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<HEAD><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Alder|men of the Ward.</NOTE>By the Mayor.</HEAD>
<P>_WEe charge and command you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wardmote.</NOTE> that vpon S. Thomas day the Apo&s;tle next comming, you doe hold your Wardmote, and that you haue afore vs at our generall Court of Aldermen to bee holden in the Guildhal, the Munday next after the Fea&s;t of the Epiphany next comming, all the defaults that &s;hall be pre&s;ented afore you by Inque&s;t in the &s;aid wardmote,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inque&s;t for a yeare.</NOTE> and the &s;aid Inque&s;t &s;hall haue full power and authoritie by one whole yeare to inquire and pre&s;ent all &s;uch defaults as &s;hall bee found within your &s;aid Ward, as oftentimes as &s;hall bee though to you expedient and needfull, which we will &s;hall be once euery moneth at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> And if it happen any of your &s;aid Inque&s;t to die, or depart our of your &s;aid Ward within the &s;aid yeare, that then in place of him or them &s;o dying or departing out of your &s;aid ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inque&s;t dying.</NOTE> you cau&s;e to be cho&s;en one able per&s;on to in|quire and pre&s;ent with the other in manner and forme aboue&s;aid.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> And that at the &s;aid generall Court,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non-appea|rance.</NOTE> you giue afore vs the names and &s;urnames of all them of your &s;aid Ward, that come not to your &s;aid wardmote i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> they be duely warned, &s;o that due redre&s;&s;e and puni&s;hment of them may be had as the ca&s;e &s;hall require, according to the Law.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4</HI> And that you doe prouide, that at all times conuenient, couenable watch be kept: And that Lanthorns with light by nightertaile in old manner accu&s;tomed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Watch, Light, Vi&s;ard.</NOTE> be hanged forth: and that no man goe by nightertaile without light, nor with vi&s;ard, on the perill that belongeth thereto.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5</HI> And al&s;o that you doe cau&s;e to be cho&s;en <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> men of the mo&s;t &s;ufficient,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Common Councell.</NOTE> hone&s;t, and di&s;creet men of your &s;aid ward, to be for your &s;aid ward of the common Councel of this Citie for the yeare en&s;uing, according to the cu&s;tome in that behalfe yearely v&s;ed. And al&s;o that you do cau&s;e the &s;aid men, &s;o to be cho&s;en to be of the common Councel, to be &s;worne before you, and in your pre&s;ence, according to the Oath for them v&s;ed, and of old time accu&s;tomed: the tenor of which Oath hereafter en&s;ueth.</P>
<P><Q>Ye &s;hall &s;weare, that ye &s;hall be true to our Soueraigne Lord the King that now is, and to his heires and &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ors, Kings of England, and readily ye &s;hall come when ye be &s;ummoned to the common Councel of this Citie, but if ye be rea&s;onably excu&s;ed: and good and true coun&s;ell ye &s;hall giue in all things touching the Commonwealth of this Citie, after your wit and cunning: and that for fauour of any per&s;on ye &s;hall maintaine no &s;ingular profite again&s;t the common profite of this Citie, and after that you be come to the common Councell, you &s;hall not from thence depart till the common Councell be ended without rea&s;onable cau&s;e, or el&s;e by the Lord Maiors licen&s;e: And al&s;o any &s;ecret things that be &s;poken or &s;aid in the common Councell which ought to be kept &s;ecret, in no wi&s;e you &s;hall di&s;clo&s;e, as God helpe you.</Q></P>
