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A69725	The liberties, usages, and customes of the city of London confirmed by especiall acts of Parliament, with the time of their confirmation : also divers ample, and most beneficiall charters, granted by King Henry the 6, King Edward the 4, and King Henrie the 7th, not confirmed by Parliament as the other charters were, and where to find every particular grant and confirmation at large / collected by Sir Henry Colthrop, Knight, ...	Calthrop, Henry, Sir, 1586-1637.; Carpenter, John, 1370?-1441?	1642 (1642)	Wing C308; ESTC R14680	13,641	30

Hen. 3. Sureties for the Sheriffes The whole Citizens of London must answer to the King and satisfie both the Fee Fatm and also all the amerciaments if the Sheriffs do make default lib. al. f. 34. a b. 11. Henry 3. Suites against Citizens None of the liberty of this city shall be impleaded or occasioned at the King Exchequer nor else-where by Bill xcept it be for matter which belongs to the King or his Heirs fol. 41. Anno 1. E. 3. At this day all our Citisens do implead one another out of the city the which is directly against our liberties being coufirmed by Parliament Taxes and Tallages That taxes and tallages for the necessity of the City by common consent or Common-counsell may be assessed and levied aswell upon Rents as other things and aswell upon misteries as by any other means lib. alb. folio 38. b. 12. H. 3. Toll The Citizens of London are discharged of Toll and Lastage and of all other customes as well by Land as by Seas within the Kings Dominions lib. alb. fol. 35. a 37. Hen. 3. Tower of London That the Costable of the Tower for the time being shall not either by land or water take or make any prisages of any victuals or other things whatsoever of the people of the same city nor of any others comming or going towards or from the said city nor by any manner of means shall arrest or cause to be arrested any ships vessels or boats bringing to the said city any victuals or any other such goods lib. alb. fol. 40. a. 1. E. 1. The Constable of the Tower of London shall not take any thing for the suffering of wares in the Thames or Medway lib albo fol. 35. 11. H. 3. The Constable of the Tower of London in the default of the Barons of the Exchequer being absent from Westminster and also of the King at such time as the Major ought to be polluted must take the Oaths of the Major and of the Sheriffes without the Tower Gates lib. albo fol. 36 b. Anno 12. H. 3. Warres That the Citizens from henceforth shall not be compelled to go or send to the warres out of the city lib. alb. f. 40 a. 1. E. 1. Weights and Measures That the weights and ballances amongst Merchants by the which any profit doth grow and the correction of the same doth belong to the commonalty of this city And that they shall be in the custody of approved and sufficient men expert in the same office being chosen by the Commons Witherman If any toll or other custome be taken from any Citizen of the Kings Dominions the Sheriffs of London shall at London take pledge or Witherman lib. alb. f. 35 b. 11. Henry the third Wines sold by retaile That no Merchant that is not free of this City shall sell any Wines by retail within the same city lib. alb. fol. 38. a 12. Henry the third Wines and Victuals By Charter and by Parliament is granted that the Lord Major and Aldermen for the time being shall have the Rule and Government of the Vintners viz. of all manner of wines which shall be sold within the same city and of all manner or Victuals as well sellers of fish as of all other dwelling within the same city and to the same bringing any Victuals there to be sold lib. alb fol. 44 b. 7. R. 2. Note how that the Vintners of this city did exhibit a Bill to the Counsell at Greenwich Termino pasche An. 18 Eliz. Regni affirming that they were not under the Government of the Major and Aldermen the which I learn to be drawn by one Land an Attorney of the Guild-Hall Hereafter do ensue divers ample and most beneficiall Charters granted by King Hen. 6. E. 4. and King Hen. 7. but these Charters are not confirmed by Parliament as the other Charters were Note that the Charter of Hen. 6 and E. 4. are all one with little alteration Beer-brewers THe correction of the Beer-brewers and of the measurages likewise is granted to the City lib. albo f. 50 b e. 23. Hen 6. Note at this time there was Beer-brewers in England Certioraries for Recognisances It is granted that when a Certiorary is sent for any Indictment of Fellony trespasse extortion or any other offence or for any Recognisance for the peace broken that we shall not send the Record it self but only the tenors of the same and that shall suffice lib. albo 49. b. 23. Henry 6. Commission of the Peace The Commission of the Peace is at large set down with all the Articles that are to be inquired lib. albo 47. 