Parliamentary Papers, Volume 53H.M. Stationery Office, 1888 |
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1st Tuesday 9 Edw accommodation aforesaid April August August 21 authority bailiffs Billingsgate Market Board borough Borough Market burgesses byelaws Cattle Market Chairman charge Charrington charter Close Company Corporation costermongers Covent Garden custom December Deptford Duke Easter Fair Days fish market Friday granted growers halfpenny held Holy Thursday J. R. Bourne John July June June 29 King Lincoln load London Lord M. F. Cart manor March Market Day market rights Markets and Fairs meat mercatum monopoly November November 22 October October 11 October 29 owner paid pence penny profit railway rent salesmen Saturday sell September September 25 Shadwell shops Sir Thomas Martineau sold Spitalfields Market stallages stalls stand streets suppose tenants things tolls town trade trustees Vict waggons Wednesday Whit Monday Whit Tuesday
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Page 48 - 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 89 - Richard, by the grace of God, king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, To all to whom these present letters shall come greeting.
Page 48 - 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...
Page 47 - And whereas some buyers and brokers of corn do buy corn in the City of country folks who bring it to 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 ; Fol.
Page 47 - And that no corn shall be sold until the hour of iPrimo rung at Saint Paul's, under penalty of forfeiting such corn. And that all vessels, scouts, and boats, of whatever kind they may be, that bring corn to sell, as well at Billyngesgate as elsewhere on the Thames, shall remain upon common sale after they have arrived, without selling anything in .gross for one whole day ; that so the common people may buy for their sustenance what they shall need ; and this under heavy forfeiture.
Page 44 - These are the customs of the Bridge. — The vessel that brings melwels, without any other fish, shall give two melwels, the franchise excepted. The vessel that comes with melwels together with rays, shall give one melwel and one ray, the franchise excepted. The vessel that comes with herrings, fresh or salted, shall give one hundred herrings, the franchise excepted. The vessel with bulwarks that anchors in the Thames, shall pay two pence for strandage,the franchise excepted.
Page 39 - I have granted, and by this my charter havo confirmed, to the burgesses of Nottingham all those free customs which they had in the time of King Henry my grandfather...
Page 3 - After the Market Place is opened for public Use every Person other than a licensed Hawker who shall sell or expose for Sale in any Place within the prescribed Limits, except in his own...
Page 95 - ... valentibus quomodolibet in futurum adeo libere et quiete plenarie integre honorifice bene et in pace in omnibus et per omnia sicut...
Page 47 - And sometimes, while the poor men are waiting for their pay, the buyer causes the corn to be wetted,t and then when they come to ask for their pay, which was agreed upon, they are told to wait until such a day as the buyer shall choose to name or else to take off a part of the price, which if they will not do, they may take their corn and carry it away, a thing which they cannot do because it is wetted aad in another state than it was in when they sold it.