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¶ ANNO. III. & IIII. EDWARDI SEXTI. ❧ acts ❧ made in the Session of this present parliament, holden vpon prorogation at westminster, the .iiii. day of Nouembre, in the third year of the reign of our most dread Souereygne lord Edward the .vi. by the grace of God, king of england, france, and Ireland, defemder of the faith, and of the church of england, and also of ireland, in earth the supreme head: and there continued, and kept to the first day of february, in the .iiii. year of the reign of our said sovereign lord, as followeth.   

The table.  

AN act that the lord chancellor, or lord keeper of the great seal, for the time being, shal name, and appoint the Custos rotulorum, throughout all Shires of england according as in time past hath ben accustomend. Chap. i.  
An act for the true making of Woullen clothes. Chap. ii.  
An act concerning emprouement of Commons, and Wast grounds. Chap. iii.  
An act concerning grants, and gifts made by patentees, out of lettres patents. Chap. iiii.  
An act for the punishment of unlawful assemblies, and rising of the kings Subiectes. Chap. v.  
An act, concerning the repeal of a branch in the act of parliament made for buying of tanned Leather. Chap. vi.  
An act for the repeal of a Statute made in the .xxv. year of king Henry the .viii. touching the taking of wild foul at certain times of the year. Chap. vii.  
An act for the continuance of the Statute of Sewers. Chap. viii.  
An act for the buying of raw hides, and calf skins. Chap. ix.  
An act for the abolishing, & putting away of diuers books, & images. Chap. x.  
An act that the kings majesty may nominate, and appoint .xxxii. persons to peruse, and make ecclesiastical laws. Chap. xi.  
An act for the ordryng of ecclesiastical ministers. Chap. xii.  
An act for the restitution in blood of sir William Sharington knight. Chap. xiii  
An act for the restitution in blood of Marye Seymour daughter to sir Thomas Seymour knight, lord Seymour of Sudleye, late admiral of england. Chap. xiiii.  
An act against fonde, and fantastical prophecies Chap. xv.  
An act touching the punishment of vagabonds, & other idle persons. Chap. xvi.  
An act against unlawful hunting in any park, forest, Chase, or other enclosed ground. Chap. xvii.  
An act concerning Fee fermes, mentioned in the last Session. Chap. xviii.  
An act for the buying of rother beasts, and cattle. Chap. xix  
An act touching the repeal of a certain branch of an act passed in the last Session of this parliament, concerning victuallers, and artificers. Chap. xx.  
An act for the buying, and selling of butter, and cheese. Chap. xxi.  
An act touching the retaining of journeymen, by dyvers persons. Chap. xxii.  
An act concerning the release of the branches in the last act of relief, for the payementes of sheep, and Clothes, and also a grant of a subsidy to be paid in one year. Chap. xxiii.  
An act of the kings majesties most free, and general perdone. Chap. xxiiii.   
FINIS.   

¶ An act, that the lord chancellor, or lord keeper of the great seal for the time being, shall name and appoint the Custos rotulorum throughout all shires of England, according as in time past hath been accustomend. ¶ The first Chapitre.  
WHere in the parliament holden at westminster in the .xxxvii. year of the reign of the most excellent prince of famous memory king henry the .viii. it was enacted that no person, or persons, should from the making of the said act be nominated, and appoynted to thoffice, or offices of the Custos rotulorum, within any shire of this realm of england, Wales, or other the kings dominions, marches, or territories of the same, but such as should haue a bill signed with the kings hand for the same, which bill signed, should bee a sufficient warrant by authority of the said act, to the Lord chancellor of england, and lord keeper of the great seal, for the time being, to make from time to time, commission or commissions, assygnyng, and aucthorising thereby, the same person to be Custos rotulorum, until the king had by another bill assigned with his own hand appoynted, & ordained an other person, to haue, occupy, and exercise the same office of Custos rotulorum, and that the said person appoynted, and assigned to be Custos rotulorum, as is abovesaid, should, & might occupy, exercise, end enjoy the said office of Custos rotulorum, by himself, or by his sufficient deputy learned in the laws of this realm, & meet, and able to supply the said office, according to the tenor of the said grant, or commission, as by the same act among other things more at large it doth, and may appear. sense the making of which statute, diverse & many persons being in the said offices of Custos rotulorum, in diuers shires of the realm, haue departed this present life, and dyed, so that there hath not come to the hands of the chancellor of England, or Lord keeper of the great seal, any bill, or bills assigned with the kings majesties hand for the naming, appointing, or assigning of any new Custos rotulorum in the same shires, the said offices haue remained void for a long time, to the great let of Iustice. And also for that it shalbe very tedious, and much to the molestyng of the kings majesty vpon every auoydaunce of such Custos rotulorum, by death, or otherwise, to move his majesty for the signyng of bills for other persons to be elected, name, chosen, and appoynted to supply the said offices of Custos rotulorum, being void. And for that the nomination and appointing of the said office of Custos rotulorum, long time before the making of the said Statute last before rehearsed did appertain, and belong to the office of the chancellor of england, or lord keeper of the great seal for the time being: Be it therfore enacted by the king our souereygne lord, 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 chancellor of england, or lord keeper of the great seal, for the time being, shall at all time, and times hereafter, and from time to time, without any bill, or bills to be assigned with the kings hand, name, elect, assign, and appoint such person, & persons to be Custos rotulorum, within every shire of this realm of england, Wales, and other the kings dominions, Marches, & territories of the same, or by any of them, as by the dyscrecion of the said lord chancellor, or lord keeper of the great seal, for the time being, shalbe thought able, and meet to haue and exercise the same. And that the said person, and persons, so to be appointed, elected, name, and assigned by the said Lord chancellor, or Lord keeper of the great seal for the time being, shall, and may occupy, exercise, and enjoy the same office of Custos rotulorum, by himself, or by his sufficient deputy, or deputies, in as ample, and large maner, and form, as if the said act had never been had ne made, the before rehearsed act, or any thing theryn contained to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided alway, and be it enacted by the authority aforesayed, that all such as now haue any of the said offices of Custos rotulorum, by the kings letters patents, or commission, to thē, or any of them made, shall, & may enjoy, haue, and exercise their said offices by virtue of the same letters patents, or commission, by himself, or his sufficient, and able deputy, instructed in the laws of this realm, any thing in this present act, had, or made to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also that it be enacted by the authority aforesayed, that the archbishop of york, the bishop of Durham, the bishop of Ely, and every of their successors, the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster for the time being, and all, and every person, and persons, corporations, and bodies corporated, to whom the kings majesty, or any of his noble progenitors by his, or their letters patents, or act of parliament, haue given, and granted any liberty and authority, or otherwise haue authority by other lawful means, or ways, to ordain, make, & constitute, any of the said officers of Custos rotulorum within any county palantine, or other place, shall, and may haue, and enjoy the same liberty, & authority, according as they haue had, and enjoyed the same, any thing in this present act, had, or made, to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ The .ii. Chapitre. ¶ An act for the true making of woullen clothes.  
forasmuch as by the sleighte, and subtle making of Clothes, and colours, within dyvers partes of this realm, now of late practised, & used, not onely great infamies & slaundres hath grown to the same realm but also the kings majesties faithful, and true subiettes haue sustained great loss in the use, and wearing of the same clothes, so slightly, & subtly made. For remedy, and reformation whereof: bee it ordained, & enacted by the kings most excellent majesty, with thassent of the lords spiritual, & temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that every Clothter, and Clothmaker, shall from the feast of the annunciation of our lady next coming, set his seal of lead to his Cloth, declaring thereby the just lengths therof to be tried by the water. And that no person shall from the said feast streygne, or stretch any set clothes, or any other cloth, above one yard and a di. in length, and a quarter of a yard in breadth, vpon pain to forfetct .xl. s. for every default. And that no person, nor persons, shall from the said feast, vpon pain last before remembered, put to sale any cloth, which when it shalbe wet, shall shrink more then .i. yard &. di. in all the length, and a quarter of a yard in the breadth. And that narrow streites, and kerseyes, shall not from the said feast be stretched, above a yard in length, and di a {quam}. of a yard in breadth, vpon the pain for every default therein .xx. s. nor shall put to sale one cloth, narrow, perfit, or kersey the pieces whereof being wet, shall shrink more then after the same several rates in the whole piece, vpon pain to forfeycte for every such offence .xx. s. And further, that no person, or persons, occupyeng the feat of dying, shall die, or alter into colours, or cause to be died, or altered into colours, any wollen clothes, as brown blewes, picukes, tawnies, or violets, except the same wollen clothes be perfectly boiled, greyned or madered vpon the woad, and shot with good, and sufficient cork, or orchal after a due, substantial, & sufficient maner of workemanshyp, according to thauncient workmanship in time past used, vpon pain for every default to forfeit .xx. s. nor that any person shall from the said feast die any woll to be converted into cloth called russettes, mustres, marbles, grayes, royes, & such like colours, or to be converted, & made into hats or caps, unless the same woll be perfectly woaded, boiled, and maddred according to the true, & ancient usage, vpon the pain of forfeiture for the false dying of every such cloth, or of as much wool, as shall serve for the making of every cloth contrary to the true meaning therof .xl. s. Nor shall die with brasell to thintent to make a false colour in cloth nor wool hats, nor caps, vpon pain for every default to forfeit .xx. s.  
And that no person, or persons, shall after the said feast put any flocks, chalk, flower, or sterche, or any other deceivable thing, vpon any set cloth, or vpon any other cloth, or clothes coloured, or vncoloured, vpon pain to forfeycte for every such offence. xl.s. And that no person shall from the said feast, occupy any iron cards, or pickardes in rowing of any set cloth, or any maner of wollen cloth, vpon pain to forfeit as well the said iron cards, or pickardes, as also the sum of. xx.s. for every such offence. Nor that any person shall from the said feast sell any cloth by any less measure then after the true content therof, to be moten and measured by the yard, adding to every yard, one inch of the rule, according to the statute made in the .vi. year of the reign of the most worthy prince of most famous memory king Henry the .viii. Father unto our sovereign lord the king that now is, vpon pain to forfeycte for every yard of cloth so put to sale, by any other less measure. vi.s. viii. d. And that no person shall from the said feast, put to sale here with in the realm, either by retail, or otherwise, any cloth being pressed to be occupied, and worn here within the realm of england, Wales, or ireland, vpon pain of forfeiture of the same cloth, or the value therof that haue been so pressed, and put to sale as is last before remembered.  
And for the better executing of this statute: be it enacted by thauctoritie aforesaid, that in every town, village, or Hamlet, being not corporate, where any cloth shalbe made, or sold, the Iustice of peace of the same shire where any such town, village, or hamlet is, or two of them at the least, and in every city, borough, or town corporate, the head officer, or officers of every the same city, borough, or town corporate together with the wardens of the clothworkers, or two of them at the least, shall haue full power, and authority, by virtue of this act, once every year to convent, and call before them by their precept, or otherwise .ii. iiii. vi. viii. or more, as they shall think good by their discretion, of the most honest, discrete, & indifferent men of every such city, borough, town, village, or hamlet, where any cloth shalbe made, or sold, & thē shall constitute, ordain, and appoint to be overseers for one whole year then next following within the city, borough, town, village, or hamlet, where the same overseers shal be dwelling, charging them also vpon their oaths, and as they do tender thonor of the realm, and the common wealth of the same, that they do endeavour themselves for that year, as much as in them shal lie to see that this statute be truly observed, and kept within the limits of their charge, in every part therof. And that the same overseers, or .ii. of them, shall every quarter of the said year at the least, or so often as need shal require by their discrecions, by force hereof, visit, and go into every clothiers, drapers, cloth workers, diers, and pressors houses, shops, & other places, where cloth, or died woll shalbe, & there to make due search & to view the clothes, and wolles, made, or dyed, or remaining to be sold and to search and try, as well whether the said clothes, be drawn, or streigned, or falsely dyed, as also of all other the defaults before specified, committed, or doen, contrary to the true meaning of this act. And if vpon the search, the clothes be found drawn, or strained, or the cloth, or wolles falsely dyed, or coloured, or any other of the said faults committed, or doen contrary to the true meaning of this statute: That then the said several forfeitures to incur vpon the party, or parties, which shall offend in the same, or in any of them: thone half of all which forfeitures to be unto the king our Souereygne lord, his heirs, or successors, and tother half to such of the said overseers, as doth finde the said defaults, or causes of forfeitures, and that will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record, or before the Iustices of peace, within any such city, borough, or town corporate, or before the Iustices of peace within any shire where any such forfeitures shalbe had out of any city or town corporate, the same suite to be pursued by bill, plaint, action of debt, information, or otherwise, and in which suite, no wager of lawe, essoin, or protection shalbe allowed for the defendant. And if the said overseers shalbe negligent, and will not sue for the same forfeitures, by the space of one half year next after the cause of the same forfeitures committed, & doen, that then thone half of the same forfeiture to be unto our said sovereign lord the king, his heirs, or successors, and the other half to him which will sue for the same, as is aforesayed, within one other half year next after such default be had by the said overseers. And if any of the said persons so commanded to appear to be made overseers, as is aforesayed, & having no reasonable excuse, do refuse to come, & to take vpon him, or them to be an overseer, as is aforesaid, that then every such person refusing, & having no reasonable excuse so to do, to forfaicte for every such refusing. xl.s. thone half therof to be to the king our said Souereygne, his heirs, or successors, and the other half to the Iustices of peace, or other head officer, or Officers, by whose commandment he was commanded to appear, or to be an overseer, and the same overseer so offending, to remain in the ward of the sheriff, until such time, as he had made payment of the said forfaicture, or otherwise put in sufficient bonde for the satisfaction of the same. And if the same overseers, or two of them at the least, do not once every quarter of the year, make due search for the true executing of this statute: that then every of the said overseers, to forfaycte for every such default. x.li. thone half to be to the kings highnesse, his heirs, or successors, and the other half to him that will sue for the same by bill, plaint, action of debt, information, or otherwise. In which suite, no essoing, or protection shalbe allowed for the defendant. And if the said overseers shalbe interrupted, and not suffered to entre into the said houses, shops, or other places, where any such clothes, or wolles shalbe made, or died, or any other of the said defaults shal happen to be doen, or committed, there to make search for the better executing of this Statute, that then every one that so shall make any such interruption, shal forfeycte. xx.l. the one half of which forfeicture to be to our said sovereign Lord the king, his heires, or successors, and tother half therof to be to the said overseers, to whom any such interruption shalbe made, and the same to be obtained, and pursued for, in such maner, and form, as before in this act is expressed for the recovery of other of the said forfeyctures.  
provided always, & be it enacted by thauctoritie aforesayed, that it shall, & may be lawful to every person, and persons, to put to sale any cloth or clothes, made, dyed, or prest, which before the said feast of the Annunciation of our lady shalbe made, dyed, or prest, at any time within one year, next after the said feast of the Annunciation of our lady, so as the Alnager, or his deputy, or other head officer in any such city, Borough, town, Village, or hamlet, do put some notorious mark to every such cloth, whereby the same may be known to be made before the said feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming.  
provided also, that no maner of person, shall take any advantage of any of the said forfeictures, by reason of this Statute, unless the same person doth commence his suite, within one year next after the said offences, and forfeictures committed.  
And to thentent, that all such clothes as shal be made within this realm, or any other of the kings dominions after the said feast shalbe the better known from the other clothes made before the same time: Be it therfore enacted by thaucthoritie afore said, that every Clothier shall before such time, as he shall put his cloth to sale, being made after the said feast, cause every cloth to be marked with a letter of E. crwoned, wrought in the cloth, vpon pain of forfeycture for every cloth so being sold, and not marked with the said letter E. by any such clothier. xx.s. the one half of which forfaycture to bee to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs, or successors, and tother half to him that will sue for the same in maner, and form before rehearsed.   

