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No tavern or innkeeper to keep a cook's-shop, under a penalty of 4d
Any person banished for incontinence of life or such like, and returning
to the City or Borough for habitation, to be whipped naked
at a cart's tail throughout the said City.
Constables willingly permitting rogues or sturdy beggars to wander in
the streets to be fined 6s. 8d.
No person to accept a tenant without a testimonial of good behaviour
from the place of his or her last abode, and proof that such
tenant lives by some lawful science or manual occupation ;
penalty 40s.
Inhabitants to wash with clean water the kennels and gutters near
their dwelling houses every morning between 6 and 7 o'clock
from Lady Day to Michaelmas Day, under a penalty of 4d.
Persons casting or laying noisome things in the Old Palace, or near
Henry VII.'s Chapel, or in any churchyard, to be fined 4d.
Scavengers to clean streets and carry away soil upon pain of imprisonment
for 24 hours.
Persons sweeping or laying any rubbish in the street, after it has
been cleansed by the scavengers, especially upon any Saturday
or Sunday, to be fined 4d.
The gate to Her Majesty's bridge in the Old Palace to be kept locked
during Divine service every Sabbath and other usual holy day, or
the keeper to be fined 12d.
The owner of any hogs found staying on the common at Tuthill, or
in any street, or churchyard, to be fined 12d.
Noisome things not to be laid on the common at Tuthill, or turf
removed therefrom without permission under penalty of imprisonment
for 24 hours, and a fine to be assessed by the Burgesses.
Butchers, poulterers, or fishmongers offering for sale any corrupt or
unlawful flesh meat, poultry, or fish, to be imprisoned for 24 hours
and pay a fine to be assessed by the Burgesses, and the meat, &c.,
to be consumed with fire or otherwise.
Butchers not to offer meat for sale in the market, having their shop in
King-street; penalty 3s. 4d.
Meat not to be offered for sale in the market, except on Saturday
morning, under a penalty of 3s. 4d.
Butchers offering for sale any meat contrary to the orders and customs
of the City of London, or using any "indirect or deceitful
dealing " in respect of veal, mutton, or lamb, or offering for sale
the flesh of any ewe or lamb at an improper season, or slaughtering
in an unauthorised place, to be fined 3s. 4d.