1610

ANNO REGNI VICESIMO QUINTO Cap. 78.

Persons
offending to
be liable to
the like Pe-
nalties as
Hawkers tra-
velling with-
out Licence.

XII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That
if any Hawker, Pedlar, or Petty Chapman, or other
trading Person, shall vend any Goods, Wares, or Mer-
chandizes, in any such County, City, Town, or Place,
contrary to any of the Provisions in this Act contained,
such Hawker, Pedlar, or Petty Chapman, or other
trading Person, shall be subject and liable to the like
Penalties as is by this Act insticted on Hawkers, Pedlars,
or Petty Chapmen, or other trading Persons, travelling
without Licence.

Hawkers , etc.
who were
licensed on
June 23, 1785,
may set up
any Business
in the Place
where they
are resident
[..] tants,
though not
brought up
thereto, and
may employ
therein Per-
sons who have
not been Ap-
prentices.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That, from and after
the first Day of August, One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-five , it shall be lawful for any Person or Per-
sons who, on the Twenty-third of June, One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-five, was or were duly licensed
to trade as Hawkers and Pedlars, to set up, occupy,
use, or exercise any Craft, Mystery, or Occupation, used
or occupied within this Realm, in any Place where they
shall be resident Inhabitants, although they shall not
have been brought up in such Craft, Mystery, or Occu-
pation, Seven Years as Apprentices, and also to set any
Person on Work, in such Craft, Mystery, or Occupa-
tion, although such Person shall not have been Appren-
tice therein as aforesaid, any Penalty, Matter, or Thing,
contained in an Act, passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign
of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act containing divers
Orders for Artificers, Labourers, Servants of Husbandry,
and Apprentices, to the contrary notwithstanding; and
that if any such Persons, or their Wives or Children,
shall be prosecuted for using or exercising any such Craft,
Mystery, or Occupation, in any City, Town, or Place,
and shall make it appear that they had such Licence as
aforesaid, they shall, upon the General Issue pleaded, be
found Not guilty, in any Action, Bill, Plaint, Infor=
mation, or Indictment, for such Cause exhibited against
them; and in all Cases where Costs are allowed, such
Persons, so acquitted, shall be intitiled to and shall receive
Double Costs; and that no such Persons, their Wives,
or Children, during the Time they shall use and exercise
such Craft, Mystery, or Occupation, in any Parish or
Place,