1608

ANNO REGNI VICESIMO QUINTO Cap. 78.

Offences shall be committed; which said Justice of the
Peace is hereby authorised and strictly required, either
upon Confession of the Party offending, or due Proof by
Witness upon Oath, (which he is hereby impowered to
administer), that the Person so brought before him had
so traded as aforesaid; and in case no such Licence shall
be produced by such Offender before the said Justice, by
Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to cause the said
Sum of Ten Pounds to be forthwith levied by Distress
and Sale of the Goods, Wares, or Merchandizes of
such Offender or Offenders, or of the Goods with which
such Offender of Offenders shall be found trading as
aforesaid, rendering the Overplus, if any be, to the
Owner or Owners thereof, after Deduction of the rea-
sonable Charges for taking the said Distress, and out of
the said Sale to pay the said respective Penalties and For-
feitures aforesaid.

Every Consta-
ble, etc. re-
fusing to as-
sist in the Exe-
cution of this
Act, to forfeit
10l. for each
Offence.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That if any Constable, Headborough, or Tithing-
man, or other Officer or Officers of the Peace, shall refuse
and neglect, upon due Notice, or on his or their own View,
to be aiding and assisting in the Execution of this or the
said recited Act, being thereunto required, each and every
such Officer or Officers, being thereof convicted by the
Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, be-
fore any Justice of the Peace for the County or Place
where the Offence shall be committed, shall forfeit, for
each and every such Offence contrary to this Act, the Sum
of Ten Pounds, to be recovered and applied as hereafter
mentioned.

Every Haw-
ker exposing
to Sale any
Goods,
Wares, Etc.
in any City
or Market
Town, or
within Two
Miles thereof,
forfeits 10l.;

IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority afore-
said, That no Hawker, Pedlar, Petty Chapman, or any
other trading Person or Persons, going from Town to
Town, or to other Mens Houses, or travelling either on
Foot, or with Horse or Horses, or opening a Room or
Shop, and exposing to Sale any Goods, Wares, or
Merchandizes by Retail, in any Town, Parish, or Place,
such Person not being a Householder there, or the same
not being an usual Place of his or her Abode, or of his
or her carrying on Business, shall vend, sell, or expose to
Sale,