❧ Orders conceived by the Lords of her majesties privy counsel, and by her Highnesse special direction, commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing, and eating of Flesh this next Lent, and to be executed as well by the Lord Maior within the City and suburbs of London, and by the Officers of the Liberties and erempt places in and about the same, as by order to be prescribed by the Lords Lieutenants of all the Counties of the realm, to the Iustices of Peace, Lords of Liberties, and Officers of corporal towns.  
1. March, 45. year of her majesties reign.  
FIrst, her majesties pleasure is, vpon her understanding of the great disorders heretofore, and especially the last Lent, committed in killing and eating flesh in the time of Lent, especially in the city of London, and the liberties thereto adjoining, that the Statute made in the fift year of her majesties reign for the restraint thereof, be put in due execution by the way of Inquisition, and charge of Iuries, or by any other good means, both within the city and all other places requisite within the realm, and this to be executed with more diligence then heretofore it hath been.  
2 And for the better knowledge of the truth of these disorders, and redress of the inconveniences, the said Iuries shall call before them, and sand for any of the Seruants of any Inholders, Victuallers, taverners, and Keepers of ordinary Tables, and such other that utter Victuals, to examine them vpon their corporal oaths, what flesh is, or hath been during the Lent season, dressed, killed, uttered or eaten in their houses, which if they shall refuse to do, then they shal make known the same to the Alderman or his deputy of that Ward, who shall commit to prison the said sernants, so refusing vpon their other to declare the truth.  
3 And because a great part of the disforder growbeth by the Butchers of the City of London, and also of the country, that kill secretly and bring Flesh to the City: It is ordered that there shall be onely sire Butchers licenced by the Lord Maior within the City of London, and for the liberties thereof, viz. three in eastcheap, and three in S. Nicholas Shambles, who shal be of the poorer fort, and shall not pay any thing for their licenses, nor join with them any partners.  
4 That every of the said Butchers so to be licenced within the City, bee stinted not to kill weekly above the number of wentie sheep, twenty calves, and twenty lambs, and to utter and sell the same in their open shops in such fort, as in open time they are accustomend to do, and at such rates and prizes as shall be set down by order of the Lord Maior of London for that city and the liberties thereof. And besides every one of them shall keep a perfect book, what Flesh they kill every day, and to what persons they sell and utter the same, and be bound in a sufficient Bond with good Sureties to her Baiesties use, to observe these Orders in every respert.  
5 That there be licenced only to kill and utter flesh in the Suburbs of the said City, as in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey near unto London, onely ten Butchers to be licenced by the Iustices within the several limits, whereof two to be of the Quorum, that is, two without Temple bar in the parish of S. Clement Danes, two without Smithfield bars in the parish of S. Pulchers, or Clarketonwell, or one of them, one in whitecrosse street, one in Norton Folgate, one in white chapel, one in S. Katherines, two in southwark, and for the City of Westminster and the liberties thereof two Butchers to be licenced by the chief Officer of that liberty. And those to be as is before expressed for the said city and the liberties, of the poorer sort inhabiting in those places, and to be licenced without any money or other consideration to be given for the same, and to be bound in the like Bond and Conditions, and to observe the like Orders in cuery respeet as those that are to be appointed for London, and the said clerk of the Market, Officer and Iustice, there to see them, and to set the prizes of the victuals to be uttered in those parts.  
6 That no person be permitted to kill or sell any flesh but to those that are licenced, nor in any other place as before is specified, vpon pain to forfeit the flesh to be given to the poor in the prisons, and to suffer imprisonment.  
7 That the Constables, Churchwardens and other public Officers be authorized in London, and the liberties thereof, by the L. Maior, and by the Iustices in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and the forenamed Officers in westminster, to make search, and to see that the licenced Butchers, nor any other do kill or utter any flesh, nor do any thing contrary to the Orders and her majesties Proclamation in that behalf, and of they find any to offend therein, that they be bound and ordered to present the same to the Iustices of the Peace, and the Officers of Westminster, who are to see the offenders duly punished and proceeded withall according to the law and their discretions.  
8 Item, that every Butcher licenced to kill for any private persons, do not sell to any other.