every Constable and Watchman may know the Night Time and Places where they are to watch And that the Constable on the day before his watch-night or the Beadle of that Ward do warn every man that is to watch with him accordingly or leave notice thereof in writing at the House of every such man And that the Inhabitants of every Ward do take notice hereof any pretence of priviledge usage or custom to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it also further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Constable shall make default in executing his Office or doing his Service in any of the Premisses hereby appointed or hereafter to be ordered or appointed as aforesaid without just and reasonable cause to be allowed of as is hereafter mentioned that then every such Constable shall forfeit and pay for every such default five pounds And that if any person appointed and warned to watch or to find an able and fit person to watch in his or her stead as aforesaid shall refuse or make default to watch or to find an able and fit person to watch in his or her stead as aforesaid that then every such person so refusing or making default to watch as aforesaid and not having just and reasonable cause for such his default as shall be allowed of by the Lord Major of the said City or the Alderman of that Ward for the time being shall forfeit and pay for every such default Twenty shillings And it is hereby farther Enacted That the Alderman Deputy and Common Councel-men of every Ward or the major part of them for the time being shall from time to time nominate and appoint two or more honest able men of the same Ward who shall be called Supervisors to take care and oversee that the Watches appointed in every Ward be from henceforth duly kept And that the Constables Beadle and Watchmen execute do and perform their duties and services therein or otherwise pay the forfeitures and payments herein before ordained for their defaults respectively and that the same Supervisors or one of them shall take notice of such of the said Inhabitants as absent themselves at any time from watching as aforesaid and likewise of such Constables and Beadle as shall at any time make default be remiss or negligent in performance of his or their Duties in the Premisses and shall likewise from time to time present the name of every sâ—ch Defaulter to the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or to the Alderman of the Ward where such Default shall be made that every such Defaulter may pay the forfeiture and payment imposed upon him or her as aforesaid And that the Beadle of every Ward or some trusty person for him shall in the presence of the Constable and one of the said Overseers if they or either of them can be present call over the Names of all those which shall be appointed to watch each night respectively in their course as aforesaid as well at the hours appointed for their meeting in the Evening as also at the time appointed for the breaking up of the watch in the morning and that they the Constable or Beadle or one of them or some other trusty person in their or either of their behalf in case the Supervisor shall be absent at any of the said times shall take a Note in writing of the Names and Sirnames of every of the Inhabitants then appointed to watch as shall be absent from their watch at any of the hours herein before appointed Evening or Morning and shall deliver the said Note the next day to the Supervisors or one of them And that the Constables Supervisors and Beadle of every the said Ward and every of them shall bring before the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or the Alderman of their Ward every Constable or other person making default in any of the Premisses respectively if such person making default will readily and voluntarily go along with him and every such Defaulter shall then presently pay to the Lord Major or Alderman aforesaid such forfeitures and payments as are herein before limited and appointed for them respectively to pay as aforesaid and that all Moneys so forfeited and paid as aforesaid shall be imployed to and for the relief of the poor of the said Ward as the Lord Major or Alderman of the Ward where such default shall be made shall think fit and appoint But if such Defaulter shall refuse to go with the said Constable Supervisor or Beadle before the said Lord Major or Alderman as aforesaid or going shall refuse or delay to pay the said forfeitures penalties or sums of Money respectively as aforesaid that then and in either of the said cases such Defaulter shall forfet and pay treble the aforesaid penalties or sums of Money All which forfeitures hereby forfeited shall respectively be recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Information in the name of the Chamberlain of this City for the time being in the Court holden before the Lord Major and Aldermen of the said City in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the same City to be prosecuted by the Beadle of the Ward wherein every of the said Offences aforementioned shall be committed or any other person or persons thereunto appointed by the said Lord Major or the Alderman of such Ward And after recovery thereof one Moiety of the same