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<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Alderman of the Ward of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas oftentimes heretofore, e&s;pecially towards Winter the Evenings growing dark, many loo&s;e and vagrant per&s;ons have been found to wander about the &s;treets and lanes and to lurk in corners within this City and Liberties thereof, and under colour of begging in the day time, have practi&s;ed how to break into Hou&s;es, Shops, and other places in the night &s;ea&s;on, &amp; in the mornings after the Watches are broken up, and thereby divers burglaries, robberies, fellonies, and outrages are committed to the breach of the Peace of the Common-wealth, &amp; to the &s;lander of the Government of this City; for the avoiding of which inconveniences and many others within this City and Liberties thereof. The&s;e are in the name of his Highne&s;&s;e the Lord <HI>Protector</HI> of the Common-wealth of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> and the dominions thereunto belonging, &s;traightly to charge and command you, that from henceforth you cau&s;e a good and &s;ub&s;tantiall Watch to be kept nightly within your Ward, to begin this winter &s;ea&s;on at nine of the clock in the Evening, and to continue untill &s;ix of the clock in the Morning; And that once every week or oftner as &s;hall be needfull, and in as private manner as may be, you cau&s;e diligent &s;earch to be made in all Innes, Ale-hou&s;es, Victualling-hou&s;es, hou&s;es of lodging and all other &s;u&s;pected places wherein your Ward, for any idle, loo&s;e, lewd and &s;u&s;picious per&s;ons, and that they be brought before me or &s;ome other Iu&s;tice of the Peace within this City to be examined &amp; dealt withall as to Iu&s;tice &s;hall appertain. And that you cau&s;e the Beadle of your Ward from henceforth every night du|ring the time appointed in that behalf, to give warning to the Inhabitants within your Ward for Lan|thorn and Candle light, to be by them &s;et, and hanged forth in convenient places according to the antient u&s;age and order in that behalf. And that the &s;ame be duely continued untill the fir&s;t day of <HI>March</HI> next; And that I be certified from time to time, of the name, &s;irnames, and welling places of all &s;uch as &s;hall nake default therein, to the intent that due puni&s;hment may be inflicted upon &s;uch as &s;hall fail in the doing of what is required. And further that you take order that the Lanthorn and Candle light, which is appointed for every Precinct be duly put forth and continued as by order is directed; And al&s;o that your Beadle and the Con&s;tables within your Ward make diligent &s;earch and inquiry from time to time, and that you certifie me in writing of the names and dwelling places of all &s;uch Inmates or under&s;itters as now are or hereafter &s;hall be received or harboured within your Ward; And likewi&s;e the names and &s;irnames of &s;uch as &s;hall receive or harbour them to the end they may be proceeded again&s;t according to Law, And further that you give pre&s;ent order to the Beadle of your Ward, to warn all the Inhabitants of the &s;ame to amend their Pavements where they are defective, and that the &s;treets before their doors, &s;hops and hou&s;es, be daily from time to time at their perills clean &s;wept, pared and kept clean, and that no per&s;ons pre&s;ume to lay their Sea-coal a&s;hes in the &s;treets, but that they bring the &s;ame in Ba&s;kets to the Raker, under the penalties in the &s;everall Acts of Common-councell of this City mentioned; And that I may be certified of &s;uch Con|&s;tables, Scavengers, Yeomen of the Channell, and other per&s;ons as &s;hall make default in the performance of their &s;everall duties in the premi&s;es; And al&s;o that you cau&s;e certificate to be made unto me, to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;uch per&s;ons as &s;hall pre&s;ume to keep Alehou&s;es without Licence, and of &s;uch as &s;hall &s;uffer di&s;orders in their hou&s;es being licen&s;ed: In all which you are to take e&s;peciall care, that &s;o thereby &s;uch order may be taken for reforming the &s;everall abu&s;es within this City, as may be for the well governing and the quiet, peace, and &s;afety of the &s;ame. And la&s;tly, that you cau&s;e your Wardmote Inque&s;t to meet once in every moneth, to over&s;ee that all Weights, and Mea&s;ures u&s;ed in buying and &s;elling be &s;ealed, and according to the Stan|dard: And that the Bakers, Brewers, and Typlers do keep the a&s;&s;ize according to the Law, And that Butchers, and Victuallers do put to &s;ail no other Victuall but &s;uch as &s;hall be good and whol&s;ome for mans body; And that they ob&s;erve and do all other things, which according to their charge, and the duty of their places they are to do and perform. And that you take an accompt of your Beadle, and the Con&s;tab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es and other Officers within your Ward once every moneth at the lea&s;t, or oftner as you &s;ee cau&s;e how they have performed their &s;everall duties herein: And that you take e&s;pecial care that the orders afore&s;aid may be ob&s;er|ved. And hereof not to fail as you tender the welfare and good government of this City.</P>
<CLOSER><DATE>Dated this <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> of November. 1654.</DATE></CLOSER>
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