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 A. D. 1 5j£. Anno vicefimo quinto Heniuci VIII. C. 14, 15. 187 r«nur«, .md Occupati< otherwife'; (2) and" bin any fui :. reafon of or Occupiers of fuch Fold-courfei may take fuch Qv... Foldcour! . 1 agreeing with the Owners or Occl ■ A' the C. of Sheep in w.ry Country be pot like, in fomc Coun- - ' try the great C. where (i -r the (.'. t: uf only five Score ;' it is red by thi'. prefent Ac!, tl it the Number ot two thou fan I Sheep, lim tall be accounted ten Thoufand, att'-r the Number of the freat Hundred, and 1 after the lei's Hundred, mfand fhall contain twelve HjmJrcd after the I the Hundred. XIII. It is alfo further provided by the Authority aforcfaid. That Lambs under the Age of one w ni. and as much as (hall be from the Time of the falling of them unto the Feaft of the Nativity of St. <"'-»'J L - <»*«» any Thing i"i this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. XIV. It is alio further enacted by Authority aforcfaid, That no manner Pcrfon after the faid Feaft of : the Nativity of our Lord, fhall receive, or take in rami for Term of Lite, Years, or at Will, by Inden- t_ic .rcTciao ture, Copy of Court-Roll, orothenvile, any more Houfes and Tenements of Hufbandry, whereunto any ' Lands are belonging, in Town, Village, Hamlet, or Tithing within this Realm, above the Number of Ji **" * c ' **"" two fuch Holds or Tenements ; [z) and that no manner Perlbn fhall have or occupy any fuch Holds, fo newly taken, to the Number of two, as is before exprelled, except he or they be dwelling within the fame ■Parifnes where fuch Holds be, upon the Pain of Forfeiture for every Week that he or they fhall have, occupy, or take any Profits of fuch Hold?, contrary to this Aci, iii.s.iv.d. The one Moiety of which Forfeiture to be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Moiety to the Party- that will fue for the fame in any of the King's Courts, by Bill, Plaint, Information, or otherwife, within one Year next after fuch Contempt and Offence committed and don:, in the which none Effoin, Protection, ne Wager of Law fhall be admitted or allowed. XV. It is alfo further enacted by Authority aforefaid, That the Statutes made the fourth Year of the 4H. r. e. :-. noble Prince, King Het:ry the Seventh, and in the feventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the 7 H. S. c. 1. King that now is, concerning the Decay of Towns, and Maintenance of Tillage and Hufbandry, fhall be good and effectual in every Thing according to the true Purport and Intent of the fame ; any Thing in this prefent Act to the contrary notwithftanding. XVI. Provided alfo, That it may be lawful to all fpiritual Perfons, and every of them, to keep fuch and Sflrit^Perfcnj, tis many Sheep upon their own Lands, and after fuch Form and Manner, and none otherwife, as they $" 8 -£•■<•• 3. might have done afore the making of this Aft; any Thing mentioned in the fame to the contrary norwirh- / - : ftanding. b Tie i+- Get, 2. c. 6. <wbcb msin Sb~}-jlcallr.g Fdcr.y mtbtst Gbgf ; atd 15 Gc:, 1, c. 34. icb::b txterM 14 d: z. :: Si .", C.%, &e. CAP. XIV. A Repeal of the Statute of 2 H. 4. c. 1 j. and a Confirmation of the Statutes of 5 R. 2. St.z. c. $. & 2 H. 5. St. 1. c. 7. touching the Punifliment of Hereticks. Sheriffs in their Turns, and Stewards in their Leets, Rapes and Wapentakes, fhall have Authority to inquire of Hereticks ; and every fuch Prefentment made in any Turn, Leet, £s"f. concerning Hereticks, fhall be certified to the jOrdinary. Every Perfcn pre- fented or indicted of any Herefy, or duly accufed by two lawful Witneiies, may be cited, arrefted, or taken by an Ordinary, or other of the King's Subjects, and committed to the Ordinary, to anfwer in open Court, and being convict, fhall abjure his Herefies, and refilling lb to do, or falling into Reiapfe, R EP~. rEd '. fhall be burned in an open Place for Example of others. CAP. XV. An Act for Printers and Binders of Books. c yy np ;i ; r j 5 ; t was p rov ided in the fame Ad, That 2 : - ; repairing into this Rea'n. might I ' lawfully bring into the faid Realm printed and written Books, to fell at the:; Liberty and Pleafur. . by Force of which Provifion there hath come to this Realm fithen the making of the lame, a mar- E jus Number of printed Book*, and daily doth; and the Caufe of the making of the fame Provifion l *' ' ' which could well exercife and occupy the faid Science and Craft of Printing ; ne 1 erthelefs, fithen the ' making of the ("aid Provifion, many of this Realm, being the King's natural Subjects, have given them 1 fo diligently to learn and exercife the faid Crr.ft of Printing, that at this Day there be within this Realm 1 a great Number cunning' and expert in the faid Science or Craft or" Printing, as able to - . faid 1 Craft in all Points, as any Stranger in any other Realm or Country ; i 5; And furthermore, where there 4 be a great Numher of the King's Subjects within this Realm, which live by the Craft .. ' Binding of Books, and that there be a great Multitude well expert in the fame, yet all this notwith- Books. anc having no other r/ acuity wherewith to get their Living, be deftitutie c: Work, and like to bo B b : * un
 * /.'', ij. any Year to come, {hall not be adjudged, ne taken for Sheep prohibited in th:
 * jt/ HERE AS by the Provifion of a Statute made in the ftrft Year of the Reign of K : ." . . - -.
 * feenieth to be, for that there were but few Books, and few Printers within this Realm at that Time,