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A39507 By the Lords Justices, a proclamation for putting the laws in execution against forestalling, regrating and ingrossing of corn ... England and Wales. Lords Justices. 1698 (1698) Wing E955; ESTC R39451 3,052 1

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By the Lords Justices A PROCLAMATION For putting the Laws in Execution against Forestalling Regrating and Ingrossing of Corn. Tho. Cantuar. Sommers C. Romney Cha. Montague WHereas several Good Statutes have been made against Forestalling Regrating and Ingrossing of Corn and amongst the rest An Act in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth whereby Buying any Corn coming by Land or by Water to any Market or Fair or to any City Port Haven or Creek of this Realm or Wales from any Parts beyond Sea to be Sold or Bargaining or Contracting before the same shall be Brought into the Markets Fairs City Port Haven or Creek to be Sold or Moving by Word Letter Message or otherwise to any Person for the Inhauncing of the Price or Dear Selling of the same Disswading any Person from Bringing his or her Corn to any of the said Markets Fairs Cities Ports Havens or Creeks to be Sold shall be Adjudged a Forestalling And by the same Act it is Declared That the Buying of Corn in any Fair or Market and Selling the same in any Fair or Market held in the same Place or within Four Miles thereof shall be Adjudged Regrating And by the same Act it is likewise Declared That the Buying or Contracting for any Corn to Sell the same again otherwise than as is herein after Mentioned shall be Adjudged an Vnlawful Ingrossing that is to say Buying of Barley Bigg or Oates Except by Forestalling to be Converted into Malt or Oat-meal in the House of the Buyer Or the Taking of any Corn reserved without Fraud upon any Lease for Term of any Life or Years Or the Buying of any Corn Except by Forestalling by any Badger Ladder Kidder or Carrier who should be Licensed so to do and who should sell the same to any Victualler or other Person for the Provision of his or their Houses within one Month after the same was so first Bought Or the common Provision made of Corn by Person for any City Borough or Town Corporate Or for Provision Except by Forestalling for Victualling any Ship shall not be Iudged an Offence against the said Statute Nor the Buying of Corn Except by Forestalling by any Person Licensed so to do to be Transported by Water from any Port or Place within this Realm or Wales unto any other Port or Place within this Realm so that the same he without Fraud Shipped within Fourty Days after the same shall be Bought and Carried with such Expedition as the Wind and Weather would Serve to the Port the Cocquet of the same shall Declare and there to Disbarque and Sell the same and Bring a Certificate thereof from a Iustice of the Peace of the County or Mayor or Bayliff of the Town and of the Customer of the Port of the Place and Day where the Corn was Vnladed and Sold to the Customer and Comptroller of the Port where the same was Shipped Nor the Ingrossing of Corn when under the Prices in the said Act Mentioned which since by an Act made in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second are Inlarged to be Wheat at Fourty Eight Shillings Rye Pease and Beans Thirty two Shillings Barley Malt and Buck Wheat Twenty eight Shillings and Oats Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence the Quarter The Punishments of which said Offences were Enacted to be for the first Offence Imprisonment for Two Months without Bail or Mainprize and Forfeiture of the Corn so Bought or Contracted for for the second Offence Imprisonment for the space of half a Year without Bail or Mainprize and Loss of Double the Value of the Corn so Bought or Contracted for and for the third Offence Setting in the Pillory in the Place where the Offender shall Dwell and Forfeiture of all his Goods and Chattels and Imprisonment during the Kings Pleasure the one Moiety of all which Forfeitures was to be to the King and the other Moiety to him that would Sue for the same but the whole Forfeiture to be to the King where the Conviction should be at the Kings Suit only And it was thereby likewise Enacted That if any Person having sufficient Corn for Provision of his House and Sowing of his Ground for one Year did Buy any Corn in any Fair or Market for the Change of his Seed and did not Bring to the same Fair or Market the same Day so much Corn as he Bought for his Seed and Sell the same if he could at the Price the same then went in the said Fair or Market that he should Forfeit double the Value of the Corn so Bought All which said Offences the Iustices of the Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County where such Offences shall be Committed have Power to Hear and Determin And whereas by an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth it was Enacted That no Badger Ladder Kidder Carrier or Transporter of Corn should be Licensed but in the General Quarter Sessions for the County where such Person should so Dwell and had Dwelt for the space of Three Years before the Date of his Licence and was then or had been a Married Man and was at the time of such Licence a Housholder and not a Servant or Retainer to any Person and of the Age of Thirty Years which Licences were to continue but for a Year and should be Signed and Sealed by Three of the Iustices then present whereof one to be of the Quorum on Pain of such Person Taking such Licence Forfeiting Five Pounds and the Licences not Taken pursuant to the said Act are by the same Declared to be Void And the said Iustices by the said Act were Impowered to take Bond and Surety by Recognizance of the Person Licensed That he should not Forestall or Ingross or otherwise Practice contrary to the said Statute of Edward the Sixth And it was likewise Provided by the said Act That no Person should Buy any Grain out of Open Fair or Market unless such Person was thereunto Licensed by Special Order and Express Words upon Pain of Forfeiting Five Pounds the Offences of which Act the said Iustices of the Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County where such Offences shall be committed have likewise Power to Hear and Determine And whereas the Prices of Corn do already Exceed the Rates in the said Act of King Charles the Second and is likely to grow much dearer to the great Oppression of the Poor in part because the said Acts are not duly put in Execution if the same be not timely prevented Wherefore and forasmuch as it will much Conduce to the Good and Benefit of His Majesties Subjects and Relief of the Poor especially that the said Laws and that all the Laws in Force for setting the Poor or Work throughout this Kingdom should be duly put in Execution We have thought fit by the Advice of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council to Issue this Proclamation And We do hereby Charge and Command all and every His Majesties Iudges Iustices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs and all other Magistrates Officers and Ministers whatsoever and wheresoever within this Kingdom Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that they and every of them within their respective Places and Iurisdictions do cause the said Acts made in the Fifth and Sixth Years of King Edward the Sixth and the said other Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and all other Acts relating to the same Matters and all Laws now in Force for Setting the Poor on Work to be in all and every the Parts and Branches thereof put in Speedy and Effectual Execution And that they do take Care that no Licence be Granted to any Badger Ladder Kidder Carrier or Buyer of Corn or Grain but according to the Directions of those Acts and to such Persons as are or shall be Qualified for the same and under such Surety as those Acts Require And that they do take care that all Offenders against the said Acts be effectually Prosecuted according to the Purport of the said Acts. And We do hereby Require and Charge all His Majesties Officers Ministers and Loving Subjects whatsoever to be Aiding and Assisting in the due Execution of this Proclamation on pain of His Majesties High Displeasure and of such Pains and Punishments as may by Law be inflicted upon the Contemners of His Majesties Royal Authority Given at Whitehall the Thirteenth Day of October 1698. In the Tenth Year of His Majesties Reign God save the King London Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1698.