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lord_n	baronet_n	knight_n	sir_n	27,306	5	7.3237	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48299	Lex Londinensis, or, The city law shewing the powers, customs, and practice of all the several courts belonging to the famous city of London ... : together with several acts of Common Councel, very useful and necessary to be known by all merchants, citizens, and freemen of the said city : and also, a method for the ministers within the said city to recover their tithes : with a table to the whole book.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1858; ESTC R2792	111,597	280

born an Alien to be of the Common Councel nor to exercise or use any other Office within this City nor receive or accept any person into your watch privy or open but Englishmen born And if any Stranger born out of this Realm made Denizen by Letters Patents or any other after his course and lot be appointed to any watch that then ye command and compel him or them to find in his stead and place an Englishman to supply the same 19. And also that you cause an Abstract of the Assise appointed by Act of Parliament for Billets and other Fire-wood to be fair written in Parchment and to be fixed or hanged up in a Table in some fit and convenient place in the Parish within your Ward where the common people may best see the same 20. Streets Pain 40 s. And furthermore we charge and command you that you cause such provision to be had in your said Ward that all the Streets and Lanes within the same Ward be from time to time cleansed and clearly voided of Ordure Dung Mire Rubbish and other filthy things whatsoever be to the annoiance of the King's Majesties Subjects 21. Vagrants And also that at all times as you shall think necessary you do cause search to be made within your said ward for all vagrant Beggars suspicious and idle people and such as cannot shew how to live and such as shall be found within your said ward that you cause to be punished and dealt with according to the Laws and Statutes in such case ordained and provided 22. Jurymen And also we will and charge you the said Alderman that your self certifie and present before us at the said general Court to be holden the aforesaid Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany all the names and sirnames truly written of such persons within your said ward as be able to pass in a Grand Iury by themselves And also all the names and sirnames truly written of such persons being and dwelling within your said ward as be able to pass in a Petty Iury by themselves that is to say Every Grand Iuryman to be worth in Goods an hundred Marks and every Petty Iuryman forty Marks according to an Act in that case ordained and provided And the same you shall indorse on the backside of your Indenture 23. Harlots Item for divers reasonable and urgent considerations us especially moving we streightly charge and command you on the King our Sovereign Lords behalf That you diligently provide and foresee that no manner of person or persons within your said ward what condition or degree soever he or they be of keeping any Tavern or Ale-house Ale-celsar or any other Victualling-house or place of common resort to eat or drink in within the same ward permit or suffer at any time hereafter any common woman of their bodies or Harlots to resort and come into their said House or other the places aforesaid to eat or drink or otherwise to be conversant or abide or thither to haunt or frequent upon pain of imprisonment as well of the Tenant and Keeper of every such House or Houses and all other the places afore remembred as of the common woman or Harlots 24. Also that you do give in charge to the Wardmote Inquest of your ward all the Articles delivered to you herewith and that you ●●ticles have a special care of keeping the peace and good order during your Wardmote and if any offend herein you fine or punish him or them according to Law 25. And whereas the moneys received for the Fines of persons refusing to hold Ward Offices within your ward ought to be employed in the service and for the publick benefit of the whole ward and not of any particular Precinct or Parish within the w●rd These are therefore to require you to take care that all such Fines be from time to time disposed of accordingly for the benefit of the whole ward as you with the Deputy and Common Councel-men of your ward shall think most fitting and convenient And that no such Fines be received or employed in any particular Precinct or Parish Not failing hereof as ye tender the common weal of this City and advancement of good Iustice and as ye will answer for the contrary at your uttermost peril Dated at under the Seal-Office of Majoralty of the said City the day of December in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. THE COURT OF CONSERVARY FOR THE River of Thames THis Court is held before the Lord Major at such times as he shall apappoint and direct within the respective Counties near adjacent to the Cities of London and Westminster The Water-Bayliff is my Lord Major's Deputy and ought