a very evil, wilful, and insolent disposition, & of malice and displeasure, not only by night time broken and entered into, but also the heads or dams of the said ponds, pools, stanges, motes, stews, or several waters, have been maliciously, wilfully, and unlawfully cut out, and the pales, fences, and enclosures of the said parks and grounds, broken, cast down, & set open, and the Fish, Dear, and Hawks within the same, taken, destroyed, carried away, and stolen, not only to the great loss and damage of the owners thereof, and to the small encouragement of other good subjects minding the careful provision of such necessary victuals, but also to the manifest emboldening of many like wilful malefactors and malicious offenders, whereby many riots, manslaughters, mischiefs and other inconveniences have been daily perpetrated, and like to be committed and done, if circumspect remedy be not hereunto provided.  
Be it therefore enacted by the queens Majesty, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons after the feast of Pentecost next coming, shall at any time by day or by night, unlawfully without authority, break, cut down, cut out, or destroy any head or heads, dam, or dams, of any ponds, pools, motes, stanges, stews, or several pits, wherein fish are, or shall happen to be put in or stored withal by the owners or possessioners thereof, or do or shall wrongfully fish in any the said several ponds, pools, motes, stanges, stews, or pits, to th'intent to destroy, kill, take, or steal away any of the same fish, against the will, mind, or pleasure of the owners or possessioners of the same, not having any lawful title or authority so to do, and thereof be lawfully convicted, at the suit of our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, or successors, or the party grieved: shall suffer imprisonment of his or their bodies by the space of three months, and shall yield and pay to the party grieved his triple damages, and after the said three months expired, shall find sufficient sureties for his or their good abearing against the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs & successors, and all her liege people, for the space of seven years after, or else shall remain and continue still in prison, without bail or mainprize, until such time as he or they so offending can and shall find such sufficient sureties during the said time and space of seven years, as is aforesaid.  
AND be it also enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that if any person or persons after the said feast of Pentecost next coming, at any time by night or by day, in manner aforesaid, wrongfully or unlawfully break or enter into any park impaled, or any other several ground closed with wall, pale, or hedge, and used for the keeping, breeding, and cherishing of Dear, and so wrongfully hunt, drive, or chase out, or take, kill or slay any Dear within any such impaled park, or closed ground, with wall, pale, or other enclosure, and used for Dear as is aforesaid, or do or shall take away any Hawk or hawks, or the eggs of any of them, by any ways or means unlawfully, out of any the woods or ground of any person or persons (not having lawful authority or licence so to do) and thereof be lawfully convicted at the suit of our sovereign Lady the Queen, or the party grieved as is aforesaid: shall likewise suffer imprisonment of his or their bodies by the space of three months, and shall yield and pay to the party grieved his triple damages. And after the said three months expired, shall find sufficient sureties for his or their good abearing, for the space of vii years after, against the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, and all her liege people, as is aforesaid, or else shall remain & continue still in prison without bail or mainprize, until such time as he or they so offending can and shall find such sufficient sureties during the said time of seven. years, as is afore rehearsed.  
Provided always, that this Act or any thing therein contained, extend not to any park or enclosed ground hereafter to be made & used for Dear, without the grant or licence of our sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs, successors, or progenitors.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that it shallbe lawful for the party grieved to sue and take his further remedy against all and every such offender and offenders for his loss and damages, and to recover the triple value of the same in this behalf, aswell before justices of Oyer and determiner, justices of Assize in their circuits, and justices of the peace, as else where, in any other the queens courts of Record, and that upon the true satisfaction of the said triple damages to the party grieved, or upon the confession and knowledge thereof by the same party before the said justices in open sessions to be holden within the County where the offence was committed: it shallbe at the liberty of the same party grieved, to whom the said offence was committed, to release at his pleasure the said suertishyp of good abearing, at any time within the said seven years, or before: Any thing in this present Act before specified or expressed to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the justices of Oyer and determiner, justices of Assize in their circuits, and justices of the peace and jail delivery, in their Sessions, shall by virtue hereof, have power and authority to inquire, hear, and determine all and singular the offences aforesaid, and to make and award process thereupon, aswell upon indictments taken before them, as by bill of complaint, information, or any other action, in which suit or action, no essoign, wager of law nor protection shallbe allowed.  
AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, at any time hereafter shall fortune to be bound before any of the justices before mentioned, to the Queen her heirs or successors, for his or their good abearing for seven years, according to the tenor of this Act, and the same party or parties so bound, shall afterwards within the said seven years come before the justices of the peace of the said County where the said offence was committed, or some of them, in open Sessions, and there in the said open Sessions confess and acknowledge his or their said offence or offences, and be sorry therefore, and satisfy the party or parties grieved, according to the tenor of this Act: That then the same justices before whom the said confession shallbe so made, shall & may have power and authority by virtue of this Act, in the same open Session, or in any other open Sessions afterward to be holden before the said justices in the said County, within the said term of seven years, if it shall seem good to their discretions, to discharge the said recognisance and bond so taken, and also the said party and parties so bound: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof, notwithstanding.   

An Act against the carrying of Sheep skins and pelts over the Sea, not being Staple ware. ¶ The xxii Chapter.  
FOR reformation of many griefs, lamentably declared this present Parliament, by divers artificers of this Realm, working leather: It may please your royal Majesty, that it may be enacted & established with th'assent of this high court of Parliament, that it shall not be lawful to or for any manner of person or persons whatsoever, from & after the first day of may next coming, to make any pelts, that is to say, to pull, shear, clip, or take away the will of any Shepeskynne or Lamb skin, or to buy any skin of any Stag, Hind, Buck, Doo, Goat, Fawn, or kid, or the pelts or skins of any of them, unless such person or persons so making any pelts, or buying such skins, as is aforesaid, do make or cause to be made thereof tawed or lawfully tanned leather or parchment, or otherwise convert the same into semittes, panels, or other their own necessary uses, upon pain that every person so making pelts, or buying any of the skins or pelts aforesaid, contrary to the meaning of this Act, shall forfeit & lose the value of all such pelts or skins so made & bought, and. ii.s.vi.d. for every skin or pelt so bought, or pelt so made, as is aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful to or for any person or persons whatsoever, from & after the feast aforesaid, to ship, or convey, or cause or procure to be shipped or conveyed, in, or to any ship, boat, or vessel, in, or upon the Sea, or in, or upon any Haven, river, creak, or place, within this Realm of England and Wales, or either of them, any manner of shepeskinnes, wolfels, shorelinges, morelinges, or the skins of any stag, hind, buck, do, goat, fawn, or kid, or the pelts or skins of any of them, or the leather made of them or any of them, to th'intent to transport or carry the same into any the parts beyond the Seas, there to be uttered, bartered, or sold, by way of merchandise or otherwise, upon pain of forfeiture of all such skins or pelts, bought, laden, shipped or transported, contrary to the true meaning of this Act, or the value of them, & also. ii.s.vi.d. of lawful money of England, for every fell, shorling, morling, pelt or skin aforesaid, bought, laden shipped, or transported, contrary to the tenor and true meaning of this present Act. The moiety of all which forfeitures, shallbe to our sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, her heirs & successors, & the other moiety to him or than that will sue for the same, by action bill, plaint, information, or otherwise, in any of the queens majesties courts: In which action, no essoign, protection, or injunction, shallbe admitted or allowed.  
Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful to the merchants of the Staple, the merchants of Newcastel upon Tine, Hartilpoole, and Berwick, their sruauntes, factors, and attorneys, and every of them, to carry and transport all such lawful wares, as heretofore they have been accustomed, & lawfully might: Any thing in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.   

An Act for the due execution of the writ de excomunicato capiendo. ¶ The xxiii Chapter.  
FOrasmuch as divers persons offending in many great crimes and offences, appertaining merely to the jurisdiction & determination of the Ecclesiastical courts & judges of this Realm, are many times unpunished for lack and want of the good and due execution of the writ de excomunicato capiendo, directed to the Sheriff of any County, for the taking & apprehending of such offenders. The great abuse whereof, as it should seem, hath grown for that the said writ is not retournable into any Court that might have the judgement of the well executing & serving of the said writ, according to the contents thereof, but hitherto have been left only to the discretion of the Sheriffs and their deputies, by whose negligences and defaults, for the most part, the said writ is not executed upon the offender as it ought to be. By reason whereof, such offenders be greatly encouraged to continue their sinful & criminous life, much to the displeasure of almighty God, & to the great contempt of the Ecclesiastical laws of this Realm. Wherefore for the redress thereof: Be it enacted by the queens most excellent Majesty, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual & temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that from & after the first day of May next coming, every writ of Excomunicado capiendo that shallbe granted and awarded out of the high Court of Chancery, against any person or persons within the Realm of England, shallbe made in the time of the Term, & returnable before the queens highness, her heirs, & successors, in the court commonly called the kings Bench, in the term next after the Teste of the same writ, & that the same writ shallbe made to contain at the least twenty days between the Teste & the return thereof. And after the same writ shallbe so made and sealed, that then the said writ shallbe forthwith brought into the said Court of the kings Bench, and there in the presence of the justices shallbe opened, and delivered of Record to the Sheriff or other officer to whom the serving and execution thereof shall appertain, or to his or their deputy or deputies. And if afterwards it shall or may appear to the justices of the same Court for the time being, that the same writ so delivered of Record, be not duly returned before them at the day of the return thereof, or that any other default or negligence hath been used or had in the not well serving and executing of the said writ: that then the justices of the said court, shall and may by authority of this Act, assess such amerciament upon the said Sheriff or other officer in whom such default shall appear, as to the discretion of the said justices shallbe thought meet & convenient, which americiament so assessed, shallbe extreated into the court of the Exchequer, as other amerciaments have been used.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the Sheriff or other officer to whom such writ of Excomnicato capiendo or other process by virtue of this Act shallbe directed, shall not in any wise be compelled to bring the body of such person or persons as shallbe named in the said writ or process, into the said court of the kings Bench at the day of the return thereof: but shall only return the same writ & process thither, with declaration briefly how and in what manner he hath served and executed the same, to th'intent that thereupon the said justices may then further therein proceed, according to the tenor and effect of this present Act. And if the said Sheriff or other officer to whom th'execution of the said writ shall so appertain, do or shall return, that the party or parties named in the said writ, can not be found within his Baylywyke: that then the said justices of the kings Bench for the time being, upon every such return shall award one writ of Capias, against the said person or persons named in the said writ of Excomunicato capiendo, retournable in the same Court in the Term time, two months at the lest next after the Teste thereof, with a proclamation to be contained within the said writ of Capias, that the Sheriff or other officer to whom the same writ shallbe directed, in the full County court, or else at the general Assizes & jail delivery to be holden within the same County, or at a quarter Sessions to be holden before the justices of peace within the same County, shall make open proclamation, ten days at the least before the return, that the party or parties named in the said writ, shall within vi days next after such proclamation, yield his or their body or bodies to the jail and prison of the said Sheriff or other such officer, there to remain as a prisoner according to the tenor and effect of the first writ of Excomunicato capiendo, upon pain of forfeiture of. x.li. And thereupon after such proclamation had, and the said vi days past and expired, than the said Sheriff or other officer to whom such writ of Capias shallbe directed, shall make return of the same writ of Capias into the said court of the kings Bench, of all that he hath done in th'execution thereof, and whether the party named in the said writ have yielded his body to prison or not. And if upon the return of the said Sheriff, it shall appear that the party or parties named in the said writ of Capias, or any of them, have not yielded their bodies to the jail and prison of the said Sheriff or other officer according to the effect of the same proclamation: that then every such person that so shall make default, shall for every such default, forfeit to the queens highness, her heirs, and successors, ten pounds, which shall like wise be extreated by the said justices, into the said court of Exchequer, in such manner and form, as fines and amerciaments there taxed and assessed are used to be. And thereupon the said justices of the kings Bench shall also award forth one other writ of Capias against the person or persons that so shallbe returned to have made default, with such like proclamation as was contained in the first Capias, and a pain of. xx.li. to be mentioned in the said second writ and proclamation. And the Sheriff or other officer to whom the said second writ of Capias shallbe so directed, shallbe serve and execute the same second writ in such like manner and form as before is expressed for the serving and executing of the said first writ of Capias. And if the Sheriff or other officer shall return upon the said second Capias, that he hath made the proclamation according to the tenor and effect of the same writ, and that the party hath not yielded his body to prison, according to the tenor of the said proclamation: that than the said party that so shall make default, shall for such his contempt and default forfeit to the queens highness, her heirs, and successors, the sum of. xx.li. which said sum of. xx.li. the said justices of the kings Bench for the time being, shall likewise cause to be extreated into the said court of Exchequer, in manner and form aforesaid. And then the said justices shall likewise award forth one other writ of Capias against the said party, with such like proclamation and pain of forfeiture as was contained in the said second writ of Capias. And the Sheriff or other officer to whom the said third writ of Capias shall so be directed, shall serve and execute the said third writ of Capias in such like manner and form as before in this Act is expressed and declared for the serving & executing of the said first & second writs of Capias. And if the Sheriff or other officer to whom th'execution of the said third writ shall appertain, do make return of the said third writ of Capias, that the party upon such proclamation hath not yielded his body to prison according to the tenor thereof: that then every such party for every such contempt and default, shall likewise forfeit to the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, other. xx.li. which sum of. xx.li. shall likewise be extreated into the said Court of the Exchequer in manner and form aforesaid, and thereupon the said justices of the kings Bench shall likewise award for the one writ of Capias against the said party, with like proclamation and like pain of forfeiture of. xx.li. And that also the said justices shall have authority by this Act infinitely to award such process of Capias with such like proclamation and pain of forfeiture of. xx.li. as is before limited against the said party, that so shall make default, in yielding of his body to the prison of the Sheriff, until such time as by return of some of the said writs before the said justices, it shall and may appear that the said party hath yielded himself to the custody of the said Sheriff or other officer, according to the tenor of the said proclamation, and that the party upon every default & contempt by him made against the proclamation of any of the said writs so infinitely to be awarded against him, shall incur like pain and forfeiture of. xx.li. which shall likewise be extreated in manner and form aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that when any person or persons shall yield his or their body or bodies to the hands of the sheriff or other officer, upon any of the said writs of Capias: that then the same party or parties that shall so yield themselves, shall remain in the prison and custody of the said sheriff or other officer, without Bail, Baston, or mainprize, in such like manner and form, to all intentes and purposes, as he or they should or ought to have done if he or they had been apprehended and taken upon the said writ of Excomunicato capiendo.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any Sheriff or other officer, by whom the said writ of Capias or any of them, shallbe returned as is aforesaid, do make an untrue return upon any of the said writs, that the party named in the said writ hath not yielded his body, upon the said proclamations or any of them, where in deed the party did yield himself according to the effect of the same: That then every such Sheriff or other officer, for every such false and untrue return, shall forfeit to the party grieved & damnified by the said return, the sum of. xl.li. For the which sum of. xl.li. the said party grieved shall have his recovery and due remedy by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of the queens courts of Record, in which action, bill, plaint, or information, no essoign, protection, or wager of law shallbe admitted or allowed for the party defendant.  
Saving and reserving to all archbishops and Bishops, and all others having authority to certify any person excommunicated, like authority to accept & receive the submission and satisfaction of the said person so excommunicated, in manner and form heretofore used, and him to absolve and release, and the same to signify, as heretofore it hath been accustomed, to the queens Majesty, her heirs, and successors, into the high court of Chancery, and thereupon to have such writs for the deliverance of the said person, so absolved & released from the sheriffs custody or prison, as heretofore they or any of them had, or of right aught or might have had: Any thing in this present Statute specified or contained to the contrary hereof, in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that in Wales, the Counties palatines of Lancaster, Chester, Durham, and Eley, & in the Sinque ports, being jurisdictions and places exempt, where the queens Majesties writ doth not run, and process of Capias from thence not retournable into the said Court of the kings Bench, after any significavit being of record in the said court of chancery, the tenor of such Significavit by Mittimus shallbe sent to such of the head officers of the said country of Wales, Counties palatines and places exempt, within whose offices, charge, or jurisdiction the offender shallbe resiant, that is to say, to the chancellor or Chamberlain for the said County palatine of Lancaster and Chester, and for the Sinque ports, to the Lord Warden of the same, and for Wales and Eley, and the County palatine of Durham, to the chief justice or justices there. And thereupon every of the said justices and officers to whom such tenor of Significavit with Mittimus shallbe directed and delivered, shall by virtue of this statute have power and authority to make like process to the inferior officer and officers, to whom the execution of process there doth appertain, returnable before the justices there at their next Sessions or Courts, two months at the least after the Teste of every such process. So always, as in every degree they shall proceed in their Sessions and Courts against the offenders, as the justices of the said Court of Kings Bench are limited by the tenor of this Act, in Term times to do and execute.  
