per month. Two Justices of the Peace
may commit to gaol or house of correction persons refusing to work
and disobedient churchwardens and overseers. The overseers may,
with the consent of the lord of the manor, build houses on common
or waste land for the poor at the expense of the parish, in which
they may place more than one family in each houses.
Every parish shall pay weekly 2-10d. toward the relief of sick,
hurt, and maimed soldiers and mariners. Counties with more than
fifty parishes need pay only 2- 6d. The county treasurer shall
keep registers and accounts. Soldiers begging shall lose their
pension and shall be adjudged a common rogue or vagabond subject
to imprisonment and punishment.
Sheriffs summoning defendants without a writ shall pay 200s. and
damages to the defendant, and 400s. to the King.
Persons stealing crops from lands or fruit from trees shall be
whipped.
Since administrators of goods of people dying intestate who fail
to pay the creditors of the deceased often can't pay the debts
from their own money, the people (who are not creditors) receiving
the goods shall pay the creditors.
Every person shall receive the holy communion in church at least
once a year or forfeit 20 pounds for the first year and 40 pounds
for the second year, and threescore pounds for every year after
until he takes the said sacrament.
No person convicted of Catholicism may practice the common law as
a counsellor, clerk, attorney, or solicitor, nor may practice
civil law as advocate, or proctor, nor shall be justice, minister,
clerk, or steward in any court, nor practice medicine, nor perform
as apothecary, nor be officer in a town, in the army, or navy, or
forfeit 100 pounds.
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