23. H. 6. Confirmation King Henry 7 Anno 20. did grant unto the City of Lond●● most large and ample ratification of all and singular their Liberties Franchises and Customes and all such like things expressed in any of their Charters whatsoever they were lib. albo 58. a. Confirmation King H 5. by Act of Parliament and a special Charter dated the 7 ber. Anno 7. hath also confirmed the Liberties aforesaid lib albo folio 47 a. Confirmation all and singular All and singular the aforesaid Liberties are most amply confirmed by a great Charter made by King H 4. in the first year of his Reign but they are not by him confirmed by Parliament but by Charter And this is the Charter that the Commons of this City do use to call the great Charter of London lib. alb. fol. 46 a b. 1. primo H. 4. Elections of Officers That the Cirisens shall have the choice of all under-Sheriffes Clerks Bayliffes of Sheriffes for whom they will answer for aswell in the County of Middlesex as within the City of London In which grant there is a saving or proviso for the Sheriffes of London for the right c. lib. alb. 49 b c 23. H. 6. Exemption for the Aldermen It is granted that the Aldermen of this City shall not be put in Assizes Juries Attaints Recognitions or Inquisitions although the King himself be party nor they shall be without the Liberties of the City Collectors or Assessors of tenths and fifteens lib. alb. f. 54 a b. Fines and amerciaments All Fines Amerciaments Issues forfeited Redemptions Forfeitures Penalties of all Offences inquirable by the Commissions of the peace are granted to the Citizens of London lib. alb. f. 49 a 23. H. 6. And in the same place the premises are also granted if they bee forfeited before the Justices in the pleas of the crown or before any other Justices or Minister whatsoever ibid. Foren bought and Foren sold That the forfeiture of Foren bought and Foren sold shall belong to the Major and Commons of this City without any accompt to be therfore yeelded lib. alb. fol. 59 b c. this Article is most largely and beneficially set forth in the Book Gates and Posterns All the Gates and Posterns of this City and the custody of the same are granted unto the city lib. alb. f. 46. fol. 8. 1. H. 4. Ganger The

shall forfeit x. l. libro al folio 35 a. That the Citizens shall remove and take away all Keddels stops and wears in the waters of Thames and Medway And that they shall have all such punishments in that behalf to the King li al. fol. 39 b. 1. E. 1. Liberties and free Customes Free Liberties and free Customes used in the time of King Henry 1. are by Charter and after by Parliament ratified and granted to the city lib. al. folio 35 b c. 11. Hen. the third and 37. Henry 3. Liberties and Pranchises The King granteth and doth allow that the Citisens of London their heirs and successors shall have their Liberties and free Customes and may use and enjoy the same as they have done in ancient time And also that they may record the same before the Kings Justices and Ministers as they have bin wont to do any Statutes or Judgments to the contrary notwithstanding lib. al. 40 a. b 1. E. 1. Liberties confirmed All manner of Liberties granted by King Henry 3. are confirmed by E. 1. Anno 12. lib. albo fol. 31. a. Liberties confirmed First wheras in the great Charter of the Liberties of England amongst other things it was ordained that the City of London should have all their ancient Liberties and customes and that the same Citizens at the time of the making of the same Charter and in the time of Saint Edmond the King and Confessor and William the Conqueror and of other the Progenirors of King E. 3. had and used divers liberties and customes as well by Charters as without Charters of ancient custome Of which liberties in divers Eyres and in other Courts of the Kings of the Realm the same Citizens have bin impeached and sundry of them fore-judged King E. 1. by Charter confirmat Anno Regni sui primo hath granted that the Citisens shall have their liberties according to the Form of the great Charter and that all impediments and usurpations to them in that behalf made shall be revoked and disanulled lib. albo fol. 39 a b. Aano primo E. 1. Major to be presented The Lord Major being chosen must be presented unto the Court of Exchequer and after to the King himself lib. albo f. 36. a 37 Henry 3. Major That the Major of London during his majoralty shall have no more Offices belonging to the City but only the Office of the majoralty nor hold any plea vicouncell within the chamber of the city nor any other but such as by the ancient custome of the city he as Major ought to hold plea of Fleetwood Recorder doth expound these words Vicounty pleas to be such pleas as the Sheriffes by the common lawes of this Realm may hold pleas of in his hundred the which be actions of debt under 40. l. and of such like causes lib. alb. fol. 37. b 12. H. 3. Marishall The marshall shall not within the city nor the portsoken by force nor otherwise take up any mans house lib. alb. f. 35 a. 11 Henry 3. Markets No market from henceforth shall be granted by the King to be kept within 7. miles of this City lib. alb. f. 41 a. 1. E. 