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Lawrence Mayor. Comm. Concil. tent. vicesimo septimo die Januarii, anno Dom. 1664. Annoque regni Regis Caroli Secundi nunc Angliæ, &c. Decimo sexto
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City of London (England). Court of Common Council.
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the Chamber of the Guild-hall of the said City the One and Twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five and in the Seventeenth Year of His said Majesties Reign WHereas heretofore that is to say in the Third Year of the Reign of Our late Soveraign Lord King James of England c. and of Scotland the Nine and Thirtieth the Carr-Men of London were Incorporated with the Company of Wood-mongers London by His said Highness Letters Patents bearing date the Nine and Twentieth day of August in the Years aforesaid since which time to wit the Fifth day of December in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of Our now Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Wood-mongers by their Writing under their Common Seal and by them acknowledged in Chancery did surrender to Our now Soveraign Lord the King the said Letters Patents and by means thereof are Disincorporated by reason whereof the said Carr-men have humbly besought this Court that they may be a Fellowship or Fraternity as anciently and such Orders made by this Court for the better Regulating and Ordering the several Members of the said Fellowship as should be thought expedient This Court well weighing the desire of the said Carr-men and considering that the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of this City time out of mind have had the right of Ordering and disposing of Carrs Carts Carr-rooms Carters and Carr-men and of all other person or persons whatsoever Working any Carr or Carts within the City of London and Liberties thereof And in pursuance thereof by the said Act of Common Council made the One and twentieth day of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five have placed the Rule Oversight and Government of them in the President and Governours of Christ-Hospital London to Order them according to the Rules Directions and Provisions in the said Act mentioned and according to such other Orders Rules Directions and Limitations as the said Common Council or this Court upon consideration should make and provide in that behalf And further considering that the said Act doth not sufficiently provide for the Ordering and Regulating such Persons as should be Members of the said Fellowship in their labours Have therefore thought it fit and necessary to declare how and in what manner the said Carr-men shall be governed for the future under the said President and Governours and what Orders and Rules they shall put in execution amongst themselves And First This Court doth desire the said President or Governours strictly to observe and effectually to put in execution all such Orders Rules Directions and Limitations as are mentioned and contained in the said Act of Common Council of the One and Twentieth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Five which concerneth the Rule Oversight and Government of the said Carr-men and other Persons working Carrs and Carts in the said Act of Common-Council mentioned Secondly That the said President or Governours strictly observe and effectually put in Execution all the Orders Rules Directions and Limitations mentioned in an Order of the General Quarter Sessions holden at Justice-Hall in the Old Bayley the Sixteenth day of January in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second c. which Order of Sessions doth not only appoint what Rates the said Carr-men shall receive but doth give further Directions how the said Carr-men shall be Governed by the said President or Governours for the future And the said President or Governours are not only desired to observe the said Act of Common-Council and Order of Sessions and the Orders hereafter following but also all other Acts of Common-Council Orders of this Court and Court of Sessions as shall hereafter be made concerning the said Carr-men Thirdly The said President or Governours are desired by this Court to take care that every Cart allowed by them to Work within the City of London and the Liberties thereof contain in length between the Tugg-hole and the Fore-Ear breadth Six Foot and Four Inches of Assize and no more and in breadth between the two Raves in the Body of the said Cart four Foot of Assize and no more and in length from the Fore-Ear breadth to the end of the Cart seven Foot and two Inches of Assize and no more And if any Carr shall be found of greater Length or Breadth that then the same Carr may be taken up by the said President or Governours or their Officer or Officers appointed for that purpose and be sent to the New Store-Yard Fourthly The said President or Governours are desired to take care that all Carr-men be Ordered with their empty Carrs to stand in convenient places of this City to be ready for Merchants and all other Persons that shall have occasions to use them And if any Carr-man shall not observe the Rule that shall be made by the said President or Governours for their standings in the Streets for Merchants and others every Carr-man so offending shall for the first Offence pay Two Shillings and Six pence for the second Offence Five Shillings and for his third and every other Offence Ten Shillings And for refusal or not payment of any of the said Fines they to be by the said President or Governours discharged from Working any Carr or Cart within the City of London and Liberties thereof Fifthly That the said President or Governours shall take care that no Carr-man leave his Carr in the Streets Lanes or Common Passages of this City or Liberties thereof by Night whereby any person or persons may take harm upon pain of Forfeiting for every time he or they so leave his Carr in the Streets by Night the sum of Five Shillings besides recompence to the party as shall sustain hurt or damage thereby Sixthly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr within this City be heard to creak or pipe for dryness or want of Greasing in the Nave and every Owner of such Carr as shall be found so to do shall Forfeit and Pay for every day that his Carr shall be observed to creak or pipe the sum of Two Shillings Seventhly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr-man within this City or Liberties thereof use or put into his Carr for the carriage of any Merchandise whatsoever any more Horses than One at one time except it be up the Hill or with Timber or Stone that cannot be divided upon pain of Forfeiting for every Offence Two Shillings Eighthly That the said President or Governours take care that no person or persons shall take up or carry greater Loads than was the ancient custom or practice to do which ancient custom or practice shall be declared by the said President or Governours to all the Carr-men upon pain that every person that shall so do shall Forfeit and pay the sum of Five Shillings for the first Offence the second Offence Ten Shillings and for the third
