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A22698 Speciall orders and directions by the Queenes Maiesties commandement to all iustices of peace, and all maiors, shiriffes, and all principall officers of cities, boroughs, and townes corporate, for stay and redresse of [dearth of graine] England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 1600 (1600) STC 9208.7; ESTC S1930 8,096 18

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Speciall Orders and directions By the Queenes Maiesties commandement to all Iustices of Peace and all Maiors Shiriffes and all principall Officers of Cities Boroughs and Townes corporate for stay and redresse of dearth of Graine ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie ANNO 1600. ¶ A new charge for execution of sundry Orders published the yeere 1595. for stay of dearth of Graine Now this present yeere to bee well obserued and executed WHere in some parts of this Realme Corne without any iust cause for any thing that hath hitherto appeared is suddenly risen to a far greater price then hath bene expected To the ende that the true cause thereof may bee knowen found out that al good meanes may bee vsed to preuent all occasions that might mooue any further dearth of Graine hereafter Her Maiestie hath thought good by the aduise of the Lords other of her Priuie Counsell to publish and set foorth these Orders following from henceforth to be obserued 1 THat the Iustices of Peace in euery County not being ingrossers or buyers of Corne to the intent to sell the same againe deuide themselues into seuerall Lymits and from time to time from hencefoorth doe vse all care and diligence to be truely informed without partialitie to any person what store of Graine any person hath in any Parish to spare aboue what may be for his owne needfull vse and expences and of what kinde 2 That they vse for their better helpe herein such persons and in such maner as they shall thinke most fit and conuenient for the furtherance of this seruice 3 And to that end that they be charged diligently and carefully to informe themselues and to make due inquirie search and triall what quantitie of any maner of Graine they or any other within their Parish aswell Iustices of the Peace as others whatsoeuer haue in their Barnes Grayners Lofts Cellours Floores or otherwise to bee deliuered vnto them vpon any bargaine more then will conueniently serue for their owne needfull expences 4 Item what number of Badgers Kidders Broggers or Carriers of Corne Butter Cheese or other like Victuals inhabite within the said Parish And whither they doe vse to cary their Corne or other Victuals which they doe buy and where they do vsually buy the same and what their names bee and how long they haue vsed that trade and by whose licence and to see the same Licences of what tenour they are of 5. Item what number of Malt-makers Bakers Common brewers Inkeepers or Tiplers dwel within the saide Parish and who they are by name and howe long they haue vsed that trade and howe much they bake or brewe in the weeke and what other trade they haue whereby otherwise to liue 6 Item who within the said Parish be Ingrossers or buyers of Corne or doe vse to buy or haue bought any Corne or Graine to sell againe and what quantitie they haue bought and of what kindes and at what price sithence Michaelmas last and howe much thereof they haue sold and at what prices And aboue all others to take speciall care that the store-houses and Grainers of al such Ingrossers Badgers and buyers of Corne to sell againe be throughly and perticularly viewed and looked vnto and perfit notice taken what store of all kindes of Graine euery such person hath 7 Item whether any Tanner within the same Parish doth vse any Malt Barly or other Graine in or about the tanning of any kinde of Leather if any doe then what quantitie they vse or spend about the same 8 Item who within the same Parish buyeth or haue bought or solde any Graine vpon the ground of whom and to whom hath the same bent bought or solde and at what price and to certifie vnto the Iustices of the premisses and of euery part thereof on the first day of Iuly now next comming and to euery part of these Articles the parties assigned shall bring answere from point to point 9 The Iustices of the Peace within their seueral Diuisions shall take speciall care that the Orders ensuing be well obserued and duely put in execution as themselues will answere the contrary and that they once euery Moneth at the furthest doe certifie vnto the Lords of her Maiesties Priuie Councill in what state their Countrey standeth for plentie or scarcetie of Corne and Graine and the prices thereof and how the Orders ensuing be put in execution and obeyed and whether they or any of them shal be found by experience profitable and conuenient or otherwise vnprofitable or inconuenient to be put in execution in the same Countreys The Orders to be obserued are these Viz. THat none be permitted to buy nor sell any maner of Corne but in the open Market vnlesse the same be by speciall licence or by commission or warrant for her Maiesties seruice or to some poore handicrafts men or day laborers within the Parish wherein they doe dwel that cannot conueniently come to the Market townes by reason of distance of place according to such direction as shall be giuen in that behalfe by the Iustices of the Peace of that Diuision within which they do dwell or two of them to none of these poore aboue one bushell at a time and thereof the party shall keepe a particular note in writing to whom he shall so sell weekly and at what prices so as the same may appeare to the Iustices to be done without fraud or abuse 2 That the Iustices of the Peace within their seuerall Diuisions haue special regard that Ingrossers of Corne be carefully seene vnto and that thereupon they may be seuerely proceeded with and punished according to the Law and to see that none be permitted to by any Corne to sell againe but by speciall licence and such to be drawen to sell some reasonable portion to the poore at reasonable prices both in the Markets and otherwise 3 That no Badgers be permitted but such as the Statute doth limit and that no seruant of any be licenced to be a Badger except sixe of the Iustices at the least shall in open Sessions for some necessary cause allow any such and that none at all be allowed a Badger except he be allowed in open Sessions the Badger allowed not to make prouision or sell in any forren countrey but with the priuity and allowance of some Iustices of the Peace of that countrey And furthermore that none be permitted to buy or prouide Corne in the Market in grosse as a Badger or Baker Brewer or Purueyour and such like vpon paine of imprisonment vntill two houres after the full Market be begunne in the Summer time and one houre in the Winter time that the poore may be first serued 4 Where in some parts of the Realme diuers Millers who ought onely to serue for grinding of Corne that shall be brought to their milles haue begun lately a very corrupt trade to be cōmon buyers of Corne both in