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<P>A DECREE OF Starre-Chamber: Concerning Inmates, and diui|ded Tenements, in London or three miles about:</P>
<P>Made the fourteenth of February la&s;t pa&s;t. 1636.</P>
<P>Imprinted at London by <HI>Robert Barker,</HI> Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;ty: And by the A&s;&s;ignes of <HI>Iohn Bill.</HI> 1636.</P>
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<Q LANG="frm">DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
<Q LANG="frm">HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<FIGDESC>royal blazon surmounted by a crown and lion and flanked by the English lion on one side and the Scottish unicorn on the other</FIGDESC>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>In Camera Stellata coram Con|cilio ibidem, <DATE>decimo quarto die Fe|bruarij, Anno duodecimo CAROLI Regis.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_THis day was produced in Court a Decree drawne and penned, by the aduice of the Right Honourable the Lord <HI>Kee|per</HI> the Lord <HI>Priuy Seale,</HI> the two Lords <HI>chiefe Iu&s;tices,</HI> the Lord <HI>chiefe Baron,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Judges of His <HI>MAIESTIES</HI> Courts of <HI>Kings Bench, Com|mon Pleas,</HI> and <HI>Court of Ex|chequer,</HI> touching Jnmates, and diuided Tenements, and the &s;ame being read in Court, and well liked
<PB REF="3">of by all the Honourable pre&s;ence there &s;itting, the &s;aid Decree was directed and ordered to be here re|corded: and to the end the &s;ame may be publike, and that euery one whom it may concerne may take notice thereof; The Court hath now al&s;o ordered, that the &s;aid Decree &s;hall be &s;peedily Printed, and that the &s;ame he &s;ent to His <HI>MAIESTIES</HI> Printer for that purpo&s;e.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE>In Camera Stellata coram Con|cilio ibidem, <DATE>decimo quarto die <HI>Februarij, Anno duodecimo</HI> CAROLI Regis.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by a Decree made in this Ho|nourable Court, the twentieth day of O|ctober, in the four|tieth yeare of the Reigne of our late Souereigne Lady Queene ELIZABETH, vpon the infor|mation of Her Maie&s;ties then Attourney general, again&s;t <HI>Rice
<PB N="2" REF="4" MS="y">Griffith,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Scrips,</HI> (who contrary to the Proclamation publi&s;hed and &s;et out the &s;e|uenth day of Iuly, in the two and twentieth yeare of Her Ma|ie&s;ties Reigne, had erected and built Tenements, and diuided them into &s;euerall Roomes, wherein diuers poore Tenants dwelt, that liued and were main|tained by the reliefe of the Pa|ri&s;h, and begged abroad in other place) the &s;aid offenders were &s;entenced. And as for the pul|ling down or reforming of any Hou&s;e new built or diuided contrary to the &s;aid Proclamati|on within the Citie of London,
<PB REF="4" MS="y">or the compa&s;&s;e of three miles thereof, (in which any poore or impotent per&s;ons then did, or thereafter &s;hould dwell or abide) for that if the &s;ame hou&s;es &s;hould bee pulled downe, de&s;troyed or reformed, other habitations mu&s;t bee prouided for them at the charge of the Pari&s;hes where they were or &s;hould be dwelling; The Court did thinke fit to for|beare and re&s;pite the doing ther|of, but did order and adiudge, that all and euery &s;uch poore and impotent per&s;ons, which did or &s;hould dwell and inhabite in any new buildings or diuided tene|ments, erected and diuided con|trary
<PB REF="5" MS="y">to the effect and intent of her Highnes &s;aid Proclamation, and were or &s;hould in any wi&s;e be driuen to liue by begging, or to bee releeued by almes within the Citie of London, or any o|ther place within the compa&s;&s;e of three miles thereof, &s;hould, and might, during the time of his or their life or liues, abide and dwell in the &s;ame, without giuing or paying any manner of rent, &s;er|vice, or other recompence vnto the Landlords or any other, for, or in re&s;pect of the &s;ame, and not bee thence remooued, vnle&s;&s;e they &s;hould after become able to liue of them&s;elues; and that the