Provided also, and be it enacted, that any person at the time of any process of Capias, afore mentioned, awarded, being in prison or out of this Realm in the Parties beyond the Sea, or within age, or of non sane memory, or woman covert, shall not incur any of the pains or forfeitures afore mentioned, which shall grow by any return or default happening, during such time of nonage, imprisonment, being beyond the Sea, or non sane memory. And that by virtue of this statute, the party grieved may plead every such cause or matter in bar of and upon the distress or other process that shallbe made for levying of any of the said pains or forfeitures. And that if thoffender against whom any such writ of Excomunicato capiendo shallbe awarded, shall not in the same writ of Excomunicato capiendo have a sufficient and lawful addition, according to the form of the statute of prime of Henry the .v. in cases of certain suits, whereupon process of exigent are to be awarded. Or if in the Significavit it be not contained that thexcommunication doth proceed upon some cause or contempt of some original matter of heresy, or refusing to have his or their child baptized, or to receive the holy Communion as it is now commonly used to be received in the Church of England, or to come to divine service now commonly used in the said Church of England, or error in matters of religion, or doctrine now received and allowed in the said Church of England, incontinency, usury, simony, perjury in the Ecclesiastical court, or idolatry: That then all and every pains and forfeitures limited against such persons excommunicate by this statute by reason of such writ of excomunicato capiendo wanting sufficient addition, or of such Significavit wanting all the causes afore mentioned, shallbe utterly void in law, and by way of plea to be allowed to the party grieved. And if the addition shallbe with a nuper of the place: then in every such case, at the awarding of the first Capias, with proclamation according to the form afore mentioned, one writ of proclamation (without any pain expressed) shallbe awarded into the County where the offender shallbe most commonly resyant at the time of the awarding of the said first Capias, with pain in the same writ of proclamation, to be retournable the day of the return of the said first Capias with pain, and proclamation thereupon at some one such time and court, as is prescribed for the proclamation upon the said first Capias with pain. And if such proclamation be not made in the County where thoffender shallbe most commonly resiant, in such cases of additions of nuper: that then such offender shall sustain no pain or forfeiture by virtue of this statute, for not yielding his or her body, according to the tenor afore mentioned: Any thing before specified to the contrary hereof, in any wise notwithstanding.   

An Act for the reviving of a Statute, made Anno xxiii. H. viii. touching the repairing of jails. ¶ The xxiiii Chapter.  
WHere in the Parliament begun & holden at London the third day of November in the xxi year of the reign of the late king Henry the eight, and from thence adjourned to Westminster, and there holden and continued by prorogation until the xu day of january, in the xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the viii there was then in that Session of Parliament one Act and Statute made & established for the making of jails in divers Shires of this Realm, which Act was then made to continue and endure for one year next after th'end of the same Parliament, as by the same Act more plainly appeareth. And where also the said Act and Statute at divers parliaments holden & kept after the making thereof, in the time of the said late king Henry the viii was continued & kept in full force & strength until the death of the said late king, as by the same Acts of continuance more plainly may appear. And where in the Parliament begun & holden at Westminster the .v. day of October, in the first year of the reign of our late sovereign Lady Queen Mary, and there upon prorogation continued & kept until the vi day of December than next following, the said Act & statute, and all clauses & sentences therein contained, was then made to continue and endure until th'end of ten years next ensuing the end of the same Parliament, as by the same Act more plainly doth appear.  
And forasmuch as the said Act for the making of jails, made in the said xxiii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the viii. is very good and profitable for the common wealth of this Realm: Be it therefore enacted & established by the authority of this present Parliament, that the said Act for making of jails, and all clauses, articles, & provisions in the same contained, shall continue & endure in full force and effect, and be observed and kept in all things unto th'end and term of ten years next ensuing the last day of this present Parliament.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the justices of peace of every of the Shires named & expressed in the said Act, or the most part of the said justices of peace in every of the said Shires, within the limits of their Commission, shall have full power & authority by virtue of this Act, at all time & times within the said term of ten years, to do, make, and execute, and cause to be done, made, and executed, all and every such Act and Acts, thing & things requisite for the making and building of the said jails, as they or any of them might or ought at any time have done by virtue of the said Act made in the said xxiii year of the said late king Henry the eight.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the justices of peace of the Counties of Pembroke, Glamorgan, Cardigan, Radnor, and Mountgomery in Wales, or the most part of them, resiant within every of the said Counties, and all such surveyors, Collectors, & other persons to whom th'execution of the said first recited statute doth or may appertain, shall have such and like power and authority to do and execute all and every such thing and things, for and concerning the building and new making of jails, as the justices of peace & other persons before mentioned of any of the Counties contained in the said first recited statute have in that behalf. And that also the most part of the justices of the peace, resyaunt within any the Counties specified in the said first recited statute, shall and may do and execute all and every thing and things mentioned in the said first recited statute, touching or concerning the said jails: Any doubt or ambiguity heretofore had or moved, or hereafter to be had or moved, notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that thinhabitants of any of the Counties specified in the said first recited Act, or in any of the said Counties of Wales, shall not be charged, by force hereof or of the said first recited Act, to bear or sustain any costs or charges for the building, repairing, or new making of any jail or jails, where any other person or persons, body politic or corporate aught by law, prescription, or by any other good or lawful ways or means, to build, make, or repair the same.   

An Act to fill up juries de circumstantibus lacking in Wales. ¶ The xxv Chapter.  
WHere in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxv year of the reign of our sovereign Lord king Henry the viii father to our most dear Sovereign Lady the queens Majesty that now is, one wholesome and profitable Act & statute amongs other was then established and enacted, entitled by the name of an Act, concerning the appearance of jurors in Nisi prius, where amongs other things in the Act, it was established, that where a full jury returned betwixt party and party, did not appear before the justices of Assize or Nisi prius, or else after appearance of a full jury by challenge of any of the parties, the jury was like to remain untaken for default of jurors, that the same justices upon request made by the party plaintiff or demandant, should have authority by virtue of the same Act, to command the Sheriff, or other Minister or Ministers, to whom the making of the said return should appertain, to name and appoint, as often as need should require, so many of such other able persons of the said County, then present at the said assize or Nisi prius, as should make up a full jury, which persons, so to be named and empaneled by such Sheriff, or other Minister or Ministers, should be added to the former panel, and their names annexed to the same, and further, as in the same Act more plainly may appear. Which said beneficial act doth not extend unto the xii Shires of Wales, ne to the County palatine of Chester, nor to the County Palatine of Lancaster, nor to the County Palatine of Durham, by reason whereof many juries remain untaken betwixt the parties, what for lack of apparens of jurors, and some because of challenges, to the great hindrance of justice, and great expenses and charges to the parties.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by the Queen our Sovereign Lady, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same: That in every of the Shires of Wales, that is to say, Pembroke, Karmarthyn, Cardigan, Brecknock, Radnor, Glamorgan, Mountgomery, Denbighe, Flynt, Meryonith, Anglesey, Carneruan, and in the County Palatine of Chester, and in the said County Palatine of Durham, and in the said County Palatine of Lancaster, where a full jury shall not appear before the justices of the great Session in any of the said Shires or County Palatines, or their deputies there, or else after appearance of a full jury, by challenge of any of the parties the jury is like to remain untaken, for default of jurors: that then the same justices, in every of the said Shires, and County Palatines for the time being, or their deputy or deputies, upon request made by the party plaintiff or demandant, s●●l have full authority by virtue of this Act, to command the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, to whom the making of the said Return shall appertain, to name and appoint, as often as need shall require, so many of such other able persons of the said Counties then present at the said great Session, as shall make up a full jury, which persons so to be named and empaneled, by such Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, shallbe added to the former panel, & their names annexed to the same. And that every of the parties shall & may have his or their challenge to the jurors so named, added and annexed, to the said former panel, by the said Sheriff or other minister or ministers, in such wise as if they had been empaneled upon the venire facias, awarded to try the said issue. And that the said justices and every of them, and their deputy or deputies, shall and may proceed to the trial of every such Issue with those persons that were before empaneled & returned, & with those newly added and annexed to the said former panel, by virtue of this act, in such wise as they might or ought to have done, if all the said jurors had been returned upon the writ of venire facias, awarded to try the said issue. And that all and every such trial had, shallbe as good and effectual in the law to all intentes, constructions & purposes, as if such trial had been had and tried by xii of the jurors empaneled & returned upon the writ of venire facias, awarded to try such issue. And in case such persons as the said Sheriff, minister or ministers, shall name and appoint as is aforesaid, or any of them, after they shallbe called, be present, and do not appear, or after his or their appearance, do wilfully withdraw him or themselves from the presence of the Court: that then such justices or their deputies, shall and may set such sign upon every such juror making default or wilfully withdrawing himself as aforesaid, as they shall think good by their discretions, the said fine to be levied in such manner and form as issues forfeited and lost by jurors for default of their appearance, as is provided by the law and custom of the said Countries of Wales, & Counties Palatines aforesaid, where such issues are forfeited.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that where any jury that shallbe returned by the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, shallbe made full, by the commandment of the said justices, or their deputies, by virtue of this present Act, that yet nevertheless such persons as were returned in the said panel, by the Sheriff, or other Minister or Ministers, to try any such issue, that shall not appear, but make default, shall lose the issues upon them returned, in such wise as though the same jury had remained for default of jurors.  
Provided always, & be it further enacted, that upon a reasonable excuse, for the default of appearance of any juror or jurors, sufficiently proved before the justices of the great Sessions, or their deputies in the Countries and Counties Palatines aforesaid, at the day of their appearance, by the oaths of two lawful and honest witnesses, that the same justices shall have authority by their discretions to discharge every such juror of every such forfeiture of issues upon him returned, and that the said Sheriff or Sheriffs, or other Minister or Ministers, having commandment by the said justices to omit the returning of such issues, as is aforesaid, upon such juror or jurors, shallbe therein discharged of the penalties aforesaid, for the non returning of the said Issues, and that yet notwithstanding the said return to be good and effectual in the law: Any law, usage, ordinance, or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if the said justices, or their deputies, afore whom any such jury should appear in the Shires or Counties Palatines where such issue is to be tried, do not come at the day and place appointed: that then every one of the same jurors shallbe discharged, for forfaiting of any Issues upon him returned in the same writ. And the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, shallbe likewise discharged of the penalties of this statute, for the non returning of such Issues, as are before limited in this Act: Any article or sentence herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And also be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if upon any such writ of habeas corpora or distringas issues be returned upon any hundredours, juror or jurors, by the Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers, to whom the execution of the same writ or writs shall appertain, where as the same hundredours and jurors shall not be lawfully summoned, warned, or distrained in that behalf: that then every such Sheriff or other Minister or Ministers aforesaid, shall lose for every such offence so committed, double so much as the said Issues returned upon such hundredours or jurors not lawfully summoned, warned or distrained, shall amount unto, the moiety of all which forfeitures contained in this present Act, other than the issues to be returned upon the jurors as is aforesaid, shallbe to the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs and successors, and the other half, to him that will sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in the Queen her graces great Court, within the said County where such forfeiture shall happen to be, before the said justices, his or their deputy or deputies, in which, no wager of law, essoign, or protection shallbe allowed ne admitted. saving to all manner of persons, and bodies politic and corporate, their heirs and successors, having lawful right, title and interest to have such issues to be before any such justices or their deputies, at any time or times hereafter lost and forfeited, all such right, title and interest, as they or any of them should or ought to have had to such Issues to be lost and forfeited as though this Act had never been had or made.  
provided also that this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any City or town corporate, or so any Sheriff, minister or ministers in the same, for the return of any inquest, or panel, to be made and returned of persons inhabiting in the said Cities or towns corporate, but that they and every of them, shall and may return such persons in every such inquest or panel, as before this time they might and have been accustomed to do, and as if this Act had never been had or made, so that the same Sheriff, minister or ministers return upon such persons as shallbe empaneled, such like and reasonable Issues, as they ought to return, any thing in the same contained to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the confirmation of a Subsidy, granted by the Clergy. The xxix Chapter.  
WHere the Prelates and clergy of the Province of canterbury have most lovingly and liberally for certain considerations, given and granted to the queens Majesty, a subsidy of six shillings of the pound, to be take and levied of all and singular the spiritual Promotions within the same Province, during the term of three years, now next ensuing, in such certain manner and form, and with such exceptions and provisions, as be specified and contained in a certain instrument by them thereof made and delivered to the queens highness, under the Seal of the most reverend father in God matthew now archbishop of canterbury, and Primate of all England, which instrument is now exhibited in this present Parliament to be ratified. The tenor whereof ensueth in these words:  
The Prelates and Clergy of the province of Cantorbury, being lawfully congregated and assembled together in a convocation or synod, calling to their remembrance the great and manifold benefits which they have many and sundry ways received of you Majesties most gracious bountifulness, principally for the setting forth and advaunceing of God's holy word, his sincere and true religion, & abolishing all foreign power contrary to the same. Considering also the great debts wherewith th'imperial Crown of this Realm was charged, when it pleased almighty God first to call your highness to the governance of the same. And further, weighing the great and intolerable charges wherewith your Majesty of late hath been burdened, in the repairing and furnishing of your majesties Navy, and provision of armour and munitions, most necessary and requisite for the defence and safeguard of this Realm, whereof the same at the beginning of your highness reign was void and destitute. And finally, pondering the inestimable charges sustained by your highness, aswell of late days, in reducing the Realm of scotland to unity and concord, as also in procuring as much as in your highness lieth, by all kind of godly and prudent means, the abating of all hostility and persecution within the Realm of France, practised and used against the professors of Gods holy Gospel and true religion, and in defending and preserving this your highness Realm and natual Subjects, in Christian peace and tranquillity, against all assaults of foreign enemies hitherto, during all the time of your most gracious and happy reign.  
In consideration of the premises, and for a true declaration of our bounden duties, good hearts, and minds toward your Majesty, with one uniform agreement, accord, and consent, together with most hearty good will, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant to your highness, your heirs, and successors, one subsidy in manner and form following. That is to say: That every archbishop, bishop, Deane, archdeacon, Prebendarye, provost, Master of Colleges, Master of Hospitals, Parson, Vicar, and every other person and persons of whatsoever name or degree he or they be, enjoying any Spiritual promotion or other Temporal possessions to the same Spiritual promotion annexed, now not divided nor separated by Act of Parliament, or otherwise from the possession of the Clergy, shall pay to your highness, your heirs, and successors, for every pound that he may yearly dispend by reason of the said Spiritual promotion, the sum of sire shillings.  
And for the true and certain value of the said promotions, and every of them, whereof the payment shallbe made, the rate, taxation, valuation, and estimation, remaining of Record in your majesties Court of Exchequer for the true payment of the perpetual Disme, concerning all such promotions as be in possession of the Clergy, or any other not divided by Act of Parliament, or otherwise alienated from the possession of the Clergy, shallbe followed and observed without making any valuation, rate taxation, or estimation, other then in the said Record is comprised.  
Provided always, that forasmuch as the tenth part of the said valuation and rate before mentioned, is yearly paid to your highness for the perpetual Disme, so as there remaineth only nine parts to the Incumbent clear: this subsidy of vi shillings the pound, shallbe understanded and meant only of the same nine parts, and of no more.  
Provided always, that no person that is already promoted to any Spiritual benefice or promotion, sithence the last day of September last paste, or that hereafter shallbe promoted to any Spiritual benefice or promotion on this side the last day of September, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth sixty and five, by reason whereof they be, shall, or may be, charged to the payment of the first fruits, shallbe contributory or charged to your highness, your heirs, or successors, with any part of this subsidy, during the first year of his said promotion.  
AND your said Prelates and Clergy also do grant, that this subsidy of six shillings the pound, of the yearly value of every promotion taxed as is aforesaid, shallbe paid to your Majesty, your heirs, or successors, within three years next ensuing the date hereof. That is to say, two shillings of every pound in every of the said three years. The first payment thereof, to be due at the last day of September next ensuing, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth sixty and three. And the second payment thereof to be due at the last day of September than next following, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth sixty and four. And the third payment thereof to be due in the said last day of September than next following, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth sixty and five, and to be delivered and paid yearly by such person and persons as in this present grant shallbe appointed to have the collection thereof, to the Lord high treasurer or under treasurer of England for the time being, or to such person or persons, and in such place or places as shall please your highness to appoint, to be paid at or before the xiii day of january in every of the said three years, without paying any thing to the receiver or receivers, or to any other officers or persons to be assigned for the receit thereof, for any discharge or Quietus est upon any payment and receit of the said subsidy to be given and delivered, but only iii s. iiii. d. for the general and final acquittance or Quietus est for every years payment.  
