Seasonable orders offered from former precedents whereby the price of corn, with all sorts of other grain may be much abated, to the great benefit of all, especially the poor of this nation. Published for the general good.

That Ministers and Preachers exhort the rich sort to be liberal to help the more with money or victual needful.

That all good means and perswasions be used by the Justices in their several Divisions, and by admonitions and exhortations in Ser∣mons in the Churches, by the Preachers and Ministers of the Word, that the poor may be served of Corn at convenient and charitable prices. And to the furtherance thereof, that the richer sort be ear∣nestly moved by Christian charity, to cause their Grain to be sold un∣der the common prices of the Market to the poorer sort: A deed of mercy, that will be doubtless rewarded of Almighty God.

That there be no buying or bargaining of any kinde of Corn but in

open Market and that the Justices in their several Divisions, restrain common Maultsters of making Barley Mault, in those Countreyes and places where there be Oats sufficient to make Mault of for the use of the people, and to restrain as well the brewing of Barley Mault, by or for Alehouses or common Tiplers in those Countreyes and pla∣ces, as also the excess use of any kinde of Mault, by all common Brewers, Maulsters, and common Tiplers, according to the true meaning of this Article: And that the unnecessary number of Ale∣houses and common Tiplers, be forthwith suppressed in all places, and that direction be given to all Tipling-houses, Taverns, and Ale∣houses, not to suffer any persons to repair thither to eat and drink at unseasonable times, or to continue in such houses longer, than to sa∣tisfie their necessity of eating and drinking.