¶ The .iii. Chapter. ¶ An act concerning the improuementes of commons, and wast grounds.  
WHere in the parliament holden at Marton in the .xx. year of the reign of king henry the third, it is contained that forbecause many great men of england which had enfeoffed knights, & other their free tenants of small tenements in their great manors did complain that they might not make their profits of the residue of their manors, as of wast woods and pastures, where the same feoffees had sufficient pasture, as much as belonged unto their tenememtes, it was provided & granted, that what soever persons so enfeoffed, brought assyse of novel disseison, of their common of pasture, & before the iustices it were recognized, that they had as much pasture as did suffice unto their tenements, and that they had free ingress, and egress into, & from their tenememtes unto their pasture, that then they should therwith be contented, and that they, vpon whom they had complained, should depart quiet with that, that they might make their profit of their lands, wastes, woods, and pastures. And if it were said that they had not sufficient pasture, or sufficient ingress, and egress, as much as doth belong unto their tenememtes, as is abovesaid, that then the truth therof should be inquired by Assyse: and if it were recognized by the Assyse, that their ingress, & egress were in any thing letted by the same deforciatours, or that they had not sufficient pasture and sufficient ingress, & egress, as is above said, that then they should recover their seison by view of the iurours, so that by the dyscrecion, and oath of them, the complaynantes should haue sufficient pasture, and sufficient ingress, and egress, in form afore said, & that the dysseisours should be in amerciament of the king, and should yield damages, as they were wont to do before the same provision. And if it were recognized by the assize, that the complainauntes had sufficient pasture with free ingress, and egress, as is above mentioned, that then the other might lawfully do their profit of the residue, and should go quite from the same assize, as in the said statute more plainly appeareth.  
And where also in the parliament holden at Westminster, after Easter, the .xiii. year of the reign of king Edward the first, it was ordained that where in the statute made at Marton, it was agreed, that lords of wastes, woods, and pastures, might approve themselves of their wastes, woods, and pastures, notwithstanding the gaynesaying, and contradiction of their tenants, whiles the same tenants had sufficient pasture to their tenements, with free ingress, and egress, into, & from the same. And for that no mention was made between neighbour and neighbour, many lords of wastes, woods, and pastures, unto that time were let by contradiction, or gaynsaying of neighbours, having sufficient pasture. And forasmuch as foreign tenants haue no greater right of commoning in the wood, wast, or pasture of any lord then the proper covenants of the same lord, it was from thencefourth ordained, that the said Statute provided at Marton, between the lord and his tenants, should haue place from thenceforth between the lords of wastes, woods, and pastures, and neighbours, saving sufficient pasture to their men, and neighbours, so that the lords of the same wast, wastes, woods and pastures may approve themselves of the residue, and that the same should be observed of them that claim pasture, as perteinyng to their tenants. But if any man claim common of pasture by special feoffment or grant, to a certain number of beasts, or otherwise, then of common right he ought to haue it. Where covenant doth abrogate the lawe, he shall haue such recovery, as he ought to haue by form of the grant to him made. And that by occasion of a Windmyll, shepehouse, dairye, augmentation, or increase of any court necessary, or curtilage, from thencefourth, no man should be grieved by assize of novel disseison, of common of pasture. And for as much as it happeneth sometime that some men having right to approve to himself, hath made, or levied a ditch, or a hedge, & other by night, or such other time, when they believe their deed should not be known, do, or will cast down the same ditch, or hedge, and that it cannot bee known by veredite of assize, or jury, who did cast down the same ditch or hedge nor the men of the next town will endicte them that be guilty of the same deeds, then the next towneshyp adioigning about the same shal be destreigned to levy, and make up the same ditch, or hedge, at their proper costs, and to yield damages, as in the said statute amongst other things more plainly appeareth.  
And forasmuch as the aforesayed statutes been thought beneficial for the common wealth of this realm of england. Be it enacted by the king our Souereygne lord, 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 all and every the said Statutes, and all branches, clauses, articles, sentences, matters, and points contained, and specified in them, and every of them, now not repealed, shall from hencefourth be good, and effectual, and also stand, and be in their full strength, force, and effect.  
And because that such persons as shall bring assize of novel disseison vpon the said statutes, or vpon any of them, shall by force of the same statute, recover but onely single damages, which is thought to bee a small recompense for the same. Therfore be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayed, that such person, and persons, as shall at any time hereafter bring assize vpon any branch, or article of the said statutes, or any of them, and haue iudgement to recover, shall haue his, or their damages treble by the iudgement of the court, where such assize, & iudgement shalbe had.  
And where in dyvers countries of this realm, there hath been builded vpon Commons, or wast grounds, certain necessary houses with ground, under the quantity of three acres, and not above three acres, enclosed to, and with the same, and in some place there is enclosed a garden, orchard, or pond, out, of, or in such wastes, or grounds, which exceed not the quantity of two acres, or theraboutes, which doth no hurt, and yet is much commodity to the owner therof, and to others: be it therfore enacted by the authority aforesayed, that the said two former acts, nor any of them, nor any thing in thē contained, shall extend to any such house, ground, or other thing so enclosed, as is last herein before mentioned, ne shall cause any person or persons, to lose, or forfeit any pain, damage or penalty for the same.  
provided always, and bee it enacted, that if any such house hath been heretofore builded vpon any such wast ground, as is aforesaid, and that there be above the number of three acres enclosed to the same, that then the said house, and three acres parcel of the same enclosure, shall still remain, stand, abide, and continue in like, and the same form, and degree, as it now doth, and that the overplus of the said three acres so enclosed, as is aforesaid, shall, and may be laid open by thowner, or owners of the same wastes, any thing in this act, or in any of the said former acts, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.   

¶ The .iiii. Chapitre. ¶ An act concerning grants, and gifts made by patentees out of letters patents.  
WHere the right noble, and famous king of full worthy memory king Henry the .viii. father to our most dread, and now natural Souereygne liege Lord, sithence the fourth day of february in the .xxvii. year of his late reign, and also the kings most excellent majesty, by their several letters patents haue given, granted, bargained, sold, and exchanged, to, and with diverse and sundry the subiectes of this realm, bodies politic, and corporate in fee simplo, fee tail, for term of life, or yeres, diuers honours, castles, manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, and offices: After, & since which grants, bargains, sales, and exchanges, diverse of the said patentees, their heires, successors, or assigns, haue bargained, sold, given, exchanged, or dimised diverse particular partes, parcels, or portions of the said honours, castles, manors, lamdes, tenememtes, hereditaments, & offices, or other things thereunto appertaining, or belonging to other person, or persons, bodies politic, or corporate, that is to say, to some of thē in fee simplo, to some other in fee tail, for term of life, or yeres, or otherwise. And after the same patentees for considerations them moving, haue surrendered, or given up their said lettres patents into the chancery, or otherwise the same lettres patents haue been forfeited by attaindre, lost, canceled, embesiled, or by other ways or means haue come to the hands of the kings majesty his late father. And thereupon oft times the enrollement of the same hath been made void, and frustrate, sometime in part, and sometime in the whole, by reason whereof, such persons, bodies politic, or corporate, as haue had interest or title, in, or to the same Castles, manors, or particular portiones, or parcels of the same so to them given, and granted, haue been in times past, and in time to come are like to be dysherited, or in danger of loss of their interest, in, or to the same, to their no little hindrance, and peril: For remedy whereof, be it ordained, established, and enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliament that all & every person or persons, bodies politic, or corporate, which lawfully shall, or may claim by force of any patent, or patents made sithence the fourth day of february, or hereafter to be made by the kings majesty, his heirs or successors, kings of this realm, or by any of them, and all other that now haue, or hereafter shall happen to haue any good or lawful estate, right, title, rent, profeicte, interest, or possession, of, in, to, or out of any honours, manors, lands, tenememtes, hereditaments, or offices, or of other things, to any of the premisses, apperteynyng or belonging, or to any part, parcel, or member of them, or any of them, by, from, or under any such patent, or patents, or any of them, or by, from, or under the heirs, successors, or assigns of them, or any of them, or by, from, or under the state of any others, which had, haue, or hereafter shall haue the state, title, or interest, of any such patentee, or patentees, or by any other means under the date of such letters patents, shall, and may at all times hereafter, in any the kings courts, his heirs, or successors, and else where, by virtue of this present act, make, and conueygh unto themself title by way of declaration, plaint, auowrie, title, bar, or otherwise, as well against the kings highnesse, his heirs, & successors, and every of them, as against any other person, or persons, unto the said honours, castles, manors, lands, tenements, offices, and other the premises, or any part, or parcel of the same, unto them, or any their predecessors, or ancestors, or others, whose estate they haue in the same, by, from, or under the said patents, or any of thē, or theyres, ancestors, or assygnes of any of them, or otherwise, under the date of the said lettres patents, comprised, & contained in any exemplification, or constat therof made, or to be made, by the showing fourth of the said exemplification, or constat of the roll, or of so much therof, as shall serve for the matter in variance, under the great seal of england. And the same exemplification, or constat of the said enrollement so( as is aforesayed) pleaded, and shewed, shal be of like, & the same force, and effect, to all ententes, & constructions in the lawe, as the said first lettres patents were, & should be of, if the same were, or should be pleaded, or shewed.   

