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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48299	Lex Londinensis, or, The city law shewing the powers, customs, and practice of all the several courts belonging to the famous city of London ... : together with several acts of Common Councel, very useful and necessary to be known by all merchants, citizens, and freemen of the said city : and also, a method for the ministers within the said city to recover their tithes : with a table to the whole book.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1858; ESTC R2792	111,597	280

every Constable and Watchman may know the Night Time and Places where they are to watch And that the Constable on the day before his watch-night or the Beadle of that Ward do warn every man that is to watch with him accordingly or leave notice thereof in writing at the House of every such man And that the Inhabitants of every Ward do take notice hereof any pretence of priviledge usage or custom to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it also further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Constable shall make default in executing his Office or doing his Service in any of the Premisses hereby appointed or hereafter to be ordered or appointed as aforesaid without just and reasonable cause to be allowed of as is hereafter mentioned that then every such Constable shall forfeit and pay for every such default five pounds And that if any person appointed and warned to watch or to find an able and fit person to watch in his or her stead as aforesaid shall refuse or make default to watch or to find an able and fit person to watch in his or her stead as aforesaid that then every such person so refusing or making default to watch as aforesaid and not having just and reasonable cause for such his default as shall be allowed of by the Lord Major of the said City or the Alderman of that Ward for the time being shall forfeit and pay for every such default Twenty shillings And it is hereby farther Enacted That the Alderman Deputy and Common Councel-men of every Ward or the major part of them for the time being shall from time to time nominate and appoint two or more honest able men of the same Ward who shall be called Supervisors to take care and oversee that the Watches appointed in every Ward be from henceforth duly kept And that the Constables Beadle and Watchmen execute do and perform their duties and services therein or otherwise pay the forfeitures and payments herein before ordained for their defaults respectively and that the same Supervisors or one of them shall take notice of such of the said Inhabitants as absent themselves at any time from watching as aforesaid and likewise of such Constables and Beadle as shall at any time make default be remiss or negligent in performance of his or their Duties in the Premisses and shall likewise from time to time present the name of every s●ch Defaulter to the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or to the Alderman of the Ward where such Default shall be made that every such Defaulter may pay the forfeiture and payment imposed upon him or her as aforesaid And that the Beadle of every Ward or some trusty person for him shall in the presence of the Constable and one of the said Overseers if they or either of them can be present call over the Names of all those which shall be appointed to watch each night respectively in their course as aforesaid as well at the hours appointed for their meeting in the Evening as also at the time appointed for the breaking up of the watch in the morning and that they the Constable or Beadle or one of them or some other trusty person in their or either of their behalf in case the Supervisor shall be absent at any of the said times shall take a Note in writing of the Names and Sirnames of every of the Inhabitants then appointed to watch as shall be absent from their watch at any of the hours herein before appointed Evening or Morning and shall deliver the said Note the next day to the Supervisors or one of them And that the Constables Supervisors and Beadle of every the said Ward and every of them shall bring before the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or the Alderman of their Ward every Constable or other person making default in any of the Premisses respectively if such person making default will readily and voluntarily go along with him and every such Defaulter shall then presently pay to the Lord Major or Alderman aforesaid such forfeitures and payments as are herein before limited and appointed for them respectively to pay as aforesaid and that all Moneys so forfeited and paid as aforesaid shall be imployed to and for the relief of the poor of the said Ward as the Lord Major or Alderman of the Ward where such default shall be made shall think fit and appoint But if such Defaulter shall refuse to go with the said Constable Supervisor or Beadle before the said Lord Major or Alderman as aforesaid or going shall refuse or delay to pay the said forfeitures penalties or sums of Money respectively as aforesaid that then and in either of the said cases such Defaulter shall forfet and pay treble the aforesaid penalties or sums of Money All which