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B18653	The case of the Company of Glass-sellers in London, and all others selling glasses or earthen wares, in any city, burrough, town-corporate, or market-town in England and Wales, in relation to the bill for suppressing of hawkers, pedlers, &c. Humbly offered to the consideration of both the honourable Houses of Parliament.	Company of Glass Sellers (London, England)	1697 (1697)	Wing C1048; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.12[119]; ESTC R220810	3,103	1

The CASE of the Company of Glass-sellers in London and all others selling Glasses or Earthen Wares in any City Burrough Town-Corporate or Market-Town in England and Wales in relation to the Bill for suppressing of Hawkers Pedlers c. Humbly offered to the Consideration of both the Honourable Houses of Parliament ALL Pedlers and petty Chapmen wandring abroad 39 Eliz. Ch. 4. are adjudged Rogues and Vagabonds with a Proviso for Glass-Men licensed to travel in the Countries only Whereas in the Statute of 39. 1 Jacob. Ch. 7. Eliz. There was a Proviso That the said Statute should not extend to such Glass Men as were of good behaviour and should travel through any County without begging having License from three Justices of the said County where they travel Said Proviso repealed and Glass-men made Rogues By reason of which Liberty many notorious Rogues and Vagabonds and evil disposed Persons have undertaken and do profess the Trade of Glass-Men and by colour thereof do travel up and down divers Counties of this Realm and do commit many Pickeries petty Felonies and other Misdemeanors For the avoiding of which inconveniency Be it Enacted c. That all such Persons that shall wander up and down to sell Glasses shall be adjudged deemed and taken as Rogues and Vagabonds and shall suffer the like pain and punishment in every degree as by the same 39 of Eliz. is appointed and is further provided in this Statute In the Act for the Poor 14 Car. 2. Ch. 2. The 39 Eliz. and 1 Jacob. reinforc'd But the Reward made so small have never been executed His M●jesties order in the Glass-sellers Charter To suppress Hawkers of Glasses c. within the limits of their Corporation In their By-Laws signed by the Judges It is Enacted That whereas those good Laws have not been put in execution for want of encouragement to such as should apprehend Rogues That every Person that shall hereafter apprehend a Rogue shall receive of any Constable through whose Parish he had passed unapprehended for every Rogue two shillings which if any Constable shall refuse to pay the Justice of Peace shall proceed against the Constable according to the Statutes of 39 Eliz. and 1 Jacob. Which is for his neglect of apprehending a Rogue twenty shillings out of which money the Constable or other Person that hath apprehended the Rogue is to be paid two shillings and also to be satisfied for his loss of time Our further Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby straitly charge and command That no Person or Persons whatsoever which by the Statute made in the first year of the Reign of our late Royal Grandfather King James or any other Law of this our Realm are prohibited to carry Glasses or Earthen Wares to sell do at any time hereafter presume to wander up and down to sell Glasses or Earthen Wares or to act or do any thing contrary to these Statutes upon the pains and penalties therein declared and such other punishment as can or may be inflicted upon such Offenders according to the Laws of this Realm And We will and straitly command that the Masters and Wardens c. of the Company of Glass-Sellers of London do from time to time take care that at all times hereafter The said Statutes be put in full execution upon all such Offenders as shall presume to wander up and down to sell Glasses or Earthen Wares in our City of London or within seven miles thereof And his Majesty commands all Mayors Bayliffs Justices Constables and other Officers to be aiding and assisting the said Company of Glass-Sellers therein It is Ordered That every Member of the Corporation of Glass-Sellers shall use his utmost care and endeavour to discover all such Persons as shall wander up and down to sell any Glasses or Earthen Wares and as often as he shall discover any such immediately to give notice thereof to the next Constable or other Officer to the intent they may be punished according to the Statutes of 39 of Eliz. or the 1 of King James or any other Statute of this Realm made to punish Pedlers and Petty Chapmen c. And every Member of this Company neglecting his duty herein is to forfeit for every Offence five shillings Upon all which Laws and Orders The Glass-sellers endeavours to suppress them and in discharge of their duty therein the said Company of Glass-Sellers have been at very great trouble and expence for many years to suppress these wandring Glass-Men and although some have been whipt and imprisoned for their Offences they still abound more than ever they being a sturdy incorrigible sort of People who regard not such corporal punishment Provided also Proviso in the Patent granted for licensing of Pedlers and Petty Chapmen That this our said Commission nor any thing therein contained shall not extend to impower our said Commissioners to give or grant License or Priviledg to any Person or Persons whatsoever to travel or wander up and down to sell any sort of Glasses or Earthen or Gally Ware contrary to the Statute of the 39 of Eliz. or the 1 of King James or of any other Laws or Statutes of this our Realm in that Case made and provided There is in and about London near an hundred Glass-Sellers many of which by reason of the Bulkiness of their Commodities are constrained to exercise their Trades in houses of near 100 pound per Annum and it is believed pay more Scot and Lot and bear more publick Offices in one year than all the Pedlers and Petty Chap-men in England do in seven who yet many of them are almost undone already Reasons why these persons should be suppressed by reason of the multitudes of these wandring Glass-Men all England over who now go about not only with Baskets and Crates but also with Horses and Asses laden with all sorts of Glasses and Earthen Wares which if not timely restrained the said Shop-keepers will be utterly disabled to pay their Rents or maintain their Families but must be constrained to leave their Shops and betake themselves to the like practice of sending their Wares abroad There is no need of such people to wander abroad to supply the Countries with these Commodities Glasses and Earthen Wares being sold by Shop-keepers in all Market Towns and almost in all Villages in England and would be much more in Cities Burroughs Towns-Corporate if these People were suppressed Which Shop-keepers are forced by reason of the Bulkiness and Brittlenss of these Wares to take greater Houses and pay greater Rents than otherwise they need to do and pay all publick Taxes and Parish Rates and Duties These Hawkers of Glasses and Earthen Wares do generally carry abroad and cheat the Gentry and others with very imperfect and deceitful Wares as with Earthen Wares not fully burnt which will crack and the white peel off when wet and used and Glasses not well nealed but crackt and faulty which defects are not easily discerned unless by Persons of judgment in those commodities and sell only such Ill-made Wares as Shop-keepers cannot put off They are grown so insolent that they frequently offer their Wares to the Shop-keepers Customers at their Shop-doors nay even in their houses and will call their Customers out of their Shops and sell them Ware before their faces of which there can several Instances be given They very often corrupt Mens Servants where they come and tempt them to steal their Masters Provisions to truck with them for such things as they have a mind to or occasion for It will be in vain to prohibit the carrying abroad of Linnen Cloath or other Wares if these wandering Glass-Men are not suppressed for Glasses being a light Commodity they will carry any other commodities covered in the Straw in which Glasses and Earthen Wares are always packt It is therefore most Humbly prayed on the behalf of all the Glass-Sellers in London Westminster Sou● wark and all other Cities Burroughs Towns Corporate and Market Towns at least in England and Wales that a Proviso may be added to the Bill now depending against Pedlers To prohibit all Hawkers of Glasses or Earthen Wares from Travelling or wandring or going about in any City Burrough Town-Corporate or Market-Town in England or Wales with Crates Baskets or otherwise to sell offer or Barter any Glasses or Earthen Wares upon pain of suffering the same penalties inflicted by the Act upon other Pedlers and petty Chapmen to be recovered in like manner and for the same uses that other penalties Inflicted upon other Pedlers and petty Chapmen are to be recovered and imployed