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<OPENER><SIGNED>By the Major.</SIGNED><NOTE PLACE="marg">To the Alder|men of the Ward.</NOTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEe charge and command you, that upon S. Thomas day the Apo&s;tle next comming, you doe hold your Wardmote,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wardmote.</NOTE> and that you have afore us at our generall Court of Aldermen to be holden in the Guildhall, 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, and the &s;aid Inque&s;t &s;hall have full power and authority by one whole yeare to inquire and pre&s;ent all &s;uch defaults as &s;hall be found within your &s;aid Ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inque&s;t for a yeare.</NOTE> as oftentimes as &s;hall be thought to you expedient and needfull, which we will &s;hall be once every moneth at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2 And if it happen any of your &s;aid Inque&s;t to dye,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Inque&s;t dying.</NOTE> or depart out 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, 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 above &s;aid.</P>
<P N="3">3 And that at the &s;aid generall Court, you give afore us the names and &s;urnames of all them of your &s;aid Ward, that come not to your &s;aid Wardmote if they be duely warned,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non-appea|rance.</NOTE> &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">4 And that you doe provide, that at all times convenient, covenable watch be kept: And that Lanthornes with light by nightertaile in old manner accu&s;tomed, be hanged forth: and that no man goe by nightertaile without light, nor with vi&s;ard,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Watch, light, Vi&s;ard.</NOTE> on the perill that belongeth thereto.</P>
<P N="5">5 And al&s;o that you doe cau&s;e to be cho&s;en <GAP DESC="blank"> men of the mo&s;t &s;ufficient, hone&s;t, and di&s;creet men of your &s;aid ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Common Coun<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ell.</NOTE> to be for your &s;aid ward of the common Councell of this City for the yeare en&s;uing, according to the cu&s;tome in that behalfe yearely u&s;ed. And al&s;o that you doe cau&s;e the &s;aid men, &s;o to be cho&s;en to be of the common Councell, to be &s;worne before you, and in your pre&s;ence, according to the Oath for them u&s;ed, and of old time accu&s;tomed: the tenor of which Oath hereafter en&s;ueth.</P>
<P>Ye &s;hall &s;weare, that ye &s;hall be true to our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is, and to his heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, Kings of England, and readily ye &s;hall come when ye be &s;ummoned to the common Councell of this City, but if ye be rea&s;onably excu&s;ed: and good and true coun&s;ell ye &s;hall give in all things touching the Commonwealth of this City, after your wit and cunning: and that for favour of any per&s;on ye &s;hall maintaine no &s;ingular profit again&s;t the common profit of this City, 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.</P>
<P N="6">6 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 Scavengers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;tables, Scavenger, Beadle, Raker.</NOTE> and a common Beadle, 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 u&s;ed in that behalfe: which Con&s;tables have and &s;hall have full power and authority to di&s;traine for the &s;alary and quarterage of the &s;aid Beadle and Raker, as oftentimes as it &s;hall be behinde unpaid.</P>
<P N="7">7 Al&s;o that you keepe a Roll of the names,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roll of names.</NOTE> &s;urnames, dwelling places, profe&s;&s;ions and trades of all per&s;ons dwel|ling within your ward, 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">8 Al&s;o that you cau&s;e every Con&s;table from time to time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;table.</NOTE> to certifie unto you the name, &s;urname, dwelling place, profe&s;&s;ion and trade of every per&s;on, who &s;hall newly come to dwell within this precinct, whereby you may make and keepe your roll perfect. And that you cau&s;e every Con&s;table for his precinct to that purpo&s;e, to make and keepe a per|fect roll in like manner.</P>
<P N="9">9 Al&s;o that you give &s;peciall charge that every Inholder and other per&s;on within your ward who &s;hall receive any per&s;on to lodge or &s;otourne in his hou&s;e above two dayes, &s;hall before the third day after his comming thither,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Roll. Inholder. Lodger. Sojourner.</NOTE> give knowledg to the Con&s;table of the precinct where he &s;hall be &s;o received of the name, &s;urname dwelling place, profe&s;&s;ion and trade of life, or place of &s;ervice of &s;uch per&s;on, and for what cau&s;e he &s;hall come to re&s;ide there. And that the &s;aid Con&s;table give pre&s;ent notice thereof to you: and that the &s;aid Inholder lodge no &s;u&s;pected per&s;on, or men or women of evill name.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Su&s;pect per|&s;ons.</NOTE></P>
<P N="10">10 Al&s;o that you cau&s;e every Con&s;table within his precinct, once every moneth at the farthe&s;t, and oftner if need require,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Search.</NOTE> to make diligent &s;earch and inquiry, what per&s;ons be newly come into his precinct to dwell, &s;oiourn, or lodge. And that you give &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 inquiry, but &s;hall doe his be&s;t endevour to aide and a&s;&s;i&s;t him therein.</P>
