This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...machinations the queen's life was believed to be put in jeopardy. The foregoing notices of what took place, with regard to religion in the present and two preceding reigns, will render it unnecessary to advert again to the subject, whilst passing in review the statutes for relief of the poor, or affecting the condition ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...machinations the queen's life was believed to be put in jeopardy. The foregoing notices of what took place, with regard to religion in the present and two preceding reigns, will render it unnecessary to advert again to the subject, whilst passing in review the statutes for relief of the poor, or affecting the condition of the people; and these we will now proceed to consider. 1 Hallam's Constitutional History, vol. i. p. 113. In 1562 another Act1 was passed "for the Main-1562-63. tenance and Increase of Tillage," the alarms about the cap. % conversion of arable land to pasturage not having yet subsided. The statutes of Henry the Seventh and Henry the Eighth2 on this subject are in this Act recited and confirmed. Lands tilled four years successively at any time since the twentieth year of Henry the Eighth, are to be kept in tillage, under a penalty of 10s. per acre; but there is a proviso in favour of "such as shall be a common fatter of beefs or muttons to be sold in markets and fairs, or common butchers." This exception makes it difficult to understand to whom the Act would apply, and almost warrants the supposition that it was inserted for the purpose of rendering the Act nugatory. The 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, cap. 5, for the relief of the poor,3 was continued in the first year of Elizabeth's reign by cap. 18; and after an interval of five years the subject again came under consideration, and an Act was passed comprising whatever the information and intelligence of the day could further devise on the subject. This Act, 5 Elizabeth, cap. 3, has the same 1562-63. preamble as the last statute of Edward the Sixth, and cap! s." that of Philip and Mary; and the former statute, together with that of 22 Henry VIII. cap. 12,4 it expressl...
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