to give notice to his Lordship of all Offences committed by any persons contrary to the Orders made for preservation of the brood and fry of Fish in the said River There have been several Orders made and devised for that purpose some of which Orders are as followeth viz. Orders devised and agreed upon by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Ducie Knight and Baronet Lord Major of the City of London and Conservator of the River of Thames and Waters of Medway for the preservation of the brood and fry of Fish within the West part of the said River as followeth FIrst That no man upon penalty and forfeiture of his Net and Ten pounds with imprisonment at the discretion of the Lord Major shall presume to shute any Draw-net or Coulter-net at any time of the year before Sun-rising nor after Sun-setting for that in the Night time unlawful Nets may be used and other abuses offered to the great hurt and annoyance of the said River of Thames and to shute in their several rooms well known 2. Item That no Fisher-man or other shall still lie or bend over any Net during the time of the Flood whereby both Salmons and other kinds of Fish may be hindred and kept back from swimming upwards to the benefit and profit of such Fisher-men as dwell in the west part of the said River upon the like pain and penalty 3. Item That no Fisher-man or other shall shute any Draw-net Cod-net or other Net or Engin whereby any Salmon-fish shall be taken after Holyrood day is past being the Fourteenth day of September because at that time they are out of season and remain here upon the River only to spawn and breed upon the like payment 4. Item That no Fisher-man or other shall fish with any Net or lay or hale any Wee l or use any other Net or Engine whatsoever from Sun-setting on Saturday at Night until Sun-rising upon Monday Morning no not during all the time of Lent as being a thing not only very hurtful to the said River but also a great abuse and profaning of the Lord's Sabbath upon the like payment 5. Item That no Fisher-man or other

Inducted and Admitted into the Parish aforesaid and hath for that time officiated and preached as Incumbent and Parson of the said Parish in a convenient place within the said Parish nominated and appointed by the Lord Bishop of London And whereas an Assessment of Ten shillings per Annum hath been duly made upon a certain House called or known by the Name or Sign of the Bull within the said Parish now and for two years last past inhabited by R. B. towards the raising of the Maintenance of the said A. B. the said present Incumbent of the said Parish according to a late Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Settlement of the Maintenance of the Parsons Vicars and Curates in the Parishes of the City of London burnt up by the late dreadful Fire there And whereas I am informed that the sum of Ten shillings is due and payable to the said A. B. Incumbent and Parson of the said Parish for four quarters payment of the said Rate and Assessment at the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary last past before the date hereof And forasmuch as Oath hath been this day made before me Sir J. S. Lord Major of the City of London by C. W. he being the person appointed to collect the said Assessment that he hath lawfully demanded the said Ten shillings at the said House whereat the same is payable And that the said R. B. the said Inhabitant of the said House in the Parish aforesaid doth refuse and neglect to pay to the said A. B. the said present Incumbent of the said Parish the said sum of Ten shillings to him payable as aforesaid These are therefore in his Majesties Name streightly to Charge and Command you the said C. W. being the person appointed to collect the same with the Assistance of a Constable in the day time to levy the said sum of Ten shillings so due and in arrear and unpaid of the said Assessment on the House aforesaid by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the said R. B. restoring unto him the Overplus of such Goods over and above the said Ten shillings and the reasonable Charges of making the said Distress according to the said Act in such case made and provided And these are further in his Majesties Name streightly to Charge and Command all and every the Constables within this City and Liberties thereof to be aiding and assisting unto the said C. W. in the due execution hereof and this shall be your Warrant Dated c. To C. W. and all every or any of the Constables within the City of London and Liberties thereof The Lord Major for the time being may grant a Warrant under his Hand and Seal to examine and try Weights and Measures which is usually done in these words viz. Lond ' ss WHereas great Abuses are and have been committed in the City of London and Liberties thereof by using and keeping unlawful unsealed and unsized Weights and Measures which are found to be very false and deceitful and not warrantable by his Majesties Laws to be used in buying and selling And whereas many persons Inhabitants within this City and Liberties thereof as I have been informed do