<P N="11">11 And for that of late there is more re&s;ort to the City of per&s;ons evill affected in religion, and otherwi&s;e than in former times hath been:<NOTE PLACE="marg">New commers.</NOTE> you &s;hall diligently inquire if any man be received to dwell or abide within your ward, that is not put under franke pledge as he ought to be by the cu&s;tome of the City, and whether any per&s;on hath continued in the &s;aid ward by the &s;pace of one yeare, being above the age of xii. yeares, and not &s;worne to be faithfull and loyall to the Kings Maie&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Franke pledge</NOTE> in &s;uch &s;ort as by the law and cu&s;tome of this City he ought to be.</P>
<P N="12"><PB REF="2" MS="y"> 12 To all the&s;e purpo&s;es the Bedle of every ward &s;hall imploy his diligence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bedle.</NOTE> and give his furtherance.</P>
<P N="13">13 Al&s;o that you have &s;peciall regard that from time to time,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fire.</NOTE> there be convenient provi&s;ion for Hookes, Lad|ders and Buckets, in meet places within the &s;everall Pari&s;hes of your ward, for avoyding the perill of fire.</P>
<P N="14">14 Al&s;o that the &s;treets and lanes of this Citie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sueets.</NOTE> be from time to time kept cleane before every Church, 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">15 And whereby divers Acts of common Councell,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Huck&s;ters of Ale &amp; Beere.</NOTE> 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 of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">eere be within any ward of the City 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 doe finde &s;ufficient &s;urety afore the Mayor &amp; Aldermen for the time being, to be of good guiding and rule. And that the &s;ame huck&s;ters &s;hal keepe no bawdry, nor &s;uffer no letchery, dice playing, carding, or any other unlawfull games to be done, exerci&s;ed or u&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;ellany Ale or Beere within any ward of the City of London, and be not admitted by the Aldermen of the &s;ame ward &s;o to doe, or find not &s;ufficient &s;urety, as it is above rehear&s;ed, the &s;ame huck&s;ter to have 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, contrary to the ordinance thereof ordained and provided, 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">16 And al&s;o that ye &s;ee all Liplers and other &s;ellers of Ale or Beere,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mea&s;ures <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">aled.</NOTE> as well of privie 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 purveyed, be pre&s;ented, &amp; 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">17 And al&s;o that you &s;uffer no &s;tranger borne out of the Realme to be of the common Councel,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stranger born.</NOTE> nor to exerci&s;e or u&s;e any other office within this Citie, nor receive or accept any per&s;on into your watch, privy, 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 &amp; compell him or them to find in his &s;tead and place, one Engli&s;hman to &s;upply the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="18">18 And al&s;o that you cau&s;e an ab&s;tract of the A&s;&s;ize appointed by Act of Parliament for billets and other fire|wood to be faire written in Parchment, &amp; to be fixed or hanged up in a Table in &s;ome fit and convenient place in every pari&s;h within your ward, where the common people may be&s;t &s;ee the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="19">19 And furthermore,<NOTE PLACE="marg">S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">reets.</NOTE> we charge and command you, That you cau&s;e &s;uch provi&s;ion to be had in your &s;aid ward, that all the &s;treets and lanes within the &s;ame ward, be from time to time clean&s;ed &amp; cleerely voyded of ordure, dung, myre,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Paine. 40 2.</NOTE> rubbi&s;h, and other filthy things what&s;oever be to the annoyance of the Kings Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects.</P>
<P N="20">20 And al&s;o that at all times as you &s;hall thinke nece&s;&s;ary you doe 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 live, and &s;uch as &s;hall be found within your &s;aid ward, that you cau&s;t to be puni&s;hed &amp; dealt with according to the law and the &s;tatute in &s;uch ca&s;e ordained and provided.</P>
<P N="21">21 And al&s;o we will and charge you the &s;aid Alderman,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jury men.</NOTE> that your &s;elfe certifie and pre&s;ent before us at the &s;aid general 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 ably to pa&s;&s;e in a Grand-Iury by them&s;elves: 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-Iury, &amp; not able to pa&s;&s;e in a Grand-Iury, by them&s;elves: that is to &s;ay, every Grand-Iury man to be worth in Goods an hundred Markes, and every petty Iury man forty Markes, according to an Act in that ca&s;e ordained and provided, and the &s;ame you &s;hall indor&s;e on the back&s;ide of your Indenture.</P>
<P N="22">22 Item,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Harlots.</NOTE> for divers rea&s;onable and urgent con&s;iderations us e&s;pecially moving, we &s;traitly charge and com|mand you on the King our Soveraigne Lords behalfe, that you diligently provide and fore&s;ee, that no manner of per&s;on or per&s;ons within your &s;aid ward, of what condition or degreee &s;oever he or they be of keeping any Taverne or Alehou&s;e, Ale-&s;eller, or any other victualling hou&s;e or place, of common re&s;ort to eate 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 drink, or otherwi&s;e to be conver&s;ant or abide, or thither to haunt or frequent upon paine of impri&s;onment, as well of the occupier &amp; keeper of every &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">23 Al&s;o that you doe give in charge to the wardmote enque&s;t of your ward,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Articles.</NOTE> all the articles delivered to you here|with.</P>
