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 538 C. 4. ■ Anno quinto Reginse Eliza br-th^e. A. 0.1562. cere, (hall be liament, That the Juftices of Pence, of every Shire, Riding- and Liberty within the Limits of their feveral afiiiTcd by the Commiflions, or the more Part of them, being then reliant within the fame, and the Sheriff of that County iT'l'fn- ", _ Pcace ' if he conveniently may, and every Mayor, Bailiff* Or other Head Officer within 'any City or Town Cor- 2 Roll 260.' porate wherein is any Juftice of Peace, within the Limits of the faid City or Town-Corporate, and of th i Bridgm, 119. laid Corporation, fhall before the tenth Day oVfime next coming, an 1 afterward fhall yearly at every Ge- neral Seiiions fxrit to be holden and kept after Rajhr or at fame Time convenient within fix Weeks next following every of the faid Feafts of Eajler, affembie themfelves together ;'( 2) and they (fo affembledj calling unto them fuch difcreet and grave Perfons of the faid County or of the faid City or Town Corporate, as they fhall think meet, and conferring together, refpefiting the Plenty or Scarcity of the Time and ottK-r . Circumftances neceflarily to be confidercd, ftall have Authority by Virtue thereof, within the Limits and Precincts of their feveral Commiflions, to limit, rate and appoint the Wages, as well of fuch and fo rr/any , . of the faid Artificers, Handycraftfmen, Hufbandmen or any other Labourer, Servant or Workman, v. hole Espjaujed by Wages in Time pall hath been by any Taw or Statute rated and appointed, : (3} as alfo the Wages of all i . ' ' °" .' other Labourers, Artificers, Workmen or Apprentices of Hufbandry, which have not been rated, (4.) £ Jones, Sir Th'o, they the fame Juftices, Mayors or Head Officers within' their feveral Commiflions or Liberties fhall thim: 47- meet by their Difcretions to be rated, limited or appointed -by the Year or by the Day,' Week, Month or Otherwife, with Meat and Drink or without Meat and Drink, (5) and what Wages every Workman or Labourer -(hall take by the Great, for Mowing, Reaping or Threfhing of Corn and Grain, or for Mowin* or Making of Hay, or forDitching, Paving, Railing or Hedging., by the Rod, Pearch, Lugg, Yard, Pole, Rope or Foot, and for any "other ivind of reafonable Labours or Service; (6) and fhall yearly before the twelfth D ay- of July next after the faid Affeffrnents and Rates fo appointed and made, certify the fame ingrafted in Parchment, with the Confiderations and Caufes thereof,' under their Hands and Seals, in- • to the Queen's molt honourable Court of Chancery ; (7) whereupon it fhall be lawful to the Lord Chancellor of England, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the Time being, upon Declaration thereof to, the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs or SuccelTors, or to the Lords and others of the Privy Council for the Time being,' attendant upon their Perfons, to caufe to be print. cl and fent down before the firft Day of September next after the faid Certificates into every County, to the Sheriff" and Juftices of Peace there, and »';%''' ►■ t0 t ^ le ^'^ M a y° r ? Bailiff" and Plead Officer*, ten or twelve Proclamations or more, containing in /h.ii! be made of ev ?ry of them the feveral Rates appointed by the laid Juftices' and other Head Officers, as is aforefaid, with the Rates of the Commandment by the faid Proclamations, to all Perfons, in the Name of the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs Wages ofSer- or SuccelTors. ftraightly to obferve the fame, and to all juftices, Sheriffs and other Officers, to fee the fame ■rants, &e. duly and federally obferved, upon the Danger of the Punifhment and Forfeiture limited and appointed by this Eftatute : (8) Upon Receipt whereof the faid Sheriffs, Juftices of Peace and the Mayor and Head Offi- cer in every City or Town Corporate, fliall caufe the fame Proclamations to be entred of Record by the Clerk of the Peace or by the Clerk of the City or Town Corporate : (9) And the faid Sheriffs, Juftices,' and other the faid Mayor and Head Officers, fhall forthwith in open Markets, upon the Market-Days before Michaelmas then enfuing, caufe the fame Proclamation to be proclaimed in every City or Market-Town within the Limits of their Cpmmi.ffiorf, and the fame Proclamation to be fixed in fome convenient Place of the faid City and Town, or in fuch of the moft occupied Market-Towns, as to the laid Sheriffs, Juftices of Peace and to the faid Mayor and Head Officers fhall be thought meet, e-mrimrance or XVI. And if the faid Sheriffs, Juftices of Peace, or the Mayor or Head Officer, fhall at their faid Gene- ve' Rates' of ra ^ Seffions or at any Time after within fix Weeks then following, upon their Afi'embly and Conference to- wages at the gether, think it convenient to retain and keep for the Year then to come the P„ates and Proportions of Wages Juftices Diftre- that they certified the Year before, or to change or to reform them or fome Part of them ; then they fhall tion ' before the faid twelfth Day of Jidy yearly certify into the faid Court of Chancery their Resolutions and De- terminations therein, to the Intent that Proclamations may accordingly be renewed and fent down. (2] And if it fhall happen, that there be no need of any Reformation or Alteration of the Rates of the faid Wages, but that the former fliall be thought meet to be continued ; then the Proclamations for the Year paft fhall remain in Force until new Proclamations upon new Rates concerning the faid Wages fhall be fent down according to the Form of this Eftatute. The Fine of tl-.e XVII. And be it further enacted by Authority of this prefent Parliament, That if all the faid Juftices of p.'if[' ; 'i'"' H^ *' Peace, refiant within the Counties where they are or fhall be Juftices of Peace, Mayors and Head Officers, which be alifent do not before the tenth Day of June next coming, and afterward yearly, appear and affembie at the faid Ge- ar the taxing of neral Seffions, or within fix Weeks next after faid General Seffio::s, and limitandrate the Wages of the faid Servants Wages. Servants and Labourers, or fhall not confider whether the former Rates made be meet to be continued or to be altered and reformed in Manner and Form aforefaid, or be negligent or remits in the Certificate thereof the faid Seffions, or at the Times of the faid Rates of Wages to be fet, within fix Weeks next after every fuch Seffions, and not vifited with any fuch Sicknefs as he could not travel thither without Peril and Danger of his Life, or not having any other lawful and good Excu'fe, to be allowed by the Juftices then affembled for the Rating and Taxing of Wages as is aforefaid, or by the more. Part of them, upon a corporal Oath and Affidavit to be taken and made openly before the faid Juftices upon the Holy Evangelifts, by fome credible Peribn aiTeffed and taxed in the Book of Subfidy of that County to the clear Value of five Pounds at the leaff, or by fuch other Perfon as the moft Part of fuch Juftices fhall allow and accept to take fuch Oath, fhall for fuch Default or Negligence forfeit unto the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and SuccelTors, ten Pounds of lawful Money of England. '• XVIII. And