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<HEAD>&para; A Copie of the principall parts of his Maie&s;tie Commi&s;sions for granting of Pardons to &s;uch as v&s;e Trades, whereto they haue not been Apprentices, and for di&s;pencing with them to continue the &s;ame for their Liues, notwith&s;tanding the Statute of <HI>Quinto Elizabeth.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>_IAMES by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</SIGNED> <SALUTE><HI>To</HI> all to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come greeting.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Whereas</HI> there is nothing more plea&s;ing to God, and profitable to the Common-wealth of this Our Realme, then the training vp of youth in good and commendable Arts, Trades, Sciences, and My&s;teries, whereby they may be, not onely kept from idlene&s;&s;e and &s;loth, (the parent of all enormities) but al&s;o made apt and expert for the &s;eruice of the Common-wealth, in the v&s;e and practi&s;e of tho&s;e Arts and mi&s;teries wherin they haue been educated and brought vp: To which end and purpo&s;e, diuers good and whol&s;ome lawes haue beene made within this Our Realme of England; as namely, in the fift yeare of the raigne of our late deare Si&s;ter of famous memorie <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> late Queene of England, <HI>Capite quarto,</HI> a certaine Act or Statute was made, entituled, <HI>An Act touching diuers Orders for Artificers, labourers, &s;eruants of Husbandrie, and Apprentices;</HI> Wherein it is (among&s;t diuers other things) enacted, that after the fift day of May then next comming, it &s;hould not be lawfull to any per&s;on or per&s;ons (other then &s;uch as then did lawfully v&s;e or exerci&s;e any Art, My&s;terie, or Manuall occupation) to &s;et vp, occupie, v&s;e, or exerci&s;e any Craft, My&s;terie, or Occupation then v&s;ed, or occupied within the Realme of England or Wales, except he &s;hould haue beene brought vp therein &s;eauen yeeres at the lea&s;t as an apprentice, in manner and forme as in the &s;aid Statute is expre&s;&s;ed; nor to &s;et any per&s;on on work in &s;uch My&s;tery, Art, or Occupation, being not a workman at that day, except he &s;hould haue beene apprentice, as is afore&s;aid, or el&s;e hauing &s;erued as an apprentice, as is afore&s;aid, &s;hould or would become a Iornyman, or hired by the yeare: Vpon paine that euery &s;uch per&s;on, willingly offending or doing the contrary &s;hould forfeit and lo&s;e for euery default, Fortie &s;hillings for euery moneth; As by the &s;aid Statute (a|mong&s;t diuers other things) more at large appeareth. And whereas the &s;aid Statute is of great v&s;e and importance in this Our Realme, as well for the trayning vp of youth in the knowledge and practi&s;e of &s;undry good and commendable Arts Trades, Mi&s;teries, and manuall Occupations, whereby they may liue and be maintai|ned, as otherwi&s;e for the benefit of our &s;aid Realme. And whereas through the neglect of the due execution of the &s;aid Statute, diuers and &s;undry per&s;ons within this our &s;aid Realme haue taken vpon them to occupie, v&s;e, &amp; exerci&s;e &s;undry Arts, My&s;teries Crafts, and manuall Occupations, wherein they haue not bin brought vp as apprentices by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares, and haue al&s;o otherwi&s;e offended again&s;t the forme and intent of the &s;aid Statute: In which &s;aid Arts, Trades, and My&s;teries, the &s;aid per&s;ons hauing now by the &s;pace of many yeares together imployed and be&s;towed them&s;elues, their labours, &s;tocks&punc; and indu&s;tries, haue now attained a good and perfect knowledge and vnder&s;tanding in the &s;ame, and are become &s;etled in a con&s;tant Trade and condition of life, whereby they are enabled com|petently to maintaine them&s;elues and families, which otherwi&s;e were like to peri&s;h, and fall into &s;ome idle and inordinate cour&s;e of liuing, in ca&s;e they &s;hould be now re&s;trained of and from the v&s;ing and exerci&s;ing of the &s;ame, or &s;hould be puni&s;hed according to the true intent &amp; meaning of the &s;aid Statute, as many of them here|tofore h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ue beene by informations and &s;uits brought and pro&s;ecuted again&s;t them by common Informers and others, to whom they are &s;till expo&s;ed, and lie open to be mole&s;ted, &s;ued&punc; and inquieted by the like Informations and &s;utes. Vnle&s;&s;e we out of Our Royall and Princely compa&s;&s;ion &s;hall prouide &s;ome meanes to relieue them in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">s behalfe. <HI>Know yee</HI> therefore, that we tendring the publike good of our Realmes (which e&s;pecially is procured by the due execution of good and profitable lawes) doe hereby for Vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors &s;traightly charge, require, and command all and euery our Iudges and Iu&s;tices of both our Benches, Bar|rons of the Exchequer, Iu&s;tices of the Peace, Maiors, Sheriffes, Bayliffes, and all and euery other Magi&s;trates, and other Officers, for the time being, to whom it &s;hall or may appertaine, That they and euery of them in their &s;euerall places re&s;pectiuely, doe take care, and from henceforth &s;ee to the due execution of the &s;aid Statute, as well touching the training vp of apprentices in commendable Arts and Mi&s;teries, (whereby they may not be &s;uffered to liue idly and inordinately, but being therein well in&s;tituted in their apprenti&s;hips may afterwardes become profitable members and &s;eruiceable to the Common-wealth) as in the re&s;training of others, (not &s;o trained and brought vp) from the practi&s;e and exerci&s;e of any Art, Trade, or My&s;terie, contrary to the &s;aid recited Statute, or any branch or clau&s;e therein contained: vnder the paines and penalties expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;ame, which hereafter We will &s;halbe duely leuied and executed vpon &s;uch as &s;halbe found offen|ders therein. <HI>Neuerthele&s;&s;e,</HI> We being graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to extend our Royall fauour towardes &s;uch of our Subiects, as hauing heretofore taken vppon them, and are now become &s;etled and expert in the v&s;e and practi&s;e of Trades, Artes, My&s;teries, and manuall Occupations, whereunto they haue not beene brought vp as ap|prentices, as afore&s;aid, according to the forme of the &s;aid Statute, as well by <HI>pardoning</HI> their offences in that behalfe <HI>pa&s;t,</HI> as al&s;o by <HI>licen&s;ing</HI> and <HI>di&s;pen&s;ing</HI> with them for <HI>continuing</HI> the &s;ame Arts and Trades for the time to come, for and during their <HI>liues,</HI> And minding to free and acquit them for euer from tho&s;e mole&s;tations, <HI>&s;utes</HI> and <HI>troubles</HI> which they haue been <HI>heretofore</HI> and might <HI>hereafter</HI> be put vnto by <HI>Informers,</HI> and others, by meanes of the premi&s;&s;es, in ca&s;e they &s;hall not imbrace our Princely grace in this behalfe. And willing that the rigor of the &s;aid Statute &s;hall not be exacted or inflicted vpon &s;uch of our louing Subiects, as haue tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ed the &s;aid Statute, and lie open and expo&s;ed to the penalties thereof, as are yet willing and de&s;irous to take hold of and imbrace this our grace and bountie &s;o fa|uourably and benignely proffered them. <HI>Know yee</HI> ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">fore, that We of our e&s;peciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion, haue ordained, authorized, na|med, &amp; appoynted&punc; and by the&s;e pre&s;ents for Vs, our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, doe ordaine, authorize, name, and appoint Our tru&s;tie and wel-beloued Sir <HI>Iames Spens</HI> Knight, <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Henry Gold&s;mith</HI> E&s;quire, and <HI>Robert More</HI> E&s;quire, to be Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for and during the terme of &s;euen yeeres from the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, And We doe giue vnto them the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens, Archibald Primro&s;e, Henry Gold&s;mith,</HI> and <HI>Robert More,</HI> or to any two or more of them,
<PB REF="2" MS="y"> (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) full power and authority by all lawfull waies or meanes, to inquire and informe them&s;elues of all &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons being Trade&s;men and Artificers, which before the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents haue v&s;ed, exerci&s;ed, erected, or &s;et vp any Art, Trade, My&s;tery, or manuall Occupation, wherunto they haue not been bound or &s;erued as Apprentices, according to the forme of the &s;aid recited Statute, and thereupon to treat, contract, <HI>compound,</HI> and agree with all and euery &s;uch per&s;on and per&s;ons, as hath or haue <HI>before the date</HI> hereof <HI>v&s;ed,</HI> erected or &s;et vp, any <HI>Trade,</HI> Art, Mi&s;tery, or ma|nuall Occupation, <HI>contrary</HI> to the forme and effect of the &s;aid recited <HI>Statute,</HI> for &s;uch rea&s;onable rates, &s;ummes of money, fine and fines, yearely paiments, or annuities, as they &s;hall thinke fit, for <HI>pardons, licen&s;es, and di&s;pen&s;ation<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> to be made and granted from Vs, Our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, <HI>vnder the great &s;eale</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> in