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§. 12.
Felling for
Iron-works. |
Weights and Measures.
' No person shall convert, or imploy, or cause, &c.
to Coal, or other
' Fewel, for the making of Iron, or Iron metal in any Iron Mills, Furnace,
' or Hammer any manner of Wood or Underwood, growing within twenty
' two miles about the City of London, or Suburbs; or within twenty
' two miles of the River of Thames, from Dorchester in the
County of Oxford,
' downwards; nor within four miles of the foot of the Downs, betwixt
' Arundel and Pevensey; nor within four miles of Winchelsey
or Rye; nor
' within two miles of Pevensey, or within three miles of Hastings,
upon
' pain to forfeit for every Load 40 s. |
Chap. 112.
23 Eliz. 5. |
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' No new works shall be set up within those distances,
upon pain to forfeit
' 100 l. |
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' A moiety whereof to the Queen, the other moiety
to the Informer, by
' Action, &c or Information in any Court of Record, &c. |
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' The Assize of Tale-wood, Billet, Faggots, and
the ordering thereof, and
' the penalties therein, 43 Eliz. 14.
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23 Eliz. 5. |
§. 1.
Two Justices. |
CHAP. CXII. V. 65.
Weights and Measures.
TWO Justices of Peace (one being of the Quorum)
may by examination
or inquiry, hear and determine the faults of Head-Officers in Cities,
Boroughs, and Market Towns, that do not twice every year view and
examine all Weights and Measures in their Towns, &c. and do not
break
and burn the defective. |
11 H. 7. 4.
P. Just. 92.
Lam. 345. |
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Also two such Justices may by examination or inquiry,
hear and determine
the faults of all Buyers and Sellers, which do not buy and sell with
Weights and measures that be lawful, sc. with such as be marked
and sealed,
sc. in Market-Towns, (like and equal with the King's Standard, sc.
out of
Market Towns, Quære). Also the said Justices may break
and burn all defective
Weights and Measures. See hic postea. |
Ibid.
Lam. 345.
P. Weights
9. |
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The said Justices may fine all and every the Offenders
aforesaid by their
discretion, and make Process against them, as if they were indicted
of
Trespass against the Peace. For the Process, see hereof in the Title
Process. |
Ibid. &
P. Just. 92.
Lam. 345. |
§. 2.
False
Weights. |
' Mayors, Bailiffs, and Head Officers of Cities,
Boroughs, and Market-Towns,
' shall cause twice a year, or oftner, as they think fit, all Weights
' and Measures there to be brought before them; and such, as upon view
' and examination they shall find defective, to break and burn; and the
' parties which have offended, and be found defective, shall for the
first
' offence forfeit 6 s. 8 d. for the second 13 s. 4
d. and for the third 20 s. to
' the Mayor, Bailiff, or other having Jurisdiction, and Correction; and
for
' further punishment, to be set on the Pillory, 11 H. 7. 4. |
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Now for the readier direction of the Justices of
Peace herein, I thought
good to set down the just and certain contents of all (or most sorts of)
Weights and Measures, that so they may be the better judge what Weights
and
Measures be lawful, or defective, and what not. |
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Vera fides,
pondus,
mensura,
moneta sit
una.
Ac status
illesus totius
orbis
erit. |
By the Statute of Magna Charta, c. 25. there
shall be but one Weight and
one Measure of Corn, Wine, Beer and Ale; and one Yard throughout the
whole Realm, (sc. according to the King's Standard in the Exchequer.)
And
this Statute of Magna Charta hath since herein been confirmed by
many several
Parliaments, viz. by the Statutes of 14 Ed. 3. 12.
25 Ed. 3. 10. 27 Ed.
3. 10. 34 Ed. 3. 5. 13 Rich. 2. 9. 8 H.
6. 5. 7 H. 7. 4. 11 H. 7. 4. & 12 H.
7. 5.
as thereby appeareth. |
9 H. 2. 25.
P. Weight.
1.
P. 7. |
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There shall be one Weight, one Measure, and one
Yard, according to
the Standard of the Exchequer, throughout all the Realm, as well
in places |
17 Car. 1.
c. 19. |
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