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 122 C. 5-i Anno fexto H e n r i ci VIII, A. D. 1514. Farther Provi- J!om relating to Outlawries, 31 Exp. 4H. 7. c. 19. 7 H. 8. c. r. 27 H. 8. c. 23. 5 & 6 Ed, 6. c. 5. 5 El. C.2. 39 El. c. 1. then every fuch Outlawry to be utterly void and of no Effeft ne Force in the Law ; and that all Outlawries had contrary to this Aft be avoided by Averment, without filing of any Writ of Error. Elix, c. 3. 4&4TT.® M. c. 18 Sf 22. CAP. V. Whofoever decayeth any Town or Houfe of Hufbandry, or doth convert Tillage into Pafbure, {hall for- feit to the Lord of the Fee Half of the Profits thereof. To endure to Chriftmas. The Juftices of the King's Bench may re- mit Prifoners out of that Court into the Country to be.tried.. CAP. VI. An Aft for the remitting Prifoners with their Indictments to the Places where the Crimes were committed. HERE divers Felons and Murtherers, upon feigned and untrue Surmifes, have oftentimes remov- ed, as well their Bodies as their Indictments, by Writ and otherwife, before the King in his Bench, and cannot by the Order of the Law be remitted and fent down to the Juftices of Gaol-delivery, or of the Peace, ne other Juftices ne Commiffioners, to proceed upon them after the Courfe of the Com- mon Law :' (z) Be it therefore ordained and enafted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That the Juftices of the King's Bench for the time being have full Authority and Power, by their Difcretions, to remand and fend down, as well the Bodies of all Felons and Murtherers brought or removed, or that fhall be removed or brought, before the King in his Bench, as their Indictments, into the Counties where the fame Murthers or Felonies have been committed and done ; (3) and to command all Juftices of Gaol- delivery, Juftices of Peace, and all other Juftices and Commiffioners, and every of them, to proceed and determine upon all the aforefaid Bodies and Indiftments fo removed, after the Courfe of the Common Law, in fuch Manner as the fame Juftices of Gaol-delivery, Juftices of Peace, and other Commiffioners, or any of them might or fhould have done, if the faid Prifoners or Indictments had never been brought
 * into the faid King's Bench.

CAP. VII. Altered by x The feveral Sums that Watermen fhall take for their Fare from one Place to another near to the City of &.-3Ph, &Mar. London; and the Watermen refufing to accept the faid Fares or Wages limited, fhall forfeit the treble Value thereof. CAP. VIII. 16. An Aft concerning the making of certain Woollen Cloths in the County of Devotu A Rehearfal of the Statute of 5 H. 8. c. 2. touching the making of White Straits of Devonshire. 3 R. 3. c. 8. Hereas at the Parliament holden at Wejlminfter the Twenty third Day of January, after the laff. Prorogation thereof, in the Fifth Year of the King's moft Noble Reign, the Commons and Inha—
 * bitants (Clothmakers and Buyers of the fame) within the County of Devon/hire, prayed and defired,.


 * That where divers and many Cloths, called White Straits, be and have been continually made within the
 * faid County, to the great Profit of the King's Subjects there, the which Cloths were wont to be well
 * and fufficiently made, and to bear their Breadth, Yard broad and half Quarter raw, and xv Yards of

' Length; (2) and that no Man in Times paft hath ufed to make them, but that the Maker thereof '• hath fet his fpecial Mark upon every of the faid Cloths fo by him or them made, whereby every Man ' may know their own Cloths from other Mens, by reafon of their faid feveral Marks ; (3) fo at the faid 6 Parliament it was fhewed by the Inhabitants (Clothmakers and Buyers of the fame') in the County ' aforefaid, that now-a-days the faid Cloths be not fufficiently made, ne bear their Length and Breadth ' according as they fhould do, ne marked with every Man's own Mark, whereof great Inconvenience doth ' daily enfue and increafe, to the impoverifhing and hurting as well of the King's Subjects, Buyers and ' Sellers of the fame, as Merchants Strangers. (4) Wherefore the PremifTes conildered, it was therefore ' enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the- ' Commons, in the fame Parliament then affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from the ' Feaft of Pentecoft next after the making of the faid Aft, no Perfon fhould make any fuch Cloths, called ' White Straits, to fell, without that it or they be, when they be raw, ready to be toked, of the Breadth ' of a Yard and half a Quarter, and of Length xv Yards; £5) and that no Perfon make any fuch Cloths, c but if he fet his fpecial Mark upon every of the faid Cloths fo by him or them made, (6) and that no ' Perfon ufe no Mark on his Cloths, fuch as any other Perfon doth and hath ufed before him, upon Pain e thereof to him that lo feifeth the faid Cloths fo made or marked contrary to the sf orm and EfFeft afore ' expreffed. (7) And this Aft to endure unto the Firft Day of this prefent Parliament. (3) And foraf- ' much as the faid Aft is thought to be very neceflary and behoveable,' be it therefore ordained, eftablifh- ed, and enafted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Com- mons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, That the faid Aft concerning making of Cloths, called White Straits, and every Thing therein contained, ftand and be in his full Strength, Virtue, and Effeft. (9) And over that, it is ordained by the faid Authority, That no Perfon or Perfons Breadth"o'f Ru'f- from ^ Feaft of Saint J ohn Baptift next coming fhall make any fuch Cloths, called White Straits, ne any fc^Straits. " Cloths of that making of Ruffet Colour, ciWzi' Rujpt Straits, without that they and every of them (being raw) be of the Breadth and Length before rehearfea, and to be marked in Manner and Form before ex- preffed. The aforefaid Statute con- &-med.
 * of Forfeiture of every of the faid Cloths, the one half thereof to be to the King, and the other half