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Commiffioners of fewers in

destruction by

the ftat. of

23 H. 8. C. 5.

CAP. X.

The repeal of a ftatute (not printed) made Anno 2 Ed. 6. touching the confolidation and union of the parish churches of Onger and Grensted in the county of Effex: and they fhall be feveral parishes as they were before and James Morris and his heirs fhall have the presentation of the faid parfonage of Onger.

CAP. XI.

An act touching the fea fands in Glamorganshire.

WHERE

WHERE in the xxiij. year of the reign of the excellent prince the county of of famous memory, King Henry the Eighth, it was enacted Glamorgan and established, That commiffions of fewers from time to time, when hall take or need fhould require, fhould be directed to fuch fubftantial and indifder for faving ferent perfons as fhould be named by the lord chancellor of England, the land from the lord treasurer, the lord privy feal, and the two chief juftices, or fands rifing three of them, whereof the lord chancellor to be one, authorifing them, out of the fea, or fix of them, to furvey walls, ftreams, ditches, banks, gutters, fewThe effect of ers, caufeys, bridges, trenches, mills, mill-dams, flood-gates, ponds, cocks, ebbing wears, and other lets and nusances, by reafon of the outragious courfe and rage of the fea, in and upon marshes and other low places; (2) which good law doth not extend, nor is not taken to give authority and power unto the faid commissioners of fewers, to reform the great hurt, nufance and loffes that cometh and chanceth to the Queen's highness and her fubjects, by reason of fand arifing out of the fea, and driven to land by storms and winds, whereby much good ground lying on the fea-coafts in fundry places of this realm, and efpecially in the county of Glamorgan, is covered with fuch fand rifing out of the fea, that there cometh no profit of the fame, to the great lofs of the Queen's highness and her loving Jubjects, and more is like to enfue, if speedy remedy be not therein provided:

II. May it therefore please the Queen's highness, with the affent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, be it enacted, That as well the faid act of fewers made in the faid xxiij. year, as all-commiffions of fewers hereafter to be directed according to the tenour of the faid act, may extend and give authority, that the commiffioners therein named for the county of Glamorgan, or fix of them, whereof three to be of the quorum, fhall by this act, and the faid former act and commiffion to them directed, have full power and authority from time to time to make fuch laws, provifions, ordinances, judgments and decrees within the faid county of Glamorgan, for the redress and saving of the faid grounds from hurt and destruction by reafon of the said fands, as they might or may do by the faid former act and commiffion for the withstanding and avoiding the outragious courfe and rage of the fea, or other waters; any ufage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

CAP.

CAP. XII.

The ftatutes made anno 22 H. 8. c. 6. anno 23 H. 8. c. 3. 17. anno 28 H. 8. c. 6, 8, 9. anno 31 H. 8. c. 7. anno 35 H. 8. c. 17. anno 37. H. 8. c. 23. anno 2 & 3 Ed. 6. c. 9. anno 3 & 4 Ed. 6. c. 19, 21. anno 5 & 6 Ed. 6. c. 2, 14. anno 7 Ed. 6. c. 11. anno 1 Mar. feff. 2. c. 12 & 13. were revived and made to continue until the last day of the next parlia

ment.

Anno primo & fecundo Philippi & Mariæ.

ACTS made at a parliament begun and holden at Weft

minfter the twelfth day of November in the firft and fecond year of the reign of our fovereign lord and lady Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerufalem and Ireland; Defenders of the faith; Princes of Spain and Sicilie; Archdukes of Auftria; Dukes of Milaine, Burgundy, and Brabant; Counties of Hafpurg, Flanders and Tyroll; and there continued and kept until the diffolution of the fame, being the xvi. day of January then next enfuing, were enacted as followetb.

CAP. I.

An att touching letters patents, and other writings to be figned by the Queen.

manual re

W HERE in the parliament begun and holden at Westminster A branch of the fecond day of April in the first year of the reign of our a ftatute made moft dread and gracious fovereign lady the Queen's majesty: and there M. feff. 3. continued and kept till the diffolution of the fame, being the fifth day the figning of c. 2. touching of May then next following, one act was made touching the articles of letters patents, her Highness most noble marriage, in the which act among other &c. with the things it was enacted, ordered and established by the authority of the Queen's fign faid parliament, That all and fingular gifts, grants, letters patents, pealed, &c. exchanges, confirmations, leafes, and other writings, which after the faid marriage and during the fame, should pass and be made of any benefices, offices, lands, revenues and fruits, or of any of them, fhould be intituled and made in the names of our fovereign lord the King, and of her most excellent Highness, whether his Majefty fhould be prefent within the realms and dominions of her Highness, or within any of them, or abfent: (2) And that the fame gifts, grants, letters patents, exchanges, confirmations, leafes, and other writings fo fet forth and made, fhould be fealed and firmed with the fign manual of her Highness, (3) and the fame fo figned, and fealed with the great feal of this realm, or with fuch feal as hath been accustomed, fhould be by the authority of the faid parliament deemed, adjudged, declared and pronounced to

be

*Examined by the inrollment. It is the eleventh in Pulton's and Keble`s edition; the twenty-second in Fox Martyrol. 3 vol. 118. See 3 Keb. 740.

