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Forestaller. Regrater. Ingrosser.
' in Butter and Cheese shall forbear to buy; if they shall not forbear
' during such restraint, they shall not be exempted from the penalties
of
' those Laws. |
Chap. 45. |
§. 9.
Licences. |
' 17. No Drover, Badger, Lader, Kidder, Carrier,
Buyer or Transporter of
' Corn or Grain, Butter and Cheese, shall be allowed but in the open
and
' general Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, of the County where the party
' dwells and dwelt Three years together before the Teste of his Licence,
' and none but such as are or have been Married, and such as are at
the
' time of their Licence Housholders, and not Servants or Retainers,
and of
' the age of Thirty years at least, and shall be Licenced for only
one year. |
5 El. 12. |
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' 18. Note a Woman can have no such Licence,
for the Statute speaks
' only of a Man, and he that hath such Licence shall not sell by his
Servant. |
Crom. 72. |
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' 19. The Licences shall bear date the day
and place of the Sessions, and
' shall be Signed and Sealed with the proper hand and seal of Three
Justices
' then present Quorum unus, upon pain that he that takes a Licence
contrary
' to that Statute, shall forfeit 5 l. to the King. |
5 El. 12. |
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' 20. The Justices in Sessions shall take
Bond and Surety by their discretion;
' that the persons Licenced do not forestal, Ingross, or do any
' thing contrary to 5 E. 6. 14. The Clerk or his Deputy,
and none other
' shall Write them, for which Licence he shall pay 12 d. at
most, for the
' Recognizance 4 d. at most; for which Fee the Clerk shall keep
a Register
' of the names, &c. and bring it to the Sessions. |
5 El. 12. |
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' 21. No person shall by Authority of such
Licence buy Corn or Grain
' out of open Fair or Market, unless he be thereunto Licensed, and
that by
' special words in his Licence so to do, or forfeit 5 l. |
5 El. 12. |
§. 10.
Hear and
Determine. |
' 22. The Justices of Peace in their Quarter
Sessions shall hear and determine
' the Offences against that Act, by Inquisition, Presentment, Bill
or Information,
' before them exhibited; and by Examination of two Witnesses,
' or by another lawful means by their discretion, and may make Process,
' as if they were Indicted. And upon Conviction, by Information of
any
' other than the King, they may extract the Kings moiety as in other Cases,
' and to make Execution for the other moiety for the Informer by Fieri
' facias or Capias, as in the Courts at Westminster;
and if the Conviction
' be at the Kings suit, only, he shall have the whole Forfeitures. |
5 El. 12. |
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' 23. That Act shall not prejudice Corporations
in their Purveyance,
' nor extend to the Counties of Westmerland, Cumberland, Lancaster,
Chester,
' nor York. |
5 El. 12. |
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' 24. No person shall regrate or ingross any
Oaken Bark, before it be
' stripped or after, to the intent to sell the same again, upon pain to
forfeit
' the Bark. |
1 Jac. 22. |
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' 25. No person shall forestal any Hide coming
to a Fair or Market, or
' buy any Hide but in a Fair or Market, except of the owner who killed
' the Beast, to be spent in his own House, upon pain to forfeit for every
' Hide 6 s. 8 d. |
1 Jac. 22. |
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' Forest, vide tit. Hunting, Forging,
vide tit. Felony and Counterfeiting. |
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