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Rogues.
any place wheresoever, by Licence or without, upon pain to be taken
as a
Rogue. |
Chap. 83. |
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And therefore Quære, Of such Briefs
and Licences as lately have usually
come from, or in the name of the Lord Mayor of London, licensing
poor
persons to travel, and to ask, or beg relief in their travel, and by general
Passports, not directing them from Parish to Parish. See more in
this title
after Resol. 13. |
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And yet any one Justice of Peace may Licence Laborers
in Hay time,
and Harvest time to pass from one Country to another to work; but not
to wander or beg. See the title Laborers. |
5 El. 4. |
| Two Justices. |
And so any two Justices of Peace may make a Testimonial
to Serving-men,
(or other Servants, as it seemeth) departing from their Masters, but
such persons under colour thereof, may not wander up and down idlely,
nor beg. See the title Laborers. |
See 5 El. 4.
P. Labor. 7. |
§. 13.
Incorrigible. |
Any two Justices of Peace of the Limit where any
Incorrigible Rogue
shall be taken (the one being of the Quorum) may commit such Rogue
to
the House of Correction, or to the Gaol, there to remain unto the next
Quarter Sessions of the Peace, there to be dealt withal as Incorrigible
Rogues, according to the Statute 1 Jac. c. 7. See hic antea. |
39 El. 4.
P. Vag. 4.
1 Jac. 7. |
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Now these Incorrigible Rogues be such as shall either
appear to be
dangerous to the inferior sort of people, or such as will not be reformed
of their roguish kind of life. |
P. Vag. 11.
39 El. 4. |
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Of the first sort are such as shall offer any violence,
or shall use any
threatning speeches, or other like misdemeanours towards any person. |
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Of the other sort seem these which follow, and such
like. |
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1. Such as having had punishment, and thereupon
sent to their place
of Birth, &c. and there setled according to the Law, shall notwithstanding
fall to their roguish life again. |
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2. A Rogue that affirmeth, he was born in
such a Town, in such a
County, and is sent thither, if he were not born there in truth, he is
to be
said an Incorrigible Rogue, and is to be sent thence (by two such Justices
as
aforesaid) to the House of Correction in that County; and if there be none,
then to the Gaol, until the next Sessions, there to be dealt withal according
to the Statute. |
Resol. 1 |
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3. The same course is to be observed (if it
appear not where he was
born) if he untruly affirm, That he was last dwelling in such a Town and
County, by the space of a year, and was not. |
Resol. 2. |
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All persons being able to labor, and thereby to
relieve themselves and
their Families, that shall run away out of their Parishes, and leave their
Families or Children to the Parish, shall be deemed and punished as Incorrigible
Rogues. Their punishment see hic antea. |
7 Jac. 4. |
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Also all persons being able to labor as aforesaid,
that shall threaten to
run away, and leave their Families aforesaid, it being proved by two sufficient
witness upon Oath, before any two Justices of Peace of that Division,
shall be sent by the said Justices to the House of Correction, there
to be dealt withal, and detained as sturdy and wandering Rogues, &c.
unless
such persons shall put in sufficient Sureties for the discharge of the
Parish. See hic antea. |
7 Jac. 4. |
§. 15.
Disturbers
of this Law. |
All such persons as shall in any wise disturb, or
hinder the execution of
the Law, made 39 El. c. 4. or any part thereof concerning the punishment,
and conveying of Rogues; or shall make Rescous against any Officer or
Person authorised for the execution of this Statute, shall forfeit for
every
such offence 5 l. and shall be bound to the Good Behavior; and any
two
Justices of Peace may bind such offenders to the Good Behavior, and may |
39 El. 4.
P. Vag. 5.
P. Vag. 5,
11. |
