ANNO XIIII. ET XU. HENRICI VIII. THe King our sovereign lord henry the viii. after the conquest, by the grace of God king of England and of France and lord of Ireland, at his parliament holden at London, the xv. day of April in the xiiii. year of his most noble reign: and from thence adjourned to Westminster the last day of july the xv. year of his said reign, and there holden to the honour of Almighty GOD and of holy Church, and for the wealth and profit of this his Realm, by the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, & the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by authority of the same, hath, do, to be ordained, made, & enacted, certain statutes and ordinances in manner and form following. THE TABLE. AN act concerning broad white woollen clotheses. Cap. j An act concerning strangers artificers, for taking of apprentices, journey men, and covenant servants. Cap. ij. An act concerning worsted weavers of Yarmouth and Lynne. Cap. iij. An act concerning Englishmen being sworn to foreign Princes. Cap. iiij. ¶ An act concerning Physicians. Cap. v. ¶ An act concerning the high ways in the wild of Kent. Cap. vj. ¶ An act for shooting in crossbows and handegonnes. Cap. seven. ¶ An act for the six clerks of the Chancery to be married. Cap. viii. ¶ An act concerning the liberty of Cordewayners or shoemakers. Ca ix. ¶ An act for hunting of the Hare. Cap. x. ¶ An act concerning clotheses called Vesses made in the county of Suffolk. Cap. xj. ¶ An act concerning coiners, that shall coin and make money at any mint within this realm of England. Cap. xii. ¶ An act for the haven and port of Southampton. Cap. xiii ¶ An act for such as be in the kings wars over or upon the sea. Ca xiiii. FINIS TABULAE. ENRICH OCTAVI. An act concerning broad white woollen clotheses. Cap. i FOr as much as merchant strangers, studying and imagining the policies, ways and means set awork the people inhabited in foreign countries and regions, with & by the commodities of this realm, and to bring the kings natural subjects from occupation to idleness, do daily convey, transport and carry out of this realm of Enlande (for their own singular lucre) a great numbered of broad white woollen clotheses, to be coloured died and wrought in divers and sundry parts beyond the sea: to the great increase comfort profit and advantage of the people inhabited in the said outward and foreign regions, and to the utter ruin decay, impoverishing and undoing of a great numbered of the kings own natural subjects. And for the effectual furtherance of the said evil intents and purposes in the premises the said merchant strangers, as well by colour of enhansing of price of the said clotheses for long days of payment as by fair promises and subtle adulations, have herefore gotten and regretted into their hands an innumerable numbered of the said clotheses upon their credence, amounting unto great sums of money far exceeding their own valours & substance which sums of money many and oftentimes they have not paid according to their appointments, whereby the makers of the said clotheses, subtly compassed by and with their fair and flattering promises, have sustained importable losses, to the great impoverishing of this the kings own realm, and to the enriching of the regions and countries of foreign princes. ¶ For remedy whereof be it enacted by the king our sovereign, lord and the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that from the feast of saint Mighell the archangel next coming no person or persons, inhabited with in this realm, of what estate, degree or condition so ever he be of, shall cell or deliver, or cause to be sold or delivered within this realm, by contract covenant bargain gift or any of them or otherwise to any merchant or merchants strangers, being borne in any of the parties beyond the sea or else where, out of the kings obeisance, or to any of his or their factoures deputies, or attorneys, strangers, or englishmen, to the use of the said merchant or merchants strangers any manner of broad white woollen clotheses, made or hereafter to be made within this realm of England, upon pain to fortaite. xl.ss. for every cloth sold or delivered after the said feast of saint Mighell, contrary to the effect and form of this present act, the one half of every such forfeiture to be to the use of our sovereign lord the king & the other half thereof to be to the person or persons other than the offender that will first sue for the same, by original of debt bill, plaint or information, in any of the kings courts, after the usual course of the laws and customs of the realm: In which suit or action the defendant of defendants shall not be admitted to wage their law, ne any essoin, licence or protection shallbe allowed. ¶ Provided alway, that if any person or persons being the kings natural subjects convey and bring, or cause to be conveyed and brought, any broad white woollen cloth or clotheses to the common market, kept and holden in Blackwelhal within the city of London, and do not there cor else where bargain utter and cell the said cloth or clotheses thither brought to or with some English marchante or merchants within viii days, next after the said cloth or clotheses shallbe brought and showed to cell in the said market: That than it shallbe leeful to any such person or persons immediately after the said viii days, and not before, to contract, bargain utter cell and deliver his or their said cloth, or clotheses, so brought and showed, at and in the said market, as is before said, and bring unsold, to any and every merchant stranger or strangers, being privileged and having liberty to contract and buy woollen clotheses freely and openly within the liberty of the said city of London. So that the said merchant or merchants strangers do pay and deliver for the said cloth or clotheses so by him or them to be bought without covin or male engine, at and upon the receipt of the said cloth or clotheses, or within one month next ensuing the said sale and delivery of the said cloth or clotheses, or within less time, at the will of the seller thereof, all such hole and entire sums of ready money or wares, or ready money and wares, or any of them, as was agreed & contracted to be had for the said clotheses, by the said sellers or seller of them, without any other or further respite or days of payment to be had, made or agreed, in any behalf, any thing before contained in this present act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding ¶ Provided also that this present act or any thing therein contained be not in any wise hurtful or prejudicial to any of the kings subjects for or concerning the delivery of any such woollen clotheses to any merchant, or merchants strangers, by reason of any bargain or sale made by them or any of them, of the said clotheses before the twenty day of july in the xv year of king Henry the viii But that the said kings subjects may freeely and quietly deliver or cause to be delivered the said clotheses, so bargained and bought before the said twenty day of july without any penalty or forfeiture, any thing in this present act contained to the contrary thereof not withstanding ¶ And be it enacted by authority aforesaid, that no person or persons at any time hereafter, and before the said feast of saint Mighell, bargain or cell to any merchant or merchants, straungers-any such broad white woollen clotheses, to be delivered unto the said merchant or merchants strangers at any time after the same feast of saint Mighell to the intent to defraud the effect & true meaning of this statute, upon the pain before limited and expressed. ¶ And furthermore be it provided that every of the kings natural subjects, at their liberties and pleasures, may any time hereafter cell and deliver for ready money or wares, or for ready money and wares, or any of them to be paid & delivered as is aforesaid to any merchant or merchants strangers, all manner of broad white woollen clotheses made or to be made in Coggishal, bocking, Blanctre, or any of them, and white clotheses called Eleinforthes, and all manner of white broad woollen clotheses with crumpillistes, otherwise called bastards: so that every of the said white woollen clotheses, contained in this provise, contain in length xxvii yards at the least or above at the water, any thing in this present act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding ¶ And over this be it further provided, ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shallbe leeful to every person or persons, being the kings natural subjects, to utter, bargain, contract, sell and deliver all manner of white broad woollen clotheses to any merchant or merchants strangers, in and at all common fairs to be holden and kept, within any place or places in this realm: And also to all and every merchant stranger or strangers, repairing from foreign countries by the sea, to any ports or creeks within this realm with any victual, or other merchandise, at all times from time to time: So that all such clotheses, so or in any otherwise hereafter to be bargained and sold to any merchant or merchants strangers as is before said be always sold and delivered with out covin or make engine for ready money or wares, or for ready money, & wares or any of them, to be paid and delivered at such time or times, as is before limited without any other or further respite or days of payment to be had accorded and agreed in any behalf, any thing in this present act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no person or persons, which do cell their woollen cloth or clotheses to any citizen and free man of London, without the liberty of the said city and before the said cloth or clotheses be conveyed and brought within the same city shall not be compelled by any person or persons to bring their said cloth or clotheses sold in form above said to the market called Blackwellhal within the said city ne to pay any tolle custom or other imposition for any liberty or ease to be had in the same Halle, for any such cloth or clotheses so sold but may freely at their pleasure, bring convey & deliver their said cloth or clotheses immediately to the house or houses of such citizen and free men, as did buy the same in form aforesaid without any let or disturbance in any behalf. ¶ And if any clothmaker, or other person be letted or disturbed contrary to this act than the letter or disturber to forfeit to the owner of the said cloth or clotheses, for every cloth letted or disturbed to the contrary hereof. xii.d. for which forfeiture the said owner shall have his remedy against the said letter or disturber, by action or plaint of debt in any of the kings courts. in which action or plaint the defendant or defendants shall not wage their law ne any essoin, licence, or protection shallbe allowed, this act to endure unto the last day of the next parliament. ¶ Provided always that this act extend not to northern whites commonly named and called dosins, made in the north parties of this realm. An act concerning strangers artificers for taking of apprentices, iourneimen, and covenant servants. C. two BE it enacted by the king our sovereign lord & the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that no manner of stranger borne out of the kings obeisance be he denizen or not denizen using any manner of handi craft with in this realm, shall take from henceforth any aprentise except the same apprentice be borne under the kings obaisaunce, upon pain to forfeit for every apprentice, that he shall take contrary to this act x. li. the one half thereof to our sovereign lord the king, the other half to him or them that will sue for it, be it by action of debt, bill, plaint, information, or otherwise: in which suit the defendant shall not be admitted to wage his law, ne any essoin, licence, or protection to be allowed. ¶ Be it also enacted by the authority afore said, and under like pain to be forfeited and recovered as is aforesaid that no stranger being alien born, and using any manner of handy craft within this realm, from the feast of all saints next ensuing, shall in any manner of wise, use, take. retain or keep into his or their services any manner of iourneimen or covenant servant above the numbered of two at one time, except the same iourneiman or covenant servant be borne under the kings obeisance And over this be it enacted by authority aforesaid that all manner of persons bring aliens borne, using any manner of handy craft, be they denizens or not denizens and inhabited within the city of London, or suburbs of the same within the town of westminster, the parish of saint Martins in the field, the parish of our lady of the Strand, faince Clement of Danes, without temple bar, saint Giles in the field, saint Andrew's in holborn, in the town & borough of Southwark, Shordiche, white Chapel parish, saint john street, the parish of Clerkenwel saint Bottolphes parish without Algate, saint catherin's, Barmondsay street or within two mile's compass of the said city of London, or the parishes aforesaid shallbe under the search & reformation of the wardens and the fellowships of handy crafts within the said city of London with one substantial stranger being an householder of the same craft, by the same wardens to be chosen sen that is to say every such stranger, occupying any mystery or handi craft as is aforesaid shallbe under the search & reformation of the wardens and one substantial stranger, being an householder of that craft that they shall so occupy. And that the wardens of the said city of every such handy craft with one stranger or householder as is aforesaid of the same craft, have full power and authority, by this present act to limit & appoint to every stranger of the mystery & handy craft that they be of, inhabiting within the said city, suburbs, places or precinct, above remembered, a proper mark, without taking any thing therefore by the which their wares, vessels and workmanshippes that they make, may be known. And that the wardens of every such handy craft, and mystery aforesaid calling to them one stranger of the mystery and occupation, that they be of being an householder, shall have full power and authority, to search view and reform, as well within the said city of London. as in all other places & limits before said all manner of wares of workmanshippes made by any manner of such handy craft men being aliens borne, as is before said. ¶ And that no stranger borne out of the kings obeisance using any of the mysteries or occupations of smiths, ioigners, or coopers shall make any manner of wares, or vessels, concerning the same mysteries or occupations, except that they and every of them put to such marks to every of the same wares & vessels before they shallbe put to sale, or use as the wardens of their occupations, crafts, or mysteries shall limit and appoint, without taking any thing therefore upon pain of forfeiture the double valour of the same wares and vessels: The one half of which forfeiture to be to the king our sovereign lord the other half to the party that first will sue for the same by action of debt, bill, plaint or information in which the defendaunr shall not wage his law, nor any essoin shallbe cast, or protection allowed. And further it is enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if upon any such search or view to be made by the wardens and one stranger of any craft or mystery, beforesaid, after the form of this statute, in vessels or wares to be found in the possession of the workers, or owners thereof putring the same vessels or wares, to workmanship of any stranger falsely and deceitfully made, to the hurt of the kings liege people, and so adjudged by the said wardens and one stranger: that then such worker or owner, in whose possession the same false and deceitful wares shallbe found, shall forfeit the same wares, the one half thereof to the king our sovereign lord and the other half thereof to the first finder thereof suing for the same in any of the kings courts by action of detinue, in which action the defendant nor defendants shall not be admitted to wage their law nor protection ne essoin be to them herein allowable. ¶ Be it also enacted by the authority afore said, that all wardens, and masters of fellowships of all and every such handy crafts within any such city, borough or town corporate within this realm where any such wardens happen to be, and in such boroughs and towns corporate, where no wardens of handy crafts are the bailiffs, or the governor or governors of the same boroughs or towns, so lacking wardens, shall have like power and authority with the bailiff or bailffes of the liberties with them where any such liberty shallbe, being content so to do, to view, search, and reform strangers, borne out of the kings obeisance, inhabiting and using within any such city, borough, or town, corporate, any manner of handy craft, in as large and ample manner as the said wardens and fellowships of the said city of London may do by virtue of this present act. And that all strangers using any of the said handy crafts in any of the said cities boroughs or towns, corporate, be bounden to do and obey in every thing, according to the tenor of this present act upon like pains and forfeitures as is above remembered, to be had and recovered in form above rehearsed. ¶ Provided alway that if the wardens of any fellowship or mystery beforesaid, bailiffs governor or governors beforesaid, wrongfully will entreat any stranger in executing of this act, or any thing therein contained: that than the stranger so grieved, may by authority of this act by bill or information, complain to the lord Chancellor and treasurer of England, or the justices of assize in the county for the time being, which by their examinations shall have full power and authority to hear and determine the same complaint, and award to the party compleinant such amends, as by their discretions shall be thought reasonable. Provided also that it shallbe lawful for and to every the said strangers borne out of the kings obeisance, being a householder to have and retain aswell all and every such strangers borne out of the kings obeisance. being the time of this parliament with him retained as a iurneiman as to have and retain every such stranger being borne out of the kings obeisance being a prentice with him the time of this parliament this act not withstanding. This to endure to the last day of the next parliament. Provided also that this act extend not to thinhabitants strangers that now be or hereafter shallbe, in the universities of Oxford, or Cambridge or within the sanctuary of saint Martins le grand, within the said city of London. Provided always, that if the said wardens of the said city of London, with a stranger, or governor or governors, of any city or borough corporat within this realm, refuse to make the wares of any stranger, after that they be required so to mark that than it shallbe lawful to the same stranger or strangers, to who such refusal shallbe made to sell and put to sale his said wares, so required to be marked & refused this act notwithstanding. Provided also, that this act extend not to any other handicraft, than to the crafts of ioigners, pouchmakers, coopers, and black smiths, for or concerning the foresaid article of marking of wares of the said estrangers. Also that it shallbe lawful to any lord of the parliament, and every other of the kings subjects having lands and tenements to the yearly value of one, C, pounds, to take & retain estrangers ioigners and glaziers in their service, from time to time, to and for the exersising with them their crafts, this act notwithstanding ¶ An act onccrning worsted weavers in Yarmouth & Linne. Ca iii BEcause it is discreetly considered in this present parliament, that the true making & draping of worsteds, sais, & stamins is one of the most profitable occupations of this realm: And that the same worsteds, says and stamins truly and substantially made and wrought, been right acceptable and commodious merchandises, as well in this realm of England, as in other foreign regions and countries, For establishment and good order whereof, divers good and laudable statutes, acts, & ordinances, heretofore have been