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
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
and Discretion of the President or Governors of Christ's Hospital Tenthly That for the preservation of Unanimity and Brotherly Love amongst the said Brotherhood no person of the said Fellowship whatsoever shall go to Suit of Law with any other Member of the same for any Cause or Difference whatsoever until he hath first acquainted the Wardens of the said Company for the time being therewith and obtained License of them so to do And if any of the said Fellowship shall at any time offend herein he shall forfeit and pay to the use of the said Fellowship the Sum of Forty Shillings Eleventhly That if any person of the said Fellowship shall happen to forfeit any Sum or Sums of Money for any thing in these Orders or any of them comprised and then the same person refuse and deny to pay the same Money it being two several times demanded if the party offending be of ability then the Wardens and Assistants of the said Fellowship shall complain to the Lord Mayor for the time being and the person so offending is to be punished after the discretion of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Twelfthly That the Wardens of the said Fellowship for the time being shall not permit or suffer any Apprentice to be bound by them to any Free-man using the said Occupation until he do produce a Testimonial of Allowance from the said President or Governours or whom they shall appoint Thirteenthly That every person of the said Brotherhood within two Months after he taketh unto him any Apprentice and hath the said Testimonial of Allowance from the said President or Governours or whom they shall appoint shall present the same Apprentice to the Wardens of the said Fellowship for the time being and shall then pay unto the Common Box of the said Fellowship for the presenting of every such Apprentice the Sum of Twelve pence and for the Indenture Eighteen pence And that none of the said Brotherhood or Fellowship shall at any time hereafter take an Apprentice for any shorter or lesser time than Seven Years And that such Apprentice at the end of the said Term having truly served his said Term shall be made free by his said Master And that such Apprentice before his admittance into the Freedom of this City shall be presented again unto the Wardens of the said Fellowship for the time being and there before them shall subscribe a Note whereby he shall undertake to the Three Wardens to be contributary to all manner of Charges belonging to the said Brotherhood to his power and pay to the said Brotherhood for his admittance into the Brotherhood Six Shillings and Eight pence and to the Clerk Two Shillings and Six pence and unto the Beadle Twelve pence The Oath of every Person at his first Admittance into the Brotherhood or Fellowship of CARR-MEN of the City of London To be Administred by the Wardens and Assistants of the said Fellowship or Brotherhood for the time being YOu shall Swear You shall be true to our Soveraign Lord the King and His Successors You shall be obedient to the President or Governours of Christ's Hospital and to such in whom the City shall hereafter place the Government of Carrs by the Act of Common-Council and to the Wardens for the time present You shall not discover the lawful Counsel of this Fraternity You shall not take a Foreign man into your Service but only such as use the occupation of a Carr-man or else an Apprentice duly bound without fraud At the beginning of their Terms or before you shall bring and present them before the Wardens of the said Fellowship for the time being and here have the Indentures to be made and every such Apprentice to be Inrolled within the first Year as the Custom is You shall not entice or withdraw any mans Servant of this Society until that reasonable departing be made with his said Master These and all other good Rules made and to be made not reversed You shall keep so near as God give you Grace So help you God c. Fourteenthly That no person being made a Free-man of the said Brotherhood shall take an Apprentice to be bound unto him until he hath been a Free-man by the space of four years unless in case of Lameness and Sickness and where a Journey-man of the said Society is not to be had and then the same to be with License of the President or Governours of Christ's Hospital and Wardens of the said Fellowship for the time being and after the expiration of the said four years then to take only one Apprentice and no more Fifteenthly That if at any time within the Term any Wardens of the said Brotherhood or Fellowship which shall stand and occupy that Room shall neglect to put in execution and duly to observe these Orders and Rules in this Book to be kept according to the best of their power and likewise to cause the same Ordinances to be read twice a Year in some convenient place to all the Fraternity and Brotherhood that then the said Wardens shall pay Twenty Shillings for a Fine in that behalf to the use of the said Brotherhood Pet. Concord cum Original AVERY And this Court doth Direct and Order That Mr. Chamberlain shall take notice of the said Carr-men as a Fellowship and Brotherhood of this City and Enroll and make Free their Apprentices according to the Intent and Meaning of the said Ordinance AVERY The General Quarter-Sessions have from time to time set Rates for the Carriage of all Commodities within the City of London and Liberties thereof and added some other Rules to be observed by the Governours of Christs-Hospital and Fellowship of Carr-men c. as for instance Ad General ' Quarterial ' Session ' Pacis Dom. Regis tent pro Civitat ' London c. WHereas daily Complaints are made by Merchants and other Citizens and Inhabitants within the City of London and the Liberties thereof of the excessive Rates demanded and received by Carr-men above what is reasonable and hath been limited and appointed for Carriages within this City and Liberties and upon due consideration had as well of former times as of the present wherein several Materials of necessary and principal use to the Carr-men are risen and consequently require some increase of Rates heretofore set for their Labour and Carriage Now the said Justices of Peace here assembled respecting the times and other circumstances necessary to be considered do by authority and virtue of the Statute in this case made and provided order limit rate and appoint the Wages for Carr-men within the City of London and Liberties thereof to be as hereafter followeth First That all Carr-men trading or working with Carrs in the City of London and Liberties thereof shall and may demand and take for every Carriage or Load of the Commodities under-mentioned the Rates hereafter following and shall not exceed the same upon pain to be strictly punished and proceeded against for every Offence to
