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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	act_n	authority_n	enact_v	904	5	10.1864	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06229	By the Mayor. Orders set dovvne for Blackvvellhall	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.	1595 (1595)	STC 16716; ESTC S107593	4,436	5

person or persons not being free of the said Citty shall by himselfe or any other for him or by his meanes or practise bargaine or sell in any place or places within the liberties of this City out of the said assigned market place or places any of the said Clothes Kersies or other commodities nor shall buy any of the same within any the said assigned market place or places to the intente to sell the same againe in any of the saide assigned Market places or elswhere within the saide Cittie or liberties thereof vpon paine to forfeite and loose for euery such offence the Cloth Clothes Kersies and other the saide commodities so bought or soulde or the value thereof And also that euery person and persons being free of this Cittie which shall harbour or receiue the said Cloth Clothes or comodities so bought or soulde contrarie to the tenor of this Act and the true meaning thereof shall forfeit and loose his freedome and not to be thereunto readmitted but by the Lord Maior Aldermen and Common Councell of the saide Cittie for the time being And it is likewise hereby further enacted and ordayned that no person or persons now free or hereafter to be made free of the saide Cittie shall from and after the saide tenth day of Iune next sell or cause to be solde any Cloth Clothes Kersies or any other the comodities aforenamed either in his owne name or for or in the name of any other within the saide Common Markets or any of them vpon paine to forfeit and loose euery such Cloth Clothes and other comodities so solde or the value thereof And to the intent to cut of the great fraude and abuse vsed by sundry persons being free of this City and others by forreine buying and selling contrary to the auncient lawes customes and liberties of the same Cittie and for the better finding out of the same fraudulent dealings It is further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the Clearke or officer for the collecting of duties due for the harbouring and pitching of clothes at the said Market of Blackwelhall and places aforesaid shall keepe a Register booke weekely throughout the whole yeare of the names and surnames of the saide Clothmen and Freemen owners of such Clothes and Kersies and other comodities as shal be bought vpon any former bargaine before they shall be brought to the sayd Citty and which shall be brought to the sayd Market place or places according to the tenor of this Act and shall register the true nomber of such Clothes Kersies and other commodities together with the names and surnames of the sayd Free-men or other buyers and sellers of the same Vppon payne that the sayd Officer shall for not keeping the sayde Booke truely and faythfully as aforesayd and for not giuing a note in writinge for the dueties payde to him or them that shall pay the same according to the true meaning of this Act shall forfeit and loose his said office And if the owner of the said goods or his Carrier be they forriners or free shall deny to the saide Officer to giue the true names and surnames of the buyers and sellers with the iust nomber of all such Clothes and Kersies and other commodities aforesayd so brought to the hall aforesayd Then it is hereby further ordeyned and enacted that the said buyers and sellers whether they be free or forreyners shall haue no benefite of the exception aboue specified in this present Act concerning former bargaines but shal be bound to put to sale the same Cloth Clothes and comodities aforesaid in Blackwelhall Market or in other the place or places appoynted as aforesayd sayd as though there had bene no former bargayne of the same Clothes or other commodities And for the better reformation of the offences and abuses purposed to be reformed and amended by this present Act of Common Councell and the more ready execution of the same It is finally enacted ordayned and established by the authority aforesaid that all and all maner Cloth Clothes Wares commodities somme and sommes of money and other thinges whatsoeuer that shall bee forfeyted by vertue of this Acte shall bee obtayned leuied or recouered either by seizure or els by Action of debt bill plainte or information in the name of the Chambe●laine of the sayd Citty 〈◊〉 the ●●●●ing in the Queenes Maiesties Court holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the sayd Citty before the Mayor and Aldermen of the same for the time beeing wherein no Essoigne protection or wager of law shall bee admitted or allowed And that all the paynes penalties and forfeytures to bee had or recouered by vertue of this Acte the charges of recouery deducted shall bee deuided into three equall partes whereof one third parte shall bee imployed to the Mayor and Comminalty of the same Citty towards the mainetenance and reparations of Blackwell-hall aforesayde One other third parte to the vse of the poore children of Christes Hospitall within the sayd citty And the other third parte to him that will sue for the same beeing a Free-man Now to the ende that all persons whome the sayd Acte may in any sorte concerne may take knowledge therof and therby way the rather avoyde the daunger of the penalties therein contayned The Right honorable the Lord Mayor of the city aforesayde and the Right worshipfull the Aldermen his brethren Haue thought good by Proclamation to publish the same Dated at the Guildhall of the cittie of London the thirteenth day of May in the seauen and thirtieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. God saue the Queene