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COLLECTION
Of &s;uch Statutes as do enjoyn the ob&s;ervation of
LENT,
And other Fi&s;h dayes throughout the year, with the Rea&s;ons
for enjoyning the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>ANd be it further enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid for the benefit and Commodity of this Realm,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">he Rea&s;ons <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> the keep|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">g of Lent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> pre&s;&s;ed in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e Stat. 5. <HI>El. p.</HI> 5.</NOTE> to
grow, as well in maintenance of the Navy, as in &s;pairing and increa&s;e of Fle&s;h victuall of this Realm.</P>
<P>IT &s;hall not be Lawfull to any per&s;on within this Realme to Eate any Fle&s;h upon any dayes now u&s;ually ob&s;erved as fi&s;h dayes (upon
paine to forfeit twenty &s;hillings for every time he &s;hall offend,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> forfeiture him that ea|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">h Fle&s;h upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> days. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> forfeiture him in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">o&s;e hou&s;e it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">aten.</NOTE> or el&s;e &s;uffer one moneths clo&s;e Impri&s;onment without baile or mainpri&s;e
35 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 7.) And every per&s;on within who&s;e hou&s;e any &s;uch offence &s;hall be done: and being privy and knowing thereof, and not effectu|ally
puni&s;hing and di&s;clo&s;ing the &s;ame unto &s;ome publique Officer having authority to puni&s;h the &s;ame, for every &s;uch offence &s;hall forfeit
thirt&eacute;en &s;hillings four pence (35 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 7.) All which forfeitures for not ab&s;taining from Meates &s;hall be divided into thr&eacute;e equall parts:
that is, one part to the u&s;e of the Qu&eacute;ene, the other to the Informer, the third to the common u&s;e of the Pari&s;h where the Offence &s;hall
be committed, and to be levied by the Church-wardens after any Conviction in that behalf, 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>But this Act concerning eating of Fle&s;h &s;hall not extend to any per&s;ons having &s;peciall Licen&s;es upon Cau&s;es contained in the &s;ame, and
grounded according to the Lawes of this Realme:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ndition up|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> Licence, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">at &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">en to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Licence.</NOTE> Every of which Licences &s;hall be void, unle&s;&s;e the &s;ame containe the&s;e Conditions, <HI>viz.</HI>
Every Licence made to any per&s;on of the degr&eacute;e of a Lord of the Parliament and his Wi&s;e, &s;hall be upon condition, that they &s;hall pay to the
Poore mens box within the Pari&s;h where they remaine, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the Fea&s;t of the Purification of our Lady, or within &s;ix days after, twenty &s;ix
&s;hillings eight pence, and to be payd within one moneth next after the &s;ame Fea&s;t upon paine of forfeiture of the &s;ame Licen&s;e: A Knight and
his Wife &s;hall pay yearely thirteen &s;hillings four pence. Every per&s;on under the &s;aid degr&eacute;e &s;hall pay yearely &s;ix &s;hillings eight pence to the &s;aid
u&s;e at the fore&s;aid time, and upon the fore&s;aid Condition. 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>All per&s;ons which by notorious &s;ickne&s;&s;e &s;hall be enforced for the recovery of their health to eate Fle&s;h for the time of their &s;ickne&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ho may have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">nce, &amp; who <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">y give li|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ce to eate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> upon fi&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">es, and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"></NOTE> &s;hall be
