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... penalty of a merk for every other beggar found within their jurisdiction . A very important restriction was imposed on those pri- vileged beggars , by the subsequent act of James V. ( 1535 , c . 22 , ) which enacts that na beggars be ...
... penalty of a merk for every other beggar found within their jurisdiction . A very important restriction was imposed on those pri- vileged beggars , by the subsequent act of James V. ( 1535 , c . 22 , ) which enacts that na beggars be ...
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... penalty for the relief of them— ' who may make passports and licences , and to whom ? -Assessments ' shall be made of the parishioners , for the relief of the poor of the 7 same parish . ' 6 idle , and not following any lawful mode of ...
... penalty for the relief of them— ' who may make passports and licences , and to whom ? -Assessments ' shall be made of the parishioners , for the relief of the poor of the 7 same parish . ' 6 idle , and not following any lawful mode of ...
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... penalties to be inflicted on the vaga- bonds themselves , the act declares , that every person who ' gives money ... penalty of forfeiting their goods and chattels to the King . The 2d of Philip and Mary , c . 4 , makes it felony for ...
... penalties to be inflicted on the vaga- bonds themselves , the act declares , that every person who ' gives money ... penalty of forfeiting their goods and chattels to the King . The 2d of Philip and Mary , c . 4 , makes it felony for ...
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... penalties , and extends to persons , to be appointed by the Kirk Ses- sions , the power of carrying into execution the provisions of the act 1579 ; which power the next statute , 1597 , c . 272 , transfers entirely to these bodies them ...
... penalties , and extends to persons , to be appointed by the Kirk Ses- sions , the power of carrying into execution the provisions of the act 1579 ; which power the next statute , 1597 , c . 272 , transfers entirely to these bodies them ...
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... not amenable to the severe penalties against vagabonds , were , nevertheless , by the statutes of this reign , subjected along with them to 1661 , c . 42 . the same harsh regulations which were considered necessa- ry to THE STATUTES . 15.
... not amenable to the severe penalties against vagabonds , were , nevertheless , by the statutes of this reign , subjected along with them to 1661 , c . 42 . the same harsh regulations which were considered necessa- ry to THE STATUTES . 15.
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Page 11 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 11 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children; and also for setting to work all such Persons, married or unmarried, having no Means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by...
Page 7 - for the punishment of vagabonds, and for relief of the poor and impotent," was essentially an act of protection for the established companies of players. We have here, for the first time, a definition of rogues and vagabonds ; and it includes not only those who can " give no reckoning how he or she doth lawfully get his or her living," but
Page 7 - Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.
Page 74 - September at the parish kirk, and there to make lists of all the poor within their parish, and to cast up the quota of what may entertain them according to their respective needs, and to cast the said quota, the one half upon the heritors, and the other half upon the householders of the parish...
Page 28 - Overseers to make due tryal and examination of the condition and number of such Poor, Aged, Sick, Lame and impotent inhabitants of the said Paroch, who (of themselves) have not to maintain them, nor are able to work for their living...
Page 9 - Seals, to erect, build and set up in fit and convenient Places of Habitation, in such Waste or Common, at the general Charges of the Parish or otherwise of the Hundred or County as aforesaid...