Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
III. Every person being unmarried and every other person being under the
age of thirty years that after the feast of Easter next shall marry, and
having been brought up in any of the said arts [etc.] or that hath
exercised any of them by the space of three years or more, and not
having lands, tenements [etc.] copyhold or freehold of an estate of
inheritance or for term of lives of the clear yearly value of 40s. nor
being worth of his own goods the clear value of 10l., ..., not being
retained with any person in husbandry or in any of the aforesaid arts
... nor in any other art, nor in household or in any office with any
nobleman, gentleman or others, ..., nor having a convenient farm or
other holding in tillage whereupon he may employ his labour, shall
(during the time that he shall so be unmarried or under the age of 30
years), upon request made by any person using the art or mystery wherein
the said person so required hath been exercised as is aforesaid, be
retained and shall not refuse to serve according to the tenor of this
Statute upon the pain and penalty hereafter mentioned.
IV. No person which shall retain any servant shall put away his said
servant, and no person retained according to this Statute shall depart
from his master, mistress or dame before the end of his term, upon the
pain hereafter mentioned, unless it be for some reasonable cause to be
allowed before two Justices of Peace, or one at the least, or before the
mayor or other chief officer of the city, borough or town corporate
wherein the said master [etc.] inhabiteth, to whom any of the parties
grieved shall complain; which said justices or chief officer shall have
the hearing and ordering of the matter between the said master [etc.]
and servant, according to the equity of the cause; and no such master
[etc.] shall put away any such servant at the end of his term, or any
such servant depart from his said master [etc.] at the end of his term,
without one quarter warning given ... upon the pain hereafter ensuing.
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