hath well and loyally served his terme he shall be a Free man of the City without other redemption where no other may come to the freedome without redemption save such that are born within the said City of what Countrey soever they be of the allegiance of our Lord the King by usage of the said City are also Free-men by their Mystery having regard to the priviledges of the Franchise as such as have been Apprentice or otherwise have come to the Freedome by redemption And women covert that use certain crafts within the City by themselves without their husbands may take women to their Apprentices for to serve them learne their Crafts And the which Apprentices shall be bound by their Indentures Apprentices to the husband and his wife to learn the Mystery of the wife as is aforesaid And such Indentures shall be enrolled as well of women as of men And it is to be understood that every one having such apprentice may sell and devise his said apprentice unto whom he will of the same Art as is chattell Item To arrest on the River of Thames The River of the Thames doth serve as the bounds of the Franchise of the City for part and parcell of the City and the same River and all appertaining to the said River being within the said Franchise hath been alwayes in the government of the same City as parcell of the City aforesaid aswe I the one part of the River as the other And the Sheriffes of London that are for the time being have alwayes used to make arrests and serve executions at the suit of the parties in the said River of Thames viz. from the East part of London Bridge untill the return and from the West part of the said London Bridge unto Stanes Bridge Item The said Sheriffes of London ought by usage of the City co have forfeitures of the chattels of all kind of Fugitives and Fellons and of Derdans within the said City and the said River of Thames in ayde of their Farme which they pay yearly to our Soveraigne Lord the King Item By custome of the City no attaint is maintainable nor lyeth within the same City Item By ancient custome of the City no man remaining within the same City was wont to be taken or carryed out of the said City by colour or claime of villenage before that the matter was discussed by course of Law Item if a Free-man of the said City comming or passing with his merchandize else-where out of the same city be constrained to pay Toll or other custome or that his Wares be arrested or stayed wrongfully and without reasonable cause and that it be sufficiently witnessed by men of credit then if afterward the goods or Marchandizes of him that did the wrong or the Goods or Merchandizes of others of the same Village where the wrong was done be found within the City of London the use is at the suggestion of the party to arrest such goods and merchandizes by the Ministers of the City and to detaine them in the name of Withernam Withernam untill agreement he made with the said Free man for the dammages which he hath sustained by the cause saving always reasonable to answer that party as wel to the one party as to the other Item Of the Tonne in Cornhill The Citizens of London of ancient time ordained a house called the Tonne in Cornhill To which house the Constables Bedels and other Officers and people of the City into the same have used to bring and there for the time to imprison the trespassers going in the night against the peace marryed men and women found in adultery and Chaplains and others religious found openly with common women or with other mens wives in the night in suspitious places and after to lead them before their Ordinaries Item The City of London hath conusance of Plea by the Kings charter And there is a use that no Freeman of the same city shall implead another Free-man of the same city otherwhere then in the same city where he might have recovered within the said city upon pain of losing their Freedome Item Of the Mayors fee at the Kings eoronation He that is Mayor of London for the time shall have a Golden Cup at the Coronation of every King And also there are other priviledges pertaining to the said Mayor and City at such coronation of the King according to the ancient custome of the city Item The use is that the chiefe Butler of our Soveraigne Lord the King shall be the chiefe Coroner of the city of London and the which Coroner hath used to make by Writ a Substitute in his place which Substitute is called Coroner and before whom the Indictment and Appeales are taken within the said city before the two Sheriffes and the Coroner joyntly Enquest taken upon the death of a man upon the first sight of the body are chosen out of the four Wards next adjoyning and summoned by the Bedels of the same Wards And all other enquests taken before the Sheriffes Coroner joyntly ought to be arrayed and summoned by the Sheriffes and their Officers Item Heretofore where any Theife being in the Goal of Newgate hath appealed another Theife being in some other Goal that Theife remaining in the other Goal was wont to be sent for by Writ to the said Goale of Newgate to answere to the said appeale and to have his deliverance there And in the same manner if a Theife being in another Gaole hath appealed another man abiding in the said Goale of Newgate or any other of the said city the same appealor being in another Goale shall be brought by Writ to the said Goale of Newgate to maintaine his said appeale there and no Theife being in the Goale of Newgate taken with the manner shall be carryed out of the said city to