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the
saide
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
or
the
greater
part
of
them
shall
take
order
from
time
to
time
by
consent
of
two
or
more
of
the
Iustices
of
peace
,
for
setting
to
worke
of
the
children
of
all
such
persons
within
the
same
parish
whose
parentes
shall
not
bee
thought
by
them
able
to
keepe
and
maintaine
their
children
.
Also
all
such
persons
maried
or
vnmaried
,
as
hauing
no
means
to
maintaine
themselues
,
vse
no
ordinarie
trade
of
life
to
get
their
liuing
by
,
are
to
bee
set
on
worke
by
the
said
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
:
The
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
with
consent
of
the
two
Iustices
of
peace
,
must
make
a
taxation
of
euery
inhabitant
within
the
parish
,
be
they
free
or
not
free
of
the
Citie
,
for
a
conuenient
stocke
of
flaxe
,
hemp
wooll
,
thread
,
Iron
,
and
other
necessarie
stuffe
,
to
set
the
poore
on
worke
within
the
saide
parish
,
and
for
a
weekely
allowance
towardes
the
necessarie
reliefe
of
the
lame
,
impotent
,
old
,
blind
,
and
such
other
amongst
them
being
poore
and
not
able
to
worke
,
and
for
putting
poore
children
apprentises
:
And
touching
such
ouercharge
as
in
some
parishes
shall
happen
by
occasion
of
the
great
multitude
of
the
poore
there
to
bee
relieued
,
more
then
the
weekely
allowance
of
such
parishes
will
supply
,
the
Iustices
of
peace
are
to
taxe
,
rate
,
and
assesse
any
of
any
other
parishes
to
pay
such
summe
and
summes
of
mony
to
the
churchwardens
&
Ouerseers
of
the
said
poore
parish
for
the
purposes
aforesaid
,
as
they
shall
thinke
fit
.
The
Churchwardens
and
the
Ouerseers
appointed
must
meet
together
at
the
least
once
euery
moneth
in
the
Church
of
the
said
parish
,
vpon
the
Sunday
in
the
after
noone
,
after
diuine
seruice
,
to
consider
of
some
good
course
to
be
taken
,
and
some
meete
orders
to
bee
set
downe
by
them
in
the
premisses
,
vppon
paine
to
forfaite
twenty
shillinges
for
euery
default
,
without
lawfull
cause
.
The
Churchwardens
and
the
Ouerseers
must
within
foure
dayes
after
the
end
of
their
yeare
(
which
beganne
when
the
said
Ouerseers
were
appointed
)
and
after
new
Ouerseers
nominated
as
aforesaid
,
make
and
yeeld
vp
to
such
two
Iustices
of
peace
a
true
and
perfect
accompte
of
all
summes
of
money
by
them
receyued
,
or
rated
and
cessed
and
not
receyued
,
and
of
such
stocke
as
shall
be
in
their
handes
,
or
in
the
hands
of
the
poore
to
worke
,
and
of
all
other
thinges
concerning
their
said
office
,
and
such
summe
or
summes
of
money
as
shall
be
in
their
hands
,
shall
pay
and
deliuer
ouer
to
the
saide
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
newly
nominated
as
aforesaide
,
vpon
paine
to
forfaite
for
euery
default
in
being
negligent
in
their
office
,
or
in
the
execution
of
the
orders
aforesaide
being
made
by
,
and
with
the
assent
of
the
said
Iustices
of
peace
,
twentie
shillings
.
The
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
,
or
any
of
them
are
by
warrant
from
any
two
such
Iustices
of
the
peace
,
to
leuy
aswel
the
said
summes
of
money
of
euery
one
that
shall
refuse
to
contribute
according
as
they
shall
bee
assessed
by
distresse
and
sale
of
the
offenders
goodes
,
as
the
summes
of
money
or
stocke
which
shall
be
behinde
vpon
any
account
to
be
made
as
aforesaid
,
rendring
to
the
party
the
ouerplus
,
and
in
default
of
such
distresse
,
it
is
also
lawfull
for
two
Iustices
of
the
peace
to
commit
to
prison
such
as
refuse
to
contribute
:
there
to
remaine
without
bayle
or
mainprise
,
till
payment
bee
made
of
the
saide
summe
or
stocke
.
And
it
is
lawfull
for
any
two
such
Iustices
of
peace
to
commit
to
prison
euery
one
of
the
said
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
,
which
shall
refuse
to
accompt
,
there
to
remain
without
bayle
or
mainprise
,
till
hee
hath
made
a
true
account
and
satisfied
and
paid
so
much
as
vpon
the
said
account
shall
be
remayning
in
his
hands
.
It
is
also
enacted
,
that
such
persons
as
shall
goe
wandring
abroad
and
beg
in
any
place
wheresoeuer
by
licence
or
without
,
vnlesse
it
bee
poore
people
,
who
shall
aske
reliefe
of
victuals
onely
in
the
same
parish
where
they
shall
dwell
,
according
to
the
direction
of
the
Churchwardens
and
Ouerseers
,
shall
bee
accompted
as
Rogues
and
so
punished
.
Prouided
alwayes
neuerthelesse
,
that
euery
soldier
being
discharged
of
his
seruice
,
or
otherwise
lawfullie
licensed
to
passe
into
his
countrie
,
and
not
hauing
wherewith
to
relieue
himselfe
in
his
trauels
homewards
,
and
euery
sea-faring
man
landing
from
sea
,
not
hauing
wherewith
to
relieue
himself
in
his
trauels
homewardes
,
hauing
a
Testimoniall
vnder
the
hand
of
some
one
Iustice
of
the
peace
,
of
or
near
the
place
where
he
landed
or
was
discharged
setting
down
therein
the
place
&
time
,
where
and
when
hee
landed
,
or
was
discharged
,
and
the
place
of
the
parties
dwelling
or
birth
,
vnto
which
he
is
to
passe
,
and
a
conuenient
time
therein
to
bee
limitted
for
his
passage
,
shal
and
may
without
incurring
the
danger
or
penaltie
of
this
Act
,
in
the
vsuall
wayes
directly
to
the
place
vnto
which
he
is
directed
to
passe
,
and
within
the
time
in
such
his
Testimoniall
limitted
for
his
passage
,
aske
and
receiue
such
reliefe
as
shall
be
necessary
in
and
for
his
passage
,
the
saide
act
or
any
thing
therein
contayned
to
the
contrary
notwithstanding
.