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Quakers.
Buyer and Officer so offending, and them shall send to the Kings next
Prison) there to remain without Bail, until they have redelivered the said
Goods so taken, or the value thereof. |
Chap. 80. |
§. 4.
Taken away. |
But it being impossible to regulate these Purveyors
by the many Laws made
against them, and that on the utmost Penalties by teh Statute of 12
Car. 2.
c. 24. confirmed by 13 Car. 2. c. 7. It is enacted, That
no sum or sums of
Moneys, or other thing shall be taken, levied, &c. for or in regard
of any
Provision, Carriages, or Purveyance for the King, His Heirs or Successors. |
12 Car. 2.
c. 24. |
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No person by Commission, &c. or otherwise
by colour of Purveyance, for
the King or Queen of England, or for any Children of any King or
Queen,
or their Houshold, shall take Timber, Fewel, Cattle, Corn, Grain, Malt,
Hay, Straw, Victual, Carts, Carriages or other thing whatsoever, from
any person, without the Owners free consent had without menace or inforcement;
nor shall summon any Carriages for such use (but this, as to Carriages
is altered by 13 Car. 2. c. 8. & 14 Car. 2. c. 20.) without
the Owners consent. |
12 Car. 2.
c. 24. |
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No preemption shall be allowed or claimed, in
behalf of the King, Queen,
or their Children, in Market or out of Market; but the Kings Subjects may
sell and dispose of their Goods as they list. |
12 Car. 2.
c. 24. |
§. 5.
Penalty. |
If any person shall make Provision or Purveyance
for the King, Queen,
or Children, or impose any Carriages or things, on any pretence
or colour of
any Warrant whatsoever. The Justices of Peace, or two, or one of
them
that dwell near; and the Constables of the Parish or Village, may, and
are
hereby injoyned to commit, or cause, &c. the offenders to the Gaol
until next
Sessions, there to be indicted and proceeded against for the same, at the
request
of the party grieved; and the party shall have his Action for treble Damages,
and treble Costs. |
12 Car. 2.
c. 24. |
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See more of Purveyors,
tit. Felons, §. 4 & 5.
And see tit. Carriages.
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§. 1.
Assemblies. |
CHAP. LXXX.
Quakers.
' PErsons so called, may not assemble themselves
together above five in
' number, or the age of sixteen years or more, under pretence of
' Religious Worship, not established by law, upon penalty for the first
' offence upon conviction by Verdict or Confession, or by notorious evidence
' of the fact, to pay a Fine not exceeding 5 l. for the first offence;
' and after conviction for the first, being convicted of a second offence,
10 l.
' to be levied by Warrant of the Parties before whom the conviction
shall
' be, and for want of distress and non-payment within one week after
' conviction: For the first offence imprisonment in Gaol, or House
of Correction,
' three months; the second offence six months, without Bail,
' which penalties shall be imployed for maintaining the House of Correction;
' the third offence, the party offending shall abjure the Realm, or
otherwise
' the King may give order to transport the offender to any of His Majesties
' Plantations Beyond the Seas. |
13 & 14
Car. 2. c. 1. |
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' And Justices of Oyer and Terminer,
Assize, Gaol-delivery, and Justices
' of the Peace in open Sessions, may hear and determine the same offences
' within their respective limits. And any Justice of Peace, Mayor
or chief
Officer of a Corporation, may commit to the Gaol, or bind over persons
' with sufficient Sureties, in order to their conviction. |
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