after all Charges deducted shall be to the said Beadle or other Prosecutors and the other Moiety to be imployed to the relief of the poor of the Ward wherein such Offence shall be committed as the Lord Major or Alderman of the same Ward shall direct and appoint In all which Suits to be brought by virtue of this Act the Chamberlain shall recover his ordinary Costs and Charges to be expended for the recovery of all such forfeitures against the Offenders And lastly be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Beadles of the several Wards of this City or any of them shall not hereafter take or have any allowance of Watchmen called Dead-pays for or in respect of their Nightly watching or for or in consideration of any other Service whatsoever but that the Inhabitants of every Ward shall amongst themselves raise some convenient sum of Money for a fit and competent Salary and Allowance to be made unto the said Beadles for their said Service Or if the said Inhabitants of all or any the said Wards cannot agree upon raising such Salary or Sum of Money then the same to be done by Authority of Common Councel by such way and means and in proportion to the Service and the Extent of each Ward as by the said Common Councel shall upon farther consideration be found just and reasonable The Lord Major doth Annually issue out his Precept to the Aldermen of every Ward to hold his Wardmote for the Election of Common Councel-men and other Officers The Tenor of which Precept is as followeth
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 therof 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 Fore-staller 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 this City of London and cleansing and keeping clean the same and otherwise for defraying the incident Charges of Repairing and maintaining the same Market and to Gratifie and Reward the Care and Attendance of such 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 use of the Major 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 money 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 foresaid 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 Guildhall 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
it shall happen that six Months after F. shall become indebted to W. or have Goods in his hands belonging to W. the Plaintiff by virtue of the Attachment made as aforesaid shall recover the Money or Goods he shall prove came to tâ—e hands of F. after the Attachment made The General Issue upon all Attachments being whether F. who is called the Garnishoe at the time of the Attachment made or at any time after had any Moneys or Goods of W. in his hands Thirdly An Attachment made in this Court must be there tried and cannot be removed nor tried in any other Court whereas an Attachment made in the Sheriffs Court may at any time before trial be removed into this Court by a Warrant signed by the Lord Major or Recorder which Warrant is called a Levetur Querela the charge whereof is 5 s. 10 d. and is made in this Form Levetur Querel ' inter W. B. Quer ' G. R. Defend ' Attach ' superindo fact ' in manibus P. W. praemon ' in pl'ito c. If it be an Action only to be removed the Warrant must be made thus Levetur Querel ' inter C. F. Quer ' J. W. Defend ' in pl'ito c. The Levetur Querela must be written by an Attorney of this Court for which he receiveth 4 d. and for his Fee 1 s. 8 d. and then must be delivered to one of the six Officers before mentioned to procure my Lord Major or the Recorder to sign the same for which 4 d. is due to his Lordship and is constantly paid And after the Warrant is signed the Officer must carry it to the Clerk of the Papers belonging to the Compter where the Action was entered and give him 2 s. 6 d. to allow the same Levetur and to certifie the Action or Attachment and the Officer for his pains hath 1 s. and so the 5 s. 10 d is distributed Fourthly An Attachment may be tried in this Court for 30 s. although the Concern be 500 l. But by reason of new Devices of Continuances in the Sheriffs Court the charge of a Trial there comes to much more The Court of Common Councel in London took notice thereof and in the Year 1669. in the Majoralty of Sir Richard Ford made an Act Intituled An Act for the better regulating of the Courts of Law in the Guild-hall London Which Act amongst other matters therein contained is as followeth BE it enacted ordained and established by the Right Honourable the Lord Major the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in this Common-councel assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons be at any time hereafter admitted into any the Places or Offices of Secondaries of the Compters Clerks or Attorneys in the Majors Court Clerk of the Papers Clerk Sitters Attorneys in the Sheriffs Courts of this City Sergeants or Yeomen of the Compters but that he or they do first take his or their Freedom of this City according to former Acts and Orders of Common-councel And forasmuch as it is observed that the Clerks and Attorneys of the Majors and Sheriffs Courts of this City do breed and bring up under them a multitude of young Clerks taking with them considerable Sums of Money but for shorter terms than hath been accustomed within