Chap. 58.
Co. 5. 135.
* except
in a Quare
Imp. See
Co. ib. |
Labourers.
And a year, or a twelve-month (in the singular number) includes the
whole year according to the Kalendar. But Twelve months (in the plural
number) or Eight months, or Six * months, &c. shall be accounted after
Twenty eight days to every Month: For the Month, by the Common
Law of England, is but Eight and twenty days. And so
Three Months
84
Whereas
Six Months hath but
168 Days.
Twelve Months
336
Quarter of a Year
91
The Half-year
hath 182 Days.
Year
365
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| Dyer 345. |
Ter centum, ter viginti, cum quinque diebus,
Sex horas, neque plus integer annus habet.
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And as to these Six hours, the Law giveth no regard
to them; and
yet these Six hours every fourth Year to make a day, and so make the
Leap Year, and this Leap Year containeth in it Three hundred sixty
and
six days. |
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Bible impres.
1611. |
Note also for the Year, That the Julian Year,
(instituted by Julius
Cæsar) beginneth the first day of January, ' and so doth
the Empire begin;
' the Hebrews, the First of April; the Church of Rome
on the Twenty
' fifth of December: But in all Matters legal with us, the
Year beginneth
not till the Twenty fifth day of March. And therefore when
in an Indictment,
or other Writing, or Deed, it shall be set down, (or the Writing
shall be dated Anno Dom. 1617.) it must be accounted according to
the
computation of the Church of England, which beginneth the Year upon
the Twenty fifth day of March; upon which day our Saviour Christ
Jesus
arose from death, as it is holden, Dr. Whites Def. 151. and upon
which
day Christ was conceived in the Virgins Womb, (as some write) and so
' was born in December; and then the year of our Lord must be accounted
' rather from his Conception and Incarnation, than his Nativity; and
upon which day the World, Adam our first-Father, was created, as
it is
holden by others: But I leave these things to such as have travelled
in
the searching out of Antiquities. See the History of Venice,
pag. 4 & 5.
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CHAP. LXVIII. V. 31
Labourers.
EVery Justice of Peace, upon request, may cause all
such Artificers and
other persons as be meet to Labour, (by his discretion) to work by
the day in Hay-time, and Harvest-time, for the saving of Corn and Hay,
and may upon their refusal, imprison them in the Stocks, by the space of
two days and one night. " And if the Justice neglect so to do, he
shall forfeit
' Forty shillings. |
§. 1.
One Justice. |
| 1 Eliz. 4. |
Any one Justice of Peace may give License under
his Hand and Seal,
to such Labourers as pass in Hay-harvest and Corn-harvest, from one
County to another to work. |
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Any one Justice of Peace (upon complaint to him
made) may compel
any person meet (in his discretion) to be bound as an Apprentice, with
any
one that shall require him to Husbandry, or any other Art, &c.
And upon |
§. 2.
Apprentice. |
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