found expedient a Price be set upon Coals according to the Custom of the City Secondly To prevent the said deceits in false Measures and Weight of Coals We think fit ☞ First That the Wood-mongers be not permitted to keep any Carrs to their Wharfs but that all be Street Carrs and imployed for the Carriage of Fuel as for any other Work Secondly That the Wood-mongers and all other Traders on Sea-Coals be strictly held for time to come not to send abroad any Coals Sold or Contracted for in any Sacks other than the Sea-Coal-Meters and to carry along in their Carts a Lawful Sealed Bushel Nineteen Inches in Breadth and Seven Inches and a half in Depth and that like Sealed Bushells be kept in every Parish for every Buyer that will to Measure his own Coals as they are brought home as in and by an Act of Common-Council made the Seventh of September 1632. and many former and other good Acts and Orders is more fully enjoyned and directed Thirdly That for avoiding deceit in the Weight in Pit-Coals every Buyer may use a Meter who upon Request is to attend to Weigh the Coals at the Buying or bringing home of the same And lastly To remedy the false Size and high Price of Wood We conceive the same cannot be better effected than by executing the Acts and Laws in force which expose all Billets and Faggots under Size to be Seized and Forfeited and do forbid the Sale of any Fire-wood to the Wood-mongers and Retailers till the same be brought to such Key as the Lord Mayor shall appoint and have lain upon the Water Eight Hours in Winter and Twelve in the Summer for private Persons to furnish themselves and that the Lord Mayor have set thereupon a Price as was heretofore used to be done to be kept and observed under severe Penalties and Forfeitures And so We humbly submit the Premises to the better Judgement and Consideration of this Honourable Court this 14th day of February 1664. Upon Reading whereof as also of a Petition of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Company and of some overtures touching the Surrendring up the Lease made to the said Company and of the Government of Carrs and Carr-men within this City and Liberties this Court doth defer their further proceedings thereupon till the said Company shall give their Answer touching the Surrendring up the said Lease LAWRENCE MAYOR Com. Concil tent Decimo septimo die Februarii Anno Dom. 1664. Anno Regni Regis CAROLI II. nunc Angliae c. Decimo septimo AT this Court the Master and Wardens of the Company of Wood-mongers did surrender up the Lease made unto the said Company under the Common Seal of this City in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Richard Brown Knight and Baronet touching the Government of Carrs Carr-men and Carr-rooms and the counterpart of the same Lease Sealed to the City was delivered up unto the Master and Wardens and a Bond under the Common Seal of the said Company for the payment of One hundred and fifty Pounds per annum to the use of Christs-Hospital for the term of Sixty and one Years in the same Lease contained and lately remaining in the Chamber of London not being to be found for the present a Release of the same Bond under the Common Seal of this City was Read and Sealed in open Court the tenor whereof followeth Whereas the late Master Wardens and Assistants of the Fellowship of Wood-mongers London have by their Obligation under the Common Seal of the said Corporation bearing Date the Twenty third day of July in the Thirteenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. bound themselves and their Successors to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London in the Sum or penalty of One Thousand Pounds with condition thereon Endorsed for the true and sure Payment of the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds yearly and every year during the term of Sixty one years from the Twenty fourth day of June then last past at two several Payments by even and equal portions that is to say At the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Seventy five Pounds and at the Feast of St. John Baptist Seventy five Pounds or within 40 daies after each of the said Feast daies to the Treasurer of Christ-Hospital for the time being for the maintenance of the poor Children therein harboured as in and by the said Obligation and Condition could the same be produced more fully and plainly may appear Now know all men by these presents That the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London for divers good causes and considerations hereunto moving have remised released cleared and quit-claimed and by these Presents for them and their Successors fully clearly and absolutely Remise Release and for ever quit-claim unto the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Fellowship of Wood-mongers and their Successors the aforesaid Obligation and Condition thereof and all and all manner of Actions and Causes of Actions Plaints Process Suits and Demands whatsoever which the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens against the said Master Wardens and Assistants or their Successors ever had now have or at any time hereafter may or might have by reason or means of the said Obligations and Conditions thereof in any wise howsoever In witness whereof The said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens have caused their Common Seal to be put to these Presents Dated the Seventeenth day of February Anno Dom. One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Four in the Seventeenth year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And it was Resolved that the thanks of this Court be returned to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and also to Sir William Turner Knight and Alderman and the rest of the Committee appointed by this Court for the management of the aforesaid affair for their great care and pains taken therein UPon this Report c. The Government of the Carrs was taken from the Company of Wood-mongers And by Act of Common-Council bearing Date the Twenty first day of June 1665. were placed in the President and Governors of Christ-Hospital and by that Act amongst other things is as followeth And for the prevention of such Deceipt hereafter as divers Wood-mongers have Practised in the Sale and Measure of their Coals It is Enacted That all Sea-Coals hereafter to be Sold or Uttered by Retail by any Person or Persons whatsoever shall be filled and brought home to the Buyers in the Sea-Coal-Meeters Sacks or such other Sacks as contain the full Measure of the Sea-Coal-Meters Sacks and are and shall be Marked by the Keeper of the Guild-Hall for the time being according to an Order of the Court of Aldermen made the Twenty fifth day of October