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A. D. 1529. ' XVIII. It is alfo further decreed, That no Stranger Artificer or Handicraftsman born out of our Obei- sfance, not being Denizen, which at the Day of the making of this Decree is not a Housholder within this our Realm, or keepeth any Shop or Shops within the said City and Suburbs, or any other City, Town, or Borough within this our Realm, shall from that Day forward set up or keep any House, or Shop, or Chamber within our City of London, Suburbs, or Parishes before rehearsed, or within any other City, Town, or Borough, or Village within this our Realm, wherein he shall exercise and practice any Handicraft or Mystery, upon Pain to incur and run in such Penalties as be contained in the Statutes before this Time made and enacted.

(2) And that none of the said Strangers Artificers or Handicraftsmen, born out of our Obeisance, as well Denizens as other, shall assemble in any Company, Fellowship, Congregation, or Conventicle, but only in the Common Hall of their Crafts, with our Subjects which be of the Company of their said Craft or Crafts, at such Time as they shall be commanded and warned by the Master and Wardens of the said Craft or Crafts, and at none other Place or Time, or in any other Manner, upon Pain afore expressed.

' Provided alway, That this Decree, and every Part thereof concerning the Craft and Mystery of Cordwainers, shall extend as well to them that work old Stuff, as new, within our City of London, the Suburbs of the same, or in any other City, Town, Borough, or Village within this Realm of England.

' Provided also, That notwithstanding any Words comprised in this Decree, the Strangers Artificers, Denizens or not Denizens, inhabiting in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and within the Sanctuary of Saint Martins le Grand within the City of London, shall enjoy all the Benefits and Ad- vantages reserved unto them by reason of any Provision made by Act of Parliament expressed in the Statute made in the xiv. and xv. Year of our Reign; so that the said Strangers, Denizens or not Denizens, inhabiting within the said Sanctuary of Saint Martins le Grand, be conformable to such Direction and Order as shall be taken by the Reverend Father in God Cuthbert Bishop of London, Sir Richard Brook Knight, Chief Baron of our Exchequer, Sir John More Knight, One of the Justices of our Bench, Sir John Dauncy, and Sir John Alsine Knights, to whom we have of late directed our Letters Patents, and

by the same given them Power and Authority, and commanding them, and every of them, to cause the House of every Stranger and Denizen, Artificer, inhabiting and dwelling within the said Sanctuary, to be searched and viewed, how many Servants he or they keep born out of our Obeisance, and they being all viewed and seen, then to appoint to every of the said Strangers Housholders, inhabiting within the said Sanctuary, by them in Form aforesaid so tried, to be within the Bounds and Limits of the said San- ctuary, such Number of Servants Strangers born out of our Obeisance, as they by their Discretions shall think convenient and sufficient, and not to be any Detriment unto our Subjects Inhabitants within our said City.

And commanding in our Name all and every of the said Strangers, Denizens, Housholders, that they from henceforth do not keep within their Houses, nor any other House, Shop, or Chamber within our said City of London, or the Suburbs of the same, any mo Servants being born out of our Obeisance, than shall be to them at the Time by them appointed, as they will avoid the Danger and Penalty of our Laws; and what they they have done in the Premisses, that they do certify to us and to our Council into our Star-chamber at Westminfter, at the xv. Day of Easter next coming. In Witness whereof we will as well the said Decree, as all other the Premisses, shall be exemplified under our Seal.'

''Nos autem tenorem brevis & decreti prædict' ad requisitionem magistri & gardianorum artis sive mysterii Alutariorum sive Cordweiners London, duximus exemplificand' per præsentes. In cujus Rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonaft' vicesimo die Aprilis anno regni nostri vicesimo.''

HERE as well the Noblemen of this Realm, as divers other Persons, by Fines, Recoveries, Grants, Tenements holden of them, have been put from the Knowledge of their Tenants, upon whom they should by Order of the Law make their Avowries for their Rents, Customs, and Services, to their great Losses and Hindrances :"

Be it therefore enacted, established, and ordained by Authority of this present Parliament, That wheresoever any Manner Lands, Tenements, and other Hereditaments be holden of any Manner Person or Persons, by Rents, Cuftoms, or Services, that if the Lord, of whom any such manner Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments be so holden, distrain upon the same Manors, Lands, or Tenements, for any such Rents, Customs, or Services, and Repievin thereof be sued, that the Lord of whom the same Lands,