manner hereafter expre&s;&s;ed, to all and euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons offenders again&s;t the &s;aid Statute, as &s;hall de&s;ire the &s;ame, as well for pardoning his or their offences pa&s;t, as for licen&s;ing and di&s;pen&s;ing with him and them to v&s;e and exerci&s;e &s;uch Arts, Trades, My&s;teries, or manuall Occupations which he or they re&s;pectiuely now doe, or any time before the date hereof haue v&s;ed, &s;et vp, or exerci&s;ed, for and during the time and &s;pace of his and their naturall life and liues, <HI>without &s;ute, Information,</HI> trouble&punc; or mole&s;tation to be had or pro&s;ecuted again&s;t him or them, for or concerning the &s;ame by any <HI>Informers</HI> or others, or for or concerning any paine, <HI>penaltie,</HI> or forfeiture, mentioned or conteined in the &s;aid Statute, by rea&s;on of any offence committed, perpetrated, or done contrary to the forme and effect of the &s;ame, or any other Statute in that behalfe made to the contrary: And that it &s;hall and may be lawfull to and for the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens, Archibald Primro&s;e, Henry Gold&s;mith,</HI> and <HI>Robert More,</HI> or any two or more of them (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) to contract, <HI>compound,</HI> and agree with the &s;ayd <HI>of|fenders,</HI> and euery of them, as wel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> before Informations, as after Informations again&s;t them exhibited in any Court what&s;oeuer, for &s;o much thereof as &s;hall concerne Our part, and that before or after plea, or by or without any leaue, licence, or warrant of the Court, where any &s;uch Informations &s;hall be exhibited, any Law, Sta|tute, Con&s;titution, or Ordinance made to the contrary thereof notwith&s;tanding. And furthermore, of Our e&s;peciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion, We doe for Vs, Our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, by the&s;e pre&s;ents giue and grant full power and authoritie to Our <HI>Atturney Generall</HI> for the time being, to prepare and draw vp in due forme of law, &s;o many bils or bookes of <HI>pardons, licences,</HI> and <HI>di&s;pen&s;ations</HI> for and in the name of Vs&punc; Our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, during the time afore|&s;aid, to be ingro&s;&s;ed and pa&s;&s;ed vnder Our Great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> as &s;halbe de&s;ired by the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens, Archibald Primro&s;e, Henry Gold&s;mith,</HI> and <HI>Robert More,</HI> or any two or more of them, (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) for all &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, as they Our &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, or any two or more of them, (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) &s;hall compound and agr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e with, for and concerning any the paines, penalties, offences, matters, cau&s;es, and premi&s;&s;es afore&s;aid. Prouided alwayes that in euery &s;uch &s;euerall pardon, licence, or di&s;pen&s;ation to be prepared, and pa&s;|&s;ed vnder Our great Seale as afore&s;aid, there &s;hall not be conteined or in&s;erted aboue the number of thirtie per&s;ons at the mo&s;t. And Our further Will and plea&s;ure is, And We doe hereby for Vs, Our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, grant, will, and ordaine that all and euery &s;uch pardon, licence, or di&s;pen&s;ation, as &s;hall be &s;o made or granted as afore&s;aid, &s;halbe good &s;ufficient, and <HI>effectuall in law</HI> to all and euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons to whom the &s;ame &s;hall be made and graunted, to authori&s;e, enable, and <HI>warrant</HI> him and them to the free v&s;e and exerci&s;e of all &s;uch <HI>Trades,</HI> Arts, My&s;teries, and manuall Occupations which he or they at the date of the&s;e Our Letters Patents, or at any time before did v&s;e or exerci&s;e, whereunto he or they <HI>neuer &s;erued,</HI> or were bound <HI>as Apprentices,</HI> according to the forme of the &s;aid Statute, without being &s;ued, mole&s;ted, que&s;tioned, or any way troubled, or enquieted by Vs, Our Heires, or Succe&s;&s;ors, or by any the Iudges, Iu&s;tices of either of Our Ben|ches, Barons of Our Exchequer, or Our Atturney Generall for the time being, or by any other the Officers, Mini&s;ters, and Subiects of Vs, Our Heires, or Suc|ce&s;&s;ors, for, touching, or concerning the practi&s;ing, v&s;ing, &amp; exerci&s;ing of his or their &s;aid Arts, Trades, My&s;teries, or manuall Occupations as afore&s;aid, contrary to the purport of the &s;aid recited Statute, or any other Statute in that behalfe made; The &s;aid Statute of <HI>Quinto