An Act for the better Execuĉon of the Statute made in the Three and twentyth yeare of the Queenes Majesties Raigne for the abolyshing of Logwood ats Blockwood, in the dyeng of Cloth Wooll or Yarne (1597)
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| Artifact type | Statute |
| Creator/author | Parliament of England |
| Date | 1597 |
| Period | Tudor |
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[Statutes of the Realm, Vol. IV, Part II, Anno 39° [& 40°] ELIZABETHE. A.D. 1597. [& 1597-8.], CHAPTER XL.]
THEREAS by an Estatute lately made in the xxiij yeare of the Queenes Majestyos Raigne that now is, it was St. Elir. among other Thingf enacted, That no pson should dye or cause to be dyed any Cloth Wooll or other prohibiting the Use of Logwood Thingť there menconed, with any Stuffe called Logwood ats Blockwood, uppon such penalty as in the said Statute is in dying mencined; since the making of which Statute sundry evill disposed peons have sought to defraude the true meaning of Evasion thereof the said Statute, and to avoyde the penalty therein conteyned, by cunning using or mixing the said Logwood als Blockwood, together with Woad or other Stuffe, which is not onely contrary to the true meaning of the said former Acte, and to the great deceipte of her Majestyes loving Subject, but also to the discredit of the trade of Clothing,
specyally in forreine Cuntries, where heretofore Englysh Clothes have bene had in good accompte and reckoning: For (the'] redres of which Fraude, and to thintente the said practyze may hereafter be the better discovered, (which being closely and secreately done by the Offendors will otherwise hardly be founde out,) and that the said practyse, according to the true entent and meaning of the said former Statute, be henceforth utterly abolyshed; Be it therefore ordeyned Justices of Peace, and enacted by auctoritye of this posent Parliament, That yf any pson shalbe so suspected to offende, then any en Information, Justice or Justice of Prace of the same County where the said supposed Offendor shall dwell, yf he dwell out of a corporate Towne or Cittye, and yf he dwell within any corporate Towne or Cyttye, then the Maior Baylyff or other Logwood, and bind Head Officer, Leing a Justice of Peace of such corporate Towne or Cittye where such supposed Offendor shall dwell, upon Notyce and Informaĉon to him or them given in that behalfe, shall by auctority of this Acte, by his or their Warrante or other Comaundement, cause to come before him or them the Servantf and Worckmen of such supposed
may wammon Workmen of
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the Dyers to appear at the Quarter Sessions,
he. or on Refund, Offendors, and other psons able to disclose the said Deceipte, and them to examine by their Oath or otherwise;
them
Pasalty Convictice,
And yf upon the same Examynacón they shall finde any pson or psons, after the first day of February next ensuyng, to have used or caused to be used in the dyeng or couloring of any Cloth Wooll Yarne Grograine Buffens or Silke, or any Thing made of Woollen Yarne or Silke, any Logwood als Blockwood, or now or heretofore reputed and and taken for Logwood als Blockwood, that then the said Justice or Justice Maior Baylyf, or other Head Officer being a Justice of Peace, shall not onely binde with Surety all such pson or psons whome they shall finde so suspected to have offended, and such others as may discover the same Offence, to the next Quarter Sessions of Gaole Deliverye which shall happen to be holden for that Countye Citty or Towne Corporate, but also to ctifie all such Examinacóns and Deposicons as tende to the finding out or discoverye of the said Offence at the said Gaole Delivery or Quarter Sessions; And also yf any such pson so suspected to have offended, uppon Examynacon aforesaid, shall refuse to be bounde as aforesaid, then the said pson or psons, so refusing, to be comitted to the next Gaole, there to remayne till he she or they shall so become bounde with Suretyes: And that the said Justice of Assise or Justice of Peace at such Gaole Delivery or Quarter Sessions, shall have auctoritye by this Acte to indicte and try the Offendors by the usuall course of Indictment and Trialle in like Cases; And after such Conviccon to adjudge the said Offendors to be set openly on the Pillory in the said Citty or Market Towne where the same Offence shalbe comitted, and yf it shall not be in any Marcket Towne then in the next Market Towne adjoyning in the same Countye, there to contynue by all the tyme of the Market, one or moe Dayes by their Discresion for every such Offence; And further that every such Offendor beside his said Corporall Punyshment, shall forfeite for every such Offence the Some of Twenty Pound; The one Moyty of which Some of Money shalbe to our Soveraigne Lady the Qucenes Majestye, her Heires and Successors, and the other Moytye to him that will sue for the same by Accon of Debte Bill Plainte or Información in any Courte of Recorde, in which Suite no Essoyne Preción Wager of Lawe nor Writ of Priviledge for the Deffendant shalbe admitted or allowed, And the Party offending being thereof convicted to remayne in Pryson without Baile or Maincprise till he have satisfied the same
Recital of Stat,
WHEREAS
