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A.D. 1604. that in every such Case every such Person and Child, for and during such Time as he or she shall so continue in such Conformity and Obedience, shall be freed and discharged of all and every such Disability and Incapacity as is before-mentioned.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That no Woman, nor No Woman or any Child under the Age of one and twenty Years (except Sailors or Ship-boys, or the Apprentice or Factor of some Merchant in Trade of Merchandize) ahall be permitted to paas over the Seas (except the same shall be by Licence of the King, his Heirs or Successors, or of some six or more of the King's Privy Council, thereunto first had under their Hands) (2) upon Pain that the Officers of the Port that shall willingly or negligently suffer any such so to pass, or shall not enter the Names of such Passengers licenced, shall forfeit his Office, and all his Goods and Chattels; (3) and upon Pain that the Owner of any Ship or Vessel that shall wittingly or willingly carry any such over the Seas without Licence as is aforesaid, shall forfeit his Ship or Vessl and all the Tackle: (4) And every Master or Mariner of or in any such Ship or Vessel offending as aforesaid, shall forfeit all their Goods, and suffer Imprisonment by the Space of twelve Months, without Bail or Mainprize.

IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That no Person after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next shall keep any School, or be a School-master, out of any the Universities or Colleges of this Realm, except it be in some publick or free Grammar-School, or in some such Nobleman's or Noblewoman's, or Gentleman's or Gentlewoman's House, as are not Recusants, or where the same School-master shall be specially licenced thereunto by the Archbishop, Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualties of that Diocese; (2) upon Pain that as well the School-master, as also the Party that shall retain or maintain any such School-master contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act shall forfeit each of them for every Day so wittingly offending, forty Shillings. (3) The one Half of all the Penalties and Sums of Money before-mentioned to be forfeited, to be to the King, his Heirs and Successors, the other to him or them that shall or will sue for the same, in any the Courts of Record in Westminster, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in which no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed.

HEREAS the King's most excellent Majesty, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and other his Highness Subjects of this Realm of England and Wales, have in divers Places of the same many Franchises, Jurisdictions, Privileges and Liberties to keep Court-Leets or Court-Barons, for the true Administration of Justice, and to the Punishing and Suppressing of Offences; the Profits and Perquisites of which Courts have heretofore been used to be levied and collected by the Bailiff or other Minister of such Court, and by him accounted for to his Highness Progenitors, or other Lords or Ladies of such Courts and Manors, and as of Right it ought so to be: (2) But now by Reason of the great Increase of People, the said Profits and Perquisites of Courts are grown to be of a better yearly than in ancient Time it hath been, divers that are now Stewards of such Courts have heretofore in their own Names, or in the Names of some other to their Use, obtained and gotten divers Grants of all the private Gain of Profits and Perquisites of such Courts whereof they are Stewards, whereby many of his Majesty's Subjects are unjustly vexed, and by grievous Fines and Amerciaments unduly punished, greatly to the wronging and impoverishing of the Tenants and Inhabitants where such Stewards are, proceeding out of a greedy Desire to make and obtain an undue and extraordinary Gains to themselves:' ( 3 ) It is therefore by the Authority of this present Parliament established and enactted. That no Steward, Deputy-Steward, or other Under-Steward of any the Courts aforesaid, shall directly or indirectly, in his own Name, or in the Name of any other, from and after the Expiration of one Year next after the End of this same Sesson of this present Parliament, take, receive, or make Benefit to his own Use, in Money, Goods, or any other Thing, to the Value of Twelve-pence or more, by Virtue or Colour of any Demise or Grant hereafter to be made of any the Profits or Perquisites, or Amerciaments of any such Courts whereof they are Steward, which rightfully shall belong to the Lords of the same; (4) upon Pain that every Steward offending contrary to the Tenor of this present Act of Parliament, shall for every such his Offence forfeit the Sum of forty Pounds, and to be disabled ever after to be Steward of such Court, or of any other; (5) the one half of the Forfeiture to be to our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors; the other Half to any of his Majesty's Subjects that shall complain in any of his Highness Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information; in which Suit no Essoin, Protection, Wager of Law, or other dilatory Plea shall be allowed.}}

HEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the fifth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth of famous Memory, intituled. An Act touching divers Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandry, and Apprentices, it was provided and enacted by the Authority of the same Parliament, for the Declaration and Limitation what Wages Servants, Labourers and