<PB REF="5" MS="y">&s;aid Landlord, Owner, or any other that claimed intere&s;t, to, or for any rent or rents, growing, ari&s;ing, or payable for any of the &s;aid new buildings, or diuided Tenements &s;o inhabited, or to be inhabited with poore people as afore&s;aid, &s;hould be enioyned, and vpon that &s;entence and De|cree take &s;ufficient notice and warning, that he or they &s;hould not implead, incumber, di&s;quiet, or mole&s;t any of the &s;aid poore Tenants, for any Rents, Coue|nants, Conditions, Promi&s;es, or Agreements, touching, or in any wi&s;e concerning the &s;aid Tene|ments, new buildings, or any of
<PB REF="6" MS="y">them, for the leuying, or reco|uering of any rent, &s;eruice, or other con&s;ideration in liew of any rent.</P>
<P>And for that the new build|ings and diui&s;ions of &s;undry hou|&s;es within the Citie of London and three miles compa&s;&s;e there|of, contrary to the tenour of the &s;aid Proclamation, had beene, and was occa&s;ion of great char|ges vnto the Pari&s;hes of the &s;aid Citie and Precinct afore&s;aid, whereby the &s;aid Pari&s;hes were &s;till ouermuch burdened with poore and impotent perfons; It was therefore ordered and de|creed, that all &s;uch Landlords,
<PB REF="6" MS="y">or Owners of &s;uch buildings or diui&s;ions, where&s;oeuer they &s;hould dwell, &s;hould contribute and giue &s;uch like ratable and rea&s;onable allowance with the &s;aid Pari&s;hioners, where &s;uch buildings and diui&s;ions were, to|wards the finding and maintain|ing of the poore of the Pari&s;h, in which &s;uch buildings were, or &s;hould bee erected or diuided, contrary to the &s;aid Proclamati|on, as &s;hould bee apportioned and allotted him of them to pay, if hee or they were dwelling in the &s;aid pari&s;h.</P>
<P>And it was further ordered and decreed, that after the death
<PB REF="7" MS="y">or departure of &s;uch poore peo|ple, as did, or &s;hould inhabit the &s;ame hou&s;es or diuided Tene|ments afore&s;aid, the hou&s;es there|by being become voide; Then the Lord Maior, and Iu&s;tices of Peace neere unto the Citie ad|ioyning, thereby were comman|ded to reform the &s;aid diuided Tenements, and to pro&s;trate, pull downe, and deface the &s;aid new buildings in &s;uch &s;ort as the &s;ame &s;hould be no more fit for habita|tion, and the timber and wood thereof to be conuerted and di&s;|po&s;ed in &s;uch manner, as by the &s;aid Proclamation is required, as al&s;o to take order in all other the
<PB REF="7" MS="y">premi&s;es, That the &s;aid Decree &s;hould bee duely ob&s;erued and kept, and if any &s;hould be ob&s;ti|nate, then to binde &s;uch Land|lords as &s;hould ob&s;tinately and wilfully di&s;obey the &s;aid Decree, to appeare in this Honourable Court, to an&s;wer their con|tempt therein.</P>
<P>And whereas the nine and twentieth of Nouember, in the &s;euenth yeare of the Reigne of King IAMES of ble&s;&s;ed memo|rie, this honourable Court did decree and order; That the &s;aid Decree taken the twentieth day of October in the &s;aid fourtieth yeare of the &s;aid late Queene,
<PB REF="8" MS="y">&s;hould be pre&s;ently, and from time to time thereafter more &s;e|uerely looked into, and put inex|ecution; And his Maie&s;ties lear|ned Coun&s;el, and al&s;o the Lord Maior and Aldermen of Lon|don, together with all Iu&s;tices of Peace, and other his Maie&s;ties Officers what&s;oeuer, which the &s;ame may any way concerne, were &s;traitly charged and requi|red, that they, and euery of them, &s;hould from time to time there|after diligently and &s;trictly cau&s;e, and &s;ee the &s;aid Decree to be in all points duely ob&s;er|ued and put in execution, and termely to make certificate to
<PB REF="8" MS="y">this honourable Court of their proceedings therein, and of &s;uch per&s;ons as they &s;hould finde to offend in that behalfe, whereup|on on this Court did purpo&s;e to proceed again&s;t them for their contempts with very &s;euere pu|ni&s;hment. Since which time &s;undry other Proclamations, as well in the time of the &s;aid late King IAMES, as of His Maie|&s;tie that now is, haue been pub|li&s;hed and &s;et out again&s;t the &s;aid offences, and many exemplarie &s;entences in this honourable Court haue been pronounced again&s;t offenders in that be|halfe, and many hou&s;es and
