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c. II, REP 446 C. 7 — 9.; Anno quinto & fexto E d vv a r d i VI. A. D. 1552. Who foall have pointed by this prefent Act, fhall be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Moiety to him or them the Forfeitures, t ] lat w jjj f ue f or the f ame by Action of Debt, Detinue, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of the King's Meanl ' Courts of Record, wherein no Wager of Law, Effoin or Protection fhaH be admitted nor allowed for the Defendant. Taveftock LH, Provided always, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, fhall not in any wife extend to Clothes, any Q otn or Clothes made in the Town of 'Taveftock in the County of DeVonJhire, or eifewhere within the faid County, commonly called Taveftock Clothes, but that it {hall be lawful to all and every Inhabitants of the faid Town, or Makers of the laid Clothes commonly called Taveftocks, to make and leal the fame with the accuftomed Seal, as they have heretofore been accuftomed; any Thing in this Act to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. No boiling of LIU. Provided alfo, and be in enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall not be lawful to any Per- ■ Wools. f on orPerfons, at any Time after the Feaft of St. Michael the Archangel next coming, to boil or caufe to Savil 13'-. ^ e pjojigj an y yj m & of Wools, to be converted into any kind of Broad-cloth or Kerfie, with any kind of For farther Pro- Gauls, Rinds, Barks of Trees or Saw-duft, upon Pain to forfeit all fuch Wool, or the Value thereof, to wifions concerning De recovered and had in fuch Form and Sort as in the aforefaid Act is limited, and exprelTed. 10 Annas, OM«,fi. c#l6 , 1 jac. 1. c. 25. ■ 3 Jac. 1. c. 16. 4 Jac. I. c. 2. 7 Jac. 1. c. 16. 21 Jac. 1. c. jS. 12 Car. 2. c. 22. 22 £f 23 Car. 2. c. S. 11 & 12 W. 3. c. 20. 6 Ann. c. 8, £? 9, 7 Ann. c. 13. 10 Ann. c. 16. I Geo. I. c, 15, & 41. II Geo. I. c. 24. 7 Geo. 2. c. 25. II Geo. 2. c. 2S. and 14 Geo. 2. c. 35. CAP. VII. Wools. What Perfons may buv and fell Wool, and who not, and at what Times. [REP. 21 Jac. 1. c. 28. iS Ed. Savil j 2 . 3. C . 3. 4 Ed. 4. c. 4. 4H.7.C.11. 37 H. S. c. 15. i Ed. 6. c. 6. 2 & 3 P. & M. c. 15.] CAP. VIII. & 3 Ph. & M. An Act limiting what Perfons fhall weave or make Broad Woollen Cloth. [Repealed by 1 Ma, SefT. 3. c. 7.J CAP. IX. An Act for the taking away of the Benefit of the Clergy from certain Offenders. isfo Perfon rob- ' '?I7'rIEREat the Parliament holden at Weflmbifter by Prorogation the twenty-third Year of the Reign ting any Houfe, ' y y of the late King of famous Memory, King Henry the Eighth, it was among other Things then and ^ C 'b "fi'f ' there enacted, eftablifhed and ordained by Authority of the fame Parliament, That no Perfon or Perfons, hisClergy. ' which after that Time fhould happen to be found guilty, after the Laws of this Realm, for any manner ^3 H. 8. c. 1. ' Petty Treafon, or for any wilful Murther of Malice prepenfed, or for robbing of any Churches, Chapels 3 loft. 65, 115. ' or other Holy Places, or for robbing of any Perfon or Perfons in their Dwelling-houfes or -Dwelling- Kelyng 67, 68, i places, the Owner or Dweller in the fame Houfe, his Wife, his Children or Servants then being within, s ' ' and put in Fear or Dread by the fame, or for robbing of any Perfon or Perfons in or near about the High- ' ways, or for wilful burning of any Dwelling-houfes or Barns wherein any Grain or Corn fhould happen ' to be, nor any Perfon or Perfons being found guilty of any Abetment, Procurement, Maintaining or ' Concealing of any or to any fuch Petty Treafon, Murthers or Felonies, fhould from thenceforth be ad- s mitted to the Benefit of his or their Clergy, but utterly to be excluded thereof, and differ Death in fuch ' Manner and Form as they fhould have done for any the Caufes or Offences abovefaid, if they were no ' Clerks; fuch as be within Holy Orders, that is to fay, of the Orders of Subdeacon, or above, allonly ' excepted, as by the fame A£i among other Things more plainly appeareth; (z) which Act was made to ' endure until the laft Day of the next Parliament; and after that, at the Seffion of the Parliament boldeh 32 H. S. e. 3. ' at Weftminfter by Prorogation in the thirty-fecond Year of the Reign of the faid late King, the fame Act ' with other Acts was made to continue for ever. Three feveral ' II. Sithen the making of which Statute it hath been doubted, that if fuch Robberies and Felonies have Doubts and Que- ' been committed and done in Dwelling-houfes and Dwelling-places, the Ownei*yr Dweller in the fame ilions moved c ffoiife^ his Wife, his Children or Servants, being then put in Fear or Dread by the fame, fnall not lofe of 2" H. 8. c.'i. ' the Benefit of their Clergy, if the Offenders therein be found guilty by the Laws of this Realm, unlefs " ' the fame Robbery or Felony be committed and done in the very Chamber, Houfe or 'Place where the. ' Owner or Dweller in the fame Houfe, his Wife, Children or Servants fhall happen to be or lie at the. ' Time of fuch Robbery and Felony committed and dene, and put in Fear and Diead, altlnough the Owner - ' and Dweller in fuch Houfe and Houfes, his Wife, his Children or Servants, at the Time of fuch Rob- ' bery and Felony committed and done, were or lay in other Places within the Precinct of the fame Dvvel- c ling-houfes, nigh unto the Houfe or Place where fuch Robbery and Felony fhall happen to be done: ' (2) Or if it happen that the Owner or Dweller within the fame Houfe where fuch Robber}' and Felony ' fhall happen to be done, his Wife, Children or Servants to be a-fleep at the Time of fuch Robbery and ' Felony committed and done, although the fame Robbery were done in the Chamber or Place where ' the Owner or Dweller in the fame Houfe, his Wife, Children or Servants then lay, the Offenders being: 6 found guilty thereof according to the Laws of the Land, fhould not lofe the Benefit and Advantage ot 6 their Ciergy. IWu 84. ' 1^- A nc * where alfo it hath been in Qucffion^and doubted, that if fuch Robberies and Felonies happen
- £r. Coron. 160. ' to be committed and done in any Booth or Booths, Tent or Tents in any Fair or Market, the Owner of
' the fame, his Wife, Children or Servants happening to be within the fame at the Time of the committing ' of
