Nor shall any Apprentice passe by any Free Brother of this
Company, without civill respect, at least by uncovering his head,
and that not slightly, but submissively.
And every Free Brother of this Company, whose Apprentice
shall not upon notice given by his Master, conforme to this Act,
shall make complaint to the Governour, and it the Governours
advice doe not reclaime him, his Master shall complaine in open
Court, next after, or forefeit for the first offence twenty shillings,
and for the second forty shillings.
And if the Apprentice, after warning given him in Court,
shall not consorme himself in all and every of the said particulars,
according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, his
Haire, Apparell, and other misdemeanors, shall in open Court
be corrected and regulated.
And such offenders shall be made, by inflicting such punishments
upon them exemplary, as the Governour, Affistants,
and Warden shall think fit.
Provided, that this Act shall not extend to any Apprentice
that hath served seven years of his Apprentiship.
A Letter from Barwick.
Sir,
THe Scots are still strict in stopping Come from comming
from thence into England, which they act by the Souldiry
on our borders, by vertue of a Proclamation, a Copy of
which I have sent you here inclosed.
Barwick 13 Decemb. 1649.
A Proclamation for restraining the exporting of Victuall out of
the Kingdome.
THe Committee of Estates taking into their consideration,
that the exporting of Victuall by Sea or Land is prohibited
and discharged by divers Acts of Parliament, Committee
of Estates, Secret Counsell and Exchequer, notwithstanding
whereof, great quantities of Victuall of all Forts have
been this year by gone, and are yet daily carryed out of the
Kingdome, to the Contempt of the Laws, Impoverishing of the
Country, and bringing on dearth and famine; And also considering
the present dearth of Victuall in all places of the Kingdome,
And being desirous out of the trust reposed in them to