Item we your said graces Prelates and Clergy also do grant, that every Priest and all other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical persons, having any pension by the reason of the dissolution of any the late Monasteries, Colleges, free chapels, chantries, Fraternities, guilds and Hospitals, or of any other spiritual dignity or corporation now dissolved within the said province of Cantorbury, shall likewise pay to your highness, your heirs, and successors vi shillings of every pound of the said pensions within the said three years, at such days and times as is before specified. And that for the sure payment thereof, deduction and retention of the said six shillings, shallbe made yearly in the hands of the payers of the said pensions after the rate and proportion of two shillings the pound, every of the said three years, to be delivered and paid by your highness receivers and officers deputed for the payment of such pensions, unto your majesties use, at such time and to such persons as the subsidy of vi shillings of the pound aforesaid, shallbe paid unto.  
Item your said Prelates and Clergy do grant, that every Priest or Minister Stipendiary, receiving annual Stipend of eight pounds by the year and under, being no perpetuity within the said Province, shall pay unto the use of your highness, your heirs, and successors, six shillings and eight pence in every of the said three years, at such time and to such persons as the said subsidy shallbe paid, and under the same penalties as the rest of the Clergy do pay for their promotions.  
And that every Priest receiving Stipend above eight pounds yearly, and not above ten pounds, to pay likewise ten shillings. And that every Priest receiving stypende above ten pounds, and not above thirteen pounds six shillings and eight pence, to pay thirteen shillings and four pence yearly during the said three years, at such time and to such persons as the said Subsidy shallbe paid. And that every Priest taking stipend above thirteen pound six shillings and eight pence, to pay likewise xii d. of the pound every year during the said three years. And for default or lack of payment of the said stipendaries, that every Parson, Vicar, or other Spiritual or Temporal person, proprietary, or farmer, hiring any Priest or Minister to serve in any place, shallbe answerable for the payment of the said Priest or Minister in that behalf, after the said rates, and shall and may make retention of his and their wages quarterly, of so much as the said Stipendaries be charged with by this present grant, every of the said three years.  
Item your said Prelates and Clergy further do grant, that every archbishop and bishop, and the See being void, every Dean and Chapter of that See void, shallbe Collectors of this subsidy within their proper diocese, during the said three years, other then of the pensioners aforesaid. And the said archbishop, bishop, or other Collectors, and the See being void, the Dean and Chapter shall certify into your majesties court of the Exchequer under their seals, the names and surnames of all such Stipendiary Priests and Ministers, as be chargeable by this Act, before the xxiiii day of january yearly, during the said three years.  
And for the better recovery of the said subsidy, your said Prelates and Clergy most humbly beseech your highness, that every collector of the said subsidy, and of every part and parcel thereof, and their lawful deputy or deputies, may have full power and authority by your Majesty, and your high court of Parliament, to use all such ways, means, and process, as be prescribed in your Act of perpetual Disme, for the collection and levying of the same, and shall make account thereof before the Lord high treasurer or under treasurer of England for the time being, or any other officers by your highness to be appointed for the same, and in such place as your Majesty likewise shall assign, in such wise and after such form only as the said archbishop and bishops be now charged for the collection of the perpetual Disme, whereby is meant how the lack and default of payment of and for any particular promotion, shall only charge the Incumbent, and such as be bound to pay the same, and that upon such pains as be provided in that Act to Parliament of perpetual Disme, against them that make default in that behalf, at or upon the days of payment before expressed.  
And that the archbishop, Bishop, or Deane and Chapter, gathering that which they can receive, and making payment thereof, shall for the rest not by them received, be discharged by their certificate to be made before the xxiiii day of january in every of the said three years, unto your highness court of Exchequer. And vi pence of every pound wherewith the collector shallbe charged in his account, clearly to be paid into the said receit (or into such other place as shall please your highness to appoint) shallbe allowed to the said collector for his said account for the same, for the charges and collection, portage, safe conveying and paying of the said subsidy.  
Also your said Prelates and Clergy do further most humbly beseech your highness, that it may be enacted by your majesties authority, and your high Court of Parliament, that where divers Curates liable to this subsidy, being often times removable, do serve aswell in divers Impropriations belonging to your Majesty, as in other Impropriations and other Spiritual promotions belonging to other persons: that for the speedy recovery of the said subsidy, it may be lawful to the collector or Collectors of the said subsidy, their deputy or deputies, to levy the said subsidy upon the farmer or farmers, and occupiers of all such Impropriation or Impropriations and Spiritual promotions, by all censures of the Church and every of them, or by way of distress, of the tithes of the said Impropriation or Impropriations, or otherwise upon the goods and cattles of the said farmer or farmers & occupiers, in which no inhibition, prohibition, replevie, or other process awarded to the contrary shallbe obeyed: Any laws, statutes, privileges, or customs to the contrary hereof, heretofore made, granted, or used, or hereafter to be made, granted, or used to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding. And that it may be lawful to the Collectors and the officers and ministers of such archbishop, bishop, or Deane and Chapter, for not payment at any time of the said three years abovesaid, to praise and value the said distress or distresses, by two indifferent neighbours by him to be chosen, and the distress or distresses so praised, to sell, and thereof to detain so much money as shall amount to the sum payable to your highness, with the charges of the said collector in that behalf, and and rest of the money made of the said distress, to be delivered and paid to the owner or occupier thereof. And that every Archbishop, & Bishop, or Deane and Chapter, of every See vacaunt, and other persons chargeable to and with the collection of the subsidy of six shillings the pound, within the said province of Cantorbury, may have upon every payment thereof, made to the Lord high treasurer or under treasurer of England for the time being, or to such person or persons, place & places, to whom and where it shall please your highness to appoint for the receit thereof, in, or at the xiii day of january in every of the said three years, a sufficient acquittance in writing of the said Lord high treasurer or under treasurer, or such persons as your highness shall assign for the receipt thereof, the same acquittance witnessing the receipt of as much of the same sum of the said Subsidy as shallbe so received. And every such acquittance in writing sealed and subscribed, with the name or names of the said Lord high treasurer or under treasurer for the time being, or of such other person or persons as it shall please your highness to appoint for the same receipt as is aforesaid, may be good and affectual in the law, and also sufficient discharge to all intentes, constructions, and purposes. And that every person and persons which shall have and receive any such acquittance, shall pay but only. iii.s.iiii.d. to the Clerk for the writing of the same.  
Provided always that every Incumbent making such default of payment, after certificate of every such default made, and exhibited into your majesties court of Exchequer, shall forfeit and lose only that his benefice or promotion for which he maketh default, and for the same shall incur no other forfeiture, loss, damage, pain, or penalty: Any other pain, clause, article, or condition in the said Statute of perpetual Disme to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that no Spiritual promotion, or any lands, possessions, or revenues annexed to the same, being charged by this grant or Act of the province of Cantorbury, or any goods or chattels growing, being, or renewing of the same, or appertaining to the owners of the said Spiritual promotion, shallbe charged or made contributory to any fifteen or Tenth, or any other subsidy already granted to your highness by the laity, or hereafter to be granted, during the term of the said three years.  
Item your said Prelates and Clergy further grant, that all Deans, Archdeacon's, Dignities, Preachers, and Prebendaries, of all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches within the said province, shallbe charged with this subsidy for their own promotions only, thereof to pay vi shillings of the pound, within the said three years, as is above rehearsed. And that those portions of rents, revenues, and spiritual promotions, which have been given or impropered unto the said Cathedral or Collegiate Churches, or any of them, by your highness or any your highness noble progenitors, or any other person or persons, whatsoever he or they be, or were, for the yearly maintenance of poor men, Schoolmasters, Vsshers, Grammarians, Peticannons, Vicar's Choral, and Readers of divinity, Choristers, and all other necessary and daily officers and ministers of such Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, shall not be charged with any part of this subsidy.  
Provided also, that every Parson, Vicar, or other spiritual person, paying any pension, whereof none allowance is made in the valuation of his said promotion or benefice, shall and may retain. ii.s. of every pound of every such pension, every year during the said three years, to his own relief, in consideration that he is charged to pay this Subsidy of vi shillings of the pound, out of every pound of the whole value of his promotion.  
Provided also, that where certain lands, tenements, rents, tithes, pensions, portions, fruits, and other hereditaments, lately belonging to divers Cathedral Churches, and to other places Ecclesiastical within the said province of Cantorbury, which were given and assigned to be bestowed and spent to and on the finding and maintenance of certain chantries, anniversaries, Obites, Lights, Lamps, and other like charges, intentes and purposes, of late came into the hands and possession of the late king of famous memory king Edward the sixth, by force of a Statute thereof made in the first year of his gracious reign, as by the said Statute more plainly appeareth: That the said Cathedral Churches, and the Deans, or Presidents and Chapitours of the same, and all other places and persons, to whom the said lands, rents, and all other the premises, or any of them, did lately appertain, shall not be charged to and with any contribution or payment of this subsidy, of, and for that part or portion whereunto the said late king was entitled or possessed of, nor of and for any of the said yearly payments, going out or paid out of the premises, or any part thereof: But that this said subsidy shallbe understanded to be chargeable and due only of all and singular lands, tenements, rents, tithes, pensions, portions, fruits, and other hereditaments, which do yet still remain not dissevered from the hands and possession of the said Cathedral Churches, and other the places and persons aforesaid. And that deduction and allowance be made to them and every of them in the payment of the said subsidy, out of the whole value, taxation, and estimation, made for the payment of the said perpetual Disme, remaining of Record in your highness court of Exchequer, for that rate and portion, or yearly payment, which came to the hands and possession of the said late king Edward the sixth, or otherwise severed from the possessions of the said Cathedral Churches, and other places and persons aforesaid, by force of the Statute premised.  
Provided always that this Subsidy granted by the Clergy, shall not be demanded or levied out of any benefice, house of students, or College, situate or set within the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, or of any benefice or other revenues unto the said universities, or either of them, or to any house of students or College in the same united, appropred, or appertaining, or of the Colleges of windsor, or Eaten nigh windsor, or of the College called Saint Mary College by Winchester, founded by William Wickham, sometime Bishop of Winchester, or of any Hospitals or Grammar Schools, or of any other Church or benefice, or of any other revenues to the said universities, houses, Colleges, Hospitals, Alms houses, Alms halls, or Grammar Schools, or to any of them, annexed, appropriated, or otherwise appertaining.  
Provided always, that all Parsons and Vicars, whose benefices be of the valuation of five pounds or under, after the rate of the perpetual Tenth, shall not be charged or chargeable with this Subsidy, or any part thereof.  
Provided also, that every Priest, & all other late Ecclesiastical persons, having a pension by reason of the dissolution of the late Monasteries, Colleges, free Chapels, chantries, Fraternity's guilds, and Hospitals, or any other Incorporations within the province of Cantorbury, or any of them, and being of the sum of xl.s. or under, and not above, shall not be charged or chargeable to this said Subsidy, or any part thereof, for any such pension of. xl.s. or under: Any thing contained in this grant to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And for the true & sure payment of this Subsidy granted by your said prelate's & Clergy of the province of Cantorbury, according to the tenor, purport, effect, & true meaning of this present grant: your said Prelates and Clergy most humbly desire your highness, that this their said gift, grant, & Subsidy, & every matter, sum of money, clause, provisions & sentences in this instrument contained, concerning the said Subsidy, may be ratified, established & confirmed by authority of this your highness court of Parliament.  
Wherefore, for the true and sure payment of the said subsidy, granted by the said Prelates and Clergy of the said province of Cantorbury, according to the tenor, effect, and true meaning of the said instrument: Be it enacted by the queens Majesty, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said gift and grant, and every matter, sum of money, provision, clause, and sentence in the said instrument contained, may be ratified, established, and confirmed by the authority aforesaid.  
And furthermore be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that every person that shallbe appointed to the collection & gathering of the said subsidy, shall have full power and authority to levy, take, and perceive the same subsidy by th'authority of the censures of the Church, in manner and form, as in the said instrument of grant is contained, without danger of the laws of this Realm, or by distress upon the possession of the farmers or occupiers of the lands and tenements chargeable by the said instrument, for or to the payment of any sum or sums of money, or otherwise, by the discretion of the collector thereof. And that no Replevie, Prohibition or Supersedeas shallbe allowed or obeyed, for any person or persons, making default of payment of the said subsidy, contrary to the tenor of the grant thereof, until such time as they have truly satisfied and contented all such part and portions, as to them in that behalf appertaineth. And that every such farmer and farmers, their executors, and assigns (that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to and with the payment of the said subsidy or any part thereof) shall by th'authority aforesaid be allowed and retain in his hands as much of his yearly rent and farm, as the sum which he shall fortune to pay for his Lord or Leassour shall extend unto: Except the said farmer or farmers, their executors and assigns, by the lease and grant that they have of any part of the lands, tithes, profits, and tenements, chargeable to this said subsidy, or by force of any covenant or article therein contained, be bounden and charged to pay the same, & thereof to discharge their Leassour and Landelorde, during the term mentioned in the said Lease.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that every lay person having a spiritual promotion, chargeable by this Act, and also having temporal possessions, goods, chattels, and debts, chargeable to the subsidy granted in this Parliament by the Temporalty: shallbe charged, taxed, and set, for his said spiritual promotions with the Clergy, and for his temporal possessions and chattels, with the Temporalty, and not otherwise: Any thing before mentioned to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every grant and grants, of all and every sum and sums of money, which hereafter shallbe granted to the queens Majesty by the Clergy of the province of York, shallbe of the same strength, force, and effect in all things, as the said grant made by the said province of Cantorbury, & shallbe taxed, certified, collected, levied, gathered, and paid, according to the tenor, form, and effect of this present Act of Parliament, to all intentes, constructions, and purposes, in such manner and form as though it were specially, plainly, and particularly expressed and rehearsed in this Act by express words, terms, and sentences, in their several natures and kinds.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all provisos before rehearsed, contained in the said grant of the Prelates and Clergy of the province of canterbury, and the like of the same provisions hereafter to be contained in the grant of the Prelates & Clergy of the province of York, shallbe good and effectual, and to be observed and kept in every point and article, according to the true purport and meaning of the same.   

¶ An Act of the queens Majesties most gracious general and free Pardon. ¶ The xxxi Chapter.  
THE queens most excellent Majesty perceiving the good wills and faithful hearts of her loving and obedient Subjects at all times towards her highness, for the good governance and defence of this her Realm, and doubting that the same her obedient subjects have many and sundry ways fallen into the danger of divers penalties and forfeitures by the laws and Statutes of this Realm: Hath thought meet to extend her clemency and pity towards her said loving and obedient subjects, with her liberal and free pardon, according to her Princely and Kingly power, and thereby to discharge some part of such great pains, penalties, and forfeitures, wherewith her said subjects stand now burdened and charged, trusting assuredly that they will continue in their due obedience and faithfulness towards her Majesty, and hereafter in such fort obey the good laws & Statutes of this Realm, and specially such as in this session of Parliament are devised, as to them & every of them of right and duty appertaineth. And therefore her Majesty is well pleased and contented, that it be enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, in manner and form following.  