¶ The .v. Chapitre. ¶ An act for the punishment of unlawful assemblies, and rising of the kings subiectes.  
forasmuch, as it is most necessary in a common wealth to provide that tranquillitie, and peace may be continued in this realm, and that all things being contrary thereunto, may by foresight be eschewed: therfore it is ordained, and enacted, by the king our sovereign lord, with the assent of the lords, and Communes, of this present Parlamente assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any persons, to the number of .xii. or above, being assembled together at any time, after the .xii. day of February next coming, shall intend, go about, practise, or put in ure, with force of arms, unlawfully, and of their awne authority, to murder, kill, slay, take, or imprison, any of the kings most honourable priueye counsel, or unlawfully to alter or change any laws, made, or established for Religion, by authority of parliament, or any other laws or statutes of this realm, or any of them. The same number of .xii. or above, being commanded or required, by the sheriff of the shire, or by any Iustice of peace of the same shire, or by the Maior, Shirifes, Iustices of peace, or Baylyfes, of any city, borough, or town corporate, where any such assembly shalbe unlawfully had, or made, by proclamation in the kings name, to retire, & repair to their awne houses, habitations, or places from whence they came, and they or any of them, notwithstanding such proclamation, shall remain, or make their abode, or continue together, by the space of an whole hour, after such commandment or request, made by proclamation, or after that shall willingly, in forcible and riotous maner attempt to do, or put in ure, any the things above specified: That then as well every such abode or continuing together, as every such act or offence, that after such proclamation, commandment, or request had or made, shalbe attempted to be doen, practised, or put in ure by any persons, being of the number aforesaid, shalbe judged high treason, in all and singular those persons, that so shall make their abode, or continue together, or shall attempt or commit any such act, and the offenders therein, their aydours, abbettours, and procurers, to be adiudged traitors to the king and the realm, and shall suffer execution of death, as in case of high treason.  
And furthermore, be it enacted, ordained, and established, by thaucthoritie aforesayed, that if any persons, to the said number of .xii. or above, after the said .xii. day of February, shall intend, go about, practise, or put in ure, in maner and form aforesayed, to overthrow, cut, break, cast down, or dig up the pales, hedges, ditches, or other closure of any parks, park, or other grounds, or ground enclosed, or the banks of any fish pond or pool, or any Conduictes for water, conduit heads, or conduit pipes, having course of water, to the intent that the same, or any of them, from thencefurth should remain open, not enclosed or void, or unlawfully to haue common, or way in the said parks, park, or other grounds, or ground enclosed, or in any of them, or to destroy the Dere, in any maner of parks or park, or any Warreins or Warrein of Conies, or any dovehouses, or any fish in any pond or pool, or to pull or cut down, any houses, barns, mills, or bays, or to burn any stacks of corn or grain, or to abate, defalk or diminyshe the rents or yearly value of any manors, lands, or tenements, or the price of any victual, corn, or grain, or any other thing, usual for the sustenance of men: and being required or commanded, by any Iustice of peace, or by the sheriff of the county, or by the Maior, bailiff, or bailiffs, or other head officers of any head city, or town corporate, where such assembly shalbe had, by proclamation to be made in the kings name, to retire or return, in peaceable maner to their habitations, places, and houses, from whence they came, and they, or any of them, notwithstanding such proclamation, shall remain or make their abode, or continue together, by the space of one whole hour, after such commandment, or request made by proclamation, or after that shall in forcible maner attempt to do, or put in ure any of the things last before mentioned: That then as well every such abode, or continuing together, as every such act, that after such proclamation, commandment, or request, had or made, shal be doen, practised, or put in ure, by any persons, being above the number of .xii. shalbe adiudged felony, and the offenders therein to be adiudged felons, and shall suffer execution of death, as in case of felony, and every of the same persons, to lose the benefit of his clergy, and Sanctuary.  
And also it is ordained and enacted by the authority above said, that if any person or persons, after the said .xii. day of February, unlawfully, and without authority, by ringyng of any bell, or belles, sounding of any Dromme, trumpet, horn, or other instrument whatsoever, or by fyering of any Beacon, or by malicious speaking, or uttering of any words, or making any outcrye, or by setting up, or casting of any bills, bill, or writing whatsoever, or by any other deed, or act, shall raise, or cause to be raised, or assembled any persons, to the number of twelve or above, to thintent that the same persons should do, commit, and put in ure, any of the acts, or things above mentioned, and that the persons, to the number of .xii. or above, so raised and assembled, after request or commandment, had or given, in form afore said, shal make their abode, or continue together, as is aforesaid, or unlawfully perpetrate, do, commit, or put in ure, any of the acts, or things above said: that then all and singular persons, by whose speaking, dede, act, or any other the means above specified, any persons to the number of twelve or above, shal be raised or assembled for the doing, committing, or putting in ure, any of the acts, or things above mentioned, shalbe adiudged for his so speaking, or doing, a fellow, and shall suffer execution of death, as in case of felony, and shall lose his benefit, and Sanctuary, and clergy.  
And over that, it is ordained and enacted by the authority aforesayed, that if any persons, to the number of .xl. and above, after the said xii. day of february, shalbe assembled together, in forcible maner unlawfully, and of their own authority, to thyntent to do, exercise, or put in ure, any of the things above mentioned, or to do any other traitorous, Felonious, or Rebellious act, or acts, and so shall continue by the space of two houres, that then every person, so being willingly assembled, in forcible maner & so continuing, by the space of two houres, shalbe adiudged a traitor to the king, and to the realm, and shall suffer execution of death as in case of high treason.  
And also, that if any wife or seruannt of any of the same persons, or any other person whatsoever, shall willingly, and without compulsion bring, sand, deliver, or convey any money, harness, artillery, weapon, meate, bread, drink, or other victual, to any person, or persons, so being assembled as is afore said, during such time, as he or they shall so be assembled, or bee together, as is afore said: that then every wife seruant, or other person so bringing, sending, delivering, or conueyghing any money, harneys, artillery, weapon, meate, bread, drink, or victual, to the same persons, so being assembled together, in forcible maner, or to any of them, shal be judged a traitor to the king, and to the realm, and shall suffer execution of death, as in case of high treason.  
And furthermore it is ordained and enacted, by the authority abovesayed, that every person, that at any time hereafter shal be attainted, of or for, any of the treasons, or treason above mentioned, shall vpon his said attayndour, forfeycte his goods, Cattals, interests, for term of life, and of yeres, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, in like maner and form, as any person ateaynted of felony, only should, or ought to forfeycte, by the common laws of this realm, and not otherwise: that is to say, the king to haue the year, and day, & waste of such lands and tenements, whereof any person so attainted, shall at the time of the treason committed, or at any time after, haue an estate of fee simple, and also the goods and Cattals, real and personal. And that the lords, of whom, the said lands, and tenements, or any part therof shal be holden, to haue and enjoy the lands and tenements, holden of him or them for ever, in such the same maner and form, as in cases of attainder of felony, at the common lawe. And that every person, that at any time hereafter shal be attainted, of any of the Treasons aforesaid, shall forfeict the lands and tenements, and other hereditaments, whereof he shalbe seized, of any state in tail, or for term of life or lives, at the time of any such Treason committed, or at any time after, during his life onely, and no longer, unless the person so attainted, shal be therof seized in his drawn, as of fee, at the time of the said treason committed, or at any time after. And that after the decease of the same person, so attainted, all and singular such persons and person, as should haue had and enjoyed such lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, as any person, that at any time hereafter shal be attainted, of, or for, any treason above specified, shall fortune to be seized, of any estate in tail, or for term of life, at the time of any such Treason committed, or at any time after, shall after the death of the same person, that so shall fortune to be attainted, haue and enjoy the said lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, in like maner and form, as though no such Attayndour had been had, any lawe or usage, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And furthermore, it is ordained and enacted by the authority above said, that if any persons, above the number of two, & under the number of .xii. being assembled together, at any time after the said .xii. day of february, shall intend, go about, practise, or put in ure, with force of arms, vnlawefullie, and of their awne authority, to murder, kill, or slay, any of the kings majesties Subiectes, or to overthrow, cut, break, cast down, or dig up the Pales, Hedges, ditches, Wall, or other closure of any parks, park or other ground enclosed, or the bank of any fish pond or pool, to the intent that the same, or any of them, from thensfurth, should remain open not enclosed, or void, or to haue Common, or way in the same parks or park, or other grounds or ground enclosed, or in any of them, or to destroy any maner of parks, or park, or fish pond or pool, or any Warreyns or warren of Conies, or any dovehouses, or to pull, or cut down any house, barn, mill, or to burn any stacks of corn or grain, or alter, defalk, or abate the rents or yearly value of any manors, lands, or tenements, of any the kings subiectes, or the price of any victual, corn, or grain, or any other thing usual for the sustenance or apparel of men, and being required, or commanded by any Iustice of the Peace, or the sheriff of the county, or by any Mayor, bailiffs, or Bailyfe, or other head officer, of any city, or town corporate, where such assembly shalbe had, by proclamation, to be made in the kings name to retire, or return to their habitations, places, or houses, & they so required by such proclamation, shall not so do, but after that, shall in forcible maner, in form aforesaid, attempt to do, or put in ure, any of the things last above mentioned: that then every of the same persons being above the number of two, and under the number of .xii. shall suffer imprisonment, of his or their bodies, by the space of one year, without bail or mainprize, and shall make fine and ransom, at the kings will and pleasure. And also, that if any person or persons, at anytime after the said .xii. day of February, shalbe damnified or hurted, by the doing committing, or putting in ure, of any unlawful act or thing above mentioned: That then all and singular persons, so damnified or hurt, shall recover & haue damages with the costs of their suite, sustained in that behalf, treble against the offenders therein.  
And for asmuch, as such evil disposed persons, which of late time made Commocions and Rebellion, in certain places, within this realm, being but few in number, at such time, as they did begin the same commotion, were not in short time, after the beginning therof, suppressed by strength, for that the kings loving subiectes, for fear to incur in danger of the laws of this realm, durst not take vpon them so to do, a great number of evil disposed persons, did come and ioygne themselves to the said small numbre, whereby the same evil disposed persons, took vpon them such boldness, that they would not be reduced to obedience, without much bloodshedding, to the great danger of the kings majesties person, where, if the kings loving subiectes durst haue taken vpon them, to haue suppressed them at the beginning, such inconvenience and bloodshed should not haue followed: Therefore it is also ordained and enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any persons, above the number of two, that at any time, after thesaied xii. day of february, shal be vnlawfullie, and of their awne authority, assembled together, to the intent with force of arms, to do, practise, or put in ure, any of the things above mentioned, that then it shalbe lawful, to every Iustice of Peace, and to every sheriff, in any county, being within the kings Dominions, and to every major, bailiff, and other head officer of any city, or town corporate, for the time he shalbe in Office, or any other person or persons, having the kings Commission, or Letters from his highnes, or his privy counsel, aswell to raise and assemble the kings loving Subiectes, in maner of war to bee arrayed, in such great number, as he or they then shall think meet or able, to the intent by violence and strength to suppress, apprehend, and take the said persons, that so shal be unlawfully assembled. And that if the said persons, so unlawfully assembled, after such commandment or request by proclamation, or otherwise made, shall continue together, and not endeavour themselves, to return towards their habitations, houses or places, from whence they come, in such short time, as they may conveniently: that then it shalbe lawful to every Iustice of peace, sheriff, and also to every Mayour, bailyfe, and other head Officer of any city, or town corporate, and to every other person, having authority, as is aforesaid, aftersuch commandment, or request by proclamation made, and to such persons, as shal be assembled, with any Iustice of peace, or sheriff, or with any Mayour, bailiff, or other head officer, of any city, or town corporate, and with every other person, having authority, as is afore said, to suppress, apprehend, and take those persons, so unlawfully assembled, which after such request made, shall continue together, & not endeavour themselves to return towards their habitations, or places from whence they came. And that if the said persons, so unlawfully assembled together, or any of them shall fortune to be killed, slain, maimed, or hurt, in, or about the suppressing or taking of them: that then every such Iustice of Peace, sheriff, major, bailiff, and other head officer, and every other person having authority as is aforesayed, and all and singular persons, by him or them assembled, shal be free, discharged, and vnpunyshable, as well against the king, as against all and every other person and persons, of, for, or concerning the killing, slaying, maiming, and hurting, of any person or persons, so unlawfully assembled, that shall fortune to be killed, slain, maimed, or hurt, about, or by occasion of suppressing or taking of them.  
And ferthermor, be it enacted, by authority aforesaid, that all and every Copieholder, or Customarieholder, being artificer, husbandman or labourer, and being of the age of xviii. yeres, or more, and under the age of .lx. yeres, not sick, impotent, lame, maimed, ne having any other just, or reasonable excuse, or cause to the contrary, and being required by the sheriff, Iustice or Iustices of Peace, or other having authority by this act, or by Commission, or Letters, as is abovesaid, in that behalf,( they declaring their said authority,) or being required by the immediate lord or lords of whom such Copiholdes, or Customarieholdes then shal be holden, to serve the kings majesty, for any the causes above rehearsed, & refuse so to do, shall onely during the life of such person or persons so refusing, forfeicte and lose, to his or their lord or lords, of whom such copy or Customary holds then shall be immediately holden, and should be holden, during the life of such person or persons so refusing, in case he or they had not so refused, all their Copieholdes, and Customaryholdes. And that it shalbe lawful to every such lord or lords, their heirs or assigns, of whom such Copieholdes, or Customarieholdes shal be immediately holden, and should haue been holden in case such person or persons had not so refused, by virtue of this present act, to entre and take into his, or their hands and possession, all such Copieholdes, and Customarieholdes so holden of them, or any of them immediately: and to retain the same during onely the life of every such offeder or offenders, in such maner and form, as he or they should haue had, the rents or services of such Copieholde, or customary hold, in case such person or persons so refusing had not refused. And that all and every Fermour being a yeoman, husbandman, artificer, or labourer, and being of the age of .xviii. yeres or more, and under the age of .lx. yeres, not sick, impotent, lame, maimed, ne having any other just or reasonable excuse, or cause to the contrary, & being required by the sheriff, Iustice, or Iustices of the peace, or other having authority by this act, or by commission or lettres, as is afore said, in this behalf( they declaring their said authority) or being required by their Landelord, or landelordes, for the time being, to whom the rents of such Fermes shal be then rising, coming, or growing, to serve the kings majesty, for any the causes above rehearsed, and refuse so to do, shall during onely the life of such Fermour or farmers so refusing, forfeict and loose to such landelorde and landelordes, as should haue had the rents of such farmers, during the life and lives of such person or persons so refusing, all their said Fermes. And that it shalbe lawful to every such Landelorde and Landelordes, their heirs and assigns, to whom the rents of such Fermes should haue been due, during the life of such person, or persons so refusing, in case such person, or persons had not so refused, by virtue of this present act, to enter and take into his or their hands or possession all such Fermes, and to retain the same, during onely the life of every such offeder or offenders. provided always, and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that after the death of every such Copieholder, Customary holder, or fermour, as so shall offend, and forfeict any of their said Copieholdes, Customary holds, or fermes, as is afore said, that then all & every such person, and persons, as should or ought to haue had the said copieholdes, customary holds, or fermes, after, or by the death of such copieholder, customaryholder, or fermour, in case such copieholder, customary holder, or fermour, had not so offended, ne forfeicted, shall and may haue the same copieholdes, customary hold, and Fermes, by entre, action, admission, or otherwise, in like maner, form, and condition, and by such ways and means, as they & every of them should, might, or ought to haue had, if no such forfeicture or offence had been had, doen, or committed.  
And furthermore it is ordained and enacted, by the authority afore said, that if any person or persons, after the said, xii. day of February, by open word or deed, shall procure, move, or stir any other person or persons to arise, or make any traitorous or Rebellious assembly, to thentent to do, exercise, or put in ure any of the things above mentioned: that then every person so procuring, moving, or stirring any other, shall therfore be deemed, and adiudged a fellow, and suffer pains of death, and forfeicte his goods, cattals, lands, and tenements, as in cases of felony, and shall also lose the benefit of his clergy and Sanctuary.  
And also be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, which at any time after the same day, shalbe spoken unto, moved, or stirred, to make any commotion, insurrection, or unlawful assembly, for any of the intents above mentioned, and do not within .xxiiii. houres next after he, or they shalbe so spoken unto, moved or stirred( unless he shall haue a good and reasonable cause of excuse) declare the same to one Iustice of peace, or sheriff of the said county, or to the Maior, Shirifes, bailiff, or bailiffs, or other head officer of any city, or town corporat, where such speaking, motion, or stirring shal be had, shall suffer imprisonment, until he shalbe discharged, by three Iustices of peace, of the same shire, where the offence shalbe, whereof one of the said Iustices shalbe of the Quorum.  
And it is ordained and enacted, by thaucthoritie abovesayed, that if any person or persons, being about the age of .xviii. yeres, and under thage of .lx. yeres, being able to serve, and not sick, lame, or impotent, shal be required by any Iustice of the peace, or any sheriff of any county, where any such assembly shalbe, or by any Maior, bailiff, or other head officer, of any city, borough, or town corporat, or by any other, by the commandment of any such Iustice of peace, sheriff, Mayor, bailiff, or other head officer, to go with him or thē, to suppress the persons unlawfully assembled, in maner and form afore said, that then every person so being able and required, do willingly and obstinately refuse so to do, shall suffer imprisonment of his body, for one year without bail or mainprize, and make fine and ransom, at the kings will and pleasure.  
provided always, and it is enacted, by the authority above said, that if the king, shall by his lettres patents make any lieutenant, in any county or counties of this realm, for the suppressing of any commotion, Rebellion, or unlawful assembly: that then as well all Iustices of peace, of every such county, and the shirifes, and sheriff of the same, as all Mayours, bailiffs, and other head officers, and all inhabitants and subiectes, of any county, city, Borough, or town corporate, within every such county, shall vpon the declaration of the said lettres patents, and request made, be bound to give attendance, vpon the same Lieutenaunte, to suppress any commotion, Rebellion, or unlawful assembly, unless he or they, being so required, haue any reasonable excuse, for his not attendance, vpon pain of imprisonment for one whole year.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesayed, that the order and form of the proclamations, that shalbe made by the authority of this act, shal be as hereafter followeth, or with the like order, and words in effect, that is to say, the Iustice or other person aucthorised by this act, to make the said proclamation, shall make or cause to be made an Oies, and after that, shall openly pronounce, or cause to be pronounced these words, or like in effect. ¶ The king our souereygne Lord, chargeth, and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to dysperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, vpon the pains contained in the act, lately made against unlawful, and rebellious assemblies. And GOD save the king.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority afore said, that if any person or persons, do, or shall molest, let, hinder, or hurt, any person, or persons, that shall proclaim, or go to proclaim, according to the proclamation and order made in the statute afore said, whereby, such proclamation shall not be made: that then all and every such person and persons, so molesting, letting, hindering, or hurting, and all and every such person and persons, offeder or offenders, to whom any such proclamation or proclamations should, or ought to bee made, to the intent afore said, shall incur, and bee in like danger, & suffer like pain or pains, and forfeictures, as aforesaid, in every of their degrees, as though the proclamation had been made any clause, article, or sentence, heretofore in this act included, made to the contrary, notwithstanding. And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that this act shalbe openly red, at every quarter Sessions. SAVING to the bishop of Duresme, and bishop of ely, and all other that haue chartre of the county Palantine, and to their successors the year, day, and waste, in such sort, as by the said Chartre they had, or might haue had the same, if this act had never been had ne made: this act, or any thing therein contained, to the contrary notwithstanding. SAVING also, to all & every person and persons, and heires in tayll, bodies politic and corporat, their heires, successors, and executours and to every of them, other then to such person and persons onely, as shal be attainted, convicted, or outlawed for any of the foresaid offences of felony or treason, & their heires or the heirs of any of them, claymyng by dyscent in fee simplo, from them, or any of them, all such right, title, entre, interest, leases, possession, rents, conditions, profits, commodities, and aduauntages, as they, or any of thē hath, or hereafter shall haue, or of right ought to haue, in, or to any Honours, castles, manors lands, tenements, woods, rents, reversions, services, or hereditaments, whatsoever, or in, or to, any part or parcel therof, to be forfeited, for any of the offences aforesaid, as if such attainder or forfeycture, had never been had ne made, any thing in this act to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding. AND saving to all and every body, & bodies politic & corporate, & their successors, their liberties and franchises, in such maner and form, as if this act had never been had ne made. This act to continue to the end of the next parliament.   

¶ The .vi. Chapitre. ¶ An act concerning the repeal of a branch, of an act of parliament, made in the last Session for buying of Tanned leather.  
WHere at your majesties parliament, holden at Westminster, vpon prorogation, the .xiiii. day of march, in this present thyrde year of your most victorious reign, amongst other things it was enacted, that no person occupying the feat or mystery, of Coriar, Cordewainer, saddler, cobbler, Gyrler, Letherseller, Bottelmaker, or any other Artificer, should from, and after the feast of michaelmas then next following, sell, or cause to be sold, or put to sale, any backs or hides, of any Englishe kind of tanned leather unwrought, or in such kind, as he should buy the same,( calves skins onely excepted) vpon pain of forfeyting for every hide, back, or parcel of leather, that he or they should so sell, contrary to the said Statute .x. shillings. sithence the making of which act, great and innumerable inconveniences hath, and hereafter is like to come therof. first, neither gyrdler, cordwainer, saddler, Malemaker, bottelmaker, or any other artificer, using tanned leather in their art, is, or shalbe able, at any time, at any instant, to serve the kings majesty, his nobles, lords, & commons, either of bootes, shoes, Gyrdles, Saddles, Barehydes, Males, coffers, pots, or other things made of leather, for that the most parte of thartificers aforesayed, been poor men, not always able to provide store, of such sorts of leather, as should serve their turn, in making such things, as is before mentioned, but must of necessity, provide such leather, one of thē of another, as ever heretofore they haue accustomend to do, which now by force of the extremity of the said act, they may not do, which is unto the great hurt and hindrance, as well of the kings majesty, as of his nobles, lords, and commons, for that they, and every of them be drieuen of necessity to buy their leather, of a few persons, which been only more regratours of the said leather, at great, high, and unreasonable prices, to the great hurt of the common wealth, whereby the said artificers been not able, to afford the said wears made thereof, so good cheap, as they haue doen heretofore. And also, by reason of the foresaid restreynt or bondage, of the foresaid artificers, from buying and selling of leather: there is no man sith that time, willing to set, or put his or their children to be prentice with any of the foresaid artificers: for that not onely they, and every of them, been brought in such bondage, by reason of the said act, but also by the means whereof, are never like to grow to any necessary substance, neither by thexercise of their said handye crafts, to sustain the necessities of their old age withal: and not onely that, but also in all cities, boroughs, corporate towns thereby they lose benefit and commodity, of their Chartre and freedom. For reformation whereof, be it enacted, by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, that it shalbe lawful from henceforth, to, and for every of the said artificers, or handy crafts men, expressed or name in the foresaid act to buy and sell, all maner of tanned leather, corried, or not corried, so that such shalbe converted, by such buyer, or buyers, unto any kind of wears or other things made of tanned leather, within this realm of england, or other the kings dominions, any words, penalties, or forfeictures, comprised or specified, in the above remembered act, to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always, and be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that this present act, shall endure but onely unto the end of the next parliament.   

¶ The .vii. Chapitre. ¶ An act for the repeal of a Statute, made in the xxv. year of the reign of King Henry theyght touching the taking of wildfowl, at certain times of the year.  
WHere in the .xxv. year of the reign of your majesties father, of most famous memory, king henry theyght, an act was made, containing two branches, whereof, the one was against the taking of wyldfoule, between the last day of may, and the last day of August, with any nets, or engines, vpon a pain limited thereupon, as in the said Statute, more largely doth appear: forasmuch as the occasion of the said branches, appeareth sithence to haue risen, but vpon a private case, and that no maner of common commodity is sithence perceived to be grown of the same, being notably, by daily experience found, and known that there is at this present, less plenty of foul, brought unto the markets, then was before the making of the said act, which is taken to come of the punishment of GOD, whose benefit was thereby taken away from the poor people, that were wont to live by their skill, in taking of the said foul, whereby, they were wont at that time to sustain themselves, with their poor households, to the great saving of other kinds of victual, of the which aid they are now destitute, to their great and extreme impouerishyng: humbly besechen your grace, your majesties true and faithful subiectes, especially such, as haue their places of habitation, nigh unto the fens, that all that branch of the said act, made in the said .xxv. year of your graces said Father of most noble memory touching the taking of Wyldfoule, in maner as is abovesayed, may be from hencefourth by your majesty, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, repealed, and utterly void, and of none effect, with all and every article, sentence, matter, pains, and forfeictures, contained, or otherwise mentioned in the said branch, as if the same act had never been had, ne made.  
provided, and be it enacted, by the authority abovesayed, that one other branch, contained in the said act, concerning such persons as shall presume by day, or night willingly to withdraw, purloin, take, destroy, or conueyghe, any maner of eggs, of any kind of wildfowl, from, or in any Nest, place or places, where they shall chance to be laid, by any kind of wildfowl, with every article, sentence, matter, pains, forfeictures, and provisions, contained, or mentioned in this said last branch, shall stand in full strength, and effect, to all purposes, intents, and constructions, as if this present act had never been had nor made.   

