| Chap. 73. |
Poor.
and Advices of the Judges (as I find them in Mr. Lambard) together
with
certain other Observations to this purpose. |
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| Resol. 20. |
If there be but one Churchwarden in the Parish,
he sufficeth with the
other Overseers. |
§. 27.
Resolutions. |
| Resol. 8. |
If the Parents be able to work, and may have work,
they are to find
their Children by their labor (and not the Parish:) But if they be
overburthened
with Children, it shall be a very good way to procure some of
them to be place Apprentices, according to the Statute. And such
Apprentices
would be put out to Husbandry and Houswifery. |
Parents
able. |
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Young Children, whose Parents are dead, are to be
set on work, relieved
or maintained at the charge of the Town where they were dwelling
at the time of the death of their Parents, and are not to be sent to their
place
of birth, &c. For if the Parents were not Rogues, we may not
make the
Children Rogues, except they wander abroad and beg. This was the
direction
of Flemming, Chief Justice, in a Case between Weston and
Cowledge,
Anno 11 Jac. Regis. |
Children. |
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A Woman being delivered of a Bastard-Child in
one Parish, after goeth
into another Parish with her Child, and becometh a Vagrant, and so is sent
to the place of her birth, her Bastard-Child being under the age of seven
years, this Bastard-Child must be placed with the Master so long as it
is
within the condition of a Nurse-child, which shall be till seven years
of age ,
and then it is fit to be sent to the place of its birth to be provided
for, the
Mother or reputed father not being able. And the Parish where the
Child
is born, shall not be forced to contribute to the charge, as long as the
Mother
lives, and the Child be under seven years old. Resol. 23 |
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| Resol. 7. |
If any (not being Rogues) shall travel with their
Children through a
Town, and the Father or Mother die, or run away, that Town is not
bound to keep their Children, nor to send them away, but only in Charity,
except they become wandring Beggars. |
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A Travelling-woman having a small Child sucking
upon her, is apprehended
for Felony and sent to the Gaol, and is after arraigned and hanged;
this Child is to be sent to the place of its birth, if it can be known,
otherwise
it must be sent to the Town where the Mother was apprehended; for
that, that Town ought not to have sent the Child to the Gaol (being no
malefactor) and so was it delivered by Sir Nicholas Hide, at Cambridge
Lent Assizes Anno 3 Caroli Regis.
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| Resol. 10. |
Such persons as be of any Parish, and have able
bodies to work, if they
refuse to work at such wages as are taxed, or commonly given in those
parts, are to be sent to the House of Correction, and not to their place
of
birth, or last dwelling, by the space of a year. But if they have
any lawful
means to live by, though they be of able bodies, and refuse to work,
yet they are not to be sent to the House of Correction. |
§. 28.
Refusing to
work. |
Resol. 15.
19 Eliz. |
None may be suffered to take relief at any Mans
door, though within
the same Parish, unless it be by the order of the Overseers; neither
may any be suffered to beg by the High-way, though in their own Parish. |
Begging. |
| Resol. 9. |
No Man is to be put out of the Town where he dwelleth,
nor to be
sent to their place of birth (or last habitation) but a Vagrant Rogue;
nor
to be found by the Town, except the party be impotent; but ought to set
themselves to labor, if they be able, and can get work: If they cannot
get work, the Overseers must set them to labor. |
Settlement. |
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One Winde and his Wife lived at Laystas,
and used a House and
Land which was given the Woman by her Brother, her Brother turned
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