persons as shall be imployed therein there hath always been given and paid certain reasonable Rates for the said Accommodations and Charges And to the intent that the said Rates may be ascertained and made publick to all Market people whereby the persons that shall from henceforth by Order of the Committee for Letting of the City Lands with Approbation of this Court be imployed therein as Collectors or Receivers of the same Rates may be prevented from Demanding or Extorting more then is allowed as is herein after expressed Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons resorting to any of the said Markets to sell and vend their Commodities shall from henceforth pay unto such person or persons as from time to time shall be thereunto appointed as aforesaid to take and receive the Profits of all or any of the said Markets to the Vse of the Maior Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London of and from all Market people thereunto resorting for their Stalls Standings and other Accommodations in the several Market-places aforesaid after the Rates following that is to say for every Stall or Standing of the length of eight Foot and breadth of four Foot used or imployed for sale of Flesh meat or Fish for every day eight pence or two shillings six pence per week and for every such Stall or Standing used or imployed for sale of any other Commodities for every day four pence or eighteen pence per week and for every Stall or Standing of the length of six foot and breadth of four foot used or imployed for the sale of Flesh meat or Fish six pence for every day or two shillings per week and for every such Stall or Standing used for other Provisions or Commodities for every day three pence or sixteen pence per week and for every Standing for Tanned Leather six pence per day and for every raw Hide an half peny and for every Horse Load of any Provisions or Commodities not upon Stalls three pence and for every Cart-load of such Commodities six pence Provided that all Gardeners and Country people and others resorting to the said Markets early in the Morning to sell Herbs Fruit and other like Commodities and there continue for no long space quitting the Markets at eight or nine of the Clock in the Morning shall pay for the Larger Places or Standings only three pence for every time they resort thither and for the Lesser Places or Standings only two pence And that the said Collectors or Receivers shall not Demand or Require of the Market people more then according to the aforesaid Rates without the free Consent and Agreement of the said Market people for some extraordinary Conveniency or Accommodation unless in Leaden-hall Market where other and larger Rates have been anciently payed for Stalls or Standings therein and that no person or persons Inhabiting in or near to any the said Market places or other person or persons whatsoever upon pretence of any right whatsoever other then the Receivers or Collectors of the said Rates and Duties shall from henceforth provide any Stalls or other Accommodations in any of the aforesaid Market-places or directly or indirectly take require or exact any sum or sums of mony or other Reward of the Market people for any Stalls Standings or Accommodation of their place and station in the said Markets upon pain that every person offending herein shall forfeit and lose for every time so doing and offending twenty shillings And for the better Order and Quiet of the Market people and the reconciling all Differences that may arise therein betwixt them and the Collectors or Receivers in the aforesaid Markets as also that the Rates and Duties may be the better collected and certainly paid into the Chamber of London without fraud and the said Markets more effectually supervised for prevention of Abuses and Disorders that may arise therein Be it Enacted That the Committee for Letting the City Lands for the time being shall and are hereby Authorized from time to time by and with the Approbation of this Court to appoint fitting persons for Overseers of the said respective Markets and Collectors or Receivers of the Profits or Duties arising or growing out of the same and to Treat and Agree with the said persons and allow them for their Care and Pains such part or portion of the said Profits as in their discretions shall be found requisite provided the said Allowance exceed not the tenth part of the whole clear Profits all necessary Charges being deducted upon condition that the said Overseers and Collectors or Receivers that shall from time to time be thereunto appointed by order as aforesaid do give sufficient security to the satisfaction of the said Committee for their Diligence and faithful Performance in their Office and overseeing the Orders and Provisions aforesaid observed and giving a just and true accompt of their Receipts and Payments of the Moneys every week into the Chamber and that the said Committee do once in every week meet together at the Guild-hall and then and there audite the Accompts and Payments of the said Overseers and Collectors or Receivers for prevention of any abuses that by neglect thereof might arise or happen and also endeavour upon any Complaints and Grievances of the Market people against the said Overseers and Collectors or Receivers or otherwise to compose and redress the same as soon as possibly they can that so all disturbances to the Market people and unnecessary Suits at Law may be avoided and that the said Overseers and Receivers or Collectors shall frequently attend and be in the said Markets during Market time and diligently oversee the same to prevent with their best care any abuses or disorders that may happen or be committed therein and also to take care that the Provisions and Penalties appointed by this Act against all Offenders contrary to the same be