pitals, and other eleemosynary corporations, are punishable with forfeiture of the double value, vacating the place or office, and a devolution of the right of election for that turn to the crown. 7. Sabbath Breaking. By 27 Hen. VI. c. 5, all manner of fairs and markets. on Sundays and Good Friday shall clearly cease from all showing of any goods or merchandize, (necessary victual only except,) upon pain of forfeiture of all the goods aforesaid, so showed, to the lord of the franchise or liberty; the four Sundays in harvest except. By 1 Car. I. c. 1, there shall be no concourse of people out of their own parishes on the Lord's Day for any sport or pastime; nor any bear-baiting, bull-baiting, interludes, common plays, or other unlawful exercises and pastimes, used by any persons within their own parishes, on, pain on conviction within a month of the offence, before one justice or chief officer of any city, borough, or town corporate, for every offence 3s. 4d. to the poor; to be levied by distress. And in default of distress, the party is to be set in the stocks for three hours. By 3 Car. I. c. 1, no carrier with any horse or horses, nor waggonman with any waggon or waggons, nor carrier with any cart or carts, nor wainman with any wain or wains, nor drover with any cattle, shall by themselves or any other travel on the Lord's Day, on pain of 20s.; or if any butcher, by himself or any other for him with his privity and consent, shall kill or sell any victual on the Lord's Day, he shall forfeit 6s. 8d. The conviction to be in six months, before one justice, or mayor, or other head officer of any city or town corporate, on oath of two witnesses; the penalty to be levied by distress or sale, and to be applied to the use of the poor, except that the justice, &c. may reward the informer with part, not exceeding onethird, of the penalty. By 29 Car. II. c. 7, no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever, shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary calling, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, (works of necessity and charity only excepted,) and every person, being of the age of fourteen years or upwards, offending in the premises, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 5s.; and no person or persons whatsoever shall publicly cry, show forth, or expose to sale, any wares, merchandises, fruit, herbs, goods, or chattels whatsoever upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit the same goods so cried, or showed forth, or exposed to sale. By sect. 2, no drover, horse-courser, waggoner, butcher, higgler, their, or any of their servants, shall travel or come into his or their inn or lodging upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that each and every such offender shall forfeit 20s. for every such offence. By sect. 6, no person shall execute process on the Lord's Day, except in treason, felony, or breach of the peace. Upon the construction of the two last-mentioned statutes it has been held, that driving a stage-coach is not within the prohibitions.-7 Barn. & Cres. 96. It has also been ruled, that the last-mentioned statute prohibits labour in the course of a man's ordinary calling only, and that, therefore, a contract of hiring with a servant on a Sunday is legal.-7 Barn. & Cres. 596. By 2 Geo. III. c. 15, fish carriages are allowed to pass on Sundays, whether laden or returning empty. By 21 Geo. III. c. 49, s. 1, any house, room, or other place which shall be opened or used for public entertainment, or for publicly debating on any subject whatsoever upon any part of the Lord's Day, and to which persons shall be admitted by the payment of money, or by tickets sold for money, shall be deemed a disorderly house or place, and the keeper of such house, room, or place shall forfeit £200 for every day that such house, &c. shall be opened or used as aforesaid on the Lord's Day, to such person as shall sue for the same, and be otherwise punishable, as the law directs in cases of disorderly houses; and the person managing or conducting such entertainment, or acting as master of the ceremonies there, or as moderator, president, or chairman, of every such meeting for public debate on the Lord's Day, shall likewise for every such offence forfeit the sum of £100, to such person as will sue for the same. And every door keeper, servant, or other person, who shall collect or receive money or tickets from persons assembling at such house, &c. on the Lord's Day, or who shall deliver out tickets for admitting persons to such house, &c. on the Lord's Day, shall also forfeit the sum of £50, to such person as shall sue for the same. By 1 & 2 Geo. IV. c. 50, s. 11, no master, mistress, journeyman, or other person, respectively, exercising or employed in the trade or calling of a baker, out of the city of London and liberties thereof, and beyond the weekly bills of mortality and ten miles of the Royal Exchange, shall, on the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, make or bake any household or other bread, rolls, or cakes, of any sort or kind, or shall on any part of the said day sell, or expose to sale, or permit or suffer to be sold or exposed to sale, any bread, rolls, or cakes, of any sort or kind, except to travellers or in cases of urgent necessity; or bake or deliver, or permit or suffer to be baked or delivered, any meat, pudding, pie, tart, or victuals, at any time after half-past one of the clock in the afternoon of that day; or in any other manner exercise the trade or calling of a baker, or be engaged or employed in the business or occupation thereof, save and except as aforesaid, and also save and except as far as may be necessary in setting and superintending the sponge to prepare the bread or dough for the following day's baking. And no meat, pudding, pie, tart, or victuals shall be brought to or taken from any bakehouse during the time of divine service in the church, parish, hamlet, or place where the same is situate, nor within one quarter of an hour of the time of commencement thereof; and every person offending against the foregoing regulations, or any one or more of them, and being thereof convicted before any magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices of the peace, of the city, county, or place where the offence shall be committed, within two days from the commission thereof, shall forfeit, for the first offence, 5s.; for the second, 10s.; and every subsequent offence, 20s. By 3 Geo. IV. c. cvi., s. 16, no master or mistress, journeyman, or other person, respectively, exercised or employed in the trade or calling of a baker, within the city of London and the liberties thereof, within the weekly bills of mortality, or within ten miles of the Royal Exchange, shall on the Lord's Day, or any part thereof, make or bake any bread, rolls, or cakes, of any sort or kind; or shall on any other part of the said day than between the hours of nine in the forenoon and one in the afternoon, on any pretence whatsoever, sell or expose to sale, or permit or suffer to be sold or exposed for sale, any bread, rolls, or cakes, of any sort or kind; or bake or deliver, or permit or suffer to be baked or delivered, any meat, pudding, pie, tart, or victuals, except as thereinafter is excepted; or in any other manner exercise the trade, &c. of a baker, or be engaged, &c. in the business, &c. thereof, save and except so far as may be necessary in setting and superintending the sponge to prepare the bread or dough for the following day's baking; and every person offending against the said regulations, or any one or more of them, or making any sale or delivery thereby allowed, otherwise than within the bakehouse or shop, and being thereof convicted before any justice, &c. within six days from the commission, shall forfeit, for the first offence, 10s.; for the second, 20s.; and every subsequent offence, 40s. Provided that it shall be lawful for every master or mistress baker, residing within the limits aforesaid, to deliver to his or her customers on the Lord's Days any bakings until half an hour past one in the afternoon, without incurring any penalty. By 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. lxxv. a limited number of watermen |