be at his deliverance before the Mayor of London and other Justices assigned for the said Goale of Newgate Item Southwarke Because that the Village of Southwarke and the Common Stewes over the River of Thames Common-pleas are so neere to the said City of London and that Thieves and other misdoers are often-times from thence comming and repairing and often-times after their Theeveries and Fellonies committed within the said City flye and withdraw themselves out of the same City unto the said Stewes and to the said Village of Southwarke within the Franchize there being out of the power of the said City where they abide and watch their times to return to do mischeif Wheras the ministers of the same city have used at all times to pursue and search for such Thieves and Evill-doers at the said Stewes and in the said Village of Southwarke as well within the Franchife as without and to bring them to the said Goale of Newgate to attend their deliverance there before the Justices as wel upon suspitions as at the suit of the party Item Of Prisoners condemned Where
by expresse words contained in the Testaments of their Ancestors And no such Orphans ought to be marryed without the assent of the said Mayor and Aldermen To marry by the assent of the Mayor And also where Lands or Tenements Goods and Chattles within the said City are divised to an Infant within age of one City or of the same City living his Father that such an Infant is no Orphan yet by usage of the said City the said Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattles shall be in the custody of the Mayor and Aldermen aswell as of the Orphans to maintaine and keep them to the use and profit of the same Infant except that the Father of the infant or some other of his friends will find sufficient surety of record to maintaine and keep the said Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattles to the use and profit of the said Infant and thereof to render a good and loyall accompt as is aforesaid And it is to be understood That the goods of the testator shall be parted into three parts that where a Cityzen of the same City hath a wife and children and dyes all the goods and chattles of the said party deceased after his debts be paid shall be divided into three parts whereof one shall remaine to the dead and shall be destributed for his Souls benefit and the other part shall be to his wife and the third part to his children to be equally shared betweene them notwithstanding any Will made to the contrary And therefore as well the wife as the children may have their recovery and suit to demand such goods and chattles against the Executors or other Possessors of the said goods and chattles before the said Mayor and Aldermen by Bill Item By ancient custome of the said City That No Forreigner shall sel Victual or other Marchandize to any other forreigner by retayle it was not lawfull for any Stranger or Forreigner to sell victuall nor other Marchandize to any other Stranger or Forreigner within the same City to sell again nor for any such Stranger or Forreigner to sell victuall or other Merchandize within the City by retayle Item By ancient custome of the said City of London the Citizens Ministers of the same City ought to obey no Commandement nor no Seale but only the commands and immediate Seale of our Lord the King Nor ought any Officer of our Lord the King to make seisure or any execution within the said City nor within the Franchize thereof by Land or by Water but onely the officers of the said City Item Of a Writ of Errour Of Judgements given in the Sheriffs Court in actions personall or in Assizes taken before the Sheriffs and Coroner by custome of the said City the parties against whom such Judgments are given may sue a writ of Errour directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes to reverse the said Judgment in the Hasting if the Judgment be reversible And although such judgments be affirmed in the Hasting yet the same party may sue another Writ of Errour directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes to cause to bring the Record and Proces before the Justices assigned at St. Martins the Great as it hath been done heretofore But if any party by such judgment given before the said Sheriffs be convict in debt or in dammage and for that cause be committed to prison untill he hath made agreement and after pursue a Writ of Errour to reverse the judgment in the Hasting or although the Judgment be affirmed at the Hasting the said parties will sue another Writ of Errour to reverse the same Judgment before the Justices assigned at St. Martins the great as afore is said Yet not withstanding the same party which is so imprisoned ought not to be delivered out of prison hy ancient custome of the City by reason of such a Writ of Errour before that he hath found sufficient surety within the said City or put the money in the hands of the Court to pay him that shall recover or in case that the said Judgment be afterward affirmed And in case that such a Writ of Errour be sued to reverse any Judgment given in Hasting before the Justices assigned at St. Martins the Great and it be commanded by Writ to warn the parties and to cause them to bring the Record and Proces before the same Justices then shall the parties be warned as the Law requires But no Record shall be brought before the said Justices in writing by custome of the City but the Mayor and Aldermen shall have forty dayes respit assigned by the same Justices after their