ordinarily use Weights called or known by the name of Venice Weights not allowed or appointed by the Laws of this Realm nor by any other lawful Authority and do usually buy by one Weight and sell by another These are to authorize and appoint you and either of you my lawful and sufficient Deputies at all and every time and times fit and convenient peaceably and quietly to enter into all Shops Houses Warehouses and other places whatsoever within this City Liberties thereof where any Beams Weights Measures Yards Ells Sacks for Charcoals and such like shall be suspected to be and there to try and search all manner of Beams Weights Sacks for Charcoal and Measures whatsoever whether they be true just sealed and sized as by the Laws and Statutes of this Land they ought to be and if you or either of you shall find any false Beams or any unlawful unsealed or unsized Weights Sacks or Measures That then you bring the same or cause the same to be brought to Guildhall there to remain until Order shall be taken for the defacing or otherwise disposing thereof and certifie me the Names and Sirnames and dwelling places of the Offenders to the end they may be dealt withal as to Iustice shall appertain and as the Law requireth And also if you or either of you do find any of the said Sacks of Charcoal that shall not be well and sufficiently filled that then you or either of you do cause the said Sacks to be set upright and filled out of the rest of the said Sacks according as is directed and appointed that so the people of this City may not be deceived therein And I do hereby require in his Majesties Name to Charge and Command all and every the people of this Nation resorting to and inhabiting in this City or Liberties thereof who have used or do use or shall have any cause to use Weights or Sacks for Charcoals or Measures that they do not in any wise hereafter use any but those that are or shall be just and true and that they do not in any wise from henceforth hinder or withstand my said Deputies or either of them in the due Execution of the Premisses And I do hereby require all Constables Serjeants at Mace and Beadles of the Ward and other Officers and Ministers whatsoever within the said City and Liberties thereof that they be aiding and assisting to my Deputies J. M. and G. M. Citizens and Weavers of London and either of them in the due and lawful Execution of the Premisses as they and every of them will answer the contrary if they shall fail or refuse to do that which shall be lawfully required of them in that behalf Dated c. To J. M. and G. M. and to either of them The Lord Major and Aldermen may if they please punish all Constables and others that shall neglect to Watch pursuant to an Act of Common Councel made in the Majoralty of Sir John Robinson Intituled An Act for the better ordering of the Night Watches within the City of London and Liberties thereof which followeth in these words WHereas by the ancient good and laudable Custom of the City of London all and every person and persons which do dwell occupy or inhabit in any House or Houses within the same City or the Liberties thereof as well such as are not free of the said City as other the Freemen of the same being persons able and fit to watch or to find an able and fit person to watch for him her or them or in his her or their stead ought by reason of their habitation occupation and dwelling to keep watch within the Ward wherein he she or they do occupy and inhabit for the preservation of the King's Peace and for

4 s. 10 d. for that purpose My Lord Major sits only upon Saturday to hear mark't Causes and if upon hearing both Parties it shall appear to his Lordship that the Plaintiff obtained a Verdict for more then his just Debt his Lordship may remit the Cause to Judgment for the just Debt only and give such time to pay the same as he shall think reasonable But his Lordship always orders the Defendant to give good Security to pay the Recovery at such times as his Lordship directs and to pay the Costs in fourteen days The Attorneys in the Majors Court always move for time although the Verdict was in the Sheriffs Court and his Fee for moving is 1 s. 8 d. The Plaintiff must pay for his Lordships Order and entering it 2 s. 10 d. Which Charges will be allowed to the Plaintiff upon taxing of Costs In these Courts may be tried Actions of Debt Case Trespass Accompt and Covenants broken as also Attachments and Sequestrations If either party shall have a Witness that cannot stay in London till the day of Trial his testimony may be taken in writing which will be allowed as good Evidence The method for examining such Witness is thus First his name and place of abode must be delivered in writing to the adverse Attorney and then he must be examined and sworn by the eldest Attorney in the Lord Majors Court whose Fee for the Examination and Copy is 3 s. 4 d. After the Examination the adverse Attorney may have a Copy thereof for which he must pay 2 s. The two eldest Clerks in these Courts for the time being are Attorneys of the Pye-powder Court held during the first three days of