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<HEAD>By the Mayor.</HEAD>
<P>_WHEREAS the Lords Day, (commonly called Sunday) is of late much bro|ken
and prophaned by diver&s;e di&s;orderly people, in carrying and putting to
&s;ale diver&s;e victuals and other things: Yet in regard of the inevitable nece&s;&s;i|ty
of milke for many Infants, &s;icke, aged, and many medicines, as well on the
Lords day as in the weeke dayes, without which they cannot &s;ub&s;i&s;t; by
rea&s;on whereof, the &s;ale of milke on that day cannot be avoided. And where|as
the Milkewomen in the City of <HI>London,</HI> and places adjacent, have mo&s;t earne&s;tly petitioned,
That Order might be taken a&s;well about the &s;ale of Milke on the &s;aid Dayes, that they might
neverthele&s;&s;e injoy the Ordinances of God, and &s;anctifie the Sabbath in obedience to the Com|mands
of God, and the pious Lawes of the Kingdome in that behalfe made. As al&s;o to pre|vent
the great abu&s;e and fraud which is u&s;ed by divers &s;ingle per&s;ons u&s;ing the &s;aid calling, give
great prices for their milke to the Milke-ma&s;ters, (tho&s;e of the &s;aid calling (which have Fami|lies
to maintaine, and many Pari&s;h, and Church duties to pay) not being able to give the like)
and to make up their money againe in retailing their milke, doe u&s;ually deceive the Com|mon
wealth, in &s;elling by fal&s;e mea&s;ures, and vending flatten milke for new: It is there|fore
Ordered, That all and every per&s;on u&s;ing the &s;aid calling of Milke-&s;elling, and which
are Hou&s;e keepers within the City of <HI>London</HI> and places adjacent, may repaire to the hou&s;es of
their Cu&s;tomers, and &s;erve them only in the morning of every Lords day with Milke, they not
exceeding the houres of eight of the clocke (in the Summer,) and nine of the clocke (in the
Winter time) of the &s;ame mornings, for the &s;ale and &s;erving thereof at the furthe&s;t; And that
no &s;uch retaylers of Milke, &s;hall pre&s;ume to cry or &s;ell any milke during the re&s;idue of the &s;aid
dayes, nor in the evening of the &s;ame. And it is further Ordered, That no Milkema&s;ters
within the City of <HI>London,</HI> and places adjacent, &s;hall &s;ell the Milke (which their Kine doth
yeeld in the evening of the Sabbath dayes) to any of their retailing Cu&s;tomers what&s;oever;
And that the &s;ame evenings milke (from time to time) of every Sabbath day, &s;hall remaine and
be unto the re&s;pective Milkema&s;ters (Owners thereof) unto their owne Accompts, as their
owne proper goods and Chattels, without (any way) charging the &s;ame, either to, or upon
their (then) retailing Cu&s;tomer; Or molle&s;ting, &s;uing or troubling them or any of them, for
any lo&s;&s;e or dammage that &s;hall or may ari&s;e or grow thereby. And la&s;tly, for the preventing
of the inhancing of the prices of Milke, and the great deceite which is daily u&s;ed as fore&s;aid,
by many idle and extravagant &s;ingle per&s;ons in retailing of Milke. It is ordered, that no milke|ma&s;ter
what&s;oever at any time or times hereafter, &s;hall utter, vend, or &s;ell their milke to any
retailing &s;ingle per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever: And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall be found
offending in the premi&s;es: That then they be brought before me the Lord Mayor, or &s;ome o|ther
of his Maje&s;ties Iu&s;tices of the Peace, to the end they may receive &s;uch puni&s;hment as to
Iu&s;tice &s;hall appertaine.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my hand <DATE>this nineteenth day of June, Anno Dom. 1643. And in the nineteenth yeare of the
Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles, of England,</DATE> &amp;c.</DATELINE>
<SIGNED>ISAAC PENNINGTON Mayor</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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