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good government of the area under their jurisdiction from
which the following are selected by way of illustration:—
Certain Orders and Ordinances made the 27th Day of May, in
the 27th Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady Elizabetha.
&c., by the Right Honourable Sir William Cecill, of the
most noble Order of the Garter, Knight and Baron of
Burleigh, Lord Treasurer of England, and High Steward
of the City and 'Burrough of Westminster, and the Right
Worshipful Mr. Gabriell Goodman, Doctor of Divinity,
Dean of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's in Westminster
aforesaid.
4. Item.—If any Collier shall put to Sale any Coals in Sacks, and the
same Sacks not being lawfull, or if his Sack or Sacks should be
found to be lawfull, and not being filled with Coals accordingly,
that then every such Collier, for every such Time soe offending
shall be committed to Prison, there to remain by the space of
Twenty-four Hours; and all his defective and unlawfull Sacks
shall be burned in the Market place, and to receive for every
Time soe offending such further Punishment as is used within
the City of London.
7. Item.—If any Person or Persons shall receive or take into his or
her Service, any Servant without a lawfull Testimonial! in
Writing, or that shall put away such Servant, without giving to
him or her lawfull Warning according to the Statute, that then
every such Person, offending herein, shall forfeit and pay, for
every Time so offending herein, as by the Statute is provided;
and alsoe, if any Servant shall depart from the Service of his
or her Master or Mistress, without just cause, or giving lawfull
Warning, or not having a lawfull Testimonial!, shall then be
punished according to the said Statute.
13. Item.—That every Burgess and their Assistants, and all and
every other Person or Persons, using any Trade of Victualling,
or keeping any Common Alehouse, shall yearly, and every year
hereafter, from the Feast of All Saints until the Feast of the
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary find and keep one convenient
Lanthorne, with a Candle being light in the same, in the
Street, at every their Street-doors, viz., from Six of the Clock
in Afternoon untill Nine of the Clock then next following, every
Night nightly (except those Nights as the Moon shall then, and
at that time shine and give light) upon paine to forfeit and pay
for every Time offending herein, Four Pence.
14. Item.—That all other the Inhabitants of the City or Burrough
shall find the like Lanthorne and Candle Light, in Manner and
form as aforesaid, and as they, and every of them, from Time
to Time, shall be assessed by the Burgess and Assistant of that
Ward, where any of the said inhabitants shall then dwell, upon
pain to forfeit and pay, for every Time offending therein, Four
Pence.