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.
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- 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.
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- London :: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, at the Angel in Corn-hill,
- 1662.
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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.
- To appoint sundry Juries to enquire of things hereafter following.
- Against such as shall refuse to declare the truth of the matters inquirable.
- A consideration of all persons that have Corn, to determine how they shall serve the Markets with such portions as they may spare.
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Orders to be observed by such as shall be appointed to serve the Markets with Corn for the Relief of the Poor People first.
- No Corn brought to the Market unsold, to be carried out of the Town.
- None to buy such kinde of Corn as they shall bring to sell, but by warrant upon reasonable cause.
- No Corn to be bought for to sell again.
- No Corn to be bought but in open Market.
- Inquiry to be made against Ingrossers.
- Regard to the Bakers for keeping of the size of Bread.
- No Badger to buy Corn but in open Market, and with a sufficient License in Writing.
- Some Justices to be present in the Market, to see the Poor re∣lieved upon reasonable Prices.
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orders
- Where Justices are wanting in any Hundred, for to appoint some rich persons to supply the want.
- That Ministers and Preachers exhort the rich sort to be liberal to help the more with money or victual needful.
- No waste of Bread Corn superfluously, nor any expense thereof but for feeding of people.
- Able poor People to be set at Work.
- Stocks of Money for provision of Works for poor People.
- Souldiers hurt, and impotent People, to be relieved in their dwelling places.
- That no Millers be suffered to be common Buyers of Corn, nor to sell Meal, but to attend to the true grinding of the Corn brought, and to use measurable Toll these dear Seasons.
- Conferences to be had betwixt the Justices of Peace in the Shires, and the principal Officers of Cities and Towns Corporate for provisions of Grain, for the inhabitants in Cities and Corporate Towns.
- Order for places exempted from the Jurisdiction of the Justices of Peace in the bodies of the Shires.
- Regard to stay all Transportation of Grain out of the Realm.
- Certificate to be made of the execution of these Orders monethy to the Sheriff, and he to certifie the same to the Privy Councel within every forty dayes.