<PB REF="9" MS="y">buildings erected again&s;t the &s;aid Proclamation haue beene demoli&s;hed and pulled down. And yet neuerthele&s;&s;e, &s;uch hath been the di&s;obedience and contempt of great multitudes, aiming onely at their own gain, what&s;oeuer perill or inconueni|ence might happen to the Pub|lique, that the new buildings and diuiding of Tenements haue dayly more and more increa&s;ed, and &s;uch numbers of poore di&s;|&s;olute and lewd per&s;ons are ther|in harboured, that in many pa|ri&s;hes within the limits and pre|cincts afore&s;aid, there are farre more hou&s;holds and families
<PB REF="9" MS="y">that liue by begging, and other vnlawfull wayes, and by reliefe and almes of the pari&s;h, then are in the &s;ame pari&s;h to liue by their own meanes and vocation; So as the burthen is growen &s;o heauy to many of the &s;aid pa|ri&s;hes, that the wealthy are not able to relieue the poore in time of health, much le&s;&s;e in time of &s;ickne&s;&s;e or Infection, as hath ap|peared in the late vi&s;itation of the plague, wherein &s;uch multi|tudes of tho&s;e poore &amp; mi&s;erable hou&s;holds haue beene infected, and their nece&s;sities growne to that extremity, that the officers of the pari&s;h haue not been able to
<PB REF="10" MS="y">keepe them within their hou&s;es, but the &s;icke and infected haue gone among the whole, and great &s;warmes of indigent and poore people, and many of them infected with the &s;ickne&s;&s;e, haue, maugre all authoritie and com|mand of the officers, flocked in troupes in the principall &s;treets of the citie and &s;uburbs of London, whereby the Infection of the plague hath been much the more di&s;per&s;ed, not only in the &s;aid ci|tie and places adiacent; but into many other parts of the king|dome: Be&s;ides, it is apparantly found out, that tho&s;e multitudes of new buildings and diuided
<PB REF="10" MS="y">Tenements, doe draw into the &s;aid citie, and parts adioyning, from all parts of the kingdome, great numbers (idle, loo&s;e and di&s;&s;olute per&s;ons) who are har|boured in tho&s;e ob&s;cure and meane hou&s;es, and hauing no lawfull trade or vocation, doe begge, and al&s;o commit Pilferies, Co&s;enages, and infinite di&s;or|ders to enable them to pay their Landlords rents: And many of the Owners and Landlords or &s;uch Tenements, of purpo&s;e for rai&s;ing of exce&s;siue rents to them&s;elues out of their hou&s;es and Tenements, doe let, and par|cell them out to &s;uch idle, loo&s;e,
<PB REF="11" MS="y"> and ill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons, though they know them to bee of that condition, in regard they will give greater rents then a poore labouring man is able to doe and v&s;e all &s;hifts and vnlawfull meanes to pay it. All which enormities and many more, ha|uing, vpon Suruey lately taken, more euidently appeared then in former time.</P>
<P><HI>This Court</HI> for reformation thereof, doth now againe order and decree, that the &s;aid &s;eue|rall Decrees made in the fortieth yeere of the &s;aid late Queene ELIZABETH, and the &s;ea|uenth yeare of the &s;aid late King
<PB REF="11" MS="y"> IAMES, with &s;uch additions and alterations as hereafter en|&s;ue, be &s;euerely and &s;trictly ex|ecuted. And fora&s;much as it ap|peareth not onely by the &s;aid Decrees, but by the generall re|&s;olution of all the Reuerend Iudges of the Realme (whom His Maie&s;tie out of His great care of the Publique, hath lately commanded to a&s;&s;emble) that the erecting of new buildings within the limits before mentio|ned, and the diuiding of greater hou&s;es into pety tenements and habitations, and pe&s;tering and filling the &s;ame with Inmates, or with Inhabitants of &s;uch euill
<PB REF="12" MS="y">condition as afore&s;aid, is a mo&s;t vn&s;ufferable annoyance again&s;t the Publique, and con&s;equent|ly is again&s;t the Common law of the Realme; And that not on|ly the &s;aid euill conditioned In|habitants, but &s;uch by whom, or by who&s;e meanes they are pla|ced there, or who receiue the rents of &s;uch Inhabitants, are guiltie of a Common Nu|&s;ance; and al&s;o that &s;uch Land|lords or Owners of &s;uch hou&s;es or tenements, which haue or do receiue the rents of &s;uch poore Inhabitants, may by law be tax|ed towards the reliefe of the poore of the &s;aid Pari&s;h, though
