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A73956 Orders conceiued by the Lords of her Maiesties priuie counsel, and by her Highnesse special direction, commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing, and eating of flesh this next Lent and to be executed aswell by the Lord Maior within the city and suburbs of London, and by the officers of the liberties & exempt places in and about the same, as by order to be prescribed by the Lords Lieutenants of all the counties of the realme to the iustices of peace, Lords of Liberties, and officers of corporate townes. 26. Febr. 43. yeere of her Maiesties reigne. England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) 1601 (1601) STC 8285; ESTC S115565 1,857 1

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¶ Orders conceiued by the Lords of her Maiesties Priuie Counsel and by her Highnesse special direction commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing and eating of Flesh this next Lent and to be executed aswell by the Lord Maior within the City and Suburbs of London and by the Officers of the Liberties exempt places in and about the same as by order to be prescribed by the Lords Lieutenants of all the Counties of the Realme to the Iustices of peace Lords of Liberties and Officers of corporate Townes ¶ 26. Febr. 43. yeere of her Maiesties Reigne FIrst her Maiesties pleasure is vpon her vnderstanding of the great disorders heretofore and especially the last Lent committed in killing and eating flesh in the time of Lent especially in the Citie of London and the liberties thereto adioyning that the Stature made in the fift yeere of her Maiesties Reigne for the restraint thereof be put in due execution by the way of Inquisition and charge of Iuries or by any other good meanes both within the Citie and all other places requisite within the Realme and this to be executed with more diligence then heretofore it hath bene 2 And for the better knowledge of the trueth of these disorders and redresse of the inconueniences the sayd Iuries shall call before them and send for any of the Seruants of any Inholders Victuallers Tauerners and Keepers of Ordinarie Tables and such other that vtter Victuals to examine them vpon their corporall othes what flesh is or hath bene during the Lent season dressed killed vttered or eaten in their houses which if they shall refuse to doe then they shal make knowen the same to the Alderman or his Deputie of that Ward who shall commit to prison the sayd seruants so refusing vpon their othes to declare the trueth 3 And because a great part of the disorder groweth by the Butchers of the City of London and also of the Countrey that kill secretly and bring Flesh to the City It is ordered that there shall be onely sire Butchers licensed by the Lord Maior within the City of London and for the liberties thereof viz. three in Eastcheape and three in S. Nicholas Shambles who shal be of the poorer sort and shall not pay any thing for their licenses nor ioyne with them any partners 4 That euery of the said Butchers so to be licensed within the City bee stinted not to kill weekely aboue the number of twentie sheepe twentie calues and twentie lambes and to vtter and sell the same in their open shops in such sort as in open time they are accustomed to doe and at such rates and prizes as shall be set downe by order of the Lord Maior of London for that Citie and the liberties thereof And besides euery one of them shall keepe a perfect booke what Flesh they kill euery day and to what persons they sell and vtter the same and be bound in a sufficient Bond with good Sureties to her Maiesties vse to obserue these Orders in euery respect 5 That there be licensed only to kill and vtter flesh in the Suburbs of the said City as in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey neere vnto London onely ten Butchers to be licensed by the Iustices within the seueral limits that is two without Temple Barre in the parish of S. Clement Danes two without Smithfield Barres in the parish of S. Pulchers or Clarketonwell or one of them one in white crosse streete one in Norton Folgate one in White Chappell one in S. Katherines two in South warke and for the City of Westminster and the liberties thereof two Butchers to be licensed by the chiefe Officer of that liberty And those to be as is before expressed for the sayd Citie and the liberties of the poorer sort inhabiting in those places and to be licensed without any money or other consideration to be giuen for the same and to be bound in the like Bond and Conditions and to obserue the ●●ke Orders in euery respect as those that are to be appointed for London and the sayd Clerke of the Market Officer and Iustice there to see them and to set the prizes of the virtuals to be vttered in ●hose parts 6 That no person be permitted to kill or sell any flesh but to those that are licensed nor in any other ●●ace as before is specified vpon paine to forfeit the flesh to be giuen to the poore in the prisons and to ●●ffer imprisonment 7 That the Constables Church wardens and other publique Officers be authorised in London ●●d the liberties thereof by the L. Maior and by the Iustices in the Counties of Middlesex and Sur●●y and the forenamed Officers in Westminster to make search and to see that the licensed Butchers or any other doe kill or vtter any flesh nor doe any thing contrary to the Orders and her Maiesties proclamation in that behalfe and if they finde any to offend therein that they be bound and ordered to ●●esent the same to the Iustices of the Peace and the Officers of Westminster who are to see the offen●●rs duely punished and proceeded withall according to the law and their discretions 8 Item that euery Butcher licensed to kill for any priuate persons doe not sell to any other