first Session there to be advised of the said Record of the Proces thereof and at first Session of the Justices after the forty dayes the said record and processe shall be recorded before the same Justices by the mouth of the Recorder of the said City or tenus And of Judgments given before the Mayor and Aldermen in the Chamber of Guild-Hall according to the Law of Merchants no Errour was ever writ to be sued Item By ancient custome of the City all the Liberties Priviledges and other Customes pertaining to the same City ought to be recorded by mouth without being put in any other manner in writing Item The Citizens of London by custome of the City ought not to go out of the City by writ or other manner to passe in any Enquest Item Of not putting Citizens in Enquest out of the city Wives after the death of their husbands by custome of the City shall have their free bankes that is to say the wife after the death of her husband shall have of the tenement within the City whereof her husband dyed seised in fee and in which tenement the said husband and she were remaining together at the time of the death of her husband the Hall the principall chamber and the celler wholly and her easement in the Kitchin the chiefe table and curtilage in common or other necessaries to her appertaining for terme of her life And at what houre that she shall marry she shall lose the free bank and her dower thereof saving to her the dower of her other tenements as the Law requires Item Every Free-man using a Mystery may by usage of the same City take an Apprentice to serve him and to learne his Art and Mystery and that by Indentures that shall be made between him and his said Apprentice The which Indentures shall be examined and enrolled of record before the Chamberlaine of Guild-Hall And such Apprentice may bind himselfe or his friends may put him to his Master by their Indentures if he be of convenient age according to the discretion of the Chamberlain or of the Mayor and Aldermen if need be And no Apprentice by custome of the City may be put for lesse terme then 7. yeares and the Indentures ought to be enrolled within one year after the making thereof under a certain pain therefore limited and after such Apprentice
prisoners are condemned or arrested and committed within the said City and be committed to prison at the parties suit and after be sent for by a Writ to the Exchequer or in other places of the King with their causes the same prisoners after that they be delivered in the Kinge Court ought to be sent back againe to the said City to answer the parties and attend their deliverance Item Of houses decayed within the City Those which have tenements within the said City shall not be suffered to despoile or wast their own tenements nor them to take down in disorderly sort nor to the disgracing of the said city except it be to amend or re-edifie the same And if any man shall do or begin to do it he shall be restrained by the for the trespasse according to the custome of the City Item if Walls Penthouses Of Penthouses Defects in tenenements or other tenements what soever within the said City extending towards the high-wayes be so rotten and feeble that people dare not passe that way for the danger of their sudden fall then after that testimony be given to the Mayor and Aldermen by the Masons and Carpenters that are sworne to the said City or it be found in the Wardmore that the perillis such then the same Mayor and Aldermen shall warne the party to whom the tenements belong to amend and redresse them as soon as he may well do the same And if after such warning the said tenements be not amended nor begun to be amended within 40 dayes after then shall the said tenements be amended and redressed at the costs of the same party And the said tenements shall remaine in the hand of the said City untill the costs thereupon bestowed be fully levyed if the possessors of the Mayor and Aldermen and punished said tenements have no other tenements nor goods nor chattls within the City And if he hath other tenements or goods or chattels within the City the costs shall be levyed of his goods and chattels or of his other tenements if need be Item What house soever that is found within the said City or the Suburbs to be covered with Reed or with Shingle he to whom the house belongs shall pay to the Sheriffes that are for the time 40 s. and shall be made pull down the said covering Item if any house within the said City be on fire so that the flame of the fire be seen out of the house the dweller in the house shall pay unto the said Sheriffs 40. Of. the election of the Mayor s. at the first demand Item The Mayor and Aldermen and Sheriffes and all other Officers and Ministers of the said City are elected by the same City viz. At the time when the Mayor shall be chosen the Commons of the said City shall by usage be assembled at Guild haue and the same Commons shall make election of two wise men of the said City of the which one shall be Mayor and the names of the said two prudent men shall be reported before the Mayor and aldermen that are then for the time in the chamber of Guild-hall and then one of the two shall be chosen Mayor by the Mayor and Aldermen there by way of lot And the said Mayor so newly chosen the morrow after the Feast of St. Simon and Jude shall be presented to the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster or in absence of the said Barons to the Constable of the Tower and afterward shall be presented to the Lord