<P N="6"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;tables, Scauenger, Bedle, Raker.</NOTE> <HI>6</HI> And that al&s;o in the &s;aid wardmote, you cau&s;e to be cho&s;en certaine other hone&s;t per&s;ons to be Con&s;tables, and Scauengers, and a common Bedle, and a Raker to make cleane the &s;treets and lanes of all your &s;aid Ward, accor|ding to the cu&s;tome yearely v&s;ed in that behalfe; which Con&s;tables haue and &s;hall haue full power and authoritie to di&s;traine for the &s;allary and quarterage of the &s;aid Bedle and Raker, as oftentimes as it &s;hall be behinde vnpaid.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7</HI> Al&s;o that you keep a Roll of the names, &s;urnames, dwelling places, profe&s;&s;ions and trades of all per&s;ons dwel|ling within your ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roll of names.</NOTE> and within what Con&s;tables precinct they dwell, wherein the place is to be &s;pecially noted by &s;treet, lane, alley or &s;igne.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8</HI> Al&s;o that you cau&s;e euery Con&s;table from time to time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;table.</NOTE> to certifie vnto you the name, &s;urname, dwelling place, profe&s;&s;ion and trade of euery per&s;on, who &s;hall newly come to dwell within this precinct, whereby you may make and keepe your roll perfect.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roll.</NOTE> And that you cau&s;e euery Con&s;table for his precinct to that purpo&s;e, to make and keepe a perfect roll in like manner.</P>
<P N="9"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Inholder. Lodger. Soiourner.</NOTE> <HI>9</HI> Al&s;o that you giue &s;pecial charge that euery Inholder and other per&s;on within your ward, who &s;hall receiue any per&s;on to lodge or &s;oiourne in his hou&s;e aboue two dayes, &s;hall before the third day after his comming thither, giue knowledge to the Con&s;table of the precinct where he &s;hall be to receiued, of the name, &s;urname, dwelling place, profe&s;&s;ion and trade of life, or place of &s;eruice of &s;uch per&s;on, and for what cau&s;e he &s;hall come to recide there. And that the &s;aid Con&s;table giue pre&s;ent notice thereof to you:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Su&s;pect per|&s;ons.</NOTE> and that the &s;aid Inholder lodge no &s;u&s;pected per&s;on, or men or women of euill name.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10</HI> Al&s;o that you cau&s;e euery Con&s;table within his precinct,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Search.</NOTE> once euery moueth at the farthe&s;t, and oftner if need require, to make diligent &s;earch and inquiry, what per&s;ons be newly come into his precinct to dwell, &s;oiourne, or lodge.<NOTE PLACE="marg">New commers.</NOTE> And that you giue &s;peciall charge, that no Inholder or per&s;on &s;hall re&s;i&s;t or deny any Con&s;table, in making &s;uch &s;earch or inquirie, but &s;hall doe his be&s;t endeauour to ayde and a&s;&s;i&s;t him therein.</P>
<P N="11"><HI>11</HI> And for that of late there is more re&s;ort to the Citie of per&s;ons euill affected in religion, and otherwi&s;e than in former times hath bin:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Franke pledge.</NOTE> you &s;hall diligently inquire if any man be receiued to dwell or abide within your ward, that is not put vnder franke pledge as hee ought to be by the cu&s;tome of the Citie, and whether any per&s;on hath continued in the &s;aid ward by the &s;pace of one yeare, being aboue the age of xii. yeares, and not &s;worne to be faithfull and loyall to the Kings Maie&s;ly, in &s;uch &s;ort as by the law and cu&s;tome of this Citie he ought to be.</P>
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<P N="12"><HI>12</HI> To all the&s;e purpo&s;es the Bedle of euery ward &s;hall imploy his diligence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bedle.</NOTE> and giue his be&s;t furtherance.</P>
<P N="13"><HI>13</HI> Al&s;o that you haue &s;peciall regard that from time to time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fire.</NOTE> there be conuenient proui&s;ion for Hookes, Lad|ders and Buckets, in meet places within the &s;euerall Pari&s;bes of your ward, for auoyding the perill of fire.</P>
<P N="14"><HI>14</HI> Al&s;o that the &s;treets and lanes of this Citie be from time to time kept cleane before euery Church,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Street<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</NOTE> hou&s;e, &s;hop, warehou&s;e, doore, dead wall, and in all other common pa&s;&s;ages and &s;treets of the &s;aid ward.</P>
<P N="15"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Huck&s;ters of Ale &amp; Beere.</NOTE> <HI>15</HI> And where by diuers Acts of common Councell, afore time made and e&s;tabli&s;hed for the common weale of this Citie, among other things it is ordained and enacted, as hereafter en&s;ueth.</P>
