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Lawrence Mayor. Comm. Concil. tent. vicesimo septimo die Januarii, anno Dom. 1664. Annoque regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Angliæ, &c. Decimo sexto
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City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
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in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Cambell Knight deceased and carried by some Street Carr or Carrs of Persons duly Licensed and Allowed as aforesaid and bearing upon the same Carrs the Mark of the Red-Cross for a Note of their Allowance as hath antiently been accustomed The Governours of Christ-Hospital together with the Fellowship of Carr-Men have been at great Charges in Suits of Law to bring the said Wood-mongers or Retailers in Fuel to a compliance with the said Act of Common-Council They with their Purses and Persons have in all Courts opposed the same some of them well knowing that if the Carr-men should be permitted to carry Fuel they should lose great sums of Money yearly which they now get by the delivery of short Measure and several of them have been Indicted at Sessions for delivering sometimes two Bushels and sometimes three Bushels short in a Load of Coals The Argument about this by Law in the Exchequer and at the Kings-Bench-Bar have not been yet determined by reason some few things should be added to them by Law which the Governours do earnestly pray the Common-Council to do The Honourable House of Commons January the 29th 1673. Ordered That a Bill should be prepared by a Committee then named for the Regulating and Ascertaining the Measure of Coals and Abuses in the Sale of Wood. The Sixteenth of February 1673. The Committee Reports They had prepared a Bill and delivered it in which was Read and Ordered a second Reading The Twenty fourth of February 1673. The Parliament was Prorogued so that the Bill received no further debate at that time The Sixth of March 1673 4. His Majesty was Graciously pleased to send to the City this Letter following Charles R. TRusty and Well-beloved We Greet you well Whereas We are given to understand That in this last Session of Parliament by Order of the House of Commons a Bill was prepared and Read for the Regulating Abuses in the Measure of Coal and Wood within that Our City of London Borough of Southwark Liberties of the Tower of London St. Katherines and East-Smithfield but the said Bill not having been passed into an Act by reason of the Prorogation and the said Abuses still continuing to the great Oppression and Grievance of Our good Subjects We have thought fit hereby to recommend to you in an especial Manner the Regulation thereof and as well the putting in Execution all Orders already made for and towards the Redressing all Abuses and Deceits of that kind as the making such Orders as may totally prevent the same for the future Wherein We cannot doubt of your particular Care and so We bid you Farewel Given at Our Court at White-hall this Sixth day of March 1673 4. in the Twenty sixth year of Our Reign By His Majesties special Command ARLINGTON To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir William Hooker Knight Lord Mayor of Our City of LONDON and to the Aldermen and Common-Council of that Our City HOOKER MAYOR Com. Concil tent in Camera Guild-hall Civit. Lond. die Martis decimo nono die Maii Anno Dom. 1674. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli Secundi c. vicessimo sexto AT this Court was Presented and Read His Majesties Letter directed to this Court Dated at White-hall the Sixth day of March last past setting forth That His Majesty had been given to understand that in the last Session of Parliament by Order of the House of Commons a Bill was prepared and read for the regulating the abuses in the Measures of Coals and Wood within this City Borough of Southwark Liberties of the Tower of London St. Katherines and East-Smithfield but the said Bill not passing into an Act by reason of the Prorogation and the same abuses still continuing to the great oppression and grievance of His Majesties Subjects Therefore His Majesty was Graciously pleased by his said Letter to recommend to this Court in especial manner the regulating thereof And as well the putting in execution all Orders already made for and towards the redressing all Abuses and Deceits of that kind as the making such Orders as may totally prevent the same for the future This Court in Obedience to the said Command doth nominate and appoint Sir John Frederick Sir William Turner Sir Richard Ford Sir John Moore Knights Aldermen Sir Robert Jeoffories and Sir Thomas Player Knights William Fluellin Esq Mr. Pilkington Mr. Tompson Major Gunston Mr. Short and Mr. Turgis Commoners or any Two of the said Aldermen and Four of the said Commoners to be a Committee forthwith to meet and consult what is fit to be done for redressing the same Abuses and Report their Opinions therein to this Court and William Bird to Warn and Attend them Wagstaffe PEAKE MAYOR Martis 28. die April 1668. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angliae c. XX. THis day the President and Governours of Christs-Hospital London to whom the Rule Oversight and Government of Carrs Carts Carr-rooms Carters and Carmen within the City of London and Liberties thereof is committed by Act of Common-Council made the One and twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Five in the Seventeenth Year of His Majesties Reign exhibited into this Court a Book of Orders Rules Directions and Limitations devised for the better Regulation of the said Carrs Carts Carters and Carr-men Humbly submitting the same to be allowed and confirmed by this Court according to the said Act of Common-Council and the Custom of this City Whereupon the said Orders Rules Directions and Limitations were here openly and deliberately read and advisedly and maturely considered and after some alterations and amendments therein made were well liked ratified and confirmed and Ordered to be observed executed and performed by all Persons concerned in all Points and in all times hereafter until this Court or the Common-Council of this City shall see cause to Order or Direct any thing to the contrary thereof or of any Articles or Clauses therein contained And it is further Ordered That the said President and Governours may as they see cause use and publish the said Orders Rules Directions and Limitations under the Title and in manner and form following That is to say ORDERS RVLES DIRECTIONS and LIMITATIONS Made by the Right Honourable Sir William Peake Knight Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren at a Court held in the Chamber of the Guild-Hall London on Tuesday the Eight and Twentieth day of April One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Eight in the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second c. for the further Direction of the President and Governours of Christs-Hospital London in the Rule Oversight and Government of the Carrs Carts Carters and Carmen within the City of London and Liberties thereof and for the better Government and Ordering of the said Carrs Carts Carters and Carmen within the said City of London in pursuance of an Act of Common-Council held in