made and enacted: and namely in a parliament. holden at westminster the third day of june, in the seventh year of the reign of the late king of famous memory Edward the fourth. Sithen which parliament the making of the said worsteds, sais, and stamins hath much increased & been multiplied, in the city of Norwiche, and in divers towns & places in the county of Norfolk And because the towns of great Yarmouth and Linne in the said county been towns corporated and the inhabitants of the same towns now daily pratise and use the making and draping of the said clotheses of worsteds, says and stamins, more busily and diligently than they have done in times passed, to whom it is painful and costly to transport and convey their said clotheses to the said city of Norwich, or to places within the said county of Norfolk, which been far distant from either of the said towns to be searched and sealed by the wardens of the worsted weavers of the same city of Norwick or county according to the said act of parliament made the said seven. year of king Edward the fourth. It is therefore ordained, established and enacted, by the king out sovereign lord, and by the lords spiritual and temporal & the commons in this present parliament and by authority of the same, that the crafts men called worsted weavers inhabited in the said town of great yarmouth shall have power and authority by this present act from henceforth to elect and chose yearly for ever in the monday next after the feast of pentecost one honest man of the same mystery and occupation being and househoulder within the said town of great yarmouth & having of his proper goods and chattles to the value of. x.li. at the lest, or lands & tenements to his own vie, of the estate of freehold at the lest to the clear yearly value of. xx.s. to be warden of the same craft & mystery for the year next ensuing, which man so elected and choose shall personally appear before the mayre of the said city of Norwich, for the time being the monday next after the feast of Corpus Cristi than next. ensuing, than and there to be sworn and charged by like oath, concerning the true and substantial making of the said clothes within the said town of great Yermouth, as the four wardens of the said city of Norwyche, by virtue of the said act or parliament made in the said seven year of king Edward the iiii. been charged and sworn for the same city of Norwich And if the said maire happen to be absent the said monday after Corpus Christi or else than refuseth to receive or take the said oath: than the said warden so elect, within four days next after the same monday shall come before the bailiffs of the said town of great yarmouth for the time being, or before one of them, the other being absent: & than and their receive a corporal oath for the true exercising of the same office of wardenship, after the tenor of the oath accustomably used to be given to the said wardens of the said city of Norwich. And than the said warden of the said town of great Yarmouth for that time being, so elect & sworn may ordain & appoint a seal with this letter. Y. to be graven in the same seal, and may have full power and authority to view, search, cease, & seal in lead with the same seal, so to be appointed & engraven & none other, all worsteds, says & stamins within the said town of yarmouth, & suburbs of the same, made or to be made & not else where, in as large & ample manner, as the said wardens of the said city of Norwich, & wardens of the said county of Norff. or any of them hath or have within the said city, or county, or in any wise may do in that behalf, by authority or virtue of the before remembered act, made in the said seven. year of king Edward the fourth, any thing in the same act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. ¶ And that no person inhabited within the said town of great yarmouth, or suburbs thereof weave any worsteds says or stamins within the same town, except he be an English man borne and have been apprentice to the said occupation, and without he weave there such proper mark as shallbe limited and appointed by the said warden of the said town, for the time being, elect and sworn, as is afore said upon pain of forfeiture thereof to the king our soveriagne lord: And that every warden of the said town shall limit destincte and several marks to every of the said worsted weavers of the same town of great yarmouth, & the same marks by the said warden to be registered in aboke. ¶ And also be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if and whatsoever hereafter the said town of Linne shallbe inhabited with ten sundry householders, or more number of householders, exercising & using the said craft or mystery of worsted weavers, than and from thenceforth, that is to say as long as the same town of Linne shallbe inhabited with the number of ten such householders at the lest, it shallbe leeful to the same inhabitants of the said town of Linne yearly in the monday next after the feast of Pentecost, to elect and choose of themself one warden of the said craft and mystery of worsted weavers, to be of the value in lands & goods as is beforesaid of the warden of yarmouth: which warden so elect shall yearly be sworn and charged at the said city of Norwich, in like manner and at like day, as is before limited to the wardens of yarmouthe Or in default of the said mayre of Norwich than the said warden so to be elect for the said town of Linne to take a corporal oath before the maire of the said town of Lynne, within such time, and after such form, as is before limited unto the warden of yarmouth. And that the said warden of the said town of Linne or the time being, so elect and sworn, by himself may ordain & appoint a seal, with this letter. L. to be graven in the same seal, and may have full power & authority to view, search, cease, and seal in lead with the same seal, so to be engraven, and with none other, all worsteds, says, and stamins, within the said town of Linne, and suburbs of the same, made or to be made, and not else where, in as large and ample manner as the said warden of the City of Norwich, and Wardens of the said county of Norff. or any of them hath or have within the said City of county, or otherwise may do by authority or virtue of the before remembered act, made in the said vij year of king Edward the fourth, any thing contained in the same act to the contrary notwithstanding. And that no person inhabited within the said town of Linne, or suburbs thereof, make any worsteds, says, or stamins within the same town, except he be an Englishman borne, and have been apprentice to the same occupation, & without he weave therein such proper mark as shallbe limited and appointed by the said warden of the same town of Lin, for the time being, upon pain & forfeiture thereof to the king our sovereign ne lord: And that every warden of the said town shall limit distinct and several marks to every of the worsted weavers of the same town, and the same marks by the said warden to be registered in a book. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from the feast of saint Michael th'archangel next coming, unto such time as the said town of Lin shall be inhabited with the said number of ten householders of the said craft of worsted weavers, & always after, when that number of ten householders shall happen to fail, & not be inhabited in the said town of Lin, the said wardens of the said city of Norwiche, & their successors, shall procure and 'cause one of themselves, or one of the wardens of the said craft of the said county of Norfolk, personnally to come & be every xxviij day from and after the said feast of saint Michael the archangel, in and to the said town of Lyn, or within six days next after every such xxviii day, and there to continued and abide by so long time as he may search and seal all such worsteds, says, and stamins, made in the same town of Lynne, as than shall be brought to him to be sealed, within the space of one hole day. And the said Inhabitants of worsted weavers, of the same town of Lyn being, shall content and pay to the said warden of Norwiche or Norff. which shall so come to Linne, in the said xxviij day or within six days next after the said xxviij day, for his costs and expenses, for every time that he shall so come to Lynne, between the feasts of Saint Michael the archangel, and the Annunciation of our Lady saint mary iii s and for every time that he shall so come to the said town of Linne between the feast of the Annunciation of our Lady, & the feast of saint Michael the archangel. ii.ss. And if the said inhabitants of worsted weavers of the said town of Lin, do not content and pay to the said warden coming to Lyn, in form aforesaid, for the said costs and charges, the said. 3s.. or. ii.ss. as is above limited, than the same inhabitants shall forfeit and pay to the said warden, or to his executors, for every such default of payment xl. s: And if none of the said wardens of Norwich and Norfolk, come to the said town of Linne, for the cause aforesaid, in manner and form above remembered: than the said wardens of the said city of Norwich shall forfeit and pay to the said inhabitants of Linne, of the said mystery of worsted weavers, for every such default xl.s. For recompense of which penalty and forfaites the said wardens of Norwich or Norff, being thereunto entitled by this present act, by his proper name with this addition. That is to say: unius gardianorum, or nuper unius gardianorum artis sive misteriae textorum panni lanei vocat. Worstedes in civitate Norwich, vel commit. Norfolk, as the truth requireth, shall and may have action of debt by writ, bill, or plaintee in any competent or lawful court of this realm against the said inhabitants of Linne, of the said mystery for the time being by their sundry proper names. And the said inhabitants by their said names, with this addition Textorum pannilanei voc. Worstedes, inhabitants ville de Linne, shall and may have like actions of debt against the said wardens of Norwich, by the name of Gardianis artis sive misteriae textorum pannorum laneoruin voc. Worstedes infra