¶ The .viii. chapter. ¶ An act for the continuance of the Statute of Sewers.  
WHerein the parliament holden at westminster, by prorogation the .xv. day of January, in the .xxiii. year of the most victorious reign of our late sovereign lord king Henry theyght, among other things, one general act, concerning Commissions of Sewers, to be directed into all partes, within this realm, was enacted and made to continue and endure for twenty yeres, then next following, as by the same act more at large it doth and may appear. And forasmuch as the same act is thought good and beneficial for the common wealth of this realm: Be it therfore enacted and ordained, by the king our Souereygne lord, 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 act, and all clauses, articles, and provisions, in the same contained, shall continue & endure in their force and strength, and to be observed and kept for ever, in such maner and form, as shall and may stand with the sequel & addicions, hereafter mentioned.  
And be it further enacted and established by the authority aforesaid, that all skottes, lots, and sums of money hereafter to be ranted and taxed, by virtue of such commission of Sewers, vpon any of the lands tenements, or hereditaments, of our sovereign lord the king, his heirs or successors, for any maner of thing or things, concerning the articles of the said commission of Sewers, shalbe gathered and levied, by distress or otherwise, in like maner and form, as shall or may be doen in the lands, tenements, & hereditaments, of any other person or persons: and that all bills of acquitaunce, signed with the hand or hands of such collector or receiuour, as shall haue the collection therof by the appointment of the said commissioners, or .vi. of them, shal be as well a sufficient discharge, to the tenants, farmers, & occupiers of the same grounds, so to be charged for the said sum, wherewith their grounds shal be so charged, as also a sufficient warrant to all and every the receiuours, auditors, & other whatsoever officer or officers, of our said souereygne lord the king, his heirs, & successors, for the allowance to such tenant, Fermour, or Occupyer for the same, adding moreover unto this act, by authority of this present parliament, that such, and like fees, and none other, nor more, shal be at any time payed or demanded, for any Commission or Commyssions, or writtes of dedimus potestatem, hereafter to be sued out, or obtained under the seal of the duchy, but onely such and like fees as been mentioned in the said former act, to be payed in the chancery, for Commissions and writes of dedimus potestatem, to be obtained from the same court of chancery, adding moreover thereunto by thaunctoritie above said, that every commission, and commissions, hereafter to be awarded for Sewers, shall continue and endure for term of .v. yeres, next after the teste of such commission oneles the same commission and commissions, shal be otherwise discharged, within the same by supersedeas, any thing or things mentioned, or contained in the said former act, contrary to the addicions before mentioned, or any of them, in any wise notwithstanding.   

The .ix. chapter. ¶ An act for buying of raw hides and calves skins.  
forasmuch as leather is grown to an unreasonable price, whereby the kings Subiectes are not able at this day to provide themselves, such necessaries thereof made, as shoes, and botes, and such like, at any reasonable price, as they heretofore haue doen, to the utter empouerishement of diuers the kings loving and obedient subiectes: which said unreasonable prices of leather doth onely grow and rise, by reason of the vnsaciable desire of diuers & sundry persons being no tanners, which daily in every market, and other place buy & regrate green hides, in the here and out of the here to their hands, to the intent to sell the same to their awne lucre and gain: Be it therefore enacted, by the king our sovereign lord, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by thauctoritie of the same, that no person or persons within this realm, shal from, and after the feast of the Annunciation of our lady next coming, buy, or cause to be bought any calf skins or hides in the here, or out of the here, to the intent to sell again the same vntanned, except onely such person and persons, as will tanne or tawe the same, vpon pain to forfeict for every skin or hid so bought, to thintent to sell again, as aforesaid vi. s. viii. d. The one half of which forfeicture to be unto our sovereign lord the King: The other half to him or them that will sue for the same, in any of the kings courts, by bill, plaint, or other lawful process, wherein no protection or wager of Lawe, nor yet any essoin to the party defendant shalbe allowed, or admitted.   

The .x. chapter. An act for the abolishing and putting away of diuers books, and Images.  
WHere the kings most excellent majesty hath of late set fourth & established by authority of parliament, an uniform, quiet, & godly order of common and open prayer, in a book entitled The book of common prayer, and administration of the Sacramentes, and other rites and Ceremonies after the church of England to be used & observed in the said church of england, agreeable to thordre of the primitive church, much more comfortable unto his loving subiectes, then other diversity of service as heretofore of long time hath been used, being in the said book ordained nothing to bee red, but the very pure word of God, or which is evidently grounded vpon the same, & in the other, things corrupt untrue, vain, & superstitious, and as it were a preparation to superstition, which for that they be not called in, but permitted to remain undefaced, do not onely give occasion to such perverse persons, as do impugn the order and godly meaning of the kings said book of common prayer, to continue in their old accustomend superstitious service, but also minister great occasion to diversity of opinions, Rites, Ceremonies and services: Bee it therefore enacted, by the king our Souuereine lord, the lords Spiritual, and temporal, & the Commons in this present parliament assembled, that all books called Antiphoners, Missales, Grailes, Processionalles, Manuelles legends, Pies, Portuasses, Primers, in latin or Englishe, Couchers, Iournalles, Ordinalies, or other books or writings, whatsoever heretofore used for service of the church, written or Printed in the Englishe or latin tongue, other then such as are or shal be set forth by the kings majesty, shal be by authority of this present act, clearly and utterly abolished, extinguished, and forbidden for ever to bee used, or kept in this realm, or elsewhere within any the kings dominions.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that yf any person or persons, of what estate, degree, or condition soever he, she or they be, bodies politic or corporate, that now haue, or hereafter shall haue in his, her or their custody, any the books or writings of the sorts aforesaid, or any Images of ston, Timbre, Alebaster, or earth, graven, carved, or Painted, which heretofore haue been taken out of any church or chapel, or yet stand in any church or chapel, and do not, before the last day of june next ensuing, deface and destroy, or cause to be defaced and destroyed, the same Images, and every of them, and deliver or cause to be delivered, all and every the same books to the major, bailiff, Constable, or churchwardens of the town, where such books then shal bee, to bee by them delivered over openly within three months next following, after thesaied delivery, to the archbishop, bishop, chancellor, or Comissarie of the same Dioceces, to the intent thesayed archbishop, bishop, chancellor, or commissary, and every of them cause them immediatelie, either to be openly brent, or other ways defaced and destroyed, shal for every such book or books willingly retained in his, her or their hands or custody, within this realm, or else where within any the kings Dominions, and not delivered, as is aforesaid, after the said last day of june, & be thereof lawfully convict, forfeict and loose to the king our sovereign lord, for the first offence, ten shillings. and for the second offence shal forfeict and lose being thereof lawfully convict, four pounds. And for the third offence, shal suffer imprisonment at the kings will,  
And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that yf any maiors, bailiffs, constables, or churchwardens, do not within three months after the receipt of the same books, deliver or cause to bee delivered, such books so by them received, to the archbishop, bishop, chancellor, or commissary of their dioces: And if the said archbishop, bishops, chancellor, or Commissaries, do not with in forty daies after the receipt of such books, burn, deface and destroy, or cause to be burned, defaced or destroyed the same books, & every of theme, that then they and every of them so offending, shall loose and forfeict to our sovereign lord the king, being therefore lawfully convict, forty pounds: The one half of al such forfeictures, shalbe to any of the kings Subiectes, that will sue for the same, in any of the kings courts of record, by Bill, plaint. action of debt or information, in which action no essoin, protection, wager of lawe or other delay shalbe allowed.  
And for better execution of the same act, beeit enacted by the authority afore said, that as well Iustices of assize in their circuits, as Iustices of peace, within the limits of their Commission in the general sessions, shal haue full power and authority, to inquire of the offences aforesaid, and to hear and determine the same in such form as theie may do in other such like cases.  
provided always, that this act or any thing therein contained, shal not extend to any Image or picture, set or granem vpon any tomb in any church, chapel, or churchyard, onely for a monument of any King, Prince, Nobleman, or other dead person, which hath not been commonly reputed and taken for a saint, but that all such pictures, and Images may stand and continue in like maner and form, as if this act had never ben had nor made, any thing in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided alway and be it enacted, by authority aforesaid, that any person or persons may use, keep, haue and retain any Primers in the Englishe or latin tongue, set fourthe by the late king of famous memory king henry the eight, so that the sentences of invocation or prayer to Sainctes, in the same Primers, be blotted or clearly put out of the same, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ The .xi. chapter. An act that the kings majesty may nominate and. appoint .xxxii, persons, to peruse and make ecclesiastical laws.  
AL bee it the kings most excellent majesty governor and ruler under GOd of this realm, ought most justly to haue the government of his subietes and the determination of their causes, as well ecclesiastical as temporal, yet the same, as concerning ecclesiastical causes having not of long time been put in ure nor exercised, by the reason of the usurped authortie of the bishop of Rome, be not perfeictlie understand nor known of his subiectes, and therfore of necessity, aswell for the abolishing and putting to utter oblivion the saiede usurped authority, as for the necessary administration of iustice, to his loving subiectes: It may please his highnesse, that it may be enacted by his most gracious assent with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons of this present Parlamente assembled, and by thaucthoritie of the same, that the kinhes majesty shal from henceforth during three yeares, haue full power, authority, and liberty, to nominate and assign by the aduise of his highnesse counsel sixteen persons of the clergy, whereof four to be bishops, and sixtine persons of the Temporalitie, whereof four to be learned in the common laws of this realm, to peruse and examine the ecclesiastical laws of long time here used. And to gather, order, and compile such laws Ecclesiastical as shal be thought to his majesty, his said counsel, and them or the more parte of them, convenient to be used, practised and set forth with in this his realm, and other his dominions, in all spiritual or ecclesiastical courts and conuencions. And if after such nominacion any of the persons so to be nominated happen to die, that then his highnesse by the aduise of his said counsel, during the said three yeres, shall haue full power and authority, from time to time to nominate and assign other in their places to supply thesaied number of two and thirty persons. And that thesaied two and thirty persons so nominate, as is aforesaid. at all times from time to time, during the sayede three yeres, shal hauefull power and authority to assemble themselves by his highnesse commandment, for the perfeict colleccion, compiling and ordering of thesaied laws. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such laws ecclesiastical so compiled, gathered and ordered by thesaied two and thirty persons, or the more number of them, and set forth, published, and declared by the kings majesties Proclemacion, with thesaied aduise under his highnesse great seal shal by virtue of this present act be onely taken, reputed, practised, and put in ure for the kings Ecclesiastecall laws of this realm and no other, any lawe Statute, usage or prescripcion, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.  
provided always, and it is ordained and enacted by the authority aforesayed, that no maner of person or persons shall at any time hereafter incur, or bee in any contempt, pain, forfeicture or loss, or in danger of any action, or suite of praemunire, by mean or occasion of executing, or putting in exercise of any laws or matter, which shalbe devised by the said two and thirty, or the more parte of them, and set forth by proclamation under the great seal of england, or for holding of any maner of plea, or making of any process, touching or concerning any such laws or matter, any statute, lawe or custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided also and be it enacted by the authority abovesaid, that all and every ecclesiastical judge and minister, that shal execute any thing by virtue of any such laws so to be set forth, as is abovesaid, shall from time to time obey the kings writ and writes of prohibition of attachment, upon prohibition and indicavit, and not to procede contrary to the tenor of such writ or writes, in such and the same manor, form, and condition as they haue, or ought to haue doen before the making of this act, any thing in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always and be it enacted, by the authority afore said, that this act or any thing therein contained shall not extend, or be interpretated, to give any authority to the said two and thirty persons, or to the more number of them, or to the kings highnesse, for to compile, stablish, publish or set forth any ecclesiastical lawe repugnant, or contrary to any common lawe or Statute of this realm, any thing in this act to the contrary not withstanding.   

¶ The .xii. chapter. ¶ An act for the ordering of ecclesiastical Ministers.  
forasmuch as concord and unity to bee had within the kings majesties Dominions, it is requisite to haue one uniform fashion and maner, for making and consecrating of bishops, Priestes, Deacons, or Ministers of the church: Bee it therefore enacted by the kings highnesse, 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 such form and maner of making, & consecrating of Archebishoppes, bishops, Priestes, Deacons, and other Ministers of the church, as by six Prelates, and six other men of this realm learned in goddes lawe, by the kings majesty to be appointed and assigned or by the most number of them shalbe devised for that purpose, and set forth under the great seal of england, before the first day of April next coming, shal by virtue of this present act, bee lawfully exercised and used, and none other: any statute, Lawe or usage to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.   

¶ The .xiii. chapter. An act for the restitution in blood, of Sir William Sharington Knight.  
WHere sir William Sharington knight, as well by the Course of the Common Lawe of this realm of england, as by act of parliament, was lately attainted of high Treason, and other offences, by reason whereof he is deprived, and dishabled in blood and name to demand, ask, haue, and enjoy such manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, as should or might come, descend, remain, or revert to him from any his lineal or collateral ancestor or ancestors, to whom he should or might be heir in blood. And where our sovereign lord the king, that now is, of his abundant clemency, pity, charity, especial grace and more motion and by thaduise of his honourable counsel, by his graces letters patents under his great seal of england, bearing date at Westminster the fifth day of Nouembre, in the third year of his reign: hath pardoned, remitted and released, unto the said sir William Sharyngton by the name of William Sharington late of London knight, otherwise called William Sharinton of London knight, otherwise called William Sharinton knight, otherwise called William Sharinton of Laicoke in the county of Wilteshire knight, or by what other name, or surname, or addition of name, or surname, he were known or called, all high treasons and offences committed and doen by him, before the said fifth day of Nouembre as by the same letters patents of perdon more plainly appeareth. Our said sovereign lord the king at the humble petition and suit of thesaied Sir William Sharington, is pleased, and contented, that it bee enacted, and established by his highnesse, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by thaucthoritie of the same: that thesaied Sir William Sharington shal be clearly pardonned, acquitted, released, and discharged of al and singular Treasons, and other offences mentioned, or expressed in the said attainder, or Attaindours, or act of Parlamente, or any of them, or whereof the same Sir William was attainted, or convicted before thesaied fifth day of Nouembre, in thesaied third year of the reign of our sovereign lord the king that now is, and of all judgements, emprisonmentes, pains of death, and other pains, and penalties, which by reason thereof Sir William Sharington should or might in any wise incur, haue, suffer, or sustain. And that the same Sir William Sharington, and his heires from henceforth may and shal by authority of this present act, bee restored and enabled in blood, and name to sue and be sued, implead, and bee impleded, and to demand, ask, haue, and enjoy all and singular such manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with their appurtenances whatsoever remain, which at any time hereafter shall descend, come, or reuerte from any lineal or collateral ancestor, or ancestors of the said Sir william Sharington, as heir or heires to the same ancestor, or ancestors, in such maner, and form, as if thesaied Sir william Sharington had never been attainted. And that thesaied sir william Sharington, and al and singular the children and issues of the body of thesaied sir william Sharington, and all and every other person, and persons being of thole blood to thesaied sir William Sharington, may, and by authority of this present act shalbe from henceforth restored, and enabled in blood and name, to demand, ask haue, and enjoy, all and singular such manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with their appurtenances whatsoever they bee, which at any time hereafter shall descend, revert, remain, come or grow to thesaied sir William Sharington, or his heires by discent, Purchase, Gift, or otherwise, in such, the same, and like maner, form, and condition to al intents, constructions, and purposes, as if thesaied sir William Sharington had never been attainted. And that the same sir William Sharington his Executours and administrators shall and may in his or their awne name and names, sue, ask, and demand, all such debts, covenants, and other things, to the said sir william Sharington grown, dew had, or made, by, or vpon any writing, seventy, or record, at any time before thesaied attainder or attaindours, which the kings Highnesse hath or shall by his Letters patents, or otherwise give, grant, Appoint, or assign, to thesaied sir William Sharington, and the money and other profeicte thereof coming, to convert, haue, and retain to the use of the said Sir William Sharington, his executours, or administrators, in such the same, and in like maner, form, and condition, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as if thesaied Sir William Sharington should or might haue doen, if he had never been attainted.  
And be it further enacted by the authority abovesaid, that the said sir William Sharington shal haue & enjoy al such freedoms, liberties, franchises, and privileges within the city of London, and elsewhere, as well within the realm of England, as without, as he had, and enjoyed before thesaied attainder or attaindours, in such sort, form and condition as he had and enjoyed, or of right ought or might haue had, or enjoyed the same, if thesaied attainder or Attaindours, or any of them had not been had nor made, any forfeicture, judgment, Lawe, Statute, usage, custom, privilege, or other things to the contrary not withstanding.   

