264 THE MALT TAX 



2 & 3 Edward VI. c. 10, 1548 an Act passed regulating 

 the manufacture of malt continued with alterations by 

 subsequent Acts, and repealed by 26 & 27 Vic. c. 125* 



In 1714 an Act was passed to meet the fraudulent practices 

 of maltsters. In 1860 (23 & 24 Vic. c. 110) foreign malt was 

 allowed to be imported on paying 25s. per quaiter duty. 



The Statutes at Large. By Danby Pickering. 1762. Vol. I.. 

 page 47. 



51 Henry III., 1266. (Repealed.) 



Judicium Pillorie. 



A Statute of the Pillory and Tumbrel, and of the Assize of 

 Bread and Ale. Cotton MS. Claudius D2. 



If a baker or a brewer be convicted because he has not observed 

 the assize of bread and ale the first, second, and third time he 



* The Bill for the true making of malt. 



Where divers and sundry persons taking upon them the art and 

 mystery of malt making, and sundry other persons tendring more 

 their own private lucre, gain, and profit than the wholsom victualling 

 of the King's Majesty, the Nobility of this realm, and other his Grace's 

 subjects, have now of late by their unsatiable, covetous, and greedy 

 minds, accustomably and commonly made much malt unpure and 

 unseasonable : for that they have made the same malt in eight and 

 nine days, where indeed the same cannot be well and perfectly made 

 unless it have the time and space of twenty-one days in the making 

 thereof. 



(2) AND where also divers and sundry of the said makers of malt 

 commonly have and do slackly and deceitfully dry the malt so by them 

 made : for that they would have an inordinate increase thereof by 

 the swelling of the said malt not being sufficiently dried cannot be 

 kept any long time or space but it will be musty and full of weavels. 

 whereby no wholsom drinks for man's body can by any means be 

 thereof made, which is not only to the great peril and danger of the 

 Nobility and other the King's Highness' subjects within this realm. 

 and also to the great loss and decay of the common wealth of the same, 

 but also an utter impoverishment of the Brewers of this said realm, 

 for that the said brewers (over and besides the unwholsomness of the 

 drink which is commonly made thereof) cannot make so much drink 

 of 50 quarters of malt, being so evil dried and made, as they might and 

 can of 40 quarters being well and truly made. 



(3) AND also forasmuch as divers and sundry persons minding and 

 seeking their own private and excessive gain and profit, forgetting 

 thereby their duty : and the order of charity towards the common 

 wealth and their neighbours in this behalf, do commonly use to put 

 and mix good malt and evil malt together and after put the same malt 

 to sale as good malt whereby many of the King's subjects have been 

 and are like to be very often deceived to their great loss and hindrance- 

 contrary to the honest, seemly and good buying, selling, and commuta - 

 tion, that should or ought to be amongst Christian people specially in 

 things concerning the sustentation of man's body. 



BE IT ENACTED, &C. &C. 