offence shall be disenabled from further Working a Carr within the City of London and Liberties thereof Ninthly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr-man his Journey-man or Servant ride upon his Carr or drives his Horse a Trot in the Street or otherwise in a more speedy course or pace than is usual upon pain of Forfeiting for every Offence herein Two Shillings Tenthly That the said President or Governours take care that every Carr-man lead his Horse by the Head with an Horse Halter of three Foot and no longer with a special regard alwayes before him as behind him as well for Children as for Aged people and if he shall suffer his Horse to go in the Streets without leading him as aforesaid for every time he shall so offend he shall forfeit and pay Two Shillings Eleventhly That the said President or Governours take care that no Carr-man within this City and Liberties thereof shall appoint any Servant or Journey man to go with any Carr or Cart before he be presented to them the said President or Governours and allowed by them which Servant or Journeyman shall be of the age of Eighteen Years at the least and whatsoever Carr-man shall hereafter entertain and imploy as a Carr-man in guiding of a Carr any such Servant the full time of six Weeks before he be presented to the said President or Governours then he shall forfeit and pay for every Week that he shall so entertain and keep him before such presentment the sum of Five Shillings and that all the now Servants of Carr-men shall appear before the said President or Governours with their Indentures to be Allowed and Entred in the Books of the said Governours for which Entrance to pay Six Pence Twelfthly Further that if any Master Carr-man or any other using or enjoying a Carr within this City and Liberties thereof shall put away or sett over his Servant or Servants so presented to the said President or Governours or shall bargain or sett over any year or years of any such Servant or Servants or any other person or persons before such Carr-man hath first obtained and gotten the good will and consent of the President or Governours aforesaid for the time being so to do that it may appear by their Register Book kept by the said President or Governours of the honest and lawful departure putting away or setting over of every such Servant or Servants that then he the said Master Carr-man shall for every Offence to the contrary pay Six Shillings and Eight Pence Thirteenthly Further that the said President or Governours take care that no Carr-man within the City of London and Liberties thereof have more than one Apprentice at one time and one Journeyman and if it shall appear to the said President or Governours that the said Carr-man hath any more than one Apprentice and Journeyman then the said Carr-man to lose his admittance of Working any Carr or Cart within London and the Liberties thereof Fourteenthly Further the said President or Governours are desired that when any Servant or Journeyman is presented to them to be allowed and approved to Work a Carr or Cart in London and the Liberties thereof then they to declare to the said Servant or Journeyman that the sole disposing of all Carrs to Work is in the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London and in such as claim by from or under them and that he cannot have any Cart to Work or Hire till one falls void although he hath served the term of Seven Years Apprentiship Fifteenthly Further the said President or Governours are desired to take care that no such Servant or Servants do at any time hereafter mis-behave him or themseves in the Street and if any be found so to do then they to inflict such Punishment upon such Servants for such their Mis-behaviours as in their discretion shall be thought fit And if any Free-Carr-man shall mis-behave himself in the Streets and proof thereof be made before the said President or Governours he the said Free-man shall for his first Offence pay Ten Shillings and for his second Offence Twenty Shillings and for his third Offence Forty Shillings And for refusal of not paying of any of the said â—ines to be discharged from Working any Carr within the City of London and Liberties thereof Sixteenthly The said President and Governours are desired not to admit any Person or Persons to work a Carr within the City of London and Liberties thereof to their own use other then such as have served Seven years Apprentiship to the calling and hath a good testimony of his honest life and conversation Seventeenthly And further the said President or Governours are desired by this Court To call all such Carr-men before them as they shall admit or allow of four times in every year yearly or as often as they shall think fit and to cause all the Orders that are now made or shall hereafter be made for the Rule Oversight and Government of the said Carrmen to be openly read to them And if any Carr-man shall refuse at any time or times to appear upon the Summons of the said President or Governours by any of the four Street-men or other Officers of the said President or Governours then they to lay such Fine Penalty or Suspension upon every such Carr-man so offending as in their discretion shall be thought most fit All which Orders before mentioned shall be put in Execution by the President or Governours of the said Hospital And by no other Person or Persons whatsoever And all the Fines arising by breach of the said Ordinances be applyed viz. One Moyety to the relief of the poor Children harboured in the said Christs-Hospital And the other Moyety to the Use of the Fellowship or Brotherhood of Carr-men Now followeth the ORDERS for the FELLOWSHIP First That all manner of Persons who now are or hereafter shall be duly allowed by the said President or Governours of the said Hospital to work any Carr or Carts within the City of London and Liberties thereof shall be a Fellowship and Fraternity by the name of the Carr-men of the City of London to put in execution these Orders following and no other viz. Secondly That there shall be Three of the said Fellowship in manner and form following in these Presents hereunder mentioned chosen and named which shall be and be called the Wardens of the said Fellowship of Carr-men of London And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Members of the said Brotherhood or Fellowship within some convenient time to Choose and Elect out of themselves â—hree able and sufficient Persons useing the Occupation of a Carr-man to be Wardens of the said Brotherhood or Fellowship the space of one whole year then next following and from thence until a New Election be made And that the same Three Persons so Chosen to be Wardens shall within convenient time after their said Election be presented by a convenient