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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22691	A new charge giuen by the Queenes commandement, to all iustices of peace, and all maiors, shiriffes, and all principall officers of cities, boroughs, and townes corporate, for execution of sundry orders published the last yeere for staie of dearth of graine with certaine additions nowe this present yeere to be well obserued and executed.	England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1595 (1595)	STC 9202; ESTC S100697	15,844	26

prices as in part of punishment of the Baker No Badger to buy Corne but in open Market and with sufficient licence in writing That no Badgers of corne Bakers or Brewers buy any Graine or commune or bargaine for the same but in the time of open Markets and that but by Licence vnder the handes of the Iustices of the Diuision where they doe dwell or three of them and that they weekely bring their Licence with them to the Market where they do either buy or sell or els not to be suffered to buy any And that the Licence containe how much Graine of what kind for what place they are licenced to buy and cary that there bee set downe vpon the Licence in writing the day place quantitie and price at which the Corne is bought that they take but measurably for the cariage baking and brewing thereof that they shew their bookes weekely to such as the Iustices of the Diuision wherein they dwel The Badgers to shew weekely their bookes of buying shall appoint for that purpose being no Bakers or Badgers of Corn and that those within euery xiiii dayes make report to the Iustices of the Diuision wherein they dwell how the people are dealt withall by the Badgers Bakers and Brewers and that such as haue sufficient to liue on or that are knowen to be of any common euil behauiour be not permitted to bee Badgers of Corne of which sort commonly the report is that there are too many No Iustices seruant to be a Badger nor none other but such as shal be licensed in open Sessions and therefore the same would bee remedied and foreseene Also that no Badgers be permitted but such as the Statute doeth limite and that no seruant of any bee licenced to be a Badger except sixe of the Iustices at the least shall in open Sessions for some necessary cause allow any such and that none at all be allowed a Badger except he be allowed in open sessions and not to bee as it is in many places abused for gaine of the Clerke of the Peace or a Iustices Clerke graunted without allowance of the rest of the Iustices in their open Sessions And furthermore No Badger Baker Brewer or Purueyour to buy Graine vntill two houres after the full Market begin that none bee permitted to buy or prouide Corne in the Market in grosse as a Badger or Baker Brewer or Purueyour such like vpon paine of imprisonment vntill two houres after the full Market be begunne that the poore may be first serued That the said Iustices or two Some Iustices to be present in the Market to see the poore relieued vpon reasonable prices or one of them at the least in euery Diuision shall bee personally present at euery market within their seueral Diuisions during the whole time of the Market to see the orders to bee taken by the authoritie hereof to be well obserued and the poore people prouided of necessary Corne and that with as much fauour in the prices as by the earnest perswasion of the Iustices can be obtained By this it is not meant to charge any Lorde of Parliament being a Iustice of Peace to attende vpon any such seruice in any Market otherwise then it shall bee with his owne good will but in all other causes tending to the execution of these orders it is hoped that euery person of any estate will readily giue aduise and assistance If there shall be any Hundred Rape Where Iustices are wanting in any Hundred for to appoint some rich persons to supply the want or Wapentake within the sayd Countie within the which or neere thereunto no sufficient number of the sayd Iustices of the Peace doe dwell or inhabit the sayde Shirife and foure Iustices of the Peace of that Countie shall in that case appoynt some other honest Gentleman or the high Constables vnder Constables or such other graue honest and substantiall persons not being Corne masters dwelling within the saide Hundred Rape or Wapentake as they shall by their discretions thinke conuenient to haue the charge in the execution of these orders there whome they shal also instruct how to execute the same diligently and vprightly That all good meanes and perswasions be vsed by the Iustices in their seuerall diuisions That ministers and preachers exhort the richer sort to be liberall to helpe the poore with money or victuall needfull and by admonitions exhortations in Sermons in the Churches by the