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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

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

constantly put in Execution And if any of the said Overseers and Collectors or Receivers shall be remiss or corrupt herein then they shall be forthwith displaced and disabled of any Office or place touching the said Markets And be it further Enacted That in case the aforesaid Committee for Letting the City Lands shall at any time hereafter find it most fitting and advantageous for the benefit of the Chamber to let the said Markets or any of them to Farm that then the Committee aforesaid for the time being shall and may treat with any person or persons for Letting the same to Farm upon the best terms they can and report their proceedings unto this Court for their Approbation therein All which pains forfeitures and penalties sum and sums of money to be forfeited by virtue of this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint to be commenced and prosecuted in the Name of the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being in the Court holden before the Major Aldermen in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London and that the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being in all Suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this Act against any Offender or Offenders contrary to the same shall recover the ordinary Costs af Suit to be expended in and about the prosecution thereof and if the Suit pass for the Defendant then the said Defendant to recover his Costs and that the Chamberlain for the time being shall not have power to take less of any Offender then herein is limited to be forfeited for every Offence And further That one moiety of all Forfeitures to be recovered by virtue hereof the Costs of the Suit for Recovery of the same being deducted shall after Recovery and the Receipt thereof at or before the twenty fifth day of March yearly be paid and delivered unto the Treasurer of Christ's Hospital to be imployed towards the Relief of the poor Children to be brought up and maintained in that Hospital and the other moiety to him or them which shall first give Information of the Offences for which the Forfeitures shall grow and prosecute Suit in the Name of the Chamberlain of the said City for recovery of the same any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas the Serjeant and Yeoman of the Channel and Yeoman of Newgate Market and Foreign-taker while the common Markets were kept in Leadenhall-street Cheapside and Newgate-street did take care for sweeping and making clean the said Streets where the Market people resorted and paid for carrying away the Soil thereof as also for furnishing the Market people with Boards and other Accommodations In consideration whereof they received some certain Allowance by consent of the Market people for their care and pains therein Now forasmuch as the said Markets are removed out of the Streets and made Commodious at the publick Charge of the City and that the Revenue thereof ought to be improved for the benefit of the Chamber Be it Enacted That the several Officers aforementioned shall from henceforth be wholly discharged from the Charge of Cleansing and Carrying away the Soil of the said Markets and providing Boards and other Accomodations for the Market people and likewise from any ways intermedling with the Receipt of any Duties Fees or Profits or taking any Money of any persons resorting to or standing in any of the Common Markets aforesaid upon any pretence whatsoever but that instead thereof the Serjeant and Yeoman of the Channel for the time being shall during their Continuance in the said places each of them have and receive out of the Chamber of London the sum of three pounds weekly and Richard Robinson the present Foreign-taker and Yeoman of Newgate-Market the sum of three pounds every week during the term of his natural Life All which sums respectively and none other shall be paid by the Chamberlain out of the Profits arising by the Markets to the persons aforesaid in full satisfaction of all their Right Title Claim and Demand whatsoever to any part or share of the Profits to be collected of the Market people Wagstaffe BY an Act of Parliament made in the 22th and 23th Year of King Charles the Second it is ordained and enacted That the Annual certain Tithes of all and every Parish and Parishes within the City of London and Liberties thereof whose Churches have been demolished by the dreadful Fire And which said Parishes by virtue of an Act 22 Car. 2. cap. 11. Intituled An Additional Act for Rebuilding of the City of London Uniting of Parishes c. remain and continue single as heretofore they were or are by the said Act annexed or united into one Parish respectively shall be as followeth The Parish of Alhallows Lombardstreet One hundred and ten pounds St. Bartholomew Exchange One hundred pounds St. Bridget alias Brides One hundred and twenty pounds St. Bennet Finck One hundred pounds St. Michael Crooked-lane One hundred pounds St. Christopher One hundred and twenty pounds St. Dionys Backchurch One hundred and twenty pounds St. Dunstan in the East Two hundred pounds St. James Garlickhith One hundred pounds St. Michael Cornhill One hundred and forty pounds St. Michael Bassishaw One hundred thirty and two pounds eleven shillings St. Margaret Lothbury One hundred pounds St. Mary Aldermanbury One hundred and fifty pounds St. Martin Ludgate One hundred and sixty pounds St. Peter Cornhill One hundred and ten pounds St. Stephen Coleman-street One hundred and ten pounds Sts. Sepulchre Two hundred pounds St. Alhallows Breadstreet and St. John Evangelist One hundred and fifty pounds Alhallows the Great and Alhallows the Less Two hundred pounds St. Alban Woodstreet and St. Olaves Silverstreet One hundred and seven●y pounds St. Anne and Agnes and St. John Zachary One hundred and forty pounds St. Augustine and St. Faith One hundred seventy and two pounds St. Andrew Wardrobe and St. Anne Black-Friers One hundred and forty pounds St. Antholin and St. John Baptist One hundred and twenty pounds St. Bennet Grace church and St. Leonard Eastcheap One hundred and forty pounds St. Bennet Pauls-wharf and St. Peters Pauls-wharf One hundred pounds Christ Church and St. Leonard Foster-lane Two hundred pounds St. Edmond the King and St. Nicholas Acons One hundred and eighty pounds St. George Botolph-lane and St. Botolph Billingsgate One hundred and eighty pounds St. Lawrence Jury and St. Magdalen Milkstreet One hundred and twenty pounds St. Magnus and St. Margaret New-Fish-street One hundred and seventy pounds St. Michael Royal and St. Martin Vintry One hundred and forty pounds St. Matthew Friday-street and St. Peter Cheap One hundred and fifty pounds St. Margaret Pattons and St. Gabriel Fenchurch One hundred and twenty pounds St. Mary at Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard Two hundred pounds St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch One hundred and sixty pounds St. Clement Eastcheap and St. Martin Orgars One hundred and forty pounds St. Mary Abchurch and St.