Bartholomew Fair for the examining and trying all Suits brought for petty Matters and Offences there committed contrary to the Proclamation hereafter mentioned The Lord Major and Aldermen do Annually cause a Proclamation to be made for the better regulating this Fair. The tenour whereof is as followeth The Proclamation made on Bartholomew Eve in the Afternoon at the great Gate going into the Cloth Fair. THe Right Honourable Sir R. C. Kt. Lord Major of the City of London and his Right Worshipful Brethren the Aldermen of the said City streightly charge and command on the behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King That all manner of persons of whatsoever estate degree or condition they be having recourse to this Fair keep the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King That no manner of Persons make any Congregation Conventicles or Affrays by the which the same Peace may be broken or disturbed upon pain of Imprisonment and Fine to be made after the discretion of the Lord Major and Aldermen Also that all manner of Sellers of Wine Ale or Beer sell by Measures ensealed as by Gallon Pottle Quart and Pint upon pain that will fall thereof And that no Person sell any Bread but if it keep the Assize and that it be good and wholsome for mans body upon pain that will fall thereof And that no manner of Cook Pyehalter nor Huckster sell nor put to sale any manner of Victual but it be good and wholsome for mans body upon pain that will fall thereof And that no manner of Person buy nor sell but with true Weights and Measures sealed according to the Statute in that behalf made upon pain that will fall thereof And that no manner of Person or Persons take upon him or them within this Fair to make any manner of Arrest Attachment Summons or Execution but if it be done by the Off●c●rs of this City thereunto assigned upon pain that will fall thereof And that no Person or Persons whatsoever within the limits and bounds of this Fair presume to break the Lords Day in selling shewing or offering to sale or in buying or offering to buy any Commodities whatsoever or in sitting tippling or drinking in any Tavern Inn Alehouse Tippling-house or Cooks house or in doing any other thing that may tend to the breach thereof upon the pains and penalties contained in several Acts of Parliament which will be severely inflicted upon the breakers thereof And finally That what Persons soever find themselves grieved injured or wronged by any manner of Person in this Fair that they come with their Plaints before the Stewards in this Fair assigned to hear and determine Pleas and they will minister to all Parties Iustice according to the Laws of this Land and the Customs of this City THE CHAMBERLAINS COURT OR OFFICE THe Chamberlain of London keeps his Office in the Chamber of Guildhall and is entrusted with Orphans Moneys and the Cities Cash he is Annually elected and gives very good Security to the Court of Aldermen to pay and make good whatsoever Cash shall be delivered to him and once every year gives an Account to Auditors appointed and chosen for that purpose He is also entrusted with the Cities Leases and all Bonds and Securities taken by the Court of Aldermen for Orphans Moneys He attends at Guildhall usually every Forenoon to Inroll and turn over Apprentices and to make such Free as have duly served the full term of Seven years and have not married nor taken wages in that time Upon the admission of every Person into the Freedom of London Mr. Chamberlain causes them to take the following Oath The Oath of every Freeman of the City of London YE shall swear that ye shall be good and true to our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES and to the heirs of our said Soveraign Lord the King Obeysant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of this City The Franchises and Customs thereof ye shall maintain and this City keep harmless in that that in you is Ye shall be contributary to all manner of charges within this City as Summons Watches Contributions Taxes Tallages Lot and Scot and to all other charges bearing your part as a Freeman ought to do Ye shall colour no foreign goods under or in your name whereby the King or this City might or may lose their Customs or advantages Ye shall know no Foreiner to buy or sell any Merchandize with any other Foreiner within this City or Franchise thereof but ye shall warn the Chamberlain thereof or some Minister of the Chamber Ye shall implead or sue no Freeman out of this City whilst ye may have Right and Law within the same City Ye shall take no Apprentice but if he be free-born that is to say no bond-mans son nor the child of any Alien and for no less term than for seven years without fraud or deceit and within the first year ye shall cause him to be enrolled or else pay such fine as shall be reasonably imposed upon you for omitting the same And after his terms end within convenient time being required ye shall make him free of this City if he have well and truly served you Ye shall also keep the Kings Peace in your own person Ye shall know no Gatherings Conventicles nor