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A74395 An act touching corn and meal England and Wales. Parliament. 1650 (1650) Thomason E1061_24; ESTC R209264 2,001 4

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AN ACT Touching Corn and Meal FOrasmuch as of late time there hath been great spoil and destruction made of Wheat and other Corn and Grain of all sorts and converting the same into Meal and Flower and selling the same in private Houses Ware-houses Shops without bringing of the same into common publique Markets Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by Authority thereof That from and after the twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred and fifty no maner of person directly or indirectly by himself or others shall buy any Wheat or other Grain with intent to put the same to sale in Meal Flower or otherwise but such onely who shall to that purpose obtain a License granted in the open Sessions of the Peace and Signed and Sealed with the proper Hands and Seals of five or more Instices of the Peace then sitting for such City County or place where such sale shall be made upon pain and forfeiture of treble the value of the said Grain or Meal and two Moneths Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Meal shall from the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred and fifty be sold in any Shops Houses Warehouses or other places within the City of London or within Twenty miles thereof Nor from and after the Twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred and fifty in any other City Town Borough or other place within this Commonwealth in any Shops Houses Warehouses or other places but onely in the common publique Market-place usual for that purpose upon the like pain and forfeiture as aforesaid And be it further Enacted That no Meal shall be sold but in the same quality and condition as the same goes truly and really from the Mill without any mixture whatsoever And also that no person shall use any Boulting-Mill or other Instrument for Dressing Boulting or Sifting any Corn or Grain whatsoever with intent to sell the same in Meal or Flower upon the like pain and forfeiture as aforesaid All which said Forfeitures shall and may be recovered by Bill Plaint Indictment or Information in any Court of Record by any person who will sue for the same the one moyety thereof to such person suing besides his Costs in prosecuting the same and the other moyety to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed Provided such Bill Plaint Indictment or Information be had or commenced within six Moneths after the Offence done or committed Provided also such License as is aforesaid shall not be granted but upon the parties first entring into Security by Bond or Recognizance well and truly to observe and perform in all things the Provisions in this Act mentioned according to the true intent and meaning thereof And be it further Enacted and Declared That the buying of Corn to the intent to sell the same in Meal or Flower without License obtained as aforesaid shall be adjudged reputed and taken an unlawful Ingrossing and the Offender and Offenders therein shall be punished as Ingrossers of Corn and other dead Victual are punished by the Statute of 5 6 Edw. 6. Entituled Who shall be Adjudged a Forestaller who a Regrator and who an Ingrosser and the Punishment of them And because the punishment of many Abuses are daily prevented and Prosecutors discouraged by the familiar bringing of Writs of Certiorari and Writs of Habeas Corpus in Indictments Actions and Informations commenced upon Penal Laws Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred and fifty no Writ of Certiorari or Habeas Corpus shall be granted or allowed in any Action Bill Plaint Indictment or Information commenced or to be commenced upon this or any other Penal Law concerning the buying selling searching viewing ordering or disposing of any Corn Wine Beer Ale Fish Flesh Salt Butter Cheese or other dead Victual whatsoever But that the granting or allowing the said Writs in the Cases aforesaid shall be utterly void and Null And all Iudges Iustices Stewards of Courts Prosecutors Plaintiffs and Informers and all other persons interessed therein or who have cognizance thereof shall and may proceed as if the said Writ of Certiorari or Writ of Habeas Corpus had never been granted or allowed Any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for ease of Pleading to all maner of persons which shall or may be sued upon this Act or for any other matter cause or thing whatsoever in any Court of Record within the Commonwealth of England Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred and fifty it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons Defendant or Tenant for or by reason of any matter to be pleaded set forth or alleaged in Bar to any Action Real Personal or Mixt that shall be commenced in any of the Courts aforesaid to plead the General Issue of Not guilty or the like General Issue proper to the nature of the Action or Suit commenced and for his or their Discharge or acquitting to give any such matter in Evidence to the Iury that shall try the same and the said matter shall be as available to such person or persons Defendant or Tenant to all intents and purposes as if the said matter had been specially pleaded set forth or alleaged in Bar of such Action Any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Die Mercurii 23 Octobr. 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650.