<P>Al&s;o it is ordained and enacted, That from henceforth, no huck&s;ter of Ale or Beere be within any ward of the Citie of London but hone&s;t per&s;ons, and of good name and fame, and &s;o taken and admitted by the Aldermen of the ward for the time being, and that the &s;ame huck&s;ters do finde &s;ufficient &s;uretie afore the Mayor and Aldermen for the time being, to be of good guiding and rule. And that the &s;ame huckers &s;hall keepe no bawdry nor &s;uffer no letchery, dice-playing, carding, or any other vnlawfull games to be done, exerci&s;ed, or v&s;ed within their hou&s;es, and to &s;hut in their doores at nine of the clocke in the night, from Michaelmas to Ea&s;ter, and from Ea&s;ter to Michaelmas at ten of the clocke in the night, and after that houre &s;ell none Ale or Beere. And if any huck&s;ter of Beere or Ale, after this Act publi&s;hed and proclaimed, &s;ell any Ale or Beere within any ward of the Citie of London, and be not admitted by the Alderman of the &s;ame ward &s;o to doe, or finde not &s;ufficient &s;urety, as it is aboue rehear&s;ed, the &s;ame huck&s;ter to haue impri&s;onment, and make fine and ran&s;ome for his contempt, after the di&s;cretion of the Mayor and Aldermen. And al&s;o that the &s;aid huck&s;ters &s;uffer no manner of common eating and drinking within their cellars or vaults, con|trary to the ordinance thereof ordained and prouided, as in the &s;aid Act more plainly appeareth at large. We charge you that you put the &s;ame in due execution accordingly.</P>
<P N="16"><HI>16</HI> And al&s;o that ye &s;ee all Tiplers and other &s;ellers of Ale or Beere,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mea&s;ures &s;ealed.</NOTE> as well of priuie O&s;teries, as Brewers and Inholders within your ward, not &s;elling by lawfull mea&s;ures &s;ealed and marked with the letter C. crowned, accor|ding as in that behalfe it is ordained and purueyed, be pre&s;ented, and their names in your &s;aid Indentures be expre&s;|&s;ed, with their defaults, &s;o that the Chamberlaine may be lawfully an&s;wered of their amercements.</P>
<P N="17"><HI>17</HI> And al&s;o that you &s;uffer no &s;tranger borne out of the Realme to be of the common Councell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stranger born.</NOTE> nor to exerci&s;e or v&s;e any other office within this Citie, nor receiue or accept any per&s;on into your watch, priuie, or open, but Engli&s;h|men borne. And if any &s;tranger borne out of this Realme, made denizen by the Kings Letters Patents, or any o|ther after his cour&s;e and lot be appointed to any watch, that then ye command and compell him or them to finde in his &s;tead and place, one Engli&s;hman to &s;upply the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="18"><HI>18</HI> And al&s;o that you cau&s;e an ab&s;tract of the A&s;&s;i&s;e appointed by Act of Parliament for billets and other fire|wood to be faire written in Parchment, and to be fixed or hanged vp in a Table in &s;ome fit and conuenient place in euery pari&s;h within your ward, where the common people may be&s;t &s;ee the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="19"><HI>19</HI> And furthermore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Streets.</NOTE> we charge and command you, That you cau&s;e &s;uch proui&s;ion to be had in your &s;aid ward, that all the &s;treets and lanes within the &s;ame ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Paine. 40.2.</NOTE> be from time to time clean&s;ed and cleerely voyded of ordure, dung, myre, rubbi&s;h, and other filthy things what&s;oeuer be to the annoyance of the Kings Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects.</P>
<P N="20"><HI>20</HI> And al&s;o that at all times as you &s;hall thinke nece&s;&s;ary, you do cau&s;e &s;earch to be made within your &s;aid ward, for all vagrant beggers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vagrants.</NOTE> &s;u&s;picious and idle people, and &s;uch as cannot &s;hew how to liue, and &s;uch as &s;hall be found within your &s;aid ward, that you cau&s;e to be puni&s;hed and dealt with according to the law and the &s;tatute in &s;uch ca&s;e ordained and prouided.</P>