civitatem Norway. come. Norff. To be used in good congruities of latin, and form of the laws of this realm. In which actions, or any of them, none essome, protection, or wager of law shallbe suffered or allowed. And that the particular bodies or goods of any of the said wardens or inhabitants, being condemned in any of the said actions, shall and may be put in execution, after such manner and form as is used in actions of debt, by course of the common law of this Realm. And moreover be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all clotheses of worsteds, says, and stamins, made or to be made within any of the said towns of Lyn & great Yarmouth, or suburbs of the same, or any of them, & marked with such marks as shallbe limited to the makers, by the said wardens of the said town in manner and form abovesaid: & weaved & sealed by any of the wardens of the said towns of Lyn and Yarmouth in form above remembered: by force and virtue of this present act may be lawfully put to sale by the owners and makers of the same, without any other marking or sealing upon the said clotheses, or upon any of them to be had or made by any other wardens, dwelling or abiding without the said town, and without any arrest, seizure, or forfeiture to be had or made of or upon any of the said clotheses, for lack of any other seals or marks, any thing contained in the said former act, made in the said seventh year of king Edward the forth, to the contrary notwithstanding. And over this be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every craft's man of the said mystery & occupation of worsted making, dwelling within any of the said towns of Lin & great Yarmouth, and suburbs of the same at their own free wills and liberties from henceforth for ever, may have & take apprentice or apprentyces (being male) of the age of xiiii years and upward, and being the kings natural subjects, for the term of vij years and not under, so that none of them exceed the numbered of two at once to learn, use, and exercise the said craft within either of the said towns of Lyn & great Yarmouth or suburbs of the same: All be it the father of the same apprentices or apprentice, may not expend in any lands & tenements to the yearly value of xx. s. any act or ordinance to the contrary made or to be made notwithstanding. Provided always, that this present act nor any thing therein contained, be not in any wise hurtful or prejudicial to the mayre of Norwiche, or to his successors, or to the wardens of the said City and county, or to their successors, in any point article, power, or authority, other than for weaving searching & sealing of worsteds, says & stamins made or to be made only within the said towns of Linne & Yarmouth or suburbs of the same, or to any of them. And for limittinge of marks to the maker of worsteds, says and stamins, only inhabited in either of the said towns or suburbs thereof & taking of apprentices, in form above remembered: but that the said maire of the said city of Norwiche, & wardens of the said city and county, and every of them may have and use all other points, articles, power, & auctorityes contained and specified in the above remembered act, made in the said, seven. year of king Edward the iiii. as well for the search, sealing, correction and reformation of the said wardens newly to be elect by virtue of this present act, and every of them, according and after such form as they may do or use, any of the said wardens of the said city or county, by force of the said act, made in the said vii year of king Edward the fourth, as all and every other inquiries, corrections, searches, sealings, & reformations to be had, for the true making of worsteds, says, and stamins, in and upon any person or persons, as well within the said towns of Linne and Yarmouthe as without, without trouble, let, or vexation of any of the inhabitants of the said towns, in as large and ample wise as they might have done before the making of this present act, any thing contained in the same present act to the contrary notwithstanding. And also provided and be it enactad, by the authority aforesaid, that the said crafts men of worsted weavers inhabited or hereafter to be inhabited within either of the said towns of Linne & Yarmouth, or suburbs of the same, and the merchants or any other persons, which shall happen to buy of the same crafts men or any of them, or of any other person, any of the said clotheses of worsteds, stamins, or says, made or to be made within either of the said towns of Lin and Yarmouth, and sealed by the said wardens of the same town to be elect and sworn as is aforesaid, and any of them, shall not shear, die, or put in colour, or calendre, any worsteds, stamins, or says, made or to be made within either of the said towns of Lin & Yarmouth, or suburbs of the same, in any other place or places, but only within the said city of Norwich, or suburbs of the same upon pain of forfeiture of every piece of worsted, says, or stamins to be made within any of the said towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, or suburbs of the same, or the value thereof, shorn, died, coloured, or calendred by enye of the said crafts men, buyers, or merchants in any other place or places than in the said city of Norwich or suburbs of the same: the one half thereof to be to the king our sovereign lord, and the other half thereof to such person or persons as shall cease the same: so that the said worsteds brought to the said city of Norwich to be shorn, died, coloured, & calendred, without covin or craft of any of the said inhabitants & merchants, may be shorn, died, coloured, and calendred at and by as convenient price or prices and in as ready wise as the said inhabitants of either of the said towns of Lyn and Yarmouth, & merchants buyers of the said worsteds, or other of the said city or county hath had in times past, or hereafter shall have. And also that the inhabitants and merchants & every of them, so bringing their said worsteds to the same city for to be shorn, died, coloured & calendred, be reasonably & lawfully entreated according to the said act made in the said vij year of king Edward the fourth, & the ordinances made & affirmed, or hereafter to be made & affirmed for the said mystery, without let or disturbance, contrary to the same act or ordinance in that behalf. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons any time after convey or transport into any of the parties of beyond the sea any manner of clotheses of worsteds before the same clotheses be shorn, died, coloured, & calendred, upon pain of forfeiture the value thereof: the one half to the king our sovereign lord, & though there half thereof to the party that will sue therefore, by action or plaint of debt in any of the kings courts: In which action or suit no protection or essoin shallbe allowed, nor the offender admitted to wage his law. This act to endure to the next parliament. ¶ An Act concerning Englishmen being sworn to foreign princes. Cap. iiii. PRaien the commons in this present parliament, that where many and divers persons being the kings subjects naturally borne within this his realm, have wdrawen themselves out of the same realm, and transported themselves with their wives, children and goods, into Holland, zealand, Barband Flaunders, and into other countries of foreign princes, and there be sworn to the obeisance of the princes, and lords of the countries, where they be now inhabited, making their great buildings, and be contributories to all manner of charges, as the subjects of those countries be: & thus they maintain as much as in them is, the cities, boroughs, & towns of those countries and many more of the kings subjects intent to do the same, if remedy therein be not provided: Which subjects borne in England, notwithstanding, that they this estrange themselves from the kings obeisance, yet they occupy here in all the ports, havens, and creeks, cities, boroughs, & towns of England, as freely and as free in custom and subsidy as the kings subjects do occupy, and not only for themself, but also colourably for other strangers, their friends, & partiners, and also make themselves quite and exempt from all charges within this realm, in prejudice & decay of the cities, towns & boroughs of England: and as for beyond the sea they will obey to none authority granted to the English nation, by the kings highness and his noble progenitors, under the great seal of England and by authority of parliament, but they give themselves over to the protection & defence of those outward princes, to whom they be sworn subjects And by these manner of persons much coin is conveyed out of the Land. Wherefore be it ordained and enacted, by the king our sovereign lord & the lords spiritual & temporal, & the commons in this present parliament assembled & by the authority of the same, that all and every such subjects borne in England, and sworn to be subjects to foreign princes & lords of outward parties, from henceforth (as long as they shall so abide, & be as subjects to foreign princes & lords) that from henceforth so long they & every of them shall pay such customs, subsidy, tolle, and other impositions within this realm of Englade. as other strangers of those parts where the said englishmen make their inhabitation: pay or use to pay within this said realm: And that the knowledge of all and every such person or persons inhabitants, and sworn in manner and form as is before rehearsed within the archduke's countries, that is to say, Holland, Zealand, Brabande & Flaunders only, shallbe had by certificate thereof made by the governor of the merchant aventurers, and the assistens there for the time being: and also for all other reamels and countries of foreign princes to be certified by the kings most noble imbasidours, being at such time there as they shall happen to be in the said countries upon the kings affairs, shall likewise certify, as is beforesaid under their seal into the chancery of our sovereign lord the king: and thereupon out of the said chancery writs to be made & directed unto the customers, controllers, or other