21 James I. c. 1. States that the licence to erect "abiding or working houses for the poor" is to continue for ever. 21 James I. c. 28. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 3, with addition of 1 Jac. I. c. 25. Also continues 1 James I. c. 7, and 7 James I. c. 4, repeals 11 Hen. VII. c. 2, and 19 Hen. VII. c. 19, 12 Ric. II. cc. 3-9, and also 22 Hen. VIII. c. 12 and 3 and 4 Edw. VI. c. 16. 3 Chas. I. c. 5. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 2, and empowers Overseers to set up any trade they will, provided it is only for the purpose of employing the poor, notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This last enactment was probably designed to protect the Overseers from penalties for violating the statute of apprenticeship. Another series of statutes assigns the fines for their infraction to the relief of the poor. Some of these are as follows: 1 Jac. I. c. 27, 7 Jac. I. c. 11, 21 Jac. I. c. 28, most of the fines for the infraction of the game laws. 1 Jac. I. c. 9. Fines of alehouse keepers for allowing people to sit tippling in their alehouses or for selling for a penny less than one quart of best beer or two quarts of small. 4 Jac. I. c. 5. } Fine of 5_s._ for drunkenness or 3_s._ 4_d._ for 21 Jac. I. c. 7.} sitting drinking in an alehouse in one's own parish. 3 Jac. I. c. 4. Fine of one shilling for absence from church. 21 Jac. I. c. 18. Fines for breaking certain regulations for making cloth. 21 Jac. I. c. 20. Fine for profane swearing, one shilling. 1 Car. I. c. 1. Fine for meeting for games outside one's own parish on Sunday or in one's own parish for unlawful games. 3 Car. I. c. 2. Fine of 20_s._ for carriers driving on Sunday. Fine of 6_s._ 8_d._ for butchers killing meat on Sunday.