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Searchers and
overseers Leet
Court.
32. Item to avoid all such abases as may be comitted by the said butchers
and others there shall be chosen and sworne at the Leet Court next after
Easter yearly and every year hereafter three discreet persons haveing skill
and knowledge in the said occupation as shall be called by the name of
searchers who upon their oaths shall be authorized to search the butchers meat
& poultry wares as well in the butchers and poulterers shops as in the market
upon market daies and others bringing any kind of victualla to the said
market and that the searchers may do & deal as the searchers in London
are authorized touching the pmises And if any person being appointed to the
said office of searcher & shall refuse to serve the same by the space of one
whole year every such person so refusing shall pay for his time xxs.
Plague.
33. Item that no person or persons shall receive or take into his or her
house any sick person being infected with the plague without the consent
of the burgess and assistant of that ward And if any person or persons
shall happen to be sick of the said infirmity that then as well the owner of
every such house as his and her household & family shall forbear to come
among any other company but to keep themselves within every such house
being infected as aforesd by the space of twenty one daies next after the
death of any such infected person (except one person to fetch necessary
provision for their relief) & not to hang or lay forth any infected cloaths
out of any such house dureing the time aforesaid upon payne of open imprisonmt
the stockes for the space of xij houres & to receive further
punishment by the direccon of the burgesses and assistants.
Burgesses and
assistants for
coming to
church.
34. Item the burgesses and assistants shall in convenient order every
Sabboth day in the forenoon come to the collegiate church of St Peter in
Westmr & there to be prsent all the time of the sermon upon payn every
one of them for every time makeing default without just cause shall forfeit
and pay iiijd.
Burgesses and
assistants for
keeping their
court daies.
35. Item all the said burgesses and their assistants shall repair & come
to the court house in Westmr every Tuesday (except the same be a holy day)
vizt in the term time at one of the clock in the afternoon and out of the
term at eight of the clock in the forenoone & then & there to hear &
examine such causes as they by vertue of the said statute be lawfully
authorized upon pain that if any the said burgesses or assistants makeing
default in not appearing at the houres and places appointed shall forfeit
and pay for every time so offending without just cause or lawfull let xijd.
and that they nor any of them shall at any time determine anything