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126 C.i — 6. Anno feptimo Henrici VIII. A. D. 1515. ' Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the ' fame, hath done to be ordained, made, and enacted, certain Statutes and Ordinances, in Manner and ' Form following.' CAP. I. Rep. 39.EI. c.i. If any Perfon fhall decay a Town, a Hamlet, or Houfe of Huibandry, or convert Tillage into Pafture, the & ii Jsc. 1. immediate Lord of the Fee fhall have the Moiety of the Offender's Land, until the Offence be reformed. c. 18. ' f 5 E i'.S.*c. I3 . CAP. 11. 1 El. c 13. A Repeal of all Licences granted contrary to the Statute of 4 H. 7. c. 10. to bring into this Realm Gafcoignt Wines, orThouloufe'Woad, but in Engl'ijh Ships. CAP. III. Ren. 31 El. c. 5. Within what Time all Actions, Suits, Bills, Indictments, or Informations popular fhall be fued, either Bro. Affion po- for the King, or for the Party. pplar, 6. Savil 6. CAP. IV. An Act concerning Avowries for Rents and Services. How Rents and ' ~ HERE AS divers, as well Noblemen as other the King's Subjects, have fuffered Recoveries againft Services may be « yij them of divers their Manors, Lqrdfhips, Lands, and Tenements, for the Performance of their recovered by < Wills, or for the Surety of their Wives Jointures, or for the Jointure of their Sons and Heirs apparent, ' and their Wives, or of any other Perfon or Perfons, according to their Covenants and Agreements,. (2) ' and thofe Perfons that fo have recovered the faid Manors by the Courfe of the Common Law, had no ' Remedy, nor may have, to compel the Ferrriors, Freeholders, and Tenants, which held of the fame c Manors by Rents, Services, or Cufloms, to atturn to them ; (3) nor could by the Order of the Law ' attain to the faid Rents, Services, or Cufloms (if they were denied) by Diftrefs or Action, without they ' could once attain to the Poffeflion of the fame Rents, Services, and Cufloms, by paying or doing the faid Recovered have « Rents, Services, or Cufloms, by the fame Freeholders, Fermors, and Tenants ; (4) which to do, divers no Remedy by c anc ] man y f them have oftentimes refufed, and yet do, to the great Offence and Charge of their Con- L C C °™ mon ' fci er >ce, not only to the Difheritance of the faid Recoverers, but alfo in breaking of the laft Wills of them their RenVor ' againft whom fuch Recovery is had, and alfo to the Difheritance of the faid Hufband and Wife, or other, Prefentations. ' to whofe Ufe the fame Recovery was fo had. (5) Alfo if there were any Advowfon appendant to any of , Dyer 31, 141. « the faid Manors, the fame Advowfon had fallen void, and a Stranger had prefented, the faid Recoverers, Bro.Meine, 24. <. nor t k e y t0 w hofe Ufe they fame Recoveries were had, had no Remedy for the fame Difturbance, and Vaughan^s. t fometime thereby they have been difinherited.' The Recoverer II. Be it therefore enacted by this prefent Parliament, and by Authority of the fame, That the Re- may diftnin for coverers in all fuch Recoveries, their Heirs and Afligns, may from henceforth diftrain for the forefaid Rents, the Rents and Services, and Cuftoms, fo being due and unpaid, and make Avowry, or juftify the fame, as thofe Perfons, Services of the a g a ; n fl. w hom the faid Recovery is, fhould have done if the faid Recovery had not been had; (2) and mor'&'c arid affo have like Remedy for the recovering of the faid Rents, Services, and Cuftoms by Avowry ; (3) and ihall have a alfo a ghiare impedit for the faid Advowfon, if any Difturbance be made : as thofe Perfons, againft whom Quare impedit. the faid Recoveries were had, might or fhould have had by the Courfe of the Common Law afore the faid Recovery, if any fuch Rents, Services, or Cuftoms had been denied them, or any fuch Difturbance had been had in their Times. Th A • ntin M> And a "~° tnat ever Y Avowant, and every other Perfon or Perfons that make Avowry, Conifincc, Replegiari (liall or Knowledge, or juftify, as Baily to any other Perfon or Perfons in any Replegiari, or Second Deliverance recover his Da- for any Rent, Cuftom, or Service, if their Avowry, Conifance, or Juftification be found for them, or the mages and Cofts Plaintiffs in the faid Actions otherwife barred, fhall recover their Damages and Cofts that they have fuftained, ° f Sl "J" as the Plaintiff fhould have done, if they had recovered in the faid Replevins. Cro.El. 257, ',29. Cm. Car. 49S. 2 Cro. 510. 39 H. S. c. 11. Bro. Damages, 8. 2 Roll 140. Farther provided for, 21 H. S. c. 19. and fee II Geo. 2. c. 19. for pre- •venting Frauds by Tenants. < CAP. V. Ren. 5 El. c 4. Certain Labourers working in London may take fucla Wages as they did take before the Statute of 6 U.S. c. 3. C A K VI. Rep. 24 H. ?. A Repeal of the Statute made Anno 6 H. 8. c. 1, and of all other Statutes made for Apparel before it. c. j 3. & 1 Jac. 1. What Kind of Apparel Temporal Men of ail Degrees and Eftates are allowed, and what prohibited, to c - ~S- wear, and upon what Penalties, and who fhall have the Forfeiture, and by what Means they fhall be recovered. Statutes