If the sheriff, or his bailiff take any money, or other reward, for sparing an arrest, or for letting to bail persons not bailable, or for shewing him any other favour.

If the sheriffs refuse to let to bail

who are bailable by law.

persons arrested upon mean process,

If the sheriff, or his deputy, take a bond, for appearance of any other form, than that directed by the statute.

If the sheriff return any jurors, without their true addition.

If the sheriff or his deputy take any thing, for making and returning pannels of juries, or take above four-pence for the copy of one pannel. If the sheriff or jailer deny to receive, without fee, felons sent to the jail.

If the bailiff of any liberty do not perform the same duties as are enjoined to sheriffs, in executing warrants and processes directed to hem.

Touching the constable.

This is an officer of justice, and an officer of peace, and is of great trust, and good use, if he perform his duty; and therefore, by the way let me say, that care must be taken by the justices of peace, and stewards in leets, that able and honest persons, and fit for the service, be put into this employment. ·

If he does not endeavour to preserve the peace and prevent the breach of it.

If he does not arrest night-walkers, and suspected persons.

If he does not hastily pursue hue-and-cry after murtherers, and robbers.

If he does not cause watch by night, and ward by day, to be kept within his office, from Ascension-day, to Michaelmas-day, and ward by day, the rest of the year.

If he does not truly execute and return all warrants sent to him, from justices of the peace.

If he does not appoint in Easter-week overseers of highways.

If he does not apprehend beggars, rogues, and vagabonds that are wandering or begging within his office, and if any have hindered him from doing his duty therein.

If he does not punish, by the stocks, such as refuse to labour in hay and harvest-time.

If he does not inventory felons goods happening within his office. If he does not, once a month, search ale-houses, maltmakers houses, and houses of gaming and bawdery.

If he does not present at the sessions, or to the next justices, the disorders in ale-houses, defects in highways, recusants absence from church, and such as keep dogs, guns, nets, and the like, for the unlawful taking of wild-fowls and hares.

If he does not drive the commons within his office for infected and unlawful cattle, once (at least) in summer.

Coroner.

If he fail to perform his duty upon summons as well where the fact is by misadventures, as by man's hand.

If he take any fee, where the fact is by misadventure.

If he take any fee, above thirteen shillings and four-pence where the fact is by man's hand, and that of the goods of the manslayer, if he be in custody; or, if he escape, then of the town, where the fact was done.

Clerk of the market.

If he take any common fine for dispensing with faults in weights and

measures.

If he take any fee for marking weights and measures, but those allowed, viz. one penny for a bushel and hundred-weight; half a penny for half a bushel, and half a hundred-weight; a farthing for every less weight or measure.

Clerk of the peace.

If he take any fee for his office-doing, but those allowed, viz. for an ale-house recognisance, one shilling.

For a badger's or drover's license, two shillings.

For inrolling presentments for recusants 0.

For inrolling of a recognisance of a rogue, taken into service, one shilling.

For inrolling a deed of bargain, and sale of land, being under forty shillings per annum value, one shilling.

And if it exceed forty shillings, per annum value, two shillings and six-pence.

Ordinary.

So formerly called, as having had jurisdictionem ordinariam in jure proprio. But that name and thing fell away with the bishops. And the officer, who now officiates in that service of proving the last wills, and granting the administration of the goods of dead men in the southern province, doth it now by the mediate authority and power of the parliament, by vertue of an ordinance for that purpose. But, in these northern parts, the old authority is both boldly and unlawfully exercised, and continued without any warrant at all. But touching the fees, taken upon these occasions, thus much is to your present purpose.

If he take any fee, but those allowed for proving of a will, or granting an administration, viz.

Where the inventory exceeds forty pounds, five shillings.

Where it is under forty pounds, and above five pounds, three shillings and six-pence.

Where but five pounds, or under, six-pence.

Or a penny for every ten lines, ten inches long, which rate is also allowed for their copies.

And what is taken, more than those, is extortion.

If any minister take any mortuary, but where the custom of the place allows it; or where it is allowed, if he take any mortuary for an infant, feme covert, or traveller; or if he take any thing, where the inventory is under ten marks; or, if he take above three shillings and four-pence, where the inventory is above ten marks, and under thirty pounds; or,

if he take above six shillings and eight-pence, where the inventory is above thirty pounds, and under forty pounds; or, if he take above ten shillings, where the inventory is above forty pounds.

Searchers and sealers of leather.

If they be not appointed by the owner of the market, in market

towns.

If they (being appointed) refuse the office.

If they do not, in convenient time, perform their duty and office upon particular occasions when leather is brought to them to view. If they be not furnished with a register-book and a seal.

If they fail to set down all bargains of tanned and unwrought leather.

If they allow such as is insufficient, or disallow such as is sufficient. If they take any fee, save such as is allowed, viz. for every ten hides, two pence, and for every six dozen of calves-skins, two-pence.

If triers of tanned leather, seized for insufficient, be not appointed by the owners and rulers of fairs or markets.

If the triers refuse to perform their duty.