Licen&s;ed by the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, or by the Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate of &s;uch Pari&s;h where &s;uch per&s;on is &s;icke, or of one of the next
Pari&s;h adjoyning (If there be no Curate, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the &s;ame Pari&s;h, or if he be wilfull) which Licence &s;hall be &s;igned by the Bi&s;hop, Par&s;on,
<HI>&amp;c.</HI> and endure no longer then the time of &s;ickne&s;&s;e: And if the &s;ickne&s;s continue above eight dayes after the Licence granted, it &s;hall be Re|gi&s;tred
in the Church Book with the knowledge of one of the Church-wardens: And the party licen&s;ed &s;hall give to the Curate four pence for
every Entrie, and it &s;hall endure no longer but for his &s;ickne&s;&s;e. And if any Licence by any Par&s;on, Vicar, or Curate be granted to any
per&s;on other then &s;uch as evidently appeare to have n&eacute;ed thereof by rea&s;on of their &s;ickne&s;&s;e, not onely every &s;uch Licence &s;hall be void, but al&s;o
every &s;uch Par&s;on, Curate or Vicar &s;hall forfeit for every &s;uch Licence otherwi&s;e granted five Marks, 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 5.</P>
<P>Such per&s;ons as have upon good Con&s;iderations any lawfull Licence to eate Fle&s;h upon any Fi&s;h day,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="5 letters">ce to eate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> upon fi&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">es, mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> one di&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> Sea fi&s;h.</NOTE> be bound to have for every one
di&s;h of Fle&s;h &s;erved to be eaten at their Table, one u&s;uall di&s;h of Sea-Fi&s;h fre&s;h or &s;alt to be likewi&s;e &s;erved at the &s;ame Table, and to be ea|ten
or &s;pent without fraud or covin as the like kind is, or &s;hall be u&s;ually eaten on or &s;pent on Saturdayes (except &s;uch per&s;ons as for &s;ickne&s;&s;e
&s;hall for that time be licen&s;ed by the Bi&s;hop, Curate, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or by rea&s;on of age or other impediment allowed heretofore by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall
Lawes of this Realme) upon the pain afore&s;aid, 5 <HI>Eliz. 5. 1 Jac.</HI> 25.</P>
<P>No Butcher or other per&s;on,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> not to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> in Leut.</NOTE> whether he be licenced or not licen&s;ed to kill Fle&s;h, &s;hall from henceforth at any time in the time of Lent,
kill or dre&s;&s;e to the intent to put to &s;ale any Oxe or Oxen, B&eacute;eves, B&eacute;evets, Hogs, Calves, Rams, Ewes, or Weathers, except Oxen or
B&eacute;eves for victualling of Ships into forreign parts; and except all Fle&s;h to be killed thr&eacute;e dayes before Ea&s;ter yearely upon pain to forfeit and loo&s;e
the &s;ame Oxen, B&eacute;eves, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;o killed and dre&s;&s;ed contrary to this Statute, or the value of them, 1 <HI>Jac.</HI> 29.</P>
<P>All Iu&s;tices of the Peace,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">icers &s;ear|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">ng for Fle&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> in Lent.</NOTE> Mayors, Bayliffs, head Officers and Con&s;tables as well of Cities and Townes Corporats as in every Coun|ty
of this Realme, &s;hall have full authority yearely in the time of <HI>Lent,</HI> to enter into all hou&s;es of Victuallers and common Victualling hou&s;es
within their Iuri&s;dictions where &s;uch offences &s;hall be &s;u&s;pected to be committed, and finding any &s;uch Oxen, B&eacute;eves, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> killed or dre&s;&s;ed, or
any part or parcell of the &s;ame contrary to this Statute &s;hall take &s;ei&s;e the &s;ame as forfeited, and &s;hall give and di&s;tribute the &s;ame to
Pri&s;oners and other poore folks by their di&s;cretion, 1 <HI>Jac.</HI> 29.</P>
<P>Every Taverner,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">tuallers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;&s;ing of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> Inne-k&eacute;eper, k&eacute;eper of every common Tablinghou&s;e, common Cooke, common Tipler, or Alehou&s;e-k&eacute;eper offending