forfeitures hereby forfeited shall respectively be recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Information in the name of the Chamberlain of this City for the time being in the Court holden before the Lord Major and Aldermen of the said City in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the same City to be prosecuted by the Beadle of the Ward wherein every of the said Offences aforementioned shall be committed or any other person or persons thereunto appointed by the said Lord Major or the Alderman of such Ward And after recovery thereof one Moiety of the same after all Charges deducted shall be to the said Beadle or other Prosecutors and the other Moiety to be imployed to the relief of the poor of the Ward wherein such Offence shall be committed as the Lord Major or Alderman of the same Ward shall direct and appoint In all which Suits to be brought by virtue of this Act the Chamberlain shall recover his ordinary Costs and Charges to be expended for the recovery of all such forfeitures against the Offenders And lastly be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Beadles of the several Wards of this City or any of them shall not hereafter take or have any allowance of Watchmen called Dead-pays for or in respect of their Nightly watching or for or in consideration of any other Service whatsoever but that the Inhabitants of every Ward shall amongst themselves raise some convenient sum of Money for a fit and competent Salary and Allowance to be made unto the said Beadles for their said Service Or if the said Inhabitants of all or any the said Wards cannot agree upon raising such Salary or Sum of Money then the same to be done by Authority of Common Councel by such way and means and in proportion to the Service and the Extent of each Ward as by the said Common Councel shall upon farther consideration be found just and reasonable The Lord Major doth Annually issue out his Precept to the Aldermen of every Ward to hold his Wardmote for the Election of Common Councel-men and other Officers The Tenor of which Precept is as followeth

memory King Henry the Eighth as a course thought fit and agreeable for that time Ordain establish and enact that no manner of person or persons being estrange from the liberties of the said City from thenceforth should hold or keep any open Shop or Shops within the said City or Liberties of the same neither with any Lattice before nor yet without Lattice certain numbers of poor men occupying the Seat of Botchers Tailors and Coblers only except upon pain of Imprisonment and also to forfeit and pay Forty shillings to the use of the Commonalty of this City as often times as he or they should do the contrary And where also the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the same City did afterwards the Twentieth day of January in the said Seventeenth year of King Henry the Eighth reciting that whereas a Common Councel holden the Sixteenth day of May in the Seventeenth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eeighth It was ordained and enacted That no manner of person or persons being estrange from the Liberties of this City from thenceforth should hold or keep any Shop or Shops within this City or the Liberties of the same neither with any Lattices before nor yet without any Lattice upon pain of Imprisonment further ordain and establish That if any person or persons being Forreign should hold and keep any open Shop or Shops as is aforesaid he should forfeit for every time so doing Forty shillings to be levied by distress to the use of the Commonalty of the said City by the Chamberlin for the time being or other Officer of this City And also have Imprisonment by direction of the Major and Aldermen for the time being Now forasmuch as divers and sundry Strangers and Forreigners from the Liberties of the said City nothing regarding the said ancient Charters Franchises Customs or Liberties of the said City and Acts and Ordinances heretofore made according to the same but wholly intending their private profit have of late years devised and practised by sinister and subtil means how to defraud and defeat the said Charters Liberties Customs good Grders and Ordinances and to that end do now inwardly in privy and secret places usually and ordinarily shew sell and put to sale their Wares and Merchandizes and use Arts Trade Occupation Mysteries and Handicrafts within the said City and Liberties of the same to the great detriment and hurt of the Freemen of the said City who pay lot and scot bear Offices and undergo other Charges which Strangers and others not Free are not chargeable withal nor will perform For reformation of which disorders and avoiding of such prejudice and damages as thereby groweth to the Freemen of the said City and is now more of late used then was in any time heretofore suffered and to provide for the common profit and good of the Freemen and Citizens of this City It is therefore by the Lord Major and Aldermen and Commons in this Common Councel assembled ordained and established that no person whatsoever not being Free of this City of London shall at any time after the Feast of St. Michael now next ensuing by any colour way or means whatsoever either directly or indirectly by himself