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6. Every Baker after 1st. Septr. 1715 may make and sell peck half peck
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Quartern & half Quartern Loaves so as the same be made both as to weight &
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Price inproportion to the Assize Table in sd. former Act
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7. Aftersd. Sept every time the Assize shall be altered according to the Powers
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in the sd. reated Act, the Prices of Grain Meal and Four in the adjacent Markets where
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such Assize shall be set (the sd. Prices to be asctertained according to the Linchester
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Measure) shall be certified upon Oath before sd. Ld. Mayor & Aldermt. of
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or Chief Magistrate
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or Justices who by sd. Act are Authorized to set such
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Assize by the Clerk or Clerks of the
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respective Adjacent Markets or such other Persons as sd. Magistrates shall appoint
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so that they may set the Assize accordingly & make such Allowance to the Bakers for
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their charges pains & Livelihood as heretofore has been accustomed And that the
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Assize of Bread for the
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City of London
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& Bills of Mortality (City of Westmr. & libties thereof
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Borough of
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Southwark
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& Bills of Mortality in County of Surry excepted) shall be set by
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Court of Ld. Mayor & Alderman of
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or by Ld Mayor
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3 Geo: 2d. Cap: 29
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Sect 2. After 24 June 1730 Hairy Person baking Bread for sale or
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Exposing Bread to sale shall sell any peck, half peck or Quarter Loaf at
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any higher price
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than shall be set by sd. Court of Ld. Mayor & Aldemen or by the Ld. Mayor of sd. City
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by order of sd. Court only the Mayor Bailiffs Aldermen or Chief Magistrates for the time
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being of any City Town Corporate or Borough or by any two or more Justices of Peace
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in such places where there shall be no such Mayor Bailiffs Aldermen or other Magistrate
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he she or they convicted shall for ever Offence forfeit 10s. to be given to the
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Informer & to be recovered as Penalty of 40s. is by the 8 of 2. Anne to be recovered
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3. That before any Reduction is made in the Assize of Bread a Copy of the
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Prices delivered in by the Meal Weighers, shall be left at the Comon Hall of the
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Bakers Company 12 hours before any such reduction to the intent the sd. Company
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shall have an opportunity to be heard thereupon before sd Court
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