dwell or inhabit in any fuch city or town corporate, and use and exercise any fuch mystery, art or manual occupation, have and retain the son of any freeman, not occupying husbandry, nor being a labourer, and inhabiting in the fame, or in any other city or town that now is or hereafter shall be and continue incorporate, to ferve and be bound as an apprentice after the cuftom and order of the city of London, for feven years at the least, fo as the term and years of fuch apprentice do not expire or determine afore fuch apprentice shall be of the age of twenty-four years at the least. but fuch whofe XXVII. Provided always and be it enacted, That it fhall Merchants, not be lawful to any perfon dwelling in any city or town corpo- &c. may take rate, ufing or exercifing any of the myfteries or crafts of a mer- no apprentices chant trafficking by traffick or trade into any the parts beyond parents may the fea, mercer, draper, goldfmith, ironmonger, imbroiderer or difpend xl. s. clothier, that doth or fhall put cloth to making and fale, to take of freehold. any apprentice or fervant to be inftructed or taught in any of the arts, occupations, crafts or myfteries which they or any of them do use or exercife; except fuch fervant or apprentice be his fon; (2) or else that the father and mother of fuch apprenticeor fervant, fhall have, at the time of taking fuch apprentice or fervant, lands, tenements or other hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of forty fhillings of one eftate of inheritance or freehold at the least, to be certified under the hands and feals of three juftices of the peace of the fhire or fhires where the faid lands, tenements or other hereditaments, do or shall lie, to the mayor, bailiff or other head officers of fuch city or town corporate, and to be inrolled among the records there. XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after Whom they the faid feast of St. John the Baptift next, it fhall be lawful may have for their appren to every person being an houfholder, and four and twenty years tices who old at the leaft, and not occupying husbandry, nor being a la- dwell in marbourer, dwelling or inhabiting, or that fhall hereafter dwell or ket-towns not inhabit in any town not being incorporate, that now is or here- corporate. 8. Co. 129. after shall be a market-town, fo long as the fame shall be weekly ufed and kept as a market-town, and ufing or exercifing any art, mystery or manual occupation, during the time of his abode there, and fo ufing and exercifing fuch art, mystery or manual occupation as aforefaid, to have in like manner to apprentice or apprentices, the child or children of any other artificer or artificers, not occupying husbandry, nor being a labourer, which now do or hereafter fhall inhabit or dwell in the fame, or in any other fuch market-town within the fame fhire, to ferve as apprentice or apprentices as is aforefaid, to any fuch art, mystery or manual occupation, as hath been ufually exercised in any fuch market-town, where fuch apprentice shall be bound in manner and form abovesaid. XXIX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it fhall What apprennot be lawful to any perfon, dwelling or inhabiting in any fuch tices mermarket-town, ufing or exercifing the feat, mystery or art of a chants, &c. merchant, trafficking or trading into the parts beyond the feas, dwelling in a mercer, may take. Cro. El. 723. not corporate mercer, draper, goldsmith, ironmonger, imbroiderer or clothier, that doth or fhall put cloth to making and fale, to take any ap-, prentice, or in any wife to teach or inftruct any person in the arts, fciences or myfteries laft before recited, after the feast of St. John Baptift aforefaid; except fuch fervant or apprentice fhall be his fon; or elfe that the father or mother of fuch apprentice fhall have lands, tenements or other hereditaments, at the time of taking fuch apprentice, of the clear yearly value of three pounds, of one eftate of inheritance or freehold at the leaft, to be certified under the hands and feals of three juftices of the peace, of the fhire or fhires where the faid lands, tenements or other hereditaments do or shall lie, to the head officers or head officer of fuch market-town where fuch apprentice or servant shall be taken, there to be inrolled by fuch head officers always to remain of record. These artifi XXX, And be it further enacted, That from and after the cers may take faid feaft it fhall be lawful to any perfon ufing or exercifing the apprentices whofe parents art or occupation of a fmith, wheel-wright, plough-wright, may difpend mill-wright, carpenter, rough mafon, plaifterer, fawyer, lime no land. burner, brick-maker, bricklayer, tyler, flater, helier, tyle-maker, linen-weaver, turner, cowper, millers, earthen potters, woolen weaver weaving hufwives or houthold cloth only and none other cloth, fuller, otherwise called tucker or walker, burner of oare and wood-ashes, thatcher or fhingler, wherefoever he or they shall dwell or inhabit, to have or receive the son of any perfon as apprentice in manner and form aforefaid, to be taught and inftructed in these occupations only, and in none other, albeit the father or mother of any fuch apprentice have not any Carthew. 162. lands, tenements or hereditaments. Mod. 152. I 1 Lev. 249. 2 Salk. 611. 3 any manual tice to the fame, &c. XXXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the first day of May next coming, it fhall not be None may use lawful to any person or perfons, other than fuch as now do lawOccupation, fully use or exercise any art, myftery or manual occupation, except he hath (2) to fet up, occupy, ufe or exercise any craft, mystery or ocbeen appren- cupation, now ufed or occupied within the realm of England or Wales; except he fhall have been brought up therein seven years at the least as an apprentice, in manner and form abovefaid; (4) nor to fet any perfon on work in fuch myftery, art or 3 Bulftr. 