Toll-gatherers.

If owners or rulers of fairs and markets have not appointed some certain place for sale of horses there, and a toll-gatherer to attend.

If the toll-gatherer do not sit in an open place, in markets and fairs, where horses and cattle are sold, and continue there from ten of the clock in the morning, till sun-set.

If he do not keep a register-book, and therein set down the bargains brought before him, and have the parties and vouchers present which he knows.

If he take any fee or reward save that allowed, viz. a penny for one bargain entering.

If any person, coming in as a voucher, take upon him the knowledge of the seller, and do not in truth know him.

If the toll-gatherer refuse to deliver a copy of his entry, or take above two-pence for it.

Overseers of the poor.

If they refuse to execute their office, being appointed thereto by the justices of peace.

If they do not provide a common stock, and take care to keep the poor at work upon the common stock of the parish.

If they do not meet once a month particularly to confer about the performance of their duty.

If they do not raise a weekly taxation for the maintenance of the impotent poor.

If they suffer their parishioners to wander and beg out of their parish, or in their parish, without license.

Overseers of high-ways.

If they refuse to execute the office, being chosen thereto by the constable and neighbourhood.

If they do not, upon the next Sunday after Easter, appoint publickly in the church six days betwixt that and Midsummer, for the neighbours to meet for mending the highways in the parish.

If they do not attend at the days appointed to direct the works.

If they do not present to the next justice of the peace, or at the next sessions, the defaults of absent parishioners.

If they do not present to the two next justices of peace the defects of high-ways, and of not scouring the ditches, that should lead and avoid the water from standing in high-ways.

Touching artificers, labourers, masters, and servants.

If artificers, labourers, or servants conspire what wages to take, and not to work under those rates.

If artificers or labourers undertake work, and depart before it be finished.

If they do not continue from five of the clock in the morning till seven at night in the summer, and from seven till five in winter.

If labourers or servants take any more wages than the rates allowed by the justices.

If any servant assault master or mistress.

If a tradesman retain a journeyman for less time than a year.

If for every three apprentices they do not keep one journeyman; and for every apprentice above three, one journeyman more.

If they refuse to labour in hay-time or harvest.

If a servant depart from one parish to another, without a testimonial from his master.

If any master hire any such servants wanting such a testimonial.

If any servant depart within his term, or at the end of his term, without a quarter's warning, unless the cause be allowed before two justices of peace.

If any master put away his servant within his term, or at the end of his term, without a quarter's warning, unless the cause be allowed before two justices of peace.

Brasiers and Pewterers.

If any brasier or pewterer buy or exchange any metal belonging to his trade, but in open shop, or fair, or market.

If they sell their wares of metal not of the allay of London.

If they use any deceitful weights or false beams.

Cordwainers, viz. a tanner, currier, shoe-maker, and butcher, dealing with the hide. Tanner.

If he set his fats in tan-hills.

If he over-lime his hides.

If he tan any leather in warm owze.

If he do not work the lime well out of the leather.

If he use any stuff but malt, meal, tapwort, hen-dung, culver-dung, ash-bark, and oak-bark.

If he use any deceitful mixture for raising his hides.

If he suffer his hides to be frozen with winter-frost, or to be parched with summer-sun, or to be dried by the fire.

If he tan any rotten hides.

If he do not renew his owze so often as need requires.

If he do not keep his soal-leather twelve months, and upper-leather nine months in the owze.

If he sell any tanned leather, which is insufficiently tanned.

If he sell any tanned leather out of a market.

If he sell any tanned leather, before it be searched and sealed.

If any tanner be a currier or a shoemaker, or use any other trade which cuts leather, or e contra.

Currier.

If he dwell out of a market town, or exercise his trade in shoemaker's house.

If he curry any leather but such as is sufficiently tanned.

If he use any other stuff in currying outer-soal-leather, but good hard tallow, and no less thereof than the leather will receive.

If he gash or scald any hide, or shave any leather too thin.

If he refuse to curry leather brought to him with stuff to work it, or if he keep it in summer above eight days, and in winter above sixteen days.

If he be a tanner or shoemaker, while he is a currier.

Shoemaker.

If he do not make his wares of good leather, soal and upper-leather well-tanned, and well sewed with thread well waxed and twisted, and hard drawn with hand-leathers.

If he mix his wares, part neats-leather, part calf, horse, or bull-hide. If he sell any wares upon Sundays.

Butcher.

If he gash, slaughter, or cut any hide in fleaing.

If he water any hide, save in June, July, or August.

If he sell any corrupt or rotten hides.

If he sell any hide but in open market.

If he use the trade of a tanner.

Tanned Leather.

If any buy tanned leather, red and unwrought, and do not make it

into made wares.

If any but tanners buy rough hides.

If any buy tanned leather out of a market.

If any buy tanned leather before it be searched and sealed.

If any refuse and resist the searchers to make search.

If any ingross oak-bark.

Cloth-makers.

If any use raking of linnen-cloth, or use lime or other undue mixture

in whitening linnen-cloth.