¶ The .xiiii. chapter. ¶ An act for the restitution in blood of mary Seimour, daughter to Sir Thomas Seimour knight, lord Seimour of Sudleie, late admiral of england.  
IN most humble wise sheweth unto your highnesse, your faithful subject mary Seimour daughter of sir Thomas Seimour knight, late lord Seimour of Sudleie, & late high admiral of england, begotten of the body of queen Katherine late queen of england and late wife to the said Thomas lord Seimour, and before that, wife to your most noble father of most famous memory king henry theight That where as thesaied Thomas lord Seimour by authority of your highnesse court of parliament, holden at westminster, in the second year of your most noble reign, was iustelie attainted of high treason, & by reason thereof your said subject standeth, and is a person in her blood and Image corrupted: It may please your highnesse of your most noble & abundant grace, that it may be at the humble petition of your said subject ordained, established and enacted by your highnesse, with thasser of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commons in this present Parlamente assembled, and by authority of the same, that your said subject, and her heires may bee and shal be, by authority of this act, restored and enabled onely in blood, as daughter & heir & heires to thesaied Thomas lord Seimour. And that your said subject and her heires from henceforth may and shal be enabled to demand, ask, haue, hold, and enjoy, al & every such honors, castles, manors, worships, handmaides, franchises, liberties, privileges, aduousons nominacions, presentacions, knights fees, lands, tenememtes, rents, reversions, services, remainders, portions, annuities, pensions, rights, & all maner of hereditaments, with their appurtenances, which at any time here after shal come, remain, descend or revert from any collateral ancestor of your said subject, other then such castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services, remainders, portions, annuities, pensions, rights, and al maner of hereditaments with their appurtenances, which were of the said Thomas lord Seimour her father in possession, reversion, remainder, or otherwise, the day of the attainder of the said Thomas lord Seimour, or at any time after the treason by him committed or doen: And other then such honours, castles, manors, lamdes, tenements, and other hereditaments as your highnesse was, or is entitled to haue, or might, or ought to haue vpon any Office found or to be found, by force of the said attainder in such the same and like maner, form, and condition, to al intents, constructions and purposes, as if the said Thomas lord Seimour father to your said subject had never been attainted, and as though no such attainder of the said Thomas lord Semour had ever been had or made. And that your said subject and her heires may hereafter use and haue any Action or suite, and make her pedigree and conueiaunce in blood as heir, as well to and from her said father, as also to any other person, or persons, in like maner, form, and degree to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as if the said Thomas lord Seimour had never been attainted, and as if no such attainder were or had been had, the corruption of blood between the said Thomas lord Seimour, and your subject, and her heires, or any act of parliament, or Iudgement concerning the attindour of the said Thomas lord Seimour, or any other thing, whereby the blood of the said Thomas lord Seimour is, or should be corrupted, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always and bee it enacted, by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that this present act, or any thing therein contained, extend not to restore or entitle your said subject, or any of her heires to any such Honours, castles, worships, manors, lands, Tenements, or other hereditaments, which your highnesse now hath or had, or is, might, or ought to bee intiteled to haue, by reason of any attainder or Attaindours, of thesaied Thomas lord Seimour, nor shall extend to any Honours, castles, Lordshppes, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, services, or other hereditaments, late of the said Thomas lord Seimour, which your highnesse hath heretofore given, dimised, exchanged or granted to any person or persons, in Fee simplo, Fee tail, or for, term of life, lives, or yeres, or at will, But that all such Honours, castles, Lordeshippes, manors lands, tenements, reversions, services, and hereditaments which your Hignesse hath given, dimised, exchanged, or granted as is aforesaid, Shall stand, remain, abide, And continue in the same estate, force, degree, and condition, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as they and every of them were before the making of this act, and as though this act had never been had nor made. saving to all and every other person and persons, bodies politic or corporate, their heires and successors, and to the heires and successors of every of them, all such estate, possession, right, title interest, reversion, remainder, lease and leases, claim, condition, commons, and all other profeictes and commodities, as they haue or ought to haue, out, in, or to the premises, or any parte or parcel thereof, as though this act had never ben had ne made. And your said subject shal daily pray to God for your most noble grace in honor long to cotinue   

¶ The .xv. chapter. ¶ An act against fonde and fantastical Prophecies.  
WHere now of late sithence the prorogation of the last session of this present parliament, diuers evil disposed persons, minding to stir and move sedition, disobedience & rebellion, haue of their perverse mindes, feigned, Imagined, invented, published and practised diuers fantastical & fonde Prophecies, concerning the kings majesty & diuers honourable persons, Gentlemen, and Commons of this realm, to the great disturbance and peril of the kings majesty, & this his realm: For remedy therof, be it ordained & enacted by the king our Souuereine lord, with thassent of the lords Spiritual & Temporal, and of the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons, after the fist day of february next coming, do set forth in writing, printing, singing, speaking, and publish or otherwise declare, to any person or persons, any fantastical or false prophecy, vpon occasion of any arms, fields, beasts, fowls, badges, and such other like things, accustomend in arms, coginsaunces, or Signetes. 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, with in the realm, or other the kings dominions: That then every such person thereof being lawfully indicted, & convicted, according to the due course of the laws, for every such offence shall suffer imprisonment of his body, by the space of one year, without bail or mainprize, and shall forfeict for every such offence the sum of ten pounds.  
And if any such offeder do after such conuiction eftsoons offend in any of the premises, and be therof lawfully indicted, and convicted by the due course of the laws, that then every such offeder shall for his secode offence & conuiccion, as is above said, suffer imprisonment of his body, without bail or mainprize, during his life, and shall forfeict all his goods, and cattalles, reals, and personales, the moieties of every which forfeictures shal be to the king, and the other moieties thereof to him, that shall or will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record, by action. bill, plaint or information, in which case no essoin, wager of lawe, or proteccio shalbe allowed or admitted.  
And be it farther enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Iustice of assize. Iustice of Oier & determiner, Iustice of peace shal haue full puwer and authority by virtue hereof, to inquire, hear, and determine al and every offence, or offences abovesaid, committed, or doen within the limits of their commission, contrary to the tenor and meaning of this act.  
provided always and be it enacted, by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that no person nor persons, shall at any time hereafter be impeached, for any offence hereafter to bee committed or doen, contrary to this act unless he be therefore impeached, or accused, within six months next ensuing any such offence, by him or them committed to bee doen. And this act to endure to the end of the next parliament.   

¶ The .xvi. chapter. ¶ An act touching the punishment of vagabonds and other idle persons.  
forasmuch as it is notoriously sene & known, that vagabonds & beggars do daily increase Within this the kings highnesse realm into very great numbers, chiefly by occasion of idleness, mother and root of al vices, whereby do ensue continual thefts, murders, conspiracies and other sundry heinous offences, & partly for that the good and wholesome laws and Statutes of this realm, hath not been put in due execution, and partly also, by reason of the multitude of the same( thextremitie of some whereof haue been occasion that they haue not been put in ure). Therfore & for diverse good considerations it is enacted by the king our Souuereine lord, with the assent of the lords spiritual & Temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by thauctoritie of the same, that the Statute made in the first year of the kings highnesse most noble reign concerning idle persons and vagabonds in certain cases, to be made slaves and so forth, and all and every article, matier, proviso, branch and sentence therein contained shal be from henceforth utterly repealed, made frustrate, void, and of none effect.  
And that the Statute, concerning how aged & impotent persons should be ordered for their better relief, & how vagabonds & strong beggars should bee punished, made in the .xxii. year of the late king of most famous memory king henry the eight, and every matyer, article, proviso, branch, & sentence therein contained, to be from henceforth revived, made good, and stand in full strength and virtue and shal continue and remain a perfeicte Act of parliament for ever.  
And be it therfore enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that all Iustices of peace, and every of them within the limits of their commission and the Maiours, Shirifes, bailiffs, and other officers within their several Rules and offices, shal within their several limits assemble together, and make their several division, according to the purport and effect of this act, at the next general quarter Sessions of the peace to be holden after the feast of Easter next to come, for the due, speedy, and diligent execution of the same act. And that if any such aged or impotent person after the feast of easter next to come, shall offend contrary to this statute, that then thesaied offeder shalbe used and punished, as in the same statute of the .xxii. of king henry theight, is provided. And that before the feast of Easter no punishment shalbe put in execution against any such Impotent, Lame, and aged person, but onely by the discretion of the next Iustice of peace of the same Shire where such offeder shalbe apprehended, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And for the avoiding of the Idle loitering of common labourers of husbandry, within this realm: Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that such common labourers being persons able in body, using loitering, and refusing to work, for such reasonable wages, as is most commonly given in the parties, where such persons shall dwell shalbe for every such times, as he or they refuse to labour, having reasonable wages, as is aforesaid, adiudged vagabonds, and shalbe punished as strong, and mighty vagabonds, in such maner and form as is declared in the said act of .xxii. against vagabonds. And touching maimed, lame, and sore, aged, and impotent persons, which resorteth to the city of London, and to other Cities, Tounes, and Villages on begging: Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and singular Maiours, Shirifes, bailiffs, Constables, or other head Officers of any city, town, or Village, to which such resort is, or shal be, shall before the feast of the Purification of our Lady next following, see all such Idle, impotent, maimed, and aged persons, who otherwist can not by their discrecions bee taken for vagabonds, which were born within the said city, town, or Village, or hath been there most conversant and abiding by the space of three yeres, and now decayed, bestowed & provided for, of the tenauntries, cottages, or other convenient houses, to be lodged in, at the costs and Charges of the said Cities; Tounes boroughs, and Villages, there to be relieved, and cured by the devotion of good people of the said city, borough, town, or Village, and that they do not suffer after the time before rehearsed, any other then such as either were born, or hath been for the most parte conversant, or abiding by the space of three yeres, as is aforesaid, in the said city, borough, town, or Village, to remain & beg abroad within the precincts of such Cities, Tounes, Villages, or boroughs. Except it be such as haue letters, or are aucthorised or licensed by force of this act, vpon pain that every such Maiours, Shirifes and bailiffs, Constable, or other head officer by what name soever he be called, suffering any person to beg within the precinct of his or their such jurisdiction, other then is before rehearsed, for every three daies, shall forfeict ten shillings, to whomsoever will sue therefore, by Bill, information, or action of debt, in any court of record, in the which suits no essoin, ne wager of Lawe, or halcyon shall bee allowed for the defendant.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the major of the city of London, and al other Maiours, bailiffs, Shirifes, Constables, and other head officers of every city, Borough, or town corporat, and of every other town and village, do with al convenient speed by themselves, or their sufficient deputies, before the feast of the Purification of our lady next coming, and so from time to time every month once, make a view and examination of aged, impotent and lame persons, beggars, as bee within the precinct of their jurisdiction, and see all such as were not born, nor hath been for the most parte conversant and abiding by the space of three yeres complete, or haue not letters, and aucthorised or licensed by force of this statute, conveyed on horseback, cart, or otherwise, as shal seem by their discrecions, to the next Constables, and they to conueie the same to the next Constables, and so from Constables to Constables, till thesaied persons be brought to the place where they were born, or most conversant and abiding, as is aforesaid, there to be provided for, kept, and nourished of alms as is aforesaid, vpon the pain that every such major, Shirif, or Constable, headborough, or other head officers not making view, nor sending or conueiyng away, nor receiving or not providing, as is before appointed, according to the true purport, or meaning of this act, to forfeicte for every such default ten shillings, whereof the one half to be to the kings use, and tother to the party, that will sue therefore in any of the kings courts of record, by bill, information, action of debt, in the which suits no essoin, wager of law, or halcyon shalbe allowed for the defendant.  
provided always, and bee it enacted by the authority aforesayed that if any of thesayed aged, maimed, or impotent persons of the cities Tounes, or villages, where they were born in, or had their most abiding, as is aforesayed, bee not so lame, or impotent, but that they may work in some maner of work: that then such city, town, parish, or village do either in common provide some such work for them, as they may be occupied in, or appoint them to such as will find them work for meate and drink. And if they refuse of wilfulness and stubbornness to work, or do run away & beg in other places, then to punish the same according to their discrecions, with stocking, beating, or otherwise, as shall seem to them convenient.  
Be it also enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that all leprous and poor beddred creatures, whatsoever they bee, may at their own liberty remain and continue in such houses appointed for leprous or beddred people, as they now bee in, and shall not bee compelled to repair into any other countries or places by virtue of this act, any thing therein contemed to the contrary notwithstanding. And that also it shalbe lawful unto the said leprous, and beddred people, for their better relief to appoint their proctor, or proctors, so there bee not appointed above the number of two persons, for any one house of leprous, or beddred people, to gather the charitable alms of all such inhabitants, as shal be within the compass of four miles of any of the said houses of leprous and beddred persons.  
provided always and be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore said, that it shalbe lawful to the lord chancellor of england, or lord keeper of the great seal for the time being, at their discrecions, to grant commission under the great seal of england, to every or any person or persons, that hath, or shall haue his or their houses, or barns burnt, or such losses, or to such as bee or shalbe Leprous persons, to gather the relief and charity of others for their relief, or for their aid and help of his or their losses, decay or hindrance, as in time past hath been used, any thing in this act notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every Statute and act of parliament made for punishment of vagabonds, slaves, aged and impotent persons, or any of them, and every article, sentence, clause, or proviso therein contained, other thē this present act and Statute made, & the said act made in the said .xxii. year shall be from hensfourth utterly void, repealed, and of none effect or force.  
And forasmuch as diverse women and men going on begging, impotent and lame, & some able enough to labour, do carry children abouts with them of tender age, and some of four. v.vi. yeres of age or younger or elder, which being once brought up in idleness, will hardelie bee brought after to any good kind of labour, pain, travail, or service.  
Be it enacted by thauctoritie aforesayed, the if any child above thage of .v. yeres, and under thage of .xiiii. go about wandering, as is aforesaid, or else alone, in case any maner person that is able to keep any such child will take it, be it male or female, of and from any such beggar being the father or mother thereof, nouricer or keeper, whether they be willing or not, or without any such nurse, father, mother or keeper, by him or herself wandering, and bring such child so taken, before one of the Constables of the parish, where the child shall so fortune to be taken up, & at the next general quarter sessions to be holden in that Shire next to the place where the said taking up shall fortune to bee, present the same in the presence of the said Constable, before the Iustice of peace at the same Sessions, and there in open Sessions promise to bring the same child up in some honest labour or occupation, till the woman child come to thage of .xv. yeres, & the man child to thage of .xviii. yeres, if the Master or mistress shal chance so long to live, that then and immediately the said Iustices of peace by their discretion shall adjudge by virtue of this act, the said child, unto the ages before specified, to be servant or servants to the said person or persons so taking and promising as is afore said, such child to bee used and ordered, in all points according as the lawe, & custom of the realm is of servants without wages, to what labour, occupation, or service soever thesaied taker up, or master or mastres shal appoint him, or her, during thesaied term, and the said iudgement shalbe entred by the clerk of the peace in the said Sessions in form following. Memorandum, that at the Sessions of the peace holden at. w. the day. &c. one I. B. of the town of L. had delivered to him, according to the form of the Statute in that case provided B.T. esteemed to be of thage of seven, or eight yeres, to be ordered according to the form of the said Statute.  
And if it shall fortune such child so adiudged to run away at any time, ones, or mo times from his, or her master, or maistres, that then it shalbe lawful for every such master, or Maistres, to take the said child again, and to keep, and punish the said child in the stocks, or otherwise by discretion, or otherwise at the liberty of such master, or maistres, to haue a warrant from any Iustice of peace in the same shire where the child so runs away, for such child running away, or going away, as is provided by the statute of labourers, for such servants as depart away from their master, or Maistres, without a reasonable cause before thende of their term.  
And that every Iustice of Peace, shall by force of this act haue authority, and power, to make such warrant against every such person so going, and running away, in like form as they, or any of them may do against any servant departing out of his maisters service without licence, or reasonable cause, and by force of the same warraunte the child so running, or going away to be taken, and ordered in every degree, as is provided by the said statute labourers for servants departing out of their master, or mastres service, as is afore said.  
And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie afore said, that if, and as often as it shal chance the father, mother, nourice, or other bearer abouts of the child, or any other person, or persons, to steal, or entice away any such child, adiudged for a servant, as is afore said, that thē, & so often it shalbe lawful for the master, or maistres of the same child to be at his, or their liberty to take an action vpon the statute Labourers against every such person so stealing, or enticing away such child as he, or they might haue, by reason of the said statute labourers, against him, or them that retains any mannes seruant out of his service, before thende of the said term, or else to take an action of trespass against such offendor, in which action he shal recover his damages, & triple costs of his suit.  
provided always, and be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore said, that if the master, or mastres to whom such child, as is afore said shalbe adiudged to bee servant, be unreasonable in ordering, and bringing up of such child, that then at all times vpon complaint made at the general quarter sessions of peace, in the county where the said child shal be by two honest neighbors of the same place, or town where the said child shall fortune to be so vnresonably ordered, if it shall appear by honest witness to the iustices of peace at the same sessions, the complaint therof made shal be true, then the iustices of peace at their general sessions in the same shire, where such complaint shalbe made, shall by virtue of this act haue authority, and power to discharge the said child from his, or their unreasonable master, or maistres, and appoint the same to some other honest master, or maistres, unto the said ages, to be ordered in every degree, as the said child should haue been with his former master or maistres & that order, and appoinctment to be written in the book of the clerk of the Peace, for the which entry the said clerk of the Peace shal haue iiii. d. for his labour, & not above, and in like maner shall haue .iiii. d. and not above, for the first entry of the child, to be seruant, as is aforesaid, to be paid be the master, or maistres of the said child.  
provided always, and be it enacted, by thauctoritie aforesaid, that if the woman child to be appointed a servant, as is aforesaid, be married before her age of xv, yeres, that thē by that marriage, she shalbe discharged of service. This act, or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided always, and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesayed, that all, and every vagabond, or beggar being born in any other nation, or country thē within this realm, shall in maner, & form aforesaid and upon the forfeictures, & penalties before mentioned, be conveyed from place to place, or to the place, or Marches next adjoining, to his, or their native country, or to the next port, if there be a sea between this realm, and his, or their said countries, there to bee kept of thinhabytauntes of the said next port, in convenient labour from idleness, or otherwise till they may be conveyed over, and then at the costs of thinhabitauntes of the said port, if themselves shall not haue wherewith, to be conveyed over into their native countries.   

