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cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49064	By the Maior. The right honourable the Lord Maior, minding and intending, by Gods help and the concurrent endeavours of his brethren the aldermen, to discover, punish, and suppress to the uttermost of his power, as the proper work and most incumbent duty of his office, those manifold corruptions ...	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.; Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678. aut	1671 (1671)	Wing L2885Q; ESTC R217724	4,185	3

By the Maior THE Right Honourable the Lord Maior minding and intending by Gods help and the concurrent Endeavours of his Brethren the Aldermen to discover punish and suppress to the uttermost of his power as the proper Work and most incumbent Duty of his Office those manifold Corruptions Abuses and Disorders which have broke in and of late times more exceedingly increased upon us to the Dishonour of Religion and Scandal of the Government of this City hath thought it not unnecessary to make some publick mention of such as are most obvious and notorious with the Penalties and Punishments attending thereby to admonish and forewarn not only the Citizens and Inhabitants in general to reform and avoid those and the like Evils and Enormities in their private Capacity and Conversation but more particularly such who are in Office and under greater Obligation to assist in Execution of the Laws Established against the said Offences Of which sort are Profane Cursing Swearing First Profane CURSING and SWEARING for which the Law hath appointed a Penalty of Twelve pence to the use of the Poor to be paid and levied for every Offence or where no Distress can be had to sit three hours in the Stocks Profaning the Lords Day PROFANATION of the LORDS DAY by Sports and Tipling in Taverns Inns Ale-houses and Coffee-houses during Divine Service the Statutes inflicting on all Persons who shall meet to sport tipple or use any unlawful Exercises on that day Three shillings four pence for every Offence and where no distress can be had to sit three hours in the Stocks and Ten shillings on every Vintner Inn-keeper or Alehouse-keeper that shall suffer any such Drinking or Tipling in his House Bawdy-Houses Maintaining Houses suspected of Common BAWDRY for which by Law the Offenders are to find Sureties for the Good Behaviour and every Constable upon Information of Men or Women of evil report resorting to such suspected Houses may take and carry the Parties before a Iustice of Peace to find Sureties for the Good Behaviour Gaming-Houses Keeping of Common GAMING-Houses which every Iustice of the Peace may enter and arrest and imprison the House-keepers till they find Sureties no longer to keep such unlawful Gaming Drunkenness Idle and loose People The odious Sin of DRUNKENNESS the Punishment by Law being for the first Offence Five shillings or six hours sitting in the Stocks and for the second Offence to find Sureties for the Good Behaviour or for want of Sureties to be committed to the Gaol And like Surety for the Good Behaviour is to be found by common Drunkards Haunters of Ale-houses or Taverns Common Gamesters and suspected Persons who live idly and yet fare well and are well apparelled having no Estate whereon to live Except upon Examination they shall give good account of their Living Tipling Moreover no Person may sit or continue or be suffered to sit or continue Tipling or Drinking in any Tavern Victualling-house Ale-house Coffee-house or other Tipling-house unless invited by a Traveller during his necessary Abode there and Handicrafts-men Labourers and Workmen for one hour at Dinner upon the Working-day or sojourning or lodging there or that they be allowed by two Iustices of the Peace upon the Penalty of Ten shillings for every Offence upon the Master of such House and upon the Person that shall continue drinking Three shillings Four pence And by the antient Custom of the City none may remain to tipple or drink in any such House after Nine of the Clock at Night And therefore all Constables and other Officers whom it doth or may concern are required to take care for discovering and bringing to Punishment whosoever shall offend in the Premisses And for that end they are to enter into any suspected Houses before-mentioned and into any Tavern Inn Ale-house Victualling-house Coffee-house or other Tipling-house or Gaming-house to search for such disorderly Persons as shall be found mis-behaving themselves tipling or otherwise doing contrary to the said Laws and to levy the Penalties and cause the Offenders to come before some of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace of this City to be dealt withal according to Law And whereas the Streets and Common Passages and all Places of Publick Meeting and Resort are exceedingly pestered and annoyed by Vagrants and Beggars and that for suppressing and avoiding of that greatest living Nusance especial Resolution is taken to put in execution against them the good Laws in force with all Strictness and Severity The said Constables therefore are charged and required to apprehend all Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars that shall be found begging vagrant wandring or mis-ordering themselves within their respective Parishes and Precincts and such of them as shall appear to have Dwellings or Abode within the City or Liberties to carry to Bridewel there to be received and dealt withal according to Law and others to punish and pass away from Parish to Parish the next streight way to the Parish where they were born if the same may be known by the Parties Confession or otherwise or if it be not known then to the Parishes where they last dwelt before the same Punishment by the space of one whole year or if that cannot be well known then to the Parishes to which they last passed without Punishment upon the Penalty and Forfeiture of Ten shillings for every default Also every Inhabitant is to apprehend such Beggars c. as he shall know to resort to his House to beg or receive Alms and carry or cause them to be carried to the next Constables upon like Penalty or Forfeiture of Ten shillings for every Offence And such Constable is thereupon to punish and pass away such Beggar as aforesaid upon the Penalty of Twenty shillings for every default And that the Dwellings of all Constables may be known and themselves more readily found they are forthwith which of late hath been neglected to have their Staffs duly placed or fixed at their Street-doors in open view of all Passengers and themselves to remain constantly at home or leave some other fit and able Persons to perform their Office in their Absence And the several Wards and Parishes are without delay to provide where any are wanting and to repair and from time to time sufficiently to maintain Cages Stocks Posts and other Instruments for correcting and punishing this sort of Offenders as the Law requires And moreover the two Marshals of this City are commanded according to the antient express Orders of their Place and Duty to be on horse-back and their Men with the Beadles of the four Hospitals that shall be thereunto appointed on foot sometimes with them and sometimes without them as occasion shall require and to ride and walk about and compass all the Streets Lanes Alleys and Corners of the City and Liberties every day duly and diligently and so dispose and divide themselves that once every day they or some of them may survey every Quarter of the City And that as they pass