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A61361 The Statute-laws perused and revived, or, A Remedy against pedlers, hawkers, and petty chapmen &c. fit to be known by all constables and other parish-officers, also by the ministers in the countrey, and all other persons whatsoever. 1693 (1693) Wing S5338; ESTC R35204 13,330 15

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Incumbent and Themselves and their families will soon fall into inevitable Decay and Ruin if not timely prevented Therefore the Petitioners do humbly pray That now the Charter being Restored so the antient Customs and present Laws of this City and Kingdom may by an Act of Common-Councel be re-inforced and put in Execution against Pedlers Hawkers Petty Chapmen and all other Vnlawful Traders in such manner as in your Grave Wisdom may be thought most Effectual And Your Petitioners shall ever Pray c. Sign'd by about One Hundred very Eminent Citizens and Presented The Petition being Read a Committee of Four Aldermen and Eight Commoners were appointed to prepare and bring in a BILL pursuant to the Prayer of the Petition Which in due time was accordingly done and then Read the First and afterwards a Second Time and Committed to the said Committee with the Addition of more Aldermen and Commoners to the former who after very many Meetings and Deliberate Advice with divers Eminent Councel the said Committee gave in their Report to this Effect Viz. To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common-Councel Assembled WE whose Names are here under-written have in Obedience to an Order of this Honourable Court made the 12th Day of April last Met several times and Considered the Petition of the Shop-keepers and Traders of this City for Suppressing of Pedlers Hawkers and Petty Chapmen which we find to be a very great Prejudice to most of the Traders of this City and tends very much to the Weakning and Impoverishing the same Therefore in pursuance of the said Order having Advis'd with and had the Opinions of divers Learned Councel we have well Considered the BILL hereunto Annexed for the more Effectual putting the Laws in Execution against all such Offenders which said BILL we humbly Present to this Court Desiring if it shall be thought fit that the same may be Passed into An Act of Common-Councel All which we humbly Submit to the Grave Wisdom of this Honourable Court. The Councel with whom the Committee did Advise touching the said BILL were principally these viz. They had first of all in some Essential Parts of the BILL the Opinion of Sir George Treby late Recorder of the City of London Attorney-General and now Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-Pleas The present Attorney-General Ja. Ward Sir Bartholomew Shower Sir Salathiel Lovell the present Recorder Sir Francis Pemberton Mr. Common Sergeant and others of the City-Councel Then a Common-Councel being called the BILL and the Report being Presented and Read the Third Time in Court after some Amendments the same was Passed into an ACT. ☞ Several Corporations Companies and Traders in London and elsewhere have for the general Good of the Publick Authorized and Desired Richard Holt Citizen and Merchant of London and Company at his House in Bishopsgate-Street near Cornhill from time to time to procure Advice and all Assistance Lawful and Necessary for and towards putting the above-mentioned Laws in Execution and to Answer all Letters touching the same in whose hands there will be some Overplus of Money which is to be Employed to Reimburse and Defend all Officers and other Prosecutors of the said Laws in all Places where they have Subscribed towards the late general Charge thereof A LIST of the Pedler's Friends in London will be seen in due time LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Brab Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons in Cornhill over against the Exchange William Miller at the Achorn in St. Paul's Church-Yard and William Rogers at the Sun in Fleet-Street over against St. Dunstan's Church and by several other Booksellers 1693.