be as good, perfect, and of like force, strength and effect in the law, to all intents, conftructions and purposes, against our faid fovereign lord and lady the King and Queen's majesties and her Highness heirs and fucceffors, as if her Majefty had been at the time of the making thereof Jole and unmarried; (4) and that all gifts, grants, letters patents, exchanges, confirmations, leafes, and other writings, which after the faid marriage, and during the time of the fame, should pass and be made of the faid benefices, offices, lands, revenues and fruits, or of any of them, whereunto the fign manual of her Highness fhould not be fet, made or put, fhall be by the authority of the faid parliament from time to time deemed, adjudged, accepted, taken and decreed to be of no force ne effect, but utterly fruftrate and void in the law, to all intents, conftructions and purposes; the faid marriage, or any law, ufage or custom_to_the contrary in any wife notwithstanding, as by the said at more at large doth appear.

The inconve

niencies enfuing to the Queen and

the fubjects

by the faid ftatute of 1 M. feff. 3. C. 2.

A repeal of the before rehearsed branch of

IM.feff.3.c.2.

grants or

II. Sithence the making of which statute, and the folemnization of the faid marriage, the Queen's most excellent majesty hath been greatly molefted, grieved and troubled with often figning of letters patents, gifts, grants, exchanges, leafes and other writings concerning and touching benefices, offices, lands, revenues and fruits, made and granted by and from our faid fovereign lord the King and her Highness to fundry of their most loving fubjects, to whom alfo it hath been and is no fmall charge to attend, until fuch time as they may procure and obtain the fign manual of her Highness unto their faid letters patents, gifts, grants, exchanges, confirmations and leafes, without which fign the fame are utterly void by force of the faid fatute, to the great danger, lofs, and utter undoing of divers perfons that have lately bought, purchased or obtained of our faid fovereign lord and lady, the King and Queen's majeflies divers lands, tenements and other hereditaments, to their great cofts and charges:

III. For remedy whereof, be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, That the faid branch or article touching or concerning only the figning of letters patents, gifts, grants, exchanges, confirmations, leafes or of other writings, the ftatute of for any lands, benefices, offices, revenues, fruits or other hereditaments, fhall be from henceforth clearly repealed, and made fruftrate and void to all intents and purposes. A confirma- IV. And be it further enacted by authority of this prefent tion of former parliament, That all and fingular letters patents touching or concerning any gift, grant, exchange, confirmation, leafe or writings fign- other writing, the which fithence the faid marriage hath Queen's fign paffed and been made of any benefices, offices, manors, lands, tenements, revenues, fruits, liberties or other hereditaments, or of any of them, in the names of our moft dread fovereign lord and lady the King and Queen's majefties, (the warrant or writing, or warrants or writings whereof, being figned with her Highness fign manual, in fuch form, order, and degree, as the fame heretofore hath been accustomed to be figned when her Highness was fole and unmarried) fhall be by authority of this prefent parliament of the fame like force, ftrength and effect in the law, to all intents, conftructions and purposes,

ed with the

manual.

as

as if the fame were or had been figned by her Highness fign manual, and as if her Majefty had been at the time of the making thereof fole and unmarried, and as they were before the making the faid act; the faid eftatute, or any branch or article therein contained to the contrary in any wife notwithLanding.

CAP. II.

Whofoever shall wear Gilk in or upon his hat, bonnet, girdle, scabbard, hofe, fhoes or fpurleathers, shall be three months imprifoned, and forfeit x. li. except mayors, aldermen, &c. If any perfon knowing his fervant to offend, do not put him forth of his fervice within xiv. days, or do retain him again, he shall forfeit C. li. REP. 1 Jac. 1. c. 25.

CAP. III.

