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A25947
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The Articles of the charge of the Wardmote inquest
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City of London (England).
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1689
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Wing A3871; ESTC R35728
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of any Stranger or forein not frée of the Liberties of this City contrary to the Laws of this City in that behalf Cloaths 46 Also if any buy or sell any Cloth or Cloths in the house shop warehouse or other place of any Clothworker or other person against any Ordinance or Custom of this City or if any Clothworker or other do receive or harbor any Cloths before the same be brought to Blackwel-Hall contrary to the Ordinance made in that behalf Carmen 47 Also if any Carman take any mony for carriage of any Goods Wares or Merchandizes above the rates ordained Buildings divided Houses Inmates 48 Also if any make or cause to be made any new building or buildings or divide or cause to be divided any house or houses or receive any Inmate or Inmates contrary to the Law. 49 Also if any dwelling within this Ward which do offer or put to sale any Wares or Merchandizes in the opeâ— stréets or lanes of this City Hawkers or go from house to house to sell the same commonly called Hawkers contrary to the Act made in that behalf Freâ—som 50 Also if any have covetously fraudulently or unduly obtained the Fréedom of this City Collectors 51 Also if any Collector of Fifteenths or other Duties for the publick service of the King or of this City do retain in his hands any part of the mony collected to his own use Women receivers of Servants 52 Ye shall also enquire if thére be dwelling within your Ward any Woman-Broker such as resort to mens houses demanding of their Maid-servants if they do like of their services if not then they tell them they will help them to a better service and so allure them to come from their Masters to their houses where they abide as Boorders till they be provided for in which time it falleth out that by lewd young men that resort to those houses they be oftentimes made Harlots to their utter undoing and the great hurt of the Common-weal Wherefore if any such be you shall present them that order may be taken for reformation Privies 53 Also if any have or use any common Privy by having issue into any common Sewer of the City Vagabonds 54 And if any Constable Beadle or other Officer be negligent or remiss in discharging his duty touching the execution of the Statute made for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars or otherwise and wherein the default is and the Statutes of 1 Jacobi 4 Jac. 21 Jac. concerning the restraint of the inordinate haunting and tipling in Inns and Ale-houses and repressing of drunkenness and other Offences in the said Statutes and wherein the default is Poor 55 Also if any to whom the execution of the Statute made for the relief of the Poor doth appertain be remiss in discharging his Duty touching the execution of the same Statute and wherein the default is Legacies 56 Also if any Executor or other person retain in his hands any Legacy sum of mony or other thing given to any charitable use Drunkard Whoremonger Sabbath Jesuite Seminary Priest Secular Priest Cozeners c. 57 Ye shall enquire whether there be within your Ward any common Drunkard Whoremonger Blasphemer of Gods holy Name Iesuit Seminary or Secular Priest or any receiver reliever or maintainer of any of them or any Cozener or swaggering idle companion such as cannot give account how they live if there be any such you shall present them and the names of those that lodge them or aid them 58 Ye shall also inquire whether any person do or shall say or sing Mass within your Ward or be present at any Mass Roman Catholick Religion 59 Also if any person or persons within your Ward being evil affected do or shall extol the Roman Catholick Religion above the Religion professed and established by the Laws of this Realm or do or shall deprave the Religion now professed in this Realm by authority as above which may bréed discord in the City and dissension in the Common-weal ye shall carefully present the same persons and their offences 60 Also if any person or persons that kéep horses in their houses do lay his or their Stable-dung or such kind of stinking filth in any stréets or lanes of this City to the great annoiance of the people passing that way and do not load his Dung-Cart at his Stable-door as he ought to do Assemble monthly 61 You shall assemble your selves once every month or oftner if néed require so long as ye shall continue of this Inquest and present the defaults which you shall find to be committed concerning any of the Articles of your charge to the end due remedy may be speedily supplied and the offenders punished as occasion shall require Making of Presentments 62 And in making your Presentments your Clerk is carefully to write the Christian name surname and addition or calling of every offender and the name of the Parish wherein the offence was committed and some certain time how long the offence hath béen continued in order to the better prosecution thereof and in presenting any persons for dividing houses for Inmates to write the names and addition to the present Landlord receiving the Rents and the names of the Tenant in possession and of the Inmate in any house and also to write in the Margin on the side of every Presentment the name or names upon whose evidence you make such Presentment And that you set down at the bottom of your Indenture the names of one or more persons either among your selves or others whom you shall agree on to prosecute your Presentments GOD save the KING and QUEEN Printed by Samuel Roycroft Printer to thâ— Honouraâ—â—◠〈…〉