¶ The xvii. Chapitre. ¶ An act against unlawful hunting in any park, foreste, chase, or other enclosed ground.  
WHere as in the first year of your most gracious reign your majesty in consideration of the great obedience that your subiectes then were in, of your inestimable clemency, and tender love born unto the same gave your royal assent unto an act of parliament touching the repeal of certain Statutes, the penalties whereof seemed very sore, thinking most godly thereby to win your said Subiectes, to the continuance of their obedience, rather by love then fear, forasmuch as sithence the time of the said repeal, your grace hath found the experience thereof, to haue had other success, then your most merciful meaning looked for, and that such insolences, and Barbarous unruliness, and disobedience hath followed the same, as heretofore hath not been sene, either in this realm, or elsewhere. amongst the which outrageous disorders, one hath been unlawful hunting, not only in all your Graces Subiectes several grounds, but in your graces awne parks and forests, all most through out the realm, so notably, as in some of your graces parks were slain five hundred Dere in a day within very few miles of your majesties city of London, which unsufferable liberty escapinge without due punishment hath bread such a bold cotinuaunce of the like, as at this present, both night and day your graces parks and forests, and the parks also of others are still hunted with such boldness as vnneth it is taken for a fault, to the great disquietness of your graces keepers, and the destruction of your royal games, beside the shane and dishonour, that in other realms thereof is spoken. For reformation thereof, most humbly besechen your grace, your majesties most humble and loving Subiectes, that it may bee ordained and enacted, by your majesty, the lords spiritual and temporal, & the Commons in this present Parlamente assembled, and by the authority of the same, that as well one statute made in the Parlamente holden at westminster in the .xxxi. year of the reign of king henry the eight, touching the wrongful entre into any foreste, park, or Chase, of the kings highnesse, the queens, the Princes, or any of the kings children, for the time being, or in to any other ground of his, or theirs enclosed with wall, or Pale, ordained or used for nourishing of Dere, as also one other statute made in the Session of the said parliament, holden in the .xxxii. year of the reign of the same late King touching the wrongful taking, killing, or sleing of any Dere, within any park, Chase, or closed ground used for Dere, may from the first day of may next coming bee fully & clerelye revived and that the same Statutes with all and all maner of branches, articles, Sentences, and Penalties of the same several statutes, may from the same day be in full force, strength and virtue, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, as if the same statutes, or any of them had never been repealed, the said act of repeal, or any other act or thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. This Statute to endure the space of three full yeres to be complete and fully ended, from the first day of may abovesaid.  
PROVIDED always and be it enacted, that this present act or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend to cause the wife of such offeder or offenders, to loose any dower, but that the wife and wives of such offeder and offenders, shall haue such interest and recovery of, in, and to their Dower of the lands, tenememtes, and hereditaments of such offeder and offenders, as they should haue had, in case no such attainder or conviction had been had of any the offences afore said. And that by such attainder or conviction, the heir of such offeder or offenders shall lose no inheritance, ne suffer any corruption of blood, but shall after the death of such offeder and offenders, inherit and bee deemed and adiudged as heir, and enabled as heir to such offeder or offenders in such maner and form, as if no such attainder or conviction had been had Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding   

The .xviii. chapter. ¶ An act concerning Fee fermes mentioned. in the last Session.  
WHere in the second Session of this present parliament holden at Westminster vpon prorogation the iiii. day of Nouembre in the second year of the reign of our most dread Souuereigne lord the king that now is: Our sovereign lord the king of his most godly and virtuous disposition, by thassent of the lords spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in the said Parlamente assembled and by authority of the same, as well for the aid and relief of the poor in the Cities, boroughs, and tounes corporate of this his realm of england, and country of Wales, as for the execution of other deeds of charity, and common wealth there ordained & enacted, that such Fee fermes and sums of money paid for feefermes, as by any city, borough or town corporate, within this his realm of england, or country of Wales, or by the bodies politic or corporate, officers or ministers of the same, should or ought to bee due and payable to his majesty, his heires, or successors, during three yeres next ensuing after the .xiiii. day of march, in the year of our lord God. M. D. xlviii. should cease and not bee due, ne paieable to his majesty ne his heires, or his successors by any such city, borough, ne town corporate, ne by any the bodies politic or corporate of them or any of them, nor by the Officers, inhabitants and ministers of the same Cities, boroughs, or Tounes corporate, or any of them, and that the said act should bee to them, and every of them, and to the successors of every of them, a sufficient warrant and discharge against his majesty, his heires and successors, for the retaining and withholding of the same Feefermes and sums of money, during the said three yeres, and that no process or other suit should be at any time had or awarded against them, or any of them, out of the Exchequer, or any other court for the arrearages thereof, for, or in any of the said three yeres.  
And it was then further provided and enacted by the said authority, that asmuch of all, and every such sums of money, as should or ought to be due to the kings majesty, his heires or successors, by any city, Borough, town corporate within england, or wales, or by the bodies politic of the same, or by any of the officers or ministers of the same, or any of them, during the said three yeres, which might bee gathered and collected of the Issues, Fermes, and profeictes, for which the said Feefermes should haue be paid, in case the same had not been discharged by the said act, should be levied, collected, gathered, paid & answered, as it should haue been, if the said act had not been made to be employed and bestowed in, & about repairing of walls, bridges setting poor people on work, or other good deeds in every such city, Borough; or town corporat, where the same should so haue been due, during the said three yeres, if the said act had not been made, by the discretion and apoinctment of such Commissioners, as the kings majesty should particularly aucthorise, & appoint for every such city, Borough or town corporate, in such maner and form, as the same commissioners should assign, limit, and appoint, or as by such commission should be declared or expressed, and not to the kings majesty, his heires or successors in his court of the Exchequier, or in any other court or place, to th use of his majesty, his heires or successors. nevertheless, for diverse especial considerations, and weighty causes: Be it now enacted, ordained and established, by authority of this present Parlamente, that the said former act, concerning the said Feefermes and sums of money, and all articles, clauses, and provisions, concerning the order, disposition and payments of the same Feefermes and sums of money, or any of them therein contained, or of any annuity or sums of money out of thesaied Feefermes, and sums of money paid for Feefermes, shall stand, remain, and bee in their full strength, power & effect, onely for the first year of the said three yeres contained in the said act, & not otherwise, ne for any longer time.  
And that the said act of Feefermes, and al articles, clauses, and provisions therein contained, touching and concerning the remitting, retaining, disposition, or payment of the said feefermes, or of any part or parcel thereof, of and for the last two yeres of the said three yeres, shall utterly cease, determine, and take none effect, any thing contained in the said former act, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And furthermore be it enacted and established by thauctoritie aforesaid, that from and after the .xxiii. day of march in this present year, of our lord God. M.D.xlix. the said feefermes, and sums of money paid for Feefermes, and every of them, shal be due, payable, and answerable unto the kings majesty, his heires, & successors, at such times and places, and in such maner, form, and condition, to all intents, constructions and purposes, as the same, or any of them were, ought or might haue been paid, or payable before the making of the said former act, any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.  
provided always & be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all & every patentee or patentees, and al other persons and bodies politic and corporate, their heires, successors and assigns, which by virtue of the letters patents of the kings majesty, or of any of his noble progenitors, or otherwise, at, and before the making of the said former act, had or enjoyed, or lawfully should, or might haue had, or enjoyed, any annuity, or sum or sums of money going out, or to be taken or paieable of the said fee fermes, or sums of money paid for fee fermes, or any of thē, shal & may lawfully claim, ask, demand, haue, and enjoy such annuity or sums of money, as shal be due, payable, and answerable to any such patentee or patentees, or any other persons or bodies politic & corporat, their heires, successors, & assigns, or any of them, from and after the said .xiiii. day of march, in the said year of our lord God. M.D.xlix. at such times and places, and in such sort, maner and form, to all intents and purposes, as the same annuity or sum or sums of money were paid or answered at, & before the making of the said former act, and in none otherwise, any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise not withstanding.   

¶ The .xix. chapter. ¶ An act for the buying and selling or roather beasts and Cattal.  
BE it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that no person nor persons, at any time from and after the feast of the Annunciacion of our lady next coming, shal buy, or common, and conclude to buy, any maner of Oxen, Steres, rontes, kien, heighfers, or calves, but onely in the open faire or market, where the same shall happen to be brought and put to sale, and shal not sell the same again on live at and in the market or faire, where he bought the same during the time of the said faire or market, vpon pain of forfeicture of the double value of such cattle bought or sold, contrary to the tenor of this present act.  
provided alway and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shalbe lawful for all and every person and persons, to buy any Oxen, Steres, Runtes, Kien, Heighfers, and calves, or any of them, out of any open faire, or market, for his or their provision, for their household, teme, or dairie, at his or their will, or pleasure, to bee employed, and spent onely in keeping and maintenance of his or their house, or for their Teme or Dairie, and not otherwise.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority abovesaid, that no person, being a Butcher, and using the craft or mystery of butchery, shall at any time after the said feast buy any fat oxen, steres, rontes, kine, heighfers, calves, or sheep, and sell, or cause to be sold the same again on live, vpon pain of forfeicture of every such ox, steer, Ronte, cow, Heighfer, calves, or sheep, bargained, or sold contrary to the form of this present act.  
provided alway, that all, and every person, and persons being a Butcher, and using theart, and mystery of butchery, shal and may at his, and their will, and pleasure buy any fat oxen, steres, Runtes, Kien, heighfors, calves, and sheep, or any of them, out of any open faire, or market: So that such butcher sel not, nor cause to be sold the same again on live, as is aforesaid, any thing contained in this act to the contrary not withstanding. Thone moiety of all which forfeictures, shalbe to our sovereign lord the king, his heires, and successors: and tother moiety to him, or them that will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record, wherein no wager of lawe, essoin, or protection shalbe allowed for the defendant or defendauntes. This act to endure to thende of the next parliament.   

¶ The .xx. chapter. ¶ An act touching the repeal of a certain branch of an act passed in the last Session of this parliament, concerning victuallers and Artificers  
WHere by a certain act made in the parliament holden at westminster by prorogation the .iiii. day of Nouembre, in the second year of the reign of our most dread sovereign lord the king that now is, it is enacted, and established, that no person, or persons should at any time after the first day of april thē next ensuing, interrupt, denighe, let, or disturb any fre Mason, Rough Mason, Carpenter, brickelaier plasterer, Ioiner, Hardehewer, Sawier, Tiler, Pauier, glaster limeburner, brickmaker, tilemaker, plumber, or labourer born in this realm, or made denizen, to work in any of the said crafts in any city borough, or town corporate, with any person, & persons, that will retain him, or thē, albeit the said person, or persons so retained, or any of thē do not inhabit, or dwell in the city, borough, and town corporat, where he or they shal work, nor be free of the same city, borough, or town, any Statute, lawe, ordinance, or other thing what soever before had, or made to the contrary, in any wise not withstanding, and that vpon pain of forfeicture of five. l. for every interupcion, or disturbance doen contrary to thesaid statute, thone moiety of every such forfeiture to be to the king, & tother moiety therof to be to him, or them that will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record, by bill, plaint, action of debt, or information, wherein no wager of law, essoin, nor halcyon should bee allowed, as by the said act of Parlamente amongs other things more plainly appeareth.  
And forasmuch as in the city of London being the kings chamber, and most ancient city of this realm, the artificers, and craftsmen of the artes, crafts, and mysteries afore said, are at great costs, & charges, as well in bearing, and paiyng of taxes, tallages, Subsidies, Scot, Lot, and other charges, as well to the kings majesty, as to the said city, and at many and sundry triumphs and other times for the kings honour, and that if Forreines should come, and work amongs them, within the liberties of the said city, contrary to their ancient privileges, that the same should be a great decay of cunning, and an inpouerishment, and driving away of the fre men, being artificers of the crafts, and Artes, and mysteries aforesaid, within the said city of London, to the great hurt, or destruction of the said city.  
For reformation whereof, the kings majesty is pleased, and contented, that it be enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, with the assent of the lords spiritual, and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, that the said act only touching tharticle, and clause aforesaid, and al, & every sentence, and branch contained in the said act, concerning the same article, shal fromhensfoorth be resumed, repealed, adnulled, revoked, adnihilated, & utterly made void for ever. Any thing contained in the said former act touching the clause, or article aforsaide, in any wise to the contrary notwithstanding   

¶ The .xxi. chapter. An act for the buying, and selling of Butter, and cheese.  
BE it enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, that no person, or persons, after the feast of the Annunciacion of our lady next coming, shall buy to sel again any butyre, or cheese, unless he or they sel the same again by retail, in open shop faire, or market, and not in gross, vpon pain of forfaicture of the double value of the same Butter, & cheese so sold, contrary to the tenor of this present act: thone moiety of al which forfeictures to be to our sovereign lord the king, his heires, and successors, and the other moiety to him, or them that will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record wherein no wager of lawe, essoin, or halcyon shalbe allowed for the defendant, or defendauntes.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said word of retail mentioned in this act, shalbe expounded declared and taken, onely where a weight of Cheese, or a barrel of butter or of less quantity, and not above shalbee sold at one time to any person or persons in open shop, faire, or market, and that to be doen without fraud or couine.  
provided alway, that this act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any Inholder or victailer for such butter or Cheese, as shal be spent, or uttered by retail, in any of their houses, any thing contained in this act to the contrary notwithstanding: this act to endure to the next parliament.   

¶ The .xxii. chapter. ¶ An act touching the retaining of Iourneimen by diverse persons.  
WHere as many young folkes and servants of sundry occupations, being once out of their apprēncehodes, or their yerelie retained service, will not commonly be retained in service by the year, nor labour in their Sciences, occupations, or crafts wherein they bee exercised or brought up, but at their liberty, by the day, weke, or otherwise, work by great, to thintent they will live idly & at their pleasure, fly and resort from place to place, whereof ensue more inconveniences then can be at this present expressed and declared.  
Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this parliament, that no person nor persons occupying or using, or that hereafter shal occupy or use any of the artes, mysteries, occupations, crafts or sciences of a clothemaker, fuller, shermā, weiuer, tailor or shoemaker, shal after the feast of Pentecoste next coming, hire or retain to work in any of their artes, mysteries, occupations, crafts, or Sciences, any person or persons unmarried, as a Iourneiman, that is to say, to work or labour by the day or tail work, or by the great, or for any time or term, under the time & term of one whole quarter of one whole year. And that no person nor persons unmarried shal be hired or retained with any of the person or persons aforesaid, to work in any of the artes, mysteries, occupations, crafts, or sciences aforesaid, for any less time, thē for the space of one whole quarter of one whole year, vpon pain of every person offending contrary to this Statute to suffer imprisonment for one whole month without bail or mainprize, & to forfeicte for every such offence. xl.s.  
And be it enacted by thauctoritie aforesaid that every iourneiman of any the crafts, occupations or mysteries aforesaid, being required by any person or persons using the mysteries, occupations, crafts or sciences aforesaid, or any of them, to serve by the quarter of the year, half year, or whole year vpon such reasonable wages as between thē shalbe agreed, & in case where the parties cannot accord, thē for such wages as shal be adiudged & decreed by one Iustice of the peace, maior, alderman, bailiff, Portreue, Constable, or tithing man of the Shire, city, town borough, village, hundred, wapentake, or tithing, where any such Iurneiman shalbe required to serve, as is abovesaid, & there vpon if such Iourneman refuse to serve in maner and form abovesaid, that then every such Iourneiman and every of them so refusing to serve, as is abovesaid, shall suffer imprisonment, by the space of one whole month and shall at every time so refusing forfeict. xx. s.  
And be it further enacted, that al and every person or persons, that shal haue .iii. aprentices in any of the said crafts, mysteries, or occupations, shal retain & keep one Iourneiman, and for every other apprentice above the number of thesaied .iii. apprentices one other iourneman vpon pain for every default. x.l. the one half of al which forfeictures, shalbe to the king our sovereign lord, and tother half to such person or persons, as will sue for the same in any of the kings courts of record, by bill, information, action of debt, or otherwise, in which svit no essoin, halcyon, or wager of lawe, shalbe admitted or allowed.  
And it is further enacted by thauctoritie abovesaid, that al and singular thoffences abovesaid, which shalbe hereafter committed or doen, contrary to the tenor of this present act, shalbe inquirable & presentable before the Iustices of Oyer and Determiner, Iustices of assizes, Iusticez of the Peace, and in all and every let or letes, before the steward or stewards there, and before any Maior, bailiff, or other head officer, of any city, town, or borough corporat, and that the said Iustices, steward, major, bailiff, or other head officer, shal haue full power and authority from time to time to punish and correct, all and every person and persons offending contrary to the tenor of this present act, according to such presentment or presentments, as before him or thē shalbe had or made.  
provided always, & be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that all servants of husbandry unmarried, and which haue not been married, and all servants and labourers using to labour in barges commonly called western barges, which are not, nor haue been married, shall after the feast of the Annunciacion of our lady next coming, serve by the hole year and not go by the day wages, vpon pain of such punishment as is contained in the Statutes made against labourers, and that all such servants shall after thesaied feast give their Master & mistress a quarters warning, against his, or their departure out of service vpon the like pain contained in thesaied Statute.   

