Contempt of our said Lord the King and his Laws To the great Hindrance
of Justice To the bad Example of all other Persons in the like case offending
and against the Peace Etc.

That the P. Deft on the sd. 21st. Day of December in the 25th. year
aforesaid and Long before and always after until the Day of the taking of
this Inquisition was and hath been inhabitant and resiant paying Scott
and bearing Lott within the said Parish of Saint Martin Outwich
in the Ward of Bishopsgate in London aforesaid and that within the
said Ward of Bishopsgate in London aforesaid and that within the said
said Ward of Bishopsgate their is and from the Time whereof the
Memory of Man is not to the Contrary there hath been a certain Court
of our said present sovereign Lord the King and his Predecessors called the
Wardmote held and to be held in every Year upon the Feast of Saint Thomas
the Appostle (unless the said Feast happened to be or fell on a Sunday
and in that Case upon the Day then next following the said Feast)
before the alderman of the said Ward for the Time being or in his absence before
the Mayor of the said City for the Time being in which said Court
according to the said Custom of the said ward for all the said Time [..]
last aforesaid used and approved to wit in the Parish of St. Helen in
the Ward aforesaid all the Men inhabiting and resiant paying Scott &
bearing Lott within the said Ward for the Time being have been used and
accustomed and ought and were bound by Reason of their Residence to
appear and do their Suit there in the same Court and in the said Court
according to the Custom of the said Ward the said Men inhabitting and
resiant paying Scott and bearing Lott with in the same ward for the Time
being were yearly during the whole Time last aforesaid used and accustomed
and ought to appoint and chuse divers persons then inhabiting and
resiant paying Scott and bearing lott within the Ward aforesaid Constables
within and for the several Precincts of the said Ward for preserving the Peace of
the Lord the King and for the apprehending of Rogues Vagabonds & other suspicious