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A48982 An Act of Common-Councell made the sixth of October 1646. Alderman Adams Major. For reformation of sundry abuses practised by divers persons in the common-markets and streets of the City of London City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1656 (1656) Wing L2852H; ESTC R216714 5,461 25

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their Commodities and be rendered without excuse and that there might be also a convenient time afterward for cleansing of the streets It is enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Market-bell in the severall Markets within the City of London shall ring twice every market day that is to say the first ringing from the five and twentieth day of March yearly untill the twenty ninth day of September at seven of the clock before noon and from the twenty ninth day of September yearly untill the five and twentieth day of March at eight of the clock before noon and not before And that before that time no person or persons shall sell shew or put to sale his Flesh Victuals or other Commodites And that the second ringing of the said market-bell in the severall markets aforesaid for raising of the said Markets shall begin to ring from and after the five and twentieth day of March yearly untill the twenty ninth day of September yearly half an hour after four of the clock in the afternoon and to continue ringing till five of the clock And from after the twenty ninth day of September untill the five and twentieth day of March to begin to ring half an hour after two of the clock and to continue ringing till three of the clock in the afternoon And that no Butcher and Butchers or other market people whatsoever resorting to any publique or Common-market within the City of London or Liberties thereof shall utter sell or put to open shew or sale any Flesh Victuals or other Commodities whatsoever in the said Markets that day after the end of the ringing of the said bell but shall immediately after the said bell hath done ringing as aforesaid depart from the said markets upon pain that every person or persons who shall offend or do contrary to this clause of this Act shall forfeit the summe of Ten shillings for every time offending or doing contrary to this clause of this Act. And forasmuch as the market is most principally intended for the benefit of Housekeepers who buy for their own use and behoof It is further enacted by Authority aforesaid That at the beginning of the ringing of the market-bell for raising of the said market and during the time of the ringing thereof the Retailers and Traders of this City who buy to sell again may lawfully enter into the said severall Markets or any of them and make their Provisions and buy the remainder of the said markets and carry the same to their severall Houses and Shops and not before upon pain that every such Retailer or Retailers or Traders who shall buy any Commoditie in the said markets to sell again before the Ringing of the market-bell for raising of the said markets as aforesaid contrary to the intent of this clause of this Act shall forfeit for every time Forty shillings And forasmuch as all dead Flesh-meat ought be sold in open common markets and not to be carryed up and down and sold by way of Hawking by means whereof much unwholsome Meat hath been vended and sold to the great deceipt of the buyer thereof and preiudice of the Common-wealth And whereas by the Custome of this City such Flesh and other things hawked are become forfeited It is enacted by Authority aforesaid That no Butcher or other person or persons whatsoever shall sell utter or offer to put to sale by way of Hawking or as a Hawker any manner of Flesh whatsoever in any Street or Lane Inne or other place or places within this City of London or Liberties thereof but onely in his or their open Shop or Shops Stall or Stalls or in the usual Market place or places and in Market time onely upon pain of forfeiture of all such Flesh so carryed or offered to be put to sale by way of Hawking without any manner of favour according to the ancient Custome of the City of London used and approved And whereas divers Inhabitants dwelling in or near unto the severall market places aforesaid do exact and take severall summes of money of the Country people who bring Victuall to the said severall markets for under pretence that it is in their power to hinder such market people from standing in the Markets before their doors to sell their Victuall which pretence of theirs is utterly against Law for that they have no power to hinder any the market people from standing or sitting in the said Markets Be it declared and Enacted by Authority aforesaid That no such person or persons dwelling or inhabiting in or near any of the said Markets or other person or persons whatsoever other then the Clerks of the severall Markets Beadles and other persons for their ancient Fees Duties and Allowances usually paid and taken shall from henceforth directly or indirectly take require or exact any summe or summes of money or other thing or things of any person or persons bringing any Victuall or other Commodities or Provisions to the said Markets to be sold for and in respect of any such place standing or sitting in the said severall Markets upon pain that every person or persons who after publication of this Act shall exact require or take any such summe or summes of money or other thing or reward shall forfeit and lose for every time so doing and offending Twenty shillings And it is the true intent and meaning of this Act That in the White-markets no Bag or Bags of straw be used or permitted nor any Boards for that purpose but such as shall not be above one Ell in length and half an Ell in breadth upon pain of six shillings eight pence to be forfeited by any person or persons for every time he or they shall do or offend against this clause of this Act. And it is thought fit for the more conveniency of the Markets and market people for the shew and sale of their Victuall that such Boards as aforesaid may be used and if any the market people aforesaid shall desire to use any such Boards provided by any of the Clerks of the severall Markets that then such Clerk of the severall Markets shall not take for any such board above Two pence for one market day Provided alwayes this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend unto such person or persons who shall bring Peascods Strawberries Resberries Roses or milke to the markets or streets of the City of London to sell but that he or they may stay tarry longer time then is before expressed if they see occasion so as the same persons that bring them first to market do continue the selling thereof and do not transfer them to any Huckster or Retailer to sell the same any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further enacted that all and every Act and Ordinance heretofore made for the regulating and wel-governing of the markets within the City of London not being contrary to this present Act shall stand be in their former strength and force any thing in this Act notwithstanding All which pains forfeitures and penalties summe and summes of money to be forfeited by vertue of this Act shall be recovered by action of Debt Bill or Plaint to be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being in the Court holden before the Maior and Aldermen in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London wherein no Essoin or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed for the Defendant And that the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in all suits to be prosecuted by vertue of this Act against any Offendor or Offendors contrary to the same shall recover the ordinary costs of suit to be expended in and about the prosecution thereof And if the suit passe for the Defendant then the said Defendant to recover his costs And that the Chamberlain for the time being shall not have power to take lesse of any Offendor then herein is limited to be forfeited for every offence And further That one moity of all forfeitures to be recovered by vertue hereof the costs of the suit for recovery of the same being deducted shall after recovery and receipt thereof at or before the twenty fift day of March yearly be paid and delivered to the Treasurer of Christs Hospitall to be imployed toward the relief of the poor children to be brought up and maintained in that Hospitall And the other moity to him or them which shall first give information of the offences for which the forfeitures shall grow and prosecute suite in the name of the Chamberlain of the said City for recovery of the same any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding FINIS
