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Apprentices' Fees Act 1530

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1530 c. 4
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 22 Hen . VIII. and Anno Dom 1530 For Exactions not to be levied on Apprentices.

(22 Hen. 8) C A P. IV.

'AT the Prayer of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, reciting, That where 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, take upon them to make any Acts or Ordinances, ne to execute any Acts or Ordinances by them heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, in Disinheritance or Diminution of the Prerogative of the King, nor of other, nor against the common Profit of the People, but if the same Acts or Ordinances be examined or approved by the Chancellor, Treasurer ofEngland , 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, upon Pain of Forfeiture of xl. li. for every Time that they do the contrary, as more plainly in the said Act doth appear: (2)sith which Time divers Wardens and Fellowships have made Acts and Ordinances, that every Apprentice shall 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 xiii. s. iv. d. some vi. s. viii. d. some iii. s. iv. after their own sinister Mind and Pleasure, contrary to the Meaning of the Act aforesaid, and to the great Hurt of the King's true Subjects putting their Child to be Apprentice:' (3) Be it therefore ordained, established, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, Thatno Master, Wardens, or Fellowships of Crafts, or Masters, or any of them, nor any...

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