¶ The .xxiii. chapter. ¶ An act concerning the release of the branches in the last act of the relief, for the payments of sheep and Clothes, and also of a grant of a subsidy to be paid in one year.  
most humble praing the Communs in this present Parlemente assambled, your most excellent majesty, that where in the last Session of this present parliament vpon prorogation, begon at Westminster the .iiii. day of Nouembre, in the second year of your highnesse reign, and there continued unto the .xiiii. day of march then next following, your humble, & faithful Subiectes the Commons, in the said parliament assembled, with thassent of the lords spiritual, and temporal, granted unto your highnesse one relief of. iii.s. of every l. of the goods, and Cattals, of every person being worth x, l. & upward, to be levied, & taken in .iii. yeres, in maner, and form as is mentioned in thesaid act. And also one other relief, to be taken & levied, for every shear sheep, accounting the same by the polle, after the rate, as by the same act more at large it doth appear. And one other relief of viii. d of the .l. of the price, and value of all, and singular wollen Clothes to be taxed, and levied, in maner, and form, as by the same act is declared: The same several reliefs to endure, and to be yerelie paid, and levied during three yeres, as by the same former act, more largely it appeareth: which Relief of cloth appeareth now, so comberous to all Clothmakers, & also so tedious to the same, for making, of their books and the accounts therof, by reason of lack of the alnagers not always present, when time requireth, that in maner they are discouraged to make any cloth, or to set any men on work about the same: and also the said relief of sheep is to your poor commons, having but few sheep in nombre a great charge, and also so comberous for all your Commissioners, and officers, name, and appointed for executing of the same, that they cannot tel, how to serve your highnesse ther in according to their dueties It may therfore please your highnesse, with thassent of the lords spiritual, and Temporal and of your said Commons, and at their most humble suit, that it be enacted, by the authority of this present parliament, that the several grants, and clauses, mentioned in the said act of relief, concerning or touching onely the several grants of reliefs to bee levied, and paid for sheep after the rate of the polle, and of cloth to be paid, or of any of them, as in the former act is recited, and every article, clause, provision, and sentence, concerning onely the same several grants of reliefs for sheep, and cloth, or either of thē, shal be from the said .iiii. day of Nouembre, in the said second year of your most noble riegne, deigned & adiudged void, and of none effect, and to be utterly repealed, to al intents, constructions, and purposes. And that every article, clause, and provision mentioned in thesaied act of relief, touching, or concerning the relief, of, and for goods, to stand, and be good, and effectual, according to the tenor of the same act of relief. And we your humble, & obedient Subiectes, beseech your highnesse, that it may please your highnesse, to take, and receive of us your said subiectes towards your inestimable charges, that you haue already sustained and born, and be like hereafter to sustain, and bear, for the defence of us, and this your highnesse realm, and dominions, against tholde, and ancient enemies of the same, the frenchmen, and the Scottes, now being open enemies to your highnesse, your said realm, & dominions this small gift hereafter following, not as any recompense, or satisfaction to your majesty, of, and for your most bountiful, and liberal release, and discharge of your said humble subiectes, of, and concerning the said several reliefs of sheep, and clothes, but as a token, and knowledge of our faithfulness, loving, and willing hartes, towards your highnesse, to be always ready, to bear with your highnesse, to the uttermost of our powers, in all your proceedings, and affairs, as to the duty of natural, & obedient subiectes appertaineth: that is to say: we your graces said loving subiectes, do, by authority of this present parliament, freely, and of our good hartes, and minds, give, and grant unto your most royal majesty, one other relief, to continue by one year next ensuing the determination of the said three yeres specified in the said former act of relief, for goods to be ranted, taxed, levied, and gathered of every person, of what estate or degree he be, according to the tenor of this act after the rate, and in maner, and form following, that is to say, as well of all, and every person, as is, or hereafter shal be, your graces natural subiectes, as of all, and every fraternity, guild, Corporation, mystery, Brotherhod, company, and commonalty, corporate, or not corporate, within this realm of england, Wales, and other the kings dominions, being worth .x. pound of money, Coygne, plate, stock of merchandise, corn, grain, sheep, beasts, cattals, or other goods movable, aswell within this realm, as without, & of all such sums of money, as to him or thē shal be owing, whereof he, or they trust in their consciences surely to be paid. xii.d. of every li. And of every alien, or stranger, born out of the kings obeisance, aswell denisen, as not denisen, inhabiting, or resiant within this realm or any other the kings dominions, being worth. x.li. in money, coin, Plate, stock of merchandise, corn, grain, sheep, beasts, Cattals, or other goods movable, as well within this realm, as without, and of all such sums of money, as to him is, or shalbe owing, whereof he trusteth in his conscience to be surely paid. ii.s. of every li. And of every Alien, or stranger, born out of the kings obeisance, as well denizen, as not denizen, inhabiting, or resiant within this realm, or any other the kings dominions, being worth. xx.s. and under. x.li. in money, coygne, Plate, stock of merchandise, corn, grain, sheep, beasts, cattle, or other goods movable, as well within this realm as without, and of all such sums of money, as to him, is, or shalbe owing, whereof he trusteth in his conscience to be surely payed. xii.d. of every pound. Except, & out of the premises deducted, such sums of Money, as any person or persons before chargeable owe, and in his or their conscience truly mind to pay. And excepted also the apparel of such persons, their wives, & children, belonging to their awne bodies, saving jewels, gold, silver, ston, and pearl. Excepted also always from the charge, assessment, and payment of the said relief, all money, goods, and Cattals of orphans, bequeathed or left unto them by their parentes, or other their friends deceased. And that all Plate, coin, jewels, goods, debts, and cattalles personal, being in the rule and custody of any person, or persons, to the use of any corporation, fraternity, guild, mystery, Brotherhead, company, or any commonalty being corporate, or not corporate, be and shalbe ranted, set, and charged, by reason of this act, at the value certified by the presentours of the certificat, to be sworn of every pound in goods and debts, as is above said, and the sums that are before rehearsed, set and taxed, to be levied and taken of them, that shal haue such goods in custody, as is before rehearsed. And the same person or persons, and body corporate, by the authority of this act, shalbe discharged against him or them, that shall, or ought to haue the same, at the time of the payment, or delivery therof, or at his otherwise departure from the custody, or possession of the same. Excepted always & foreprised from the charge and assessment of this relief, all goods, cattals, jewels, and ornaments of churches and chapels, ordained and used in churches or chapels, for divine service therein to be celebrated.  
Also we the kings majesties loving and obedient subiectes, do give and grant to your highnesse. viii.d. to be paid in the same year by every other person not born under the kings obeisance, being Denizen, or not denizen, other then women covert, soldiers, and such persons as be under the age of .xii. yeres, dwelling or resiant within this realm or any other the kings dominions. And the said reliefs shal be, by authority aforesaid, taxed, assessed, and ranted in the said year, in every Shire, riding, Lath, Wapentake, Rape, city, borough, town, and every other place, within this realm of england, and Wales, & other the kings dominions, in form following, that is to say, before the .xx. day of january, which shalbe in the year of our lord God. M.D.Li. & the payment therof to be had, made, & paid at the receipt of the kings Exchequier, between the first day, & the .xx. day of april, which shall be in the year of our lord God. M.D.Lii. And the sums abovesayed, of and for the said relief, shalbe taxed, set, asked, & demanded, taken, gathered, levied, & paid, unto the use of our said sovereign lord, his heires and successors, in form above said, as well within Liberties, frauncheses, Sanctuaries, ancient drawn, and other whatsoever place exempt, or not exempt, as without. except such shires, places, and persons as shal be foreprised, in, and by this present act, any grant, charter, prescripcton, use or liberty, by reason of any letters patents, or other privilege, prescripcion, 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 person, as well such as be born under the kings obeisance, as every other person stranger born, denizen, or not denizen, inhabiting within this realm or within Wales, or other the kings dominions, which at the time of the said assessing, or taxacion to be had or made, shal be out of this realm and out of Wales, and haue goods or Cattalles within this realm or in Wales, shalbe charged and chargeable for the same, by the certificat of thinhabitauntes of the parties where such goods, cattalles, or other the premises then shal be, or in such other place, where such person, or his factor, deputy, or attorney, shall haue his most resort unto, within this realm, or in Wales, in like maner, as if the same person were, or had been, at the time of the same assessment, within this realm, or wales. And that every person abiding within this realm, or without this realm, shalbe charged and chargeable to the same relief granted by this act, according and after the rate of the value of his substance, goods, & cattalles, & other premisses, as such person so to be charged, shalbe set at, in the time of the said assessing or taxacion, vpon them to be made, and in none otherwise.  
provided alway, and be it further enacted, by authority above said, that all and every taxacion, and assessment of the said relief for goods, or for any former grant, or subsidy heretofore had, made, granted, or taxed( foreprised, and excepted the said several reliefs, for sheep and cloth, and either of them) shalbe taken, judged, and deemed, of good force, strength, and effect, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, and shalbe levied and paid to your highnesse accordingly.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority above said, that the lord chancellor of england, or the lord keeper of the great seal for the time being, the commissioners in that behalf, by the kings Commission to be appointed, and aucthorised, the presentours, the person presented, chargeable, or taxed, collectors, petit collectors, barons of the kings Exchequer, auditors, and all and every other person and persons, mentioned in the said former act of relief, shall by authority of this present act, make, do, and execute all and every thing and things, concerning the said relief granted by this present act, as is contained, limited, and appointed to them by the said former act of relief for goods, and vpon like pains, fines, amerciaments and forfeyctures, and in such and the same maner, form, estate, & condition, to all intents, constructions, & purposes, as they or any of them are appointed, might, may, should, or ought to do, & execute by authority of the said former act, touching the relief for goods, and as though every clause, article, sentence, and matter mentioned in the said former act, concerning or touching the said relief for goods, were specially and particularly recited, and mentioned in this present act.  
provided always, that this grant of relief, nor any other thing therein contained, do in any wise extend, to charge the inhabitants or dwellers within ireland, Bullome, and the county of the same, Calice, hams, Guysnes, & the marches of the same, jernesey, & Gernesey, Alderney, and Silleye, or any of them, of, for, or concerning any goods, which the said inhabitants, or dwellers, or any other to their use, haue within ireland, Bulloin, the county of the same, Calice, hams, Guisnes, or other marches of the same, Ierneseye, Gernesey, Alderneie, and Silleye, or in any of them.  
provided also that the said grant of relief, do not in any maner of wise extend, or be prejudicial or hurtful to the inhabitants, or resiants at this present time, within the five ports Corporate, or to any of their membres incorporate, or united to the same five ports, or to any of the same five ports, or to any of the inhabitants within the liberties of Romney Mershe, of, or for any part or parcel of the said sums granted in this present parliament, of the said inhabitants now resiantes, or any of them to be taxed, set, asked, levied, or paid, but that the said inhabitants, and now resiants of the said ports of Romney mershe, and their membres, and of every of them, be, and shalbe of, and from the said grant and payment of the said relief, during their resiauncie there, and not longer, acquitted and discharged, any matter, or whatsoever thing in this present act, made, or had, to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also, that this present act of relief, ne any other thing therein contained, extend to any of the english inhabitants, or resiants in any of the Counties of northumberland, Comberlande, Westmorlande, the town of berwick, the town of Newecastell vpon tine, and the Byshoprike of Duresme, nor to any of them, of, for, and concerning any goods, or Cattalles, which the same inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use, haue within the said Counties, of northumberland, Cumberlande, and Westmorlande, or the town of berwick, the town of Newcastle vpon tine, or the Byshoprike of Duresme, or any of them, but that they, and every of them shalbe of, and for their goods lying and being in the said counties, Tounes, and bishopric, or of any of them, utterly acquitted and discharged, any thing in this present act before rehearsed, to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also, that this act, ne any thing therein contained, shall extend to the goods of any College, hall, or Hostle, within the universities of oxford & Cambridge, or any of them, or to the goods of the College of Winton founded by bishop Wickham, or to the goods of the College of Eton next Windesore, or to the goods of any Reader, or scholar within the said universities, and colleges, or any of them there remaining for study, without fraud, or couine, any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided always, and bee it enacted by the authority aforesayed, that al, and every collector, petite collector, and other person, and persons, that haue levied, gathered, or received any sum, or sums of money of any person, or persons, for the Relief of sheep, and cloth, or either of them, shall before the last day of february next coming, repay, and deliver to every such person and persons, his, or their Executours, or administrators, al, and every the same sum, and sums of money so by them, or any of them received, vpon pain of forfeicture double the value of every such sum, or sums of money so by them, or any of thē received, & not repaid before the said last day of february. For the which forfeiture, the party grieved, shall, and may haue his remedy by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of the kings courts of record, where no wager of lawe, essome, or protection shall be allowed.  
provided also, and be it enacted, by the said authority, that all & singular sums of money, as now be, or hereafter shal be payed by any collector, or petit collector, or other person to the kings use in his receit, or elsewhere, for the reliefs of sheep, and cloth, or either of them, shal be delivered, & repaid to the said collector, his executours, or administrators, at, & vpon his, or their request in the said receipt, to the uses, and intents above said, and that this act shall be a sufficient warrant to thofficers of the kings receit, to repay and deliver the same to the said collector, his Executours, or administrators, without any farther, or other warrant to be sued for, to the kings highnesse in that behalf.  
provided also, and be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that this act of grant of relief, shall not extend to any spiritual person or persons, for any of his, or their goods, or cattalles: and forasmuch as diuers and sundry the kings majesties tenants, and other the inhabitants, & dwellers within the counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgā, Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnaruan, and of the county Palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged, & chargeable with the several paiementes of diuers great sums of money by the name of a Mise due to his majesty according to the several customs of the said counties, for the payment whereof, dyvers & sundry the gentlemen, and other inhabitants of the said counties, be, and stand bound to his highness: The king our souereygne lord is therfore pleased, and contented, that it be provided, ordained, and enacted by thaucthoritie afore said, that this act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge any of the kings majesties tenants, and other inhabitants, and dwellers, within any of the said counties, of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigā, Glamorgā, Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomerie, Denbigh, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnaruan, and the county of the Palantine of Chester, being charged, or chargeable, with the said Mise, for, or within any of the payments of the said relief granted to the kings majesty by this act, or by the said former act, until the several daies, and times appointed, & granted, for the payments of the said Mises shalbe expired. And that the first payment of the said relief granted by this act, and the said former act, shall be made at the receit of the kings Exchequer, before the first day of may then next following, after the day appointed for the latter payment to be made of the said Mise, and so yearly, before the first day of may, at the receit of the said Exchequer, until the four several payments of the said relief be fully made, in such, and like form, & order, as is ordained, & appoynted by this act, and by the said former act for the kings subiectes, concerning the said relief to be made at the receit of the said Exchequer, according to the tenor of this present act, and of the said former act. this act, and the said former act, or any thing in them, or either of them contained, to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.   

