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A61989 The Sur-rejoinder of Mr. Attorney General to the rejoinder made on the behalf of the charter of the city of London England and Wales. Attorney-General (1681-1687 : Sawyer); Sawyer, Robert, Sir, 1633-1692. 1682 (1682) Wing S6195; ESTC R769 9,668 22

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the Chaldron or Tun of Coals imposed by the said former Act and all and every the Powers Authorities Directions and Provisions in or by the said former Act mentioned or provided for the levying and collecting thereof all which monies so to be received upon account of the said respective Impositions or either of them should from time to time be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber of the City of London and from thence should be issued out paid according to the directions and appointment of the aforesaid Act of the Two and twentieth year abovesaid and not otherwise and the said Chamber of the City of London should stand and be charged with all the residue of the said monies there paid in which should not be issued out and paid accordingly And it was further enacted that all and every sum and summs of money which should be raised upon the receipt of the several and respective Impositions aforesaid or by such additional duty in case of concealment thereof as by the aforesaid former Act was appointed should be imployed and disposed in manner and form following that is to say one fourth part of all the monies which from and after the said first day of May One thousand six hundred seventy and before the said four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred seventy seven should be raised and payable upon the receipt of the aforesaid Imposition of two shillings for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals or in case of concealment thereof as aforesaid should be imployed and disposed of for and towards the satisfaction for the Grounds set out and imployed for enlarging of the Streets making of Wharfs and Keys publick Market Places and other publick Uses as well in that Act as in the Act afore-recited mentioned and appointed and that one moiety of all the monies which from and after the said Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred seventy seven should be raised or payable upon the aforesaid Imposition of three shillings the Chaldron or Tun of Coals from time to time should be imployed and disposed for satisfaction for the Ground set out and imployed as aforesaid and for such other publick uses and purposes as in that Act and in the Act before recited were mentioned and appointed as by the same Act of the Two and twentieth year abovesaid amongst other things more at large is manifest ' and doth appear And the said Attorney General of our said Lord the now King Who c. for our said Lord the now King further says that by virtue of that Act they the said Major and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London aforesaid before the making and publishing of the aforesaid Law to wit the first day of September in the six and twentieth year of the reign of our said Lord the now King aforesaid at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid had and receivid for Duty and Tax aforesaid of two shillings every Chaldron or Tun of Coals brought into the City of London or the Port thereof a great sum of money to the purposes aforesaid And further the said Attorney General of our said Lord the now King Who c. for our said Lord the now King says that the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London without any right title or authority whatsoever the aforesaid premises notwithstanding the aforesaid Thursday to wit the said seventeenth day of September in the six and twentieth year of the reign of our said Lord the now King aforesaid and in their Common Council then held in the Chamber of the Guild-hall of the City of London aforesaid to wit in the Parish of St. Michael Bassishaw London being assembled together made established and published the aforesaid Law by themselves in fact enacted for the levying the aforesaid several summs of money of all the Subjects and Liege People of our Lord the now King as well Free men as not Free men of the City of London and of other Foreigners coming to the said publick Markets held within the said City with their Victuals and Provisions there to be sold and have raised and levied and have made to be raised and levied the said several sums of money under the sole colour and pretence of the Law aforesaid so illegally made by themselves for their private gain and profit and without any other right title or authority whatsoever by the aforesaid space of seven years after the said seventeenth day of September in the six and twentieth year a foresaid next following and upwards at London aforesaid in the Parish aforesaid of all the Liege People and Subjects of our said Lord the King coming to the said publick Markets by the whole time aforesaid held within the said City with Victuals and Provisions there to be sold and converted and disposed of these monies to their own uses in subversion of the good Rule and Government of the aforesaid City and to the great oppression and impoverishing of all the Liege People of our said Lord the now King resorting and coming to the said Markets with their Victuals and Provisions to the great damage and hurt of all the Liege People and Subjects of our said Lord the King to the increasing of the Prices of all Victuals and Provisions sold in the aforesaid Markets and to the manifest disheriting of our said Lord the now King and his Royal Crown and against the Trust in them reposed as in a Body Corporate and Politick by our said Lord the King and the Laws of this Kingdom of England as the said Attorney General of our said Lord the now King for our said Lord the now King above by replying hath alledged Without that that the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London from the time whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary have had or have been accustomed to have Tolls Rates or Sums of money by them the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City aforesaid above supposed to be assessed by the aforesaid Law or Ordinance and reduced to a certainty as by the Plea of them the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London aforesaid above by rejoyning is supposed and this the said Attorney General of our said Lord the now King is ready to aver Whereupon for that the said Major and Commonalty and Citizens for the cause aforesaid have forfeited the Liberties Priviledges and Franchises to be of themselves a Body Corporate and Politick the said Attorney General as formerly for our said Lord the King prayeth Judgment and that the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London aforesaid may be convicted of the premises aforesaid and be fore-judged and excluded from their Liberties Priviledges and Franchises c. And as to the Plea of the aforesaid Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City aforesaid above by rejoining pleaded as to the residue of the said Plea of