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<HEAD>The effect of certaine branches of the Statute made in Anno xxxiij. Henrici viij. touching the <HI>main|tenance of Artillerie, and the puni&s;hment of &s;uch as v&s;e vnlawfull</HI> games, very nece&s;&s;ary to be put in execution.</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t, that all fathers, gouernors, and rulers of &s;uch as be tender of age, doe teach and bring them vp in the knowledge of &s;hooting: and that euery man hauing a man childe, or men children in his hou&s;e, &s;hall pro|uide, ordeine, and haue in his hou&s;e for euery man childe, being of the age of &s;euen yeeres and aboue, til he &s;hall come to the age of &s;euenteene yeeres, a bow and two &s;hafts, to induce and learne them, and bring them vp in &s;hooting, and &s;hall deliuer all the &s;ame bow and Arrowes to the &s;ame yong men to v&s;e and occupy. And if the &s;ame yong men be &s;eruants, that then their ma&s;ter &s;hall abate the money that they &s;hall pay for the &s;ame bowes and arrowes of their wages. And after all &s;uch yong men &s;hall come to the age of &s;euenteene yeres, euery of them &s;hall prouide and haue a bow and foure arrowes continually for him&s;elfe, at his proper co&s;tes and charges, or el&s;e of the gift or proui&s;ion of his friends, and v&s;e and cocupy the &s;ame in &s;hooting, as is before rehear&s;ed. And if the ma&s;ter &s;uffer any of his &s;eruants taking wages, being in his hou&s;hold, and vnder the age of &s;euenteene yeeres, to lacke a bow and two arrowes, contrary to the forme of this e&s;tatute, by the &s;pace of one moneth together, then the ma&s;ter or father in whom &s;uch negligence &s;hal be, &s;hal for euery &s;uch default forfeit vi.s.viii.d. and that euery &s;eruant pa&s;&s;ing the age of &s;euenteene yeeres, and vnder the age of three&s;core yeeres, and taking wages, which can or is able to &s;hoot, and &s;hal lacke a bow and foure arrowes by the &s;pace of one moneth together, &s;hall for euery &s;uch default forfeit and lo&s;e vi.s.viii.d.</P>
<P>Item, that no per&s;on by him&s;elfe, factor, deputie, &s;eruant, or other per&s;on, &s;hall for his or their gaine, lucre, or liuing, keepe, haue, hold, occupie, exerci&s;e, or mainteine, any common hou&s;e, alley, or place of bowling, coiting, cloi&s;e, coiles, halfe bowle, tennis, di&s;ing, table, or carding, or any other maner of game, prohibited by any &s;tatute heretofore made, or any vnlawfull new game now inuented or made, or hereafter to be inuented, found, had, or made, vpon paine to forfeit and pay for euery day keeping, ha|uing, mainteining, or &s;uffering any &s;uch game to be had, kept, executed, played, or mainteined within any &s;uch hou&s;e, garden, alley, or other place, contrary to the forme and effect of this e&s;tatute, xl.s. and the players &s;o taken, to pay for euery time vi.s.viii.d.</P>
<P>Item, that the Iu&s;tices of Peace, and euery Maior, Shiriffe, Bailiffe, Con&s;table, or other head Offi|cer, haue authoritie to enter into all places, a&s;well within Franchi&s;es or el&s;ewhere, and the per&s;ons offending in any of the premi&s;&s;es, to take and put in pri&s;on, vntil &s;uch time they put in &s;ureties no more to &s;uffer, occupy, or commit the &s;aid offences.</P>
<P>Item, that all Maiors, Shiriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, and other head Officers within euery Ci|tie, Borough, and Towne within this Realme, where any &s;uch Officers &s;hal fortune to be, a&s;wel with|in the Franchi&s;es as without, &s;hall make due &s;earch weekely, or at the furthe&s;t at all times hereafter once euery moneth in all places, where any &s;uch hou&s;es, Alleys, Play, or Playes &s;halbe &s;u&s;pected to be had, kept, and mainteined. And if the &s;aid Maiors, Shiriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, and other head Officers, within their Cities, Boroughs, and Townes, a&s;well within Franchi&s;es, as without, doe not make due &s;earch at the furthe&s;t once euery moueth, if the ca&s;e &s;o require, according to the tenor of this Act, and do not execute the &s;ame, in all things according to the purport and force of the &s;ame: that then euery &s;uch Maior, Shiriffes, Bailiffes, Con&s;tables, or other head Officer, to pay and forfeit for euery moneth not making &s;uch &s;earch, nor executing the &s;ame, xl.s.</P>
<P>Item, that no Artificer, or handycrafts man of any occupation, Hu&s;bandman, Apprentice, Labou|rer, &s;eruant of Hu&s;bandry, Iourney man, or &s;eruant, or Artificer, Mariner, Fi&s;herman, Waterman, or any Seruingman, may v&s;e any vnlawfull game.</P>
<P>Item, that all that play at Bowles or any other vnlawfull game in the fields, to loo&s;e for euery &s;uch time vi.s.viii.d. and to be committed to pri&s;on, vnto &s;uch time they put in &s;ureties no more to v&s;e the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Item, this Statute to be proclaimed foure times euery yeere, and the like to be done in all A&s;&s;i&s;es and Se&s;&s;ions, and to continue for euer.</P>
<P><HI>Memorandum,</HI> that there is a proui&s;o in this Statute for all men of wor&s;hip, which may di&s;pend one hundred pounds yeerely and vpwards, may v&s;e the&s;e games with di&s;cretion at their plea&s;ures.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie. Anno Dom. 1608.</P>
<P><HI>&para; Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.</HI></P>
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