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without, but bakers shall make it ; and the assise thereof shall 



be kept, and that the weight be reasonable after the price of 



the corn in the market ; and also that the same 

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hostellers shall sell hay and oats alter a reasonable 



price, so that they take not for the bushel but one halfpenny 



over the common price in the market." 



In 1402 the preceding statute was confirmed by the Act 

 4 Henry IV. c. 25 : "And if any hostler do to the contrary, 

 and that duly proved, the same hostler shall from time to time 

 incur the penalty of treble value of the bread made by him 

 in his house or elsewhere, contrary to the said statute ; and 

 also the said hostler shall incur the quatreble value of that 

 which he hath taken over a halfpenny of every bushel of oats 

 above the common price in the market, and that as well at 

 the suit of the king as of the party." 



In 1540 the Statute 32 Henry VIII. c. 41 was passed, by 

 which the making of horsebread according to the assise, etc., 

 was further legislated upon. After reciting the statutes of 

 Richard II. and Henry IV. against inn-holders making horse- 

 bread, it was now enacted that from henceforth " it may and 

 shall be lawful for every hosteler or inholder dwelling in any 

 town or village being a thoroughfare or common passage 

 within this realm, and being no city town or market town 

 wherein any common baker exercising the occupation of 

 baking, and had been a prentice at the said occupation, by 

 the space of seven yeares may make within his house horse- 

 bread sufficient lawful and of due assise, according to the 

 price of the grains of corn that now is and hereafter shall 

 be from time to time ; any thing or things mentioned in 

 the said acts or statutes of Richard II. and Henry IV. to 

 the contrary nowithstanding." 



" And be it also enacted etc. that if the horsebread which 

 any of the said hostelers and inholders hereafter shall make 

 be not of sufficient lawful and of due assise according to the 

 price of grains of corne as is abovesaid, Then the Justices of 

 the Peace etc. shall have full power to enquire here and 

 determine the said defaults and offences of the said hostlers 

 and inholders hereafter to be committed against the form of 



