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 702 C. 1,2. Anno quadragefimo tertio Reginse Elizabeths. A. D. 1601.. cap. I. F.XP. An Aft for Confirmation of Grants made to the Queen's Majefty,~c^t and of Letters Patents made by ii Co. 75. her Highnefs to others. Affurances made to or for the Queen of any Lands, &c. fince Feb. S. Anno 2; Lane 7. of her Reign; and all Letters Patents made by the Queen to others fince that Time, iSc. confirmed. 1R0IL.31. 'p w j lat Letter Patents this Statute doth extend, and to what not. A Saving of the Right of others. Sales of the Queen's Lands to be made by Force of a Commiffion in Being before the End of the Seffion of Parliament confirmed. Letters Patents fliall be expounded beneficially for the Patentee. Mif- naming, Mif- recital, Non-recital of the Lands : Lack of finding of Offices : Mif-recital or Non-reci- tal of Leafes: Mif-recital or Non-recital of the Queen's Eftate : No Eftate-tail recited: Lack of Cer- tainty, Cafling, Rating of the yearly Rent or Value : The Lands valued at more or lefs than they be : Mif-naming or not true naming of the Places where the Lands lie: The Lack of the true naming of the Lands, and of the Kinds, Sorts, &c. Mif-naming of the Corporation : Lack of Attornment, Live- ry and Seifin : Mif-naming of the late Tenants : Mif-naming of the late Owners notwithffanding. Letters Patents of Offices excepted. Recompence for the Overplus of Lands fold by the Queen to be made by the Rate of threefcore Years purchafe. Certain Grants excepted. Patents of concealed Lands. Patents made by Warrant of Commiffioners authorifed to make Compofition with others. Patents de- creed to be void by Act of Parliament, or in any of the Queen's Courts of Record. Monopolies. Pa- tents touching Penal Statutes. The Right of others faved. Patents of Lands whereof there is an E- ftate-tail in the Queen, Leafes made to the Queen by the Bifhop of Carlifle excepted. 34 & 35 H. 8. c, 21. 1 Ed. 6. c. S. 7 Ed. 6. c. 3. 4 & 5 Ph. & M. c. 1. 18 El. c. 2. 35 El. c. 3. CAP. II. An Act for the Relief of the Poor. Who (hall be TQ E it enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, That the Churchwardens of every Parifh,. Overfeers for gy an j f our ^ three or two fubftantial Houfholders there, as fhall be thought meet, having refpeif. to the Office°°Duty and Proportion and Greatnefs of the fame Parifh and Parifhes, to be nominated yearly in Eafter Week, or Account, &c within one Month after Ea/ter, under the Hand and Seal of two or more Juftices of the Peace in the fame 39EI1Z.C. 3. County, whereof one to be of the £hwri/m, dwelling in or near the fame Parifh or Diviiion where the 37 Geo. 2. c. 3. fame Parifh doth lie, fhall be called Overfeers of the Poor of the fame Parifh : And they, or the greater i6Gto,2.c,i8. p art of them, fliall take Order from Time to Time, by and with the Confent of two or more fuch Ju- Law'*4Q ' 144? fti ces of Peace as is aforefaid, for fetting to work the Children of all fuch whofe Parents fhall not by the 4 Mud/157. ' faid Churchwardens and Overfeers, or the greater Part of them, bethought able to keep and maintain Cro. Car. 92. their Children ; and alio for fetting to work all fuch Perfons, married or unmarried, having no Means to Who (hall be maintain them, and ufe no ordinary and daily Trade of Lifs to get their Living by : And alfo to raife "xed towards we ekly or otherwife (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parfon, Vicar and other, and of every Occupier th»Poor. of Lands, Houfes, Tithes impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal-Mines, or faleable Underwoods in A convenient the faid Parifh, in fuch competent Sum and Sums of Money as they fliall think fit) a convenient Stock of Stock (hall be Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron and other necelfary Ware and Stuff", to fet the Poor on work: And provided to fet a ]f competent Sums of Money for and towards the neceffary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, the Poor on an( j f^-jj ther among them, being poor and not able to work, and alfo for the putting out of fuch Chil- Vin.-K16~4.14. dren.to be Apprentices, to be gathered out of the fame Parifh, according to the Ability of the fame Pa- Burn, V.2-Z01. rifh, and to do and execute all other Things, as well for the difpofing of the faid Stock as otherwife con- The Names of cerning the Pnsmifies, as to them mail feem convenient : < i' C i l J n- recelV u II* Which faid Churchwardens and.Overfeers fo to be nominated, or fuch of them as fhall not be let by ft d in S Sicknefs or other j ufi Excufe, to be allowed by two fuch Juftices of Peace or more as is aforefaid, fhall Book. ' meet together at the leaft once every Month in the Church of the faid Parifh, upon the Sunday in the Af- 3&4W. &M. ternoon after Divine Service, there to confider of fome good Courfe to be taken, and of fome meet Order c. 11. §. 11. to be fet down in the Premiffes ; (2) and fhall within four Days after the End of their Year, and after n?n 0verleers other Overfeers nominated as aforefaid, make and yield up to fuch two Juftices of Peace as is aforefaid, a ewervMobth' true anc ^ P er f c & Account of all Sums of Money by them received, or rated and felled and not received, 2 Bulftr. 345', an d ail ° °f mc h Stock as fhall be in their Hands, or in the Hands of any of the Poor to work, and of all &c 35S. other Things concerning their faid Office; (3) and fuch Sum or Sums of Money as fliall be in their 5 Mod. 179. Hands, fhall pay and deliver over to the faid Churchwardens and Overfeers newly nominated and appoin- The Overfeers ted as aforefaid; (4) upon Pain that every one of them abfenting themfelves without lawful Caufe as Account. aforefaid, from fuch Monthly Meeting for the Purpofe aforefaid, or being negligent in their Office, or in The Overfeers t he Execution of the Orders aforefaid, being made by and with the Aflent of the faid Juftices of Peace, Abfe'ilceOT or zn Y two °f tnem before-mentioned, to forfeit for. every fuch Default of Abfence or Negligence twenty Negligence. Shillings. A Prov.fion UJ- And be lt a h° enacted, That if the faid Juftices of Peace do perceive, that the Inhabitants of any- where the Inha- Parifli are not able to levy among themfelves fufficient Sums of Money for the Purpofes aforefaid ; That bitantsofany then the faid two Juftices fliall and may tax, rate and aifefs as aforefaid, any other of other Parifhes, or Parifh are not out of any Parifh, within the Hundred where the faid Parifh is, to pay fuch Sum and Suirs of Money to trfVo t C t ^ le Churchwardens and Overfeers of the faid poor Parifh for the faid Purpofes, as the faid Juftices fhall 2 Buift 01 ^!. think fit, according to the Intent of this Law: (2) And if the faid Hundred fliall not be thought to the z Ventr. 350. l a "l •