THE laws OF THE MARKET. Wolfe's device (?) Imprinted by john Wolf, Printer to the honourable City of London. 1595. woodcut illustrated border I W The Laws of the Market. FIrst, in all the Markets of this City, no victual shall be sold, but by the price set by the Mayor of this City. 2 No man shall forestall any victual coming to the Market, as for to buy in any Inn or other privy place, or yet coming to the Market, whether it be found in the hands of the buyer or of the seller, under pain of forfeiture of the same, and no Inholder, shall suffer nothing to be sold in his house, upon pain of forfeiture of xl. s. 3 No man shall regrate any victual which is in the market, or buy any victual to ingrate in the market, so that the commons can or may have any part of such victual as in especial such as be known for huxters, or other people, occupying their living by such victual as they would so engross, under pain of forfeiture of such victual so regretted: Provided always that any steward for any noble feast may buy or ingrate such victual as is convenient for the same feast. 4 No butter shallbe sold but according to the weight for the time of the year allowed. 5 No Poulters shall deceiveably occupy the Market to sell any stolen victual or such as be Poulters of this City, for to stand in strange clothing so to do, under pain of xl. s. and the forfeiture of such victual. xl. s. 6 No Hucksters shall stand or sit in the Market, but in the lower place and the ends of the Market to the intent they may be perfectly known and the stranger market people have the pre-eminence of the Market, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. if the Hucksters disobey the same. 7 No unwholesome or stolen victual shallbe sold under pain of xl. s. and forfeiture of the same victual. The Statutes of the Streets of this City, against Noysances. FIrst, no man shall sweep the filth of the street into the Canell of the City in the time of any rain or at any other time under pain of vj. s. viii. d. 2 No man shall cast, or lay in the Streets, dogs, cats, or other carrion, or any noisome thing contagious of air. Nor no Inholder shall lay out dung out of his house but if the cart be ready to carry the same away incontinently, under pain of xl. s. 3 No Brewer shall cast wilfully, dregs, or dross of Ale or Beer into the Canell, under pain of ij. s. 4 No man shall encumber the Streets with Timber, Stones, Cartes, or such like, under pain of forfeiture of the same thing, that so encumbereth the streets which is twenty shillings fine, if he amove it not at the warning of the Sergeant of the Market. 5 Every builder of houses ought to come to the Mayor, aldermans, and chamberlain, for a special licence for hoard of, by him to be made in the high Street, and no Builder to encumber the Streets with any manner of thing, taking down for the preparing of his new building, under pain of forty shillings, except he make a hoard of xl. s. 6 No man shall set any Cartes in the streets by night time, under the pain of xii. d. and recompense to such persons as shallbe hurt thereby if any such be, xii. d. 7 No Budge-man shall lead but two horses, and he shall not let them go unled, under pain of ij. s. 8 No man shall ride or drive his car, or cart a trot, in the street, but patiently, under pain of ij. s. 9 No man shall gallop his horse in the street under pain of ij. s. 10 No man shall shoot in the street, for wager or otherwise, under like pain of ij. s. 11 No man shall bowl, or cast any stone in the street for wager or gain or such like, under pain of ij. s. 12 No man shall dig any hole in the street for any matter, except he stop it up again, under pain of ij. s. and recompense to any person hurt thereby ij. s. 13 No man shall bury any dung, or goung, within the liberties of this City under pain of xl. s. 14 No Goungfermour shall carry any Ordure till after ix. of the clock in the night, under pain of thirteen shillings, four pence. 15 No Goungfermer shall spill any Ordure in the street, under pain of xiii. s. iiij. d. 16 No man shall bait Bull, Bear, or Horse in the open street, under pain of xx. s. 17 No man shall have any Kine, Goats, Hogs, Pigs, Hens, Cocks, Capons, or Ducks, in the open street, under pain of forfeiture of the same. 18 No man shall maintain any biting Curs, or mad Dogs, in the streets, under pain of ij. s. and recompense to every party hurt therewith ij. s. 19 No Cartes that shall be shod with Spignayle, that shall come upon the streets of this City, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 20 No Cartes using daily carriage within the City, nor Car shall have wheels shod with any Iron, but bare under pain of vj. s. 21 No man shall burn any straw, Richeses, or other thing, Linen, or , in the Streets, by night or by day, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 22 No man shall blow any horn in the night, within this City, or Whistle after the hour of nine of the clock in the night, under pain of imprisonment. 23 No man shall use to go with visoures, or disguised by night, under like pain of imprisonment. 24 Made that Nightwalkers and Euisdroppers, like punishment. 25 No Hammer man, as a Smith a Pewterer, a Founder, and all Artificers, making great sound, shall not work after the hour of nine in the night, nor afore the hour of four in the Morning, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 26 No man shall cast into the Diches of this City, or the Sewers of this City, without the walls, or into the Walls, Grates, or Gullyttes of this City, any manner of carryn, stinking flesh, rotten fish, or any rubbyshe, dung, sand, gravel, weeds, stones, or any other thing, to stop the course of the same, under pain of cleansing of, at his own cost and charge, under pain of imprisonment. 27 No man shall make any wided rawtes in any of the town Dyches, or the town gullits, under pain of xx. s. 28 No man shall build nigh the Walls of this city, without licence of the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Chamberlain, under pain of throwing down the same, and no licence may be granted except that the Chamberlain freely at all times convenient and needful for ingress and entry, out-going, and clear recourse. 