duly and constantly put in Execution and if any of the said Overseers and Collectors or Receivers shall be remiss or corrupt herein then they shall be forthwith displaced and disabled of any Office or Place touching the said Markets And be it further Enacted That in case the aforesaid Committee for Letting the City Lands shall at any time hereafter and it most fitting and advantageous for the benefit of the Chamber to let the said Markets or any of them to Farm that then the Committee aforesaid for the time being shall and may treat with any person or persons for Letting the same to Farm upon the best terms they can and report their proceedings unto this Court for their Approbation therein All which Pains Forfeitures and Penalties Sum and Sums of Mony to be forfeited by virtue 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 Guild-hall of the City of London and that the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in all Suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act against any Offender or Offenders contrary to the same shall recover the ordinary Costs of Suit to be expended in and about the prosecution thereof and if the Suit pass 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 less of any Offender then herein is limited to be forfeited for every Offence And further That one moiety of all Forfeitures to be recovered by virtue hereof the Costs of the Suit for Recovery of the same being deducted shal after Recovery and the Receipt thereof at or before the twenty fifth day of March yearly be paid and delivered unto the Treasurer of Christs Hospital to be imployed towards the Relief of the Poor Children to be brought up and maintained in that Hospital and the other moiety to him or them which shall first give Information of the Offences for which the Forfeitures shall grow and prosecute Suit in the Name of the Chamberlain of the said City for recovery of the same any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas the Serjeant and Yeoman of the Channel and Yeoman of Newgate-Market and Foreign-taker while the Common Markets were kept in Leadenhal-street Cheapside and Newgate-street did take care for sweeping and making clean the said Streets where the Market people resorted and paid for carrying away the Soil thereof as also for furnishing the Market people with Boards and other Accommodations In consideration whereof they received some certain allowance by consent of the Market people for their care and pains therein Now forasmuch as the said Markets are removed out of the Streets and made Commodious at the publick Charge of the City and that the Revenue thereof ought to be improved for the benefit of the Chamber Be it Enacted That the several Officers aforementioned shall from henceforth be wholly discharged from the Charge of Cleansing and Carrying away the Soil of the said Markets and providing Boards and other Accommodations for the Market people and likewise from any ways intermedling with the Receipt of any Duties Fees or Profits or taking any Mony of any Persons resorting to or standing in any of the Common Markets aforesaid upon any pretence whatsoever but that instead thereof the Serjeant and Yeoman of the Channel for the time being shall during their Continuance in the said places each of them have and receive out of the Chamber of London the sum of three pounds weekly and Richard Robinson the present Foreign-taker and Yeoman of Newgate-market the sum of three pounds every week during the term of his natural Life All which sums respectively and none other shall be paid by the Chamberlain out of the Profits arising by the Markets to the persons aforesaid in full satisfaction of all their Right Title Claim and Demand whatsoever to any part or share of the Profits to be Collected of the Market people Wagstaffe Printed by Andrew Clark Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON at his House in Aldersgatestreet 1672.
Commune Concilium tentum in Camera Guildhall Civitatis London die Jovis quinto die Septembris Anno Dom. 1672. Annoque Regni Domini nostri CAROLI Secundi dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. vicesimo quarto coram Georgio Waterman Milite Majore Civitatis London Ricardo Chiverton Milite Thoma Allen Milite Baronetto Johanne Frederick Milite Johanne Robinson Milite Baronetto Locum-tenente Turris Johanne Laurence Ricardo Ford Militibus Aldermannis Johanne Howel Milite Serviente ad Legem ac Recordatore dictae Civitatis Roberto Hanson Willielmo Hooker Militibus Roberto Vyner Milite Baronetto Thoma Davis Francisco Chaplin Jacobo Edwards Militibus Aldermannis Patiente Ward Armigero Aldermanno Roberto Clayton Johanne Moore Militibus Aldermannis Vicecomitibus dictae Civitatis necnon majore parte Communiariorum de Communi Concilio ejusdem Civitatis tunc ibidem assemblat An Act for the Settlement and well Ordering of several Publick Markets within the City of LONDON FOR the better Order and Regulation to be had of the Market at Leaden-hall and the Greenyards there with the other Market Grounds thereunto belonging and of the Market at Woolchurch and the Market of Honey-lane or Milk-street as also the Market near Newgate and all other Common Markets already setled and appointed or which hereafter shall be setled and appointed within the City of London Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Maior and the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in this Common-Council Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Rules Orders and Directions hereafter prescribed be duly observed by all persons that are or may be concerned therein And First whereas by former Acts of Common-Council the sale of Beef hath been restrained and appointed to be only in Leaden-hall and the Greenyards there which if now observed would be very inconvenient