548 C. 8— lo. Anno quinto Gulielmi & Mari^. A. D. 1694. IXP. a W. & M. ff. £. C. 15. CAP. VIII. An Ait for the explaining, and for the more efFedtual Execution of a former A(5l for the Relief of poor Prifoners. 5 'Eliz. c. 4, CAP. IX. An Ad: for Repeal of a Claufe in the Statute of the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth (containing divers Orders for Artificers and others) which relates to Weavers of Cloth. WHEREAS by an ASt of Parliament made in the fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,, ia-i tituled. An ASi containing divers Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants in Hujbandry, and Ap-!'. prentices ; it is enafted in thefe Words following : " Provided always, and be it further enatSed by the Authority aforefaid, That no Perfon or Perfons, ufing or cxercifing the Art or Miftery of a WoolleAi Cloth Weaver, other than fuch as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland, Wejhnorland, Lan- cajier, and Wales, weaving Frizes, Cottons, or Houfewife's Cloth only, making and weaving WooUeni Cloth commonly fold, or to be fold by any Clothman or Clothier, fhall take and have any Apprentice, or fhall teach, or in any wife inftrucSl any Perfon or Perfons in the Science, Art, or Occupation of Weaving aforefaid, in any Village, Town, or Place, (Cities, Towns -corporate, and Market-towns.; only excepted) unlefs fuch Perfon be his Son, or elfe that the Father or Mother of fuch Apprentice or Servant fhall, at the Time of the taking of fuch Perfon or Perfons to be an Apprentice or Servant, or to be inftru£ted, have Lands or Tenements, or other Hereditaments, to the clear yearly Value of three Pounds at leaft, of an Eftate of Inheritance or Freehold, to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three JufHces of the Peace of the Shire or Shires, where the faid Lands, Tenements, or other Heredita- ments, do or fliall lie ; the EfFe£t of the Indenture to be regiftred within three Months, in the Parifh where fuch Mafter fhall dwell, and to pay for fuch regiftring four Pence, upon pain of Forfeiture of twenty Shillings for every Month that any Perfon fhall otherwife take any Apprentice, or fet any fuch Perfon on Work, contrary to the Meaning of this Article." ' Now forafmuch as fuch Part of the faid
- A£l before recited hath been found to be very inconvenient, and a great Prejudice to the Cloathing Trade/
may it pleafe your mofl: Excellent Majcflics, that it may be enadled, Claofe repealed. jj_ p^^^ ^jg j,, gnaflied bjr the King's and Queen's moft Excellent Majefties, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afTembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That fo much of the faid Aft, as is before recited, be, and is hereby (declared to be repealed, null, and void to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the faine had never been made. C A P. X. An Aft for the Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London. HE RE AS the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the Qitj oi London, have been, and are anfwerable for, and chargeable with, all Monies of the Orphans of the faid City from Time to Time paid into the Chamber of the faid City ; but by reafon of fundry Accidents and publick Calamities, ' are nov/ become indebted to the faid Orphans and other Creditors, for principal Money and Intefeft ' thereof, in a much greater Sum of Money than they are able to fatisfy and pay, unlefs fome Afliftance be
- given them for the fame :
11. Be it therefore enafted by the King's and Queen's mdft Excellent Majefties, by and with the Ad- vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afTem- bled, and by the Authority of the fame. That for and towards the raifmg a perpetual Fund to pay the yearly Interefl: of four Pounds for every hundred Pounds principal Money, and of all the faid Interefl there(;f, due to any Orphan of the faid City, or the Executors, Adminiflrators, or Afligns, of any fuch Orphan, unto the five and twentieth Day oi December one thoufand fix liundred ninety-three, fuch Inter- efl: to be computed from the Time it was firft payable unto the five and twentieth Day of December one thoufand fix hunJred eighty-three, at five Pounds for the Intereft of every hundred Pounds for one Year, and from the five and twentieth Day of December one thoufand fix hundred eighty-three, unto the five and twentieth Day of December one thoufand fix hundred ninety-three, at three Pounds for the Intereft of eve- ry hundred Pounds for one Year, and proportionably for any greater or lelFer Sum (the Intereft already re- ceived for fuch principal Money to be dedufted) and alfo to pay the like yearly Intereft of four Pounds for every hundred Pounds of the principal Money and Intereft thereof, to be computed as aforefaid, due upon Eond, Bill, or Note, liable to pay Intereft, between the five and twentieth Day of Dece?nber one thoufand fix hundred fifty and five, and the faid five and twentieth Day of December one. thoufand fix hundred ninety- three, or any other the Creditor or Creditors of the faid Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens, or the Exe- cutors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns, of any fuch Creditor or Creditors, on the faid five and twentieth Day of Decetubcr one thoufand fix hundred ninety-threCj from the Chamber of the faid City or from the Mayor, Common- The City Lands ch^ir^ed with Sjocol. per Ann. for the Orphans. How mnch Or- pbAos Money to 5)5 paid.
