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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74127	By the Major. Wee charge and command you, that upon S. Thomas day the apostle next comming, you doe hold your ward mote, ...	City of London (England). Lord Mayor.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2883C; Thomason 669.f.15[5]	6,417	3

London but honest persons and of good name and fame and so taken and admitted by the Aldermen of the ward for the time being and that the same hucksters doe finde sufficient surety afore the Mayor Aldermen for the time being to be of good guiding and rule And that the same hucksters shal keepe no bawdry nor suffer no letchery dice playing carding or any other unlawfull games to be done exercised or used within their houses and to shut in their doores at nine of the clocke in the night from Michaelmas to Easter and from Easter to Michaelmas at ten of the clocke in the night and after that houre sell none Ale or Beere And if any huckster of Beere or Ale after this Act published and proclaimed sellany Ale or Beere within any ward of the City of London and be not admitted by the Aldermen of the same ward so to doe or find not sufficient surety as it is above rehearsed the same huckster to have imprisonment and make fine and ransome for his contempt after the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen And also that the said hucksters suffer no manner of common eating and drinking within their cellars or vaults contrary to the ordinance thereof ordained and provided as in the said Act more plainly appeareth at large We charge you that you put the same in due execution accordingly 16 And also that ye see all Liplers and other sellers of Ale or Beere Measures ●…aled as well of privie Osteries as Brewers and Inholders within your ward not selling by lawfull measures sealed and marked with the letter C. crowned according as in that behalfe it is ordained and purveyed be presented their names in your said Indentures be expressed with their defaults so that the Chamberlaine may be lawfully answered of their amercements 17 And also that you suffer no stranger borne out of the Realme to be of the common Councel Stranger born nor to exercise or use any other office within this Citie nor receive or accept any person into your watch privy or open but Englishmen borne And if any stranger borne out of this Realme made denizen by the Kings Letters Patents or any other after his course and lot be appointed to any watch that then ye command compell him or them to find in his stead and place one Englishman to supply the same 18 And also that you cause an abstract of the Assize appointed by Act of Parliament for billets and other fire-wood to be faire written in Parchment to be fixed or hanged up in a Table in some fit and convenient place in every parish within your ward where the common people may best see the same 19 And furthermore S●reets we charge and command you That you cause such provision to be had in your said ward that all the streets and lanes within the same ward be from time to time cleansed cleerely voyded of ordure dung myre Paine 40 2. rubbish and other filthy things whatsoever be to the annoyance of the Kings Maiesties subiects 20 And also that at all times as you shall thinke necessary you doe cause search to be made within your said ward for all vagrant beggers Vagrants suspicious and idle people and such as cannot shew how to live and such as shall be found within your said ward that you caust to be punished dealt with according to the law and the statute in such case ordained and provided 21 And also we will and charge you the said Alderman Jury men that your selfe certifie and present before us at the said general Court to be holden the foresaid Munday next after the Feast of the Epiphany all the names and surnames truly written of such persons within your said ward as be ably to passe in a Grand-Iury by themselves And also all the names and surnames truly written of such persons being and dwelling within your said ward as be able to passe in a Petty-Iury not able to passe in a Grand-Iury by themselves that is to say every Grand-Iury man to be worth in Goods an hundred Markes and every petty Iury man forty Markes according to an Act in that case ordained and provided and the same you shall indorse on the backside of your Indenture 22 Item Harlots for divers reasonable and urgent considerations us especially moving we straitly charge and command you on the King our Soveraigne Lords behalfe that you diligently provide and foresee that no manner of person or persons within your said ward of what condition or degreee soever he or they be of keeping any Taverne or Alehouse Ale-seller or any other victualling house or place of common resort to eate and drinke in within the same ward permit or suffer at any time hereafter any common woman of their bodies or harlots to resort and come into their said house or other the places aforesaid to eate or drink or otherwise to be conversant or abide or thither to haunt or frequent upon paine of imprisonment as well of the occupier keeper of every such house or houses and all other the places afore remembred as of the common woman or harlots 23 Also that you doe give in charge to the wardmote enquest of your ward Articles all the articles delivered to you herewith An Act for the Reformation of divers abuses used in the Wardmote Enquests ITem Commons Dinners Banqueting where the Wardmote Enquests within the severall Wards of this City for the maintenance of honesty vertue