THE LAWS OF THE MARKET. arms of London Printed by James Flesher, Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON, 1668. 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 fore-shall 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 Inn-holder shall suffer any thing 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 Hucksters, 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 shall be sold but according to the weight for the time of the year allowed. 5 No Poulters shall deceiveably occupy the Market, to sell any stale 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. 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 stale Victual shall be 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 swéep the filth of the street into the channel of the City in time of any rain, or at any other time, under pain of vj. s. viij. 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 Inn-holder 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 channel, under pain of ij. s. 4 No man shall encumber the streets with Timber, Stones, Carts, or such like, under pain of forfeiture of the same thing that so encumbereth the streets, which is twenty shillings Fine, if he remove it not at the warning of the Sergeant of the Market. 5 Every Builder of Houses ought to come to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Chamberlein, 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 taken down for the preparing of his new Building, under pain of forty shillings, except he make a hoard of forty shillings. 6 No man shall set any Carts in the streets by night-time, under the pain of xii. d. and recompense to such persons as shall be hurt thereby, if any such be, xii. d. 7 No Budge-man shall led 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 ston 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 Goung-farmer shall carry any Ordure till after ix of the clock in the night, under pain of thirteen shillings four pence. 15 No Goung-farmer shall spill any Ordure in the street, under pain of xiii. s. iiij. d. 16 No man shall bait any 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 forfeiting them. 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 Carts that shall be shod with Spig-nail, that shall come upon the streets of this City, under pain of iij. s. iiij. d. 20 No Carts using daily Carriage within this City, nor Car, shall have Whéels shod with any Iron, but bare, under pain of vi. s. 21 No man shall burn any Straw, Rushes, or other thing, linen or Woollen, 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 Vizards or disguised by night, under like pain of Imprisonment. 24 Made that Night-walkers and Eves-droppers endure like punishment. 25 No Hammer-man, as a Smith, a Pewterer, a Founder, and all Artificers making great sound, shall 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 Ditches of this City, or the Sewers of this City, without the Walls, or into the Walls, Grates, or Gullets of this City, any manner of Carrion, stinking Flesh, rotten Fish, or any Rubbish, Dung, Sand, Gravel, weeds, Stones, or any other thing, to stop the Course of the same, under pain of cleansing thereof, at his own cost and charge, under pain of Imprisonment. 27 No man shall make any Widrawts in any of the Town-ditches, or the Town-gullets, under the pain of xx. s. 28 No man shall Build nigh the Walls of the City, without licence of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Chamberlein, under pain of throwing down the same; and no licence may be granted, except that the Chamberlein freely at all times have convenient and needful ingress and entry, out-going and clear recourse. 29 No man shall go in the streets by night or by day with Bow bent, or Arrows under his girdle, nor with Sword unscabbard, under pain of Imprisonment; or with Hand-gun, 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 Out-cry be made in the still of the Night, as making any Affray, or beating his Wife, or Servant, or Singing or reveling 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 the Lord Mayor, or any Alderman, or Master Sheriffs, or Master Chamberlein, or mis-behave himself in any Railing upon any judge of this City, or their Officers, which by commandment are 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 Chamberlein in his Office, forty days imprisonment: Beating, threatening, and Railing on an Officer is Imprisonment, after as the Trespass is. 32 Memorandum, That every Offence found in this City, it is accustomend that the Officer, a freeman finding it, which is called Primus Inventor, hath half the Penalty by the grace of the Court. 33 Also any 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 forfeitable, or Offences, except a Constable or sergeant of the Mace. 35 No Butcher or his Servant shall use to drive any ox or Oxen a-trot in the streets, but peaceably: and if any 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 Scaldinghouse, upon pain of vj. s. viij. d. 37 No Butcher shall sell any measel Hog, or humoursome Flesh, under pain of x. li. 38 No Butcher shall sell any old stale 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 Victualler of this City shall give any rude or unfitting language, or make any clamour upon any man or woman in the open Market, for cheapping of Victual, under pain of iij. s. iv. 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 Pudding-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 pain of vj. s. viij. d. 43 No man shall cast any Vrine-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 channel, under the pain of iij. s. iiij. d. And if he do cast it upon any persons head, the party to have a lawful recompense, if he have hurt thereby. 44 No man shall hurt, cut or destroy any Pipes, Sesperalls, or Wind-vents, pertaining to the Conduit, 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 Conduit, 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, appoisoning the water, is Lourgulary and Felony. 47 Whosoever destroy or perish any Cocks of the Conduit must have Imprisonment, and make satisfaction. Old Laws and customs of this City. 48 NO man shall set up Shop, or occupy as a freeman, afore he be sworn in the Chamber of London, and admitted by the Chamberlein, under pain of 49 No man shall set over his Apprentice to any other person, but by licence of Master Chamberlein, & there to be set over, under pain of 50 No man which is a Foreign shall buy or sell within the Liberties of this City with another Foreign, under pain of forfeiture of the Goods so foreign bought and sold. 51 No freeman shall be disobedient for to come, at Master Chamberlein's commandment, to any Summons to him given by any Officer of the Chamber, under pain of Imprisonment. 52 Master Chamberlein hath power to sand a freeman to Ward, so that he incontinently after sand to the Lord Mayor the cause why that he is punished, so that the Lord Mayor release him not, but by the Chamberlein's assent: and if he be a great Commoner, and disobeying to the Chamberlein, Master Chamberlein may refer it to a Court of Aldermen. Master Chamberlein hath authority for to sand or command any Apprentice to the counter for their Offences: and if their Offences be great, as in defiling their Masters houses by vicious living, or offending his Master by Theft, or Disslander, or such like, then to command him to Newgate. Apprentice Enrolled, his Master payeth ij. s. vj. Apprentice Set over, he that receiveth ij. s. Apprentice made free, he payeth four shillings. Apprentice never Enrolled, and made free, his Master payeth xiij s. ij. d. A man made free by his Father's Copy payeth xviij. d. A Proclamation made in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Michael Dormer Knight. An Act of Common Council made in the Even of S. Michael, Anno Regis Henrici octavi xxxi. That no person should lay any wears in the street, or beyond the edge of their Stall, upon pain of forfeiture the first time vj. s. viij. d. the second time xiij. s. iiij. d. and the third time the Ware so laid. FINIS.