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I& C. 19:, 20. Amno fecundo[vulgopriiiio]jAcoBiI. A. D. 1604. A Plaifterer (hall ' not ufe the Oc- i cupation of a ^ P-iinter in Lon- don, ' -t Incorporated by ( QusenElizabeth,^ i "Who only may c occupy that Myfteiy, ■Searching of Painting-work, ard feizing ihe Oeceitful. CAP. XIX. An A<51 for the well Garbling of Spices. Repealed by 6 Annse, c. i6. §. u C A P. XX. An Aft for Redrefs of certain Abufes and Deceits ufed in Panting. HERE AS the Art or Myftery of Painters is an ancient Art and Myftery, and hath Time out of Mind been an ancient Company and Fellowfliip within the City of London; (z) and of late upon due Confiderations, the Freemen of the faid City of that Facuhy, Art or Myftery (by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England, dated at JVeJiminJler the nineteenth Day or July in the three and twentieth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth) were incorporate by the Name of Mafter, War- dens and Commonalty of the t reemen of the Art and Myftery of Painters, commonly called Painters- Stainers within the City of London and the Suburbs and Liberties of the fame City: (3) And further- more, by the faid Letters Patents it is prohibited, enjoined and commanded, that no Perfon or Per- fons of whatfoever Eftate, Degree or Condition they were, fliould ufe, exercife or occupy the faid Art or Myftery of Painters, commonly called Painters-Stainers, or any Work or Works, Colour or Co- lours, Painting or Paintings in the faid Art or Myftery occupied, unlefs fuch Perfon or Perfons before that Time had been brought up and inftrudted, or (hould from that Time forwards be brought up and inftruded, by or with fome one Perfon of the faid Art or Myftery as an Apprentice by the Space of feven Years at the Jeaft : ' II And whereas for the Avoiding of Deceit to be ufed in the faid Art or Myftery of Painting, the faid late Queen by the aforefaid Letters Patents, did grant unto the faid Mafter and Wardens, and to their Succeifors, That they ftiould have full Power and Authority for ever, to make or caufe to be made due Search of all and Angular the Works, Colours, Paintings and other Things whatfoever to the faid Art or Myftery of Painting in any wife appertaining, or touching or concerning the fame, as well upon the Freefneii of the faid Myftery as upon any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, felling, making or working th«  fame within the City of London or the Liberties or Suburbs of the fame : (2) And the laid Works, Co- ' lours and Paintings whatfoever fo deceitfully made, to feize and take away, and the Offenders therein ' to punifli and corre6t, as by the fame Letters Patents more at large it doth and may appear, ' III. And whereas the Plaifterers within the City of London, of old Time uling nothing but Lat-hing, Dawbing, Plaiftering and Liming, did and yet do procure thereby for themfelves and their Families a convenient Living and Maintenance: (2) Yet not fatisfied with that reafonable Living that they do make of their faid proper Faculties and Trades, wherewith and wherein they have been brought up as Apprentices, have now of late ufed and pra<5tifed the Art and Myftery of Painters-Stainers, as well with Oil-Colours, as Size-Colours, and that lince the Making of the faid Letters Patents more ufually than in former Times they have ufed or did; (jj whereby not only many of the faid Art and Myftery of Painters, who have well and honeftly as Apprentices to the fame ferved for the fpace of feven Years and ■ upwards, and by their Labours and Induftries have attained to the full and perfedt Skill and Know- ■ ledge thereof, are not only difabled to get any competent Living thereby, for the Relief of themfelves, ■ their poor Wives and Children, but alfo for that the faid Plaifterers, not having been trained up in ■ the faid Art or Myftery of Painting, neither can or do make any fuch good Work or fuch fure and ■ perfe6t Colours, as others having been trained up in the fame Trade and Apprentices tliereunto, and yet utter the fame for good and perfe6t Colours, and being no Freemen of the faid Company of Painters-Stainers, efcape therefore unpuniflied, to the great Abufe and Deceit of his Majefty's moft loving Subjeds, and whereby the faid Art or Myftery of Painting is likely in fuch Sort in ftiort Time to decay, as that there will not be fufficient Workmen of Skill in and about the faid City to /erv.e in the faid Art his Majefty or any other his Majefty's Subjedts.' IV. For Remedy whereof. Be it enadled by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, TJ-iat from and of a Pafnter- ^^"^^^ *f twenty-ninth Day of September which fliall be in the Year of our Lord God one thoufand fix hundred and fix, next coming after the End of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, no manner of Per- fon or Perfons, being or pretending to be a Plaifterer, or hereafter to become or to be a Plaifterer, or be- ing or which ftiall be a Servant, or let on Work by any Plaifterer, fliall ufe, exencife or fet up the Art, Myftery or manual Occupation of a Painter, commonly called a Painter-Stainer, or any Part thereof, in. the City of London, or the Liberties or Suburbs of the fame ; or ftiall within the Places aforefaid make any Manner of Work or Works, or lay any Manner of Colour or Colours^ Painting or Paintings what- foever, in the faid Art or Myftery of Painters-Stainers aforefaid at any Time heretofore occupied or ufed, unlefs he or they be or ftiall be the Servant or Servants, Apprentice or Apprentices of a Painter, other- wife called a Painter-Stainer, or have ferved or ftiall ferve as an Apprentice or as Apprentices by the Space of feven Years at the leaft to a Painter, otlierwife called a Painter-Stainer; (z) upon Pain that every of an Offender, fuch Perfon or Perfons as ftiall hereafter do or offend contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this pre- fent A6t, ftiall forfeit for every Time that he or they ftiall fo do or offend, the Sum of five Pounds of lawful Money of England; (3) the one Moiety of all which Forfeitures fhall be to the King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiety to him or them that vvill fue for the fame in any of the King's Majefty's Courts of Record, by Aftion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information; in which faid Suit, no Efibin, Protedion or Wager of Law ftiall be admitted or allowed for the faid Defendant; any Law, Ufage or Cuftom heretofore had or ufed to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftaijding. ■ . 8 V. Pro- Plaifterers do ufe the Art of Painters- Stainers. N.) Plaifterer Scainerin Lon The Forfeiture