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 104 C. 18. Anno decimo nono Henrici VII. A. D. 1503. ' City, be departed out of the fame City into the Country, and fo divers and many Houfes within the faid ' City now be unoccupied and decayed, and daily more are like to be, to the great Defolation of the faid ' whereby the great Weal and Profperity of the faid City ftandeth, and the Inhabitants of the fame fup- ' ported.' (6) In Confideration of all which Premiffes, it may pleafe the King our Sovereign Lord, of his moft abundant Grace, and for the great Zeal his Grace hath to the Univerfal Weal of his Subjects in this his Realm, by the Advice and Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this So much of the Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, to ordain, eftabliih, and enaft,_That the forefaid Act Statute of 11 H. maae t he faid Fourteenth Day of Otlober, the Eleventh Year aforefaid, in every thing touching and con- 7, c 11 as con- cern ; n g trie f a id Worfted-fhearing, or the faid pretended Craft of Worfted-fhearing only, be utterly void, kinfof Appwn- repealed, adnulled, and of no Force ne Effeft. (7) Provided alway, That the Refidue of the forefaid Act tic"? confirmed, concerning the fetting or putting, taking or receiving, of Apprentices for all the Citizens and Inhabitants and the Refidue w ithin the faid City of Norwich, may ftand in his full Strength and Effeft, in fuch Form as in the faid Aft touching Wor- ] s exp ixEcdziid contained, this prefent Aft notwithstanding. •ited-lhearers re- * CAP. XVIII. Severn. ' f j'*0 the King our Sovereign Lord, prayen the Commons in this prefent Parliament affembled, That ' A where Time out of Mind, Merchants, Victuallers, and all other your liege People of this your £ Realm, at their Pleafure have had and ufed free Courfe and Paffage through and upon your River and Wa- 4 ter of Severn, within this your Realm, with Ships, Trows, Boats, and all other their VelTels, to carry 4 Place, without Interruption, Trouble, Vexation, Let, or Difturbance, and without any thing therefore ' paying or giving, until late Time that divers Merchants and others of this your Realm of England were ' adjoining, wrongfully letted, vexed, and interrupted ; (2) whereupon for the fure and peaceable Paffage ' and Courfe upon the fame Water and River of all the King's liege People to be had and continued, divers TheEffea of i bleffed, and of famous in Memory, your Uncle King Henry the Sixth, by the which Aft it was efta- thc statute of t blifhed, ordained, and provided, That all your liege People, and every of them, fhould have their com- 9 ' ' c ; 5 ' free ' mon and free Paffage upon your faid River and Water with their Trows, Boats, and other Veffels, from Paffage upon the ' Brijlol, Gloucejier, JVorceJler, and other Places, without Let, Interruption, or Denier; (3) and if any of River of Severn. ' your liege People or Subjects were of their faid Courfe and Paffage letted or difturbed, that they fliould ' have Actions of Trefpafs againft the Offenders in that Behalf; (4) and the Premiffes notwithstanding, ' divers Perfons late and now, being your Officers of and in your City of JVorceJler, and Town of Glou- ' cejler, and other Places adjoining to your faid River and Water, will not fuffer any Boat, Trow, or other ' v effel, to pafs through and upon your faid River and Water, without divers Impofitions by them there- ' upon fet, and by them levied, gathered, and reared upon the Merchants and Owners of the faid Goods ' Breach of the laudable Cuftom aforetime remembered.' (5) Pleafe it therefore your Highnefs, the Pre- miffes confidered, by the Advice and Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in The Forfeiture this Prefent Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, to ordain, eitabliih, and enaft, That of thofe that whatfoever Perfon or Perfons, of what Eflate, Degree, or Condition he or they be of, that hereafter take interrupt any any Impofition of any of the King's liege People, for Trow, Boat, or any other Veffel, for any Goods with their Boats or Meitchandifes carried or conveyed in and upon the faid River and Water of Severn, or let, vex, or in- K^veTof Severn! terrupt any Boats, Trows, or other Veffels fo paffing by the faid River and Water, for any fuch Impo- fition or otherwife againft your Laws, that every fuch Perfon or Perfons, fo doing and offending, fhall for- feit to the King our Sovereign Lord for every fuch Offence xx. I. (6) And for every fuch Sum or Sums fo forfeit, the Party grieved, and all other Perfons that will fue for the fame Forfeiture, fhall have and fue an Aftion popular of Debt, as well to and for the Ufe of our Sovereign Lord the King, as to the Ufe of him that fhall fo fue for it in his own Name; and that our Sovereign Lord the King have Two Parts of the faid Sum fo forfeited, and the Party that fo fhall fue for the fame, have the Third Part thereof: (7) And the Party Defendant in every fuch Aftion fhall not be received to wage his Law, and alfo be outed of all Where and by Delatories in the fame Aftion, as Proteftions, Effoin, and other. (8) And if it fortune the Parties in any ■whom Iflues f uc h Aftion to defend or plead to any Iffue, for any Offences done or committed contrary to the Premiffes, irTan^of The triabIe. in. the Cit V of Worcefter, or the Liberties of the fame, then the fame Iffue to be tried by Twelve J-"J n Aftions Men within the County of JVorceJler, not dwelling nor having any Lands within the fame City, ne the <hall betiied. Suburbs of the fame. (9) And if the Party aforefaid in any fuch Aftion defend and plead to an Iffue, for any fuch Offence done or committed contrary to the Premiffes, triable in the Shire of the Town of Glou- cejier, or in the County of Gloucejier, the fame Iffue to be tried by Twelve Men of or in the County of Gloucejier, thereto adjoining, not having any Lands, ne dwelling within the fame Shire of the Town of ThcOwnersof Gloucejier. (10) Provided alway, That this Aft, nor any thing in the fame contained or fpecified, in Lands (hall be any wife extend not, nor be prejudicial or hurtful, to any Perfon or Perfons having any Lands or Meads fttisSed for the adjoining to the faid Stream or Water of Severn, to take of every Perfon or Perfons going upon his or their Hurts winch fyi$ Lands or Meads, and haling or drawing any fuch Trow, Boat, or Veffel, reafonable Recompence and y re Satisfaction for fuch Hurts and Offences, as he or they having fuch Lands or Meads adjoining to the faid Stream or Water, fhall fultain by reafon of any fuch going or drawing of any fuch Trow, Boat, or Vef- fel,
 * City, and alfo to the impoverifhing of the Merchants Buyers of the faid Worited within the faid City,
 * and convey their Merchandifes, Viftuals, and other Goods from Town to Town, and from Place to
 * by divers and certain mifruled Perfons, inhabited in the Foreft of Dean, and other Places to the faid River
 * Afts and Laws were made and provided, and in efpecial one in the Ninth Year of the Reign of the moft
 * and Merchandifes, by the faid River and Water paffing, in manifeft Contempt of your faid Laws, and