<P N="21"><HI>21</HI> And al&s;o we will and charge you the &s;aid Alderman,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iury men.</NOTE> that your &s;elfe certifie and pre&s;ent before vs at the &s;aid generall Court to be holden the fore&s;aid Munday next after the Fea&s;t of the Epiphany all the names and &s;urnames truly written of &s;uch per&s;ons within your &s;aid ward, as be able to pa&s;&s;e in a Grand-Iury by them&s;elues: And al&s;o all the names and &s;urnames truly written of &s;uch per&s;ons, being and dwelling within your &s;aid ward, as be able to pa&s;&s;e in a Petty-Iurie, and not able to pa&s;&s;e in a Grand-Iury, by them&s;elues: that is to &s;ay, euery Grand-Iury man to bee worth in Goods an hundred Markes, and euery petty Iury man fortie Markes, according to an Act in that ca&s;e ordained and prouided; And the &s;ame you &s;hall indor&s;e on the back&s;ide of your Indenture.</P>
<P N="22"><HI>22</HI> Item,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Harlots.</NOTE> for diuers rea&s;onable and vrgent con&s;iderations vs e&s;pecially mouing, we &s;traitly charge and com|mand you on the King our Soueraigne Lords behalfe, that you diligently prouide and fore&s;ee, that no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons within your &s;aid ward, of what condition or degree &s;oeuer he or they be of, keeping any Tauerne or Alehou&s;e, Ale-cellar, or any other victualling hou&s;e or place of common re&s;ort to eat and drinke in, within the &s;ame ward, permit or &s;uffer at any time hereafter any common woman of their bodies, or harlots to re&s;ort and come into their &s;aid hou&s;e or other the places afore&s;aid, to eate or drinke, or otherwi&s;e to be conuer&s;ant or abide, or thither to haunt or frequent vpon paine of impri&s;onment, as well of the occupier and keeper of euery &s;uch hou&s;e or hou&s;es, and all other the places afore remembred, as of the common woman or harlots.</P>
<P N="23"><HI>23</HI> Al&s;o that you doe giue in charge to the wardmote enque&s;t of your ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Articles.</NOTE> all the articles deliuered to you here|with.</P>
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<HEAD>An Act for the Reformation of diuers abu&s;es, v&s;ed in the <HI>Wardmote Enque&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Commons, Dinners, Ban|quetting.</NOTE>_ITem, where the Wargmote Enque&s;ts within the &s;euerall Wards of this Citie, for the maintenance of hone&s;ty, vertue, and good liuing, and for the aboli&s;hment, exiling and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all kinde of vice, euill rule, and iniquity, according to the ancient landable Lawes and Cu&s;tomes of the &s;aid Citie, are yearely &s;euerally charged and &s;worne, vpon the day of Saint Thomas the Apo&s;tle, before the Aldermen of the &s;aid wards, chiefely and principally to the end and intend, that they with all diligence &s;hould truly and duely inquire and pre&s;ent all &s;uch enormities, nu&s;ances, mi&s;order; and offences, as are, or at any time within the &s;pace of one whole yeare then next en&s;uing, &s;hall be &s;euerally v&s;ed, committed or done within the &s;aid Wards, and haue day yearely to make their &s;aid pre&s;entments, vntill the Munday next after the Fea&s;t of the Epiphany. The &s;aid En|que&s;ts
<PB REF="3" MS="y">heretofore, little or nothing at all regarding (as it is very manife&s;t, and not vnknowne, the more is the pitie) their &s;aid Oathes or yet the great commodities, vtility, quietne&s;&s;e, honour, and wor&s;hip that might or &s;hould grow and en&s;ue to the &s;aid City and inhabitants of the &s;ame, through their good, indu&s;trious, and indifferent proceedings, for the aduancement of vertue, and repre&s;&s;ing of vices, haue drawne it in a manner into a very ordinary cour&s;e and common cu&s;tome, to con&s;ume and &s;pend a great part of their &s;aid time, that they haue yearly giuen vnto them when they receiue their &s;aid charge: partly in &s;etting vp among them&s;elues a certaine commons, and making &amp; keeping many co&s;tly and &s;umptuous dinners, &s;uppers, and banquets, inuiting and calling to the &s;ame at &s;undry times in a manner, all the inhabitants of the &s;ayd &s;euerall wards, to the no little charges of the &s;ame inhabitants: and partly in pa&s;&s;ing &amp; occupying much part of the &s;ame time, in playing at dice, tables, cards, and &s;uch other vnlawfull games both to the great co&s;ts, chargrs, and expences of the &s;aid Enque&s;ts (whereof the greater part are mo&s;t commonly but poore men) and al&s;o to the very lewd, pernicious, and euil example of all &s;uch as haue any