A. D. 1522-3. Anno xiv & xv Hen rici VIII. C. 8— 11. 135 C A P. VIII. The Marriage of the Six Clerks allowed, &c.
- T N mofl humble wife befecchen y , your true and faithful Subjects, and daily Servants, the
t I , your High O.urt of Chancery, That whereas ol old rime accuftomed hath been ufed in . thl . 1 1 Clerks and Miniftera of the fame Court, writing to the Great Sea), » £[,„ the Clerk of the Crown) ritprs, and other Clerks, B r? ld P""?? of 1 raid Chancery, were by the fame Cuftom reftrained from Marriage, whereby all c° hl " „jiht: <■ thof that 1 ry to the lame did many, were no longer iuhVred to write in the faid Chancery, not only mtrTft but onij
- to their great Hinderance, lofing thereby the Benefit of their long Study, and tedious Labours and Pain i k of the
« in Youth 1 faidCourti but alfo to the great Decay- oP th true Courfe of the hid Court. Cru»a. ' II. And forafmuch as now the laid Cuftom taketh no Place nor Ufege, but only in the Office of the faid Six Clerks but that it is permitted and fuftcrcd for Maintenance of the (aid Courfe, that as tfrell the faid . emporal, ... Confideration of the Premifles, and alfo for that the faid Cuftom is not grounded upon any Law,^to ordain, . and eftablifh, That John Trevttken, Richard Welles, Oliver Leader, John Croke, William Jeffon, and The Six Clerkj f'J.r. Ltmfey, now being in the Office of the Six Clerks of the Chancery, and every of them, and all other of the chancery whi< h in lime to come fhall be in the fame Office, and every of them, may and do take Wives and marry m3 y "«7> Mil at their Liberty, after the Laws of holy Church ; (3) and that they, and every of them fo married, may ™ j0 ) tl^r U- havc, hold, and 1 njoy their faid Office of Six Clerks, in as ample, large, and like Manner, as they did or cts * do before the faid Efpoufals, or as if they had never been married ; the faid Cuftom, or any other Cuftom or Ordinance heretofore had or made to the contrary notwithftanding. III. Provi. ed alway, That by any Thing in this Atl contained, the Mafter of the Rolls for the time be- ing be not preju liced either in the giving and Difpofition of the faid Offices from time to time, as hath been heretofore accuftomed, the Forfeiture of that Office by reafon of Marriage only except. And that the faid Officers which now be, and hereafter fhall be, do give fuch Attendance unto the faid Mafter of the Rolls for the time being, as heretofore in the faid Offices hath been accuftomed. CAP. IX. A Repeal of the Statute of 4 Ed. 4. c. 7. inhibiting Cordwainers in London to pull on Shoes on certain Days. Rep. 5 El. c. 8. & 1 Jac. i.e. 2». CAP. X. The Penalty for unlawful hunting the Hare. Orafmuch as our Sovereign Lord the King, and other Noblemen of this Realm of 1 England, before this r 3 *• «•./?-'• '• ' Time have ufed and exercifed the Game of Hunting of the Hare for their Difport and Pleafure, which Ci '|;
- Game is now decayed, and almoft utterly deftroyed, for that divers Perfons in divers Parts of this Realm, " #' l' c ' ]]]
' by reafon of the tracing in Snow, have killed and deftroyed, and daily do kill and deftroy the fame Hares, ' by x, xij, or xvi, upon one Day, to the Difplcafure of our faid Sovereign Lord the King, and other No- ' blemen of this his Realm.' (2) Wherefore be it enacted by our faid Sovereign Lord, by the Lords Spi- ritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, That no Perlbn or Perfons, of what Eftate, Degree, or Condition they be, from henceforth trace, deftroy, and kill any Hare in the Snow with any Dog, jBitch, Bow, nor otherwife. (3 J And that the Ju- ... ftice of Peace within every Shire, at every Seffions of the Peace, and Stewards of Leets, fhall have full Au- an/ste °[ j "' thority and Power to enquire of fuch Offenders ; (4) and after fuch Inquifitions found, the faid Juftices of Leets may in- the Peace and Stewards of Leets, for every Hare fo killed, fhall cefs upon every fuch Offender vi. s. viij. d. quire of and pu - to be forfeited to our faid Sovereign Lord, that fhall be fo founden by the Juftices of Peace in their Seffions, n '" 1 tbeOffcn- ( ? ) and the Forfeiture found in every Leet to be to the Lord of the Leet. de "' VJ T Jac. 1. c. 27, Sic farther 22 £? 23 Cur. 2. s. 25. 4 & 5 W, & M. c. 23. 5 Am. c. 14. 9 Ann, c. 25. 3 Geo. X. cm 8 do. I. c, 19. ur.di.% Geo. 2. c, 12. CAP. XI. Cloths made in Suffolk, called Vejfes or Set Cloths, fhall not be forfeited for lack of Length or Breadth, being wet. ' TT Umbly fhewn unto your Highnefs, your true Subjects and Clothiers of your County of Suffolk, That 6 H. S. c. 9. ' JL -8. where in the Sixth Year of your moil noble Reign, it was and is enacted amongft other Things con- 4 Ed. 4. c 1.
- cerning making of Cloth, That any Perfon or Perfons fhall not put any Cloth to fale, which, when it is * R - 3- •'• s '
' full wet, fhall Ihrink more than One Yard in Length, and One Quarter of a Yard in Breadth for the more ' Part thereof; (2) and Cloths called Narrows or Streits after the Rate; upon Pain to forfeit for every Cloth
- otherwife put to fale, vi. s. viij. d. and to deduct of his Price for the fame, to be rebated to the Buyer there -
- of as much after the Rate, as the fame Cloth fo otherwife put to fale, (being full wet) fhall be lhrunk more
3 ' than
