A. D. 17 10. II 



that fo much of the llatute of the 51ft year of King Henry III as 

 relates to the aflize of bread, be repealed. And that from the ift of 

 May 1 710, the court of the lord mayor and aldermen of London and 

 its liberties, or the lord mayor alone, by the order of the faid court ; 

 and the mayor, bailiffs, aldermen, or other chief magiflrates, of any 

 other city or town corporate ; and two or more juflices of the peace, in 

 fuch places where there fhall be no fuch mayor, &c. fhall refpedlively, 

 and from time to time, afcertain and appoint, within tJieir refpetllve 

 jurifdictions, the alfize and weight of all forts of bread, to be fold by 

 any baker or other perfon whatfoever, having refpedl to the price which 

 the grain, meal, or flour, whereof fuch bread fhall be made, fhall bear 

 in the feveral public markets, in or about the city, town-corporate, 

 burgh, or place, where fuch aflize fhall be fo fet, making reafonable al- 

 lowance to the bakers for their charges, pains, and livelihoods ; the faid 

 aflize to be fet in avoirdupois weight. Moreover, it was enad:ed, that 

 none fliall make for fale any forts of bread, but white, wheaten, and 

 houfehold, and fuch other fort and forts of bread as fhall be publicly li- 

 cenced and allowed by the magiftrates in London and elfewhere. All 

 which feveral forts of bread fliall be made in their feveral refpedive de- 

 grees, according to the goodnefs of the feveral forts of grain whereof 

 the fame ought to be made ; and the alfize and weight of the faid 

 white, wheaten, and houfehold, bread made of wheat, fhall be fet andaf- 

 c'ertained according to the table annexed, (being a table of the alTize 

 of bread, in pounds, ounces, and drams, avoirdupois weight, refpeding, 

 or in proportion to the price of the bufhel of wheat, and the baking, 

 from a penny loaf to an eighteen-penny loaf, of the faid three forts of 

 flour, viz. white, wheaten, and houfehold.) And to the intent that this 

 law may be eftedually complied with, every baker fhall fairly imprint 

 or mark on his loaves, the fort, price, and weight of fuch loaf, or fuch 

 other mark as the faid magiftrates fliall direcl ; who are alio hereby 

 authorized, from time to time, to limit, dired, and appoint, in what 

 manner each fort of bread fliall be marked ; or to make any other rea- 

 fonable rules and orders for regulation of bakers, and the aflize of bread. 

 And bakers contravening this law, and the magiftrates reafonable re- 

 gulations, on the confeflion of the party, or on the oath of one or more 

 credible witnefs or witnelfcs, before any of the faid magiftrates, fliall for 

 every fuch offence forfeit the fum of 40/" to the informer. Which con- 

 viclion fliall be certified to the general quarter-icflions, to be there en- 

 tered upon record. But the profecution of fuch offence fliall be com- 

 menced within three days next after the oftence committed. And the 

 offender may appeal to the next quarter-feflions, when, failing of his al- 

 legations, he fliall pay coils ; as, on the other hand, the informer fliall 

 do to the baker, if he fail in his allegations. Bakers, mixing any other 

 grain in their bread than the three forts herein mentioned, fluUi forfeit 



B 2 



