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 .5.8 KING JAMES THE S E X T occupie the fame in time cumming, according to their richtes , keepand the Setterdayes flop , and fik diftance betwixt every Heck, as the Adles of Parliament appoyntis. And in cafe they failzie therein, to beaccufa- bill, and fufter punifhment , as the remanent tranfgreflbures of the faidis Aftes. iii. Execution may be againft ony thief t and relfe, committed be ony uther of the famin Uanne. OUR SOVERAINE LORD, And his three Eftaites, in this prefent Parliament , having con- fiddered the mony grievous oppretfiones and cruelties, quhair-unto his peaceabill and gude fubjecles ar fubjedt, findis nathing mair intollerabill , nor the deadly feeaes , borne be the Clannes of thieves, broken men, and Sorneris upon trew men , for the ilauchter , taking , hurting of the faidis thieves , broken men , and Sorneris, taking and bringing them to Juftice , or in the defence and ridding of the trew mennis guddes , ftollen and reft fra them. And how the faidis Clannes of thieves, for the maift pairt ar companies of wicked men, coupled in fellowfchippes be occafion of their fur-names , or neir dwellings togidder , or throw keiping focietie in thieft, or receipt of thieft , not fubjected to the ordinar courfe of Juftice , nortoonyane Landis- lord, that will mak them anfwerabill to the Lawes , bot commounlie dwelland on findrie mennes landes , againft the gude- will of their Landis-lordes, quhairthrow trew Men opprefled be them , can have na remeid, at the hancles of their Maifters, bot for their defence, aroft-tennmesconftrainedtofeekeredresoftheir skaithes of the haill Clanneor fik of them as they happen to apprehend, like as the haill Clanne , commoun- lie beads feed, for the hurt received be onie member thereof, quhidder be execution of Lawes, be ordour of Juftice, or uther wife. IT IS therefore declared, ftatute and ordained, be OUR SOVERAINE LORD, with ad- vife oi his three Eftaites, and haill body of this prefent Parliament : That it fall be lefum to all his obedient and gude fubjectes, that fall receive onie harme or skaith , throw ftouth or maifterfull reif of their guddes , to be committed alter the dait hereof, be onie of the faidis notorious thieves, broken men, or Sorneris of the faidis Clannes of thieves, in time cumming, To apprehend, flay, andarreift, the bodies and guddes oftheperfones, offending againft them or onie uthers, being of the fame Clanne, their fervandes,depen- ders, or partakers , quhairever they fall finde them , in onie partes of this Realme , ay and quhill the princi- palis, or uthers of the faid Clan , caufe the faidis harmes and skaithes be redrefled , to the fatisfadtion of the fufteiners thereof : oratleaft, findefuffkientfovertietothateffeft, to the contentment oftheperfon that lies fufteined the skaith, in-cafe it fall be found be order and tryall, according to Juftice , that the offender and deed-doer wes onie wayes receipt, fupplied , and mafnteined amanges the faid Clan , after the offence committed. 113.' Againft the excejfe of coafielie C/ei thing, And ' iranfporting ofWooll, quhairby the pure may be the better halden in IVarke. THE Kingis Majeftie, and Eftaites of this prefent Parliament , Confidering the great abufe , {landing amang his Subjeftes of the meaneEftaite, prefuniingtocounterfaicthisHienes and his Nobilitie, in the ufe and wearing of coafielie Cleithing of Siikes of all fortes, Layne, Cammeraige, Freinzies, and Paf- mentes of Gold, Silver and Silk , and VVollen Claith , maid and brocht from uther forey ne Cuntries , quhair- throw the puces of the fame is growen to fik exorbitant dearth, as it is not abill to be langer fufteined without the great skaith and inconvenient ol the commoun weill, howbeit God hes granted to this Realme fuflicient commodities for cleithing of the inhabitantes thereof within the felfe, gif the peopell wer verteouflie em- ployed in woorking of the fame at hame, quhairby great numbers of pure folkes , now wandering in begging, michtbereleived, alfweill to the honefty, as wealth of the Cuntrie. For remeid quhairof, It is ftatute and ordained bee our Soveraine Lord, with advife of his Eftaites and haill body of this prefent Parliament : That naneofhisHienesSubjecles, Man or Woman, being under the degrees of Dukes, Earles, Lordes of Par- liament, Knichtes , or landed Gentil-men , that hes or may fpend of frie zeirlie Rent , twa thoufand markes , orfiftyChaldersofVictuallatleaft, or their Wives, Sonnes or Douchteris , fall after the firft day of May nixt-to-cum, ufe or weare in their Cleithing, orapparell, or lyning thereof, onie Claith of Gold , or Sil- ver, Velvot ,[Satine, Damask , Taffataes, oronybegairies, Frenzies, Pafments, orbroderie of Gold, Silver, orollk: norzitLayne, Cammerage, or Wollen Claith, maid and brocht from onie foreine Cun- tries, under the paine of ane hundreth pundes of every Gentil-man landed, ane hundreth markes of every Gentil-man unlanded, and fourtie pundes of ilk Zea-man, for every day that hee , his Wife, .Sonne or Douchter tranfgreffis this prefent Aft , The ane half e to the ufe of O U R SOVERAINE LORD, or Lord of the Regalitie, within quhais boundes the tranfgreflbures are apprehended : and the uther halfe to the Schireffes , Stewartes and Baillies within their Jurifdiftiones , Proveftes, Aldermen, and Baillies with- in Burrowes and Cities : and to the Stewartes and Baillies within Regalities, for their paines. Quhilkis or- dinar Judges be themfelves, their Deputes and Officiars , fall have power to atteach and arreift the yerfons tranfgreflouresofthe faid Act, and to put them in Waird, quhill they bee tryed upon the faid tranfgreffion, be ane Aflife, quhilk fall be done within the fpace of three dayes after their apprehenfion at the fartheft. And being found culpable, to halde them in Waird , quhill they have payed the faid paine , and found tSbvertie to abfteine