3. Marshalsee and Clerk of the Houshold The Steward of the Marshalsee and the Clerk of the Market of the Kings House shall nor sit nor execute their Office within the liberties of this City nor shall draw into plea any Citizen out of the city for any cause arising or growing within the liberties of the same city lib. albo folio 40 a. 1. E. 1. Marchants strangers free Hosts It is commanded by Charter and Parliament that all Merchants strangers comming into England shall make sale of their merchandizes within 40 dayes after their arrivall and that they shall abide and be at the table of free Hosts of this city of London and of all other Cities and Towns of England without keeping houses of societies by themselves lib. albo fol. 39 b c. 1. E. 1. Mortmain That the City and their heirs and successors may devise their lands as well in Mortmain as otherwise as of ancient time they were accustomed lib. albo folio 30 b. 1. E. 1. Non-user Although before this time any of the ancient liberties have not bin put in ure yet from hence forth it shal● be lawfull to put them in execution lib. albo fol. 39 a. 15. E. 3. Officers of the City All lands or tenements without the Freedom of the city wherof any Citizen is or shall be owner now or hereafter which are or shall be Ministers of the city shal be obliged to the conversation or saving harmlesse the same city against the King and his Heirs for matters concerning their offices in like manner as their tenements within the same city were wont to be lib al folio 40 b c. 1. E. 1. Note by this Article that all the Ministers of this city ought to be Freemen Oasts No stranger shall be an Oast or keep Oasterie for strangers lib. al. fol. 57 a b per Charter 38. E. 3. and per Parliament Oasts and free Oasts That all that keep common Oastery in the city or the Suburds although they be not free yet shall they be at all manner of charges for the maintenance of the city as ample as any other that be free Oasts lib. al. folio 38 a. b. 12. Henry 3. Oath The Major of London shall not be compelled to take any other Oath at the Exchequer then hath bin used in the time of King Edward the third any Law Statute or Ordinance notwithstanding lib. al. folio 44. b c. 7. R. 2. Parliament All the aforesaid Articles Charters Grants and Ordinances are to this place confirmed by Act of Parliament in manner and form as they be before expressed Anno 7. R. 2. Pleas in Fairs and Markets Because the Citizens of London in all good and great Fairs of England were wont to have Wardens of themselves to hold pleas concerning such Citizens as shall have conference to the said Fairs It is granted by Charter that the same Citizens shall have their Wardens of their Citizens for the holding of such pleas as of ancient times they have had excepting pleas of the Land and of the Crown lib. al. 40. 1. E. 1. Precepts to the Citizens By Parliament that is allowed to the Citizens of London not to be subject to the precepts or commandements of the Constable of Eng and Steward Marshall Admirall Clerk of the Market or of any other Officer or Minister of the King but only to the Kings commandements or precepts which shall be made in the Kings name still and under the Kings Seals and Liberty is allowed by Act of Parliament soit use Come ad estre devant tempes lib. albo f. 43 b. 1. R. 2. Presenting of the Sheriffes Such Sheriffes as the Citizens shall make choise of shall be presented to the King Justices And the said Sheriffe shall answer to the King or to his Justices or his Exchequer of such things

and elected in such sort as they were appointed by the ancient Charter and in no otherwise Escheator That no Escheator or other Minister of the King shall exercise their Offices within the City but that the Major for the time being shall be Escheator and he shal yeeld unto the King his Oath that he shall duly exercise and make a true accompt for the same Office lib. alb. fol. 4. a. 1. E. 1. Expostion If any difficulty or ambiguity do arise upon any Article within any of the Kings Charters granted unto this City so that the same Article may be taken to divers meanings the King granteth that he by the advisement of his Counsell may make therof such interpretation as shall be best with equity and reason lib. alb. 44. ab 10. R. 2. Fellons goods That the Citizens shall have Infangtheff and Outfangtheff and the goods of all Fellons that shall be adjudged before them within their liberties there lib. alb. fol. 39. b. 1. E 2. Fee Farme Where the Counties of London and Middlesex were let to Farm for 300. l. and yet notwithstanding the office of the Exchequer by incrochment compelled them to pay 400. l. Now it is granted by Parliament that the City shall pay no more but 300. l. according to their former Charters lib. albo fol. 39. b. 1. E. 1. Fee Farm apportioned If the King do grant to any other any thing that belongeth to the Fee Farm then shall the Fee Farm for so much yearly be apportioned and abated at the Exchequer fol 34. lib. albo 11. Hen. 3. Fee Farm