Apprentices Act 1536
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1536 c. 5 |
(28 Hen. 8) C A P. V.
'W H E R E in the Parliament begun atLondon the third Day of November in the twenty-first Year of the Reignof our most dread Sovereign Lord KingHenry the Eighth, and from thence adjourned and prorogued to Westminster the sixteenth Day of January in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord, and there then also holden; it was and is recited, That where before that Time it was established and enacted in the nineteenth Year of our late Sovereign Lord King Henry the Seventh, that no Master, Wardens and Fellowship of Crafts, or any of them, nor any Rulers of Guilds or Fraternities, should take upon them to make any Acts or Ordinances, ne to execute any Acts or Ordinances by them before that Time made, or then hereafter to be made, in Disheritance or Diminution of the Prerogative of the King, nor of other, nor against the common Profit of the People, except the same Acts or Ordinances were examined or approved by the Chancellor, Treasurer of England , or Chief Justice of either Bench, or three of them, or before the Justices of Assise in their Circuit or Progress, in the Shire where such Acts or Ordinances be made, (2) upon Pain of Forfeiture of forty Pounds for every Time that they do the contrary, as more plainly in the said Act doth appear; (3) Sith which Time divers Wardens and Fellowships have made Acts and Ordinances, that every Prentice should pay at his first Entry in their Common Hall, to the Wardens of the same Fellowship, some of them xl. s. some xxx. s. some xx. s. some xiij. s. iv. d. some vi. s. viij. d. some iij. s. iv. d. after their own sinister Minds and Pleasure, contrary to the Meaning of the said Act made in the said nineteenth Year of the Reign of the said late King Henry the Seventh, and to the great Hurt of the King's true Subjects putting their Children to be Prentices: (4)It was therefore, in the said Parliament holden atWestminster in the said twenty-second Yearof the Reign of KingHenry the Eighth, established and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in the same Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no Master, Wardens or Fellowships of Crafts, or Masters of any of them, nor any Rulers of Fraternities, should take from thenceforth of any Prentice, or of any Person or Persons, for the Entry of any Prentice into...
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