Offenders convicted a second time shall be bound
with two sureties to the sum of 200s.
No person at least 18 years of age may be naturalized or restored
in blood after being attainted unless he takes the sacrament and
the Oath of Supremacy [of the king over the church of England],
and Oath of Allegiance [to the king].
Money given by will for the apprenticeship of poor children shall
be managed by incorporated towns and unincorporated parishes.
Masters receiving such apprentices shall become bound with
sufficient sureties.
Houses of correction shall be built in every county.
Lewd women, having bastards, chargeable to the parish, shall be
committed to the house of correction to be punished and set to
work for one year.
Persons deserting their families shall be deemed incorrigible
rogues and punished as such.
Persons such as sorters who purloin or embezzle wool or yarn
delivered to them by clothiers and the receivers thereof, knowing
the same, shall recompense the party grieved or else be whipped
and set in the stocks.
All hospitals and abiding places for the poor, lame, maimed, and
impotent persons or for houses of correction founded according to
the statute of Elizabeth shall be incorporated and have perpetual
succession.
Only lands and hereditaments paying rents to the Crown within the
last sixty years shall be claimed by the Crown; the title of all
persons and corporation who have enjoyed uninterruptedly against
the Crown for the last sixty years are confirmed against the
Crown.
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