of London and Middlesex The Fee Farm of London and Middlesex that is to say for 300. l. by the year is granted to the Citizens of London by 11. Hen. 3. and confirmed by Parliament in the 7. R. 2. lib. albo fol. 34. a. b. and fol. 45. a lib. 4. Farm bought and Farm sold The Statute of Anno 9. E 3. cap. 1. Rastall Tile Merchants No 2. is for asmuch as concerneth London expounded and repealed and the liberties of Magna Charta as touching London are revived and the intent of the Law-makers expounded was not to touch London nor yet infringe the Liberties of the great Charter lib. alb. 41. a. b. the aforesaid statute Anno 9. E. 3. hath bin very often objected against the City of London in Parliaments by such as are ignorant of our Charters and Statutes vide alib lib alb. flo 43. a. b. a notable Grant by Parliament for the same matter Foren bought and Foren sold No stranger shall Foren buy and Foren sell within this City any Statute to the contrary notwithstanding lib. alb. fol. 57. b. and per Parliament Foren bought and Foren sold Both by Charter and Parliament it is granted that from henceforth no Merchant being a stranger to the liberties of this City shall buy or sell any Merchandize within the liberties of this City to any like stranger Merchant upon the pain of Forfeitures of such Merchandizes so bought or sold lib. alb. f. 43. a b. 1. R. 2. Forest of Middlesex dissaforested King Henry 3. Anno 11. Regni sui did by his Charter dissaforest the Warren of Stanes and the Forrest of Middlesex the which was a singular benefit both to the Country and also for the City Note also in the same place a man may gather some notable points touching the Forest Law lib. alb. fol. 35. b c. Forfeiture or seisure of the liberties of the City That the liberty of the City shall not be seized in the Kings hands for any personall trespasse or judgment personall of any minister of the City or for any such cause any Warden called Custos shall be by the King Deputed to rule the City but every minister shall answer for his own fault and shall according to the quantity and quality of the same fault receive condigne punishment lib. albo fol. 40. b 1. E. 3. Form of Iustice That the Citisens of London in the Eyres before the Justices of the tower shall be measured guided and go●erned by the laws and customes by the which they were guided in the Eires holden there in the times of King Iohn and King Henry the 3. lib. alb. f. 40. b. 1. E. 3. Fore-Stallers Fore-stallers and Fore-stalments made by the merchants for or concerning merchandize or victuals either by land or by water shall be punished by forfeiture or imprisonment lib. albo 36. b 50. H. 3. Free-men and making Free-men No stranger born shall be made free of this City but in the Court of Hustings lib. albo fol. 37. b 12. H. 3. How free Denizens and Englishmen that never were Apprenties shall be made free and how every one ought to put in for himself sufficient sureties to be true to the conservation of the city but this Order is not used at this day therfore I omit to speak any more of it in this place and yet is this Form of making Free-men by redemption appointed by Parliament lib. al. fol. 37 b 12 Henry 3. Hunting The Citizens of London may have their sugations viz. their Hunting in all such places as they had the same in the time of King Henrie 1. lib. alb. fol. 35 b 11. Henrie 3. Hustings That aswell Forreiners as others being either plaintiffs or defendants may make their Attorneys in the Hustings in London lib. al f 36 b. 60 Henrie 3. The Hustings shall be holden but once in a week lib. al 35 11. Henrie 3. Inquisitions All Inquisitions to be taken before the Kings Ministers by men of this City shall bee taken at S. Martins Le-grand and not else-where except the Inquisitions of the Eires of the Tower and Goal-delivery of New-gate lib. al 41 a. 1. E. 3. All Inquisitions of the Customable payments Customes Impositions and Purprestutes within the City shall be inquired of the Citisens and not by others see the words of Record more at large lib. al. 45 b c. 7. R. 2. See the Statute of 28. E. 3. Cap. 10. Iurisdiction of Pleas No Citizen shall be impleaded out of the walles of the City of London but for pleas of the Land being without the city alwayes excepted the Moniers and the Kings Ministers lib al. f. 35. a 11. H. 3. Inquisitions of the Goal of New-gate That the Major of London for the time being shall in every Commission for the Goale delivery of New-Gate be named one of the Justices lib. al. f. 39 b. 1. E 1. Iustices in London The King is restrained by his Charter confirmed by Parliament to assign any Justices in London except the Justices of Eire at the Tower of London and Justices of Goal delivery of New-Gate and for errors at S. Martins to be corrected except any things do chance within the same city that do touch the King or his Heirs lib. al 37 a. 12. Henry 3. Kiddles viz. wares It is granted that all the wears of the Thames and Medway shall be put down And he that setteth up any hereafter