Preachers and Ministers of the Worde that the poore may bee serued of Corne at conuenient and charitable prices And to the furtherance thereof that the richer sort be earnestly mooued by Christian charitie to cause their Graine to bee solde vnder the common prices of the Market to the poorer sort A deed of mercy that will doubtlesse bee rewarded of Almightie God That there bee no buying or bargeining of any kinde of Corne but in open Market but onely to poore Artificers and day Labourers as aforesaide and that the Iustices in their seueral Diuisions do in conuenient sort restraine common Maulsters of making Barlie Mault To make Mault of otes in countreys where there hath bene vse thereof in those countreyes and places where there be Oates sufficient to make Mault of for the vse of the people and to restraine as well the brewing of Barley Mault by or for Alehouses or common Tiplers in those Countreis and places as also the excesse vse of any kinde of Mault by all common Brewers Maulsters and common Tiplers according to the true meaning of this Article And that the oueraboundant conuerting of Barlie into Mault more then may serue for necessary vse be restreined And where it is informed that sundry Maulsters and others haue already engrossed taken into their hands great quantities of Barlie either to be conuerted into Mault or otherwise to make their profite of it by auauncing the prises thereof It is therefore ordered that the Iustices of Peace in their seuerall Diuisions shall vse all the care and diligence they may to finde out such Ingrossers and to examine them exactly how much of such kinde of Corne they haue already in their handes or haue compounded for and at what price and where it is And thereupon the said Iustices of the Peace to take order that so much thereof in Barley as shall bee thought fit in the discretion of the same Iustices be brought to such of the next Markets thereunto as the same Iustices shall assigne there to be sold to the poore people of the Towne and the Countrey adioyning by the sacke or Coombe or lesser quantitie and by no greater quantitie to any one person at such reasonable price and with such reasonable gaine as the same Iustices shall thinke fit And such as shal be found obstinate to obey this order to be bound with good suerties to answere the matter before the Lords of her Maiesties Priuie Counsel at some day to be prefixed by the

that no couenous practises be vsed betweene the Farmer or Maulster the Badger Broker Brewer or buyer to sell againe whereby the Farmer or other should deteine his Corne or Mault to the ende of the Market to the hinderance of the market But if any such be found then such offender to be duely punished Hyglers and Purueiors for the Citie of London or any other Citie not to be permitted to buy Corne or other victuall but in open market that two houres after the full Market whereby the poorer sort may be serued of that which they shall neede at competent prises Neuerthelesse for the better furnishing of your sayd Cities with necessarie prouisions and in conuenient maner it is ordered that further prouisions shall be from time to time made for them in such sort as the Lords of her Maiesties Counsell shal further direct in that behalfe It is also ordered that the feeding of sheepe with Pease or Beanes which is vsed in some countreyes for foode be specially forbidden because in time of dearth the same may serue the poorer sort to make bread of That there be monethly a view taken what Corne any Farmer or other person vsing to sell Corne hath both thresshed and by estimation in the stoage and to be enioyned to sell none but in open Market except to poore artificers and day laborers their neighbors and to yeelde a due accompt to the Iustices of the expense of his Corne and howe much hee doeth sell weekely in any Market That inquisition be made in what places Mault is commonly made to be sold by such as are called Maultsters and who they be And to take order that by buying and ingrossing of Barley to make Mault they doe not thereby store vp greater quantitie of Mault then they vsually bring into the Markets thereby towards the end of the yeere to increase the price thereof excessiuely Of which abuse the Iustices are to take care to reforme the same and to take order also that they shall buy their Barley in open Market and not at the Farmers houses thereby to forestall the Markets and to enhaunce the prices To take strait order with the common Brewers that they serue no Beere or Ale to any Alehousekeeper Victualler or Tipler but at such rate and price as by the Iustices of the Peace shal be set downe and appointed by authoritie of the Statute of 23. H. 8. Cap. 4. And yet the same to be well sodden and well brewed of wholsom grain as it ought to be vpon