That is to say, that all and every of her said Subjects (aswell Spiritual as Temporal) of this her highness Realm of England, Wales, the Isles of jernesey and Gernesey, the Towns of Berwick, & Newehaven in Normandy, their heirs, successors, executors, and administrators of them and every of them. And all and singular bodies in any manner of wise corporated, Cities, boroughs, Shires, ridings, hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Mapentakes, Towns, villages, hamlets, and tithings, and every of them, and the successor and successors of every of them: shallbe by authority of this present Parliament, acquitted, pardoned, released, and discharged, against the queens Majesty, her heirs, successors, and executors, and every of them, of all manner of Treasons, felonies, robberies, offences, contempts, alienations, trespasses, Intrutions, entries, wrongs, deceipts, misdemeanours, forfeitures, penalties and profits, sums of money, pains of death, pains corporal and pecuniary, and generally of all other things, causes, quarrels, suits, judgements, and executions, in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor forprised, which may be or can be by her highness in any wise or by any mean pardoned, before and unto the first day of january, in this present fifth year of her most gracious reign, to every or any of her said subjects, bodies corporate, Cities, boroughs, Shires, ridings, hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wapentakes, Towns, villages, and tithings, or any of them. And also the queens highness is contented, that it be enacted by authority of this present Parliament, that her said free pardon shallbe as good & effectual in the law to every of her said subjects, bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, in & against all things, which be not hereafter in this present Act excepted and forprised, as the same pardon should have been, if all offences, contempts, forfeitures, causes, matters, suits, quereles, judgements, executions, penalties, and all other things (not hereafter in this Act excepted and forprised) had been particularly, singularly, specially, and plainly named, rehearsed, and specified, and also pardoned by proper and express words and names, in their kinds, natures, and qualities, by words and terms thereunto requisite to have been put in, and expressed in this present Act of free pardon. And that her said Subjects, nor any of them, nor the heirs, executors, or administrators of any of them, nor of the said bodies corporate and others before named, nor any of them, be nor shallbe sued, vexed, or inquieted, in their bodies, goods, lands, or chattels, for any manner of matter, cause, contempt, misdemeanour, forfeiture, trespass, offence, or any other thing suffered, done, or committed before the said first day of Ianuarye, against her highness, her Crown, dignity, prerogative, law or statutes: But only for such matters, causes, and offences, as be plainly rehearsed in the exceptions in this present Act, hereafter mentioned, and for none other: Any Statute or Statutes, laws, customs, usages, or precedent heretofore had, made, or used to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding. Also the queens highness of her bounteous liberality, by authority of this present Parliament, granteth and freely giveth to every of her said Subjects, and to every of the said bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, and every of them, all goods, chattels, debts, fines, issues, profits, amerciaments, forfeitures, and sums of money, by any of them forfeited, which to her highness do or should belong or appertain, by reason of any offence, contempt, trespass, entry, misdemeanour, matter, cause, or quarrel, suffered, done, or committed by them or any of them, before the said first day of january, which be not hereafter plainly forprised and excepted in this present Act. And that all and every the Queens said Subjects, and all and singular bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, may by him or themself, or by his or their deputy or deputies, or by his or their attorney or attorneys, according to the laws of this Realm, plead and minister this present Act of free pardon, for his or their discharge, of, and for every thing that is by virtue of this present Act pardoned, discharged, given or granted, without any fee or other thing in any wise paying to any person or persons, for writing or entry of the judgement, or other cause concerning such plea, writing, or entry, but only xvi pence to be paid to the officer or Clerk that shall enter the plea, matter, or judgement for the parties discharge in that behalf: Any Statute, usage, or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
AND furthermore, the queens highness is contented and pleased, that it be enacted by th'authority of this present Parliament, that her said free pardon, by the general words before rehearsed, shallbe reputed, deemed, adjudged, allowed, and taken in all manner of Courts of her highness, & else where, aswell in the words and clauses of the exceptions and forprises specified in this present Act, as in all and singular other clauses, words, and sentences mentioned and rehearsed in the said free pardon, most beneficially and availably to all and singular her said subjects, bodies corporate, and others before rehearsed, and to every of them, and most strongly in bar and discharge against her highness, her heirs, successors, and executors, in every thing, without any ambiguity, question, or other delay whatsoever it shallbe to be made, pleaded, objected, or alleged by the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs, successors, or executors, or by her or any of their general attorney or attorneys, or by any person or persons for her highness, or any of her heirs, successors, or executors.  
And further, it is enacted by the Queen our sovereign Lady, & by the authority of this present Parliament, that if any officer or Clerk of any of her highness Courts, commonly called the kings Bench, Chancery, & common place, or of her Exchequer, or any other officer or Clerk of any other of her Courts within this Realm, at any time after the xxvi day of this present month of Apryll, make out or write out any manner of writs or other process, or any extreates, summons, or other precepts, whereby any of the said Subjects, or any of the said bodies corporate, or other before rehearsed, or any of them, shallbe in any wise arrested, attached, distreigned, summoned, or otherwise vexed, inquieted, or grieved in his or their bodies, lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, or in any of them, for or because of any manner thing pardoned or discharged by virtue of this Act of free pardon: or if any Sheriff or Excheatour, or any of their deputy or deputies, or any Bailiff or other officer, by colour of his or their office, or otherways, after the said xxvi day of Apryll, do levy, receive, or take any thing pardoned or discharged by this Act: That then every such person so offending, and thereof lawfully condemned, shall yield and pay for recompense thereof to the party so grieved or offended, triple damages, besides all costs of the suit, and nevertheless, all and singular such writs, process, extreates, and precepts so to be made, for or upon any manner thing pardoned or discharged by this present Act of free pardon, shallbe utterly void, & of none effect.  
Except and always forprised out of this general and free Pardon, all and all manner of high Treasons, committed or done by any person or persons, by any overt deed or act, against the queens most royal person, and all conspiracies, and confederacies traitorously had, committed, or done by any person or persons against the queens person. And also excepted, all and all manner of Treasons, committed or done by any person or persons in the parties beyond the Sea, or in any other place out of the queens dominions. And all suits, punishments, executions, pains of death, forfeitures, & penalties, for or by reason or occasion of any of the treasons and offences before excepted. And also (except and forprised out of this free pardon) all and all manner of forging and counterfeiting of whatsoever money or coin current in this Realm, and all and all manner of offences, impetitions, punishments, forfeitures, pains of death, judgements, and executions for the same. And also excepted and forprised out of this general and free pardon, all and every piracy and robbery done upon the Sea, and all manner of voluntary murders, and wilful poisonings, and all and every burgularye in any dwelling house, and all and every robbery done upon any person or persons in any dwelling house or houses in the day time, and all robberies done upon or to any man's or woman's person in the high way, or else where, and all and singular accessaries of or to any of the said offences. And also all rapes and carnal ravyshementes of women. All wilful escapes (aswell) of Traitors and Felons (as also) of Clerks attainted. And also excepted out of this general and free pardon, all persons attainted or outlawed for any treason, murder, robbery, or burgulary. And also (excepted) all and every manner of taking from the Queen of any goods, issues, rents, revenues, or profits, of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments of any Traitor, Murderer, Felon, Clerk or Clerks, being people attainted, outlawed, or fugitives, or of any of them. And also excepted out of this pardon, all manner of Intrutions, had, made, or done, by any person or persons, in or upon any manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, of our sovereign Lady the Queen, and the taking of any the issues and profits of the same lands or tenements of our said sovereign Lady, and also all suits and impetitions for the same. And (excepted) also all wastes committed or done in any of the queens Wards lands, or in the Wards lands of any of the queens Committees. And also all & every fine and fines, for the single and double value of the marriage or marriages of all & every the queens wards, at any time grown to the queens Majesty or any her noble progenitors. And also all & every consealement of any Custom or Subsidy. And all and singular accounts of all and every collector and Collectors of any subsidy, fifteen, Benevolence, mice, or Contribution. And of every other person whatsoever, that aught to be accomptaunt to the queens highness, or to her most noble father King Henry the eight, or to King Edward the sixth, or Queen Mary, or to any of them, & the heirs, executors, and administrators of every such accomptaunt. And all and singular arrearages of accounts, and all impetitions, suits, demands, and executions for the same. And also (except) all enclosures and decays of houses of husbandry, and the converting of any land from tillage to pasture, made, done, committed, or permitted, contrary to the form and effect of any Statute or Statutes heretofore made. And excepted and forprised out of this free pardon, all issues, fines, and amerciaments, affered, taxed, set, extreated, or entered, severally or particularly, touching & concerning any one person, or more persons jointly, extending to the sum of vi pounds, or above. And yet nevertheless, all and singular other fines (aswell) fines pro licencia concordandi (as other) set, taxed, entered, or extreated, and all other issues and amerciaments (aswell real as other) which severally or particularly extend not to the sum of vi pounds, whether they be totted, or not totted, taken to the charge of the sheriff, or not taken to his charge, extreated or not extreated, or whether they be turned into debt or not turned into debt, and not being levied nor received by any Sheriff or Sheriffs, Bailiffs, ministers or other officers, to the queens majesties use: shallbe fully, clearly, and plainly pardoned and discharged against the Queen our sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors for ever, by this present Act of free pardon. And also excepted and forprised out of this free pardon, all and all manner of deceipts and offences of all and singular monyers, and other officers, mynters, or workmen, of, or in any of the queens mints, within this Realm or any other her dominions, and all impetitions and punyshements for the same. And also excepted and forprised out of this general and free pardon, all ravyshmentes and wrongful taking and withholding of any the queens Wards, or Wards lands, at any time comen or grown to the queens hands, and not yet discharged. And also (excepted) all titles and actions of Quare impedit, and all homages, relief and reliefs, Rents services, Rents charges, Rents seeks, & the arrearages of the same, not done or paid to the queens highness. And also excepted, all sums of money granted to the queens Majesty, or to any her noble progenitors, by way or mean of subsidy, fifteen, Benevolence, or Contribution, or by any of the same ways or means. And also all debts which were or be due to our sovereign Lady the Queen, or to the most noble King of famous memory King Henry the seventh, or to King Henry the eight, King Edward the sixth, or to the late Queen Mary, or to any person or persons to any of their uses, by any condemnation, recognisance, obligation, or otherwise, other than such as are due upon any obligation or recognisance forfeited before the said first day of january for non appearance in any court or other place, or for not keeping of the peace, or not being of good behaviour. And also, excepted & forprised out of this pardon, all & singular those forfeitures being due or accrued to our sovereign Lady the Queen by any penalty of any Statute or Statutes, which forfeitures be converted into the nature of debt, by judgement, or by the agreement of the offender or offenders, or else whereof there is any verdict passed for the Queen. And also (excepted) all forfeitures and other penalties and profits grown or due to the Queen by reason of any offence, contempt, or other Act, had, suffered, committed or done contrary to any Statute or Statutes, or contrary to the common law, whereof any information is given in the queens Exchequer or into the Kings Bench, or whereof the queens highness by her bill signed, or otherwise, heretofore hath made any gift or assignment to any person or persons. And also excepted and forprised out of this general and free pardon, all such persons as the tenth day of this present month of April be in prison within the Tower of London, or in the prison of the Marshalsea, or in the Fleet, and all persons put to execution before the said tenth day of Apryll. And also excepted out of this free pardon, all offences of forging or counterfeiting of any false deeds, escriptes, or writings. And also excepted all penalties, forfeitures, and titles of condition accrued or grown to the queens Majesty by reason of the breach or not performing of any covenant or condition. And also excepted out of this general and free pardon, all and every such person and persons which have heretofore fled out of this Realm of England, or any other the queens dominions for any offence of high Treason, petty Treason, or misprision of Treason. And also excepted out of this pardon, all and every offence and offences, touching or concerning the carrying, sending, or conveying over the Seas or out of this Realm, of any gold, silver, jewels, or any coin of gold or silver, contrary to the laws or Statutes of this Realm, unless it were or be by the queens licence. And also except, all such persons as be fled and gone out of this Realm, contrary to the laws and Statutes of this Realm, without the queens majesties licence. And also all such persons as have obtained and had licence to depart the Realm for a time, and now do abide out of the Realm without any lawful excuse after the time of their licence expired.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that all and every person and persons, which have tendered and ought to sue livery out of our said sovereign Lady the queens hands, of, or for any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whatsoever they be, shall sue his or their livery and liveries out of our said sovereign Lady the queens hands, of his or their manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in like manner and form as they and every of them should and ought to have done if this Act had never been had ne made: Any article, thing or things in this present Act of general and free pardon, comprised and specified to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that in case it be objected to or against any Sheriff, or Sheriffs, or other accomptantes in the queens court of Exchequer, or in any other her courts, that any Sheriff or Sheriffs or other officers accomptantes have received or taken any such fines, issues, or amerciaments, as by this present Act be pardoned and acquitted: that then every such Sheriff & Sheriffs, and other accomptantes, shallbe discharged and acquitted thereof, by his or their own corporal oath, to be ministered and taken openly before the Barons in the said court of Exchequer, or before the justices in any other court, without any further trial in that behalf.  
Provided alway that this present Act of free pardon, nor any thing therein contained, in any wise extend to discharge, remit or acquit any person or persons, for any such issues, fines, or amerciaments, as any Sheriff heretofore have accounted for before the Barons of the queens Exchequer, or else where, and paid the same issues, fines, and amerciaments, upon his or their said account, determined to the queens use, and hath his or their Quietus est for the same.  
Provided always and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shallbe lawful to all and every Clerk and other officer of any the queens Courts, to award and make writs of Capias utlegatum at the suit of the party plaintyffe, against such persons outlawed as be pardoned by this Act, to th'intent to compel the defendant and defendants to make answer to the plaintiff or playntyffes, at whose suit he or they were outlawed. And that every person so outlawed, shall sue a writ of Scire facias against the party or parties at whose suit he or they were so outlawed, before this pardon in that behalf shallbe allowed to him that so is outlawed.  
GOD save the Queen.   

¶ Imprinted at London in Paul's Churchyard by Richard jug and john Cawood, Printers to the queens Majesty.  
Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.   

¶ An Act of a subsidy with two fifteens and tenths, granted by the Temporalty.  
THE certain knowledge and perfit sense that we your majesties most humble subjects have and feel of the great felicity, which since your reign we hitherto have enjoyed, and now presently do enjoy, far beyond all other nations our neighbours, yea, much augmented to our happiness, having regard to the former troublesome times amongst ourselves: doth vehemently press and enforce us, first and principally, with all our hearts and souls to acknowledge our most bounden duties to Almighty God, the king of kings, for his exceeding singular and divine goodness showed to us his creatures, in preserving for our safety, after so many storms, your royal princely person, our most gracious Queen, and in guiding & directing the same for our happiness, in so unhappy an age, thus happily, quietly, and providently to govern us his people committed to your charge. And next, for the same great benefits bestowed upon us by his merciful goodness, by and through your majesties person & Regiment, to offer ourselves most ready, with all obeisance and loyalty, to serve and most humbly obey your Majesty, as Gods immediate minister in earth, and supreme governor over us, to the uttermost of our power and end of our lives. And furthermore, considering with ourselves, and beholding manifestly with our eyes, the many notable beneficial and princely acts done by your Majesty, with th'assent of God's favour, in these few years, for the weal and surety of this your Realm. ¶ First, in restoring us to the favour, knowledge, & true service of almighty God, by restoration into this Church of England, a sincere uniform rule and order in Christian religion, by delivery of us and our consciences from a foreign unnatural tyranny and power, notwithstanding the many & great threatenings of worldly power to the contrary. ¶ Next, by reducing this your Realm and all other your dominions, from war wherein you found it, to peace with your neighbours, which two godly acts, your Majesty did accomplish immediately at your first entry to this your crown. ¶ thirdly, by the evident delivery of this Realm from the great & manifest intended invasions, conspired & prepared by strangers (the ancient enemies of this Realm) joining therewith the princely and upright preservation of the liberty of the next Realm and nation of scotland, from imminent captivity and desolation, and so without any bloody battle, most providently (though chargeably) diverting the force of the enemy intended against this Realm, to their reproof. ¶ Fourthly, by repairing, storing, enriching, building, & reenforsing this your Realm, with the worthiest treasures of Armure, Munition, and all kind of provisions offensive and defensive for war, and of a princely navy of Ships for the service and defence of this your country, and us your people. ¶ And next thereto, as it were in a time almost desperate or doubtful, for the weight of the matter, by converting of the loathsome an vile great and long grown bulk of copper and counterfeit moneys, eating and daily consuming the honour and wealth of this Realm like a Canker, into treasures only of gold and silver moneys, without having any piece of copper moneys currant in this Realm, a singular pre-eminence above all countries in Chirstendome. ¶ And lastly, by a most provident & seasonable enterprise now taken in hand this year, being thereto necessarily provoked (besides the foresight for safety of your own Realm) for the defence also of your majesties tender young Brother and next neighbour the French King, being forcyblye governed against his laws and liberty, by reason of the ambition of certain his uncontented subjects, being not disposed to live as subjects in quietness, as the experience of them towards this Realm hath also proved. And consequently, in this enterprise, your Majesty not forgetting the just and seasonable recovery of an ancient portion of this your crown, lately and unfortunately spoiled and broken of, and we also generally tasting and sensibly feeling, from the highest of us to the lowest, through all degrees, places, and times, an universal and most blessed fruit of justice, both for our lives, lands, goods, and behavours, without acception of persons, to the inestimable, yea, and unaccustomed comfort and joy of all your good and faithful Subjects, & to the singular recommendation of your majesties happiness to all posterity, being hitherto never compelled to tax or reprehend, much less to draw blood of any person for any offence to your majesties royal person, a blessedness never enjoyed so long by any of your progenitors, to our knowledge. Which princely and notable acts, with many others, not here for length to be rehearsed, have been, and for continuance thereof, must needs be so burdenous and chargeable to your Majesty, that though we can not in deed find an example of any one meet present or gift by name of subsidy, or any other relief or aid granted to any of your progenitors, sufficient to recompense and acquit some one of these your many princely and notable acts, or the charges therein sustained: yet we meaning, and freely of ourselves intending, according to our bounden duties, to make some kind of declaration, specification, and recognition of our great debts of service to your Majesty, being not able to make any full satisfaction, as your majesties most humble obedient and loving Subjects, humbly on our knees beseech your highness, that at this time, in stead of satisfaction for our great debts, due for your princely demerits and charges, our small gift may not be measured with your acts, or with our own debts to your Majesty: but of your accustomed clemency, accepted jointly with the treasure of our humble, infinite, & inmeasurable thoughts and intentions of our hearts towards your Majesty, and that for thacception thereof, it may be by your highness, the Lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, enacted as followeth.  
