Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of LondonR. Griffin, 1861 - 668 pages |
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Page 342 - 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, such person shall have the punishment for usurers in the said ordinance contained.
Page 272 - You shall swear, that you shall know of no brewer or brewster, cook, or pie-baker, in your ward, who sells the gallon of best ale for more than one penny halfpenny, or the gallon of second for more than one penny, or otherwise than by measure sealed and full of clear ale ; or who brews less than he used to do before this cry, by reason hereof, or withdraws himself from following his trade the rather by reason of this...
Page 227 - ... 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 180 - Item, if a wife, us though a single woman, 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.
Page 227 - 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 179 - ... woman as to all that concerns her said craft. And if the husband and wife are impleaded, in such case the wife shall plead as a single woman in a Court of Record, and shall have her law and other advantages by way of plea just as a single woman.
Page 164 - 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 435 - 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 267 - 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 319 - whereby very great damage has accrued unto our" selves and to our people, and more will accrue (which " may God forbid) if remedy be not applied thereto. " We do therefore command and charge you, upon the " fealty and allegiance which unto us you owe, that " in all best manners and ways that you know of or " may, you do cause diligently, and from time to time, " enquiry to be made as to such exchanges, and as to " the persons who have made [the same...