to the Inhabitants of this City in regard the late Butchery of the Stocks and St. Nicholas-Shambles which heretofore furnished with Beef and other Flesh Victuals those parts of the City are now removed and otherwise disposed of Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Butcher and Butchers Poulterer and Poulterers other then such as are hereafter excepted Country Farmer Victualler Lader or Kidder who keepeth no Butchers or Poulterers Shop or Shops within the City of London or Liberties thereof or within two Miles distance of the Liberties of the same City may from and after the publication of this Act take to Farm or hire Standings Stalls or Places in any the aforesaid respective Markets and there sell utter and put to open shew or sale his or their Beef Mutton Veal Lamb Pork and other Butchery or Poultry Wares or other Provisions upon the four days of the week in manner as is hereafter expressed viz. upon Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays weekly between the Feast of the Annunâ—iation and the Feast of St. Michael from six of the Clock in the Forenoon until eight of the Clock in the Evening of the same day and between the Feast of St. Michael and the Annuntiation from eight of the Clock before noon until five of the Clock in the Evening of the same day and upon every Saturday in the Week all the Year long from the aforesaid respective hours of six and eight of the Clock before noon until eight of the Clock in the Evening of the same day for so long time only as he or they shall furnish the said Stalls Standings and Places with wholesom Flesh and other Provisions in his or their own right and not as Servant or Servants or otherwise in behalf of any others any thing in any former Act of Common Council contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always That no Butcher or Poulterer whatsoever who keepeth no Shop or Shops within the City of London or Liberties thereof or within two miles distance of the same City shall in the said respective Markets sell utter or put to open shew or sale his or their Butchery or Poultry Wares upon Mondays and Fridays weekly upon pain that every such Butcher or Poulterer shall for every time he or they shall sell utter or put to open shew or sale in the said Markets his or their Butchery or Poultry Wares upon Monday or Friday in any week forfeit the sum of ten shillings And to the end the respective hours aforesaid may the better be observed in the said Markets It is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that a Market Bell in all the several Markets within the City of London shall Ring twice every day that is to say the first Ringing from the twenty fifth of March yearly until the twenty ninth day of September at seven of the Clock before noon except upon Monday and then the first Ringing shall not begin till eight of the Clock in the Forenoon and from the twenty ninth day of September yearly until the twenty fifth day of March at eight of the Clock before Noon and not before except upon Monday and then the first Ringing shall not begin till nine of the Clock before Noon and that the second Ringing of the Market Bell for raising of the said Markets shall begin to Ring from and after the twenty fifth of March yearly until the twenty ninth day of September except on Saturdays half an hour after four in the Afternoon and to continue Ringing till five of the Clock and from and after the twenty ninth day of September until the twenty fifth day of March yearly except on Saturdays to begin to Ring half an hour after three of the Clock and to continue Ringing until four of the Clock in the Afternoon and that the second Ringing of the Market Bell upon Saturday weekly throughout the year shall begin half an hour after seven of the Clock and to continue Ringing until eight of the Clock in the Evening of the same day And if any Butcher or Butchers Poulterer or Poulterers Victualler Country Farmer Lader Kidder or other person whatsoever shall sell or put to open sale any manner of Butchery or Poultry Wares or other Provisions in the said Markets before Ringing of the Market Bell at the said several hours and times in the Mornings respectively such Offender or Offenders shall be proceeded against as forestallers of the Market as by the Law in this case is directed and appointed And that no Butcher Poulterer Victualler Country Farmer Lader Kidder or other person whatsoever shall sell or put to open sale any Butchery or Poultry Wares or other Provisions after the end of Ringing the Market Bell at the said several hours in the Afternoon respectively but shall then depart from the said Markets upon pain that every person selling Butchery or Poultry Wares or other Provisions after the said respective hours in the aforesaid Markets shall forfeit the sum of ten shillings for every such Offence And if any
Butcher Poulterer Country Farmer Lader Kidder or other person whatsoever shall sell utter or put to open sale in the said Markets any manner of Fleshmeat upon any other day or days then is before hereby limited and expressed such Butcher Poulterer Country Farmer Lader Kidder or other person shall for every such Offence forfeit the sum of twenty Shillings Provided always that no Butcher Poulterer Country Farmer Lader Kidder or other person whatsoever shall upon the Saturday in any week bring into any of the said Markets any manner of Flesh meat after six of the Clock in the Afternoon between the twenty fifth of March and the twenty ninth of September yearly nor after four of the Clock in the Afternoon between the twenty ninth of September and the twenty fifth of March upon pain of forfeiting the sum of ten Shillings for every time any such person shall bring into any of the said Markets any manner of Flesh meats after the said respective hours And further