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That if any person shall be retained, and take greater wages than are hereby 

 set, he shall siifFer imprisonment for one-and-twenty days, without bail. 



That no artificer or labourer that shall be lawfully retained in or for the building 

 of any house, or any other work taken by the great, shall leave the same before it is 

 quite finished, except for non-payment of wages, the king's service, or any other 

 lawful cause, or without license of the master, or owner of the work, or of them that 

 have the charge thereof, in pain of one month's imprisonment wiihoui bail, and to 

 forfeit to the party grieved five pounds, besides bis costs and charges at common law. 

 That no servant shall, after the time of his retainer expired, depart out of the 

 county, wapontake, city, town, or parish, to serve in another, without a testimo- 

 nial under the seals of the constable, and two honest householders, where he was 

 last hired, nor be retained without shewing such a testimonial, under pain of 

 imprisonment till he produce such testimonial : and that no master shall retain 

 a servant without such a testimonial, in pain of five pounds ; which said testimonial 

 is directed by the said statute to be written and delivered to the said servant, and 

 to be registered by the parson, vicar, or curate of the parish, where such master, 

 mistress, or dame, doth or shall dwell, taking fur the doing thereof two-pence, and 

 not above, and the form tliereof to be as folioweth, viz. 



West Rid' "l Memorandum. That A. B, servant to C. G. of E, in the said 



Com'Ebor-J ' Riding, husbandman, (or taylor, &c. as the case may be,) is 

 licensed to depart from his master, and is at liberty to serve 

 elsewhere, according to the statute in that case made and pro- 

 vided. In witness whereof, we, who are inhabitants of the said 

 town of E, have hereunto set our seals, the 2 2d day of Novem- 

 ber, Anno Domini 1733. 

 And lastly, it is ordered by this court, that a copy thereof be sent to every 

 township within this Riding, and that the same be published in every market 

 town, at the market-cross, between the hours of twelve and one, upon some 

 market day before Michaelmas next, by the bailiffs of the respective wapentakes: 

 and also that the petty constables go to every particular family within their res- 

 pective constableries, and declare the contents of this order and rates of wages, and 

 after fix the same upon church, or chapel doors, or in some other punlic place 

 within their respective townships, the Sunday before the statute or petty sessions. 



Per Cur' 



Wm. Wickham, Cler' Pacis. 



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