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<HEAD>An Act for the Reformation of divers abu&s;es, u&s;ed in the <HI>Wardmote Enque&s;ts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_ITem,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Commons, Dinners, Ban|queting.</NOTE> where the Wardmote Enque&s;ts within the &s;everall Wards of this City, for the maintenance of hone&s;ty, vertue, and good living, and for the aboli&s;hment, exiling and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of all kind of vice, evill rule, and iniquitie, according to the ancient laudable Lawes and Cu&s;tomes of the &s;aid Cite, are yeerely &s;everally charged and &s;worne, upon the day of Saint Thomas the Apo&s;tle, before the Aldermen of the &s;aid wards, chiefely and principally to the end &amp; intent, 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;everally u&s;ed, committed, or done within the &s;aid Wards, and have day yearely to make their &s;aid pre&s;entments, untill 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 unknowne, the more is the pitie) their &s;aid Oathes, or yet the great commodities, utility, quietne&s;&s;e, honour and wor&s;hip that might or &s;hould grow and en&s;ue to the &s;aid Citie and inhabitants of the &s;ame, through their good, indu&s;trious, &amp; indifferent proceedings, for the advancement of vertue and repre&s;&s;ing of vices, have drawne it in a manner into a very ordinary cour&s;e and common cu&s;tome, to con&s;ume &amp; &s;pend a great part of their &s;aid time, that they have yearely given unto them when they receive their &s;aid charge: partly in &s;etting up among them&s;elves a certaine commons, and making &amp; keeping many co&s;tly and &s;umptuous dinners, &s;uppers and banquets, inviting and calling to the &s;ame at &s;undry times in a manner, all the inhabitants of the &s;aid &s;everall 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 unlawful games, both to the great co&s;ts charges, 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 evill example of all &s;uch as have any acce&s;&s;e or recour&s;e un|to the &s;ame Enque&s;ts. And where al&s;o the &s;aid enque&s;ts have of late u&s;urped to di&s;pence with &s;uch per&s;ons, as they by their &s;earch and otherwi&s;e have founden to offend and tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the Lawes, in u&s;ing and occupying of unlaw|full Weights and Mea&s;ures, taking of the &s;aid Offenders certaine Fines, which Fines as it is &s;aid) the &s;aid En|que&s;ts have commonly u&s;ed to imploy towards the maintenance of their &s;aid Fea&s;ting and Banqueting, directly a|gain&s;t the due order of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Lawes, and the publike wealth of all his Highne&s;&s;e Sub|iects within the &s;aid City, and much to the reproach and di&s;honour of the &s;ame City.</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 and every the ward|mote Enque&s;ts of the &s;aid City, from henceforth to be yeerely charged and &s;worne within the &s;aid &s;everall Wards, at the time afore rehear&s;ed, &s;hal at all times and places meet &amp; convenient for the due execution of their &s;aid charge, meet and a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves together, and that they and every 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;everall 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 above &s;aid: And that none of the &s;aid Enque&s;ts &s;hall from henceforth forward, &s;et up any manner of Commons, or keep or maintaine any manner of dinners, &s;up|pers, or banquets among them&s;elves, or u&s;e at their &s;aid A&s;&s;emblies and Se&s;&s;ions, any of the games above menti|oned, or any other what&s;oever unlawful games or playes at any time, before the giving up of the &s;aid pre&s;entments, at the time above remembred:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fines.</NOTE> or &s;hall take or receive 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 every of them according to their Oathes, upon paine of impri&s;onment by the di&s;cretion of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the &s;aid City for the time being.</P>
<P>Provided alway,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fire and Can|dle, &amp;c.</NOTE> and be it enacted by the authority afore&s;aid, That it &s;hall be lawfull for all and every of the &s;aid Enque&s;ts, to take and receive 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 every &s;uch &s;ummes of money, as any hone&s;t per&s;on or per&s;ons of their free will &amp; bene|volent mind, will give or offer unto them. And when they have made their &s;aid pre&s;entments, to goe and a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves together for their recreation and &s;olace,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Recreation.</NOTE> where they &s;hall thinke it good, and there not onely to be&s;tow &amp; &s;pend the twenty &s;hillings, which every Alderman within his Ward, according to a certaine order lately taken &s;hal yearely give unto them at the time of the delivery 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 money received &amp; gathered, as it is afore&s;aid, of the benevolence of their &s;aid lo|ving friends, if any &s;uch re&s;idue &s;hall fortune to remayne: Any clau&s;e or Article in this pre&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 advancement of good iu&s;tice, and as ye will an&s;wer for the contrary at your uttermo&s;t perill. <HI>Dated at the Guildhall under the Seale Office of Maioralty of the &s;aid City, the twelfth day of December, the <GAP DESC="blank"> yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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