<div1 type="SM_GOpage" id="LMSMGO55600GO556000332"> <xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="LMSMGO556000332"></xptr>
<p n="1025"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Browns case 3. Ro :<lb></lb>
abr 139. p to. 3.</note>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo1054">Reds in a Roam</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55600_geo1054" type="placeName" value="Reds in a Roam"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55600_geo1054" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
for the reception of persons who are accomodated<lb></lb>
£2: or 3d: a night and no enquiry made into their honesty or<lb></lb>
Character which cannot But be productive of all sorts of<lb></lb>
Inconveniences to the parishes places where such <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
is, and is highly necessary to be prevented, as well in respect<lb></lb>
to the health of the people as for the security of their persons<lb></lb>
and property, But when your Committee applyed Themselves<lb></lb>
to consider of a Legal method for that purpose It did not<lb></lb>
appear to them that the laws as they now Stand do supply<lb></lb>
a direct remedy adequate to the Mischeif. For that the<lb></lb>
persons under their consideration do not seem to be<lb></lb>
Inmates within the description or meaning of the Statute<lb></lb>
of 31st. of Elizabeth <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1484">Chapr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55600_occ1484" type="occupation" value="Chapr"></interp>
. 7th. which only prohibits more<lb></lb>
familys than one under the name of Inmates to be in one<lb></lb>
Cottage (when the Cottage is allowed by that Statute)<lb></lb>
upon the penalty of 10s: a month to be forfeited By the owner<lb></lb>
of the Cottage to the Lord of the leet where such Cottage is<lb></lb>
And tho' it be true that <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ1485">Justices of the peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55600_occ1485" type="occupation" value="Justices of the peace"></interp>
in their<lb></lb>
Sessions have power by that statute To enquire of all<lb></lb>
Offences against the same, and to award Execution for<lb></lb>
Levying the forfeitures By fieri facias Capias or<lb></lb>
otherwise as the cause shall require, Yet the Offenders<lb></lb>
not being properly Cottagers or keeping Cottages or such<lb></lb>
like houses for habitation only Erected upon the Wasts<lb></lb>
of mannors But mostly keepers of publick houses or<lb></lb>
proprietors of other dwelling houses Harbouring<lb></lb>
single persons under pretence of Letting Lodging for<lb></lb>
hire and not different poor Familys in the manner<lb></lb>
intended By the said act of parliament altho, rather<lb></lb>
with greater inconvenience to the publick than the<lb></lb>
persons there described, seem not to be punishable by<lb></lb>
Statute no more than they seem to be within the Rule<lb></lb>
or Reason of the precedents where persons have been<lb></lb>
Indicted for dividing messuages in Downs for the<lb></lb>
habitation of poor people or Familys; which might be<lb></lb>
dangerous in the time of the plagued and the precedents<lb></lb>
of the like kind said in Browns case mentioned in the<lb></lb>
margent to be frequent in London There being not usually<lb></lb>
in the Cases under your Committees consideration any<lb></lb>
dividing of messuages for such purpose into district</p>
</div1>

View as Text