officers of the kings custom, in every port, haven, or creak within this said realm, to perceive, levy, & take all manner of such customs, subsidies, tolls, & other impositions, as is before specified, of all such goods and merchandises, as shall belong unto any such person or persons inhabited and sworn, in manner and form above written, as well inward as outward. Provided always, that if hereafter it shall happen any such person or persons to return into the realm, & here to tarry and inhabit: that than he or they shallbe restored to all such liberties and fredoms in paying of customs or subsidies and other charges, as all other englishmen doth use to pay, and to have a wryt out of the chancery for the same, this act or any thing therein made, to the contrary notwithstanding. ¶ An act concerning Physicians. Cap. v. In their most humble wise showeth unto your highness, your true & faithful subjects & liege men, john Chambre, Thomas Linacre Fernandus de Victoria, your physicians, and Nicholas Halsewell, john Frances, and Robert yaxley, and all other men of the same faculty within the city of London, and vij miles about, that where your highness (by your most gracious letters patents, bearing date at westm̄. the xxiij day of September the ten year of your most noble reign) for the common wealth of this your realm, in due exercising and practising of the faculty of physic and the good ministration of medicines to be had, have incorporate and made of us and of our company aforesaid, one body and perpetual commynalty or fellowship of the faculty of Physic, and to have perpetual succession and common seal, and to choose yearly a precedent of the same fellowship & commonalty to oversee rule, and govern the said fellowship and commonalty, and all men of the same faculty, with divers other liberties and privileges, by your highness to us granted, for the common wealth of this your realm, as in your said most gracious letters patents more at large is specified and contained, the tenor whereof followeth in these words. HENRICUS dei gratia, rex Angliae, & Francie, & dominus Hiberniae, Omnibus, ad quos praesentes litterae pondenerint, Salutem. Cum regii officii nostri munus arbitremur ditionis nostre hominum foelicitati omni ratione consulere: Id autem vel in primis fore, si improborum coratibus tempestiùe occurramus, apprime necessarium duximns. improborum quaque hominum, qut medicinam magis avaritae suae causa quam ullius bone conscientiae fiducia profitebuntur, unde rude & credule plebu●…lurima incommoda oriantur, audaciam compescere. Itaque partim bene institutarum civitatum in Italia, & aliis multis nationibus exemplum imitati, partim gravium virorum ductorum joannis Chambye, Thomae Linacre, Fernandi de Victoria medicorum nostrorum, Nicholai Halswell, joannis Franciscei, & Roberti Yaxley, medîcorum, ac praecipue reverendissimi in Christo patris, ac domini, domini Thomae Tituli sauctae Ceciliae, trans Tiberim sacrosanctae Romanae exclesiae presbiteri cardinalis Eboracensis Archiepiscopi, & regni nostri Angliae cancellarii charissimi precibus inclinati, collegium perpetuum doctorum & gravium virorum, qui medicinam in vibe nostra Londino & suburbibus intraque septem millia passuum, abea urbe quaqua versus publice exerceant, institui volumus atque imperamus, Quibus tum sui honoris tum publice utilitatis nomine cure, ut speraenius crit, maliciosorum, quorum meminimus inscritam temeritatemque, tam exemplo gravitatéque suà deterrere quàm per leges mistras nuper editas, ac per constitutiones per idem collegium condendas punire. Quae quo facilius rite peragi passint memoratis doctoribus joanni Chambre, Thomae Lincare, Fernando de Victoria medicis nostris. Nicholai Halsewell, joanni Francisco, & Roberto Yaxley, medicis concessimus, quod ipsi om●ésque homines eiusdem facultatis de & in civitate pradicta, sint in re & nomine unum corpus & communitas perpetua, sive collegium perpetuum Et ꝙ eadem communitas sive collegium singulis annis in perpetuum eligere possint & facere de communitate illa aliquem providum virum & in facultate medicinea expertum in praesidentem etusdem collegii sive communitatis, ad superuidendum, recognoscendum, & gubernandum pro illo anno collegium, sive commumitatem praedict. & omnes homines eiusdem facultatis &, regotia eorudem, Et ꝙ preasidens & collegium sive communitas habeant successionem perpetuam, & commune sigillum negotii dict. communitatis & praesidentis in perpetuum seruiturum Et ꝙ ipsi & successores sui in perpetuum sint person habiles & capaces ad perquirendum & possidendum in feodio & perpetuitate terras & tenementa, redditus & alias possessiones quas●u●que ¶ Concessimus etiam eis & successoribus suis pro nobis & haeredibus nostris quód ipsi & successores su●… possint perquirere sibi & successoribus suis, tam in dicta urbe quam exrta terras & tenta quaecunque annuum valorem duodecim librar. non exceden, statuto de alienatione ad manum mortuam non obstante. Et ꝙ ipsi per nomina praesidentis collegii, seu communitatis facultatis medicine, land, plitati & impritati possint coram quibascunque judicibus in curiis & actionibus quibuscumque. Et ꝙ praedict. praesidens & collegium sive communitas, & eorum successores congregationes licitas & honestas de se ipsis ac statutae & ordinationes, pro salubri gubernatione superuisu & correctione collegii, seu communitatis praedictae, & omnium hominum eandë facultatem in dictae civitate seu per septem miliaria in circuitu eiusdem civitatis exercen. secundum necessitatis exigentiam (quoties & quando opus fuerit) facere valeant licite & impune, sine impedimento nostri, haeredum vel successorum nostro riusticiariorū, escaetorum, vice comitum, & aliorum ballivorum, vel ministrorum nostrorum haeridum vel successorum nostrorum quorumcunque. Concessimus etiam eisdem praesidenti & collegio, seu communitati & successoribus suis ꝙ nemo in dicta civitate, aut per septem miliaria in circuitu eiusdem, exerceat dictam facultatem, nisi ad hoc per dictum praesidentem & communitatem, seu successores eorum, qui pro tempore fuerint, admissus sit per eiusdem praesidentis & Collegii litteras sigillo suo communi sig illatas, sub poena tentum solidorum pro quolibet mense, quo non admissus eandem facultatem exercuit, dimidium inde nobis & haeredibus nostris. & dimidium dicto praesidenti & collegio applicandum. ¶ Praeterea volumus & concedimus pro nobis & successoribus nostris (quantum in nobis est) ꝙ per praesidentem & collegium praedictae communitatis pro tempore existen. & corum successores imperpetuum quatuor singulis annis per ipsos eligantur, qui habeat superuisum & scrutinium correctionem & gubernationem, omnium, & singulorum dictae civitatis medicorum utentium facultate medicinae in cademcivitate, ac anliorum medicorum forinsecorum quorumcunque facultatem illam medicine aliquo modo frequentatium & utentium infra eandem civitatem & suburbia eiusdem, five intra septem miliaria in circuitu eiusdem civitatis, ac punitione eorundem pro delictis suis in non bene exequendo faciendo & utendo illa. Nec non superuisum & scrutinium omni modo medicinarum & eorum reception, per dict●s medico●, seu aliquem eorum huiusmodi sig eis nostris pro eorum infirmitatibus eurandis & sanandis dandis imponendis, & utendis, quotiens & quando opus fuerit pro commodo & utilitate eorundem ligeorum nostrorum. Itae ꝙ punitio huiusmodi medicorum utentium dicta facultate medicine, sic in praemissis delinquentium per fines, amerciamenta, & inprisonamenta corporum suorum, & per alias vias rationabiles, & congruas exequatur. ¶ Volumus etiam & concedimus pro nobis haeredibus & successoribus nostris (quantum in nobis est) ꝙ nec praesidens, nec aliquis de collegio praedicto medicorum, nec successores sui, nec eorum aliquis exercens facultatem illam, quoquo modo in futur. infra civitatem nostram praedictam, & suburbia eiusdem, seu alibi summoneantur, aut ponantur, neque eorum aliquis sommmoneatur, aut ponatur in aliquibus assisis, iuratis, inquestis, inquisitionibus, attinctis, & altis recognitionibus infra dictam civitatë, & suburbia eiusdem imposterum coram maiore ac vicicom seu coronatoribus dictae civitatis nostrae pro tempore existen. capiendum, aut per aliquem officiarium, seu ministrum suum, vel officiarios sive ministros suos summonend. licet iidem iurati, inquisitiones seu recognitiones summon fuerint super brevi, vel brevibus nostris, vel haeredum nostrorum de recto, sed ꝙ dicti magistri, sive gubernatores, ac communitas facultatis antedicte & successores sui et eorum quilibet dictam facultatem exercentes, versus nos, haeredes, et successores nostros, ac versus maiorem et vic●comites civitatis nostrae praedictepro tempore existent) et quoscunque officiarios, et ministros suos sint inde quieti, et penitus exonerati imperpetuum per praesentes. ¶ proviso quod litterae nostrae, seu aliquid in eïs content, non cedent in praeiudicium civitatis nostrae Lond. seu libert eiusdem. Et hoc absque fine seu feodo pro praemissis, seu sigillatione praesentium nobis facienda, soluenda, vel aliqualiter, reddenda, aliquo statuto, ordinatione, vel actu in contrarium ante haec tempora facto, edito, ordinato seu proviso in aliquo non obstante In cuius rei testimonium has litteras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud westmonasterium xxiii die Septembr. Anno regni nostri decim. Per ipsum re● gem et de datae praedictae auctoritate Parliamenti. Tunstall. ANd for so much that the making of the said corporation is meritorious & very good for the common wealth of this your realm, it is therefore expedient and necessary to provide, that no person of the said politic body and commonalty aforesaid, be suffered to exercise and practise Physic, but only those persons that be profound, sad, & discreet, groundly learned and deeply studied in Physic. In consideration whereof, and for the further authorizing of the same letters patents, and also enlargeing of further articles for the said common wealth to be had & made: Pleaseth it your highness with the assent of your lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled, to enact, ordain and establish that the said corporation