<PB REF="12" MS="y">they dwell out of the pari&s;h. This Court holdeth it meet, that &s;ince the offendors haue not ta|ken warning by two &s;uch &s;o|lemne Decrees made in this Court, they &s;hould now be pro|ceeded again&s;t with more rigor and &s;euerity, and not bee &s;uffe|red any longer to make vnrea|&s;onable gain and profit to them|&s;elues by &s;o great a wrong and generall grieuance. And there|fore this Court doth order and decree, a&s;well in execution of the &s;aid former Decrees, and pur&s;u|ance of the &s;aid re&s;olution of the Iudges, that where any hou&s;es formerly built within the limits
<PB REF="13" MS="y">afore&s;aid haue been diuided in|to &s;euerall habitations or dwel|lings, within the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares now la&s;t pa&s;t, contrary to any former Proclamation or Decree in that behalfe, the &s;ame within the &s;pace of one yeare next en&s;uing &s;hall be re&s;tored in|to their former e&s;tate, &s;o as there &s;hall be no more habitations or dwellings then were before the &s;aid diui&s;ions. And that all and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons e&s;tated or intere&s;&s;ed in the &s;ame, either of inheritance or of any le&s;&s;er e&s;tate, &s;hall before the Fea&s;t of the A&s;cen&s;ion of our Lord now next en&s;uing, vpon order or
<PB REF="13" MS="y">command of the Lord Maior, or &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace of the Citie of London, or of the Al|derman of the Ward, or his De|putie, (if the &s;aid Tenements be within the &s;aid City or the liber|ties thereof) or of &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace neere to the place (if the &s;aid hou&s;es be out of the liberties of the Citie) enter into bond of a competent penalty, to ob&s;erue and performe this order in that behalfe; the &s;aid Bond to be ta|ken in the names of &s;ome hone&s;t and &s;ufficient per&s;ons of the pa|ri&s;h where &s;uch Tenements are, to the v&s;e of the &s;aid pari&s;h.</P>
<P>And it is further ordered and
<PB REF="14" MS="y">decreed, that where any hou&s;es, within the limits afore&s;aid, haue been erected or built within the &s;aid &s;pace of &s;even yeares, or be|ing formerly erected or built, haue within the &s;aid &s;pace of &s;e|uen yeares beene diuided, and are imployed for the habitation of indigent and poore people, chargeable to the Pari&s;h wherin the &s;aid hou&s;es are, that in every &s;uch Ca&s;e, all and every per&s;on and per&s;ons e&s;tated, or intere&s;|&s;ed in the &s;aid hou&s;es or Tene|ments of e&s;tate of inheritance, or any le&s;&s;er e&s;tate, and which haue receiued the rents, i&s;&s;ues, and profits thereof, of, and from
<PB REF="14" MS="y">&s;uch poore Inhabitants, &s;hall by vertue of this Order and De|cree, be bound each of them re|&s;pectiuely for their time, to re|&s;tore and repay to the Ouer|&s;eers of the poore of the Pari&s;h, wherein the &s;aid hou&s;es be, all &s;uch &s;ummes of money as haue beene disbur&s;ed by the Pari&s;h, for the reliefe of the Inhabitants in the &s;aid hou&s;es in &s;ickne&s;&s;e or health, or for any other charge, wherewith &s;uch Pari&s;hes haue been burthened, &s;ince the fea&s;t of <HI>Penteco&s;t</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, by rea&s;on of &s;uch Inhabitants; And &s;hall al&s;o before the fea&s;t of the <HI>A&s;cen|&s;ion</HI> of our Lord now next en|&s;uing,
<PB REF="15" MS="y">vpon order or command of the Lord Maior or &s;ome Iu|&s;tice of Peace of the Citie, or the Alderman of the ward, or his Deputie (if the Tenements bee within the Citie, or Liberties thereof) or of &s;ome Iu&s;tice of Peace neere the place (if the &s;aid hou&s;es bee out of the Liberties of the Citie) enter into bond of a competent penaltie, to bee ta|ken in the name of &s;ome hone&s;t and &s;ufficient men of the pari&s;h, where &s;uch Tenements bee, to the v&s;e of the &s;aid pari&s;h; to &s;aue and keepe harmele&s;&s;e the pari|&s;hes wherein the &s;aid hou&s;es be, for, &amp; during &s;uch their &s;euerall
<PB REF="15" MS="y">e&s;tates or intere&s;ts, re&s;pectiuely, from all charges and expences, any way touching or concern|ing the maintaining, keeping, of releeuing of the Inhabitants, which by, or vnder them, or any of them haue beene, of &s;hall be placed in the &s;aid hou&s;es, habi|tations, or dwellings.</P>
