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Rh, liberties or jurisdictions of such Citie, borough, or townes corporate, But that it may and shall be lawfuil to the Justice or Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Bayliffes, and other head officers of those Cities, Boroughes, and townes corporate, where there be such Justices of the Peace, to proceed to the execution of this Act, within the precindt and compasse of their liberties, in such ma-ner and forme as the Justices of Peace in any County may or ought to doe within the sme County, by vertue of this Acte, any thing in this Act to the contrary therof notwithstanding.

IX. Provided alwaies, that this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to the poore people for the time being, in the Hospitall, called S. Thomas Hospitall, otherwise called the Kings Hospitall in the Borough of Southwarke neere adioyning to the City of London, but that the Mayor, comminalty and Citizens of the saide City of London for the time being, shall and may have the rule, order and government of the said Hospitall, and of the poore people therein for the time being, any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

X. Provided alwaies, that this Acte or any thing therein contained, or any authority thereby given, mail not in any wise extend to disinherite, prejudice or hinder John Dutton of Dutton, in the County of Chester Esquire, his heires or assignes for, touching or concerning any liberty, preeminence, authority, jurisdiction or inheritance, which the saide John Dutton now lawfully useth, or hath, or lawfully may or ought to use within the County Palatine of Chester, and the County of the City of Chester, or either of them, by reason of any ancient Charters of any Kings of this Land, or by reason of any prescription, usage, or title whatsoever. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all fines and forfeitures appointed or to grow by this present act, (except such as are otherwise limited & appointed by this present Act) shal wholy go & be imploied to the use of the reparations & maintenance of the said houses of correction, & stocke & store thereof, or reliefe of the poore where the offence shalbe committed at the discretion of the said Justices of the peace of the same limit, citie, borough or towne corporat, And that all fines & forfeitures appointed or to grow by conviction of any person according to this present Act, shall by warrant under the hands & seales of any two or more of the justices of the peace of the same County, city, borough or towne corporat, be levied by distresse & sale of the goods & chattels of the offender, which sale shalbe good in the Law against such offender. And that if any of the said offences shal be confessed by the offender, or that the same shalbe proved by two sfufficient & lawful witnesses, before such two or more Justices of the Peace, that then every such person shall forthwith stand and be in the Lawe convicted thereof.

XI. And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaide, that any two or more Justices of the Peace within all the said several shires, cities, boroughs or townes corporat, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall have full power by authority of this present Acte, to heare and determine all causes that shall grow or come in question by reason ot this Act.

XII. And be it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seale of England for the time being, shall & may at all times hereafter by vertue of this present Act, without further warrant, make, and direct Comission or Commissions under the great Seale of England, to any person or persons, giving them or some of them thereby authority, aswell by the oathes of good and lawfull men, as of witnesses or examination of parties, or by any other lawfull waies or meanes whatsoever, to enquire what sums of money or other things have beene or shall be collected or gathered for, or towards the erection of any houses of Correction, or any stockes or other things to set poore on worke, or for the maintenance thereof, at any time after the seventeenth day of November, in the eighteenth yeere of the raigne of the Queenes most excellent Majestie, and by whom the same were or shail bee collected or gathered, and to whole hands commen, and to what use, and by whose direction the same was or shall be imployed. And to call all and every such person and persons, and their sureties, and every of their Executors or Administrators to accompt: And to compell them and every of them by attachment of their goods or bodies to appeare before them for the same, and to heare and determine the same, and to levie such money and things as they shall finde not to have bin duly imployed upon the said Houses ot Correction, or Stocks, or upon other like uses, having in such other like uses respevt of things past by the said Commissioners to be allowed of, either by distresse and sale of the goods and chattels of such persons as they shall thinke fit to be chargeable or answerable for the same, or by imprisonment of their bodies at their discretion: And that the said Commissioners shall have ful power and authority to execute the same Comission according to the tenor and purport thereof: And that all their proceedings, doings, iudgements, and executions by force and authority thereof, shall be and remaine good and availeable in the law: which said money so levied by the said Commissioners, shall be delivered and imployed for the erecting or maintenance of the same. XIII. Provided alwayes, neverthelesse, that every Sea-faring man suffering shipracke, not having wherewith to relieve himselfe in his travels home-wards, but having a testimoniall under the hand of some one Justice of the Peace, of or neere the place where he landed, setting downe therein the place and time where and where landed, and the place of the parities dwelling or birth, unto which hee is to passe, and a convenient time therein to bee limitted for his passage, shall and may without incurring the danger and penalty of this Act in the usuall wayes directly to the place unto which he is directed to passe, and within the time in such his testimoniall limited for his passage, aske and receive such reliese as shall be necessary in and for his passage.

XIV. Provided also, that this Statute nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to any children under the age of seven yeers, nor to any such glassemen as shall be of good behaviour, and doe travell in or through any Countrey without begging, having licence for their travelling under the hands and seals of three Justices of the Peace of the same Countie where they travell, whereof one to be of the Quorum. XV. And