of the said commonalty and fellowship of the faculty of Physic afore said, and all and every grant, article and other thing contained, and specified, in the said letters patentes, be approved, granted, ratified, and confirmed in this present parliament, and clearly authorized and admitted by the same good, lawful, and available, to your said body corporat, and their successors for ever in as ample and large manner as may be taken, thought, construed by the same. And that it please your highness with the assent of your said lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this your present parliament, assembled, furtherly to enact, ordain, and stablish, that the six persons beforesaid, in your said most gracious letters patents named as principals, and first named of the said commonalty and fellowship, choosing to them two more of the said commonalty from henceforward, be called and cleped elects. And that the same elects yearly chose one of them to be precedent of the said commonalty, and as oft as any of the rooms and places of the same elects shall fortune to be void by death or otherwise, than the superuysours of the same elects (within thirty. or xl. days next after the death of them or any of them) shall choose, name, and admit one or more, as need shall require, of the most cunning, and expert men, of and in the said faculty in London, to supply the said room and numbered of eight persons. So that he or they that shallbe so chosen, be first by the said supervisors straightly examined, after a form devised by the said elects, & also by the same supervisors approved. And where that in diocises of England out of London it is not light to find alway men able sufficiently to examine (after the statute) such as shallbe admitted to exercise Physic in them: that it may be enacted in this present parliament, that no person from henceforth he suffered to exercise or practise in Physic through England, until such time that he be examined at London by the said precedent and three of the said elects and to have from the said precedent or elects letters testimonials of their approving and examination, except he be a graduate of Oxford or cambridge, which hath accomplished all things for his form without any grace. An act concerning the high ways in the wild of Kent. Ca xi. IN humble wise beseecheth your highness your true and faithful subject George Gilford squire for your body, that where there is and of time whereof mind of man is not to the contrary hath been an old common way or street for carriers, and all other passages and business for you and your progenitors and you and their people in the hundred of Cranebroke, in the wild of your county of Kent, leading and extending between and among the lands of the manner of hempstede of the said George in the said hundred of Cranbroke, fro the bridge called hempstede bridge dividing the said hundred of Cranbroke and the hundred of Roluinden in the same wield of your said county to a cross called Contenden cross standing nigh to a great Oak, named Hempstede oak which is in length upon a hundred four score and ten perches: which common way so used is in divers places thereof right deep annoyous for the passage of your people, and also is not so directly leading between the said bridge and cross neither so cominodious for your people as an other way of like breadth in other places within and over the lands of the said manner might be made. In consideration whereof, in may please your highness of your blessed disposition with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the same to enact ordain that it shallbe leeful to your said besecher his heirs and assigns, owners of the said manner of Hempstede, at his and their proper costs & charges at any time on this side the xxvii day of May which shallbe in the year of our lord god. M.D.xxvii. by the oversight and assent of two justices of peace of the said county of Kent and xii other discrete men, inhabitants within the said hundreds of, Cranbroke & Roluiden, to assign, limit and say over and though the lands of the said manor one other way, for carriages & passages of your grace and of your people and your and their heirs and successors, of as great largeness in breedeth or larger than the said old way now being is, and as commodious for the said carriages and passages, as the same way now being is or better extending and leading directly between the said bridge and cross, so that your grace and your people by the said new way so to be assigned and laid out, shall have the more easy carriage, and passage, than is or of late time hath been by the said old way. And that after the said new way so laid out and assigned the said carriages, passages and other business there may be as liberally, commonly, and freely from thence forth there used and had for ever, and every other thing there exercised & kept, as before this time hath been had and used, exercised and kept in the said old way with out let or interruption of the said George his heirs or his assigns, or any other person which hereafter shall have. hold, or possede the said manet. And that immediately after that the said new way (as is beforesaid) to be assigned and limited shallbe as is abovesaid laid out and fully made, it shall be leeful to your said besecher, his heirs, and assigns owners of the said manor to enclose the said old way and every party thereof: And that fro henceforth to hold in severalty to them, and to their heirs and assigns to their own use and profit for ever as parcel of the said manor, without any common way or passage their fro thenceforth to be had or claimed any prescription or use to the contrary heretofore had not withstanding. ¶ And in consideration that many other common ways in the said wield of Kent be so deep and noyous by wearing and course of water and other occasions that people can not have their carriages or passagsses by horses upon or by the same: But to their great pains, petil, and jeopardy: it may be by the said authority enacted and established, that if any other person or persons any time hereafter in any place within the said wield of your said county, of his good mind and disposition, without any value of good by him or them to be received for the same, will for the common weal of your people assign and lay out a more commodious way in and over the lands thereunto adjoining whereof the person or other to his use shallbe ceased of fee in estate of inheritance that the same new way so to be assigned and laid out, by oversight and assent of two justices of peace of the said county, and xii other disecrete men inhabiting within hundred, where any such new way shallbe limited & laid out, or inhabiting within the same hundred and other hundreds to that hundred next adjoining shallbe from thenceforth, holden, occupied, and used in like manner as the old way there now is or before hath been ¶ And that also the same person or persons, so disposed, willing, and accomplishing the same, shall and may for the said new way so assigned and used, retain and hold in way of recompense for the same new way so to be given, the soil and ground of the old way in severalty as is above said, to him or them and to their heirs for ever. in like manner as is above said of the said new way to be assigned at Hempstede. And that the said two justices of peace, & xii other discrete persons by whose oversight and assent, the said new way at Hempstede, or any other way by virtue of this act shallbe hereafter assigned, limited and laid out, shall within three months next after the assignment limittation, & laying out of the same make certificate into the kings most honourable court of Chancery under their seals, of the length and breedeth of the same new way or street & of other things adjoining or concerning the same as by their discretions shallbe thought most expedient or requisite for the common wealth of the country to be certified: And that certificate to be made from time to time as often as any such new way or street shallbe assigned, limited, and laid out in form above written. ¶ Provided always that if any person, or persons, or body politic, have or aught to have, or hereafter shall have any church way or other what so ever way or passage, over or through any manner lands adjoining to any of the said old ways or streets, which shallbe taken, and used by force ol this act, as several soil and free hold in recompense for any new way to be made & laid out, in form aforesaid, or have or aught to have hereafter shall have lands or tenements adjoining to the said old way that they and every of them, their heirs, and successors, shall and may have and use their said way or ways, out of and into the said new way over and through the land of the said old way, or street, into or over the said land or tenement adjoining to the same, & so to pass and repass as shall appertain over the same old way at such convenient place or places thereof, as therefore shallbe limited and assigned by the said two justices of peace and other xii men, and by them to be certified into the chancery among other things by them to be certified in form aforesaid: any thing in this acce above written notwithstanding. An act concerning shooting in crossbows and hand gonnes. Cap. seven BE it enacted by the king our soveraige lord, by the assent of his lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled & by authority of the same, that every person and persons having lands, tenements, hereditaments, fees, anuities, or other yearly profits in his own right or in his wives to the yearly value of one hundred pounds, from henceforth may lawfully use and shoot in crossbows and hand gonnes, and in every of them, & retain and keep the same: Any thing contained in the act made at a parliament holden at westminster, in the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, for reformation of shooting in crossbows and hand gonnes, and for keeping of the same notwithstanding. And further be it enacted by authority aforesaid that all licences grants, and placardes made by our said sovereign lord to any person or persons, before the twenty day of August in the xu year of his reign for shouting in crossbows or hand gonnes, or for keeping of the same, or any of them, shallbe from the feast of saint Michael the archangel next coming utterly void and of none effect. