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The Statute of Artificers 1563 or the Artificers and Apprentices Act 1563 (5 Eliz. 1. c. c. 4), also known as the Statute of Labourers 1562 , [ 1 ] was an act of the Parliament of England , under Queen Elizabeth I , which sought to fix prices, impose maximum wages, restrict workers' freedom of movement and regulate training.
An Act to revive a statute made Anno 21 of Henry the Eighth [a] touching servants imbezilling their masters goods. (Repealed for England and Wales by Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 27) and for India by Criminal Law (India) Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 74))
5), also known as the Statute of 13 Elizabeth, was an Act of Parliament in England, which laid the foundations for fraudulent transactions to be unwound when a person had gone insolvent or bankrupt. In the United Kingdom , the provisions contained in the 1571 Act were replaced by Part IX of the Law of Property Act 1925 , which has since been ...
1905 - Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09 set up by the outgoing Conservative government. 1906 - The Liberal Government is elected and begins an ambitious programme of welfare reforms. 1909 - The Minority report; 1929 - The workhouse system is abolished by the Local Government Act 1929.
The Elizabethan Religious Settlement is the name given to the religious and political arrangements made for England during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603). The settlement, implemented from 1559 to 1563, marked the end of the English Reformation .
The first London house of correction was Bridewell Prison, and the Middlesex and Westminster houses also opened in the early seventeenth century.. Due to the first reformation of manners campaign, the late seventeenth century was marked by the growth in the number of houses of correction, often generically termed bridewells, established and by the passage of numerous statutes prescribing ...
Recusancy laws were in force from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of George III, but were not always enforced with equal intensity. [9] The first statute to address sectarian dissent from England's official religion was enacted in 1593 under Elizabeth I and specifically targeted Catholics, under the title "An Act for restraining Popish ...
It is in the reign of Edward I that Parliament passed the first major statutes. "However, they were not made by the King in Parliament, but simply announced by the king or his ministers in a parliament" [emphasis in original]. [23] The actual work of law-making was done by the king and his council. [24]