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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>By the Queene.</HEAD>
<P>_WHere in the Parliament holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter, the &s;econde day of Apryl, in the .xiii. yere of the raigne of our &s;oueraigne Lady the Queene, there was for the reliefe of diuers poore decayed townes, &amp; of great multitudes of her poore &s;ubiectes, who otherwy&s;e were likely to peri&s;he, or to become vnprofitable and daungerous to the common weale, among other prouided and e&s;tabli|&s;hed, one good and beneficial &s;tatute, entituled, An acte for the continuaunce of makyng of cappes. By meane of whiche &s;tatute, great numbers of idle, poore, and impotent per&s;ons were for a &s;ea&s;on &s;et on worke, whyle the awe of the &s;ayde &s;tatute, and feare of due execution thereof continued, to the mar|veylous great commoditie of this Realme, and helpe of the needie, and redre&s;&s;e of yl occupied per&s;ons, as by the experience thereof hath ben manyfe&s;tly prooued. And whereas neuerthele&s;&s;e by litle and litle, the di&s;|obedience and wanton di&s;order of euyl di&s;po&s;ed and lyght per&s;ons, more regarding priuate fan&s;ie and vani|tie, then publique commoditie or re&s;pect of duetie, hath encrea&s;ed by want of execution of the &s;ayde lawe, whereby tho&s;e good and hone&s;t &s;ubiectes that haue meanes of the &s;ayd &s;tatute, &s;et to worke a great num|ber of poore people, are lyke to be driuen to geue ouer theyr &s;ayde trade of making of cappes, and to &s;ende abroade agayne into idlene&s;&s;e and mi&s;erie, tho&s;e multitudes that haue ben by them relieued, whereby is lykely to growe great enormitie and inconuenience, yf &s;peedie remedie therefore be not in tyme prouided. The Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie therefore tenderly con&s;ydering the premi&s;es, &s;traightly chargeth and commaundeth al Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;es, Iu&s;tices of peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, and other head officers of Cities, Borroughes, and Townes corporate, and the Lordes, Stewardes, Bayliffes, and other officers of Leetes, Lawdayes, and liberties, &amp; al and &s;inguler Con&s;tables, Third borroughes, Tithingmen, Church|wardens, and al other her highne&s;&s;e &s;ubiectes, to whom the executyng or puttyng in vre of the &s;ame &s;tatute any way may apparteyne, that euery one of them, accordying to his office, place, and callying, do their vtter|mo&s;t endeuour for the due execution of the &s;ayde &s;tatute: and that they the &s;ayde Bayliffes, Con&s;tables, Third borroughes, Tithingmen, Churchwardens, and al other lyke inferior officers, and euery of them, to euery Sunday &amp; Fe&s;tiual day, make diligent view &amp; &s;earche in al Churches, Chappels, &amp; al other places within the circuites &amp; compa&s;&s;es of their offices &amp; aucthorities, for al and &s;inguler breakers &amp; offenders of the &s;aid &s;tatute, and without delay cau&s;e the names of al &s;uch offendours, and of the parentes, gardians, gouer|nours, and mai&s;ters of euery childe, &s;eruaunt, &amp; warde, &s;o offendyng, together with the day and place of the offence committed, to be then written, &amp; to be lawfully &amp; orderly pre&s;ented, at &s;uch a&s;&s;i&s;es, &s;e&s;&s;ions, or courtes, (next after &s;uch offences) as haue aucthoritie to enquire or determine the &s;ayd offences: And that al Maiors, Sheriffes, and Bayliffes, of Cities, Borroughes, &amp; Townes Corporate, and al lordes of Leetes, Lawdayes, and liberties, do immediatly vpon the proclamation hereof, cal before them al the &s;ayd Con&s;tables, Third borroughes, Tithyngmen, Churchwardens, inferior Bayliffes, and al other the aboue&s;aid inferior officers, that &s;hallbe vnder theyr charge of gouernment, and them, and euery of them, foorthwith in our names do &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">rayghtly charge and commaunde, that they, and euery of them, to the vttermo&s;t of theyr powers, do euery Sunday and Fe&s;tiual day, make &s;uch diligent viewe and &s;earche, and &s;uche note al&s;o of the names of al &s;uch offendours, and &s;uche pre&s;entment of al &s;uche offences as is aboue&s;ayde: and that al Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;es, and Iu&s;tices of peace, in theyr circuites &amp; &s;e&s;&s;ions, and al Stewardes in theyr Leetes, vpon payne of her Maie|&s;ties high di&s;plea&s;ure, omit not in any wy&s;e fro~ tyme to tyme, &s;pecially to geue in charge, &amp; cau&s;e to be enqui|red of al offences again&s;t the &s;ayde &s;tatute committed, or to be co~mitted within theyr &s;eueral precinctes or iu|ri&s;dictions, and al&s;o do duely heare &amp; determine the &s;ame, puni&s;hyng euery of the &s;ayde offendours according to the &s;ayde &s;tatute: and that al the &s;ayd lordes and owners of Leetes, and Lawdayes, do as much as in eue|ry of them &s;hal lye, to cau&s;e theyr Stewardes througly to execute theyr office and aucthoritie, accordyng to the &s;ame &s;tatute, and that vpon euery &s;uche offence founde, both the &s;ayde owners of Leetes, and al&s;o the ru|lers &amp; cheefe gouernours of euery Citie, Borrough, Towne, or Hamlet, where any &s;uch offence &s;halbe tryed and founde, &s;hal do theyr vttermo&s;t endeuour by the lawe to recouer, have, and obtayne of euery &s;uche offen|dour, al the penalties to them, or any of them, by the &s;ayde &s;tatute forfeyted, or to be forfeyted.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London in Powles <HI>Churchyarde, by Richarde Iugge, Printer to the Queenes</HI> Maie&s;tie.</P>
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<P>Cum priuilegio Regiae Maie&s;tatis.</P>
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