this City And the Attorneys Clerks and Officers of and belonging to the Sheriffs of London and the Sheriffs Courts do often tender themselves to the Defendants Arrested in the Sheriffs Courts to become their Bail whereby in case of the Defendants absenting himself all possible means are used to delay and disappoint the Plaintiffs in their just Suits to their great wrong and abuse of Iustice Be it therefore ordained enacted and established by the said Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in this Common-councel assembled anâ— by the Authority of the same That nâ— person or persons whatsoever be henceforth at any time admitted or capable to be admitted a Clerk or Attorney in one of the Courts of this City before he or they shall bona fide have served some Master-Clerk or Attorney in one of the Courts of this City as a Clerk the full term of seven years And that every or any Grant or Admission that shall happen at any time hereafter to be made contrary to this Act shall be null and void as if it never had been made and that no Attorney Clerk or Officer of or belonging to the Majors Court or Sheriffs or their Clerks or Servants nor any of them do or shall at any time from and after the Twenty third day of October instant presume to become Bail for any person or persons whatsoever in any Action Attachment or other Suit or Cause whatsoever that shall be entered commenced or depending in the Majors Court or Sheriffs Courts and that neither the Clerk of the Bails in the Majors Court nor Clerk of the Papers nor Clerk-sitters of the said Sheriffs Courts nor any of them nor their nor any of their Clerks or Servants nor any other whose Duty it is to take the Bails do presume from and after the said Twenty third day of October to take accept and enter upon Record any of the said Attorneys Clerks or Officers or any of their Clerks or Servants for the Bail of any person or persons whatsoever And to the end that the said City Courts as well the Majors as the Sheriffs Courts may be supplied from time to time with able and sufficient Iury-men be it further ordeined and enacted by the said Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in Common-councel assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever be at any time hereafter returned by any Inquests of the Wards of this City to serve as Iury-man or Iury-men either Grand or Petty in the Courts of this City but such men as either have been or for time to come shall be Subsidy men and so taxed in the King's Books or in Default thereof such other discreet and sufficient persons as shall be equal in Quality and Estate with them and that the Issues upon default of Iury-men Appearances be constantly levied and duly and truly answered And whereas the said Court called the Lord Majors Court is an ancient Court of Record wherein Causes both of Law and Equity and also Attachments are determinable and the same Court is Superiour to the Sheriffs Court and whereas also the Lord Major for the time being of ancient Custom and constant Practice hath and have whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary ever had Power and Authority by his Warrant called Levetur Querela to remove Causes from and out of the Sheriffs Court into the Lord Majors Court without any restriction or limitation of time so as the same Levetur he brought before the Iury or any of them summoned for trial of such Cause or Causes shall be sworn and whereas of very late time such Levetur hath been often disallowed
passage pickage lastage pontage murage prisage of Wines or any like Custome of the said Citizens their Attorneys Factors Assigns or Servants contrary to the said Priviledges Franchises Liberties and free Customs for and in right of the said Citizens after that they or any of them shall so lack and default of right in that behalf the Sheriffs of the said City of London shall take within the said City of London therefore Distress or Distresses of other person or persons and parties resorting to the said City of London of the Town Burrough Place or City where the said Citizens of London were so grieved molested troubled or vexed or toll prisage lastage pirage pontage paunage murage prisage of Wines or any other Customs shall be free had or taken contrary to the said Liberties Franchises Priviledges and free Customs aforesaid Therefore in our Friendliest manner we pray require and exhort you and every of you in eschewing of further troubles and variances that you nor any of you molest or trouble or cause to be molested or troubled by any means or in any wise our well-beloved Citizen R. G. Citizen and Draper of London for his Goods Wares and Merchandizes contrary or against the tenour or effect of the said Freedoms Franchises Liberties Customs and Priviledges aforesaid and if ye have troubled or molested or suffered or caused to be troubled or molested or shall at any time or times hereafter trouble or molest our said Citizen his Servants Factors Attorneys or Assigns or any of them Or if you take or have taken of the same our Citizen or any of his Attorneys Factors or Servants any thing contrary to the tenour and effect of the Freedoms Liberties Franchises Customs and Priviledges aforesaid we pray and require