case the king against the inhabitant OF aynhoe Northamptonshire a service  under a hire from Christmas to Michaelmas may be join to a service from  Michaelmas to Christmas under a successive hire for a year S c fitzg S c ld  ray S c Consts Bott a special order of settlement a person be hire from  midsummer to Michaelmas and serve that quarter modern report and be again hire  by the same master in the same parish to serve he from that Michaelmas for one  year he serve to Christmas threequarters of a year under the last hire modern  report er p Mr prime the first hire be out of the question then here be only a  service of threequarters of a year and by salk it must be one entire service  to gain a settlement lee contra the statute only require a hire for a year in  the parish all that will require be that there shall be a hire for a year and  a continuance in the same service reeves these statute have a liberal  construction to gain a settlement here be a hire for a year and a service for  a year upon two hirings in the same place so that the statute be comply with  Raymond chief justice I do not understand that those act be to be construe  favourable to make a settlement because that do a injury to another parish  page justice must not the service for a year commence from the hire I think  you can count it to begin before the bargain reeves it be so in Brightwell v  hem a Mod Sess Cas Foley a Reynolds justice the parliament think it hard that  a person shall hire a man for a year and bring that man into a parish when he  can not maintain he as a servant for a year and that such a person may hire a  man with intent and on purpose to bring he into the parish but if be keep he  as a servant for a year and pay his wage it be with intent only to have his  service and not to intrude he upon the parish which be one of the many fraud  and contrivance the statute intend to prevent probin justice the old law be  that a man shall be settle where bear and these law break in upon that  therefore they be to be construe strict Raymond chief justice we can break  through this case of Brightwell v hem for that ought to govern unless the word  of the Act be plain and clear whereas they be lose and uncertain per curian it  be a good settlement b see king v the inhabitant of respond term Rep b