PENALTIES FOR NEGLIGENT AND CARELESS SERVANTS
Forbes Mayor. Commun' Concil' tent' in Camera Guilhald' Civitat' London' Die Jovie, 24 Die Martii, Anno Domini 1725. It is this Day Ordered by this Court: That the Clause relating to Servants, in a late Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of Queen Anne...
London.
Printed by George James, Printer to the Honourable City of London, [1726].
Dimensions 308 x 390 mm.
Single leaf broadside. Somewhat marked, with some creasing and tearing to extremities, especially at horizontal folds.
A rare survival of an early eighteenth-century broadside reprinting - ordered to be distributed within the capital by the Common Council of the City of London Corporation - of two specific English laws applying severe penalties to negligent, careless and criminal servants.
The vast majority of the Common Council of the City of London Corporation were issued either in folio, or, as here, broadside format. As the preamble states, the intention of this was so that this legal reminder could be be 'sent into the several Wards' of London 'and by the Beadles delivered to every House-keeper, that all Servants may be acquainted with the same, and know the Penalties therein contain'd'.
The two specific laws highlighted are 'the Clause relating to Servants, in a late Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of Queen Anne...Entituled, An Act for the better Preventing Mischiefs, that may happen by Fire' and 'also another Clause relating to Servants...Entituled, An Act for the more effectual Preventing and Punishing of Robberies, that shall be committed in Houses'. The first, as the broadside shows, made the provision for the forfeiture of 'One hundred Pounds unto the Church-Wardens of such Parish where such Fire shall happen, to be distributed amongst the Sufferers by such Fire' by any 'Servant or Servants' who 'thought Negligence or Carelessness, shall fire or cause to be fired any Dwelling-House, or Out-House, or Houses'. The second barred 'all and every Person or Persons, that shall be at any time, from and after the First Day of July, in the Year 1713, feloniously steal any Money, Goods or Chattels, Wares or Merchandizes, of the Value of Forty Shillings or more...shall, by Virtue of this Act, be abolutely debarr'd of, and from the Benefit of Clergy'.
ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries (BL, Guildhall, Museum of London), and just two elsewhere (Harvard and Kansas).
The vast majority of the Common Council of the City of London Corporation were issued either in folio, or, as here, broadside format. As the preamble states, the intention of this was so that this legal reminder could be be 'sent into the several Wards' of London 'and by the Beadles delivered to every House-keeper, that all Servants may be acquainted with the same, and know the Penalties therein contain'd'.
The two specific laws highlighted are 'the Clause relating to Servants, in a late Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of Queen Anne...Entituled, An Act for the better Preventing Mischiefs, that may happen by Fire' and 'also another Clause relating to Servants...Entituled, An Act for the more effectual Preventing and Punishing of Robberies, that shall be committed in Houses'. The first, as the broadside shows, made the provision for the forfeiture of 'One hundred Pounds unto the Church-Wardens of such Parish where such Fire shall happen, to be distributed amongst the Sufferers by such Fire' by any 'Servant or Servants' who 'thought Negligence or Carelessness, shall fire or cause to be fired any Dwelling-House, or Out-House, or Houses'. The second barred 'all and every Person or Persons, that shall be at any time, from and after the First Day of July, in the Year 1713, feloniously steal any Money, Goods or Chattels, Wares or Merchandizes, of the Value of Forty Shillings or more...shall, by Virtue of this Act, be abolutely debarr'd of, and from the Benefit of Clergy'.
ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries (BL, Guildhall, Museum of London), and just two elsewhere (Harvard and Kansas).
ESTC T40013.
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 31788