179. occupation, being not a workman at this day; (5) except he 2 Roll. 391. fhall have been apprentice as is aforefaid; (6) or elfe having Stiles 223,383. ferved as an apprentice as is afòrefaid, fhall or will become a Difillers ex- journeyman, or be hired by the year; (7) upon pain that every empted by 12 perfon willingly offending or doing the contrary, fhall forfeit Anna, flat. 2. and lofe for every default forty fhillings for every month. c. 3. f. 1. 31 El. c. 5. 1 Roll. 10. 1 Lutw. 164. 2 Lev. 206. i 8 Co. 129. 11 Co. 54. Cro. El. 737. Cro. Jac. 85, 178, 538. Cro. Car. 316, 347, 499, 516. Hob. 211, 183. Noy. 5. What fort of perfons wool en weavers may take apprentices. XXXII. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That no perfon or perfons using or exercifing the art or mystery of a woolen cloth-weaver, other than fuch as be inhabiting within the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancaster and Wales, weaving frizes, cottons or hufwives cloth only, C. only, making and weaving woolen cloth commonly fold or to be fold by any clothman or clothier, fhall take and have an apprentice, or shall teach or in any wife inftruct any person or perfons in the science, art or occupation of weaving aforefaid, in any village, town or place (cities, towns corporate and market-towns only except) unless fuch perfon be his fon, or elfe that Repealed by 5 the father or mother of fuch apprentice or fervant fhall at the & 6. W. & M. time of the taking of such person or perfons to be an apprentice c. 9. or fervant, or to be fo inftructed, have lands or tenements or other hereditaments, to the clear yearly value of there pounds at the leaft, of an estate of inheritance or freehold, to be certified under the hands and feals of three juftices of the peace of the fhire or shires where the faid lands, tenements or other hereditaments do or shall lie; (2) the effect of the indenture to be registered within three months in the parish where fuch master fhall dwell, and to pay for fuch regiftring four pence; (3) upon pain of forfeiture of twenty fhillings for every month that any perfon fhall otherwife take any apprentice, or fet any fuch per fon on work contrary to the meaning of this article. three appren . XXXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, He that hath That all and every perfon and perfons that shall have three ap- tices muit prentices in any of the faid crafts, mysteries or occupations of a keep one jour cloth-maker, fuller, fheerman, weaver, taylor or fhoemaker, neyman. shall retain and keep one journeyman, and for every other apprentice above the number of the faid three apprentices, one other journeyman, upon pain for every default therein ten pounds. kers in Nor XXXIV. Provided always, That this act, nor any thing A provifo for therein contained, fhall not extend to prejudice or hinder any li- the liberties of berties heretofore granted by any act of parliament, to or for the worsted-macompany and occupation of worfted-makers and worsted-weavers wich and Norwithin the city of Norwich, and elsewhere within the county of folk. Norfolk, which liberties be in force until the beginning of this 14 & 15 H. 8. prefent parliament; any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. C. 3. prentice. XXXV. And be it further enacted, That if any person fhall The punishbe required by any houfholder, having and using half a plough- ment of him land at the leaft in tillage, to be an apprentice, and to ferve in that refuseth husbandry, or in any other kind of art, myftery or fcience be- to be an apfore expreffed, and fhall refuse so to do, that then upon the complaint of fuch housekeeper made to one juftice of the peace of the county wherein the faid refufal is or fhall be made, or of fuch houfholder inhabiting in any city, town corporate or market-town, to the mayor, bailiffs or head officer of the faid city, town corporate or market-town, if any fuch refufal fhall there be, they shall have full power and authority by virtue hereof, to fend for the fame perfon fo refufing: (2) And if the faid juftice, or the faid mayor or head officer fhall think the faid person meet and convenient to ferve as an apprentice in that art, labour science or mystery, wherein he fhall be fo then required to serve: That then the faid juftice, or the faid mayor or head officer, fhall have power and authority by virtue hereof, if the faid per fon fon refuse to be bound as an apprentice, to commit him unto ward, there to remain until he be contented, and will be bounden to serve as an apprentice should serve, according to the true The remedy intent and meaning of this prefent act. (3) And if any fuch for the apmaster shall misuse or evil intreat his apprentice, or that the said prentice which is mifufed by apprentice shall have any juft caufe to complain, or the apprenhis mafter,and tice do not his duty to his master, then the said master or apfor the mafter prentice being grieved, and having caufe to complain, fhall rewhen the apprentice doth pair unto one juftice of peace within the said county, or to the not his duty. mayor or other head officer of the city, town corporate, mar of his apprenticehood. ket-town or other place where the faid mafter dwelleth, who fhall by his wisdom and discretion take fuch order and direction between the said master and his apprentice, as the equity of the cause shall require; (4) and if for want of good conformity in the said master, the faid juftice of peace, or the said mayor or other head