LAWRENCE MAYOR Com. Concil tent Vicesimo septimo die Januarii Anno Dom. 1664. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi nunc Angliae c. Decimo sexto THe Right Honourable the Lord Mayor signifying unto this Court that several Complaints have been made to the Court of Aldermen of the late Raising of the Prizes and abuses used in the Measure and Weight of Coals And that His Majesty hath also taken notice thereof to his Lordship and signified His Pleasure That some speedy course be taken for remedy therein And that several Judges of the Land and other great Personages have discoursed and given advice to his Lordship to like purpose And further That a Committee of the Court of Aldermen appointed upon this occasion have upon a diligent inquiry into the causes of the said Complaints represented the same together with some means for remedy thereof in a Report to the said Court of Aldermen which upon desire of this Court was now Read for their better Information It is therefore thought fit and Ordered That the said Committee of the Court of Aldermen namely Sir William Turner Sir Richard Rives Mr. Alderman Hooker Mr. Alderman Thomas Bonfoy together with Sir William Bateman Sir Arthur Ingram Mr. Deputy Nevill Mr. Deputy Fluellin Sir Thomas Chamberlain Mr. Penning Coll. Cleggatt and Mr. Deputy Canham or any two of the said Aldermen and four of the said Commoners shall take further consideration of the said Complaints and Abuses and of the most speedy and effectual means to remedy the same for the general good of His Majesties Subjects in and about this City and parts adjacent and vindication of the Goverment and good Order of the same City from such Aspertions and prejudice as by relation are imputed to it by occasion of the said Complaints and Abuses And certify unto this Court in writing under their Hands how they find the same and their Opinions therein and Richard Hinde to warn and attend them LAWRENCE MAYOR Com. Concil tent Decimo quarto die Februarii Anno Dom. 1664. Anno Regni Regis CAROLI nunc Angliae c. Decimo septimo THis Day the Committee appointed by late Order of this Court to consider of several Abuses complained to be committed by the Wood-mongers in and about the Price Measure and Weight of Coals c. And of Remedies for the same did deliver into this Court a Report in Writing under their Hands how they find the same and their Opinions the tenor whereof is as followeth viz. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren and Commons of the City of London in Common-Council assembled WHereas by a late Order of this Honourable Court intimating the Complaints lately made to your good Lordship and the Court of Aldermen of the excessive Prizes and Deceits used in the Measure and Weight of Coals and that His Majesty had taken notice thereof and signified his pleasure for some speedy course to remedy the same also that several of the Judges and other great Personages had discoursed thereof and given advice to your Lordship to like purpose which had occasioned an inquiry to be made into the causes of the said complaints by a Committee therefore appointed by your Lordship and the said Court of Aldermen whose Report thereof was then read in this Court for their better information and this Court was pleased thereupon to refer it unto us whose Names are subscribed to take further consideration of the said Matters and of the most speedy and effectual Means to redress the same Now We the said Committees do humbly certifie that We have heard and received the Evidence and Information offered by diverse knowing and credible Persons touching the said Complaints and Abuses and besides that many of the particulars are notorious and obvious to common Experience do find upon the said Informations which the Parties respectively do offer to confirm by their Oaths That the Citizens and Inhabitants of London and Parts adjacent do lye under an intollerable grievance in the Cases above mentioned brought upon them by the Wood-mongers as by a summary Accompt of their Practices and Abuses contained in the ensuing particulars more plainly may appear And first Touching the Price of Sea-Coals it appears that the same is and is used and subject to be raised by the Wood-mongers at their own pleasure and that by these several means and practices especially First the Wood-mongers pretending to the sole Trade of retailing Coals and aiming to compass the same and to exclude all others have in order to that end First obtained diverse and do take all opportunities to obtain more of the Wharfs in and about the City into their own hands and do convert so many as can be spared from their own occasions to other uses binding their Tenants under strict Covenants and Limitations not to imploy the same or but very sparingly for the Landing or Selling of Coals That by depriving of others they only may have those advantages of Landing Storing and Selling of that and all other Fuel Secondly where they cannot obtain possession of any other Fuel-Wharfs in their way they deal with the Owners to change the same to other uses Thirdly They disturb and hinder the Coal-Ships from Unlading at Smarts Key as was formerly used and other known and convenient Keys and Places so to compel them to their own Wharfs whereby the Citizens and others are disappointed of Buying there at the first hand and by the good Measure of the Coal-Meeters and of the ready carriage they were wont to have from those places Fourthly They labour to suppress all others that deal in Retailing of Coals denying them for Engrossers and imposing upon the easier and meaner sort Arbitrary Fines and prosecuting others at Law denying to all the benefit of Carr-rooms or the use of the Town Carrs to serve their Customers and punishing the Carr-men with penalties and troubles and seizure of their Carrs if they discover them in such Imployment so to constrain them to keep up their stores to their loss and the publick damage or to put them off to the Wood-mongers upon their own terms for their better advantage of raising the Price when they have engrossed the whole Store in their own hands Whereas indeed the Buying and Selling of Coals is but an accident to the Wood-mongers Trade and free for all men to use as themselves and to encourage the multiplicity of Traders in Victual and Fuel especially that are not united into one Society and Combination hath been ever held a most certain means to keep down the Price of those Provisions and at this time we find those other Retailers willing to Sell by the just Measures and at much lower Rates than the Wood-mongers do if they could be supplyed with Carrs to serve out their Coals to the Buyers Fifthly They generally obstruct their own Apprentices after their times are expired from Setting up by disappointing them of Wharfs and denying them Carr-rooms