And be it enacted, that your highness towards the said great costs and inestimable charges, shall have by authority of this present Parliament, two whole fifteens and tenths, to be paid, taken, and levied of the movable goods, chattels, and other things usual to such fifteens and tenths, to be contributory and chargeable within the Shires, Cities, boroughs, Towns, and other places of this your majesties Realm, in manner and form aforetime used: Except the sum of xii M. pounds thereof fully to be deducted. That is to say, vi. M. pounds of either of the said whole fifteens & tenths, of the sum that one whole fifteen and Tenth attaineth unto, in relief, comfort, and discharge of the poor Towns, Cities, and boroughs of this your said Realm, wasted, desolate, or destroyed, or overgreatly impoverished, after such rate as was and hath afore this time been had and made to every Shire, and to be divided in such manner and form as heretofore for one whole fifteen & tenths, hath been had and divided. And the said two fifteens and Tenth (the exceptions and deductions aforesaid, thereupon had, deducted, and allowed) to be paid in manner and form following. That is to say, the first whole fifteen and tenth (except before excepted) to be paid to your highness in the receipt of your highness Exchequer, before the tenth day of November next coming. And the said second fifteen and tenth (except before excepted) to be paid to your highness in the receipt of your Exchequer, before the tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord God. M.D.lxiiii.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the knights elected and returned, of, and for the Shires within this Realm for this present Parliament. citizens of Cities, & burgesses of boroughs and Towns, where collectors have been used to be named, and appointed for the collection of any fifteen and tenth before this time granted, shall name and appoint yearly before the last day of August, in either of the said two years, sufficient and able parsons, for the collection of the said fifteens & tenths, in every of the said Shires, Cities, boroughs, & Towns, the said parsons then having lands, tenements, and other hereditaments in his or their own right of an estate of inheritance of the yearly value of ten pounds, or in goods worth a hundredth pound at the least. And also such parson or parsons so by them to be named and appointed for the collection of either of the said fifteens & tenths, shallbe by them severally appointed and allotted into hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, boroughs, and Towns. And also the said parsons so named and appointed for the collection of the same fifteens & tenths, shallbe charged and chargeable upon his or their account or accounts, in thexchequer to be made, with all such sum or sums of money, as the hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, boroughs, and Towns, where he or they shall so happen to be appointed, shall amount unto, and of no more sum or sums. And upon the payment of such sums of money as he or they shallbe charged with, shallbe discharged, and have his and their Quietus est, the non accounting or non payment of any other his fellows, or the insufficiency of them or any of them, notwithstanding. And the names and surnames of every the said collectors for the said fifteens & tenths, during either of the said two years, together with the place allotted to their collection and charge, the said Knights, citizens, and burgesses, for the Shires, Cities, and boroughs, whereunto they be elected, named, and returned: shall certify before the Queen in her Chancery, before the twenty day of October, in every of the same two years, according to the tenor of this act. And if default of any such certifying be had or made in form as is aforesaid: then the Lord chancellor of England, or keeper of the great Seal for the time being, shall immediately after, name and appoint Collectors, for the collection of either of the said fifteens and tenths, in manner and form as the said knights of the Shires, citizens of Cities, and burgesses of boroughs, should have done, and as afore time hath been used. The which said Collectors, and every of them, shall have like allowance upon their accounts, for their fees, wages, and rewards, for the collection of the said fifteens and tenths, in as large manner and form, as any collector or Collectors of fifteens and tenths, have had at any season in time past. And that the Barons of the queens Exchequer for the time being, shall and may from time to time, award such process for the speedy payment thereof, against the collector and Collectors for the same, as by their discretions shallbe thought convenient.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that the said Lord chancellor, or keeper of the great Seal for the time being, knights of the Shires, citizens of Cities, & burgesses of boroughs, Towns, and other places, having authority by this present Act, to name and nominate the said Collectors, of, or for the said fifteens and tenths: shall upon their nomination and election had and made, take by authority of this present Parliament, sufficient recognisances, or obligation, of every parson so by them to be named, to be bound to the queens Majesty, in the double sum of the sum of their collection, and to be endorsed upon such condition, that if the said collector or Collectors do truly content and pay, to the use of the queens highness in her receipt of th'exchequer, before the ten day of November in every of the said two years, so much of the sum of money allotted and appointed to his collection, as the same collector shall have collected and gathered, and do likewise after the said ten day of the month of November in every of the said two years, content and pay to the queens majesties use, at the same receipt, the residue of his collection and charge, within one month next after such time as he shall have gathered and collected the same residue: that then the said recognisance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in his full strength and virtue. Which recognisance or obligation so taken, the said knights of the Shire, citizens, and burgesses, and every of them, taking any such recognisances or obligation, shall certify and deliver to the Lord treasurer, and Barons of the same Exchequer, before the said ten day of November, in every of the said years, upon pain of forfeiture of. x.li. to the queens highness, for every Reccognisaunce or obligation so to be taken, and not certified. And that every such collector, upon request to him made, shall make and knowledge the same Recognisance or obligation accordingly, upon like pain and forfeiture of ten pound to the Queen, for his refusal thereof. And that the treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, upon the payment of the same collection, or at the said days, shall cansell and deliver the said recognisance or obligation, to the said collector or Collectors, without any other warrant, or without any fee or reward to be paid to any parson for the same.  
And furthermore, for the great and weighty considerations aforesaid, we the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present Parliament assembled, do by our like assent and authority of this Parliament, give and grant to your highness our said Sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, your heirs, and successors, one entire subsidy, to be rated, taxed, levied, and paid at two several payments, of every parson spiritual and temporal, of what estate or degree he or they be, according to the tenor of this Act in manner and form following. That is to say, aswell of every parson borne within the Realm of England, Wales, or other the queens dominions, as of all and every fraternity, guild, Corporation, Mystery, brotherhood, and Commonalty, corporated, or not corporated, within this Realm of England, Wales, or other the queens dominions, being worth three pounds, for every pound aswell in coin, & the value of every pound that every such parson, Fraternity, guild, Corporation, Mystery, Brotherhead, Commonalty, corporate, or not corporate, hath of his or their own, or any other to his or their use: as also plate, stock of marchaundizes, all manner of corn & blades, household stuff, and of all other goods movable, aswell within this Realm, as without, and of all such sums of money as to him or them is or shallbe owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience surely to be paid: Except, and out of the premises deducted, such sums of money as he or they own, & in his or their consciences intendeth truly to pay, and except also th'apparel of such parsons, their wives and children, belonging to their own bodies, saving jewels, gold, silver, stone, and pearl: shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. xx.d. of every pound, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy. xii.d. of every pound. And also every Alien and stranger borne out of the queens obeisance, aswell denizen as others, inhabiting within this Realm, of every pound that he or they have in coin, and the value of every pound in plate, corn, grain, marchaundyzes, household stuff, or other goods, jewels, chattels, movable, or unmovable, as is aforesaid, aswell within this Realm as without, and of all sums of money to him or them owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their consciences to be paid: Except, and of the same premises deducted, every such sum or sums of money which he or they do owe, and in his or their conscience or consciences intend truly to pay: shall pay of and for every pound, to, and for the first payment of the said subsidy. iii.s.iiii.d. and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy. ii.s. of every pound. And also, that every Alien and stranger borne out of the queens dominions, being denizen or not denizen, not being contributory to any the Rates aforesaid, shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. iiii.d. and to, and for the second payment of the said Subsidy. iiii.d. for every pool. And the master, or he or she, with whom the same Alien is, or shallbe abiding at the time of the taxation or taxations thereof, to be charged with the same, for lack of payment thereof.  
And further, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every parson borne under the queens obeisance, and every Corporation, Fraternity, guild, Mystery, brotherhood, and Commonalty, corporate, or not corporate, for every pound that every of the same parson, and every Corporation, Fraternity, guilded, Mystery, Brotherhead, and Commonalty, corporate, or not corporate, or any other to his or their use, hath in fee simple, fee tail, for term of life, term of years, by execution, wardeshyp, or by copy of court roll, of, and in any honours, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, hereditaments, annuities, fees, corrodies, or other yearly profits, of the yearly value of. xx.s. aswell within ancient demean, and other places privileged, or else where, and so upwards: shall pay to, and for the first payment of the said subsidy. ii.s.viii.d. of, and for every pound, and to and for the second payment of the said Subseyde. xvi.d. of and for every pound. And every Alien borne out of the queens obeisance, in such case, to pay at the first of the said payments. u.s.iii.d. of every pound, and at the second payment. ii.s.viii.d. of and for every pound. And that all sums presented and chargeable by this Act, either for goods & debts, or either of them, or for lands and tenements, and other the premises, as is in this Act contained, shallbe at either of the said payments set and taxed after the rate and portion, according to the true meaning of this Act (lands, and tenements chargeable to the dimes of the clergy, and yearly wages due to servants for their yearly service, other than the queens servants, taking yearly wages of .v. pounds or above, only excepted, & foreprised.) And that all plate, coin, jewels, goods, debts, and cattles parsonalles, being in the rule and custody of any parson & parsons, to the use of any corporation, fraternity, guild, mystery, brotherhood, or any commonalty, being corporate, or not corporate, be & shallbe rated, set, a charged by reason of this Act, as the value certified by the presentours of that certificate, to be sworn of every pound in goods and debts, as is abovesaid, & of every pound in lands, tenements, annuities, fees, corrodies or other yearly profits, as is abovesaid, and the sums that are before rehearsed, set and taxed, to be levied and taken of them that shall have such goods in custody, or otherwise charged for lands, as is before rehearsed. And the same parson or parsons, and body corporate, by authority of this Act, shallbe discharged against him or them that shall or aught to have the same, at the time of the payment or delivery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custody or possession of the same. Except and always foreprised from the charge and assessment of this subsidy, all goods, cattles, jewels, and ornaments of Churches and chapels, which have been ordained and used in Churches or chapels for the honour and service of almighty God. And the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe, by the authority aforesaid, taxed, assessed, and rated according to this Act, in every Shire, Lath, Wepentake, Rape, City, Borough, Town, & every other place within this Realm of England, & Wales, and other the queens dominions, before the twenty day of Apryll next coming. And the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe by the authority aforesaid, taxed, assessed, and rated, before the ten day of December next coming. And the particular sums of every Shire, Riding, Borough, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are chargeable for, and to the first payment of the said subsidy, to be taxed and set, by the Commissioners to the same limited, or two of them at the least, with the names of the high Collectors, and in the same form shallbe certified into the queens Exchequer, before the twenty day of may next coming. And the particular sums of every Shire, Riding, Borough, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are chargeable for and to the second payment of the said subsidy, to be taxed and set by Commissioners, to the same to be limited, or two of them at the least, with the names of the high Collectors, and in the same form, shallbe certified into the queens Exchequer before the twenty day of january, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth Threescore and three. And the said sums, in manner and form aforesaid, to be taxed for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the queens receit of her Exchequer aforesaid, to the use of our said Sovereign Lady, before the first day of june next coming. And the said sums in manner and form aforesaid, to be taxed for the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the receit aforesaid, to the use aforesaid, before the twenty day of February, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth Threescore and three. And the sum abovesaid, of, and for the said subsidy, shallbe taxed, set, asked, and demanded, taken, gathered, levied, and paid, to the use of our said Sovereign Lady, her heirs, and successors, in form abovesaid, aswell within the liberties, franchises, sanctuaries, ancient demean, and other whatsoever place exempt or not exempt, as without: except such Shires places, and parsons, as shallbe foreprised, in, and by this present Act, any grant, charter, prescription, use, or liberty, by reason of any letters patents, or other privilege, prescription, allowance of the same, or whatsoever other matter of discharge heretofore to the contrary made, granted, used, or obtained, notwithstanding.  
And it is further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that every such parson, aswell such as be borne under the queens obeisance, as every other parson stranger borne, denizen, or not denizen, inhabiting within this Realm, or within Wales, or other the queens dominions, which at the time of the said assessings or taxations, or of either of them, to be had or made, shallbe out of this Realm, and out of Wales, and have goods or cattles, lands or tenements, fees or annuities, or other profits within this Realm, or in Wales: shallbe charged and chargeable for the same, by the certificate of the inhabitants of the parties, where such goods, chattels, lands, tenements, or other the premises, than shallbe, or in such other place where such parson or his factor, deputy, or attorney, shall have his most resort unto, within this Realm, or in Wales, in like manner, as if the said parson were or had been at the time of the said assessing within this Realm. And that every parson abiding or dwelling within this Realm, or without this Realm, shallbe charged or chargeable to the same subsidy granted by this Act, according and after the rate of such yearly substance, or value of lands and tenements, goods, chattels and other the premises, as every parson so to be charged, shallbe set at in the time of the said assessing, or taxation upon him to be made, and in none otherwise.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for thassessing and ordering of the said subsidy to be duly had, the Lord chancellor of England, or the keeper of the great seal, the Lord treasurer of England, the Lord Steward of the queens majesties household, the Lord Precedent of the queens honourable Counsel, and the Lord Privy seal for the time being, or two of them at the least, whereof the Lord chancellor of England, or keeper of the great seal for the time being, to be one: shall and may name & appoint, of, and for every Shire and Riding, and other places, aswell within this Realm, as in Wales, and other the queens dominions, and also of, and for every City and Town, being a County of itself, and of, & for the Isle of Wight, such certain numbered of parsons of every of the same Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns, and Isle of Wight, and every other place, & other the inhabitants of the same, to be Commissioners of and within the same whereof they be inhabitants, and also of, and for the honourable household of the queens Majesty, in what Shire or other places the said household shall happen then to be. And the Lord chancellor or keeper of the great Seal, & other with him before named, in like manner may name & appoint of every other such borrow, and Town corporate, aswell in England as in Wales, & other the queens dominions, as they shall think requisite. vi.u.iiii.iii. or ii of the head officers, and other sad honest inhabitants of every of the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns corporate, according to the numbered and multitude of the people being in the same. The which parsons, if any such be thereunto named, of the said inhabitants of the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being Counties of themselves: shall be joined and put in as Commissioners, with the parsons named for such Shires and ridings, as the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being counties in themselves, be set and have their being. Which parsons so named, for, and of the said boroughs and Towns corporate, not being counties, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not take upon them, ne none of them, to put any part of their Commission in execution for the premises, out of the said boroughs, and Towns corporate, wherein they being so named only for the same, be dwelling. And also not to execute the said Commission within the Borough or Town corporate where they be so dwelling, but at such days and times as the said other Commissioners for the same Shire and Riding, shall thereunto limit and appoint, within the same Borough or Town corporate, not being County corporate, whereof they so be, and not out of such Borough or Town: and in that manner to be aiding and assisting with the said other Commissioners, in, and for the good executing of theffect of the said Commission, upon pain of every of the said Commissioners, so named for every such City, Borough, and Town corporate, not being a County, to make such fine as the said other Commissioners in the Commission, of, and for the same Shire or Riding so named, or three of them at the least, shall by their discretions set, and certify into the queens Exchequer, there to be levied to the use of the queens Majesty, in like manner as such or like sums had been set and rated upon every such person for the said subsidy. The which Commissioners, so named, of, and for the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns, not being Counties, and only put in the said Commission by reason of their dwelling in the same: shall not have any part of the portion of the fees and rewards of the Commissioners and their Clerks, in this Act afterward specified and allowed. And the Lord chancellor of England, or the keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, shall make, and direct out of the court of the Chancery under the great Seal, several Commissions, that is to say, to every Shire, Riding, Lathe, Wapentake, Rape, City, Town, Borough, Isle, and Household, unto such person and persons, as by his discretion, and other with him afore named and appointed, in like manner and form as is afore rehearsed, shallbe thought sufficient for the sessing and levying of the said subsidy, in all Shires and places, according to the true meaning of this Act. Which Commission for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe directed and delivered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them, before the first day of Apryll next coming, and the Commission for the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe directed and delivered to the said Commissioners or one of them, before the first day of November, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth Threescore and three, and to every of the said Commissions, ten Sedules, containing in them the tenor of this Act, shallbe affyled. By which Commission, the Commissioners in every such Commission, named according to this Act, and as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, shall have full power and authority to put the effect of the same Commission in execution. And that by authority of this Act, after such Commissions to them directed, they may by their assents and agreements, sever themselves for th'execution of their Commission, in hundreds, Laths, Wards, Rapes, Wapentakes, Towns, Parishes, and other places within the limits of their said Commission, in such form as to them shall seem expedient to be ordered, and between them to be commoned and agreed, according to the tenor and effect of the Commission to them therein directed. Upon which severance, every person of this present Parliament that shallbe Commissioner, shallbe assigned in the Hundred where he dwelleth.  