officer cannot compound and agree the matter between him and his apprentice, then the faid juftice, or the said mayor or other head officer, fhall take bond of the faid maiter to appear at the next feffions then to be holden in the faid county, or within the faid city, town corporate or markettown, to be before the juftices of the faid county, or the mayor or head officer of the faid town corporate or market-town, if Where an ap- the said master dwell within any fuch; (5) and upon his apprentice may pearance and hearing of the matter before the faid juftices, or be difcharged the faid mayor or other head officer, if it be thought meet unto them to discharge the said apprentice of his apprenticehood, that then the faid juftices, or four of them at the least, whereof one to be of the quorum; or the faid mayor or other head officer, with the affent of three other of his brethren, or men of best reputation within the faid city, town corporate or market-town, fhall have power by authority hereof, in writing under their hands and feals, to pronounce and declare, That they have discharged the faid apprentice of his apprenticehood, and the cause thereof; (6) and the said writing fo being made and enrolled by the clerk of the peace or town-clerk, amongst the records that he keepeth, fhall be a fufficient discharge for the said apprentice against his mafter, his executors and adminiftrators; the indenture of the faid apprenticehood, or any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. (7) And if the default shall be found to be in the apprentice, then the faid juftices, or the faid mayor or other head officer, with the affiftance aforefaid, fhall caufe fuch due correction and punishment to be miniftred unto him, as by their wifdom and difcretions shall be thought meet. None fhall be bound to be apprentices but thofe which be un der xxi. years of age. XXXVI. Provided always, and be it enacted by authority of this prefent parliament, That no perfon fhall by force or colour of this eftatute be bounden to enter into any apprenticeship, other than fuch as be under the age of twenty-one years. XXXVII. And to the end that this eftatute may from time to time be carefully and diligently put in good execution, according to the tenor and true meaning thereof, be it enacted by authority twice in the authority of this prefent parliament, That the juftices of peace Affembly of of every county, dividing themfelves into several limits, and the juftices likewife every mayor and head officer of any city or town coryear for the porate, fhall yearly between the feast of St. Michael the arch- due execution angel, and the nativity of our Lord, and between the feaft of the of this statute. annunciation of our Lady and the feaft of the nativity of St. John Baptift, by all fuch ways and means as to their wisdoms Thall be thought moft meet, make a special and diligent enquiry of the branches and articles of this eftatute, and of the good execution of the fame; and where they fhall find any defaults, to see the fame feverely corrected and punished, without favour, affection, malice or displeasure. XXXVIII. And in confideration of the pains and travel that The justices the faid juftices of peace, and the faid mayor and head officer allowance for fhall take and fuftain in and about the execution of this efta- their pains. tute, it is further ordained and enacted by authority of this present parliament, That every juftice of peace, mayor or head officer, for every day that he fhall fit in and about the execution of this eftatute, shall have allowed unto him five fhillings, to be allowed and paid unto him, or unto the faid mayor or head officer, of the fines and forfeitures of the pains and penalties that shall be forfeited and due unto the Queen's majesty, her heirs and fucceffors, by force of this eftatute, in fuch manner and form as the faid juftices have been heretofore commonly paid for their coming and charges at the quarter-feffions; fo that the fitting of the faid juftices or mayor, or head officer, be not at any one time above three days, and for the matters contained in this eftatute. "tioned in this XXXIX. And be it enacted by authority aforefaid, That Who fhall the one half of all forfeitures and penalties expreffed and men- have the fortioned in this eftatute, other than fuch as are exprefly otherwife feitures menappointed, shall be to our fovereign lady the Queen's majefty, ftatute. her heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety to him or them Moor 886. that fhall fue for the fame in any of the Queen's majesty's courts 1 Cro. 499. of record, or before any of the juftices of oyer and terminer, or before any other juftices, or prefident and council before remembred, by action of debt, information, bill of complaint or otherwife; in which actions or fuits, no protections, wager of law or effoin fhall be allowed; (2) and that the faid juftices, or two Justices of of them, whereof one to be of the quorum, and the faid prefi- peace, mayor, dents and council, as is aforefaid, and the said mayors or other &c. may hear head officers of cities or towns corporate, fhall have full power and deterand authority to hear and determine all and every offence and mine all ofoffences that fhall be committed or done against this eftatute, mitted against or against any branch thereof, as well upon indictment to be this ftatute taken before them in the feffions of the peace, as upon infor- 31 El. c. 5. i Salk. 379. mation, action of debt, or bill of complaint to be fued or exhibited by any perfon; (3) and fhall and may by virtue hereof make procefs against the defendant, and award execution, as in any other cafe they lawfully may by any the laws and ftatutes fences com |