29 No man shall go in the streets by night or by day, with bow bend, or arrows under his girdle, nor with sword unscabberd, under pain of imprisonment, or with handgunne, having therewith powder and match: except it be in an usual May-game, or sight. 30 No man shall after the hour of nine at the Night, keep any rule whereby any such sudden outcry be made in the still of the Night, as making any affray, or beating his Wife, or Servant, or singing, or reviling in his house, to the disturbance of his neighbours, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 31 No man shall make any affray upon any Officer, which with good demeanour doth his message, by commandment of my L. Mayor, or any Alderman, or M. Sheriffs, or M. Chamberlain, or misbehave himself in any railing upon any judge of this City, or their Officers, which by commandment be sent to bring any breaker of this law and custom to Ward, or to distress, or such like upon pain of Imprisonment of forty days, and forfeiture of the double penalty, for the offences asseasing railing upon any Alderman, or Mayor in his office, is judgement of the Pillory, railing upon Master chamberlain in his Office, forty days imprisonment, beating, threatening, and railing of an officer is imprisonment, after as the trespass is. 32 Memorandum that every offence found in this City, it is accustomed that the Officer, a Freeman, finding it, which is called primus Inventor, hath half the penalty by the grace of the Court. 33 Also every Freeman may find any offence, but he hath no power to bring the Party before any judge of this City, without an officer, except the party will come to his answer by free-will. 34 No man hath power to arrest, attach, or make distress of any goods forfitable, or offences, except the constable or Sergeant of the Maze. 35 No Butcher or his servant shall not use to drive any Ox or Oxen, a trot in the streets, but peaceably and if an Ox happen to be let go, when he is prepared to slaughter the Butcher shall forfeit ij. s. besides recompense, if any person be hurt thereby. 36 No Butcher shall scald Hogs but in the common scalding house, upon pain of vj. s. viii. d. 37 No Butcher shall sell any mesel Hog, or unwholesome flesh under pain of x. li. 38 No Butcher shall sell any old stolen victual: that is to say, above the slaughter of three days in the Winter and two in the Summer, under pain of x. li. 39 None unreasonable Victual for all manner of victuals. 40 No Victualer of this City, shall give any rude or unsetting language, or make any clamour upon any man or woman in the open market, for cheapinge of victual under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 41 No Butcher shall cast the inwards of beasts into the streets, cleaves of beasts feet, bones, horns of Sheep or other such like, under pain of ij. s. 42 The Poding cart of the shambles shall not go afore the hour of nine in the night, or after the hour of five in the morning, under the pain of vj. s. viii. d. 43 No man shall cast any Urine boles, or ordure boles, into the streets, by day or night, afore the hour of nine in the night: And also he shall not cast it out, but bring it down, and lay it in the Canell, under the pain of iij. s. iiij. d. And if he do cast it upon any person's head, the party to have a lawful recompense, if he have hurt thereby 44 No man shall hurt, cut, or destroy any Pipes, Sesperalles, or wind Ventes pertaining to the Condite, under pain of imprisonment and making satisfaction, though he doth it out of the City, if he may be taken within the City. 45 No man within this City may make any Quill, and break any Pipe of the Condite, coming through his house, or nigh his ground, under pain of the Pillory, or take any water privily unto his house. 46 Casting any corrupt thing, appoysoning the water, is Lourgulary and felony. 47 Whosoever destroy or perish any Cocks of the Condite, must have imprisonment, and make satisfaction. Old Laws and Customs of this City. No man shall set up Shop, or occupy as a Freeman afore he be sworn in the Chamber of London, and admitted by the Chamberlain, under pain of. 48 No man shall set over his apprentice to any other person, but by licence of M. chamberlain, and there to be set over under pain. 49 No man which is a Foreign, shall not buy nor sell within the Liberties of this City, with another Foreign, under pain of forfeiture of the goods so foreign bought and sold. 50 No Freeman shall be disobedient for to come at M. Chamberlains commandment, to any summons to him given by any Officer of the Chamber, under pain of imprisonment. 51 M. Chamberlain hath power to send a Freeman to Ward, so that he incontinently after send to the Lord Mayor, the cause why that he is punished, so that the Lord Maior release him not but by the Chamberlains assent, and if he be a great Commoner, and disobeying to the Chamberlain, M. chamberlain may refer it to a Court of Aldermen. M. chamberlain hath authority for to send or command any Apprentice to the Counter for their offences, and if their offences be great as in defile their masters houses by vicious living, or offending his master by theft, or disslaunder, or such like, then to command him to Newgate. Apprentice enroled, his master payeth ij. s. vj. d. Apprentice set over, he that receiveth ij. s. Apprentice made free, he payeth iiij. s. Apprentice never enroled, and made free, his master payeth xiii. s. ij. d. A man made free by his Father's Copy, payeth xviij. d. A Proclamation made in the time of the Mayrolty of Sir Michael Dormer knight. An Act of Common Council made in the Even of saint Michael, Anno Regis Henrici Octavi, xxxi. that no person should lay any wares in the street, or beyond the edge of their stall, upon pain of forfeiture the first time vj. s. viii. d. the second time xiii. s. iiij. d. and the third time the ware so laid. FINIS.