<P>And that where any Inmates within the &s;aid &s;pace of &s;euen yeares la&s;t pa&s;t haue beene pla|ced in any hou&s;es or tenements, within the limits afore&s;aid, and are there continued, the &s;ame Inmates within the &s;pace of one yeare next en&s;uing, &s;hall be re|mooued by the per&s;ons intere&s;|&s;ed
<PB REF="16" MS="y">and e&s;tated in the &s;aid hou&s;es or Tenements, hauing power by rea&s;on of their e&s;tates, to re|mooue them &s;o, as by the end of one yeare now next en&s;uing, there &s;hall be no more families then one abiding in any of the &s;aid hou&s;es.</P>
<P>And that all and euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, as are, or &s;hall be e&s;tated, or intere&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid hou&s;es, as afore&s;aid, and to whom the rents, i&s;&s;ues, or pro|fits of the &s;aid hou&s;es, are, or &s;hall be payable, or an&s;werable, &s;hall vpon order or command of the Lord Maior, or &s;ome Iu&s;tice of Peace of the Citie, or the Alder|man
<PB REF="16" MS="y">of the ward, or his Depu|tie (if the &s;aid Tenements bee within the Citie of London, or Liberties thereof) or of &s;ome Iu&s;tice of Peace neere the place (if the &s;aid hou&s;es be out of the Liberties) enter into bond of a competent penaltie (with &s;uffi|cient &s;ureties, if it &s;hall be requi|red) to performe this part of this pre&s;ent Order and Decree; &s;uch bond to bee taken in the name of &s;ome hone&s;t per&s;on or per|&s;ons for the v&s;e of the pari&s;h.</P>
<P>And it is further ordered and decreed, that all &s;uch per|&s;ons, as are, or &s;hall be e&s;tated, or intere&s;&s;ed in any hou&s;es diui|ded
<PB REF="17" MS="y">aboue &s;euen yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, Contrary to any Procla|mation or Decree of this Ho|nourable Court in that behalfe, of an e&s;tate of inheritance, or any le&s;&s;er e&s;tate, which haue receiued, or hereafter &s;hall re|ceiue the rents, or profits there|of from the inhabitants, &s;hall at their perill take a cour&s;e, if they haue power by rea&s;on of their e&s;tates &s;o to doe, that the &s;ame hou&s;es bee re&s;tored to their former condition and number of hou&s;es, and no more then were before the diuiding thereof, wit|in the &s;pace of three yeares now next en&s;uing; And al&s;o that all
<PB REF="17" MS="y">&s;uch hou&s;es which haue beene either built or diuided, contrary to any &s;uch Proclamation or Decree as afore&s;aid, within the limits afore&s;aid, before, or aboue &s;euen yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, and are imployed for the habitation of in|digent and poore people, who are chargeable to the pari&s;h, where tho&s;e hou&s;es are; That in euery &s;uch Ca&s;e all, and euery per&s;on and per&s;ons e&s;tated or intere&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid hou&s;es or tenements of e&s;tate of Inheritance, or any le&s;&s;er e&s;tate, and hauing recei|ued the rents, i&s;&s;ues and pro|fits thereof, of, and from the in|habitants, &s;hall by vertue of
<PB REF="18" MS="y">this Order and Decree, euery one for their &s;euerall time, bee bound to re&s;tore and repay to the ouer&s;eers of the poore of the pari&s;h wherein the &s;aid hou&s;es be, all &s;uch &s;ummes of money as haue been disbur&s;ed by the pari&s;h, for the reliefe of the In|habitants of the &s;aid hou&s;es in &s;ickne&s;&s;e or health, or for any other charge wherewith &s;uch pari&s;hes haue been burthened, &s;ince the Fea&s;t of <HI>Penteco&s;t</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, by rea&s;on of &s;uch Inhabi|tants, and &s;hall al&s;o before the &s;aid Fea&s;t of the <HI>A&s;cen&s;ion</HI> of our Lord God next en&s;uing, vpon order or command of the
<PB REF="18" MS="y">Lord Maior, or &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace of the &s;aid Citie, or the Alderman of the Ward, or his Deputie (if the &s;aid Tene|nements be within the Citie of London, or liberties thereof) or of &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace neer the place (if the &s;aid hou&s;es be out of the liberties) enter into bond of a competent penaltie, with &s;uffi|cient &s;ureties, if it &s;hall be re|quired, to &s;aue and keepe harme|le&s;&s;e the pari&s;h from all charges and expences, any way touch|ing or concerning the maintain|ing, keeping, or relieuing the Inhabitants, which by, or vnder them, or any of them haue been
