[306] 1 James I. c. 31.
[307] 7 James I. c. 4.
[308] The following are other statutes concerning the relief of the poor and passed during the period 1597 to 1644:
1 James I. c. 7. Removes the exemption of glassmen from the statute of rogues. States that no licence by a nobleman shall exempt players and provides for the branding and in certain cases for the death of dangerous rogues.
1 James I. c. 25. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 2 and provides that masters may retain the pauper apprentices whom the Overseers have bound to them.
7 James I. c. 3. Enacts various provisions with the object of securing that funds which had been left to bind poor children apprentices shall be properly employed.
21 James I. c. 1. States that the licence to erect "abiding or working houses for the poor" is to continue for ever.
21 James I. c. 28. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 3, with addition of 1 Jac. I. c. 25. Also continues 1 James I. c. 7, and 7 James I. c. 4, repeals 11 Hen. VII. c. 2, and 19 Hen. VII. c. 19, 12 Ric. II. cc. 3-9, and also 22 Hen. VIII. c. 12 and 3 and 4 Edw. VI. c. 16.
3 Chas. I. c. 5. Continues 43 Eliz. c. 2, and empowers Overseers to set up any trade they will, provided it is only for the purpose of employing the poor, notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This last enactment was probably designed to protect the Overseers from penalties for violating the statute of apprenticeship.
Another series of statutes assigns the fines for their infraction to the relief of the poor. Some of these are as follows: