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 124 C. 1.(2.) Amio tertio Caroli I. A. D. 1627. 5 H. 3. Stat. I. ' Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm, no Man ought to be adjudged to Death zc'eJ ^ St.it ' but by the Laws eftablifhed in this your Realm, either by the Cuftoms of the fame Realm, or by Acts of c. 4. ■ • 5- < Parhament j (3) Andwhereasno Offender of what Kind- foever is exempted from the Proceedings to be a% fid. 3. c. 3. ' ufed, and Punifhment's to- be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm : N^verthelefs of ' late Time divers Commiffions under your Majefty's Great Seal have ilTued forth, by which certaia ' the Land, according to the Jurtice of Martial Law, againft fuch Soldiers or Mariners, or other dil- ' folute Perfons joining with them, as ftiould commit any Murther, Robbery, Felony, Mutiny or other ' Death, by the fame Laws and Statutes alio they might, and by no other ought to have been judged ' IX. And alfo fundry grievous Offenders, by Colour thereof cHlMing arf Exertifitidn, haVfe efcaped ' able only by Martial Law, and by Authority of fuch Comniiffioiis as aforefaid: (2) Which Commif- ' fioris, and all other of like Nature, are wholly and direiJtly contrary, to the faid Laws and Statutes ' of this your Realm :'. ' ThePetltioB, X. They do therefore humbly pray your Moft Excellent Majefty, That no Man heresfter be com-^ 25 Ed. I. Stat. f. pelled to, make or yield any Gift, Loan, EenevolenceV Taix, "or fuch-like Charge, without common Confent by A6t of Parliament; (2) And that none be called to make Anfwer, or take llich Oath, or to give Attendance, or be contined, or otherwife molefted or difquieted concerning the fairie, or for Refii- fal thereof; (,3) And that no Freeman, in any fuch Manner as is before-mentioned, be imprifoned or detained ; jf 4 j And, that your Majefty would be pleafed to remove the faid Soldiers and Mariners, arid 3 Inft. 52. jjj^^ ygyj. People may not be fo burthened in Tiirie to come; (5) And that the aforefaid eommiffions, for proceeding by Martial Law, may be revoked and annulled ; and that hereafter no CommilTions of like Nature may iffue forth to any Perfqn or Perfons whatfoever to be executed as aforefaid, left by Co- Ibur of them any of your Majefty's Subjefts be deftroyed, or put to death contrary to the Laws and! Franchife of the Land. XL All which they moft humbly pray of your Moft Excellent Majefty a§ their Rights artd' Liberties* accordirig to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm'; and that your Majefty would alfo vouchfafe to de- clare. That' the Awards, Doings and Proceedings, to the Prejudice of your People in any of the Prfeiniffes Ihallnotbe drawn hereafter into Confecjuence or Example; (2) And that your Majefty, would be alio fracioufly pleafed, for the further Comrort and Safety of your People, to declare your Royal Will arid 'leafure, That in the Things aforefaid all your Officers and Minifters (hall ferve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, as they tender the honour of your Majefty, and the Profperity of this H^itb -what Dig!- Kingdom; 3ua guidem Petitione leiia (jf plenius intelleffaper diiium Dominum Regem talker eji refponfum in Z^sciilitt"' P^^"" P^rliamkto, viz. Soit droit fait come eft Defu-e. ^« Ru/hwiirti's Ctfielfliiiify Vtlr I. ii/hUb gi'ttes an Acuunt of the toisle Precefs cf this Petition and Anflaer, loell wortbj of firufaL < ■ C A P. I. (IL) An A^ for the further Reformation of fundry Abufes committed on the Lord's Day, com- .. monly called Sunday. A Carrier, &c. that travels on « J7 Waggoners, Carters, Wain-men, Butchers, and Drovers of Cattle, to the great Diflionour of JhaiKo'r'feit'^06 ' God, and Reproach of Religion:' (2) Be it therefore enacfted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, and »Gu-. i.<. 1^ " Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Carrier vvith any Horfe or Horfes, nor Waggon-men with any Waggon or Waggons, nor Carmen with any Cart or Carts, nor Wainman vvith any Wain or Wains, nor Dro- vers with any Cattle, fliall after forty Days next after the End of this prefent SeffiOn of Parliament, by Butchers that themfelves, or any other, travel upon the faid Day, upon Pairi that every Perfon and Perfons fo offend- feii or kill Vic- ing Ihalllofe and forfeit twenty Shillings for every fuch Offence: (3) Or if any Butcher, by himfelf tuai upon that f^x any other for him by his Privity of Confent, ftiall after the End of the faid forty Days kill or fell 6s.^8d. "' any Vi6tual upon the faid Day, that then every fuch Butcher (hall forfeit and lofe for ^very fuch Offence the ^umoffix S.hillingsand eightrpence; (4) the faid Offences and every of them beitig done in View of any Juftice of Peace, Mayor or other Head Officer, of any City or Town Corporate within their Limits refpedively, or being proved upon Oath by two or more Witneffes, or by the Confeffion of the Party offending, before any fueh Juftice, Mayor or Head Officer, within their feveral Limits refpedtively, After c v' '^'^ ^^^^- P"^'^'' by, this A(5t to minifter an Oath to fuch Wi trie Is or Witneffes : (5) All which Sums or (ionTanTb'y' Penalties (hair or may be levied by any CohftaMe or Church-warden, b'y Warrant fi-om any fuch Juftice Wai'rant from a or Juftices of the Peace, Mayor or other Head" Officer, as aforefaid, within their feveral Limits where Jultioe, &o. the fy^jj
 * Perfons have been affigned and appointed Commiflioners, with Power and Authority to proceed within
 * Outrage or Mifdemeanot whatfoever j aid by fuch fummary Gourie. and Order as is agreeable to Mar-
 * tial Law, and as is ufed in Armies in Time of War, to proceed to th'e Trial and Condemnation of ftich
 * Offenders, and them to.caufe to b6 executed and put to Death according to the Law Martial:
 * VIIL By Pretext whereof fome of your Majefty's Subjects have been by fome of the laid Com-.
 * miffioners put to Death, when and wbcre, irf by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deferved
 * and executed: ; • ' '^ • i ■ ■•■ ii
 * the Punifhments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Rfealm, by Reafon that divers of
 * your Officers and Minifters of Juftice have unjuftly refufed or fofbdfh to proceed agaiirft fuch Of-
 * tenders according to the fame Laws and Statutes, upon Pretence that the faid Offenders were punilh-
 * TT^'Orafmuch as the Lord's Day commonly called Sunday^ is much broken and profaned by Carriers,
 * wherein fuch Offence fliall be committed: To which End every fuch Juftice, Mayor or Head Officer'