be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Stall Standing or Place within any of the said Markets shall from and after the publication of this Act be letten or allotted to any Butcher or Poulterer who doth or shall keep any Butchers or Poulterers Shop within the City of London or Liberties thereof or within two miles distance of the Liberties of the said City for so long time as he or they shall keep any Butchers or Poulterers Shop within the limits aforesaid And further That no Butcher Poulterer or other person whatsoever shall have and enjoy more then two Stalls Standings or Places within any one of the Markets aforementioned at one time Provided always That the Country people and others resorting to the said Markets being not Butchers not Poulterers nor selling any manner of Flesh meat or Poultry may stand or sit and vend their Herbs Fruit Eggs Butter and other such like Provisions and Commodities in the Markets upon every working day in the week between the Feast of the Annuntiation and the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel from seven of the Clock in the Morning until five of the Clock in the Evening of the same day and upon every working day between the Feast of St. Michael and the Annuntiation from six of the Clock in the Morning until four of the Clock in the Evening of the same day so as the same persons that bring them first to Market do continue the selling thereof and do observe the Ringing of the Market Bel or keeping the said hours accordingly And it is also further Enacted in regard that the Market is most principally intended for the benefit of House-keepers who buy for their own use and behoof That the Retailers and Traders of this City who buy to sell again shall not enter into any of the aforesaid Markets to make their Provisions and buy of any of the Market people there to carry the same to their several Houses and Shops until the Afternoon of every day to the end that House-keepers may provide themselves in the morning of every day at the first hand and pay moderate Rates for their Provisions upon pain that every such Retailer or Retailers or Traders shall for every time Offending herein forfei forty shillings And forasmuch as all dead Flesh meat and other Victuals and Provisions of all sorts of Fruits Herbs Fish and the like ought to be sold in open and common Markets allowed and appointed and not under private Stalls or at Tavern doors or in any Street or Common Passages or in any private Places or carried up and down and sold by way of Hawking by means whereof much unwholsome Provisions dangerous to the Health and Bodies of his Majesties Subjects may be uttered and sold Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Butcher Poulterer Country Farmer Lader Kidder Victualler Gardener Fruiterer Fish-seller or other person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the publication of this Act sell utter or put to shew or sale by way of Hawking or as a Hawker or in any otherwise any Beef Mutton Lamb Veal Pork Poultry Butter Cheese Fish Fruit Herbs or other Victuals or Provision whatsoever in any private House Lane Ally Inn Warehouse Street-stall or Common Passage or other place or places whatsoever within the City of London or Liberties thereof but only in his or their open Shop or Shops or in the publick Market place or places and in Market time only according as is before appointed upon pain that every such person so carrying or offering to put to sale by way of Hawking or in any otherwise any Flesh meat Poultry or other Victuals whatsoever as aforesaid in any private House Lane Ally Inn Warehouse Street-stall or Common Passage or other places whatsoever being not his or their open Shop or Shops or the Common Market-place shall forfeit the same Goods so offered to sale without any manner of favour according to the antient Custom of the City of London used and approved and the same so forfeited shall be disposed of to such Prisons within this City of London as the Lord Maior for the time being shall direct and appoint And to the intent that Forestalling Regrating and Ingrossing of Victuals and other Commodities may be the better prevented and the Laws made against the same more effectually observed It is Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons from and after the publication of this Act shall buy or cause to be bought any Victuals or other things whatsoever within the said City of London or Liberties thereof coming to any the Common Markets of this City or make any Bargain Contract or Promise for the having and buying of the same or any part thereof so coming as aforesaid before the same shall be brought into one of the said Markets ready to be there sold And also That no person or persons that shall by any means Regrate Obtain or Get into his or their Hands or Possession in any the said Markets any Victuals or other things whatsoever that shall be thither brought to be sold shall from henceforth sell the same again in their Shop or Shops or any of the Markets or other places within this City and Liberties thereof or shall Ingross or Get into his or their Hands by buying contracting or otherwise any of the things aforesaid in the said Markets with intent to sell the same again in the same or any other Markets or places within this City and Liberties thereof upon pain that every such Forestaller Regrater and Ingrosser shall for every such Offence forfeit forty shillings And whereas for Accommodation of Market people with Stalls Boards Shelter and all other like things necessary for their Standing in any of the Market-places within the City of London and cleansing and keeping clean the same and otherwise for defraying the incident Charges of Repairing and Maintaining the same Markets and to Gratifie and Reward the Care and Attendance of such