Provided always, that no person be or shallbe compelled to be any Commissioner, to, and for th'execution of this present Act, but only in the Shire where he dwelleth and inhabiteth, and that any person being assigned to the contrary thereof, in any wise shall not be compelled to put in execution the effect of this Act, or any part thereof.  
And it is also enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that the Commissioners, and every of them, which shallbe named, limited, & appointed according to this Act, to be Commissioners in every such Shire, Riding, Lath, Wapentake, Rape City, Town, Borough, Isle, and the said Household, or any other place, and none other: shall truly, effectually, and diligently for their part, execute th'effect of this present Act, according to the tenor thereof in every behalf, and none otherwise by any other means, without omission, favour, dread, malice, or any other thing to be attempted & done by them or any of them, to the contrary thereof. And the said Commissioners, and as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, and none other, for the execution of the said Commission and Act, shall for the taxation of the said first payment of the said subsidy, before the tenth day of Apryll next coming, and for the taxation of the said second payment of the said subsidy, shall before the tenth day of january, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundredth Threescore and three, by virtue of the Commissions delivered unto them in form aforesaid: direct their several or joint precept unto. viii.vii.vi.u.iiii.iii. or two, as for the number of the inhabitants shallbe requisite, of the most substantial, discrete, and honest persons inhabitants, to be named by the said Commissioners, or by as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, of, and in hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, parishes, Towns, and other places, aswell within liberties, fraunchesis, ancient demeans, places exempted, and sanctuaries, as without, within the limits of the shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns, boroughs, or Isle aforesaid, and other places within the limits of their Commission, and to the Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, and other like officers or ministers, of every of the said hundreds, Towns, Wards, Laths, Wapentakes, parishes, & other places before said, as to the said Commissioners & every number of them, or unto three or two of them by their discretions in division, shall seem expedient, as by the manner and use of the parties shallbe requisite, straightly by the same precept, charging and commanding the same inhabitants, Constables, and other officers aforesaid, to whom such precept shallbe so directed, to appear in their proper parsons before the said Commissioners, or such number of them, as they shall divide themselves, according to the tenor of the said Commission, at certain days and places, by the said Commissioners, or any number of them, as is aforesaid, within Cities, boroughs, or Towns corporate, or without, in any other place as is aforesaid, by their discretions shallbe limited thereunto, to do and accomplish all that to them on the parties of the queens Majesty, shallbe enjoined touching this Act. Commanding further by the same precept, that he to whose hands such precept shall come, shall show or deliver the same to the other inhabitants or officers named in the same precept, & that none of them fail to accomplish the same, upon pain of. xl.s. to be forfeited to the queens Majesty.  
And it is further ordained, by the authority of this present Parliament, that at the said day and place prefixed and limited in the said precept, every of the Commissioners then being in the Shire, & having no sufficient excuse for his absence at the day and place prefixed for that part whereunto he was limited: shall appear in his proper parson, and there the same Commissioners being present, or as many as shallbe appointed by the queens majesties Commission, shall call or cause to be called before them, the said inhabitants and officers, to whom they have directed their said precepts, & which had in commandment there to appear by the said precept, of the said Commissioners. And if any parson so warned, make default, unless he then be letted by sickness or lawful excuse, and that let then be witnessed by the oaths of two credible persons, or if any appearing, refuse to serve in form following: to forfeit to the queens Majesty. xl.s. and so at every time appointed by the said Commissioners for the same taxation, unto such time the number of every such parsons have appeared, and certified in form under written, and every of them so making default, or refusing so to serve, to forfeit to the queens Majesty. xl.s. And upon the same appearance had, they shallbe charged before the Commissioners, by all convenient ways & means (other then by corporal oath) to inquire of the best and most value of the Substance of every parson, dwelling and abiding within the limits of the places that they shallbe charged with, and of other which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places, and chargeable with any sum of money by this Act of this said subsidy, and of all other things requisite touching the said Act, and according to the intent of the same, & thereupon as near as it may be, or shall come to their knowledge, truly to present and certify before the said Commissioners, the names and surnames, and the best and uttermost substance and values of every of them, aswell of lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, possessions, & profits, as of goods, chattels, debts, & other things chargeable by the said Act, without any conceylement, love, favour, affection, dread, fear, or malice, upon the pain often pounds or under, to be taxed, estreated, and levied in form as hereafter in this present Act, shallbe limited or appointed. And thereupon the said Commissioners shall openly there read, or cause to be read unto them, the said rates, and openly declare th'effect of their charge unto them, in what manner & form, they ought and should make their certificate, according to the rates & sums thereof abovesaid, and of all manner of parsons, aswell of Aliens and strangers, denizens, or not denizens, inhabiting within this Realm, as of such parsons as be borne under the queens obeisance chargeable to this Act, and of the possessions, goods and chattels of Fraternities, guilds, Corporations, Brotherheades, Mysteries, and commonalties, and other as is abovesaid, and of parsons being in the parties of beyond the seas, having goods or cattles, lands, or tenements within this Realm, as is aforesaid, and of all goods being in the custody of any parson or parsons, to the use of any other, as is abovesaid. By the which information and she wing, the said parsons should have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present Act, and of the manner of their certificate, that the same parsons shall have no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignorance. And after such charge, and the statute of the said subsidy, and the manner of the said certificate to be made in writing, containing the names and surnames of every parson, and whether he be borne without the queens obeisance or within, and the best value of every parson in every degree, aswell of yearly value of lands and tenements, and of such like possessions and profits, as the value of goods and chattels, debts, and every thing to their certificate requisite and necessary to them declared: the said Commissioners there being, shall by their discretions appoint, and limit unto the said parsons, an other day and place, to appear before the said Commissioners, and charging the said parsons, that they in the mean time shall make diligent inquiry, by all ways and means, of the premises, and then and there every of them, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings to the queens Majesty, to appear at the said new prefixed day and place, there to certify unto the said Commissioners in writing, according to their said charge, and according to the true intent of the said grant of subsidy, and as to them in manner aforesaid hath been declared and showed by the Commissioners. At which day and place so to them prefixed, if any of the said parsons make default, or appear and refuse to make the said certificate: that then every of them so offending, to forfeit to the queens Majesty forty shillings, except there be a reasonable excuse of his default, by reason of sickness or otherwise, by the oaths of two credible parsons there witnessed. And of such as appear, ready to make certificate as is aforesaid, the said commissioners there being, shall take and receive the same certificate, and every part thereof, and the names, values, and substance of every parson so certified, and if the same commissioners see cause reasonable, they shall examine the said presenters thereof, and thereupon the said Commissioners at the said days and place, by their agreements among themselves, shall from time to time openly there prefyxe a day, at a certain place or places, within the limits of their commission, by their discretion, for their further proceeding to the said assessing of the same subsidy, and thereupon at the said day of the said certificate, as is aforesaid, taken, the same commissioners shall make their precept or precepts to the Constables, Subconstables, bailiffs, or their officers, of such hundreds, Wapentakes, Towns, or other places aforesaid, as the same commissioners shallbe of, comprising and containing in the same precept, the names and surnames of all parsons presented before them in the said certificate, of whom if the said commissioners or as many of them as shall be thereunto appointed by the queens commission, shall then have vehement suspect, to be of more greater value or substance in Lands, goods, chattels, or sums of money owing to them, or other substance before said, then upon such parson or parsons shallbe certified: the same commissioners shall make their precept or precepts, directed to the Constable, bailiffs, or other officers, commanding the same Constable, bailiffs, or other officers, to whom such precept shallbe directed, to warn such parsons whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept, at their mansions, or to their parsons, that the same parsons named in such precepts, and every of them, shall parsonallye appear before the said commissioners at the same new prefixed day and place, there to be examined by all ways and means (other then by corporal oath) by the said commissioners, of their greatest substance and best value, and of all and every Sums of money owing to them, and other whatsoever matter concerning the premisses, or any of them, according to this Act. At which day and place so prefixed, the said commissioners then and there being, or as many of them as shall be thereunto appointed by the queens commission, shall cause to be called the said parsons whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept, as is before said, for their examination. And if any of those parsons which should be warned, as is before said, to be examined, which at any time after the warnyge, and before the prefixed day, shallbe within such place where he may have knowledge of his said appearance to be made, make default, and appear not, unless a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse, by the oaths of two credible parsons, before the said commissioners be truly alleged for his discharge: that then every of them so making default, to be taxed and charged to the queens Majesty, with, and at the double sums of the rate that he should or ought to have been set at, for, and after the best value of his lands or substance upon him certified, if he had appeared, by the digression of the commissioners there being. Which commissioners, shall travail with every of the other parsons so then and there appearing, whose names shallbe expressed in the said precept or precepts, and in whom any vehement suspect was or shallbe had, form abovesaid, by all such ways and means they can (other than by corporal oath) for the better knowledge of their best value, either in hereditaments, or possessions, either else in goods or debts. And that every Spiritual parson at either of the said taxations of the said subsidy, shallbe rated and set, according to the rate abovesaid, of, and for every pound that the same Spiritual parson, or any other to his use hath, by descent, bargain, or purchase, in fee Simple, fee Tail, term of life, term of years, by execution, by ward, or by copy of court roll, in any Manors, Lands, Annuittes, or Hereditamentes, after the true, just, and yearly value thereof, after and according as other the queens majesties subjects borne within this Realm, be charged, in form above remembered, so that it extend to the yearly value of. xx.s. or above.  
And it is further enacted, that if the said taxours and assessors, shall not duly behave themselves in their inquiry, taxation, assessment, or certificate, but shall affectionallye, corruptly, or parciallye demesne themselves in that behalf, in such wise, that the commissioners shall by their consideration deem them offenders, worthy of punishment for not doing their duties therein: that then four or more of the Commissioners in that County, for this subsidy, shall have power and authority, by their discretions either to charge the said assessors, upon their corporal oaths, for the better service aforesaid in that behalf, or else by their discretion, to tax and set upon either of the said assessors, for their misdemeanour in that behalf, such a fine or pain as they shall think good, so that it exceed not the sum of ten pounds, and the same fine or pain, at their discretions to estreat. Every which fine so taxed and set by four of the Commissioners, or more, and being estreated with the Sedule or books of that lymytte, shallbe levied and answered to the queens use, in like manner and form, to all intentes and purposes, as any other sum that shallbe taxed and become due by virtue of this statute and Act of subsidy, and not in any other wise or manner. And if any parson certified or rated by virtue of this Act, be he commissioner or other, to any manner of value, doth find himself grieved with the same presentment, sessing, or taxing, and thereupon complain to the commissioners, before whom he shallbe rated, sessed, or taxed, or before two of them, before the same taxation be certified into the court of the Exchequer: that then the said commissioners, or two of them, shall by all ways and means, examine particularly and distynctlye the parson so complaining, upon his oath, and other his neighbours, by their digression, of every his lands and tenements above specified, and of every his goods, chattels, and debts above mentioned. And after due examination and perfect knowledge thereof had, and perceived by the said commissioners, or two of them, which shall have power by authority aforesaid: the said commissioners or two of them, to whom any such complaint shallbe made, by their digression, upon the oath of the said parson so complaining, may abate, defaulke, increase, or enlarge the same assessment, according as it shall appear unto them just, upon the same examination. And the same sum so abated, defaulked, increased, or enlagred, shallbe by them estreated in form as hereafter ensueth. And if it be proved by witness, or by the parties own confession, or other lawful ways or means, within a year after any such oath made, that the same parson so taxed, and sworn, was of any better or greater value in lands, goods, or other things above specified, at the time of his said oath, than the same parson so sworn did declare upon his said oath: that then every such parson so offending, shall lose and forfeit to the queens Majesty, so much in lawful money of England, as he the same parson so sworn, was set or taxed to pay.  
And also it is enacted by the same authority, that every parson to be rated at the said taxation, as is aforesaid, shall be rated, taxed, and set, and the sum on him set, to be levied at such place where he and his family at the time of the same presentment to be made, shall keep his house or dwelling, or where he than shallbe moste conversant, abiding, or resyaunte, or shall have his most resort, at the time of the said certificate to be made, and no where else. And that no commissioner for this subsidy, shall be rated or taxed for his goods or lands, but in the Shire and other place where he shallbe commissioner. And that if any parson chargeable to this Act, at the time of the same assessing, happen to be out of this Realm, and out of Wales, or far from the place where he shallbe known: then he to be set where he was last abiding in this Realm, or within Wales, and after the substance, value, and other profits of every parson to be known, by the examination. certificate, or other manner of wise, as is aforesaid. And that the said commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the queens majesties commission, or commissions, shall after the rate and rates aforesaid, cause every parson to be set, rated, and taxed, according to the rate of the substance and value of his Lands, goods, chattels, and other profits chargeable by this Act, whereby the greatest and most best sum or sums, according to his most substance, by reason of this Act, might, or may be set or taxed. And that every parson taxed in any County or place, other than where he is most resyaunte, or hath his family, or in any County or place, other than where he is a commissioner for this subsidy, if he be a commissioner, upon certificate made to the said Court of Exchequer, under the hands and seals of three commissioners for the subsidy in the same County or place where such parson is most resyaunte, or hath his family, or where he is a commissioner for the taxation and payment of this subsidy, testyfying such his most resyauncie, having of family, or being a commissioner: shallbe a sufficient discharge for the taxation of that parson in all other places, and of, and for all other sums of money upon such parson so set and taxed, save only the taxation made in that County or place, from which such certificate shallbe made, as aforesaid, and for the sum of money upon such parson there assessed or taxed. And that such certificate without any plea or other circumstance, shallbe a sufficient warrant, aswell to the Barons and Auditors of the said court of Exchequer, as to all and every other officers, to whom the allowance thereof shall appertain, paying for such discharge and allowance, only two shillings, and no more.  
