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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49060	By the mayor To the aldermen of the [blank] ward we charge and command you, that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next coming, you do hold your wardmote, and that you have afore us at our general court of aldermen to be holden [blank] the Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany next coming, ...	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2883R; ESTC R213716	6,245	3

By the Mayor To the Alderman of the Ward Wardmote WE charge and command you that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next coming you do hold your Wardmote and that you have afore us at our general Court of Aldermen to be holden _____ the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next coming all the Defaults that shall be presented afore you by Inquest in the said Wardmote and the said Inquest shall have full power and authority by one whole year to enquire and present all such Defaults as shall be found within your said Ward Inquest for the year as oftentimes as shall be thought to you expedient and néedfull which we will shall be once every month at the least Inquest dying 2 And if it happen any of your said Inquest to die or depart out of your said Ward within the said year that then in place of him or them so dying or departing out of your said Ward you cause to be chosen one able person to inquire and present with the other in manner and form abovesaid Non-appearance 3 And that at the said general Court you give afore us the names and surnames of all them of your said Ward that come not to your said Wardmote if they be duly warned so that due redress and punishment of them may be had as the case shall require according to the Law Watch light Vizard 4 And that you do provide that at all times convenient conveniable Watch he kept And that Lanterns with light by nightertail in old manner accustomed be hanged forth And that no man go by nightertail without light nor with Vizard on the peril that belongeth thereto Common-Council 5 And also that you do cause to be chosen men _____ of the most sufficient honest and discréet men of your said Ward to be for your said Ward of the Common-Council of this City for the year ensuing according to the custome in that behalf yearly used And also that you do cause the said men so to be chosen to be of the Common-Council to be sworn before you and in your presence according to the Oath by them used and of old time accustomed the tenor of which Oath hereafter ensueth Ye shall swear that ye shall be true to our Sovereign Lord the KING that now is and to his Heirs and lawful Successors and readily come when ye be summoned to the Common-Council of this City but if ye be reasonably excused and good and true Counsel ye shall give in all things touching the common weal of this City after your wit and cunning And that for favour of any man ye shall maintain no singular profit against the common profit of this City And after that ye be come to the Common-Council ye shall not from thence depart till the Common-Council be ended without reasonable cause be else by the Mayor's licence And also that all secret things that be spoken or said in the Common-Council the which ought to be kept secret ye shall in no wise disclose As God you help And that together with the said Oath of their Office you administer to the said persons that shall be chosen of the Common-Council the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and the other Oath hereafter following I A. B. Do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the KING's Highness is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highness'es Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no Forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Forein Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the KING's Highness his Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the KING's Highness his Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the Contents of this Book I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majestie 's Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majestie 's Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any Forein Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Majesty or to give License or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majestie 's Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majestie 's Subjects within his Majestie 's Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration of sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will doe my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traitorous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do farther swear th●t I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and he●etical this damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or me tal evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon

the true faith of a Christian So help me God c. I A. B. Do declare and believe That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the KING And that I do abhor that traitorous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are Commissioned by him So help me God And farther that you likewise administer to the same persons that shall be so elected of the Common-Council to be by them subscribed the ensuing Declaration I A. B. Do declare That I hold that there is no obligation upon me or any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom For that otherwise if the said persons or any of them that shall be elected as aforesaid of the Common-Council shall not take the said Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration their election and choice is by the late Act of Parliament for the Governing and Regulating of Corporations enacted and declared to be void Constables Scavengers Beadle Raker 6 And that also in the said Wardmote you cause to be chosen certain other honest persons to be Constables and Scavengers and a common Beadle and a Raker to make clean the stréets and lanes of all your said Ward according to the custom yearly used in that behalf which Constables have and shall have full power and authority to distrain for the Salary and Quarterage of the said Beadle and Raker as oftentimes as it shall be behind or unpaid Roll of names 7 Also that you keep a Roll of the names surnames dwelling-places professions and trades of all persons dwelling within your Ward and within what Constables Precinct they dwell wherein the place is to be specially noted by Stréet Lane Alley or Sign Constables 8 Also that you cause every Constable from time to time to certifie unto you the name surname dwelling-place profession and trade of every person who shall newly come to dwell within his Precinct whereby you may make and kéep your Roll perfect Roll. And that you cause every Constable for his Precinct to that purpose to make and kéep a perfect Roll in like manner Inholder Lodger Sojourner 9 Also that you give special charge that every Inholder and other person within your Ward who shall receive any person to lodge or sojourn in his house above two daies shall before the third day after his coming thither give knowledge to the Constable of the Precinct where he shall be so received of the name surname dwelling-place profession and trade of life or place of service of such person and for what cause he shall come to reside there Suspect persons and that the said Constable give present notice thereof to you and that the said Inholder lodge no suspected person or men or women of evil name 10 Also that you cause every Constable within his Precinct once every month at the farthest and oftner if néed require Search to make diligent search and inquiry what persons be newly come into his Precinct to dwell sojourn or lodge and that you give special charge that no Inholder or person shall resist or deny any Constable in making such search or inquiry but shall do his best endeavour to aid and assist him therein 11 And for that of late there is more resort to the City of persons evil-affected in Religion and otherwise then in former times hath béen you shall diligently enquire if any man be received to dwell or abide within your Ward that is not put under Frank pledge Frank pledge as he ought to be by the custome of the City and whether any person hath continued in the said Ward by the space of one year being above the age of xii years and not sworn to be faithful and loyal to the Kings Majesty in such sort as by the law and custome of this City he ought to be Beadle 12 To all these purposes the Beadle of every Ward shall imploy his diligence and give his best furtherance Fire 13 Also that you have special regard that from time to time there be convenient provision for Books Ladders Buckets Spouts and Engines in méet places within the several Parishes of your Ward for avoiding the peril of fire Streets 14 Also that the Stréets and Lanes of this City be from time to time kept clean before every Church House Shop Ware-house Door Dead-wall and in all other common passages and Stréets of the said Ward 15 And where by divers Acts of Common-Council aforetime made and established for the common weal of this City among other things it is Ordained and Enacted as hereafter ensueth Hucksters of Ale and Beer Also it is Ordained and Enacted That from henceforth no Huckster of Ale or Beer be within any Ward of the City of London but honest persons and of good name and fame and so taken and admitted by the Alderman of the Ward for the time being and that the same Hucksters do find sufficient surety afore the Mayor and Aldermen for the time being to be of good guiding and rule and that the same Hucksters shall kéep no Bawdry nor suffer no Lechery Dice Playing Carding or any other unlawful Games to be done exercised or used within their houses and to shut in their doors at nine of the clock in the night from Michaelmas to Easter and from Easter to Michaelmas at ten of the clock in the night and after that hour sell no Ale or Beer And if any Huckster of Béer or Ale after this Act published and proclaimed sell any Ale or Béer within any Ward of the City of London and be not admitted by the Alderman of the same Ward so to do or find not sufficient surety as it is above rehearsed the same Huckster to have imprisonment and make fine and ransome for his contempt after the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen And also that the said Hucksters suffer no manner of common eating and drinking within their Cellars or Vaults contrary to the Ordinance thereof ordained and provided as in the said Act more plainly appeareth at large We charge you that you put the same in due execution accordingly Measures sealed 16 And also that ye sée all Tipplers and other sellers of Ale or Béer as well privy Osteries as Brewers and Inholders within your Ward not selling by lawful measures sealed and marked with the City Arms or Dagger be presented and their names in your said Indentures be expressed with their Defaults so that the Chamberlein may be lawfully answered of their amercements Strangers born 17 And also that you suffer no Alien or son of any born an Alien to be of the Common-Council nor to exercise or use any other Office within this City nor receive or accept any person into your Watch