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Ireland. |
Rogues.
5. every person shall willingly bring or convey
in any Vessel, out
of Ireland, or the Isle of Man, into this Realm, any Rogue,
or any such as
shall be like to live by begging, &c. shall forfeit for every such
person so
brought over, 10 s. |
Chap. 83.
39 El. 4. |
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All (or the most part of) which Fines and Forfeitures
appointed, or
to grow by these Acts (39 El. 4. & 1 Jac. 7) are to be
imployed to the
maintenance of the House of Correction, or relief of the Poor where the
offence shall be committed, at the discretion of any two Justices of Peace
(as it seemeth) of the same limit. |
39 El. 4.
1 Jac. p.
11. |
§. 17.
Two Justices,
Judges,
of all
matters |
Note, that any two Justices of Peace (whereof one
to be of the Quorum)
have the power to hear and determine all causes that shall grow or come
in question, by reason of the Statute made for the punishment of Rogues,
39 El. 4. |
39 El. 4.
P. Just. 74.
P. Vag. 11. |
touching
Rogues. |
At Summer Assizes held at Royston for the
County of Cambridge, An.
Dom. 1630. Sir Francis Harvey delivered these Rules or
Directions, upon
the Statutes made against Rogues, viz. |
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§. 18.
Pass. |
1. That now (after so long time since the
making of the Statute of
39 El.) no Pass is to be allowed for these wnadring People; and
that such
of them as do Pass or Travel, though with any Passport, yet are to be
punished as Rogues, notwithstanding such their Passport. And herewithal
agreed Sir Nicholas Hide at Cambridge Assizes, Anno Dom.
1630. |
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2. That if any Alehouse keeper, or other person
shall but lodge a
Rogue, this is a relieving them, and contrary to the Statute of 1 Jac.
and
is a Forfeiture of 10 s. |
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3. That giving of Mony by a Constable to a
Rogue, is a relieving of
a Rogue within this Statute, and a Forfeiture of 10 s. Hæc idle. |
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For the way to rid the Country of these Rogues,
is to give them
either due punishment (and that often, yea, at every Town, if they will
not be reclaimed) and to keep them from lodging, and other relief, as much
as may be; or else to send them to the Gaol as Incorrigible Rogues.
(Vide hic antea.) ' For punishment is all the Charity that
the Law affordeth
' them. |
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' Now a great cause of the still continuing of Rogues,
is for that in
' many Out-houses and Barns they be received and lodged by Companions,
' and have their set places of Meeting: To prevent and punish such,
it were
' very fit that persons that suffer their Barns and Out-houses to be so
imployed,
' without giving notice to the Constable, should be bound over to the
' Assizes or Sessions. As for the charges of conveying Rogues, the
Constables
' ought to have their allowance and relief, if need be, at the Sessions.
' Resol. 21. |
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| Bathe. |
Any two Justices of Peace may License diseased persons
to travel to
Bathe or Buxton, for the ease of their griefs, so as
they be provided of
necessary maintenance for the time of all their Travel, &c. but they
may
not beg. See hereof more in this title before. |
39 El.
P. Vag. |
§. 19.
Meeting. |
The Justices of Peace, or the more part of them,
within their Divisions,
twice in every year, at the least, shall meet for the execution of the
Statute
7 Jac. 4. against Rogues and Vagabonds, sturdy Beggers, and other
idle and disorderly persons. And some four or five days before their
meeting,
they shall by their Warrants command the Constables of every Hundred,
Town, and Parish, &c. within their several Divisions, to make a general
privy search in one night, for the apprehending all Rogues, and wandering,
and idle persons, to be brought before them at their said meeting,
there to be examined of their idle life, and there to be punished; or otherwise
by Warrant of such Justices to be sent to the House of Correction |
7 Jac.
21 Jac. |
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