provided always, that every such parson, which shallbe rated, set, or taxed, according to the intent and true meaning of this Act, for payment of and to this subsidy, for, and after the yearly value of his lands, tenements, and other Real possessions or profits at any of the said taxations, shall not after be set and taxed for his goods and chattels, or other his movable substance at the same taxations, and that he that shallbe set, charged, or taxed for the same Subsidy, for his goods, chattels, and other movables, at any of the said taxations, according to the true meaning of this Act, shall not after be charged, taxed, or chargeable for his lands, or other real possessions and profits abovesaid, at the same taxations, nor any of them, nor that any parson by any taxation be double charged for the said subsidy, nor set or taxed at several places by reason of this Act. But if any parson happen to be double set, taxed, or charged, either in one place, or at several places: then he to be discharged of th'one taxation, & charged with the other, according to the meaning and intent of this Act. Any thing contained in this present Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
And that it be ordained by the said authority of this present Parliament, that no parson having two mansions, or two places to resort unto, or calling himself household servant, or waiting servant to the queens Majesty, or other Lord or Lady, Master or Mysteres, be excused upon his saying, from the taxes of the said subsidy, in neither of the places where he may be set, unless he bring a certificate in writing from the Commissioners, where that he is so set in deed at one place. And if any parson that ought to be set, by reason of his removing or resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he else where was taxed, or by reason of any privilege by his dwelling or abiding in any place, not being foreprysed in this Act, or otherwise by his covin or craft, happen to escape from the said taxation, and be not set and taxed, and that proved, by presentment, examination, or information before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe by the same commission appointed, or before the Barons of the queens majesties Exchequer, or two justices of the peace, of the County where such parson dwelleth: then every such parson that by such means, or otherwise willingly by covin, shall happen to escape from the said taxation, or payment aforesaid, and not be rated, taxed, and set, shallbe charged upon the knowledge and proof thereof, with and at the double value of so much as he should, might, or aught to have been set and taxed at, by virtue of this Act. And the same double value to be levied, gathered, and paid, of his goods and chattels, lands, and temementes, towards the said subsidy, and further to be punished according to the discretions of the Barons, justices and Commissioners, before whom he shallbe convicted for his offence, and deceit in that behalf.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said commissioners in every commission, shall according to their divisions, and after they be divided, have full power and authority by this Act, to set, tax, and sesse every other Commissioner, joined with them in every such Commission and division, and shall also assess every assessour within their division, for his and their goods, lands, and other the premises as is abovesaid: by the which said Commission, the said Commissioners shall indifferently set, tax, and assess themselves and the said assessors. And that aswell the sums upon every of the said Commissioners and assessors, so sessed, rated, and taxed, as the sums made and presented by the presenters sworn as is abovesaid, shallbe written, certified, set, and estreated, and the estreats thereof to be made, with other the inhabitants of that parties, within the limits of the same Commission and division so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it ought or should have been, if the said Commissioners had not been in the said Commission. And that all parsons of the estate of a Baron or Barons, and every estate above, shallbe charged with their free hold, and value as is abovesaid, by the chancellor or keeper of the great Seal. Precedent of the Counsel, the high treasurer of England for the time being, and other such parsons as by the queens majesties authority, shallbe named and appointed, and they to be charged for the said several payments of the said subsidy, after the form of the said grant, according to the taxation aforesaid. And the sums upon them set, with the names of the Collectors appointed for the gathering and paying of the same, to be estreated, delivered and certified at days and places above specified, by the Lord Chancellor, or keeper of the great Seal, and treasurer, and other such parsons as thereto shallbe named.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that after the taxes and assesses of the said sums, upon and by the said assessing and certificate, as is aforesaid made, by the said commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the queens majesties Commission: shall with all speed, and without delay, by the writing estreated of the said tax thereof, under the seals and signs manuel of the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe appointed, at the least to be made, shallbe delivered unto sufficient and substantial inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables, bailiffs, & other officers jointly, of hundreds, Towns, parishes, and other places aforesaid, within their limits, or to other sufficient parson's inhabitants of the same, only by the discretion of the said Commissioners, and as the place and parties shall require, aswell the particular names and surnames, as the remembrance of all sums of money taxed and set, of, and upon every parson, aswell men as women chargeable to this Act, householder, and all other the inhabitants & dwellers within the said parishes, Towns and places contributory to this Act of Subsidy. By authority of which writing or estreat so delivered, the said officers and other parsons so named and deputed severally, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, immediately after the delivery of the said writing or estreat, to demand, levy, and gather of every parson therein specified, the sum and sums in the same writing or estreat comprised, and for non payment thereof, to distrain the same parson or parsons so being behind, by their goods and cattles, and the distress so taken, to keep by the space of eight days, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof. And if the said owner do not pay such sum of money as shallbe taxed by authority of this Act, within the same viii days: then the same distress to be appreased by four, three, or two of the inhabitants where such distress is taken, and also then to be sold by the said Constable, or other Collectors for the payment of the said money, and the overplus coming of the sale and keeping thereof (if any be) to be immediately restored to the owner of the same distress. Which said officers and other parsons so deputed, to ask, take, gather, and levy the said sums, shall answer and be charged for the portion only to them assigned and limited, to be gathered, levied, and comprised in the said writing or estreat so to them, as is aforesaid delivered, to the use of our Sovereign Lady the queens Majesty, and her heirs and successors, and the said sum in that writing or estreat comprised, to pay unto the high collector or Collectors of that place, for the collection of the same, in manner and form under written, thereunto to be named and deputed. And the same inhabitants and officers, so gathering the same particular sums, for their collection thereof, shall retain for every. xx.s. so by them received and paid, two pence, & that to be allowed at the payment of their collection by them to be made, to the high collector or Collectors.  
And further, be it enacted by the said authority, that the said Commissioners, or the more part of them, as shall take upon them execution and business of the said Commission, shall for either of the same payments of the said subsidy, name such sufficient and able parsons, which then shall have and possede lands and other hereditaments, in their own right, of the yearly value of. xx.li. or goods to the value of two hundredth marks, at the least. And the parsons severally by the discretions of the same Commissioners, in Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns corporate, or other whatsoever places, aswell within places privileged as without, not being foreprised within this Act, to be high Collectors, & have their collection and receipt of the said sums set, and leviable within the precinct, limit, and bounds, where they shallbe so limited to gather and receive. To every of the which Collectors so severally named, the said Commissioners, or two of them at the least, shall with all speed, & without delay, after the said whole sum of the said subsidy, be set by all the limits of the same their Commission, or in such limits as the high Collectors shallbe so severally assigned: shall under the seals & signs manuel, deliver one estreat indented in parchment, to every of the said high Collectors, comprising in it, the names of all such parsons as were assigned to levy the said particular sum and sums of every Hundred, Wapentake, Town, or other place aforesaid, with the names and surnames of the parsons so chargeable, according to the estreat so first thereof made, as is aforesaid, and delivered. And the Collectors so to be assigned, shallbe charged to answer the whole sum comprised in the said estreat, limited to his collection, as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners having authority by this Act, to name and nominate the said high Collectors of the said Subsidy: shall immediately upon the nomination and election, take by authority of this present Parliament, sufficient recognisances or obligations, without any fee or reward to be paid therefore, of every parson so by them to be named to be high collector, to be bounden to the queens Majesty in the double sum of the sum of his collection, and to be endorsed and made upon such condition, that is to say, for the collection of the said first payment of the said subsidy, that if the said collector, his heirs, or executors, do truly content and pay to the use of the queens Majesty, her heirs, or executors, in the receipt of the said Exchequer, before the said first day of june next coming, so much of the said sum of money allotted & appointed to his collection, as he shall collect and gather, and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge, within one month next after such time as he hath gathered & collected the same residue: that then the said recognisances or obligation to be void, or else to stand in full strength & virtue. And for the collection of the second payment of the said Subsidy, upon condition that if the said collector, his heirs, or executors, do truly content and pay to the use of the queens Majesty, her heirs, or successors, in her receipt of the Exchequer, before the twenty day of February, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God. M.D.lxiii. so much of the said sum of money allotted and appointed to his collection, as he shall collect and gather, and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge, within one month next after such time as he hath gathered and collected the same residue: that then the said recognisance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in full strength and virtue. Which said several recognisances, or obligations so taken, the said Commissioners shall severally certify and deliver the queens majesties Exchequer, with the several certificates of the said taxations and rates of the payments of the said subsidy, at, & by the time to them prescribed and appointed by this Act, for the certificate of the said several taxations of the said subsidy, upon pain of forfeiture of. x.li. to the queens Majesty for every recognisance or obligation not certified. And that every such collector so elected, named, and chosen, upon request to him made, shall knowledge and make the said recognisance or obligation, upon like pain and forfeiture of. x.li. to the queens Majesty for the refusal thereof. And every collector so deputed, having the said estreat in parchment, as is aforesaid, shall have authority by this Act, to appoint days and places within the circuit of his collection, for the payment of the said subsidy, to him to be made, and thereof to give warning by Proclamation or otherwise, to all the Constables, or other parsons, or inhabitants, having the charge of the particular collection within the hundreds, parishes, Towns, or other places, by him or them limited to make payment for their said particular collection of every sum, as to them shall appertain. And if at the said day and place so limited and prefixed by the said collector, the said Constable, officers, and other parsons, or inhabitants, as is aforesaid, for the said particular collection, assigned and appointed within such Hundred, City, Town, or other place, do not pay unto the said Collectors, the sum within their several hundreds, Towns, Parishes, and other places, due, and comprised in the said estreat thereof, to them delivered by the said Commissioners, or some of them, as is aforesaid, or so much thereof as they have by any mean received ii d. of every pound, for the said particular collection, as is aforesaid, always to be thereof allowed, excepted, and abated: that then it shallbe lawful to the said high Collectors, and every of them, and to their assigns, to distrain every of the said Constables, officers, and other inhabitants, for their said several and particular collection of the said sums comprised in the said estreat and writing thereof to them and every of them, as is before expressed, and delivered, or for as much of the same sum, as so then shall happen to be gathered and levied, and behind and unpaid, by the goods and chattels of every of them so being behind. And the distress so taken, to be kept, appreased, and sold, as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and levy the sums so then being behind & unpaid. And the overplus coming of the sale of the said distress (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the owner, in form above remembered.  
Provided always, that no parson inhabiting in any City, Borough, or Town corporate, shallbe compelled to be any Assessour or collector, of, or for any part of the said subsidy, in any place or places out of the said City, Borough, or Town corporate where he dwelleth.  
And it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any inhabitant, or office, or whatsoever parson or parsons charged to and for the collection or receit of any part or parsell of the said subsidy, by any manner of means, according to the tenor of this Act, or any parson or parsons for themselves, or as keeper, guardian, deputy, factor, or attorney, of, or for any other parson or parsons, of any goods and cattles, of the owner thereof, at the time of the said assessing to be made, being out of this Realm, or in any other parties not known, or of, and for the goods and chattels of any other parson or parsons of any Corporation, Fraternity, Mystery, or other whatsoever Commonalty, being incorporate, or not incorporate, and all parsons having in their rule, governance and custody, any goods or chattels, at the time of the said assessing, or any of them to be made, or which for any cause, for and by collection, or for himself, or for any other, or by reason that he hath the rule, governance, or custody of any goods or chattels of any other parson or parsons, Corporation, Commonalty, Fraternity, guild, or Mystery, or any such other like, or as factor, deputy, or attorney, of, or for any parson: shallbe taxed, rated, valued, and set, to any sum or sums, by reason of this Act, and after the taxation or assessing upon any such parson or parsons as shallbe charged with the receipt of the same, happen to die, or depart from the place where he was so taxed and set, or his goods or chattels be so eloyned, or in such privy and covert manner kept, as the said parson or parsons charged with the same, by estreats or other writings from the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the said Commission, as is aforesaid, can ne may levy the same sum or sums comprised within the same estreats, by distress, within the limits of their collection, as is aforesaid, or can not sell such distress or distresses as be taken for any of the said payments, before the time limited to the high collector, for his payment to be made in the queens majesties receipt: then upon relation thereof, with due examination, by the oath or examination of such parson or parsons as shallbe charged with, and for the receit and collection of the same before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said commission shallbe thereunto appointed, where such parson or parsons, or other as is aforesaid, their goods and chattels, were set and taxed, and upon plain certificate thereof made in the queens majesties Exchequer by the same Commissioners, aswell of the dwelling place, names, and sums, of the said parsons of whom the said sums can not be levied and had, as is aforesaid: then aswell the Constables and other inhabitants appointed for the said particular collection, against the high Collectors, as the high collector upon his account and oath in the same Exchequer, to be discharged thereof, & process to be made for the queens Majesty out of the said Exchequer, by the discretion of the Barons of the said Exchequer, against such parson, his heirs, or executors, so being behind with his payment. And over that, the same Commissioners to whom any such declaration of the premises shallbe made, in form aforesaid, from time to time, shall have full power and authority, to direct their precept or precepts unto the said parson or parsons charged with any sum, of, for, and upon any such parson or parsons, or other as is aforesaid, or to any sheriff, Steward, bailiff, or other whatsoever office, minister, parson or parsons of such place or places where any such parson or parsons so owing such sum or sums, shall have lands and tenements, or other hereditaments, or real possessions, goods, & chattels, whereby any such parson or parsons so indebtted, his heirs, executors or assigns, or other having the custody, governance, or disposition of any goods, chattels, lands or tenements, or other heredimantes, which ought or may by this Act lawfully be distrained or taken for the same, hath & shall have goods, cattles, lands, tenements, or other possessions, whereof such sum or sums which by any such parson or parsons, may, or aught to be levied, be it within the limits of such Commission where such parson or parsons was and were taxed, or without, in any place within this Realm of England, Wales, or other the queens majesties Dominions, Marches, or Territories. By which precept, aswell such parson or parsons as shallbe charged to levy such sum of money, as the officers of the place or places where such distress may be taken: shall have full power & authority to distrain every such parson indebtted, charged, and chargeable by this Act, or his executors, or administrators, of his goods and chattels, his guardians, factors, deputies, lessees, farmers, and assigns, and all other parsons by whose hands, or out of whose lands, any such parsons should have rend, fee, annuity, or other profit, or which at the time of the said assessings, shall have goods or chattels, or any other thing movable, of any such parson or parsons being indebtted, or owing such sum. And the distress so taken, cause to be kept, appreased, and sold, in like manner and form, as is aforesaid for the distress to be taken, upon such parsons to be taxed to the said subsidy, and being sufficient to distrain within the limits of the Collectors, Inhabitants, or other officers, charged with, or for the same sum so upon them to be taxed. And if any such distress for non payment, happen to be taken, out of the limit of the said parsons, charged and assigned to levy the same: the parsons so charged for the levy of any such sum by distress, shall perceive and take of the same distress, for the labour of every parson going for the execution thereof, for every mile that any such parson so laboureth for the same. ii.d. And every farmer, tenant, guardian, factor, or other whatsoever parson, being distrained, or otherwise charged for payment of any such sum or sums, or any other sum by reason of this Act, shallbe of such sum or sums of him or them so levied and taken, discharged and acquitted at his next day of payment of the same, or at the delivery of such goods and chattels, as he that is so distrained, had in his custody and governance, against him or them that shallbe so taxed and set: any grant, or writing obligatory, or other whatsoever matter to the contrary made heretofore, notwithstanding. And if any such parson that should be so distrained, have no lands or tenements sufficient, whereby he or his tenants and farmers may be distrained, or have aliened or hid his goods and chattels, whereby he should or might be distrained, in such manner that such goods and chattels shall not be known or found, so that the sum, of, or by him to be paid in the said form, shall ne can be conveniently levied: then upon relation thereof to the Commissioners, or to as many of them as by the said Commission shallbe thereunto appointed, where such parson or parsons was taxed and set, by the oaths of him or them that shallbe charged with the levy and payment of that sum or sums, the same Commissioners shall make a precept, in such manner as is aforesaid, for to attach, take, and arrest the body of such parson or parsons that ought to pay the said sums, and by this Act shallbe charged with and for the said sum or sums: and them so taken, safely to keep in prison, within the shire or other place where any such parson or parsons shallbe taken and attached, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he hath paid the same sum or sums that such parson for himself, or for any other, by this Act shallbe chargeable, or aught to be charged withal. And also for the fees of every such arrest, to him or them that shall execute such precept xx. d. And that every officer unto whom such precept shallbe directed, do his true diligence, and execute the same upon every parson so being indebtted, upon pain to forfeit to the queens Majesty for every default in that behalf twenty shillings. And that no keeper of any jail, from his jail suffer any such parson to go at large by letting to bail, or otherwise to depart out of his prison, before he have paid his said debt, and the said. xx.d. for the said arrest, upon pain to forfeit to the queens Majesty forty shillings, and the same Gaoler to pay unto the queens Majesty the double value, aswell of the rate which the said parson so imprisoned was taxed, as of the said. xx.d. for the fees. And like process and remedy, in like manner and form, shallbe granted by the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said Commission shallbe thereunto appointed, at like infirmation of every parson or parsons being charged with any sum of money, for any other parson or parsons by reason of the said subsidy, and not thereof paid, but wilfully withdrawn, ne the same levyable within the limits where such parsons were thereunto taxed. And if the sum or sums being behind unpaid, by any parson or parsons, as is aforesaid, be levied and gathered by force of the said process to be made by the said Commissioners, or if indefaulte, or for lack of payment thereof, the parson or parsons so owing the said sum or sums of money, by process of the same Commissioners to be made as is aforesaid, be committed to prison in form abovesaid: that then the said Commissioners which shall award such process, shall make certificate thereof in the said Exchequer, of that shallbe done in the premises, in the Term next following, after such sum or sums of money so being behind, shallbe levied and gathered, or such parson or parsons for non payment of the same committed to prison. And if it happen any of the said Collectors to be assigned, or any Majors, sheriffs, Stewards, Constables, the Nedborow, Borsholder, Bailiff, or any other officer or minister, or other whatsoever parson or parsons, to disobey the said Commissyoners or any of them, in the reasonable request to them made by the said Commissioners, for the execution of the said Commission, or if any of the officers or other parsons do refuse that to them shall appertain and belong to do, by reason of any precept to him or them to be directed, or any reasonable commandment, instance, or request, touching the premisses, or other default, in any appearance, or collection to make, or if any parson being suspect, or not to be indifferently taxed, as is aforesaid, do refuse to be examined, according to the tenor of this Act, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto assigned, as is aforesaid, or will not appear before the same commissioners upon warning to him made, or else make resistance or rescous, upon any distress upon him to be taken, for any parcel of the said subsidy, or commit any misbehaviour in any manner of wise contrary to this Act, or commit any wilful omission, or other whatsoever wilful not doing or misdoing, contrary to the tenor of this Act or grant: the same Commissioners and every number of them above remembered, or two of them at the least, upon probable knowledge of any such misdemeanours, had by information or examination, shall and may set upon every such offender for every such offence, in name of a fine by the same offender to be forfeited, forty shillings, or under, by the digression of the same Commissioners. And further, the same Commissioners and every number of them, or two of them at the least, shall have authority by this present Act, to punish every such offender by inprysonment, there to remain, and to be delivered by their discretion, as shall seem to them convenient, the said fines, if any such be, to be certified by the said commissioners that so assessed the same, into the queens Majesties said Exchequer, there to be levied and paid by the Collectors of that parties for the said Subsidy, returned into the said Exchequer, to be therewith charged with the payment of the said subsidy, in such manner as the said fines had been set and taxed upon the said offenders, for the said subsidy.  
