Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
to the intent that proclamations may accordingly be renewed and sent
down, and if it shall happen that there be no need of any alteration ...
then the proclamations for the year past shall remain in force....
XII. [Penalty on Justices absent from sessions for rating wages, 5l.]
XIII. [Penalty for giving wages higher than the rate, ten days'
imprisonment and fine of 5l.; for receiving the same, twenty-one days'
imprisonment.]
XIV. [Penalty on servants, etc., assaulting masters, etc., one year's
imprisonment.]
XV. Provided that in the time of hay or corn harvest the Justices of
Peace and also the constable or other head officer of every township
upon request ... may cause all such artificers and persons as be meet to
labour ... to serve by the day for the mowing ... or inning of corn,
grain and hay, and that none of the said persons shall refuse so to do,
upon pain to suffer imprisonment in the stocks by the space of two days
and one night....
XVI. [Proviso for persons going harvesting into other counties.]
XVII. Two justices of peace, the mayor or other head officer of any city
(etc.) and two aldermen or two other discreet burgesses ... if there be
no aldermen, may appoint any such woman as is of the age of 12 years and
under the age of 40 years and unmarried and forth of service ... to be
retained or serve by the year or by the week or day for such wages and
in such reasonable sort as they shall think meet; and if any such woman
shall refuse so to serve, then it shall be lawful for the said justices
[etc.] to commit such woman to ward until she shall be bounden to serve
as aforesaid.
XVIII. And for the better advancement of husbandry and tillage and to
the intent that such as are fit to be made apprentices to husbandry may
be bounden thereunto, ... every person being a householder and having
half a ploughland at the least in tillage may receive as an apprentice
any person above the age of 10 years and under the age of 18 years to
serve in husbandry until his age of 21 years at the least, or until the
age of 24 years as the parties can agree ...
XIX. Every person being an householder and 24 years old at the least,
dwelling in any city or town corporate and exercising any art, mistery
or manual occupation there, may after the feast of St. John Baptist next
coming ... retain the son of any freeman not occupying husbandry nor
being a labourer and inhabiting in the same or in any other city or town
incorporate, to be bound as an apprentice after the custom and order of
the city of London for 7 years at the least, so as the term of such
apprentice do not expire afore such apprentice shall be of the age of 24
years at the least.
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