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19. Item.—That the Inhabitants of the City or Burrough Yearly, and
every year hereafter, from the Feast Day of the Annuntiation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary until the Feast Day of Saint
Michaell the Archangell, viz. : every Day at six or seven of the
Clock in the forenoon, shall, either by themselves or some
others, with clean Water wash and sweep the Kennells and
gutters near unto every of their Dwelling House, upon paine to
forfeit and pay, for every day makeing Default, Four Pence.
21. Item.—That the Scavengers or Carter shall well and duely
make, clean, and carry away the Soyle of the Streets upon every
such Day, and in such convenient Order as it hath heretofore
been lawfully used and accustomed, upon paine of Imprisonment,
and there to remaine during the Space of Twenty-four
Hours, for every Time offending in this Order.
24. Item.—If any Hogg or Hoggs shall at any Time be found upon
the Common of Tuthill, and not being ringed or pegged, or shall
be found wandering in any Street or Churchyard, that the
owner of every such Hogg shall forfeit and pay, for every such
Hogg, and for every time offending in any the Premisses Twelve
Pence.
34. Item.—The Burgesses and Assistants shall in convenient order
every Sabbath Day in the Forenoone, come to the Collegiate
Church of St. Peter in Westminster and there to be present all
the Time of the Sermon, upon paine, every one of them, for
every Time making Default, without just cause, shall forfeit
and pay Four Pence.
Experience soon proved to the Court of Burgesses that
their jurisdiction was not equal to the effectual suppression
of the offences and disorders prevalent in the area for
which they acted. Further powers were therefore sought
at the King's hands, on the petition of the Earl of Pembroke,
Lord High Steward, in 1636. The allegations of
the petition were:—
That whereas by reason of yor Matie's and yor most Royall
Progenitors usuall residence neere or in the said Cittie. And
for that your Matie's Courts of Ordinarie Justice usually
sit there, the concourse of people thither is verie great and
various, whence also so many offences and disorders are often
in ye same Cittie and ye precincts thereof comitted. That
for want of a larger Power of Jurisdicon and Government in
the said Church or inhabitants, or both, the same offences and
disorders can neither bee so conveniently punished nor prevented
as is meete.
And whereas it is conceaved that if the said inhabitants were incorporated,
and the perpetuall Succession of Magistrate wih the
power for punishing offenders and with like priviledges as other