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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49000	Martis vicesimo primo die Octobr. 1684 annoq, regni Regis Caroli Secundi, Angliæ &c. tricesimo sexto it is ordered by this court that the order hereafter following (against servants being retained without a testimonial) made at the last quarter sessions held for this city, shall be forthwith printed and published ... / Lond. ss. ad General Quarterial' Sessionem pacis Domini Regis, tent' pro Civitat' London, per adjournament' apud Justice-Hall in le Old-Baily, London, die Mercurii, scilicet Octavo die Octobris, anno regni Regis Caroli secundi, nunc Angl' &c. tricesimo sexto.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (London)	1684 (1684)	Wing L2854X; ESTC R37986	1,129	1

Tulse Mayor Martis Vicesimo primo die Octobr. 1684. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angliae c. Tricesimo Sexto IT is Ordered by this COURT That the Order hereafter following Against Servants being Retained without a Testimonial Made at the last Quarter Sessions held for this City shall be forthwith Printed and Published And that all the Aldermen of this City do cause their Beadles to go from House to House within their respective Wards to give Notice of the said Order to the several Inhabitants therein Lond. ss Ad General ' Quarterial ' Sessionem pacis Domini Regis tent ' pro Civitat ' London per Adjornament ' apud Justice-Hall in le Old-Baily London die Mercurii scilicet Octavo die Octobris Anno Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi nunc Angl ' c. Tricesimo Sexto WHEREAS by a Statute made in the Fifth year of the Reign of the late Queen ELIZABETH containing divers Orders for Servants amongst other Things It is Enacted That no Person or Persons that shall depart out of a Service shall be retained or accepted into any other Service without shewing before His or Her Retainer such Testimonial as is in the said Statute specified to the Chief Officer of the Town Corporate and in every other Town and Place to the Constable Curate Churchwarden or other Head Officer of the same where He or She shall be retained to serve upon the pain that every such Servant or Servants so departing without such Certificate or Testimonial shall be Imprisoned until He or She procure a Testimonial or Certificate The which if He or She cannot do within the space of One and Twenty Days next after the First day of His or Her Imprisonment Then the said Person to be Whipped and used as a Vagabond according to the Laws in such case provided And that any Person retaining any such Servant or Servants without shewing any such Testimonial or Certificate as is aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Offence Five Pounds And if any such Person shall be taken with any counterfeit or forged Testimonial then to be Whipped as a Vagabond as by the said Statute whereunto relation being had more fully appeareth And whereas it is generally Experienced throughout this whole City as well by the Nobility and Gentry as other good Citizens and Housholders Inhabiting in the same That Servants having no such Certificates and Testimonials when They depart out of one Service and come to be retained into another Service and the Neglect of putting the said Law in Execution giveth great Occasion to very many Servants to become Idle Loose and of Evil-Behaviour and oftentimes to Cheat and Purloyn from their Masters and Mistresses and when they come to be retained in a Service upon Liking without a Testimonial take Their first Opportunity to run away with their Masters or Mistresses Goods It is therefore thought fit and Ordered by this COURT That according to the said Statute No Servant or Servants who shall depart out of any Service shall be Retained or Accepted into any other Service without shewing such Testimonial as aforesaid And that the Aldermen of the several Wards within this City do take some meet and effectual Course for the Publishing hereof to the end all Persons concerned may take Notice and may become conformable hereunto Wagstaffe Printed by SAMVEL ROYCROFT Printer to this Honourable City