you and every of you to discharge or cause to be discharged our said Citizen his Factors Servants and Goods and that restitution or amends be made to him them or one of them as of right it ought to be so that for default of Iustice we be not constrained or compelled to execute or cause to be executed the penalties and pains in the said Charters and Grants contained In witness c. The Lord Major of London may grant his Warrant to Distrein the Goods of Forreigners who shall refuse to pay the Duties of Balliage for Wares and Merchandizes brought to the City of London by Water westward The Form of which Warrant is in these words Lond ' ss TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come or the same shall see hear or read Sir T. D. Knight Lord Major of the City of London sendeth Greeting Whereas the Duties for Tolls and Balliage due and payable for Goods and Merchandizes brought to this City and Liberties thereof and carried and conveyed from the same as well by Water as by Land by Strangers and Forreigners from the Liberties of the same City and other persons not lawfully discharged from payment thereof time out of mind have appertained and still do appertain to the Major Commonalty and Citizens of the said City and time out of mind have been accustomed to be demanded gathered and levied by certain Officers and Ministers thereunto appointed and authorized who have answered and still do answer several Rents for the same towards the Fee-farm of three hundred pounds yearly paid into the Court of Exchequer which Duties of Toll and Balliage are by the Franchises of the said City confirmed by Parliament to the said Major Commonalty and Citizens of London which time out of mind they have enjoyed and ought to enjoy And whereas I am informed that the said Duties are many times wrongfully detained to the prejudice of the Franchises and Liberties of this City These are therefore to require all Barge-Masters Hoy-Masters Liter-men and all Masters of Vessels whatsoever that bring or carry Goods to or from this City from London-Bridge westward at all time and times whatsoever to give a particular account of the said Goods in their Vessels and the several persons they belong unto to T. C. who is deputed and appointed under the Common Seal of the said Major Commonalty and Citizens to collect levy and receive the said Duties for all Goods Wares and Merchandizes whatsoever coming in or passing forth by water from London-Bridge westward to or from the said City or Liberties thereof And these are further to authorize the said T. C. to raise levy and receive the said Duties And upon denial of payment thereof or any part thereof to Distrein on the Goods and Chattels of the person or persons so offending or denying as well by Water as by Land within the Liberties of the said City and for refusal to make sale thereof immediately and return the overplus according to Law And for want of such Distress from time to time and at all times as often as occasion shall require to bring before me or some other of His Majesties Iustices of the Peace within this City and Liberties the person or persons so offending refusing or neglecting payment resisting or breaking the Peace And these are in his Majesties Name strictly to charge and command all Constables Wharfingers and Meters of Sea-coals Corn and Salt and all other Officers and Ministers whatsoever within this City and Liberties that they from time to time as often as occasion requireth be aiding and assisting to the said T. C. And that they from time to time do their best endeavours to see the said Duty paid and his Majesties Peace kept in the due execution of the Premisses And that they or some of them bring before me or some other of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace within this City and Liberties all and every such person and persons as shall break or at least disturb the Peace or use any violence or opposition in the lawful and due execution of the Premisses or that shall refuse to pay the Duties aforesaid or any part thereof And hereof I require the said Constables and all other Officers and Ministers or any other person or persons being thereunto required not to fail as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perils c. His Lordship may also grant a Warrant against Hawkers with Flesh-meat The Form whereof is as followeth London ss WHereas I am informed that divers Butchers and other persons having often times heretofore in Lanes Alleys Inns Warehouses Streets Stalls Passages and other places within this City and Liberties thereof offered and there put to sale by way of Hawking in secret manner Beef Deal Pork Mutton Lamb and other Flesh refusing to bring the same to be sold in any Butchers Shop or Markets of this City which Flesh so offered to be sold hath oftentimes been corrupt rotten and unwholsome And such practices are contrary to ancient Customs of this City and in particular contrary to the late Act of Common Council made in the Majoralty of Sir George Waterman Kt. late Lord Major of this City whereby it is provided
