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How far this invention has restored that free circulation of

labour, which the preceding statutes had almost entirely taken

away, we may learn from the following very judicious observation

of Doctor Burn. "It is obvious," says he, "that there are divers

good reasons for requiring certificates with persons coming to

settle in any place; namely, that persons residing under them can

gain no settlement, neither by apprenticeship, nor by service,

nor by giving notice, nor by paying parish rates; that they can

settle neither apprentices nor servants; that if they become

chargeable, it is certainly known whither to remove them, and the

parish shall be paid for the removal, and for their maintenance

in the mean time; and that, if they fall sick, and cannot be

removed, the parish which gave the certificate must maintain

them; none of all which can be without a certificate.