Charge by a Justice of the Peace, A.D. 1580. 215 



Item, if any victuallers, artificers or labourers do conspire to sell victuals or 

 to work at a price certain. 2 Edw. vi. c. 2. 



Item, of all forestallers and regraters * and engrossers. 5 Edw. vi., c. 14. 



Item, if any drover of cattle, badger, lader, kydder, carrier or buyer of corn 

 and grain, butter or cheese, do by colour of his license forestall. 5. Edw. vi., 

 c. 14. 



Item, if any badger, f lader, kydder, J: carrier or drover of corn by authority 

 of license do buy any corn out of open Fair or market without license. 5 

 Eliz., c. 12. 



Item, whether any Innholder dwelling in any city, town corporate, or market 

 town where bakers dwell, do make horse-bread in his house, or whether any 

 Innholder dwelling out of such places, do not make horse-bread according to 

 the lawfull assize. 32 H. viij. c. 42. 



Item, whether any use false weights and measures, and whether the Standards 

 be kept according to the Statute. II. H. 7. 



Item, whether nets and engines be used for taking and destroying of crows, 

 daws, and other fowls that destroy grain. 24 H. viij. 



Item, if any purveyor do buy any thing of xl s . value, or under, and do not make 

 ready payment for it, or if constables and tything-men uppon request do not 

 assist the owners of goods to resist such purveyors or if any do molest any 

 person for such resistance. 20 Hen. vi. c. 8. 



Item, if purveyors do take corn by any other measure than by the bushel 

 striked and viij of them to a Quarter, or do take carriage thereof and not make 

 ready payment. 1 Hen. v. c. 10. 



Item, if any person do use wittingly any deceitfull art or mean, with lynen 

 cloth whereby it is made worse for the use thereof. 1 Eliz. c. 12. 



Item, whether tyle-makers make tyles seasonable well whit ed and anealed, 

 and the earth cast up before the 1st of November before the making, and stirred 

 and turned before the first of February following, and whether the same earth 

 be well cleansed, and whether every plain tyle conteyned in length x inches 

 and a half, and in breadth vi inches and a quarter, and in thickness half an 

 inch and half a quarter. And every crest tyle xiij inches long and like thick- 

 ness as afore. And every gutter tyle in length x inches and a half with 

 convenient thickness and breadth. 17 Edw. iv. e. 4. 



Item, of all such as offend in wearing excess in apparell. 24 H. viij. c. 13. 



Item, of such as wear not caps on Sundays and Holy days.§ 13 Eliz. o. 19. 



Item, whether Highways be repaired and amended and what offences be, and 

 by whom. 5 Eliz., c. 15. 



Item, whether any annoyance be by reason of broken bridges or highways 

 impaired and what offences be and by whom. 5 Eliz. c. 13. 



Item, whether any annoyance be by reason of broken bridges or highways 

 impaired within 300 foote next adjoining to such bridges. 22 H. viij. c. 5. 



•A regrater originally signified one who bought provisions in order to sell again for gain. 

 + Badger. One who buys victuals in one place and carries them to another. (Cowell.) 

 X Kidder. An engrosser of corn for the purpose of inci casing the price. 

 ?By the Statute 5 Eliz., c. 15, every person of the middle and lower orders above the age of seven 

 years, was to wear upon the Sabbath and Holiday (unless in the time of their travelling, or absence 

 from home ) upon their head, a cap of wool knit, thickcd and dressed in England. This was for the 

 encouragement of the wool trade. 



