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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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Members and to the Parliament for Redress Whereupon when a former was lost a new BILL to prevent the Decay of Trade in Cities Corporations and Towns was Elaborately Composed and Prosecuted by the Help and Favour of the Right Honourable the present Lord-Keeper and some other Worthy Members But because the Delays and Difficulties we met with are unspeakable We shall only say That our BILL was at last thrown out by the Lords to our great Loss and Disappointment Yet we hope the longer their Honours and Lordships Consider of this Matter the more Favourable they will be to us when another Opportunity shall offer to renew our humble Applications for the same Bill The Petitioners against the Bill were but only Six Linnen-Drapers whose Petition was thus Entituled Viz. The Humble Petition of several Linnen-Drapers and other Whole-sale Dealers in and about the City of London in behalf of themselves and others of the same Trades who Pray'd to be heard by the Committee in what they had to offer against the Bill which was a Clause they had prepar'd to get into our Bill and in effect to Establish all Pedling and Hawking by Law and this they will ever Attempt on all Occasions which shall be offer'd but after that was then prevented what Reasons they Alledged was look'd upon by the Committee to be but very insignificant and chiefly for Delay They afterwards pursued the same Designs in the House and we hear that against the next Session of Parliament they design to get into their own hands the Management of our BILL that they may with less difficulty model it for their own Purpose One of their Reasons in Print to the Lords indeed was a strange one especially from Shop-keepers Viz. That if the Shop-keepers should be so much Indulged as to have their Bill Pass then there would be none to follow any Laborious Employment for then it was but for a Man to put his Son Apprentice to a Countrey Mercer and he might be sure to get an Estate and to live in all the Plenty Ease and Luxury imaginable After the loss of the Bill in Parliament We did by Advice of Councel get Collected and plainly Abridged all the former Statutes in force against Pedlers c. and Published the same which now with some Explanations and Directions as we promised are Re-printed as followeth In the mean time the Pedlers and Hawkers are by fit Arguments already Convinced That the new Law we entreated for in Parliament was more favourable to them than the old ones A Plain Abridgment of several Statutes in force which may be Effectually put in Execution against all Pedlers Hawkers and other Unlawful Traders together with the Opinion of Learned Councel touching the same BRass and Pewter-Wares by being carried about and sold Clandestinely were Made False and Deceitful for Prevention whereof it was Enacted by the 19 Hen. VII Cap. 6. That no Pewter or Brass-Wares whatsoever should be Sold or Changed by any Person using the Trade of Pewterers or Brasiers but only in open Fairs or Markets or in their own Dwelling-Houses on Forfeiture of Ten Pounds to the King for every Offence This Statute being found to be of great Benefit was per 4 Hen. VIII Cap. 7. again Confirm'd and Ordain'd to Endure for Ever That whereas the Cities Burroughs Towns Corporate and Market-Towns did heretofore Flourish and were highly serviceable to the Government but were brought to great Decay and were like to come to utter Ruin and Destruction by Reason that Persons Dwelling out of the said Cities and Towns came and took away the Relief or Subsistance of the said Cities and Towns by selling their Wares there For Remedy whereof be it Enacted c. That no Person or Persons Dwelling any where out of any of the said Cities or Towns the Liberties of the Two Universities only excepted shall hereafter sell or cause to be sold by Retail any Woollen or Linnen-Cloth except of their own Making or any Haberdashry Grocery or Mercery-Wares whatsoever at or within any of the said Cities Burroughs Towns Corporate or Market-Towns within this Realm except it be in open Fairs on pain to Forfeit and Lose for every time so Offending 6 s. 8 d. and the whole Wares to be sold proffered or offered to be sold the one Moiety of all which Forfeitures to be to the use of the King and Queen and the other Half to him or them that shall Seize or Sue for the same in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record by Plaint Action of Debt Information or otherwise wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed 1 2 Philip and Mary Cap. 7. So that If any Person whatsoever Dwelling out of your Towns comes into your Towns or Markets and sets up a Stall or walks or stands in the Street or keeps a Room or Shop which he Resides not at constantly if there he sells by Retail any of these sorts of Goods Viz. Any kind of Woollen or Linnen-Cloth except it be of his own Making or any sort of Haberdashry Grocery or Mercery-Wares whatsoever he doth Incur the Penalty of this Statute Note That Exposing to Sale is setting a Price Hemging Lying or being carried about in a posture of selling Hose or Haberdashry or Mercery-Wares and all dry Goods whatsoever that are either worn or usually carried about a Man are generally included in this Statute and on Tryal may be so proved The Goods after you can prove any part thereof sold are all the rest to be seized by any Person whatsoever that will prosecute and recover the 6 s. 8 d. a time for every such Offence to do which he must with or without a Warrant take a Constable and seize and let the Goods be wrapp'd and seal'd up and left in the hands of the Constable to be produced at the Tryal that those were the very Goods which were some part sold out and the rest expos'd to sale as above in such a place and that the seller dwelt in such other place or at least not in that Town or Parish where part of the Goods were so sold If the Offender brings his Action you may Plead the said Statute And be it also further Enacted That all Tinkers Pedlers and Petty Chapmen Wandering abroad c. shall be Taken Judged and Deemed Rogues and Vagabonds and shall Sustain all Punishment as by this Act is appointed viz. That every such Person as shall be found Begging Vagrant or Wandring in any part of this Realm or the Dominion of Wales shall upon their Apprehension by any Justice of the Peace or Constable or Headburrough or Tithing-Man of the same County Hundred Tithing or Parish where such Persons shall be taken the Tithing-Man or Headburrough being Assisted therein with the Advice of the Minister and some one other of that Parish shall cause the Offender to be stripped Naked from the Middle upwards and to be openly Whipped until his or her Body be Bloody and shall
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-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.