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Rogues.
so appointed them, or shall beg by the High-ways, though in their own
Parish. See 39 El. cap. 3. & Lamb. 427. |
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And yet such persons are not to be sent to their
place or birth, or out
of the Town, except it be to the House of Correction. |
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So it seemeth of all other poor persons begging
in the Parish where they
dwell (without the appointment of the Overseers) they are to be sent to
the House of Correction. Quære tamen. |
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8. All persons wandering, and pretending themselves
to be Egyptians, or
wandring in the habit and form of Egyptians, not being Felons. |
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43 El. 3.
P. c. 23. |
9. Souldiers or Mariners that shall beg (except
as before, hic & hic
postea) or shall counterfeit any Certificate from their General, Governour,
Captain, Lieutenant, Marshall, Deputy, or Admiral, shall be adjudged as
common Rogues, and shall have the like punishment. But Souldiers
and
Mariners in divers like cases shall incur the danger of Felony. See
the title
Felonies by Statute. |
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19 El. 4.
P. Vag. 7. |
10. Poor diseased or impotent persons, travelling
to the Baths for case
of their griefs (and being licensed) yet if they beg; or if such person
be
not licensed by two Justices; or shall not return home again, according
as
they are limited by their said License; or shall not be provided of necessary
relief, &c. for their travel, they shall be punished as Rogues. |
Licensed. |
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11. A Rogue that hath been punished according
to this Statute, and
hath a Testimonial, if through his or her default they do not accomplish
the order appointed by the said Testimonial, then are they to be whipped
again as Rogues, and so often as any default shall be found in them, &c. |
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| Resol. 13. |
12. A Rogue, &c. that shall go with a
general Passport, scil. which is
not directed from Parish to Parish, is still to continue a Rogue, and may
be punished by whipping again. |
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So also may such a Rogue as shall carry his own
Passport without a guide:
For by the Letter of a Statute, they are to be sent, scil. conveyed
from
Parish to Parish by the Officers of every of the same. |
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3 El. 4.
P. Labor. 8. |
13. Servants departing out of service, (sc.
forth of one City, Town,
or Parish to another, or out of one Hundred or County, to serve in another)
without a Testimonial, &c. or which shall be taken with any counterfeit
or forged Testimonial, shall be whipped as Vagabonds. |
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1 Jac. 11.
P. Plag. 4. |
14. Persons infected, or dwelling or being
in any house infected with
the Plague, that contrary to the Commandment of any Officer, shall wilfully
go abroad and converse in company, shall be punished as Vagabonds. |
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| 1 Jac. 4. |
15. So all persons being able to labour, and
thereby to relieve themselves
and their families, that shall run away, or threaten to run away and leave
their charge to the Parish, &c. 21 Jac. cap. 28. |
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But such offenders last mentioned are to be dealt
withal by two Justices
of Peace, sc. All such persons, so running away shall be taken to
be incorrigible
Rogues, and shall endure the pains of incorrigible Rogues, sc. they
shall be sent, by two Justices of Peace, to the House of Correction, or
to
the Gaol, there to remain till the next Quarter Sessions, and then he or
she
shall be there branded in the left shoulder with an hot Iron, &c.
And from
the Sessions shall be sent to the place of their last dwelling. 1
Jac. 7. |
§. 6.
Incorrigible
Rogues. |
| 1 Jac. 4. |
And all such persons so threatening to run away
(the same being proved
by two sufficient Witnesses upon Oath, before two Justice of Peace of that
Division) shall be by the said Justices sent to teh House of Correction
(unless
such person can put in sufficient Sureties for the discharge of their Parish)
there to be detained and dealt withal as a sturdy and wandring Rogue;
and from thence to be delivered at the Quarter Sessions, or at the Meeting
of the Justices in that Division, made for a general privy search for the
apprehending |
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