AN ACT OF Common-Councell MADE The sixth of October 1646. Alderman Adams Major For reformation of sundry abuses practised by divers Persons in the Common-Markets and Streets of the City of London Printed by James Flesher Printer to the Honorable City of London 1656. The Lawes of the Market ADAMS Major WHereas several good Laws and Ordinances have been heretofore made as well by the Court of Lord Maior and Aldermen as by this Court for the wel-ordering of the Markets of the City of London for the redresse of severall abuses of Butchers Victuallers others thereunto resorting for sale of their Flesh victuals and other Commodities in the severall Markets of this City and assigning places and times for the said Markets to be kept and held Which said Laws and Ordinances by daily experience are found not effectual to prevent some present and growing inconveniences nor have wrought that good effect as was intended thereby For redresse whereof be it enacted by the Right Honorable the Lord Maior Aldermen and Commons in Common-councell assembled and by authority of the same That no Butcher or Country Farmer Victualler or other person or persons whatsoever either free of the City of London or not free of the said City from and after the first day of December next after the publication of this Act shall sell utter or put to open shew or sale in the Streets or White-markets within this City that is to say Leaden-hall street without the Hall Cheapside and Newgate-market any Beef upon pain that every person or persons that from and after the time aforesaid shall sell utter put to sale or shew in any of the said Markets any Beef shall forfeit and lose Twenty shillings for every time so offending or doing contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act And further be it enacted by authority aforesaid that all and every Butcher free or not free of the City of London who keepeth no Butcher Shop or Shops within the said City and Liberties thereof or within two miles distance of the Liberties thereof shall and may fell utter shew and put to sale his or their Beef Mutton Veal Lamb Pork and other Butchery ware at certain stalls and places in that behalf appointed in Leaden-hall and the Greenyard there and that onely upon Wednesdays and Saturdays weekly and not in any other place or places within the said City of London and Liberties thereof upon pain that every such Butcher or Butchers who shall sell utter or put to sale or shew any Beef Mutton Veal Lambe Pork or any other Butchery ware in any other place or places within the City of London or Liberties thereof then in Leadenhall and the Greenyard there shall for every such offence or doing forfeit Twenty shillings And whereas of late times many of the stalls and standings within Leaden-hall and the Greenyard there have and yet are in the occupations of severall persons who are not Butchers by Trade nor use or exercise the Trade of a Butcher who let them out at dear rates to others And likewise many of the said stalls are in the possession of Butchers who live within the City of London and Liberties thereof who keep the said Stalls and likewise their Shops By means of which said doings the Country Butchers and other Butchers who keep no Shops within the said City or within two miles of the Liberties of the City of London and would furnish the said Markets with Butchery ware can get no convenient room there and so are necessitated to fell and utter their Commodities in the White-markets and other places or to forbear the Markets whereby prices are inhaunsed and the said Market disfurnished For remedy whereof be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the ground where the standings and places for sale and uttering of Flesh and Butchery ware within ●eadenhall and the Greenyard there be resumed and taken into the Cities hands and actual possession before the said first day of December next insuing And further that no Stall standing or place within Leadenha●l or the Greenyard there shal from thenceforth be letten or farmed out unto any Butcher or Butchers who doth or shall keep any Butchershop or shops within the City of London or Liberties thereof or within two miles of the Liberties of the said City for so long time as he or they shall keep any Butchers shop within the Limits aforesaid And that from thenceforth the Stals standings and places in Leadenhall and the Greenyard there be let unto Country Butchers or such Freemen who are Butchers and keep not any Butcher shop or shops within the City of London and Liberties thereof or within two miles distance of the Liberties of the said City and for so long time only as he or they shall furnish the said stalls standings and places with wholsome Beef Mutton Veal Lamb Pork or other Butchery ware upon Wednesdays and Saturdays being the usuall Market daies there in his or their own rights and not as Servant or Servants to others And further That no Butcher whatsoever shall have and enioy more then one stall standing or place within Leadenhall or the Green-yard there at one time Provided alwayes that the Butchers Freemen of the City of London shall and may at all times convenient sell utter shew and put to sale their Flesh and Butchery wares in their Shops within the said City of London and Liberties thereof as formerley they have done and accustomed any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided that the Country Farmer Lader or Kidder as to all wholsome Flesh victuals and other Commodities except Beef may have liberty to sell shew and utter the same in the Common and publique White-markets within the City of London and Liberties thereof in Market times this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding And forasmuch as of late the Forain Butchers Victuallers and other people resorting to the Markets of the City of London to sell their Flesh victuals and other Commodities do continue and keep their Markets all the day and untill night not observing the hours appointed for their departure by former Acts and Ordinances To the end the streets may in due time be cleansed for the health of the Inhabitants of those places which doing of theirs tendeth much to the disorder of the said Markets pestering the streets where those markets are kept inhaunsing the prices of Commodities disturbance and hinderance of Passengers and Tradesmen dwelling near the said places and by reason thereof the streets cannot be cleansed as they ought to be to the scandall of the Government of the City of London and is very necessary to be reformed And whereas it is pretended that the formerly appointed times for raising of the Markets is too soon by reason whereof the parties repairing thereto cannot have sufficient time to sell off their Commodities To the end therefore that such persons may have a convenient time to vend