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Soldiers.
' No Merchant shall buy, bargain or contract
for, or cause, &c. any
' Coney-skins, or Lamb skins called Morkins, of the breed of England,
' or being there under 1000 black Coney-skins, or 3000 gray Coney-skins,
' or 2000 lamb-skins, called Morkins, at one time, and not by
' parcels, except of Artizan Skinners; nor shall sell the same again to
any
' persons in this Realm, in small parcels, viz. Under these
numbers of
' each, unless to an Artizan Skinner, upon pain to forfeit the same, or
the
' full value. |
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' No person shall retain or keep any Servant, Journey-man,
or Apprentice,
' to work therein, except the person using that Trade hath served
' seven years therein, and do use the Trade of a Skinner upon pain to
' forfeit double the value of the Skins or Wares wrought. 3 Jac.
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' A moiety of the Forfeitures to the King, the other
moiety to the seiser,
' or that shall sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or
Information
' in any Court of Record. 3 Jac. 9.
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Crom. 76.
b.
2 Ed. 6. 2.
P. Just. 84. |
CHAP. XCIV. V. 52.
Soldiers.
EVery Justice of Peace of the County, where any Soldier,
which hath
served the King in His Wars, shall be found, which hath sold, given,
purloined, or put away, &c. any Horse or Harness (wherewith he was
set forth, or which was after appointed to him by the Lieutenant or Captain,
&c.)
upon complaint and due proof of the offence to be made (by
the owner, his Executors or Administrators) to any such Justice, shall
by
the said Justice be committed to Ward, there to remain without Bail, until
he hath satisfied the party grieved, his Executors or Administrators;
for such Horse or Harness, &c. unless he do bring with him, before
the
same Justice sufficient testimony from his Captain, &c. in writing
under
his Seal, testifying, that the said Horse or Harness, &c. was lost
in the
King's service against the will of that Soldier; or was taken by his Captain,
&c. from him, and appointed to some other to serve withall (except
the same Soldier were imprisoned for the same offence before, by his Lieutenant
or Captain, &c. and made restitution.) |
§. 1.
Armor. |
| 39 El. 4. |
The next Justice of Peace to the place of landing
any poor Soldier,
Mariner, or Seafaring-man suffering Ship-wreck, may make them a Licence
to pass to the place where they are to repair, &c. See hereof
in the Title
Rogues. |
§. 2.
Licence. |
| 43 El. 3. |
' Every Parish shall be charged to pay weekly a
sum of mony towards
' the relief of sick, hurt and maimed Soldiers, that shall lose their Limbs
' or disable their bodies, having been prest, and in pay for the Queen's
service,
' as by the major part of the Justices of Peace, in their next Quarter
' Sessions after Easter, shall be appointed, so as no Parish be
rated above
' ten pence, or under the sum of two pence weekly; and so, as in any
' County, where there are above fifty Parishes, the total sum exceed not
' six pence for every Parish by the week. |
§. 3.
Tax. |
| 43 El. 3. |
' The Mayor, Aldermen, and Recorder of London,
may on every Parish
' there, set and tax such reasonable sums for the said relief as they
shall
' think fit and convenient; so as the same exceed not weekly three shillings
' out of any Parish: And so as in the total the same exceed not
three shillings
' weekly, nor be under twelve pence weekly out of every Parish
' one with another. |
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45 El. 3. 8.
c. 17. |
' Which sums shall be assest by the Parishioners
amongst themselves, |
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