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By the Mayor.  
WHEREAS the Lord's Day, (commonly called Sunday) is of late much broken and profaned by diverse disorderly people, in carrying and putting to sale diverse victuals and other things: Yet in regard of the inevitable necessity of milk for many Infants, sick, aged, and many medicines, as well on the Lord's day as in the week days, without which they cannot subsist; by reason whereof, the sale of milk on that day cannot be avoided. And whereas the milkwomen in the City of London, and places adjacent, have most earnestly petitioned, That Order might be taken as well about the sale of milk on the said days, that they might nevertheless enjoy the Ordinances of God, and sanctify the Sabbath in obedience to the Commands of God, and the pious laws of the kingdom in that behalf made. As also to prevent the great abuse and fraud which is used by divers single persons using the said calling, give great prices for their milk to the milkemasters, (those of the said calling (which have Families to maintain, and many Parish, and Church duties to pay) not being able to give the like) and to make up their money again in retailing their milk, do usually deceive the Common wealth, in selling by false measures, and vending flatten milk for new: It is therefore Ordered, That all and every person using the said calling of Milke-selling, and which are House keepers within the City of London and places adjacent, may repair to the houses of their Customers, and serve them only in the morning of every Lord's day with milk, they not exceeding the hours of eight of the clock (in the Summer,) and nine of the clock (in the Winter time) of the same mornings, for the sale and serving thereof at the furthest; And that no such retailers of milk, shall presume to cry or sell any milk during the residue of the said days, nor in the evening of the same. And it is further Ordered, That no Milkemasters within the City of London, and places adjacent, shall sell the milk (which their Kine doth yield in the evening of the Sabbath days) to any of their retailing Customers whatsoever; And that the same evening's milk (from time to time) of every Sabbath day, shall remain and be unto the respective Milkemasters (Owners thereof) unto their own accounts, as their own proper goods and Chattels, without (any way) charging the same, either to, or upon their (then) retailing Customer; Or mollesting, suing or troubling them or any of them, for any loss or damage that shall or may arise or grow thereby. And lastly, for the preventing of the inhancing of the prices of milk, and the great deceit which is daily used as foresaid, by many idle and extravagant single persons in retailing of milk. It is ordered, that no milkemaster whatsoever at any time or times hereafter, shall utter, vend, or sell their milk to any retailing single person or persons whatsoever: And if any person or persons shall be found offending in the premises: That then they be brought before me the Lord Mayor, or some other of his majesty's justices of the Peace, to the end they may receive such punishment as to justice shall appertain.  
Given under my hand this nineteenth day of June, Anno Dom. 1643. And in the nineteenth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King Charles, of England, &c. ISAAC PENNINGTON Mayor