A.D. i :; . Anno dccir IIi: nrici VII. • therein, to m.ikc (larch in tl I ry Part of tl utinuc and endure to the next Parliament and nu longer. C A P. VII. For making of Statutes by Bodies incorporate. < T)R in this pj fent Parliament aflei t where in a Parliament holden .no.
- i, ftl i . Henry the Sixth, for that, that Matters, »5 i! -
I Guilds, Fraternities, and other Companies Corporate, dwelling in divers. Parts oftentimes by Colour of Rule and Governance to them granted and confirmed by Ch and Leti rsPatei of divers Kings, made among themfelves many unlawful and unreafonable Ordirian- of Wares as other Things, for their own fmgular Profit, and to the common Hurt i. age of the People :' (z) It was enacted, That there fhould from henceforth no fuch M , nor Companies, make nor ufe no Ordinance in Disheritance or Diminution of the Prcroga- 01 her, nor againft the common Profit of the People, nor none other Ordinance of Charge make and life, but if it were lift difcufled and proved by good and reafouable Advice by the lattice i of the Peace, or the chief Governors of Cities, and before them entered of Record, (?) and that upon Pain to lofc and forfeit the Force and the Effect of all the Articles in their faid Letters Patents and Charter, contained concerning the fame, and over that to lofc and pay x. li. to the King for every Ordi- nance that any of them made or.ufcd to the contrary ; (4) and this Ordinance to endure at the King's Enforced by in th 1 Act it appearcth ; (;) which Act is now expired, and fith the expiring of the iz H - 2. c. 4. .^ and many Ordinances have been made by many and divers private bodies Corporate within Cities, Towns, and Boroughs, contrary to the King's Prerogative, his Laws, and the Common Weal of his Subjects :' (6) Be it therefore ordained, eftablifhcd, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, Ne ." by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament afTem- w "«n5 of Fel- bled, and by Authority of the fame, That no Mailers, Wardens, and Fellowships of Crafts or Myftcries, iov -f"f s (ha11 nor any of them, nor any Rulers of Guilds or Fraternities, take upon them to make, any Acts or Ordinan- ordinances CW ces, ne to execute any Acts or Ordinances by them heretofore made, in Disheritance or Diminution of the without the live of the King, nor of other, nor againft the common Profit of the People, but that the fame Acts Confer.t of the pr Ordinances be examined and approved by the Chancellor, Treafurer of England, or Chief Juilices of chancellor, cither Benches, or Three of them, or before both the Juftices of Affile in their "Circuit or Progrefs in that T'l Shire where fuch Acts or Ordinances be made, upon Pain of Forfeiture of xl. It. for every Time that they i$ h"% c- , # do contrary. (7) And over that it is enacted, That none of the fame Bodies Corporate take upon them to No Order ftiU make any Acts or Ordinances to reftrain any Perfon or Perfons to fue to the King's Highnefs, or to any be made to re- ef his Courts,, for due Remedy to be had in their Caufes, ne put ne execute any Penalty or Punifhment I" 1 ?.: Su ', ts ia upon any of them for any fuch Suit to be made, upon Pain of Forfeiture of xl. li. for eveiy Time that they J/ c u jV n6 5 ' do the contrary. And this Act to begin and take Effect at the Feaft of Pentecoft next cumin?, and from ' , ' . ' thenceforth. % p ™ Ccrforathns, 33 H. 8. c. 27. a & 3 P. £? M. c, iS. 13 Car. X. jiat. z, c. I. 5 GVs. 1. c 6. f.i 11 Get, I. .. {. CAP. VIII. Shewage, Scavage. *
- ^ I ~* O the King our Sovereign Lord, prayen the Commons in this your prefent Parliament affembled,
' A That where the Merchants and Inhabitants of divers Cities, Boroughs, and Towns within this ' Realm, and as well divers Tenants of our faid Sovereign Lord the King, as of other, that have by Gr ' made by the noble Progenitors and Prcdeeeffors of our faid Sovereign Lord, as well to them by ' Name or Names as they .or any of them be Corporate, as by Grants made unto divers Lords both Spi.- ' ritual and Temporal, and by Prcfcription, that they, their Tenants, Refiants, and Inhabitants within 1 their feveral Lordfhips, Boroughs, and Towns, fhould be quit and difcharged of divers and many Cuf- ' toms, as of Tolls and of- other Exactions demanded and afked by divers Mayors, Sheriff"?, Bailiffs, and other Officers of divers Cities, Boroughs,, and Towns within this Realm, for their lingular Lucre, of Merchants Denizens and of the King's true Subjects born, dwelling and inhabiting within this Realm, contrary to their faid Privilege, and lately more and otherwife than in Times palled, have diftrained, le- vied, and taken of them a certain Cuftom Called Scavage, otherwife callc > to th I I rouble, which Scavage Was never ufed to be taken nor levied but only of Merchant Stran< (2J lie it therefore ordained, eftablifhcd, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, and by the AJIerit • Siavage o r Scavage fguifics a Kind of tall txatled by Majors, £V. for Wares {HzweA I .5 $n iitlr Liberties* O 2 Of