duly required Orphans Wards Marriages 20 Also if any man conceal the Goods of Orphans of this City of whom the Ward and Marriage of risâ—â— belongeth to the Mayor and Aldermen of this City 21 And if any Officer Officers by colour of his Office do extortion to any man or be maintainer of quarrels against right or take carriage or arrest Victual unduly Boatmen Ferriers 22 Also if any Boatman or Ferrier be dwelling in the Ward that taketh more for Boat-manage or Ferriage than is ordained Purprestures Pent-house Jetties c. 23 Also if any man make Purprestures that is to say encroach or take of the common ground of this City by land or by water as in Walls Pales Stalls Stoups Grieces or Doors or Cellars or in any other like within the Ward or if any Porch Pent-house or Ietty be too low in letting of men that ride beside or Carts that go thereforth Pent-houses 24 Also that Pent-houses and Ietties be not contrary to Law. Way Water-course 25 Also if any common way or common Course of Water before closed or letted that it may not have its Course as it was wont to the annoyance of the Ward and by whom it is done Pavements 26 Also if any Pavement be defective or too high in one place and too low in another to the disturbance of riders and goers thereby and Carts that go thereupon Regrators Forestallers 27 Also if any Regrator or Forestaller of Victual or of any other Merchandizes which should come to this City to be sold be dwelling within this Ward A Regrator is as much as to say he that buyeth up all the Victual or Merchandizes or the most part thereof when it is come to the City or the Suburbs of the same at a low Price and then afterward selleth it at his own pleasure at a high and excessive price A Forestaller is he that goeth out of the City and méeteth with the Victual or Merchandize by the way coming to the City to be sold and there buyeth it Both these be called in the Law Open Enemies to a Country Price of Victual 28 Also if any Butcher Fishmonger Poulterer Vintner Hostler Cook or seller of Victual do sell Victual at unreasonable prices Hay 29 Also if any Hostler sell Hay Oats or Provender at excessive prices taking greater gain thereby than is reasonable and lawful Victual unwholesom 30 Also if any Victualler sell any Victuals not covenable or unwholesom for mans body or else dearer than is proclaimed by the Mayor when any such Proclamation is or shall be Price 31 Ye shall diligently make search and inquiry whether there be any Vintner Inholder Ale-house-kéeper or any other person or persons whatsoever within your Ward Measures unsealed that do use or kéep in his or their house or houses any Cans Stone-pots or other measures which be unsealed and by Law not allowed to sell Béer or Ale thereby and whether any of them do sell by any measure not sealed If there by any such you shall seize them and send them to the Guild-hall to the Chamberlains Office and present their names and faults by Indenture so oft as there shall be occasion so to do Weights and Measures 32 Ye shall also make search in the shops and houses of all the Chandlers and of all others which sell by weight or measure dwelling within your Ward and sée that their Scales be not one heavier than the other and that their Weights and Measures as well Bushels as lesser measures as well those that they sell Seacoals by which ought to be heaped that they be in breadth according to the new Standard sealed as all others and that all Yards and Ells that they be just lengths and sealed that the poor and other his Majesties Subjects be not deceived And further if any do buy by one Weight or Measure and sell by others And if in your Search you find any false Weight Measures or Scales ye shall seize them and send them to the Guild-hall to the Chamberlain And you shall also do the like if you shall find any that do sell any thing by Venice Weights contrary to the Law present their names and faults House Tile 33 Also ye shall inquire if any House be covered otherwise than with Tyle Stone or Lead for peril of Fire Leper Beggar 34 Also if any Leper Faitour or mighty Beggar be dwelling within this Ward Bakers Brewers Fire 35 Also if any Baker or Brewer bake or brew with Straw or any other thing which is perillous for Fire Painted visage 36 Also if any man go with painted visage Lights 37 Also if there be any man that hangeth not out and maintains sufficient Lights after the usage according to the commandment thereupon given Wood. 38 Also if any person bring or cause to be brought to this City or the Liberties thereof to be sold or sell offer or put to Sale any Tall-wood Billets Fagots or other Fire-wood not being of the full Assize which the same ought to hold Which Assize is set down in the printed precept Country 39 Also if any Fréeman of this City use to resort into the Countries near to this City and there to engross and buy up much Billet Tall-wood Fagot Tosard or other Fire-wood and convey the same by water unto this City and there lay it upon their Wharfs and other places and so kéep it till they may sell it at high and excessive prices at their own wills 40 Also if any Wood-monger or any other sell any Billets or other Fire-wood above the price set by the Lord Mayor Freemen to shew their Copies 41 Also forasmuch as it is thought that divers and many persons dwelling within the Liberties of this City daily occupy as Fréemen whereas indéed they be none nor never were admitted into the Liberties of this City Ye shall therefore require every such person dwelling within this Ward whom ye shall suspect of the same to shew you the Copy of his Fréedom under the Seal of Office of the Chamberlain of the said City and such as ye shall find without their Copies or deny to shew their Copies ye shall write and present their names in your Inâ—â—â—tures Melting Tallow 42 Also you shall enquire and truly present all such persons as use melting of Tallow contrary to 〈…〉 Common-Council in that case made and provided 43 Also you shall enquire of all Armorers and other Artificers using to work in Metal which have 〈…〉 Reardorses or any other places dangerous or perilous for Fire Appraisers 44 Also if any have appraised any goods of any Freeman deceased leaving behind him any Orphan or Orphans and the Appraisers not sworn before the Lord Mayor or the Alderman of the Ward Beam. 45 Also if any Fréeman buy any Wares or Merchandizes unweighed which ought to be weighed at the Kings Beam