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Leather.
' before them, &c. who shall imprison the Offender, till he find
sufficient
' surety to serve his Master again, 5 Eliz. 4. |
Chap. 59. |
§. 15.
Testimonial. |
No person (retained in Husbandry, or in any the
Arts and Sciences
mentioned in the Statute of 6 Eliz. cap. 4.) after his Retainer
expired, may
depart out of one Limit, Town, or Parish, into another, without a Testimonial,
under the Seal of the Officer of the Town where he last served,
&c. Neither may any person take into his service any Servant
so departing,
without shewing such Testimonial, upon pain that every person retaining
any such Servant, without such Testimonial, shall forfeit Five
pounds, being thereof convicted upon Indictment taken in the Sessions
of
the Peace, &c. And upon pain, that every Servant so departing
without
such Testimonial shall be imprisoned until he procure a Testimonial; the
which, if he cannot do within the space of Twenty one days, next after
the first day of his imprisonment, then he is to be whipped and used as
a
Vagabond; and so if he be taken with any counterfeit or forged Testimonial.
5 Eliz. cap. 4. P. 7, 8. |
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§. 16.
Constables
Sessions. |
' Now for the better rating of Servants Wages, and
for the better placing,
' bestowing, setling, and ordering, not only of Servants, but also of
' all such idle People (Men and Women) as being fit and able to labor and
' serve, do nevertheless refuse to labor, or seek to get themselves services,
' or to get work (rather living idle at home with their Parents) or perhaps
' cannot get themselves any Services, the Statute made 5 Eliz. cap.
4. hath
' inabled the High Constable of Hundreds in every Shire, to hold, keep,
' and continue their Petit or Statute Sessions in all Shires wherein such
' Sessions have been used to be kept, and after the ancient manner:
And
' as to these Sessions, both Housholders, Servants, and others fit for
Service,
' do or ought to repair; so if one or two of the next Justices of
' Peace in every Division, would take the pains to be there also to assist
the
' High Constables, it would both add force to their Proceedings, as
well
' for the placing of Servants, and Idlers; as also for the assessing of
the
' Wages: And also for the spying out and preventing of many other
the
' abuses and disorders both in Masters and Servants. |
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| §. 17. |
' Justices of Peace shall meet twice in the year
to inquire of the Breaches
' of the Statute of 5 Eliz. 4. And shall have Five shillings
per diem for
' their Wages. 5 Eliz. 4. |
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| §. 18. |
' A moyety of all Forfeitures to the King, the other
moyety to the
' Informer. And the Justices may hear and determine the Offence,
as
' well by Indictment and Information, as Action of Debt or Bill; and
' may make Process according to Law; and in Michaelmas Term shall
' certifie the Estreats, 5 Eliz. 4. But in Corporate Towns
such person shall
' have the Kings part of all Forfeitures, as the Major, &c. shall appoint.
5 El. 4. Cro. 9. c. 1. p. 290. Hob.
p. 183.
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§. 1.
Gashing. |
CHAP. LIX.
Leather.
' NO person, by himself or other, shall gash or cut
the Hide of any
' Ox, Bull, Steer, or Cow, upon pain to forfeit Twenty pence for
' every Hide. |
1 Jac. 22. |
| Watering. |
' No Butcher shall Water any Hide, but in June,
July, or August, nor
' offer to sale any Hide putrified, or rotten, or forfeit Three shillings
four
' pence for every such Hide. |
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