our Kings owne person according as it is contained in the Charter of the said City And the said Mayor shall have the government of the same City under our Lord the King for the yeare following And the said Mayor shall have 50 Markes a Yeare for the weighing of corn and 50 markes in the time of peace of the Merch. of Amiane Corby and Neele according to the ancient custom therof made And every Mayor shall hold his generall Court at Guilhall the Monday next after the Feast of Epiphany And there shal be assembled all the Aldermen of the said City and all Constables Scavangers and Bedles of the Wardmotes held by the Aldermen and the defaults found in the Wards shall be enquired of and examined And the Constables Scavangers Bedlles shall besworne anew to execute well and loyally their Office for the time that they shall be Officers And the Mayor that is for the time by custome of the said City for maintenance of the peace and tranquility within the same City hath power to arrest and imprison the disturbers of the peace and other evill doers for resistances ill speeches and other defaults according to his discretion without being for the same empeached or sued afterward Item No Mayor shall be chosen within the said City Of the fame before he hath beene Sheriffe of the said City by the space of a yeare before Item the Mayors of London which have bene for the time Of the sword have used to have their swords carried upright before them within the said City and without without holding downe their swords in any mans prefence except in the presence of our Lord the King and that sword is called the Kings sword Item Of the election Of the Sheriffs the Sheriffes of London are chosen by usage of the said City on St. Matthewes day in Guild hall viz. One shall be chosen by the Mayor or Guardian that shall be for the time and the other by the Commons And the Sheriffes shall be afterwards sworn within the said Guild-hall and afterwards on the morrow of St. Michaels shall be presented in the Exchequer or to the Constable of the Charter of the said City And the said Sheriffes shall have free election of all their Officers and of their Farmers and Bayliffes as well within the said City as in the county of Middlesex and of the Goalers of the Goales within the said City at their will and at their perill And the same Sheriffes pay and are accomptable yearly to the Exchequer of our Lord the King for the Farm of the said City and of the county of middlesex according to the forme of the said charter of the City And by reason of which Farme the said Sheriffes ought to have the ancient prizes and customes of the Merchandizes coming within the City and going out and forfeitures fines and amerciaments and all other commodities of ancient time belonging to their said Offices And no Merchant shall passe not of the said City by Land or water by wagon or cart horse or bridg without a Bill given ensealed by the said Sheriffes And those which are Forreigners ought to pay for their passage according to the ancient custome Item The said Aldermen be chosen by the people of the same Wards Of the election of Aldermen and of their Offices and the which Aldermen ought to hold their Wardmotes as the custome is and survey and redresse the nusances and
do against the Ordinances aforesaid c. Item Of Male-factors the Mayor and Aldermen have alwayes used to cause to come before them the Malefactors which have been taken and arrested within the said City for carrying of tales and spreading abroad of newes imagined in disturbance of the peace makers and counterfeiters of falle Seales false Charters and for other notorious defects and those which they have found culpable of such misdeeds by confession of the parties or by enquest thereof made shall be punished by setting in the pillory or further chastised by imprisonment according to their merit and according to the reasonable discretion of the said Mayor and Aldermen Item Of change of proces and abbreviating of delayes the Mayor and Aldermen may by usage of the said City change proces and abridge delayes in actions personal as well before themselves and in the Sheriffes Court and make new Ordinances such personal pleas the which Ordinances they conceive to be reasonable profitable to the people Item That the City of London is held of our Soveraign Lord the King in free burgage it is to be understood that all the city of London is held of our Lord the King in free burgage and without mesne And all the Lands and Tenements Rents and services within the said city and the Suburbs thereof as well in rendition as in demeasne are devisable by usage of the said city So that men and women by usage of the said city may devise their tenements rents and reversions within the said City and Suburbs thereof to whom they will and of what estate they will And may also devise a new rent to rise from their tenements in manner as they like best And those which are free-men of the same City may devise their tenements in mortmain as appeareth by the Charter of the king thereof made Item That infants within age nor woman covert qaron may not dewise He that holdeth tenements with others may devise that which to him helongeth without more adoe But Infants within age may not make a devise nor women covert may not devise their tenements by license of their husbands nor in other manner during the coverture Item That a man cannot devise his tenements to his wife but for terme of life the husband may not devise his tenements to his wife