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A. D. 1597. Anno iricc-fimo nono Ref (. .. . fl |] I ■ al ■■.. d, will be ( ; befi re futh t. |oi him 1 1 them into bis Service for 1 - Chattels, t I r, and bring him to 1 faj I Ycai (3) And i! any dial fo tm, then to be indicted, llis Cl«  laft abiding, within convenient Time after the ftci any Thing in this Statute contained t<> the contran 1 '[. ' • Ibeitfurthei when ;my fuch S tiie Seas, or from beyond thi > id, cording to the Purport of th< cannol of himfelf get there a employ himfelf to Labour or other lawful Courfe of Life, a ..: Conrfp taint made by fuch Spldiex or Mar»i , the faid Place, the faid two Jufticcs fliall take Qrder by their Difcretion to fet fuch fomc fuch honcft Labour or Work as to them fliall be thought meet: (2) And for want of fu the faid , two Tuftices (hall Tax the whoje Hundred by.thcii lefoffuchJ Mariner till fuch fufficii nt Work may be had. VII. Provided alio, That if any fuch Soldier or Mariner coming from tl I the '" Seas as aforefaid, (hall not at the Time of his Landing, or in his 1 ravel to the Place wherem: repair as aforefaid, going the direct Way, that then he refort to fome . Juft t ing to the faid Place of Landing or Way, and make known unto the laid Juflice his Poverty: (-) upon perfect Notice thereof had, mail have full Power and Authority by 'thi , to I fame Soldier or Mariner to pals the next and direct W ay to the Place where he is to repair, and to limit n •■ him fo much Time only as fliall be ncceffary for his Travel thither: (4) And that in fuch Cafe his Li- uk * cencc being fo made, and he purfuing the Form of fueh his Licence, (hall and may lor his neceffary . lief in fuch his Travel, afk and take the Relief that any Perfon fliall willingly give him, and in f Cafe, his fuch Travel and taking of Alms as aforefaid, fliall not be taken an Offence againit this La . VIII. Provided alfo, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained,, fliall extend or be interpreted to n Cott make or Work any Corruption of Blood in any the Heir or Heirs of any fuch Offender or Ol ~lood. r " any Thing in this Act to the contrary notwithftanding. IX. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That this Aft fhall not take any Force or Effect till for.y Days next after the End of this Sefllon of Parliament, and fliall continue to the End of the- Parlia- ment next enfuing. [3 Car. 1. c. 4. continued until the End of the firft Seflion of the next Parliament, and farther continued by 16 Ca. 1. c. 4. Referred to by 2 Ann. c. 6.*] C A P. XVIII. An Act for the Reviving, Continuance, Explanation, Perfecting and Repealing of divers Statutes. 'HERE in the firft Seffion of Parliament begun in the City of London the third Day of No- ship*, vember in the one and twentieth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord - nH.fl. c. ij« 

  • ry, King Henry the Eighth, and from thence adjourned and prorogued to tlie Palace of , -;i
  • Act or .Statute was made, intituled, An ASt for the true making of Cables, Halfers and Ropes.'

' II. And where in the Parliament holden upon Prorogation at Wejlmlnfier the fourth Day of Feb ' in the four and twentieth Year of the Reign of the faid King, there was one other Act made, intituled, M H- 8- c -9- ' An AS! againjl killing of young Beafls, called Weanlings.'

  • III. And where in the Seffion of a Parliament ended at Welbmnfter the firft Day of JFebruary in the °j

c fourth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, one Act was made con- |_ *

  • cerning the Buying and Selling of Rother Beafts and Cattle :'

' IV. And alfo one other Act was then and there likewife made, intituled, An ' ling of Butter ana Lheeje. ' V.'. And where alio in the Parliament begun at Wejlmlnfier the twenty-third Day of fanuary in F ' it e the firft Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majeity that now is, and there continui ' til the Diffoluuon thereof, an Act was then and there made, intituled, An . 1 of

  • Spawn and Fry of Fjjk.'

' VI. And where alfo in the firft Seflion of Parliament holden at ' i the twelfth I art in the fifth-Year of her- High ;v Ms Reignj one Act was then and there made, intituh -the Maintenance and Increafe of Tillage :' ' VII. And one other Ail V as alio then and there made, intituled, An Air for tie Av j foreign Wanes made by Handier f finer, beyond the Seas.' _ '■

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