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Cottages and Inmates. Counterfeiters.
' levied by Distress and Sale, and a Justice of Peace, or chief Magistrate
' neglecting his Duty, forfeits One hundred pounds, one moyety to the
' King, the other to the Informer by Action, &c. 22 Car. 2. |
Chap. 31, 32. |
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' The Act shall be taken most strictly for suppressing
of Conventicles,
' and no proceedings shall be reverst for form 22 Car. 2. |
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' If any person convicted, live in another County
or Corporation, upon
' certificate under hand and seal of the person convicting to the Justices
' or chief Magistrate, he or they shall levy the penalty. 22
Car. 2. |
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' The party convicted being a feme covert, living
with her Husband,
' penalties shall be levied on him: every Offender must be presented
within
' Three months. 22 Car. 2.
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Erecting
Cottages.
Continuing
Inmates. |
CHAP. XXXI.
Cottages, and Inmates.
' NO person shall make, build, or erect, or cause,
&c. any Cottage for
' Habitation, or Dwelling, nor convert any building to be used
' as a Cottage, unless he assign and lay to it 4 Acres of Land, being his
freehold
' and Inheritance, lying near it to be continually used with it, upon
' paid to forfeit to the King 10 l. Every person that shall
uphold or continue
' any such Cottage to be erected or convicted, shall forfeit 40 s.
for
' every month. There shall be no Inmate, or more Families, or Household,
'o than one dwelling in any Cottage, made or to be made, upon pain that
' the owner, or Occupier wilfully suffering it, shall forfeit to the Lord
' of the Leet 10 s. per mensem. |
31 El. 7.
See for the
exposition
of this Statute
2 Just.
736.
31 El. 7.
31 El. 7. |
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' The Statute shall not extend to Cottages in any
City, Town-Corporate,
' or ancient Borough, or Market-Town, nor to Cottages erected for
' habitation of Workmen in Minerals, Cole-mines, or Quarries of Stone,
' or about making of Brick, Lime, or Cole, so as the same be not above
a
' mile from the work, nor to a Cottage for a Keeper or Warrener, nor
to a Cottage
' heretofore erected and used for the habitation of a Shepherd, or
' poor person, so allowed to continue by the Sessions. |
31 El. 7. |
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' The Justices of Peace in their Sessions (inter
alios) may hear and determine
' Offences against that Act by Indictment, as by presentment or
' information, and to award Execution be Fieri facias, Elegit, Capias,
or
' otherwise as the case shall require. |
31 El. 7. |
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' The Church-wardens and Overseers by leave of the
Lord in writing
' under the Hand and Seal of the Lord, or by order of the Sessions with
' the Lords leave may erect Cottages for poor people.
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43 El. 2. |
Two Justices. |
CHAP. XXXII.
Counterfeiters.
TWo Justices of Peace, the one being of the Quorum
may convent by
Process, or by their Warrant, ( sc. may grant their Warrant to attach
' and bind over') to the next General Sessions of the Peace or Assizes,
any
person that is suspected of any deceitful getting into his hands any mony,m
goods, or other thing of any other persons, by means or colour of any false
Tokens or counterfeit Letter made in another mans name, there to be examined
and ordered. henry Jones for a counterfeit Pass was adjudged
to
' the Pillory, and fines: Lib. Delib. Gaol. Newgate
5 Dec. 8. Car. The like
' for counterfeiting a Butchers Licence, 30 March 7 Car. eod
lib. Also it
' seemeth', or else the said Justices may call or convene before themselves
' the Offenders, and after due Examination, &c. may imprison such Offenders,
' or bail them until the next General Session of Gaol-delivery. And
in
this case the said Justices of Peace shall do well to take Examination
of |
33 H. 8. 1.
P. Just. 54. |
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