at any time hereafter in the dre&s;&s;ing of any Fle&s;h victuall, contrary to the Statute of <HI>Anno 5 Eliz.</HI> or contrary to this Statute, &s;hall not onely
forfeit all the Fle&s;h &s;o dre&s;&s;ed, but al&s;o the penalty impo&s;ed by the &s;aid Statute of 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> for every offence to be committed, the one half of all
which forfeitures (Except &s;uch forfeitures as &s;hall be found and taken by the Iu&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, Bayliffs, head Officers and Con|&s;tables
according to the Tenor of this Act) &s;hall be to the KING, and the other halfe to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;hall &s;ue or informe for the
&s;ame in any Court of Record by Action of Debt, Bin, Plaint, or Information, wherein no E&s;&s;oyn, Protection, or Wager of Law &s;hall be al|lowed,
<HI>&amp;c. 1 Jac.</HI> 29. To continue to the end of the fir&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of the next Parliament.</P>
<P><HI>A Clau&s;e in an Act 3 Car.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">tinuance <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e former <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">. 4. And &s;o much of an Act made the <HI>5th</HI> year of the Reigne of the late Qu&eacute;en <HI>Eliz.</HI> Intituled <HI>An Act touching certain
Politick Con&s;titutions made for the maintenance of the Navy,</HI> as is not repealed by any latter Statute, nor doth concern the eating of Fle&s;h, or
u&s;ing of fi&s;h upon the <HI>Wedne&s;day, &amp;c.</HI> together with all and every other additions, explanations, and alterations made thereunto, or thereof,
or of any part thereof by any Statute or Statutes made &s;ithence the making of the &s;aid la&s;t mentioned Act, and in force the la&s;t day of the Se&s;&s;i|on
of Parli. that was in the 21 yeare of the Reigne of the late King <HI>James, &amp;c.</HI> &s;hall continue in force untill the end of the next Se&s;&s;ion of Parl.</P>
<P>By a Clau&s;e in an Act of 17 <HI>Car.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> 1. <HI>ca~p.</HI> 4. The afore&s;aid Stat. be made perpetual. <HI>See the Abridgment of the late Statutes. Title, Continuance.</HI></P>
<P>Note that all the time of <HI>Lent,</HI> and every Vigil (or Holy day Eve) and every <HI>Friday</HI> &amp; <HI>Saturday</HI> (except <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI>-day falls thereon) and the embring
dayes throughout the whole year were u&s;ually ob&s;erved by the Laws and cu&s;tomes of the Realm as Fi&s;h days, which is proved by the preamble of the Stat.
2 &amp; 3 <HI>Ed 6. cap.</HI> 19. whereby al&s;o it is Enacted, that in tho&s;e times &s;uch ab&s;tinence &s;hould be u&s;ed: And the Stat. of 5 &amp; 6. <HI>Ed. 6. cap.</HI> 3. appoints what
dayes &s;hall be kept holy, the Eves of which are onely to be ob&s;erved for Fi&s;h-dayes.</P>
<P>And by the Stat. of 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> 5. Every <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> in the year (which &s;hall not happen to fall in <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> or <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> week) is limited to be ob&s;erved as a
Fi&s;h day, on which day no manner of per&s;on &s;hall eate any Fle&s;h otherwi&s;e then ought to be on the common <HI>Saturday.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">&rindx;</NOTE> Note that by a Provi&s;o in the Stat. of 5 <HI>Eliz. cap.</HI> 5. It is Enacted, that who&s;oever &s;hall by preaching, teaching, writing, or open &s;peaking no|tifie,
that any eating of Fi&s;h, or forbearing of Fle&s;h mentioned in this Stat. is of any nece&s;&s;ity for the &s;aving of the &s;oul of man, or that it is the
&s;ervice of God, otherwi&s;e then as other Politick Lawes are, and be, that then &s;uch per&s;ons &s;hall be puni&s;hed as &s;preaders of fal&s;e Newes are,
and ought to be.</P>
<P>The <HI>Faculty</HI> Office for granting Di&s;pen&s;ations and Licences to eate Fle&s;h, (by Act of Parliament) in any part of <HI>England,</HI> is at St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Chaine neer
St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard.</P>
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