Judgment given, or to be given, in any Action or Bill of Debt upon any single Bond for Debt; (3) or upon any Obligation, with Condition for the Payment of Money only; (4) or upon any Action or Bill of Debt for Rent, or upon any Contract; (5) sued in any of his Highness Courts of Record at Westminster or in the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lancaster or Durham, or in his Highness Courts of Great Sessions in any of the twelve Shires of Wales; (6) unless such Person or Persons in whose Name or Names such Writ or Error shall be brought, with two sufficient Sureties, such as the Court (wherein such Judgment is or shall be given) shall allow of, shall first before such Stay made, or Supersedeas to be awarded, be bound unto the Party for whom any such Judgment is or shall be given, by Recognizance to be acknowledged in the same Court, in double the Sum adjudged to be recovered by the said former Judgment, to prosecute the said Writ of Error with and also to satisfy and pay (if the said Judgment be affirmed) all and Angular the Debts, Damages and Costs, adjudged or to be adjudged upon the former Judgment; and all Costs and Damages to be also awarded for the same delaying of Execution. Continuance of this Statute(7) This Act to have Continuance to the End of the first Session of the next Parliament. [n 1][a 1]
CAP. IX.
An Act for the Relief of such as lawfully use the Trade and Handicraft of Skinners.
Qu. Elizabeth's Charter to the East-land Merchants, that none but they should transport Merchandize thither.{{float left|1='WHEREAS the said Artizan Skinners before the one and twentieth Year of the late Queen were at Liberty, and usually did transport into the East-land Countries, Coney-skins, and Lamb-skins called Morkins, of the Growth of this Kingdom, being in great Request in those Countries, without Contradiction: In which one and twentieth Year of her Majesty's Reign the East-land none but they Merchants procured a Charter from her Majesty, in which is contained a Prohibition therein, that none but they the Merchants of those Countries might transport any Merchandizes thither: (2) Sithence which Time the said Artizan Skinners have by Colour of thole Letters Patents been restrained from Transportation, and thereupon did for the Maintenance of them and their poor Families apply themselves to their Handy Labours, and to provide and buy within this Realm, as well of Petty Chapmen as others, the said Skins within this Kingdom; (3) And the Surplusage over and above such as they wrought into Manufactures, they sold to the said Merchants that had gotten the said Letters Patents for Transportation as aforesaid; (4) by Reason whereof the said Artizan Skinners, with their Wives and Families, lived in good Manner, and maintained many Thousands, both Tawers and other Workmen, and very many of them were Subsidy-men, and Men that paid many Duties in good Sort; (5) until of late Time that divers Merchants and others, for their own private Gain, By what Means do by themselves, their Factors and Servants, in disorderly and unmerchant-like Manner, buy, forestall, ingross and provide the said Commodities, and so draw the whole Trade into their own Hands, and work the same in their own Houses, and not contented therewith, do likewise sell and retail the said Skins here again unto other Merchant-Strangers, whereby they do deprive the said Artizan. Skinners both from buying, selling and Transportation, and thereupon the whole Trade of Artizan-Skinners is utterly impoverished generally throughout England:'
Merchants shall not dress black Coney-skins, nor transport them undressed II. Be it therefore enacted by our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, by the Lords Spiritual and Merchants shall Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no Person or Persons after the End of three Months next ensuing after the End of this present Session of Parliament, using the Trade of Merchandize or any other, shall dress or cause to be dressed, in his or their House or Houses, or by any Workman appointed by them for that Purpose (those Workmen pot being Artizan Skinners, and using the Trade of the Artizan Skinners) any of the black Coney-skins of this Kingdom; (2) nor shall transport or carry beyond the Seas, nor cause to be transported or carried beyond the Seas, nor shall pack, snip or lade, to the Intent to transport or carry beyond the Seas, any black Coney-skins of the Breed of this Realm, unless the same Skins shall first be tawed and duly and perfectly wrought, dressed and packed within this Realm, by those that are Artizan Skinners or Tawers unto the said Artizan Skinners, according to the Science, Art and Faculty of the Artizan Skinners; (3) upon Pain of Forfeiture of such Skins so packed, shipped, laden and transported, contrary to this Act, or the just and full Value thereof.
How many Coney-skins at the least a Merchant must buy and sell at one time.III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Trade of a Merchant, shall after the End of the said three Months next ensuing after the End of this present Session of Parliament, buy, bargin or contract for, or cause to be brought, bargined or contracted for, any Coney-skins or Lamb-skins, commonly called Morkins, of the Breed of this Realm, or being within this Realm, under the Number of one thousand black Coney-skins, or three thousand Grey Coney-skins, or two thousand Lamb-skins called Morkins, at a Time, and those not to be bought or contrasted for in or by Parcels, but to be contracted for, bargained and delivered at one Time intirely together, and not by Parcels, (except it be of the Artizan Skinners) (2) nor shall utter or sell the same again, nor any Part thereof, to any Person or Persons within this Realm in small Parcels: That is to say, under the Number of one thousand black Correy-skins, and three thousand of grey Coney-skins, and two thousand of Morkins at a Time, unless it be to the Artizan Skinner: (3) upon Pain of Forfeitue of the said -Skins or the full Value of the same.
Whom only a Skinner may take to be his Apprentice or JourneymanIV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That after the End of the said three Months next ensuing after the End of this present Session of Parliament no Person or Persons shall take, retain or keep any Servant, Journeyman, Apprentice, to serve or work with him therein except