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 A. D. 1 5 4-r. Anno tricefimo tcrtio He n r i c i VIIL C. 12. 311 4 Parliament holdcn at Wejlminjler by Prorogation the twenty-fourth Year of your moft noble Reign, it wj-. ; '< "• '• r - J- 4 enafted, or lained and efl ibfifhed by yourMajcfry, the Lords Spiritual and Tempi i J H - 8 '' 4 fn the- faid Parliament then aflembled, and hy Authority "I the lame Parliament, Thar every P< 1 (hould fell by himfclf, <ir any others, the Carcafles of Beefs, Pork, Mutton or Veal, or any P.; ' thereof, alter the lirft Day of Augujl then next enfuing, (hould fell the fame by [awful Weighl 4 btrdepoit, and none othcrwifc ; the (aid Flefh to be cut out in reafonable Pieces, according to the Rcqueft ' l Buyer, in like Fafhion as afore that Time was ufed, without Fraud or Covin ; and that every Pur 4 (hould mike Sale of the Paid Flefh, fufficient Beam, Scales and Weights fealed, called Habcrdrpois., for true ' ferving of the Buyers. And that after the faid firfl Day of Auguft no Perfon nor Pcrfons fhr-urld take, or 4 caufe to be taken for any Pound Weight of Flefh of the Carcafles of Beef or Pork, by him or ttum to be 4 fold, above the Price of one Half-peny and Half-farthing, without Deceit or Covin, upon Pain to forfeit ' for every Pound not fold by Weight, or above the laid Price limited, and for every Default done contrary 4 to the true Meaning of the faid Aft, 3 s. d. the one Moiety thereof to be to your Highncfs, and the 4 other Moiety to the Party that will Cue for the fame by Bill, Plaint or Information, in which Suit no Eflbin, 4 Wager of Law nor Pi oteftion fhould be allowed. The Heads, Necks, Inwards, Portnanccs, Legs nor 4 Feet to be accounted as Part of the Carcafles aforefaid, but fuch to be fold by a lower Price, as by the faid 4 well, duly, juftly and truly executed, according to the Tenor and Purport of the fame, until your Grace's 4 Parliament holden at Ifijlmin/ln- by Prorogation the xxvii. Year of your moft noble Reign, at which Time *: H. 1. c. j» ' it was then and there, for and upon divers good Caulcs and Confiderations, cnafted, ordained and efta- 4 blifhed, That from the xii. Day of April in the Year of our Lord Gord 153' 1. until the xxiv. Day of April 4 which fhould be and was in the Year of our Lord God r 540. all Butchers and others felling Flefh by Retail, 4 may lawfully kill and fell all manner Beef, Pork, Mutton and Veal, being good and wholefomc for Man's 4 Body, at their Pleafures and Liberties, as freely and liberally as they or any of them did or might have 4 done at any Time before the faid Eihtute made the xxiv. Year of your molt noble Reign, and alfo before ' another Statute concerning the fame, made the xxv. Year of your moft noble Reign, without any Loffes, 4 Pains or Imprifonment, Forfeiture or Penalty to be by them or any of them, or the Succeflbrs of them or 4 any of them, had, loft, born or fuftained in that Behalf during the Time before rehearfed, the fame Efta- 4 tutes and either of them, and every Claufe, Sentence and Article in them or either of them contained, 4 fhould be in Sufpcft, and not put in Execution during the fame Term ; as by the faid Aft made the faid ' rehearfed concerning the felling of Flefh by Weight as is aforefaid, if they fhould hereafter be put in Exe- 4 cution, and your faid Orators compelled to fell Hefh by Weight, according to the Purport, Tenor and 4 of your faid Orators for ever.' It may therefore pleafe your Majefty, That it may be by your Highnefs, and by the AfTent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament af- fembled, and by the Authority of the fame, ordained, eftablifhed and enacted, That the faid Statutes made in the xxiv. and xxv. Year of your moft noble Reign, may be repealed, adnihilated, made fruftrate and void againftyour Orators and all other your Subjefts. And that it may from henceforth be lawful unto all your faid Subjects, to fell their Victuals from Time to Time by themfelves, their Wives and Servants, to all manner of Perfons that will buy the fame, in like Manner and Form as they might have done before the making of the faid Eftatutes or any of them, without any Danger, Pains, Penalty or Forfeiture to be had for the fame j any Thing in the faid Eftatutes or any of them contained to the contrary notwithstanding, CAP. XII. The Bill for the Houfhold. WHERE Treafons, Mifprifions of Treafons, Murders, Manfhughters and other malicious Strikings, Puniltmcntcf , by reafon whereof Blood is or fhall be fhed, againft the King's Peace, been often and many Times Murder iad_ done and committed within the Limits of the King's Palace or Houfe, or other Houfeor Houfes, where Bloodthed wnn« and when his Majefty is there demurrant and abiding in his own moft Royal Perfon, which Offences, when court. 13S they be done, be beft known by his Highnefs Officers and Minifters of his moft honourable Houfhold, and 4 i c fi, ,-., by his Majefty's Servants of the Chequer-Roll; (2) and if his Majefty fhall happen to remove from fuch his Palace or Houfe, or other Houfe or Houfes, where fuch Offences were done, before the Trial or De- termination thereof, then fuch Offences might not lawfully be tried, heard and determined by and before the faid Officers, but be remitted to be tried and determined by the Order of the Common Laws of this Realm; (3) by reafon whereof, the Punifhment of the faid Offenders in fuch Cafes hath been lone de- layed, and ibmetimes their Offences forgotten and not remembred, and fo efcape unpunifhed :' (4) Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, with the Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all Trea- fons, Mifprifions of Treafons, Murders, Manfhughters, Bloodftu-ds and malicious Strikings, by reafon whereof Blood is or fhall- be fhed againft the King's Peace, which hath been done fince the Feaft of All- Saints hft paft, or hereafter fhall be done, within any the Palaces or Houfes of his Highnefs or his Heirs, or any other Houfe or Houfes, at fuch Time as his Majefty hath been fince the faid Feaft of All 'Saints, or hereafter fhall happen to be then demurrant or abiding in his Royal Pe-fon, fhall be from thenceforth in- quired of, tried, heard and determined within any the King's Palaces or Houfes, or other Houfe or Houfes where his Majefty or his Heirs fhall hereafter repair unto, or be abiding, in Manner and Form following, That is to fay, Before the. Lord great Mailer, or- Lord Steward for the Time being, of the King's moft ho- nourable. .
 * which by himfelf oranyothi i (hould fell . y Flefh of the faid Carcafles, (hould have with him, where he
 * Aft among other Things more plainly appcarcth : Which Aft was in all Things by your faid Orators,
 * xxvii. Year of your moft noble Reign, among other Things, more plainly anpearcth : Which Acts before
 * Effeft of the faid Eftatute made the xxiv. Year of your moft noble Reign, fhould be to the utter undoing