paid as Inn'tement to Constables and others to do their Duty in this respect and the
Punishment directed to be inflicted upon Offenders against the said At yet by the
Negligence and Remissness of such Officers in the Discharge of their Duty the
Streets of this Metropolis and Towns and Places in this County are greatly pestered
with Numbers of Beggars resorting to the said Metropolis Towns and Places
from all Parts of the Kingdom which are a publick Nusance and bring a great
Burthen and Expence upon this County contrary to the Intent of the said Act.
This Court doth therefore recommend it to the Magistrates of this County to cause
the said Act to be strictly and speedily put in Execution against all Persons who
shall be found wandering and begging in their several Parishes Divisions and
Districts and inflict the punishment prescribed by the said Act upon such Offenders
And this Court being resolved as much as in them lieth strictly to inforce the Execution
of the said Act Do hereby charge and command all High and Petty Constables
and other Peace Officers within this County to be very carefull and diligent in
apprehending all Persons found wandering and begging in the Streets and Places in this
County and to convey them before some of his Majestys Justices of the Peace
And all Persons are hereby enjoined to aid and assist the Peace Officers in the
Execution of the said Act as they will answer the contrary at their peril And
the Constables and other Peace Officers are hereby charged to make diligent
and speedy Search in their respective Parishes and Places and return to the
several Justices of the Peace the Names and Places of Abode of such
Persons as shall for the future presume of lodge or harbour Beggars in their
Houses or other Buildings in order to their Conviction and Punishment as the
said Act, directs and this Court doth recommend it to the several Magistrates to reward
such Persons as shall be active and diligent in their Duty as by the said
Act they are impowered And all Constables and others injoined to put the said
Act in Execution are to take Notice that they will be prosecuted for their
negligence or refusal so to do with the utmost Severity of the Law And to
prevent any Parish, Peace Officer or other Person required to put the said
Act in Execution pleading Ignorance in the Premisses It is Ordered that
the Clerk of the Peace do cause a sufficient Number of Copys hereof to
be forthwith printed and by the Cryer of this Court to be sent to the
Justices of the Peace and High Constables of the several Divisions
within this County for the better notifying the same to their Petty Constables
and other Peace Officers And also that a sufficient Number of Copys hereof be
fixed up in the publick Streets of this Town and in such Towns and Villages in this
County near the Roads leading to London And that the same be forthwith published
in such of the Daily and Evening Papers as may best circulate the knowledge of
this Resolution.

By the Court
Waller

Order concerning the
Assize of Bread.

On the same Day It was Ordered That the Assize of Bread
as it shall be set from time to time by the Lord Mayor and Court of