¶ AN act OF THE kings majesties most FREE and general pardon. ¶ The .xxiiii. Chapitre.  
THE kings most royal majesty right well perceiving his loving subiectes by many, and sundry ways and means, greuouslie against the bound duties of their allegeaunces, to haue now of late this last summer time offended his highnesse, and his laws, by inordinate disobedience, rebellion, and otherwise, & his majesty by goddes providence being replenished with mercy, clemency, and pity, & much inclined to 'allure, provoke, and stir his said loving subiectes to love obedience, which to them of duty appertaineth, his majesty having a special trust, & confidence in his said subiectes, that they will hereafter apply, and endeavour themselves to serve, and please him in all obedience, and observance of his laws, which his highnesse willeth, and chargeth them to do, lest vpon such like disobedience, rebellion, and other offences, his highnesse shalbe enforced, and constreigned to execute his severe iustice, which to his imperial, and Kyngly estate, and function doth appertain, and may, nor will no longer bear, and sustain hereafter any such rebellion, being a great peril to his graces person, and clear subversion, and a likelye destruction of his said realm, and Subiectes, and a great comfort to all his graces enemies: is fully, and resolutely contented, and pleased that it be enacted by authority of this present parliament, in maner, and form following. That is to say, that all & every of his said subiectes, as well spiritual, as temporal, of this his realm of england, Wales, the Isles of jernesey, and Gernesey, berwick, Calleis, Guisnes, hams, boulogne, and Bulloignois, and the marches of every of them, Theyres, successors, executours, and administrators of thē, and every of them, and all and singular bodies in any maner of wise corporate, Cities, boroughs, shires, Ridynges, handmaides, laths, Rapes, Wapentakes, towns, villages, and Tythinges, and every of them, and the successor, and successors of them, and every of them, shal be by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, acquitted, pardoned, released, and discharged against the kings highness, his heirs, successors, and Executours, and every of them, of all maner of Heresies, Treasons, rebellions, Insurrections, unlawful assemblies, conventicles, Conspiracies, Misprisions of Treason, Concealementes of Treason, Murdres, felonies, Robberies, Offences, contempts, Trespasses, wrongs, deceipts, Misdemeanours, Forfaictures, Penalties, sums of money, pains of Death, pains corporal, and pecuniary, & all other things, Causes, Quereles, suits, judgements and executions, which may be, or can be by his highness in any wise, or by any means pardoned, or released, or discharged, before, & unto the xxii. day of january, in the year of our lord God. M.D.xlix. other then such as hereafter in this act be excepted, and foreprised, in such maner and form, and unto such times as the same be excepted, or forprised in this act, and other then such as the clauses of proviso hereafter mentioned, do, or doth extend unto.  
And also the kings highnesse is further contented, and pleased, that it be enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, that this his said general, and free pardon shalbe as good, and effectual in the law, to every of his said subiects, bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, and to every of them by the said general words before rehearsed in all things, which be not hereafter in this present act excepted, or forprised, nor contained in any clause of proviso hereafter mentioned, as that same pardon should be if all offences, contempts, forfaictures, causes, matters, suits, quereles, judgements, executions, penalties, and all other things not hereafter excepted, nor contained in any clause of proviso hereafter mentioned, had been particularlye, singularlye, specially, & plainly name, rehearsed, and specified in this present act, & also pardonned by proper, and express words, and names, in their kinds, natures, and qualities, by words and terms thereunto requisite to haue be put in, & expressed in this act of free pardon. And that his said subiectes, nor any of thē, nor theirs, executours, or administrators of any of them, nor any of the said bodies corporate, nor any other persons, bodies politic, or corporate before name, or any of them be, nor shal be sued, vexed, or inquieted, in their bodies, goods, lamdes, or cattalles, for any maner matter, cause, contempt, mysdemeanor, forfaycture, trespass, offence, or any other thing, suffered, doen, or committed against his highnes, or his crown, dignity, prerogative, laws, or statutes, but onely for, or concerning such matters, clauses, and offences, as be rehearsed, or mentioned in thexcepcions, or clauses of proviso in this present act hereafter mentioned, in such maner, and form, as in the same excepcions, or clauses of proviso be mentioned, and for none other: any statute, or statutes, laws, customs, uses, or presidents heretofore had, made, or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And that all, and every the kings said subiectes, and all, and singular bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, may by him, or themselves, or by his, or their deputy, or deputies, or by his, or their attorney, or attorneis according to the laws of this realm, plead, & 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 pardonned, 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 judgment, or other cause concerning such plea, writing, or entry, but onely. xii.d. to be paid to the officer, or clerk, that shall entre the plea, matter, or iudgement, for the discharge of any party so pleading the same: any statute, lawe, or use to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And furthermore, the kings highness is pleased, and contented, that it be enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, that this his said free pardon by the general words before rehearsed, shal be reputed, deemed, and judged, allowed, and taken in all maner of courts, or elsewhere, as well in the words, and clauses of exceptions, and forprises specified in this present act, as in all, and singular other clauses, words, and sentences mentioned, and rehearsed in this his said free pardon most beneficially, and auaileably to all, and singular his said subiectes, bodies corporate, and other before rehearsed, and to every of them in all things ambiguous, and doubtful, & most strongly in bar and discharge against his highnesse, his heires, successors, and executours in every thing without obstacle, challenge, or other delay whatsoever it shal be, to be made, pleaded, objected, or alleged by the king our sovereign lord, his heirs, successors, or executours, or by his, or any of their general attorney, or attourneyes, or by any person, or persons for his highnes, or any of his heirs, successors, or executours.  
And furthermore, it is enacted by the king our Souereygne lord, by thaucthoritie of this present parliament, that if any officer, or clerk of any of his highnesse courts commonly called the kings bench, the chancery, the common place, or exchequier, or any other officer, or clerk of any other court within this realm, or Wales, or other his highnesse dominions above mentioned, at any time after the last day of January, in the year of our Lord God. M.D.xlix. make out, or writ out any maner of writtes, or other process, or any extractes, summones, or other precepts, whereby any of the said subiects, or any of the said bodies corporate, or other before rehearsed, or any of them shalbe in any wise arrested, attached, dystreined, summoned, or otherwise vexed, inquieted or grieved in his, or their bodies, lamdes, tenememtes, goods, or cattals, or in any of thē, for, or because of any maner of thing pardonned or discharged by virtue of this act of free pardon, he so offending, and therof lawfully condemned, shall yield, and pay for the recompense therof to the party so grieved, or offended, triple damages, the costs of his suit to be accounted, as parcel of the damages. And nevertheless, all & singular such writtes, process, extractes, and precepts so to be made, for, or vpon any maner thing pardonned, or discharged by this act of free pardon, shal be utterly void, and of none effect.  
Except always, and forprised of this general, and free pardon, all & all maner pmpensed, & wilful murder, and all, and every robbery committed, or doen in, or nere the high way, & all, and every wilful burning of any house, or barn with corn, and all, and every offence of burgularie, robbing of churches, or chapels, dooen, or perpetrated sithence the feast of saint Michael tharchangel last past.  
And also except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and all maner of piracies, had, doen, committed, or perpetrate vpon, or in the seas.  
And also excepted, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and all maner of punishments, impetitions, forfeitures, pains of death, judgements, and executions for the premises before excepted, or for any of them.  
And excepted, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and singular sum, and sums of money, granted to the kings hignesse, or his most dearest father king Henry the .viii. by way, and mean of subsidy, fifteen, benevolence, loan, contribution, relief, or otherwise, or by any of the same ways, or means: And all deteiners, witholdynges, & none payments, touching, or concerning the same, or any part thereof: And that the same, or every part thereof may, and shall by authority abovesaid, be levied, taken, and received to the kings use, any thing in this free pardon to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And also except, and forprised all wastes of the kings woods in any of his forrestes, parks, chaces, and elsewhere. And also except, and forprised, all, and all maner of wastes committed, or doen in any of the kings wards lands, or in the wards lands of any committee of the kings majesty, or of any of his most noble progenitors commits.  
And also except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and every concealmentes of any custom, or subsidy, and all maner of accounts and account, and all actions, suits, impetitions, and demands, touching, or concerning any accounts, or account, & all arrearages of account, and all debts, impetitions, suits, demands, & executions by occasion, or means of any account, which ought to be made to his highness, or to any of his most noble progenitors. And also excepted & forprised all titles of actions of Quare impedit, all rauishmentes, & withholding of any of the kings wards, or withholding of any wards lamdes, or tenements, & the profits of the same lands, & tenements. And all and every fine, or fines, for the single, or double value of the marriage, or marriages of any of the kings wards, at any time grown to the king our souereygne lord, or to any of his most noble progenitors.  
And also except, & forprised, all, & singular homages, feaulties, & other services, reliefs, rents, services, rents charges, rents secke, & tenths, and the arrearages of every of them due to his highnesse, or to any of his most noble progenitors. And also except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, & singular forfeitures, & all maner of penalties, sums of money, & profits whatsoever grown, or due by reason of any offence or act committed, or doen contrary to any statute or statutes, or contrary to the common laws of this realm, whereof any seizure was made, or any information given in any of the kings courts of record, or any suit commenced, or depending before the .xx. day of january in the third year of the kings majesties reign, or whereof the kings majesty, or king Henry the .viii. by bill sealed with the seal of any of them, before the said xx. day of january in the said year of our lord God. M.D. xlix. haue, hath, or shall make any gift, or assignment to any servants, or servant of our sovereign lord the king, or of the said king Henry the eight, or or to any other person, or persons.  
And except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and singular forfaictures, forfaicture, & sum, and sums of money, being due to our sovereign lord the king, or to king Henry the .vii. or to king Henry theight, by any penal statute, or statutes, which be converted into the nature of debt by iudgement, or by agreement of thoffendour.  
And except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and all maner of debts due, & to be due to our sovereign lord the king, or to any of his most noble progenitors, other thē such as are due to our sovereign lord the king, vpon any obligation, or recognisance forfeited for none apparance, or for not keeping of the peace, or for not being of good behaviour.  
And except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and singular fines, as well fines pro licentia concordandi, as other fines for contempts, or offences set, or taxed. And also all issues, fines, and amerciaments, as well real, as other under .v. l( other then fines for any alienation, without the kings licence) several, or particularly, concerning any one person, or mo persons ioinctlye, whether the same fines, or amerciaments before excepted, be totted, or not totted, taken to the charge of any sheriefe, or sheriffs, or not taken to his, or their charge, extreated, or not extreated whether they be turned into debt, or not turned into debt, or not being levied, received, or not received, by any sheriefe, or sheriffs, bailiff, minister, or other officer.  
provided always and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that this present act of free pardon, or any thing therein contained, shal not in any wise extend to discharge, or pardon any offence, pain, or penalty, dooen, committed, or forfaycted, by force of any statute heretofore made, against the decaying of any house, or houses of husbandry, or conuerting of any land from tillage into pasture, otherwise, or in any other maner then to pardon, or discharge all issues, forfeyctes, pains; & penalties grown, or due to the kings majesty, or to his late father of most famous memory king henry the eight, before the first day of june, in the year of our lord God, a thowsande, five hundred & fifty, by reason of any such offence, or offences, which issues, forfaictes, pains, or penalties are plainly, and clearly before pardonned, in, and by this present act of free pardon, nor shall extend to give, or make any licence, or dispensation to any person, or persons, to hold, or continue the same so decayed, or converted, contrary to the form of any statute or statutes.  
provided also, and be it enacted by thaucthoritie of this present parlpment, that all, and every person, and persons, which tended to sue livery out of the kings hands, or that ought to sue any livery out of the kings hands, or that ought to sue any Ouster le main of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, whatsoever they be, shall sue, and be bound to sue his, or their livery, or liveries, and Ouster le main, of his, or their manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments as they ought, or should haue doen, if this act of free pardon had never been granted, any article, clause, matter, or sentence, act, or acts, thing or things in this present act of free pardon comprised, or specified, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and singular person, and persons, being the .xxvi. day of January, in the year of our lord God. M.D.xlix. prisoner, or prisoners in the tower of London, in the fleet, in the Mershalsie, or in any other prison, or in any wise by the kings commandment, or by the commandment, or order of the lords of his privy counsel, restreygned, or stayed from liberty other then such prisoner, and prisoners, as are in any prison, onely for felonious stealing of any goods, or Cattalles under the sum, and value of. xx.s. so that the same felonious taking of, & such goods, or cattalles, be not feloniously taken, in, or nere any high way, nor in the dwelling house of any person in the night time, nor in any church, or chapel.  
And also except out of this free pardon, all and singular person, and persons, which at any time before the said .xxvi. day of January, in the said year of our lord God. M.D.xlix. is, ought, or shal be put to death, or in execution by virtue of any maner of iudgement against him or them given.  
And except, and forprised out of this free pardon, all, and all maner of treasons, doen, committed, or perpetrated by any person, or persons, in any of the parties beyond the sea, or in Scotlande, or by any person, or persons now being beyond the sea, or in Scotlande, other then such treasons, or petit treasons, as haue been committed, perpetrated, or dooen, by any person being beyond the sea, or in Scotlande, that before the feast of thassencion of our lord God, that shal be in the year of our lord God. M.D.L. shall come, and make their return, and repair into this realm of england. And except and forprised all impetitions, punishments, forfaictures, pains of death, executions, and judgements for the same treasons.  
And furthermore, the kings majesty of his special Grace, and clemency, is pleased, and contented, that it be enacted, and established by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that all, and singular person, and persons being born within this realm of england, or in any of the kings dominions, and now being beyond the Sea, or in Scotlande, which before the first day of Nouembre in the year of our lord God, a thousand five hundred forty and nine, did fly out of this realm of england, or any of the kings dominions, for any high treason, petit treason, misprision of treason, or for any felony, or murder, or other crime, or offence by him, or them committed, in any wise doen, or perpetrated shal by virtue of this free pardon bee clearly discharged, acquitted, and pardonned, of all, and all maner of treasons, petit treasones, misprision of treason, or other offences, and crimes whatsoever doen, committed, or perpetrated, before thesaied first day of Nouembre, in the said year of our lord God a thousand five hundred forty, and nine, & of al maner of impetitions, suits, penalties, forfaictures, and executions for the same, So that he, or they do come, and make their return, and repair into this realm of england, on thisside thesaied feast of Thassencion of our lord God, in thesaied year of our lord God, M.D.L. And also our said sovereign Lord the king by virtue of this act, and by the aucthorttie abovesaid, doth give authority and licence to all, and every of the said person, and persons being beyond the sea, or in Scotlande, to return, and repair into this realm of England, and other his dominions before the same feast of Thassencion of our lord God M.D.L.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shalbe lawful to all, and every clerk, and other officer of any of the kings courts, to whom it appertaineth, without any forfaicture, loss, or punishment for the same, to award and make writtes of Capias vtlegatum, at the suite of the party playntife against any person, or persons, being outlawed in any action, or suit, to the intent to compel the person or persons so outlawed, to make answer to the plaintiff, or plaintiffs, at whose suit, he, or they were, or was outlawed. And also that every person and persons now being outlawed, shalbe bound to sue a Scire facias against the parties, or parties, at whose suite, he or they were, or was outlawed, or their executours, or administrators before such time as the person, or persons so outlawed shall take any aduauntage of this free pardon, concerning his, or their outlawrye.  
And the king our sovereign lord is contented, and pleased to grant by authority afore said, that it shalbe lawful to all, & singular Archbyshoppes, and byshoppes of this realm of england, and Wales, to deliver out of prison, and set at liberty all, and singular those persons being in prison in their custody, or in the custody of any of them, as Clerkes convict, or convicted, which be pardonned by this act of free pardon without any further act, or suite to be made for allowance of this pardon, or otherwise, any act of parliament, law, usage, custom, or other thing to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided alway, that this act of general, and free pardon, or any thing therein contained, extend not to John with of Eylisham in the county of Norff. any thing in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
provided also, and be it enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that this act of free Pardon shall not extend to any person, or persons, which at any time heretofore haue offended in these heresies, & erroneous opinions hereafter ensuing, that is to say, that infantes ought not to be baptized, and if they be baptized, they ought to be rebaptized when they come to lawful age. That it is not lawful for a christian man to bear office, or rule in the common wealth. That no mans laws ought to be obeied, that it is not leeful for a christian man to take an oath before any judge that Christ took no bodily substance of our blessed lady: That synners after baptism cannot be restored by repentance. That all things be or ought to be common, and nothing several.  
provided always, and it is enacted by thaucthoritie aforesaid, that this act of free pardon, or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend, or be in any wise beneficial, or take effect to any such person, or persons, that at any time sythe the feast of Easter last past hath, or haue made any rebellion, or unlawful commotion, in any part of this realm, or in Wales, which at any time sith the .xii. day of june last past, hath, or haue commenced, or sued, and after the last day of February next coming will follow, or continue, or that at any time hereafter, shall commence, or sue in proper person, or by his, or their attourneye aucthorised, avow, sue, & follow, any maner of appeal touching the death of any such rebellious person, or persons, the maiming or beating of any of the said rebellious person, or persons, or any bill or bills, action, or actions of trespass, or detinue, or action vpon the case against any person, or persons, that did serve the kings majesty in, or for the subduing of the said rebellious persons, of, for, or concerning the taking away, or witholdyng of the goods, or of Cattalles, any of the said rebellious persons, or of, for, or concerning any other act, or acts personal, doen, or executed in the commoncion time to any of the said rebellious persons, by any person, or persons that served the king in the commotion time, in the subduing of the same rebellious persons between the said .xii. day of june, and the first day of Nouembre last past.  
God save the king.   

¶ Imprinted at London by Richard Grafton, printer to the kings majesty. 1553  
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