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only excepted) ; (5) and that every person being of the age of four- 

 teen years or upwards, offending in the premises, shall for every such 

 offence forfeit the sum of five shillings; (6) and that no person or 

 persons whatsoever, shall publicly cry, show forth, or expose to sale, 

 any wares, merchandizes, fruit, herbs, goods or chattels whatsoever, 

 upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that every per- 

 son so offending shall forfeit the same goods so cried or showed forth, 

 or exposed to sale. 



2. And it is further enacted, that no drover, horse-courser, wag- 

 goner, butcher, higler, their or any of their servants, shall travel or 

 come into his or their inn or lodging upon the Lord's Day, or any 

 part thereof, upon pain that each and every such offender shall for- 

 feit twenty shillings for every such offence; (2) and that no person 

 or persons shall use, employ or travel upon the Lord's Day with any 

 boat, wherry, lighter or barge, except it be upon extraordinary occa- 

 sion, to be allowed by some justice of the peace of the count}-, or head 

 officer, or some justice of the peace of the city, borough or town cor- 

 porate, where the fact shall be committed; (3) upon pain that every 

 person so offending shall forfeit and lose the sum of five shillings for 

 every such offence. (4) And that if any person offending in any of the 

 premises shall be thereof convicted before any justice of the peace of 

 the county, or the chief officer or officers, or any justice of the peace 

 of or within any city, borough or town corporate where the said 

 offences shall be committed, upon his or their view, or confession of 

 the party, or proof of any one or more witnesses by oath (which the 

 said justices, chief officer or officers is by this act authorized to ad- 

 minister) the said justice or chief officer or officers shall give warrant 

 under his or their hand and seal, to the constables or church-wardens 

 of the parish or parishes where such offence shall be committed, to 

 seize the said goods cried, showed forth or put to sale as aforesaid, and 

 to sell the same, and to levy the said other forfeitures or penalties, 

 by way of distress and sale of the goods of every such offender dis- 

 trained, rendering to the said offenders the overplus of the moneys 

 raised thereby; (5) and in default of such distress, or in case of in- 

 sufficiency or inability of the said offender to pay the said forfeitures 

 or penalties, that then the party offending be set publicly in the stocks 

 by the space of two hours. (6) And all and singular the forfeitures 

 or penalties aforesaid shall be employed and converted to the use of 

 the poor of the parish where the said offences shall be committed, 

 saving only that it shall and may be lawful to and for any such jus- 

 tice, mayor or head officer or officers, out of the said forfeitures or 

 penalties, to reward any person or persons that shall inform of any 

 offence against this act, according to their discretions, so as such 

 reward exceed not the third part of the forfeitures or penalties. 



3. Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to the 

 prohibiting of dressing of meat in families, or dressing or selling of 

 meat in inns, cooks' shops or victualling-houses, for such as otherwise 

 cannot be provided, nor to the crying or selling of milk before nine 

 of the clock in the morning or after four of the clock in the afternoon. 



4. Provided also, that no person or persons shall be impeached, 

 prosecuted or molested for any offence before-mentioned in this act, 

 unless he or they be prosecuted for the same within ten days after 

 the offence committed. 