or by any other shew sell or put to sale any Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever by Retail within the City of London or the Liberties or Suburbs of the same upon pain to forfeit to the Chamberlin of the City of London for the time being to the use of the Major and Commonalty of the said City the sum of five pounds of lawful money of England for every time wherein such person shall shew sell or put to sale any Wares or Merchandizes by Retail within the said City Liberties or Suburbs thereof contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof And it is further ordained and established That no person whatsoever not being free of the City of London shall at any time after the said Feast of St. Michael now next ensuing by any colour way or means whatsoever directly or indirectly by himself or by any other keep any Shop or other place whatsoever inward or outward for shew sale or putting to sale of any Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever by way of Retail or use any Art Trade Occupation Mystery or Handicraft whatsoever within the said City or the Liberties or Suburbs of the same upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds of lawful money of England for every time wherein such persons shall keep any Shop or other place whatsoever inward or outward for shew sale or putting to sale of any Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever by way of Retail or use any Art Trade Occupation Mystery or Handicraft whatsoever within the said City or Liberty or Suburbs of the same contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof All which pains penalties forfeitures and sums of money to be forfeited by virtue of this Act or Ordinance shall be recorded by Action of Debt Bill Plaint to be prosecuted in the name of the Chamberlin of the City of London for the time being in the Kings Majesties Court to be holden in the Chamber of the Guild-hall of the City of London before the Lord Major and Aldermen of the said City wherein no essoin or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed for the Defendants And that the Chamberlin of the City for the time being shall in all Suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act or Ordinance against any Offender recover the ordinary Costs of Suit to be expended in and about the prosecution thereof And further that one equal third part of all Forfeitures to be recovered by virtue hereof The costs of the Suits for recovery of the same being deducted and avowed shall be after the recovery and receipt thereof paid and delivered to the Treasurer of Christ's Hospital to be imployed towards the relief of the poor Children to be brought up and maintained in the said Hospital and one other equal third part to him or them which shall first give Information of the Offences for which such Forfeitures shall grow and prosecute Suit in the name of the Chamberlin of the said City for recovery of the same any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always that this Act or Ordinance or any thing herein contained shall not extend to any person or persons for bringing or causing to be brought any Victual to be sold within this City or the Liberties thereof but that they and every of them may sell Victual within the said City and the Liberties thereof as they might lawfully have done at the making hereof any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding If a Freeman of London shall imploy a Forreigner to work within the City or Liberties he forfeits 5 l. a day and an Action lies against him for the same In like manner pursuant to an Act of Common Councel made in the Majoralty of Sir William Garrard Knight which Act is as followeth

come Greeting Whereas our beloved in Christian part the Major and Commonalty and Citizens of our City of London time out of memory of man have had exercised and ought and have accustomed to have and exercise the Office of Bailiff and Conservation of the Water of Thames to be exercised and occupied by the Major of the same City for the time being during the time of his Majoralty or by his sufficient Deputies in and upon and about the water of Thames That is to say From the Bridge of the Town of Stains in the County of Middlesex and towards the West unto London-Bridge and from thence to a certain place called Kendal otherwise Yenland otherwise Yenleet towards the Sea and East and in Medway and in the part of the City of London aforesaid and upon whatsoever Banck and upon every Shore and every Wharf of the same Water of Thames within the Limits and Bounds aforesaid And in upon and about all and every of them And also for all the time aforesaid have had and taken and ought and have accustomed to have and take to their own proper use by the Major of the aforesaid City for the time being during the time of his Majoralty or his sufficient Deputies all wages regards fees and profits appertaining and belonging to the same Office of Bailiff We therefore to the Intent that the said Major and Commonalty and Citizens may more securely freely and quietly use have exercise and enjoy the Office aforesaid and the fees wages regards and profits thereunto belonging to them and their Successors for ever of our especial Grace and