and good living and for the abolishment exiling and suppressing of all kind of vice evill rule and iniquitie according to the ancient laudable Lawes and Customes of the said Cite are yeerely severally charged and sworne upon the day of Saint Thomas the Apostle before the Aldermen of the said wards chiefely and principally to the end intent that they with all diligence should truly and duely inquire and present all such enormities nusances misorder and offences as are or at any time within the space of one whole yeare then next ensuing shall be severally used committed or done within the said Wards and have day yearely to make their said presentments untill the Munday next after the Feast of the Epiphany The said Enquests heretofore little or nothing at all regarding as it is very manifest and not unknowne the more is the pitie their said Oathes or yet the great commodities utility quietnesse honour and worship that might or should grow and ensue to the said Citie and inhabitants of the same through their good industrious indifferent proceedings for the advancement of vertue and repressing of vices have drawne it in a manner into a very ordinary course and common custome to consume spend a great part of their said time that they have yearely given unto them when they receive their said charge partly in setting up among themselves a certaine commons and making keeping many costly and sumptuous dinners suppers and banquets inviting

and calling to the same at sundry times in a manner all the inhabitants of the said severall wards to the no little charges of the same inhabitants and partly in passing occupying much part of the same time in playing at dice tables cards and such other unlawful games both to the great costs charges and expences of the said Enquests whereof the greater part are most commonly but poore men and also to the very lewd pernicious and evill example of all such as have any accesse or recourse unto the same Enquests And where also the said enquests have of late usurped to dispence with such persons as they by their search and otherwise have founden to offend and transgresse the Lawes in using and occupying of unlawfull Weights and Measures taking of the said Offenders certaine Fines which Fines as it is said the said Enquests have commonly used to imploy towards the maintenance of their said Feasting and Banqueting directly against the due order of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Lawes and the publike wealth of all his Highnesse Subiects within the said City and much to the reproach and dishonour of the same City For remedy and reformation thereof be it ordained enacted and established by the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in this present common Councell assembled and by authority of the same That all and every the wardmote Enquests of the said City from henceforth to be yeerely charged and sworne within the said severall Wards at the time afore rehearsed shal at all times and places meet convenient for the due execution of their said charge meet and assemble themselves together and that they and every of them after their said meetings inquisition and treating of their said necessary matters shall goe home to their owne severall houses to Breakfast Dinner Supper during all the said accustomed time of their Charge and Session above said And that none of the said Enquests shall from henceforth forward set up any manner of Commons or keep or maintaine any manner of dinners suppers or banquets among themselves or use at their said Assemblies and Sessions any of the games above mentioned or any other whatsoever unlawful games or playes at any time before the giving up of the said presentments at the time above remembred Fines or shall take or receive any manner of Fine or Fines for the concealement and discharging of any of the offences afore recited but truely present the same offences and every of them according to their Oathes upon paine of imprisonment by the discretion of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said City for the time being Provided alway Fire and Candle c. and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall be lawfull for all and every of the said Enquests to take and receive towards the charges of their fire and candles and other necessaries during the time of their said Session all and every such summes of money as any honest person or persons of their free will benevolent mind will give or offer unto them And when they have made their said presentments to goe and assemble themselves together for their recreation and solace Recreation where they shall thinke it good and there not onely to bestow spend the twenty shillings which every Alderman within his Ward according to a certaine order lately taken shal yearely give unto them at the time of the delivery of the said presentments towards their said charges in this behalfe but also the residue of the said money received gathered as it is aforesaid of the benevolence of their said loving friends if any such residue shall fortune to remayne Any clause or Article in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Not failing hereof as ye tender the common-weale of this City and advancement of good iustice and as ye will answer for the contrary at your uttermost perill Dated at the Guildhall under the Seale Office of Maioralty of the said City the twelfth day of December the _____ yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. God save the King Printed at London by Richard Cotes Printer to the Honourable City of London