A&t are authorized to minifter the oath) of any person offending either of the faid Statutes, fhall fuffice to convince the perfon fo offending; after fuch confeffion, the oath of the party fo confeffing fhall and may be taken, and be a fufficient proof against any other offending at the fame time. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any other person or perfons, wherefoever his or their habitation or abiding be, hall at any time hereafter be found, upon view, or his own confeffion, or proof of one witnefs, to be tippling in any inn, alehouse, or victualling-houfe; fuch perfon or perfons fhall be from henceforth adjudged and conftrued to be within the faid Statutes, as if he or they had inhabited and dwelt in the city, town corporate, market town, village, or hamlet, where the faid inn, alehoufe, or victuallinghoufe, is or fhall be, where he or they fhall be fo found tippling, and fhall incur the like penalty, and the fame to be in fuch fort levied and difpofed, as in the faid A&t is expreffed, concerning fuch as there inhabit: and the voluntary confeffion of fuch perfon or perfons fo offending, before fuch as by the faid Statutes are authorized to minifter the oath, fhall fuffice to convince themselves, and, after fuch confeffion, the oath of fuch perfon or perfons fo confeffing fhall and may be taken by fuch as by the faid Act have authority to minister an oath, and shall be a fufficient proof against any other offending at that time. 3. And be it further enacted, That any Juftice of Peace in any county, and any Juftice of Peace, or other head officer, in any city or town corporate, within their limits refpectively, fhall from henceforth have power and authority, upon his own view, confeffion of the party, or proof of one witnefs upon oath before him, (which he by virtue of this A&t fhall have power to adminifter,) to convince any person of the offence of drunkenness; whereby fuch perfon fo convict fhall incur the forfeiture of five fhillings for every fuch offence; and the fame to be levied, or the offender otherwife punished, as in the faid Statute is appointed and for the fecond offence he fhall become bound to the good behaviour, as if he had been convicted in open Seffions; any thing in the faid former Statute, made in the fourth year of his Majefty's reign, to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any perfon, being án alehouse-keeper, or that fhall at any time hereafter be an alehouse-keeper, fhall at any time hereafter be law fully y the fully convict for any offence against any the branches of either of the faid two former Statutes, according to the alterations and additions therein contained, or against the true meaning of this prefent Statute; that every perfon fo convict fhall for the fpace of three years next enfuing the faid conviction be utterly difabled to keep any fuch alehoufe. 5. And whereas in the faid Statute, made in the fourth year of his faid Majefty's reign, intituled, An Act to reprefs the odious and loathfome Sin of Drunkennefs, Conftables, Church-wardens, Headboroughs, Tithingmen, Aleconners, and Sidemen, are appointed, in the oaths incident to their offices, to be likewife charged to prefent the offences contrary to the faid Statute; be it enacted, That the faid oath fhall always hereafter be alfo enlarged, and extend to prefent all offences done contrary to the Statute made in the firft feffion of Parliament held in the firft year of his Highnefs's reign, intituled, An Act to restrain the inordinate baunting and tippling in Inns and Alehouses, and other Victualling-boufes, with the alterations and additions in this Act contained, made in the faid fourth year of his faid Majefty's reign, according to the alterations and additions of the fame in this Act expreffed. I Car. I. Cap. iv, An Act for the further refraint of tippling in Inns, Aleboufes, and other Victualling-boufes. WE THEREAS in the laft Parliament it was enacted, That if any perfon or perfons, wherefoever his or their habitation or abiding be, fhould after be found upon view, or his own confeffion, or proof of one witnefs, to be tippling in an inn, alehoufe, or victualling-house; fuch perfon or perfons fhould be thenceforth adjudged and conftrued to be within the Statutes of the firft and fourth years of the late King's Majefty's reign, Kingd James of famous memory, the one intituled, An Act to refrain the inordinate baunting and tippling in Inns, Ale boufes, and other Victualling-boufes; and the other in-g tituled, An Act to repress the odious and loathfome Sin of Drunkennefs; as if he or they had inhabited and dwelled in the city, town corporate, market town, village, or hamlet, where the inn, alehoufe, or victualling-houfe was, or fhould be, where he or they fhould be fo found tippling; hould incur the like penalty, and the fame to be in fuch fort levied and difpofed as in the faid Act is expressed, concerning fuch as there inhabit; but no punishment by any or either of the faid Acts, or by any other Statute, is inflicted upon the inn-keeper, alehouse-keeper, or victualler, that permits or fuffers fuch perfon or perfons not there inhabiting, to tipple in his inn, alehoufe, or victualling-house: for remedy whereof, be it enacted, That every inn-keeper, alehoufe-keeper, and other victualler, that at any time after the end of this feffion of Parliament fhall permit and fuffer any perfon or perfons not inhabiting in the city, town corporate, market town, village, or hamlet where fuch inn, alehoufe, or victualling-houfe is or fhall be, to tipple in the said inn, alehouse, or victualling-house, contrary to the true intent of any or either of the faid former Statutes; the faid inn-keeper, alehoufe-keeper, and victualler fo offending, fhall incur the fame penalty, and in fuch manner to be proved, levied, and difpofed, as in the former Statute of the firft year of his faid late Majefty's reign is appointed for permitting fuch to tipple as dwell in the fame city, town corporate, market town, village, or hamlet. 