It is also enacted by the said authority of this present Parliament, that every of the said high Collectors, which shall account for any part of the said subsidy in the said Exchequer, upon their several said accounts to be yielded, shallbe allowed at every of the said payments of the said subsidy, for every pound limited to his collection, whereof any such collector shallbe charged, and yield accopmte. 6d.. as parcel of their charge, that is to say, of every pound thereof, for such parson as then have had the particular collection in the Towns and other places as is aforesaid, specified in his collection. ii.d. and other. ii.d. of every pound thereof every of the said chief Collectors or their accomptauntes to retain to their own use, for their labour and charge, in and about the premises, and. ii.d. of every pound residue to be delivered, allowed, and paid, by the said Collectors so being thereof allowed, to such of the Commissioners as shall take upon them the business and labour, for, and about the premises, that is to say, every collector to pay that Commissioner or Commissioners which had the ordering of the wrytnges, of, and for the said subsidy, where the said collector or Collectors had their collection, for the expenses of the said Commissioners so taking upon them the said business and labour of their Clerks writing of the precepts and extractes for the said collections, the same last. ii.d. of every pound to be divided amongst the said Commissioners, having regard to their labour and business, taken by them or their said Clerks, in, and about the premises. For the which part so to the said Commissioners attaining, the said Commissioners. vi.u.iiii.iii. or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the queens majesties Commission, and every of them, jointly & severally, for his and their said part, may have his remedy against the said collector or Collectors, which thereof been and might have been allowed by action of debt, in which the defendant shall not wage his law, neither protection, neither Injunction, or other Essoygne shallbe allowed. And that no parson, now being of the number of the company of this present Parliament, nor any Commissioner, shallbe named or assigned to be any collector or Subcollectour, or presentour of the said subsidy, or of any part thereof, nor no commissioners shallbe compelled to make any presentment or certificate, other then in the queens Majesties said Exchequer, of, for, or concerning the said subsidy, or any part thereof. And likewise that no other parson that shallbe named or assigned to be Commissioners in any place, to, and for th'execution of this Act of subsidy, be, or shallbe assigned or named head Collectors of any of the payments of the said subsidy, neither of any part thereof. And that every such parson or parsons which shallbe named and appointed as is aforesaid, to be head Collectors in, and for the first payment of this subsidy, shall not be compelled to be collector for the second payment of the said subsidy, or for any part thereof. And the said Collectors which shallbe assigned for the collection of the said subsidy, or for any part thereof, and every of them, be, and shallbe acquitted and discharged of all manner fees, rewards, and of every other charges in the queens majesties Exchequer, or else where, of them or of any of them, by reason of that collection, payment, or accounts, or any thing concerning the same to be asked. And that if any parson receive or take any fees, rewards, or pleasures of any such accomptaunt: that then he shall forfeit to the queens Majesty, for every penny or value of every penny so taken. u.ss. and suffer imprisonment at the queens majesties pleasure. And after the taxing and assessing of the said subsidy (as is aforesaid) had or made, and the said extractes thereof in parchment, unto the collector, in manner and form before rehearsed, delivered: the said Commissioners which shall take upon them thexecutions of this Act, within the limits of their Commission by their agreements, shall have meeting together, at which meeting, every of the said Commissioners which then shall have taken upon them th'execution of any part of the said Commission, shall by himself, or by his sufficient deputy, truly certify and bring forth unto the said commissioners named in the said Commission, the certificate and presentment, made before him and such other Commissioners as were limited with him in one limit, so that the same certificate may be accounted and cast with the other certificates of the other limits within the same Commission, & then the said Commissioners & every number of them, unto two at the least, as is aforesaid, if any be in life, or their executors, or administrators of their goods if they then be dead, shall jointly and severally, as they were divided within their limits, under their seals, by their discretion, make one or several writings indented, containing in it aswell the names of the said Collectors, by the Commissioners for such collection & accounts in the Exchequer, and payment in the said receit, deputed and assigned, as the gross and several sums written unto every such collector to receive the said subsidy. And also all fines, amerciaments, & other forfeitures, if any such by reason of this Act happen to be within the precinct and limit of their Commission, to be certified into the queens Majesties said Exchequer by the said Commissioners. In which writing or writings indented so to be certified, shall be plainly declared and expressed the whole & entire sum or sums of the said Subsidy, severally limited to the collection of the said Collectors, severally deputed & assigned to the collection of the said sums, so that none of the said Collectors so certified in the said Exchequer, shallbe compelled there to account, or to be charged, but only to and for the sum limited to his collection, and not to or for any sum limited to the collection of his fellow, but that every of them shallbe severally charged for their part, limited to their collection. And if the said Commissioners joined in one Commission, among them selves in that matter can not agree, or if any of them be not ready, or refuse to make certificate with other of the same Commissioners: that then the same Commissioners may make several Indentures in form aforesaid, of their several limits, or separations of Collectors within the limits of their Commission, upon & in the hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, Laths, Rapes, or such other like divisions within their said several limits of their Commission, as the places there shall require to be severed & divided, and as to the same Commissioners shall seem good, to make divisions of their limits or collections, for the several charges of the same Collectors, so that always one collector shallbe charged & account for his part to him to be limited, only by himself, and not for any sum limited to the part of any of his fellows, and the charges of every of the Collectors to be set and certified severally upon them, and every such collector, upon his account and payment of the sum of money limited within his collection, to be severally by himself acquitted and discharged in the said Exchequer, without paying any manner fees or rewards to any parson or parsons for the same, upon the pain and penalty last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any portion of any other collector. And if any Comissioner, after he hath taken certificate of them, that as is aforesaid, shall before any such commissioner be examined, and the sums rated and set, and the books and writings thereof being in his hands, or if any collector or other parson, charged with any receit of any part of the said subsidy, or any other parson taxed, or otherwise by this Act charged with and for any parcel of the said subsidy, or with any other sums, or fine, amerciament, penalty, or other forfeiture, happen to die, before the commissioner, collector, or other whatsoever parson or parsons have executed, accomplished, satisfied, or sufficiently discharged that which to every such parson shall appertain or belong to do, according to this Act: then the executors and heirs of every such parson, and all other seized of any lands or tenements, that any such parson being charged by this Act, and deceassing before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use only had, of estate of inheritance, at the time that any such parson was named Commissioner, collector, or otherwise charged with and for any manner of thing to be done, satisfied, or paid, by reason of this Act. And all those that have in their possessions or hands, any goods, chattels, leasses, or other things, that to any such parson or parsons at the time of his death, or any lands, or tenements, that were the same parsons, at the time he was (as is aforesaid) charged by this Act, shallbe by the same, compelled and charged to do, and accomplish to do in every case as the same parson so being charged should have done, and might have been compelled to do, if he had been in plain life, after such rate, of the lands and goods of the said Commissioner or collector, as the party shall have in his hand. And if the said Commissioners, for causes reasonable them moving, shall think it not convenient to join in one certificate, as is aforesadye: then the said parson or parsons that shall first join together, or he that shall first certify the said writing indented, as is aforesaid, shall certify all the names of the Commissioners of that Commission, whereupon such writings shallbe there then to be certified, with division of the hundreds, Wapentakes, Wards, tithings, or other places, to, and among such Commissioners of the same commission, with the names of the same Commissioners where such separations and divisions shallbe, with the gross sums of money, aswell of and for the said subsidy, taxed or set, of, or within the said hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, or other places to him or them divided or assigned, that shall so certify the said first writing, as of fines, amerciaments, penalties, or other forfeysures, if any happen to be within the same limits whereof the same writings shallbe certified, and after such writing indented, which, as is aforesaid, shallbe certified, and not contain in it the whole and full sums set and taxed within the limits of the same Commission, the other Commissioners of the same, before the day of payment of the said subsidy, shall certify into the said Exchequer, by their writing or writings indented, to be made as is aforesaid, the gross and several sums, set and taxed within the places to them limited for the said subsidy, and other fines, amerciaments, penalties, and forfeitures, with the names of the hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, and other places to them assigned, or else by their said writings indented, to certify at the same place, before the said day of payment, such reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate, of, and for the said subsidy, fines, amerciaments, and other forfeitures growing or set by reason of the causes of their lets, or of their non certifying, as is aforesaid, or else in default thereof, process to be made out of the queens Majesties said Exchequer, against the said Commissioners and every of them, not making certificate, as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the treasurer or Barons of the said Exchequer.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Inhabitants of the parish of Saint Martin, called Stampforde Baron, in the Suburbs of the borrow and Town of Stampforde, in the South part of the water there, called Wellande, which hereafter shallbe contributory to the payment of this present subsidy, granted to the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, shallbe assessed, rated, and taxed for this time by such Commissioners which shallbe appointed for the taxing, rating, & sessing of such subsidy or Tax within the County of Lincoln, and shallbe for this time contributory and pay the said subsidy to the collector or Collectors which shallbe assigned & appointed for the levying and gathering of the same, with the Aldermen & Burgesses of the said borrow and Town of Stampford.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every parson and parsons having manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, chargeable to the payment of the subsidy granted to the queens Majesty by this Act, and also having spiritual possessions chargeable to her said Majesty by the grant made by the clergy of this Realm in their Convocation, and over this, having subtaunce in goods and chattels chargeable by this said Act: that then if any of the said parson or parsons be hereafter charged, assessed, and taxed, for the said manors, lands, and tenements, and spiritual possessions, and also assessed, charged, and taxed for his or their goods and chattels: that then he or they shallbe only charged by virtue of this Act for his and their said manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and spiritual possessions, or only for his said goods and chattels, the best thereof to be taken for the queens Majesty, and not to be charged for both, or double charged for any of them: Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always, that this grant of subsidy nor any thing therein contained, in any wise extend to charge the Inhabytauntes or dwellers in Ireland, jernesey, and Garnesey, or any of them, of, or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions, goods, chattels, or other movable substance, which the said inhabitants, or dwellers, or any other to their use have within Ireland, jernesey, and Garnesey, or in any of them, or of, for, or concerning any fees, or wages, which any of the said inhabitants or dwellers, have of the queens Majesty, for their attendance, and doing service to our Sovereign Lady in Ireland, jernesey, and Garnesey, or in any of them: any thing in this present Act to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided also, that this present Act of Subsidy, ne any thing therein contained, extend to any of the english inhabitants or resiantes in any of the counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, Westmerlande, the Town or Barwycke, the Town of Newcastle upon Tine, & the Bishopric of Durham▪ nor to any of them, of, for, or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions, goods, chattels, or other movable substance, which the same inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use, have within the said counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, Westmerlande, or the Town of Barwycke, the Town of Newcastle upon Tine, or the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, or of, for, or concerning any fees or wages, which any of the said inhabitants or dwellers have of the queens Majesty, for their attendance and doing service to the Queens for, or within the said Counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, Westmerlande, the Town of Berwick, the Town of Newecastell upon Tine, and the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, to, or for the said taxing, levying, gathering, or payment: but that the english inhabitants and resyauntes, and every of them, of the said Counties, bishopric, and Towns, and every of them, shallbe of, and from the said subsidy, and every parcel thereof, and for their manors, lands, tenements, fees, wages, goods, and chattels, lying and being in the said Counties, Towns, and bishopric, or any of them, utterly acquitted and discharged: any thing in this present Act before rehearsed to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
provided also, that all letters patents granted by the queens Majesty, or any of her most noble progenitors, to any Cities, boroughs, or Towns within this Realm, of any manner of liberties, privileges, or exemptions, from the burden & charge of any such grants of Subsidy, which be at this present time in force & vailable, shall remain good and effectual, to the said Cities, boroughs, and Towns hereafter, according to the purportes thereof, though the inhabitants of the same, shall upon the great and weighty consideration of the grant abovesaid, be for this grant charged and contributory, in like manner, form, and sort, as other City's boroughs, and Towns, which be not in any wise privileged, be from such grant of subsidy excepted.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Orphan, or Infant within the age of xxi. years, borne within any of the queens majesties dominions, shallbe charged to any payment of this Subsidy, for his or her goods and cattles, to him or her left or bequeathed: any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also, that this Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend to the goods or lands of any College, Hall, or hostel, within the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or any of them, or to the goods or lands of the College of Wynton, founded by Bishop Wykeham, or to the goods or lands of the Colleges of windsor, and Eton next Wyndsor, or to the goods or lands of any common free Grammar Scole within the Realm of Engalnde or Wales, or to the goods of any Reader, schoolmaster, or scholar, or any graduate resyant or remaining for study, without fraud or covin, within any of the said Universities and Colleges, or Towns of Cambridge and Oxford, or Suburbs of the same, or any of them, or to any their servants daily attendant upon any of them, nor to the goods of any officer, minister, almsman, or servants belonging to any of the said Universities, Colleges, halls, or Hostelles, and dwelling and resyaunt within the said Universities, or either of them, or within either of the said Towns of Cambridge and Oxford, and Suburbs of the same, without fraud or covin. Nor to the goods and lands of any hospital, Measondue, or Spittle house, prepared and used for the sustentation and relief of poor people: any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided also, that the said grant of subsidy, or any thing therein contained, do not in any wise extend, or be prejudicial or hurtful to the inhabitants or resyauntes at this present time within the five Ports corporate, or to any of their members incorporate or united to the same five Ports, or to any of the same five Ports, of, or for any part or parcel of the said sums granted in this Parliament, of the said inhabitants now resyaunt, or any of them, to be taxed, set, asked, levied or paid. But the said inhabitants and resyauntes in the said five Ports, and their members, be, and shallbe, of, and from the said grant and payment of the said subsidy, during their resyauncye there, and no longer, clearly acquitted & discharged: any matter, or whatsoever thing in this Act, had or made to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
provided also, and be it enacted, that forasmuch as divers and sundry the queens majesties tenants, and other inhabitants and dwellers within the counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Brecknock, Glamorgan, Radnour, Mongomery, Denbygh, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan, & of the County palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged and chargeable, aswell with the several payments of divers great sums of money, by the name of Myse due to her Majesty, according to the several customs of the said Counties: as also with the payments of divers several Subsedyes, lately granted to our late sovereign Lord and Lady, king philip and Queen Mary, and to the queens highness that now is, and yet unpaid.  
Be it therefore ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act of Subsidy, or any thing therein contained, shall not extnde to charge any of the queens tenants, & other inhabitants and dwellers within any of the said Counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnour, Mongomery, Denbygh, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan, and the County palentine of Chester, being charged or chargeable with the said mice, or several Subsedyes, for, or in any of the payments of the said subsidy, granted to the queens Majesty by this Act, until the said several days and times for the payment of the said Myses shallbe expired, and until the days and times aswell of the said several Subsedyes lately granted to our said late Sovereign Lord and Sovereign Lady, King philip and Queen Mary, as also of the said subsidy heretofore granted to the queens Majesty that now is, be also past and expired. And that then the first payment of the said subsidy granted by this present Act, shallbe made at the receit of the queens Exchequer before the first day of june, next following after the last days of the last payment to be had or appointed of the said Myses, and of the payment of the said former Subsedyes. And the second payment of this subsidy, to be made by or before the xx. day of February, next after the said payment of the said subsidy.  
Furthermore, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the tenants and dwellers of every of the said Counties in this proviso remembered, shall severally before the feast of Penthecost next ensuing, certify into the said court of Exchequer, under the seals of two justices of peace, of every of the said Counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when and what day the last payment of the said several Myses now due in any of the said Counties, shall end and expire.  
provided also, that the said grant of subsidy, and two fifteens and tenths, do not in any manner of wise extend or be prejudicial or hurtful to the inhabitants or resyauntes at this present time within the liberties of Romney Marsh, of, or for any part of the said sums granted in this present Parliament, of the said inhabitants now resyauntes, or any of them, to be taxed, set, asked, levied, or paid. But that the said inhabitants, & now resiants of Romney Marsh aforesaid, and every of them, be, and shallbe of, and from the said grant and payment of the said subsidy and fifteens and tenths, during their resyauncie there, and not longer, acquitted and discharged: Any matter or whatsoever thing in this present Act made, or had to the contrary, notwithstanding.  
God save the Queen.   

¶ Imprinted at London in Paul's Churchyard by Richard jug and john Cawood, Printers to the queens Majesty.  
Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.