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<HEAD>Chiverton Mayor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Tue&s;day the eighth day of <HI>December</HI> 1657.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD>An Order of the <HI>Lord Mayor</HI> and Court of <HI>Aldermen,</HI> again&s;t concealing and colouring the goods of <HI>Aliens</HI> and <HI>Foreyners.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Offices of Package, Scavage, Waterbal|liage, Portage, and weighing the Goods and Mer|chandizes of Alyens and Foreyners, doe perteine un|to this City, and for the &s;ame &s;everall Cu&s;tomes, Fees and Profits are due, and time out of mind have been payed to the Officers deputed to tho&s;e places, and been imployed towards reliefe of the Poore, the con&s;ervation of the River of Thames, the maintenance of Ho&s;pitality, and &s;upport of the Ma|gi&s;tracy of this City, and other publique u&s;es: And however the trade e&s;pecially into foreyne parts is now more then ever it hath been in the hands of Aly|ens and Foreyners, who have attained to great e&s;tates under the Government of this City, without bearing any Charge of the &s;ame; And yet the profits of the &s;aid Offices doe fall exceedingly &s;hort of what formerly they have been, to the great hindrance of the good u&s;es afore&s;aid: The decay whereof, as this Court hath under&s;tood, is e&s;pecial|ly cau&s;ed by many ill di&s;po&s;ed and unworthy Freemen of this City, who mindle&s;&s;e of their Oaths &amp; the Laws under which they live, do in complyance with Alyens and Foreyners ofttimes pretend that the goods they export are their own goods untill they are on Ship|board or beyond the Seas, when in truth &s;uch goods are for the accompt of Alyens, or are contracted for by Aliens or Foreyners, and after &s;uch contract are the goods of Alyens or Foreyners, and are lyable to the &s;aid duties; And divers other wayes do fraudu|lently owne and colour the Goods and Merchandizes bought and &s;ould, taken in or &s;ent out, by the &s;aid Aliens and Foreyners, &s;ome being received into partner&s;hip to colour the whole, &s;ome for hire permitting the u&s;e of their names, and others in their own per|&s;ons, and in their own names, buying, &s;elling and negotiating, meerly for the u&s;e and accompt of Alyens and Foreyners, of which &s;ort too many Cloathworkers, Packers, and Drawers of Cloth are &s;u&s;pected to frequent the Market of Blackwell-hall, and all to defraud the City of their ju&s;t Rights and Cu&s;tomes which by &s;tronge&s;t Obligations they are bound to maintaine; This Court therefore re&s;olving to put forth the utmo&s;t of their power and indeavours for remedy of this &s;o great a mi&s;chiefe to the City, and to bring upon the Practicers of the &s;aid offences the ju&s;t &s;hame and puni&s;hment due for their perjury and unfaithfulne&s;&s;e to the intere&s;t of the City, according to the Laws and provi&s;ions in this behalfe; Doe require and enjoyne the &s;everall per&s;ons deputed and in|tru&s;ted in the &s;aid &s;everall Places or Offices, and whom el&s;e it may concern, to be dili|gent and active in the finding out and apprehen&s;ion of any the Offenders afore&s;aid, and do admoni&s;h and de&s;ire all other hone&s;t and well affected Freemen of this City to be a&s;&s;i&s;tant to them, and as they have opportunity to endeavour as well the pre&s;ervation of the City in its &s;aid Rights and Duties, as to di&s;cover tho&s;e of its own unnaturall members, and others that would violate and betray the &s;ame by any the &s;aid practices, to be dealt withall and di&s;franchi&s;ed as by Law they ought to be, and doe truely de&s;erve.</P>
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