2. And be it further enacted, That the keepers of taverns, and fuch as do fell wine in their houses, and do also keep inns, or victualling in their houses, fhall be taken to be within the faid two former Statutes, and also within this Statute. 1 Car. I. Cap. i. An Act for punishing divers Abufes committed on the Lord's Day, called Sunday. FORASMUCH as there is nothing more acceptable to God than the true and fincere fervice and worship of him according to his holy will, and that the holy keeping of the Lord's day is a principal part of the true fervice of God, which in very many places of this realm hath been and now is profaned and neglected by a diforderly fort of people, in exercifing and frequenting bear-baiting, bull-baiting, interludes, common plays, and other unlawful exercises and paftimes upon the Lord's day; and for that many quarrels, bloodsheds, and other great inconveniences have grown by the refort and concourse of people going out of their own parishes to fuch difordered and unlawful exercifes and paftimes, neglecting divine fervice both in their own parishes and elsewhere; be it enacted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, the Lords fpiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affenibled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after forty days next after the end of this feffion of Parliament, there fhall be no meetings, affemblies, or concourfe of people out of their own parishes on the Lord's day, within this realm of England, or any the dominions thereof, for any fports and paftimes whatsoever; nor any bear-baiting, bull-baiting, interludes, common plays, or other unlawful exercifes and paftimes, ufed by any person or perfons within their own parishes; and that every person or perfons offending in any the premises fhall forfeit for every offence three fhillings four pence, the fame to be employed and converted to the ufe of the poor of the parish where fuch offence fhall be committed; and that any one Juftice of the Peace of the county, or the chief officer or officers of any city, borough, or town corporate, where fuch offence fhall be committed, upon his or their view or confeffion of the party, or proof of any one or more witnefs by oath, which the faid Juftice of chief officer or officers fhall by virtue of this Act have authority to minifter, fhall find any perfon offending in the premises, the faid Juftice or chief officer or officers fhall give warrant S 2 under under his or their hand and feal to the Conftables and Church-wardens of the parish or parishes where fuch offence shall be committed, to levy the faid penalty fo to be affeffed, by way of diftrefs and fale of the goods of every fuch offender, rendering to the faid offender the overplus of the money raifed of the faid goods fo to be fold; and in default of fuch diftrefs, that the party offending be fet publicly in the ftocks by the space of three hours; and that if any man be fued or impeached for execution of this law, he fhall and may plead the general iffue, and give the faid matter of juftification in evidence: Provided, That no man be impeached by this Act except he be called in queftion within one month next after the faid offence committed: Provided alfo, That the ecclefiaftical jurifdiction within this realm, or any the dominions thereof, by virtue of this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not be abridged, but that the ecclefiaftical court may punish the faid offences as if this Act had not been made. This Act to continue until the end of the firft feffion of the next Parliament and no longer. [3 Car. I. Cap. iv. continued until the end of the firft feffion of the next Parliament, and farther continued by 16 Car. I. Cap. iv. and enforced by 29 Car. II. Cap. vii.] An Act for the further Reformation of fundry Abufes committed on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday. FORASMUCH as the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, is much broken and profaned by carriers, waggoners, carters, wainmen, butchers, and drovers of cattle, to the great difhonour of God, and reproach of religion; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majefty, and Lords fpiritual and temporal, and by the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That no carrier with any horfe or horfes, nor waggon-men with any waggon or waggons, nor carman with any cart or carts, nor wainman with any wain or wains, nor drovers with any cattle, fhall, after forty days next after the end of this prefent feffion of Parliament, by themselves, or any other, travel upon the said day, upon pain that every perfon and perfons fo offending fhall |