certain knowledge and meer motion have granted and by these Presents for Vs our Heirs and Successors do grant to the foresaid Major and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors That they the aforesaid Major and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors may exercise and execute the aforesaid Office of Bailiff and Conservation of the Water of Thames by the Major of the said City for the time being during the time of his Majoralty or his sufficient Deputies from time to time for ever in upon or about the same water of Thames That is to say from the aforesaid Bridge of Stains in the County of Middlesex towards the West to the Bridge of London and from thence to a certain place called Yendall otherwise Yenland otherwise Yenleet towards the Sea and East and in Medway and in the Port of the City of London aforesaid and upon whatsoever Banck and whatsoever Shore and whatsoever Wharf of the same Water of Thames within the Limits and Bounds aforesaid in upon and about every one of the same and to have receive collect and enjoy all and singular wages regards fees and profits to the same Office of Bailiff pertaining and belonging to the proper use of the same Major and Commonalty and Citizens by the Major of the City aforesaid for the time being during the time of his Majoralty or by his sufficient Deputies without the hinderance of Vs our Heirs or Successors or any of our Officers Bailiffs or Ministers or of our Heirs or Successors or our Admiral of England or of our Successors or any others of our Subjects or of our Heirs or Successors whatsoever or of any grant by Vs our Heirs or Successors to be made to the contrary To have hold and enjoy the aforesaid Office and all and singular the Premisses with all and singular Wages Regards Fees Profits and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Office belonging or appertaining to the aforesaid Major and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors for ever by the Major of the foresaid City for the time being during the time of his Majoralty or by his sufficient Deputies to be exercised and executed without any Accompt or any other thing to be rendred or made thereof to Vs our Heirs or Successors So as no other Bailiff or Conservator of the aforesaid Water shall be or shall in any wise intermeddle in the Premisses THE COURT OF REQUESTS Commonly called The Court of Conscience THE first beginning of this Court was in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Eighth by Act of Common Councel then made whereby it was ordained That the Major and Aldermen of the City of London should monthly assign and appoint two Aldermen and four Commoners to be Commissioners to sit in the same Court in Guildhall upon Wednesday and Saturday in every week there to hear examine and determine all Matters brought before them between party and party Citizens of London where the Debt did not exceed forty shillings which Act was to continue two years and no longer But being found beneficial for the relief of such poor Debtors as could not make present payment of their Debts and also to be a great ease and help to such poor persons as had small Debts owing to them and were not able to prosecute a Suit in Law for the same The said Act hath since been continued by divers other Acts of Common Councel and besides the two Aldermen monthly assigned the number of Commissioners was encreased from four to twelve and by that authority the same Court continued till the first Year of the Reign of King James And then divers malicious people slighting the Authority of the same Court and not regarding the expence how great soever if they might ruin their poor Debtors And being often animated thereunto by divers Attorneys and Sollicitors did frequently commence Suits for petty Debts and Causes against poor men Citizens of London in the High Courts at Westminster or elsewhere out of the said Court of Requests to avoid the Jurisdiction thereof and to barr the said Commissioners from staying such Suits and examining the said Causes and thereby caused such poor men many times to pay ten times as much Charges as the principal Debt did amount unto to the undoing such poor men their Wives and Children and also to the filling of the Prisons with the poor so sued For Remedy whereof and for the strengthning and establishing the said Court. An Act of Parliament was made in the third Year of the Reign of King James Intituled An Act for the recovering of small Debts and for the relieving of poor Debtors in London The Tenor of which Act is as followeth WHereas by virtue of divers Acts of Common Councel made within the City of London the Lord Major and Aldermen of the same City for the Relief of poor Debtors dwelling within the said City have accustomed monthly to assign two Aldermen and twelve discreet Commoners to be Commissioners and sit in the Court of Requests commonly called the Court of Conscience in the Guildhall of the same City there to hear and determine all matters of Debt not amounting to the sum of xlx to be brought before them And whereas at the Sessions of Parliament holden at Westminster the Nineteenth day of March in the first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty that now is for the further