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Ships. Silkthrowing. Skinners.
CHAP. XCI.
Ships.
' SEveral of the Penalties given by the Statute of
12 Car. 2. 18. for offences
' against that Statute are, and may be recovered by Information
' in any Court of Record. And it seems the Sessions being so, they
' may there be recovered: For which he see that Statute at large.
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Chap. 91, 92, 93. |
§. 1.
Apprentice. |
CHAP. XCII.
Silkthrowing.
' NO person shall use, exercise, continue or set
up the Trade of a Silkthrower,
' unless she is or shall be Apprentice to that Trade, or
' have served seven years Apprenticeship thereunto, upon pain to forfeit
' Forty shillings for every month; one moiety to the King, the other moiety
' to the Prosecutor, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information;
' or by other lawful means (inter alios) before the Justices of
the Peace
' at their Quarter Sessions. 14 Car. 15. |
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§. 2.
Imbezling
Silk. |
' If any Silk-winder and Doubler, imbezzel, pawn
or detain any Silk
; delivered to them to wind or double, every Winder or Journey-man so
' offending, and the Buyers and Receivers thereof, being convicted
by
' Confession or the Oath of one Witness before any Justice of Peace of
' the County or Liberty; or if within a Town-corporate, before the chief
' Officer of the same, who may hear and determine, and give the party
' damnified such satisfaction for their loss, damage and charges, as they
' shall order, so as no more be awarded than the Party is damnified, and
' hath expended in looking after it. And if the party be not able,
or do
' not make recompence in fourteen days after Conviction, he shall for the
' first offence be apprehended and whipped, or set in the Stocks in
the
' place where the offence was committed, or some Market Town of that
' County, near thereunto; and for the second offence, shall be punished
' as before. Ibid. |
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' The Receivers and Buyers of Silk shall be subject
to the like punishment
' as the person imbezzeling. Ibid. |
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§. 3.
Imploiment. |
' Any Freeman of the Company of Silk-throwers may
set on work
' any Native Subjects of his Majesty, whether Men, Woman or Children,
' to turn the Mill, tie Threds, double Silk and wind Silk, as formerly,
' although they have not served as Apprentices to that Trade by seven
' years. 14 Car. 2. c. 15.
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CHAP. XCIII.
Skinners.
' NO persons, using the Trade of Merchandise, or
any other Trade,
' shall dress, or cause, &c. in their Houses, or by any Workmen,
' not using the Trade of a Skinner, any Black Coney-skins, nor transport,
' or cause, &c. Nor pack, ship or lade, to that intent, any black
Coney-skins
' of the breed of England, unless the same be tawed and perfectly
' wrought, dressed and packed by Skinners or Tawers, under them, according
' to the Science of Artizan Skinners, upon pain to forfeit the same,
' or the full value thereof. 3 Jac. 9. |
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