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid that every person, not having in use or possession, lands, teuntes, fees, annutties, or other yearly profits, to the yearly value of. C. pounds (as aforesaid) offending contrary to the said act, made in the said vi year, shall forfeit for every time that he shall so offend, but only. xl.ss. and the crossbows & hand gonnes to he had. recovered, seized, & levied according to the said former act any thing contained in the said former act of or for any greater penalti notwithstanding. And that it shallbe leeful to all justices of peace in their sessions and stewards & bailiffs, in their leets, to inquire of every person, & persons other than be provided for by this present act, offending contrary to the said form●t act, of or for any great penalty notwithstanding. ¶ And that it shallbe leeful to all justices of peace in their sessions, and stewards and bailiffs in their leets to inquire of every person & persons other than be provided for by this present acre, offending contrary to the said former act: & that upon all presentments had before justices of peace in their sessions, processes shallbe made for leuiynge of the said. xl.ss. to the kings use, in such form and in like manner as is made upon inditements of riots, and upon every presentment had in any leets the lord and owners of the leets to levy and have the said penalty if. xl.ss by way of distress, action of debt, or otherwise in the which the offender shall not be admitted to wage his law, ne any essoin or protection to be allowed. ¶ And be it further enacted by authority afore said, that no lords or owners of leets bear or maintain any of their tenants or servants within the jurisdiction of their leets to do or offend contrary to the said former act, upon pain to forfane for every time so doing. xl.ss. the one half thereof to the king our sovereign lord, and the other half to the parti that will sue for the same by action of debt, bill plaint or information in which suit no wager of law ne essoin or protection shallbe allowed or admitted. The old act in all other points, not otherwise provided for in this act, to be of force and effect. ¶ An act concerning the six clerks of the Chauntery to be married. Cap. viii. IN most humble wise beseecheth your true & faithful subjects & daily servants the six clerks of your high court of Chancery, that whereas of old time accustomed hath been used in the said court the all manner clerks and ministers of the same court writing to the great seize, should be unmarried except only the clerk of the crown: so that as well the coursetoures & other clerks, as the six clerks of the said Chancery wear by the same custom estrained from marriage, whereby all those that contrary to the same did marry, were no longer suffered to writ in the said Chancery not only to their great hindrance, losing thereby the benefit of their long study and tedious labours and pains in youth, takine in the said court, by also to the great decay of the true course of the said court. ¶ And for as much as the said custom taketh no place nor usage, but only in the office of the said six clerks but that it is permitted and suffered for maintenance of the said court, that as well the said coursetoures as the other clerks aforesaid, may and do take wives and marry at their liberty after the laws of holy church, and of long time have so done, without interruption or left of any person: It may therefore please your highness of your most abundant grace, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, in consideration of the premises, ●nd also for that the said custom is not grounded upon any law, to ordain enact, and establish, that john Treverthen, Rycharde Welles, Oliver ●…der, johan Croke, William jessen, and john Lemsey, now being in the office of the six clerks of the Chancery, & every of them, and all other which in time to come shallbe in the same office, & every of them, may and do take wives & marry at their liberty, after the laws of holy church. And that they and every of them so married may have, hold, and enjoin, their said office of six clerks in as ample, large, and like manner, as they did or should do before the said espouselles, or as if they had never been married, the said custom or any other custom or ordinance heretofore had or made to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alway, that by any thing in this act contained the master of the Rolls (for the time being) be not prejudiced either in the giving and disposition of the said offices from time to time, as hath been heretofore accustomed, the forfeiture of that office by reason of marriage only except. And that the said officers, which now be & hereafter shallbe, do give such attendance unto the said master of the Rolls for the tune being, as heretofore in the said offices hath been accustomed. ¶ An act concerning the liberty of Cordwainers or showmakers. Cap. ix. PRaien the commons in this present parliament assembled, that where in the parliament holden at Westmin. in the fourth year of the reign of the excellent prince of famous memory Edward the four late king of England your noble graunfather, among other things it was ordained, established, and enacted, that no person cordwainer of the city of London, or within three miles next about the same, upon any sunday of the year, in the feasts of the Nativity or Ascension of our lord, or Corpus Christi, should cell, command or make to be sold any shows, boots, or galeges, or upon any of the said sundays or feasts, should put upon the foot or legs of any person or persons any shows, boot●…, or galeges, upon pain to forfeit and loose twenty shillings sterlitge, as often and whensoever any person shoal do contrary to the said ordinance, or any parcel thereof. And where by the same statute it is ordained and provided, that the same act should not extend to the damage or prejudice, nor any manner be hurtful or prejudicial to the Dean and Chapter (for the time being) of the free chapel of the king, of Saint Martins le grand of London nor to any person or persons, dwelling, abiding, or Being within any place or places in saint martin's lane in London, or within any place or places within the precinct, fee, or franchise, of the said Deane, or of the said Deane and chapter. Wherefore to the honour of almighty god and to the intent that the kings subjects may be hereafter at their liberty, as well as the said inhabitants within the liberties and precinct of the said saint Martin's the grand, be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the said statute, made in the parliament holden at westminster in the said fourth year of the reign of king Edward the fourth, stand and be from henceforth utterly void and of none effect. ¶ An act concenigne the hunting of the Hare. Cap. x. FOr as much as our sovereign lord the king, and other noble men of this realm of England, before this time hath used and exercised the game of hunting of the Hare, for their disport and pleasure, which game is now decayed and almost utterly dystroied, for that, that divers persons in divers parties of this Realm, by reason of the tracing in snow, have killed and destroyed, and daily do kill and destroy the same Hares, by. x.xij. or xuj upon a day, to the displeasure of our said sovereign lord the king & to other noble men of this his realm Wherefore be it enacted by our said sovereign lord, by the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same: that no person or persons of what estate degree, or condition they be, from henceforth trace, destroy, and kill no Hare in snow with any dog, bitch, nor otherwise. And that the justice of the peace within every shire, at every sessions of the peace, and stewards of leets shall have full authority anb power to power to inquire of such offenders. And after such inquisitions found, the said justices of the peace & stewards of leets for every Hare so killed, shall seasse upon every such offender. vi.s.viij.d. to be forfeited to our said sovereign lord, that shall be so founden by the justices of peace in their sessions, & the forfeiture found in every leete to be to the lord of the leete. ¶ An act concerning clotheses, called Vesses, made in the county of Suffolk. Cap. xj. Humbly shown unto your highness your true subjects & clothiers of your County of suffolk, that where in the sixth year of your most noble reign, it was & is enacted amongs other things, concerning making of cloth, the any person or persons shall not put any cloth to sale, which when it is full wet, shall shrink more than one yard in length, & one quarter of a yard in breadth, for the more part thereof: and clotheses called narrowes or straits after the rate, upon pain to forfeit for every cloth otherwise put to sale. vi.s.viij.d. & beside to deduct of his price for the same, to be rebated to the bier thereof as much after the rate, as the same cloth so otherwise put to sale (being full wet) shallbe shrunk more than one yard of that it was in length, time of the same sale, and as it shall (being wet) lack of the bread of one yard & three quarters of a yard. And in the same act was and is a proviso made, after the form following. provided alway, that this act extend not to woollen clotheses, called kendalles, nor clotheses called carpenell whites, commonly made for lining of hosen, nor to any clotheses called Tostockes, made in the county of Devonshire, nor to any woollen clotheses made in the county of Cornwall, nor for any Cottons or plain lining or frise, made or to be made in wales, Lancasshyre, and Cheshire, or any of them. So it is most gracious sovereign lord, that Vesses, otherwise called Set clotheses of divers colours, be made in your said county of Suffolk which be made to be worn, and be worn in far countries, & not in England, and be of small prices not above xl.s. a cloth, that do not hold the length