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 find 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 money 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 Major Aldermen in the Chamber of the Guildhall 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 af 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 shall after Recovery and the Receipt thereof at or before the twenty fifth day of March yearly be paid and delivered unto the Treasurer of Christ's 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 Leadenhall-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 Accomodations for the Market people and likewise from any ways intermedling with the Receipt of any Duties Fees or Profits or taking any Money 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 BY an Act of Parliament made in the 22th and 23th Year of King Charles the Second it is ordained and enacted That the Annual certain Tithes of all and every Parish and Parishes within the City of London and Liberties thereof whose Churches have been demolished by the dreadful Fire And which said Parishes by virtue of an Act 22 Car. 2. cap. 11. Intituled An Additional Act for Rebuilding of the City of London Uniting of Parishes c. remain and continue single as heretofore they were or are by the said Act annexed or united into one Parish respectively shall be as followeth The Parish of Alhallows Lombardstreet One hundred and ten pounds St. Bartholomew Exchange One hundred pounds St. Bridget alias Brides One hundred and twenty pounds St. Bennet Finck One hundred pounds St. Michael Crooked-lane One hundred pounds St. Christopher One hundred and twenty pounds St. Dionys Backchurch One hundred and twenty pounds St. Dunstan in the East Two hundred pounds St. James Garlickhith One hundred pounds St. Michael Cornhill One hundred and forty pounds St. Michael Bassishaw One hundred thirty and two pounds eleven shillings St. Margaret Lothbury One hundred pounds St. Mary Aldermanbury One hundred and fifty pounds St. Martin Ludgate One hundred and sixty pounds St. Peter Cornhill One hundred and ten pounds St. Stephen Coleman-street One hundred and ten pounds Sts. Sepulchre Two hundred pounds St. Alhallows Breadstreet and St. John Evangelist One hundred and fifty pounds Alhallows the Great and Alhallows the Less Two hundred pounds St. Alban Woodstreet and St. Olaves Silverstreet One hundred and sevenâ—y pounds St. Anne and Agnes and St. John Zachary One hundred and forty pounds St. Augustine and St. Faith One hundred seventy and two pounds St. Andrew Wardrobe and St. Anne Black-Friers One hundred and forty pounds St. Antholin and St. John Baptist One hundred and twenty pounds St. Bennet Grace church and St. Leonard Eastcheap One hundred and forty pounds St. Bennet Pauls-wharf and St. Peters Pauls-wharf One hundred pounds Christ Church and St. Leonard Foster-lane Two hundred pounds St. Edmond the King and St. Nicholas Acons One hundred and eighty pounds St. George Botolph-lane and St. Botolph Billingsgate One hundred and eighty pounds St. Lawrence Jury and St. Magdalen Milkstreet One hundred and twenty pounds St. Magnus and St. Margaret New-Fish-street One hundred and seventy pounds St. Michael Royal and St. Martin Vintry One hundred and forty pounds St. Matthew Friday-street and St. Peter Cheap One hundred and fifty pounds St. Margaret Pattons and St. Gabriel Fenchurch One hundred and twenty pounds St. Mary at Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard Two hundred pounds St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch One hundred and sixty pounds St. Clement Eastcheap and St. Martin Orgars One hundred and forty pounds St. Mary Abchurch and St.
the arresting and apprehending of all Night-walkers Malefactors and suspected persons which shall be found passing wandring and mis-behaving themselves And whereas every Constable of any Precinct is a Constable to all intents and purposes not only in the Precinct and Ward where he dwelleth but in all and every other Precinct Ward and place within the said City and the Liberties thereof And whereas there is now and of late years hath been by reason of the great concourse of people from all parts to the said City great necessity of a strong and sufficient Watch to be kept every Night within every Ward of the said City and the Liberties thereof and it hath been thought fit and provided by former Orders and Acts of Common Councel for the safety and peace of the said City that the number of men to watch every night in every Ward throughout the said City and Liberties thereof shall be as hereafter particularly followeth viz. Aldgate 34 Dukes-place 10 Aldersgate 44 S. Martin's le Grand 12 Bishopsgate 80 Broadstreet 30 Billingsgate 30 Bridge within 25 Bassishaw 12 Breadstreet 26 Cornhill 16 Candlewick 24 Cordweiner 24 Cheap 25 Cripplegate within 40 Colemanstreet 32 Cripplegate without 90 Castle Baynard 40 Dowgate 36 Farringdon within 50 Mugwelstreet 4 Blackfriers 14 Farringdon without 130 Whitefriers 8 Bridewel Precinct 8 Bartholomew Great 10 Bartholomew Less 4 Limestreet 11 Langborn 34 Portsoken 60 Queenhith 40 Tower 40 Vintry 34 Walbrook 20 Yet nevertheless the said Watches are very weak and wanting by reason that many ill-affected persons not willing to do any duty for the publick safety or not proportionable to the number of the Inhabitants where they dwell under pretence that