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A48999 Lawrence Mayor. Comm. Concil. tent. vicesimo septimo die Januarii, anno Dom. 1664. Annoque regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Angliæ, &c. Decimo sexto City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1675 (1675) Wing L2854N; ESTC R216799 23,674 47

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the Chamber of the Guild-hall of the said City the One and Twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five and in the Seventeenth Year of His said Majesties Reign WHereas heretofore that is to say in the Third Year of the Reign of Our late Soveraign Lord King James of England c. and of Scotland the Nine and Thirtieth the Carr-Men of London were Incorporated with the Company of Wood-mongers London by His said Highness Letters Patents bearing date the Nine and Twentieth day of August in the Years aforesaid since which time to wit the Fifth day of December in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of Our now Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Wood-mongers by their Writing under their Common Seal and by them acknowledged in Chancery did surrender to Our now Soveraign Lord the King the said Letters Patents and by means thereof are Disincorporated by reason whereof the said Carr-men have humbly besought this Court that they may be a Fellowship or Fraternity as anciently and such Orders made by this Court for the better Regulating and Ordering the several Members of the said Fellowship as should be thought expedient This Court well weighing the desire of the said Carr-men and considering that the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of this City time out of mind have had the right of Ordering and disposing of Carrs Carts Carr-rooms Carters and Carr-men and of all other person or persons whatsoever Working any Carr or Carts within the City of London and Liberties thereof And in pursuance thereof by the said Act of Common Council made the One and twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five have placed the Rule Oversight and Government of them in the President and Governours of Christ-Hospital London to Order them according to the Rules Directions and Provisions in the said Act mentioned and according to such other Orders Rules Directions and Limitations as the said Common Council or this Court upon consideration should make and provide in that behalf And further considering that the said Act doth not sufficiently provide for the Ordering and Regulating such Persons as should be Members of the said Fellowship in their labours Have therefore thought it fit and necessary to declare how and in what manner the said Carr-men shall be governed for the future under the said President and Governours and what Orders and Rules they shall put in execution amongst themselves And First This Court doth desire the said President or Governours strictly to observe and effectually to put in execution all such Orders Rules Directions and Limitations as are mentioned and contained in the said Act of Common Council of the One and Twentieth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five which concerneth the Rule Oversight and Government of the said Carr-men and other Persons working Carrs and Carts in the said Act of Common-Council mentioned Secondly That the said President or Governours strictly observe and effectually put in Execution all the Orders Rules Directions and Limitations mentioned in an Order of the General Quarter Sessions holden at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayley the Sixteenth day of January in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second c. which Order of Sessions doth not only appoint what Rates the said Carr-men shall receive but doth give further Directions how the said Carr-men shall be Governed by the said President or Governours for the future And the said President or Governours are not only desired to observe the said Act of Common-Council and Order of Sessions and the Orders hereafter following but also all other Acts of Common-Council Orders of this Court and Court of Sessions as shall hereafter be made concerning the said Carr-men Thirdly The said President or Governours are desired by this Court to take care that every Cart allowed by them to Work within the City of London and the Liberties thereof contain in length between the Tugg-hole and the Fore-Ear breadth Six Foot and Four Inches of Assize and no more and in breadth between the two Raves in the Body of the said Cart four Foot of Assize and no more and in length from the Fore-Ear breadth to the end of the Cart seven Foot and two Inches of Assize and no more And if any Carr shall be found of greater Length or Breadth that then the same Carr may be taken up by the said President or Governours or their Officer or Officers appointed for that purpose and be sent to the New Store-Yard Fourthly The said President or Governours are desired to take care that all Carr-men be Ordered with their empty Carrs to stand in convenient places of this City to be ready for Merchants and all other Persons that shall have occasions to use them And if any Carr-man shall not observe the Rule that shall be made by the said President or Governours for their standings in the Streets for Merchants and others every Carr-man so offending shall for the first Offence pay Two Shillings and Six pence for the second Offence Five Shillings and for his third and every other Offence Ten Shillings And for refusal or not payment of any of the said Fines they to be by the said President or Governours discharged from Working any Carr or Cart within the City of London and Liberties thereof Fifthly That the said President or Governours shall take care that no Carr-man leave his Carr in the Streets Lanes or Common Passages of this City or Liberties thereof by Night whereby any person or persons may take harm upon pain of Forfeiting for every time he or they so leave his Carr in the Streets by Night the sum of Five Shillings besides recompence to the party as shall sustain hurt or damage thereby Sixthly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr within this City be heard to creak or pipe for dryness or want of Greasing in the Nave and every Owner of such Carr as shall be found so to do shall Forfeit and Pay for every day that his Carr shall be observed to creak or pipe the sum of Two Shillings Seventhly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr-man within this City or Liberties thereof use or put into his Carr for the carriage of any Merchandise whatsoever any more Horses than One at one time except it be up the Hill or with Timber or Stone that cannot be divided upon pain of Forfeiting for every Offence Two Shillings Eighthly That the said President or Governours take care that no person or persons shall take up or carry greater Loads than was the ancient custom or practice to do which ancient custom or practice shall be declared by the said President or Governours to all the Carr-men upon pain that every person that shall so do shall Forfeit and pay the sum of Five Shillings for the first Offence the second Offence Ten Shillings and for the third