nor breadth when they be wet, which the buyers do know well when they buy them, so that therein is no deceit. which clotheses in the third year of the reign of your most noble father king Henry the seventh, were provided for, so that they might lawfully be sold without any penalty or forfeiture, though they lacked in length or breadth when they were full wet and so they have used to do time out of mind. And in the proviso made in the said act of the sixth year of your most noble reign they were forgotten & not provided for, which should be to the utter impoverishings of the clothiers of your said county, and all other that be wrought by reason of cloth making within the said county of Suffolk, if no remedy should be therefore provided. Wherefore your humble subjects humbly beseech your highness, that it be enacted by all the lords spiritual and temporal, and all the commons in this present Parliament assembled, with your most royal assent to the same: that all clotheses called Vesses, otherwise called Set clotheses, what colour so ever they be of, not being above the value of. xl.ss. a cloth, shall not be forfeit, for that they lack in length & breadth when they be full wet after the jail of them afore this time made or hereafter be made. The said act made in the sixth year of your most noble reign, or any other act heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding. An act concerning coiners, that shall coin and make any money at any mint within this realm of England. Ca xii. BE it enacted by the king our sovereign lord, and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same: that all such coiners, as shall coin and make any money at any mint with in this Realm of England, shall make and coin of every hundred pounds worth of goold, that they shall strike into coin xx.li. in the coin of half angels, commonly called pieces of gold of. xl.d. And of every hundred pounds worth of Bullion, Plate, or Silver, that they shall strike into coin, as many groats as shall amount to the sum of fifty pounds sterling: as many half groats called pence of two pence, as shall amount to the sum of. xx.li. sterling: as many pence as shall amount to the sum of. xx.li. as many half pence as shall amount to the sum of ten marks sterling and as many farthings as amount to the sum of five marks sterling. And that at any time that any coiners, in any mint within this realm, shall do contrary to this act, the master and keeper of that mint, for the time being, shall forfeit and loose. x.li. The one moiety thereof to be to the king our sovereign lord. the other moiety to the party that shall sue for the same, by bill, information, action of debt, or otherwise: wherein the said mais●…er shall not be admitted to do his law, & no protection ne essoin to be allowed for the defendant. And for as much as at this present time farthings and half pence be stricken all with one coin, so that the common people of the realm many times take these that be farthings for half pence. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all such farthings (that from henceforth shallbe made within this realm) shall have upon the one side thereof the print of the portcullis, and upon the other side thereof the print of the Rose with across, upon like pain. And furthermore be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all manner persons refortinge to the said mint with any plate or bullion, under the value abovesaid, to be coined, shall have and receive at the said mint the tenth part of all such plate and bullion in half pence and farthings. Provided always, that this act or any thing contained in the same, be not in any wise prejudicial to the Coiners, and mint masters of York, Duresme, and Canterbury, ne to any of them, for any money to be coined there, other than heretofore hath been accustomed. This act to begin to take effect at the feast of saint Michael the archangel next coming, and not before. ¶ An act concerning the haven and port of Southampton. Ca xiii. WHere in aparliament holden at westmin. the xiiij day of Octobre, the xj year of the reign of king Henry the vij amongs other it was ordained, established, and enacted by the king our sovereign lord. with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal & the commons in the same parliament assembled, for the reformation & remedy of the decay of the haven and port of Southampton, had by reason of divers wears & engines for fishing, made & levied in the same haven, between a certain place called Calshare, and another place called Reedbridge, that it should be lawful to every man to abate, pluck, & take away all and every of the said wears and engines, at all times at their pleasure, being in the said haven, between the said places, called Calshare and Reedbridge, directly, without trouble, let, or vexation of any man, with divers penalties and forfeitures to all such persons as hereafter should make or levy any such wears or engines, as in the same act more plainly may appear: The which act was made to endure only the space of twenty years than next ensuing, during which act the said wears and engines were pulled down, and the said haven greatly amended, to the succour and comfort of all the merchants there resorting, the which years be now expired & past, and the same act in no force by the space of vii years now passed during which vii years divers new wears, gores, stacks, and engines have been levied and enhanced, by reason whereof, the said haven is greatly decayed again, and likely to be lost for ever, to the kings disherison, & hurt of the common weth of all those parties if remedy therefore be not shortly had and provided: wherefore be it now enacted by authority of this present parliament, that the same act and every thing therein contained, shall be from henceforth good and effectual according to the purport and intent of the same, and to continued for ever. And furthermore be it enacted, that every owner, fermer, & occupier of the said wears, gores, and engines, and every of the same, do puldowne and put away the same, a this side the feast of saint Michael tharchangel next coming, without levying, maintaining, making, or repairing the same from henceforth, upon pain of a hundred pound, to be forfeited & levied likewise & in like manner, as in the same former act is contained. This act to endure for ever. ¶ An act concerning such as be in the kings wars over or upon the sea. Cap. xiv. THe King our sovereign Lord of his most blessed disposition well considering, that now he is brought into War of necessity with his ancient enemies, the French king and the Scots, and hath had and shall have daily the humble service in his said Wars, as well of his nobles as other his true subjects: of his most especial grace and benign favour, that he beareth unto his said subjects, and for their more surety and profit, and for other reasonable considerations him especially moving, by the assent of his Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same hath enacted, ordained and established that every person and persons, of what degree or condition he be of, that shall pass over the sea, or that abideth upon the sea, or beyond the sea, and be in the king's wages or service of war at this time, or hereafter shallbe in any other place during his said wars in service of war, that every of them, which have lands & tenements holden of the king or any other to their only use, shall now lawfully make thereof alienation, feoffments and transmutation of possession, by deed or deeds, fine or fines, recovery or recoveries, for the performance of his or their will or wills, without any fine or fines, for the said alienations, feoffments, fines, recoveries, or transmutation of possession therefore, or for any of them to be made: And that they and every of them, their heirs & assigns, & the heirs & assigns of every of them, by authority of this present act, be discharged of all & every such fines, without letters patents of licence or pardon, or other discharge in that behalf. And furthermore be it also ordained and enacted, by the said authority, that if any person or persons, so being in the said service of war, which hold lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the king or of any other by knights service or otherwise, wherefore his heir or heirs ought or might be in ward, & fortune in the said service to decease beyond the sea or upon the sea, or else where, in the service of the king in his wars against his enemies, or that any feoffment of the same lands and tenements, be supposed to be made by collusion the heir or heirs of the owner of the same lands & tenements being within age: that than the feoffees or executors of every such person & persons so deceased, have the ward and marriage of the heir or heirs, so being within age, until they come to their full & lawful age. And the lands and tenements, and other hereditaments so holden, during the nonage of every such heir or heirs to the performance of the will of the said person or persons so deceased without any account or sums of money, or other thing therefore to be yelden, paying thereout yearly the rents of the chief lord or lords of the fee of the same, saving to every person or persons, other than the said person or persons, that shall make any such alienation, feoffment, fine, or suffer recovery to be had against him, without paying therefore any fine to the king, or the lord or lords (of whom the said lands be holden) for the same such right, title, use, and interest, as they had before the said feoffment, alienation, fine, recovery, or transmutation of possession, or any of them made or suffered of any such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whereof any such feoffment, fine, recovery or alienation so shall be made. Provided always, that this act extend not to any captain or captains, soldier or soldiers, that now be or hereafter shall be reteygned within the towns of Calis, Hams, Guines, Risebanke, Berwick, Wales, or any of them, or marches of the same. Except they or any of them proceed in army royal against the kings enemies. God save the king.