<PB REF="19" MS="y">or &s;hal be placed in the &s;aid hou|&s;es, habitations or dwellings; The &s;aid Bond to bee taken in the name of &s;ome hone&s;t per&s;on or per&s;ons for the v&s;e of the pa|ri&s;h.</P>
<P>And it is further ordered, and decreed, that be&s;ides all the paiments, charges and burthens afore&s;aid, to bee paide, done or performed by the &s;aid Land|lords or Owners, in ea&s;e of the Pari&s;h, for, or in re&s;pect of their owne Tenants, They, and eue|ry of them, &s;hall contribute and giue &s;uch like ratable and rea|&s;onable allowance with the &s;aid Pari&s;hioners, where &s;uch build|ings
<PB REF="19" MS="y">or diui&s;ions are towards the finding and maintaining of the re&s;t of the poore of the &s;aid pa|ri&s;h, as &s;hould bee apportioned, taxed, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, or allotted for him, or them to pay, if he, or they were dwelling in the &s;aid pari&s;h, and were not charged towards the reliefe or mainte|nance of his, or their owne vn|der tenants, as is afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And this Court doth further Order and Decree, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall hereaf|ter new build, diuide any Te|nements within the limits afore|&s;aid, contrary to this Decree, or the &s;aid former Decrees, made in
<PB REF="20" MS="y">this Court, or the &s;euerall Pro|clamations heretofore publi&s;hed in that behalfe, or &s;hall place any &s;uch poore, or indigent people in any &s;uch Tenements hereto|fore built or diuided, or hereaf|ter to be built or diuided, or re|ceiue any Inmates into the &s;ame, that then the per&s;on, or per&s;ons &s;o offending &s;hall bee by order or command of the Lord Maior, or &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace of the &s;aid Citie of London, or the Alderman of the Ward, or his Deputy, (if the Tenements &s;hall happen to be within the &s;aid Ci|tie, or the liberties thereof) or of &s;ome Iu&s;tice of peace neere
<PB REF="20" MS="y">the place (if the Tenements &s;hall bee without the liberties) enter into bond of a competent penaltie, with &s;ureties to &s;ome hone&s;t per&s;on or per&s;ons, to the v&s;e of the pari&s;h in which the Tenements &s;hall be, within one moneth next after the date of &s;uch Bond, to pull downe &s;uch new erected Tenements, or to reforme or re&s;tore &s;uch diuided Tenements to their former con|dition, or to remoue &s;uch indi|gent people and Inmates placed therein, as the ca&s;e &s;hall happen to bee. And that all and eue|ry per&s;on and per&s;ons, that &s;hall hereafter receiue any Rents, I&s;|&s;ues,
<PB REF="21" MS="y">or profits, of or from any &s;uch poore or indigent people inhabiting in any &s;uch Tene|ment heretofore built or diui|ded, or hereafter to bee built or diuided, &s;hall beare, and pay all charges and expences which the Pari&s;h &s;hall &s;u&s;taine or bee put to, for, or by rea&s;on of any &s;uch poore and indigent people inhabiting within the Pari&s;h, and &s;hall likewi&s;e bee rated and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed to pay, and are hereby al&s;o ordered and decreed to pay their ratable &s;hare and propor|tion, with the Inhabitants of the pari&s;h, for and towards the reliefe of the poore of &s;uch
<PB REF="21" MS="y">pari&s;h, as if the per&s;on or per&s;ons receiving rents or profits from &s;uch poore and indigent Inhabi|tants were dwelling within the pari&s;h.</P>
<P>And it is further ordered, that if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hall refu&s;e or make default to &s;ati&s;|fie or pay any the payments or charges afore&s;aid, or to performe any part of this Order, That then proces of Attachment out of this Court &s;hall be awarded again&s;t him or them, with &s;uch further proces of contempt, and impri&s;onment, and are v&s;uall again&s;t the breakers or contem|ners of the Decrees or Orders of
<PB REF="22" MS="y">this Court, and before his en|largement &s;hall giue &s;ecuritie by bond as afore&s;aid, and &s;ati&s;fie and pay all &s;uch &s;ummes of money, as hee or they &s;hould or ought to pay, with double co&s;ts to the pro&s;ecutor or pro&s;ecutors, for all the charges they &s;hall &s;u&s;taine in pro&s;ecution of the &s;aid contempts.</P>
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