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<HEAD>An order to be publi&s;hed and executed by the Lord Maior of the Citie of London, and other officers in all places within <HI>three miles of the &s;ayd Citie, for auoyding of all kinde of Beggars that doe wander about contrary to the Lawes and Statues of the Realme.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas it hath been ordered by Act of Parliament, that all poore aged and impotent per&s;ons, &s;hould repaire to the places where they were borne, or where they were mo&s;t conuer&s;ant by the &s;pace of three yeeres, and there to be maintained: And likewi&s;e that all other per&s;ons wandring about as Beg|gars, and being whole and &s;trong in body and able to work, hauing no lands or other meanes to get their liuing, &s;hould be taken as Rogues and Vaga|bonds: And if any impotent per&s;on being prouided for, within the Pari&s;h where he was borne, or had beene conuer&s;ant by the &s;pace afore&s;aid, &s;hould without licence wander abroad out of the &s;ame, hee &s;hall be whipped and returned againe to his Pari&s;h: and if he &s;hall eft&s;oones offend, then to bee puni&s;hed as a Rogue. And for that al&s;o in this time of Parliament, order hath beene taken by a collection of certaine &s;ummes of money, that all &s;uch as were found in and about the Citie of London, hauing beene maymed and &s;ore hurt in her Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, &s;hould haue a conuenient reliefe in money to repaire to the Counties where they were borne with Pa&s;ports for that purpo&s;e, (which hath beene accordingly performed) and there to be maintained with weekly portions of mony for the &s;pace of twentie weekes; before the end whereof it is prouided by an Act of Parliament made in this late Se&s;&s;ion, that &s;uch maimed &s;ouldiers are to haue a continuall weekly payment in the places of the Counties where they were borne. For this purpo&s;e therefore all officers to whom the execution of the&s;e Statutes do belong with|in the citie of London, in We&s;tmin&s;ter and in all other places within three miles of the citie, &s;hall forthwith cau&s;e inqui&s;ition to be made of all kind of per&s;ons wandering vp and downe as beggars, and being aged and impotent to compell them to depart and repayre to the places where they were borne, or were mo&s;t conuer|&s;ant by the &s;pace of three yeres pa&s;t; with conuenient Pa&s;ports there to be maintained according to the lawes, and to forbeare from their further begging in any other place: and &s;uch others as wander abroad as beggars, being able to worke, and hauing no lawfull meanes whereby to liue, to be taken and puni&s;hed as Rogues, according to the lawes in that behalfe prouided. And further, to &s;uffer no &s;ouldier that pretendeth to haue beene hurt and maimed in her Maie&s;ties &s;eruice, to whom reliefe hath beene giuen as afore&s;aid, or any other pretending him&s;elfe to haue beene a &s;ouldier, and not thought worthy to be partaker of the late reliefe giuen, to continue neere or about the citie of London, or We&s;tmin&s;ter, the Burrough of Southwarke, or in any place within three miles of either of the Cities or Burrough, but to be compelled likewi&s;e to depart to the Counties where they were borne, there to receiue conuenient maintenance. And the&s;e Ordinances con|formable to the lawes of the Realme, the Lord Maior of the citie of London; and all other Officers to whom it may belong within the limits afore&s;ayd, are to &s;ee duely and &s;peedily executed, and the offenders puni&s;hed as they will an&s;were to the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>At the Court of S. Iames <DATE>the xvij. of Aprill. 1593. <HI>Anno</HI> 35. <HI>Elizabethae.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
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<ITEM>Io. Puckering.</ITEM>
<ITEM>W. Burgley.</ITEM>
<ITEM>E&s;&s;ex.</ITEM>
<ITEM>C. Howard.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hun&s;don.</ITEM>
<ITEM>T. Heneage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ro. Cecill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Forte&s;cue.</ITEM>
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<P>Printed, publi&s;hed and &s;et vp by order from the fore&s;ayd Lords of her Maie&s;ties mo&s;t Honorable priuie Councell.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>William Rowe Maior.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Printed at London by Hugh Singleton.</P>
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