they ought not to watch with any other Constable then the Constable of the Precinct wherein they inhabit whereas several Precincts within the said City and Liberties of late by multiplicity of new Buildings and Divisions of Houses are grown far more populous than other Precincts and many Precincts have not Inhabitants to make up a third fourth fifth or sixth part of the number of Watchmen aforesaid or a competent number of Watchmen for safeguard of the said Ward so that without some way other then the Inhabitants of every Precinct to watch with the Constable of that Precinct or some new Division of every Ward for proportioning and appointing the number therein to keep watch a sufficient Watch cannot be kept whereof divers refractory persons taking advantage and pretending that they are not by Law compellable thereunto will not yield obedience to the Government of the said City therein but refuse to watch when they are required whereby the Watches are generally much neglected and the Constables and other Officers much troubled and discouraged and the said City and Inhabitants therein much damaged and indangered thereby and likewise upon several occasions and disturbances of late have been put upon great and extraordinary charge and trouble in serving upon Military Guards of the Trained Bands and Auxiliary Forces of the said City Now the Right Honourable the Lord Major the Right Worshipful the Aldermen his Brethren and the Commons in this Common Councel assembled taking the Premisses into their consideration and conceiving it very necessary at all times that there should be sufficient Watches kept within the said City of London and Liberties thereof for remedy therein and for the better ordering and establishment of the Watches to be hereafter duly kept within the said City and the Liberties thereof do Enact and Ordain and be it Enacted and Ordained by the said Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in this Common Councel assembled and by Authority of the same that one Constable with the Beadle in every Ward and the said number of persons respectively shall watch every Night in every of the Wards aforesaid respectively from nine of the Clock in the Evening till seven of the Clock in the Morning from Michaelmas-day till the first of April and from the first of April till Michaelmas-day from ten of the Clock in the Evening till five of the Clock in the Morning And that the Alderman Deputy and Common Councel-men of every of the said Wards respectively or the major part of them shall forthwith take an exact Survey of all the Inhabitants and House-keepers within their respective Wards who are able and fit to watch or find Watchmen and shall nominate and appoint one Constable in their said Wards with the Beadle of their respective Wards and the full number of Inhabitants within the said respective wards according to the proportions beforementioned to watch eery night within the respective Wards beginning at one certain place within the said respective Wards from thence to proceed go forward in an orderly way and appoint the next Night one other Constable and the like full number of Inhabitants next adjoyning unto those who watched the Night before and so to proceed forward through the Ward one Constable and the full number of Inhabitants to watch every Night and then to begin again with those Inhabitants who first watched and proceed forwards every Night in turn as aforesaid without respecting any one Precinct more than another but that all the Inhabitants within the said Wards respectively do watch or find Watchmen in their turns as aforesaid who shall watch with the Constable appointed as aforesaid though he be not of the same Precinct as the Inhabitants be and that all the Constables within the respective Wards shall in their turns one after another watch with the said Inhabitants and when they have watched all over by turns as aforesaid he that began shall begin again and the rest follow in their turns and so one after another as often as it shall come to their or any of their turns And that the said Alderman Deputy and Common Councel-men of the respective Wards aforesaid or the major part of them shall likewise appoint a certain place within the said Ward where the Constable and all the Watchmen shall every Night first meet for that Night agree to what places they shall afterwards go to watch in the said Ward in such manner and order that the Constables and Watches of every Ward may maintain a correspondence and intelligence with each other and be ready upon some sound or sign to be made or given to come in in an instant if there be need upon any disorder or other occasion to the help and assistance of one another and shall also appoint the number of Watchmen which shall be and continue together in every place and cause the name of the Constable and of every Inhabitant which is to watch with every several Constable and the times and places of their meeting and watching particularly every several Night to be printed and delivered to every Constable within their Ward respectively and one or more papers thereof so printed to be set upon posts or open places where every constable and such as are to watch with him respectively dwell that