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 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.

Where in some parts of the Realm, divers Millers, who ought only to serve for grinding of Corn that shall be brought to their Mills, have begun lately a very corrupt trade, to be common buyers of Corn, both in Markets, and out of Markets, and the same do grinde into meal, and do use as Badgers, or otherwise to sell the same at Markets, and in other places, seeking thereby an inordinate gain, besides the misusing of other mens Corn brought thither to be ground, by delay of grinding, or, what worse is, by changing and al∣tering of their good Corn to the worse: It is thought very necessa∣ry,

that the Justices of the Peace who are not owners by any title of any Mills, nor Masters or Landlords to any Millers, shall first inhibit all Millers upon pain both of imprisonment and fine, to use any such trade of buying of any grain to be sold either in Corn or meal, but to charge them to continue the orderly use of grinding of all manner of Corn that shall be brought to them, in reasonable good sort, and upon reasonable Toll. And for bettter performance hereof, some of the Justices not affectionated to the Millers, shall sometimes perso∣nally themselves resort to the Mills to oversee the doings of the said Millers, and compel them to do their duties. And where none of the Justices can as need shall be, weekly look thereto personally, they shall appoint certain honest persons weekly to attend thereto, and to inform themselves of the poorer sort, how they are used in this time of dearth, for their grinding and their toll, and present the defaults to the Justices, to be speedily reformed with all due severity.