Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of LondonR. Griffin, 1861 - 668 pages |
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Page 228 - Cheepe, in manner aforesaid, to the pillory, and let him be put upon the pillory, and remain there at least one hour in the day ; and the third time that such default shall be found, he shall be drawn, and the oven shall be pulled down, and the baker made to forswear the trade within the City for ever.
Page 330 - May, in the fourteenth year of the reign of " King Richard the Second, with good advice and " wise deliberation thereon, with the assent aforesaid, " have ordained and declared these Articles as to usury " and chevisance, in manner following, that is to say; " —if any person shall lend or put into the hands of " any person gold or silver, to receive gain thereby, " or a promise for certain without risk, let such per" son have the punishment for usurers in the said
Page 225 - ... shall receive their pay. And when they come there, and think to have their payment directly, the buyer says that his wife at his house has gone out, and has taken the key of the room, so that he cannot get at his money ; but that the other must go away, and come again soon and receive his pay. And when he comes back a second time, then the buyer is not to be found ; or else if he is found, he feigns something else, by reason whereof the poor men cannot have their pay. And sometimes while the...
Page 175 - Page 202. And if any parties appear and plead for inquest or for judgment, then they shall be ruled according to the usages of the City, without having any essoin in such personal actions, either before or after. And even if such defendant as has pleaded for Inquest make default after Inquest joined, nevertheless, if he afterwards appears when the Inquest is charged, he shall have his challenges of the jurors and shall set forth his evidences, such default made by him to the contrary notwithstanding,...
Page 162 - Gavelet the tenants shall have1 three summonses and three essoins ; they shall also have the View, they may vouch to warranty both denizen and foreigner, and they shall be essoined, and shall have the other exceptions : and all other process shall be made as before declared under Writ of Right in Hustings of Pleas of Land ; save that, if the tenant makes default, then after default the demandant shall have judgment to recover and to hold for a year and a day ; upon condition, that the tenant may...
Page 427 - Westminster in the 1 five-and-twentieth year, among other things, it was ordained and accorded, that because the common passage of ships and boats in the great rivers of England was oftentimes impeded by the raising of 8gorces, mills, 3 stanks, 4 stakes, and kidels, to the great damage of the people...
Page 225 - And whereas some buyers and brokers of corn buy corn in the City of country-folks who bring it into the City to sell, and give, on the bargain [being made], a penny or halfpenny by way of earnest ; and tell the peasants to take the corn to their house, and that there they shall receive their pay. — And when they come [there] and think to have their payment directly, the buyer says that his wife at his house has gone out, and has taken the key of the room, so that he cannot . get at his money; but...
Page 259 - You shall swear, that well and lawfully you shall serve the City of ' London in the office of Common Serjeant, and the laws, usages, and ' franchises of the said city shall keep and defend, within the City and ' without, according to your wit and power ; and the rights of orphans you ' shall pursue, save, and maintain ; and good and lawful counsel you ' shall give in all things touching the common profit of the said city...
Page 228 - it says : " shall be found in the bread of a baker in the city, the first time, let him be drawn upon a hurdle from the Guildhall to his own house through the great streets, where there be most people assembled, and through the great streets which are most dirty, with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck; if a second time he shall be found committing the same offence, let him be drawn from the Guildhall through the great street of...
Page 178 - ... rents any house or shop within the said city, she shall be bound to pay the rent of the said house or shop, and shall be impleaded and sued as a single woman, by way of debt if necessary, notwithstanding that she was coverte de baron at the time of such letting, supposing that the lessor did not know thereof.