for a higher estate then for terme of life and the wife cannot claime other estate upon pain to lofe the whole Neither may the husband devise the tenements descended to his wife nor the tenements which the husband and the wife have joyntly purchased But if the husband and the wife have tenements joyntly to them and to the heirs of the husband the husband may devise the reversion All testaments by which any tenements be devised may be inrolled in the Hastings of Record at the suite of any which may take advantage by the same testaments And the restaments which ought so to be enrolled shall be brought before the Mayor and Aldermen in full Hasting and there shall the said testaments be proclaimed by the Serjeant and the same also to be proved by two discreet men well known the which shall be sworn and examined of all the circumstances of the said Testaments and of the estate of the Testator and of his seale and if the proofe be found good and loyall and agreeable then shall the said Tastament be inrolled in the same hastings of record and the Fee shall be payed for the enrolment and no Testament nuncupative nor other Testaments may be inrolled of record except that the seale of the Testator be put to the same Tastament Testaments Nuncupative But the Testaments that may be found good and loyall are effectuall although they be not enrolled nor of record Item Of testaments defective yet effectuall The testament within the said City ought by custome of the same City to be adjudged effectuall and executory having regard to the Testators wills although that the words of such testaments be defective and not according to the common Law Item Of Rent devised by testament where a reversion or rent be devised by testaments enrolled of record in the Hastings the same reversions and rents Passe presently after the death of the Testator so as those to whome such rents be devised may distreine for their rents and make avoury and those in reversion may sue a Writ of waste at their will without other attournment of the Tenants And they may plead for the same enrolments if need be although they have not the saidtestaments in hand and the same Custome holdeth place of Charters Indentures and other writings inroled in Hastings of REcord and such inrolements have alwaies beene used so that the testaments be proclaimed and proved in full Hastings as aforesaid And the Charters Indentures and other writings ensealed may be accepted And the conusances and confessions of women have beene received before the Mayor and one Alderman or before the Recorder and one Alderman or before two Aldermen for necessity as well out of the Court as in So that the same Charters Indentures other Writings so acknowledged be after entred and enrolled in some of the Hasting sand the Fees thereof paid as the manner is Item Rent devised without clause of distress where a man hath devised by his Testament enrolled a certaine Rent to arise out of his Tenements within the said City without clause of distresse yet by usage of the City he to whome the devise is made may distraine and avow the taking if the rent be behind And in the same manner shall be done of all ancient rents called Quit rents within the same City Item Of Orphans The Mayor and Aldermen that are for the time by custome of the City shall have the Wardship and Marriages of all the Orphans of the said City after the death of their Ancestours although the same Ancestors do hold to them and the City of any other Lord by what service soever And the same Mayor and Alderought to enquire of all the Lands and Tenements Goods end Chattles within the said City appertaining to such Orphans and safely keep them to the use and profit of such Orphans or otherwise commit the same Orphans together with their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattles to other their friends by sufficient Surety found of record in the Chamber of Guild Hall to maintaine conveniently the said Orphans during their nonage their Lands and Tenements to repayre the said Goods and Chattles safely to keep and thereof to render a good and loyall accompt before the said Mayor Aldermen to the profit of the same Infants when they shall come to their age or when they shall be put to a mystery or shall marry by the advice of the said Major and Aldermen And that in all cases except that it be otherwise ordaind and disposed for the same Orphans or for their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattles
defaults in the same Wards and shall take order concerning victuals as else-where is declared more fully in the Articles of Wardmoats And the Aldermen have power by usage of the said city to arrest mis-doers and commit them to the enstody of the Sheriffes untill they be examined and delivered by the same Mayor and the same Aldermen Item That Aldermen shall not be empannelled An Alderman after that he hath been once made Alderman or a Sheriffe after that he hath beene a Sheriffe shall not afterwards be empannelled nor put in any Enquest within the same City by usage of the said City And of every Feoffment and Seisin delivered within the ward the Alderman of the Ward where the tenements are shall have his Fee for Seisin viz. 2. s. and his Bedell 6. d. Item The Aldermen â— s. the Beale 6. d. Of the election of common Officers All other common Officers of the aforesaid city as Recorder Chamberlain Wardens of the Bridg common Sergeants at Law common Sergeants at Mace common Clerke and Sergeant of the chamber are chosen by the