acce&s;&s;e or recour&s;e vn|to the &s;ame Enque&s;ts. And where al&s;o the &s;aid Enque&s;ts haue of late v&s;urped to di&s;pence with &s;uch per&s;ons, as they by their &s;earch and otherwi&s;e haue founden to offend and tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the Lawes, in v&s;ing and occupying of vnlaw|full Weights and Mea&s;ures, taking of the &s;aid Offendors certaine Fines, which Fines (as it is &s;aid) the &s;aid En|que&s;ts haue commonly v&s;ed to imploy towards the maintenance of their &s;aid Fea&s;ting &amp; Banquetting, directly a|gain&s;t the due order of our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Lawes, &amp; the publike wealth of all his Highne&s;&s;e Sub|iects within the &s;aid Citie, and much to the reproach and di&s;honour of the &s;ame Citie.</P>
<P>For remedy and reformation thereof, be it ordained, enacted, and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in this pre&s;ent common Councell a&s;&s;embled, and by authority of the &s;ame: That all &amp; euery the ward|mote Enque&s;ts of the &s;aid Citie, from henceforth to be yearly charged and &s;worne within the &s;aid &s;euerall Wards, at the time afore rehear&s;ed, &s;hall at all times and places meet &amp; conuenient for the due execution of their &s;aid charge, meet and a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues together, and that they and euery of them after their &s;aid meetings, inqui&s;ition, and treating of their &s;aid nece&s;&s;ary matters, &s;hall goe home to their owne &s;euerall hou&s;es to Breakfa&s;t, Dinner, &amp; Sup|per, during all the &s;aid accu&s;tomed time of their Charge and Se&s;&s;ion aboue&s;aid: And that none of the &s;aid Enque&s;ts &s;hall from henceforth forward, &s;et vp any manner of Commons, or keep or maintaine any manner of dinners, &s;up|pers, or banquets among them&s;elues or v&s;e at their &s;aid A&s;&s;emblies and Se&s;&s;ions, any of the games aboue menti|oned, or any other what&s;oeuer vnlawful games or playes at any time, before the giuing vp of the &s;aid pre&s;entments, at the time aboue remembred:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fines.</NOTE> or &s;hall take or receiue any manner of Fine or Fines, for the concealement and di&s;|charging of any of the offences afore recited: but truely pre&s;ent the &s;ame offences, and euery of them, according to their Oathes, vpon paine of impri&s;onment by the di&s;cretion of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the &s;aid Citie for the time being.</P>
<P>Prouided alway,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fire and Can|dle, &amp;c.</NOTE> and be it enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That it &s;halbe lawfull for all and euery of the &s;aid Enque&s;ts, to take and receiue towards the charges of their fire and candles, and other nece&s;&s;aries during the time of their &s;aid Se&s;&s;ion, all and euery &s;uch &s;ummes of money, as any hone&s;t per&s;on or per&s;ons of their free will &amp; bene|uolent mind, will giue or offer vnto them. And when they haue made their &s;aid pre&s;entments, to goe and a&s;&s;emble them&s;elues together for their recreation and &s;olace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Recreation.</NOTE> where they &s;hall think it good and there not only to be&s;tow and &s;pend the twenty &s;hillings, which euery Alderman within his Ward, according to a certain odrer lately taken, &s;hall yearely giue vnto them at the time of the deliuery of the &s;aid pre&s;entments, towards their &s;aid charges in this be|halfe: but al&s;o the re&s;idue of the &s;aid mony receiued &amp; gathered, as it is afore&s;aid, of the beneuolence of their &s;aid lo|uing friends, if any &s;uch re&s;idue &s;hall fortune to remaine: Any clau&s;e or Article in this pee&s;ent Act contained to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Not failing hereof, as ye tender the common-weale of this City, and aduancement of good iu&s;tice, and as ye will an&s;wer for the contrary at your vttermo&s;t perill.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated at the Guildhall vnder the Seale Office of Maioralty of the &s;aid City, <DATE>the twelfth day of December, the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> yeare of the Reigne of our Soueraigne Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</DATE></DATELINE><LB> God &s;aue the King.</CLOSER>
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