pain of _____ to be imposed by the Iustices To take a view of the number of Alehouses Victualling houses and Tippling houses in euery Towne parish village and Hamiet within their iurisdictions And vpon view had to consider what number of them is necessary and fit for euery Towne Parish Village and Hamlet to continue And thereupon to discharge the superfluous number and such as are vnmeete to keepe the same and to allowe a conuenient number and no more then shal be needfull and those but in places necessarie and the same to be in the midst and heart of the sayd Townes and Villages and in no sort to allow any at the ends of the Towne Village or Hamlet nor in out places or places distant frō the rest of the Town or Village And hereafter no licence to be granted for victualling or tipling but in euery open quarter Sessions that by the consent of the most part of the Iustices there present whose names with the number of the houses licenced in euery Towne or Village the Clerke of the Peace shall insert in a booke or Rolle to be kept for that purpose And that no greater number be hereafter admitted to keepe Tipling houses in any Towne or Village but such as shall be agreed at this first viewe and order to be taken therein That they which shal be allowed to be Alehousekeepers and Victuallers shall bee of honest conuersation and of reasonable value and to enter Bonds to her Maiesties vse to performe the orders following which Bonds shall be by the Clerke of the peace presented to the Iustices in their Sessions to be seene whether the Conditions are broken And thereupon the Custos Rotulorum or his deputie to certifie the same into the Eschequer and such of them as shall refuse to bee bound not to be permitted to keepe any Alehouse That no Victuallers Tiplers and Alehousekeepers haue in their houses or doe permit to be brought into their houses any Cardes Dice or Tables nor to suffer any to play in their houses yardes or backsides at any Cards Tables Dice or other vnlawful games That no Victualler Tipler or Alehousekeeper shal dresse or suffer to bee dressed or eaten within his house any flesh vpon any forbidden day sauing in case of necessitie of sickenesse according to the Statute in that behalfe prouided That the Alehousekeepers doe not brewe in their houses nor haue any drinke but such as shall be fit for the inferior sort of people and that but of some ordinary and reasonable size and the drinke to be vttered at such price and rate as the Iustices shal assesse and set downe in their Articles and not to maintaine excesse wherby an exceeding great quantitie of barley may bee saued for bread corne for the inferior sort of people That they suffer none to eate and tiple or vittaile in their houses but such as are wayfairing men that shall take the same to refresh themselues in their passage or iorney or such as shall be appointed to lodge or take diet in their houses but to deliuer out of their houses that quantitie of drinke which their neighbors of the poorer sort shall haue neede of to be drunke in the houses of those who fetch or send for the same and not elsewhere To permit no tippling at all on the Sabboth day or holy day in time of diuine seruice That no Victualler Tippler or Alehousekeeper shall permit and suffer any person or persons to lodge in his house aboue a day and a night but such as hee will answere for as the Statutes in that behalfe made doe require To giue strait order and charge to euery Constable or other inferior Officer to whom it may appertaine that euery of them shall once in euery fifteene dayes search and enquire of the defaults and disorders aforesayd and shall informe the Iustices of the peace of the same defaults and disorders if any bee that the offendors therein may thereupon bee proceeded on and punished according to the lawe And if it shall seeme to the Iustice that the pettie Constable be either a Victualler or one that shall fauour the Victuallers in their faults then some other meete person to be appoynted to make the said Inquisition and Certificate No Tipler to buy any goods of any waifaring man or other that shall bring the same to their houses to sell but of such as shall bee well knowen vnto them to be of honest conuersation and whom they shall bee able alwayes to produce or haue to be forth comming All these with such other necessary Articles as the Iustices of the seuerall Counties to whom the estate of the Shire is best knowne shall thinke necessarie in the seuerall Counties to be added the Alehousekeepers and Victuallers shall be bound to obserue Lastly whosoeuer shall vse tipling or victualling without licence or shall breake the Orders as aforesaid to be prescribed to them to bee proceeded withall and seuerely punished according to the Statute and law in that behalfe