A confirmation of the ftat. of 3 Ed. 1. c. 34. and 2 R. 2. ftat. 1. c. 5. touching telling of news. Juftices of peace in every fhire, city, &c. fhall have authority to hear and determine the said offences, and to put the faid two ftatutes in execution. If any person shall be convicted or attainted for speaking maliciously of his own imagination, any false, feditious and flanderous news, faying, or tales, of the King or Queen, then he shall for his first offence be fet on the pillory in fome market place near where the words were spoken, and have both his ears cut off, unless he pay to the Queen an hundred pound within one month after judgment given, and allo fhall be three months imprifoned: and if he thall fpeak any fuch flanderous and feditious news or tales of the speaking or report of any other, then he fhall be fet on the pillory, and have one of his ears cut off, unless he pay an hundred marks to the Queen's ufe within one month after, and fhall be one month imprifoned: and if he do it by book, rhime, ballad, letter or writing, he shall have his right hand ftricken off. And if any perfon being once convicted of any of the offences aforefaid, do afterward offend, he fhall be imprifoned during his life, and forfeit all his goods and cattels. EXP. 4 & 5. Ph. & M. C. 9. i Eliz. C. 6.

CAP. IV.

An act against certain perfons calling themfelves Egyptians.

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HERE in a parliament holden at Westminster in the xxij. Punishment year of the reign of our late fovereign lord King Henry the for bringing Eighth, (for the avoiding and banishing out of this realm of certain Egyptians outlandish people calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft nor realm, &c. feat of merchandifes for to live by, but going from place to place in 22 H. 8. c. 10. great companies, using great, fubtil and crafty means to deceive the Enforced and King's fubjects, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could explained by tell mens and womens fortunes, and fo many times by craft and fub- 5 El. c. 20. tilty deceive the people of their money, and committed divers great and heinous felonies and robberies, to the great hurt and deceit of the people ;) (2) it was amongst other things then enacted, That from the time of the making the faid act no fuch perfons fhould be juffered to come within this the King's realm, upon pain of forfeiture to the King of all their goods and chattels, and then to be commanded to avoid the realm within fifteen days next after the commandment, upon pain of imprisonment; (3) and fuch perfons calling themselves Egyptians, as were then within this realm, fhould depart within fixteen days next after proclamation of the faid act, upon pain of imprifonment, and forfeiture of all their goods and chattels, with divers other claufes and articles contained in the faid act, as by the faid act

more

more at large it appeareth: (4) forafmuch as divers of the faid company, and fuch other like perfons, not fearing the penalty of the faid ftatute, have enterprised to come over again into this realm, ufing their old-accustomed devilish and naughty practices and devices, with fuch abominable living as is not in any chriftian realm to be permitted, named or known, and be not duly punished for the fame, to the perillous and evil example of our fovereign lord and lady the King and Queen's majesties most loving fubjects, and to the utter and extreme undoing of divers and many of them, as evidently doth appear: The penalty II. For reformation whereof, be it ordained and enacted by for bringing the King and Queen our fovereign lord and lady, the lords fpiof Egyptians ritual and temporal, and the commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That if any perfon or perfons after the last day of January next coming do willingly transport, bring or convey into this realm of England or Wales, any fuch perfons calling themselves, or commonly called, Egyptians, that then he or they so transporting, bringing or conveying in any fuch perfons, contrary to the true meaning of this act, fhall forfeit and lofe for every time fo offending, forty pounds of lawful money of England.

into this

realm.

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III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, lony for Egyp-That if any of the faid perfons called Egyptians, which fhall be tians to re- transported and conveyed into this realm of England or Wales land a month. as is aforefaid, do continue and remain within the fame by the space of one month, that then he or they fo offending shall by virtue of this act be deemed and judged a felon and felons, (2) and fhall therefore fuffer pains of death, lofs of lands and goods, as in cafes of felony, by the order of the common law of this realm, (3) and fhall upon the trial of them or any of them therein fo tried in the county, and by the inhabitants of of the county or place, where they or he shall be apprehended or taken, and not per medietatem lingua, (4) and shall lofe the benefit and privilege of fanctuary and clergy.

be, to tarry

The penalty IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, for the Egyp- That if the Egyptians, or other persons commonly calling themtians that now felves Egyptians, and every of them, now being within this in England. realm of England or Wales, do not depart out of the fame within xx. days next after proclamation of this present act shall be made, that then he or they which shall not depart within the faid time, according to the true meaning of this act, fhall forfeit and lose all his and their goods and chattels, and that then it fhall be lawful to all and every the King's and Queen's subjects to feize the fame; the one moiety thereof to be to the use of our fovereign lord and lady, the King and Queen, and the other moiety thereof to be to the use of him or them that fhall fo feife the fame.

The penalty

V. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for Egyptians if the Egyptians, and other perfons commonly called Egyptians, not to depart and every of them, now being within this realm of England or within forty Wales, do not depart out and from the fame within xl. days next after proclamation fhall be made of this act, that then he

days.

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