Elizabeth,</HI> or any clau&s;e there<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">n conteined to the con|trary notwith&s;tanding. In which &s;aid Letters Patents, or di&s;charge, pardons, and licences of di&s;pen&s;ations to be &s;o drawne, or made to any per&s;on or per&s;ons com|pounded with as afore&s;aid, We will &s;hall be conteined therein a clau&s;e of expre&s;&s;e charge and command in the name of Vs, our Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, to the Iudges and Iu&s;tices of both our Benches, Barons of Our Exchequer, Atturney Generall, Iu&s;tices of Peace, Maiors, Bayliffes, Aldermen, Sheriffes, E&s;cheators, and all other Officers and Mini&s;ters to whom it may or &s;hall appertaine, in their &s;euerall offices and places re&s;pectiuely, that they and euery of them re&s;pectiuely, in their &s;e|uerall offices and places vpon the &s;ight or &s;hewing forth of any &s;uch pardon, licen&s;e, or di&s;pen&s;ation, or the inrolement, con&s;tat, or exemplification thereof, or a true Coppie of the &s;ame &s;igned with the hands of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens, Archibald Primro&s;e, Henry Gold&s;mith,</HI> and <HI>Robert More,</HI> or any two or more of them (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) te&s;tifying the &s;ame, &s;hall forthwith di&s;allow and <HI>di&s;charge all Informations,</HI> &s;utes, billes, plaints, Iudgements, and actions what&s;oeuer, which are or &s;hall be mooued, &s;tirred, commenced, &s;ued, or pro&s;ecuted again&s;t all or any of the &s;aid per&s;ons &s;o compounded with, pardoned, licen&s;ed, and di&s;pen&s;ed with as afore&s;aid, for or touching any offence or offences, committed, perpetrated, or done contrary to the forme of the &s;aid Statute, or any branch or clau&s;e therein conteined. And to giue order that no further pro&s;ce&s;&s;e or proceedings &s;hall be had or awarded again&s;t them or any of them in that behalfe: And the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;halbe to our &s;aid Iudges, Iu&s;tices, Barons of Our Exchequer, Atturney Generall, and all other Our &s;aid Officers, a &s;ufficient warrant and di&s;|charge for the doing and performing of the premi&s;&s;es, according to the tenor and true meaning of the&s;e pre&s;ents. And Our further Will and plea&s;ure is, and We doe hereby require and charge, that from time to time, and at all times hereafter, Our Iudges and Iu&s;tices of either of Our Benches, Barons of Our Exchequer, &amp; Our Atturney Generall, and all Iu&s;tices of Peace, as well within liberties as without, Maiors, Bayliffes, Aldermen, and chiefe Magi&s;trates of Citties, Boroughes, and Townes Corporate, Sheriffes, E&s;cheators, and all others, to whom it &s;hall or may appertaine, That they and euery of them re&s;pectiuely in their &s;euerall offi|ces and places, &s;hall at all and euery time and times hereafter, accept, approue, and allow in all and euery Our Court and Courts of Record, and other place and pla|ces, as well of all and euery &s;uch Letters Patents of pardon, licen&s;es, &amp; di&s;pen&s;ations, vnder the Great Seale of England, &s;o to be made and granted as afore&s;aid, as of the inrolement, Con&s;tat, or exemplification thereof, or of a true Coppie of the &s;ame, vnder the hands of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens, Archibald Primro&s;e, Henry Gold&s;mith,</HI> and <HI>Robert More,</HI> or any two or more of them (whereof the &s;aid Sir <HI>Iames Spens,</HI> or <HI>Archibald Primro&s;e</HI> to be one) te&s;tifying that the &s;aid per&s;on or per&s;ons haue compounded and receiued his Maie&s;ties pardon, licence, or di&s;pen&s;ation as afore&s;aid, as a good, full, and &s;ufficient barre, relea&s;e, di&s;pen&s;ation, and di&s;charge again&s;t Vs, Our Heires, and Succe&s;&s;ors, <HI>without pleading</HI> the &s;aid <HI>pardon,</HI> licen&s;e, or di&s;pen&s;ation at large, of, for, or concerning any penalties, or forfeitures accrued, or hereafter to be accrued vnto Vs Our Heires, or Succe&s;&s;ors, by or from any per&s;on or per&s;ons, named in the &s;aid Letters patents of Pardon, licen&s;e, and di&s;pen&s;a|tion for any of the offences and breaches of them or any of them re&s;pectiuely committed again&s;t the &s;aid Statute aboue recited, or any clau&s;e or article therein contai|ned.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>In witne&s;&s;e wherof We haue cau&s;ed the&s;e Our Letters to be made Patents, Witne&s;&s;e Our &s;elfe at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> <DATE>the fourth day of <HI>February,</HI> in the &s;ixteenth yeere of Our Raigne of <HI>England, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> and of <HI>Scotland</HI> the two and fiftieth.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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