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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>By the Mayor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Alderman of the Ward of</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_FOra&s;much as the Lords day, commonly called Sunday, is of late much broken and prophaned, by a di&s;orderly &s;ort of people, in frequenting Ta|vernes, Alehou&s;es, and the like, and in carrying and putting to &s;ale Victu|all, and other things, and exerci&s;ing unlawfull Games and pa&s;times, to the great di&s;honour of God, and reproach of Religion. The&s;e are there|fore to will and require you, in his Maie&s;ties name, forthwith upon &s;ight hereof, to give &s;trict charge and command unto all and every the Church|wardens and Con&s;tables within your Ward, that from henceforth they doe not permit or &s;uffer any per&s;on or per&s;ons, in the time of divine Service, or at any time upon the Lords day, to be tipling in any Taverne, Inne, Tobacco&s;hop, Alehou&s;e, or other Victualling hou&s;e what&s;oever, nor &s;uffer any Fruiterers, or Herb-women, to &s;tand with Fruite, Herbes, or other Victuall or Wares, in any Streetes, Lanes, or Allies, within your Ward, or any other wayes, to put tho&s;e or any other things to &s;ale on that day, at any time of the day, or in the evening thereof, or any Milkewomen to cry milke on that day, in any the Streetes, or places afore&s;aid, nor to permit or &s;uffer any per&s;on or per&s;ons to u&s;e or exerci&s;e upon that day their labour in unlading any ve&s;&s;els of Fruite, or other Goods, and carrying Goods on &s;hore, or in the &s;treetes, or to doe any unlawfull exerci&s;es and pa&s;times, within your Ward, and that expre&s;&s;e charge be given to every keeper of any Taverne, Inne, Cookes-&s;hop, Tobac|co hou&s;e, Alehou&s;e, or any other Tipler or Victualler what&s;oever within your Ward, that hereafter they receive not or &s;uffer to remaine any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever as their gue&s;ts or Cu&s;tomers, to Tipple, Eate, Drinke, or take Tobacco in their Hou&s;es upon the Lords day, other then that Inholders may receive their Ordinary Gue&s;ts, or Travellers and &s;uch like, who come to remaine for a time in their Inne, for di&s;patch of their nece&s;&s;ary bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. And if any per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;hall bee found offending in the premi&s;es, that then they bee brought before me the Lord Mayor, or &s;ome other of his Maie&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. And hereof not to faile, as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>This &s;econd of <HI>November, 1643.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Michel.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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