Mayor and Aldermen and by the commons Bedels elected by the Aldermed and by the men of the ward And the Bedels are chosen by the Aldermen and by those of the Ward And all the gates of the city ought to be in the hands and government of the said city except Bishops gate which gate belongs to the merchants of the Hans Porters of the Gates chosen by men of the City according to the forme of the composition And the Porters of the said city are chosen by the same city Item Touching the Keepers of London bridg The Wardens of London Bridge are chosen by the Mayor and Aldermen and by the commons of the said City The which Wardens have the charge of the said Bridge and the governance of the Tenements within the said City pertayning to the same Bridge And every Cart or Wagon going or coming upon the same Bridge with Merchandizes shall pay to the use of the said Bridg 2. d. And every Ship or other Vessell with Merchandizes passing by water to the said Bridg towards the West Cart or Wagon th pay 2. d. with the Mast standing so that the Bridge must be drawne up shall pay for the passage to the use of the said Bridge two pence Vessles Westminster 2. d. Vessels Eastward 6 d. and that Vessell passing there also toward the East shall pay six pence and the same Wardens are every yeare acountable before two Aldermen and foure Commons thereto assigned Item The Chamberlaind of Guild hall chosen by the Mayor and Aldermen and by the Commons Of the election of the Chamberlain and his Office and it pertaineth to the Office of the said Chamberlaine to oversee and keep all the Books Rolles Records and other Monuments Remembrances that there ought to remaine of Record and the treasure if there be any and also to keep and maintayne all the Rents and Tenements pertaining to the said chamber Of the Rents belonging to the chamber Of the tenements goods of Orphans And he shall also keep the Tenements and the mony and the goods and chattles which are devised or descended to Orphans untill they be committed to other persons nor otherwise disposed by the Mayor and Aldermen And he shall cause the Indentures of Apprentices to be enrolled and he shall make those Apprentices to serve And for such as are made free by redemption he shall set the Fines of such redemptions and he shall take fines of such as are rebellious to their Masters or Guardians and for certaine other defaults committed against the Ordinances of the City And the money therof coming he shall receive and keep out thereof shall pay to divers Officers their wages as to the Recorder common Sergeant at Mace and shall make other disbursments pertaining to his office and shall render an accoumpt once in the yeare how much he hath received payd and spent and that before two Aldermen and foure Commoners assigned by the May or and Aldermen Of priviledâ— in the circuâ— of the Justicâ— at the Tower of London And also the Cityzens of London heretofore have claimed and ought to have many liberties and priviledges in the Eyre at the Tower of London viz. They ought to have their porter stand within the gates of the Tower and the porter of our Lord the King shall be within And their Usher at the Hall doore without where the Pleas shall be held within the Tower during all the Eyre for the bringing in of the people of the City which have to do in the same Eyre And the Usher of our Lord the King shall no otherwise meddle there during all the Eyre of that thing which appertaines to the Office of the Sergeant And that the Citizens shall make no other oath but by the Faith they owe to our Lord the King And that the Sheriffes of London shall have the custody of all the prisoners in all the Eyre And that none of the said City of London or in the Suburbs thereof except that the Plea be fore begun in the Husting of London and after be removed before the said Justice in Eyre because that he which is impleaded doth vouch a Foreigner to warranty who hath nothing within the franchise of the said City but by disseisons made in the said City after the Summons of the Eyre And that the Pleas begun in the Court of London and there depending ought there to be ended and ought not to be sent or removed before the Justices of our Lord the King except some matter be alleaged by one of the parties of which the court cannot hold conusance nor hath power to determine thereof And their are many other points and priviledges which will more fully appear in sundry Eyres holden at the said Tower of London And also many other liberties priviledges and customes are pertaining to the city of London whereof no man can remember them all to set them down in writing being only recorded by mouth when they came in truth by custome of the same city viz at the last Eyre held at the Tower of London they ought to be bound by the customes where upon the same Citizens did sue their Petition to the King in these words The Cities Petition to the Kings HIGH and Mighty Lord whereas your said City is founded upon the Franchises and free ancient Customes and not upon the common Law as other Cities of your Realme The city is found upon franchises and free ancient customes More it is enacted by the Great Charter That the city of London should enjoy all its Franchises and free customes unblemished and the same Franchises and customes be to them by your Progenitors granted and by your self confirmed and they ever from time to time used in Eyres and else-where before the Justices at what houre they doe come in deed or in demanding their Franchises