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Ordinances of Corporations Act 1503

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Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 19 Hen VII. and Anno Dom 1503 For making of Statutes by Bodies incorporate.

(19 Hen. 7) C A P. VII.

'PRayen the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, That where in a Parliament holden atWestminster the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of the blessed King Henry the Sixth, for that, that Masters, Wardens, and People of Guilds, Fraternities, and other Companies Corporate, dwelling in divers Parts of the Realm, oftentimes by Colour of Rule and Governance to them granted and confirmed by Charters and Letters Patents of divers Kings, made among themselves many unlawful and unreasonable Ordinances, as well in Prices of Wares as other Things, for their own singular Profit, and to the common Hurt and Damage of the People:' (2) It was enacted, That there should from henceforth no such Masters, Wardens, nor Companies, make nor use no Ordinance in Disheritance or Diminution of the Prerogative of the King, nor of other, nor against the common Profit of the People, nor none other Ordinance of Charge make and use, but if it were first discussed and proved by good and reasonable Advice by the Justices of the Peace, or the chief Governors of Cities, and before them entered of Record, (3) and that upon Pain to lose and forfeit the Force and the Effect of all the Articles in their said Letters Patents and Charters contained concerning the same, and over that to lose and pay x. li. to the King for every Ordinance that any of them made or used to the contrary; (4)and this Ordinance to endure at the King's Pleasure, as in the same Act it appeareth; (5) which Act is now expired, and sith the expiring of the same, divers and many Ordinances have been made by many and divers private Bodies Corporate within Cities, Towns, and Boroughs, contrary to the King's Prerogative, his Laws, and the Common Weal of his Subjects:' (6)Be it therefore ordained, established, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That no Masters, Wardens, and Fellowships of Crafts or Mysteries, nor 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...

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