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Weights and Measures.
4. Every Baker shall have a mark of his own
for his bread, Poulton
Statutes at large, p. 111. & Rast. Weights 7. |
Chap. 112. |
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5. Every sort of bread shall be weighed according
to the price of the
middle sort of Corn. |
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6. No Man shall be a common baker, except
he that hath been an Apprentice
to that Trade by the space of seven years at the least. |
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7. The Statute doth appoint these sorts of
bread to be made and sold to
the Subjects, viz. White bread, Wheaten, and Houshold-bread, besides
the
Horse-bread. |
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8. The Bakers of Cities, Boroughs, and Corporate
Towns, shall have
6 s. allowance for the baking of every Quarter of Wheat, over and
above
the second price of Wheat in the Market. |
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9. Bakers inhabiting out of Cities, Boroughs,
and Corporate Towns, shall
have 4 s. in allowance for his charges in baking of every Quarter,
&c. |
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10. But Foreigners bread shall weigh six ounces
in the Penny Loaf, more
than the Town dwellers, for that they bear not such scot and lot as the
others
do. |
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11. Lastly, for Horse-bread, that three Horses
Loaves be sold by the
Baker for a penny, 13 d. for 12 d. and every Loaf to weigh
the full weight
of a penny White Loaf, at what price soever the Wheat be sold. |
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§. 19.
Bakers and
their punishment. |
For the punishment of the Bakers for their unlawful
bread; Quære,
Whether they shall only be amerced &c. after Indictment and Conviction
of their said Offence; or that the Justices of Peace (or sworn Officers
in
Leets) may take away their unlawful bread, and give it among the poor,
as Officers in Corporate Towns are inabled or appointed to do in the end
of the Book of Assize, Imprinted Anno 1597. And all Justices
of the Peace
are there willed and required to be aiding and assisting to the said Officers
therein. But by the Statutes of 51 H. 3. & 13 R. 2.
8. Bakers and Brewers
being convict for not observing the Assize the first, second and third
time, they shall be amerced according to the Offence (if it be not grievous.)
But if the Offence be grievous, or often, then shall they suffer punishment
of the body without Redemption (or remitting of the Offence either
for Gold or Silver) sc. a Baker to the Pillory and the Brewer to
the Tumbrel
(now called the Cucking-stool, as it seemeth by Mr. Lambert
62.
Minshaw taketh Tumbrel for a Dung-Cart) or to some
other Correction. See
another Statute concerning Bakers and Brewers, and their punishments,
and to the same effect made incerto tempore, c. 2. & 6. Poulton
Statutes
at large fol. 111. |
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All Process and Proceedings upon Indictments
preferred of Bakers for breach
of Assize of Bread were staid, for that it was doubted, whether this Court
hath
Jurisdiction to inquire, hear and determine the said Offence. Ord.
Sess. Par.
Middlesex 6 Dec. 7 Car. |
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Note, That within every Leet or Market there ought
to be a Pillory and
a Tumbrel to punish the Bakers and Brewers that offend, &c. Fitz.
Leet
12. And for want thereof, the Lord of such Leet or Market shall
make a
Fine to the King, Cro. 149. |
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Also they which have the keeping and correction
of the Assize of bread
and beer, if they have not a Pillory and Tumbrel to punish bakers and
brewers that are faulty, they shall forfeit their Franchise, Cro. 148. |
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Also a Leet may be seized into the Kings hands,
if the Steward there
shall take mony to spare the punishment of the Tumbrel, where one shall
offend in the Assize of Bread or Ale. Libr. Intr. Cromp. 181. |
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The Millers Toll-dish also must be according to
the Standard. |
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