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 A. D. 1 757* Anno tricefimo primo Georgii II. C. 29. 265 And the Half Peck and Q^iarter of a Peck Loaves of Wheaten and Houfehold Bread are to weigh, Half Peck, and Quartern from time to time, in Proportion to the Weight a Peck Loaf of Wheaten or Houfehold Bread ought Loaves lo weigh, and be Lye, Barley, Dats, Peas, or Beans either alone, or mixed with the Meal or Flour of any other Grain jgy^ or^mixed Bread *'^' or Grains, the Affize of fuch Bread fliall be made Publick in fuch Manner as the faid Magiltrate or when order'd to be made, Magiftrates, or Juftices, who fhall fet fuch Affize, fhall from time to time diredl. fliall be pnbli died. XIIL And be it alfo enadcd by the Authority aforefaid. That in Places where any fix Penny, Where Bread of a certaint' tvi'elve Penny and eighteen Penny Loaves fliall at any time be ordered or allowed to be made or fold, Denomination and Value no Peck, Half-peck, or Quarter of a Peck Loaves fliall be permited or allowed at the fame Time Ajal be ordered or aUow- . 1 1 /■ 1 1 — IT I ri/-<-> r ^ r Tt i ^L/-ij^°t0Pc made, no Bread to be there made or iold j to the Intent that one of thole borts of Loaves oi bread may not be loid of a different Denomina- defignedly, or otherwife, for the other Sort thereof, to the Injury of unwary People ; upon Pain tion is to be fold at the that every one who fliall offend in the PremilFes, and fliall be thereof convided in Manner herein af- fame Time, ter prefcribed, fliall, for every fuch Ofi-cnce, forfeit a Sum not exceeding forty Shillings, nor lefs under Penalty of forfeit- than twenty Shillings, as the Magiftrate_ or Magiftrates, Juftice or Juftices, before whom any fuch '^llSsVh^n'-'lViJr Offender fliall be convidted, fliall from time to time think fit. fuchOffence." XIV. And be it further enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That if, for the better carrying into The Juftices at a General Execution this A61, the Juftices of the Peace of any County, Riding, or Divifion, fliall, at any or Quarter-Seflions, may General or General Quarter-Seffions of the Peace to be held by them for any fuch County, Riding, ^* *^ ^ 7'')|"^"i!^i °/ or Divifion, think fit to afcertain or fix, that any Hundred or Hundreds, or other Place or Places, within"acertai°n Diftrt<f^ in any fuch County, Riding, or Divifion, ought to be eftimated or confidered, as of, or in j fo as the Affize of Bread any one particular Hundred, Riding, or Divifion, of any fuch County, Riding, or Divifion, in fet for the fame may ex- order that the Affize of Bread which fliall be fet for fuch particular Hundred, Place or Places, tend thereto. may extend to or comprize fuch other Hundred, Place or Places, then, and in any fuch Cafe, it fhall be lawful for them fo to do ; but by fo doing thereof, no Juftice of the Peace of any fuch County, Riding, or Divifion, fliall be excluded or debarred from adling as a Juftice of the Peace in any Hundred, Riding, or Divifion, of any fuch County in which any fuch particular Towns, Di- ftridts, or Places fliall lie, or the Affize for them fliall be fet. XV. And be it likewife enabled by the Authority aforefaid. That an Entry fliall, from time to Entry to be made by time, be made by every Clerk of the Market, or other Perfon or Perfons who, in purfuance of this every Clerk of the Mar- Aft, fliall be appointed to make fuch Return and Certificate as hereby is directed refpe£lively, in ket,&c.m proper Books, fome Book or Books to be provided and kept by them refpeftively for that Purpofe, of every Return ^j^ ^ etama ma e by which fliall be made, in purfuance of this Aft, by them refpeftively ; and alfo of the Rate at which ^„^f^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^f, the Price, Affize, and Weight of Bread flball, from time to time, be fet or fixed within the Jurif- f,zeand Price of Bread ' di6lion of every fuch Clerk of the Market, or other Perfons who fliall, in purfuance of this Aft, fhall be fet at from time be appointed to make fuch Return or Certificate as aforefaid ; which Book or Books any Inhabitant to time, of every fuch City, Town Corporate, Borough Franchife, Hundred, Riding, Divifion, Liberty, the faid Books to be opea Lath, Rape, or Wapentake, fliall, at all feafonable Times in the Day-time, have Liberty to fee and to the infpedtion of any infpeft, without any Fee or Reward being to be paid for the fame. Inhabitant. XVI. And be it alfo enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That after an Affize of Bread fliall, at no Alteration Is to be any Time after the faid twenty-ninth Day of September, be fet, no Alteration fliall be made therein mcde in Afiize of Bread, in any fubfequcnt Week, either to rife the fam.e higher, or to fink the fame lower, un'efs and ex- unless the Price of cept when the Price of Wheat, or other Grain, fhall be returned as having rofe three Pence each Y^^^^' ^"^ other Grain, Bufhel, more than the laft Return made, or having fallen three Pence each Bufhel lower than the Buflic[fromhelaftRe- faid laft Return ; no Provifion being made by the faid Affize l^ables for altering any Affize, when turn. the Variation in the Price of Wheat, or other Grain, fliall not in any Week have amounted to, and have been returned three Pence a Bufhel. XVII. And be it likewife enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Meal Weigher, Clerk Any Meal Weigher, of any Market, or other Perfon or Perfons who fhall be appointed to certify or return, as hereby is ^^-f^ of the Market, direfted, the Price of Grain, Meal, and Flour, fhall in any wife negleft, omit or refufe to do, any ^.'^-^'''^o ^^i' wgieit Matters or Things by this Aft required or direfted to be done by hini or them refpeftively, or fhall Retur^l* ""^ "^^^ ^ ^*^^° defignedly or knowingly make any falfe Certificate or Return ; or if any Conftable, Hcadborough, and any'peace Offi or other Peace Officer, fliall refufe or negleft to obferve or obey any Warrant in Writing which fliall wlio ftai dlfobey ^he* " be delivered to him under the Hand and Seal of any Magiftrate or Juftice of the Peace, or to Jo any Warrant of any Md^i- I every Time he or they fhall fo offend and be convifted,'as hereby is direfted. XVIIf, And be it further enadted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe any Buyers or Sellers Any Buyer, SeiK-r, or of, or Dealers in, Corn, Grain Meal, or Flour, at any Time after the faid twenty-ninth Day of Dealer, who ihaii refufe iuptemher^ on reafonablc Recjueft to him, her or them made by the Meal Weighers of the City of y,'^.''"f_^°^=.'" theMeAi London in Londm^ or by the refpeftive Clerks of the Markets, or other Perfons,' who, in purfuance ctX^'f ui'M.'^k'.^s'^ ' ' ■- &c. in other Places, ihe" __,, »TYir *"" Prices the fcveral Sorts of Gr^in, Meal, and Flour, fliall be bought or fold at in the uublick Majktt, Vol. VIIL Mm of