74. C. 3. Anno quarto Henrici VII. A. D. 1487. ' and Plate, as hath been in Times paft ; wherefore it caufeth Money and Plate in divers Places of the
- Realm to be made worfe in Finenefs than it fhould be, as it appeareth evidently in divers Places, to the
- great Hurt of the King's Noblemen of the Land, and common People :' (4) Wherefore the King our
Sovereign Lord, by the Affent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in the faid Allaying of Gold Parliament afTembled, and by Authority of the fame, hath ordained, enacted, and eftablifhed, That no and silver, and p"i ner f Gold and Silver, nor Parter of the fame. by Fire or Water, from henceforth allay any fine Silver felling of the Qr q ^ ne none (' e il ; n ail y other wife, ne to any Perfon or Perfons, but only to the Officers of Mints, Changes, and Goldfmiths within this Realm, for Augmentation and amending of Coin and Plate, as is aforefaid ; (5) and that the Mafters of Mints, Changes, and Goldfmiths, for all fuch fine Gold or Silver coming to them, to anfwer the Value as it is worth, according as it is now and hath been in ancient Time accuftomed after the Rate of Finenefs : (6) Ne that no Finer nor Finers, Parter nor Parters, fell to no Perfon, neither to one nor to other, any Manner of Silver into Mafs molten and allayed, upon Pain of Forfeiture of the fame, the King thereof to have one Half, and the Finder that can prove, and will fue for Of what Fine- it in the King's Exchequer, the other Half, (7) And if any Finer or Finers, Parter or Partersof Gold neft Silver ana Silver, either by Fire or Water, allay or fell any Manner fine Gold or Silver, otherwife than it is eught to be. ordained in this Adt, he or they to lofe the Value of the fame Gold or Silver fo allayed or fold ; the King to have the one Half, and the Finder that can prove it, and will fue for it in the King's Exchequer, the other Half. (8) Alfo all fuch fine Silver as (hall be parted and fined as is afore faid, that it be made fo A Finer of Gold ^ ne ' tnat f* ma y ^ ear Twelve Penny Weight of Allay in a Pound Weight, and yet it be as good as Ster- and silver muft ling, and rather better than worfe ; (9) and that every Finer put his feveral Mark upon fuch fine Silver,. put his Mark to bear witnefs of the fame to be true, as is afore faid, upon the Pain of the Value found contrary to be upon it. forfeit ; the King thereof to have the one Half, and the Finder that can prove it, and will fue for it in the 3 7Ed. 3. c. 7. E xc i ie q U er, the other Half. (10) And that no Goldfmith nor Goldfmiths within this Realm melt or allay For what Pur- an Y ^ ne Silver, to be for any Works or other Intent, but only for making of Amels, for divers Works pofes Silver may of Goldfmithry, and for amending of Plate to make it as good as Sterling, or better, for the common Weal be melted. of this Realm. Silver molten jj # j«j or that they fell no fine Silver, nor other Silver allayed, molten into Mafs, to any Perfon or Per- into Mafs (hall f Qns wna tfoever they be, nor one Goldfmith to another. (2) This Ordinance to be kept by the Goldfmiths not .^ eyer y Pojnfj upon Pain of Forfeiture of the fame Silver, or the Value thereof; the King thereof to have the one Half, and the Finder that can prove it, and will fue for it in the King's Exchequer, the other Half. A Repeal of Pa- IJJ. Alfo it is ordained by the fame Authority, That all Letters Patents and Grants of Offices belonging tents uf offices or pertaining to the Mint of our Sovereign Lord the King, or exercifed in the fame, with Fees and Wages belongmg to the theret0 belonging, be from henceforth void and of none Effea. See fartber it Eh (.■!$. I W. & M. fiat, I. c. 30. fee. 3. 6& 7 W, 3. c. 17. feci. 3. 8 W. 3. c. S.feS. 9. 14 W, 3. c. 4. fe3. 1. I jinn, fiat. I. c, 9. feff. 3, 10 Ann. c. id. feel. 46. (iGeo.i, c, 11. iz Geo. 2, c. 26. CAP. III. Butchers fhall kill no Beafts within any walled Town, or Cambridge. ' T TE M it was fhewed by a Petition put to the King our faid Sovereign Lord, in the faid Parliament, by . ' JL his Subjects and Parifhioners of the Pariih of St. Faith's, and St. Gregorys in London, near adjoining ' unto the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, That whereas great Concourfe of People, as well of his Royal ' Perfon, as of other great Lords and States, with other his true Subjects, oftentimes was had unto the faid ' Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, and- that for the molt Part throughout the Parifhes aforefaid, the which ' oftentimes been greatly annoyed and diftempered by corrupt Airs engendered in the faid Parifhes, by Oc- ' cafion of Blood, and other fouler Things, by Reafon of the Slaughter of Beafts, and Scalding of Swine, ' had and done in the Butchery of St. Nicholas's Flefh-Shambles, whofe Corruption and foul Ordure, by ' Violence of unclean, corrupt, and putrified Waters, is borne down through the faid Parifhes, and com- ' pafleth Two. Parts of the Palace, where the King's moil Royal Perfon is wont to abide when he cometh ' to. the Cathedral Church for any Act there to be done, to the jeopardous abiding of his moft noble Perfon, ' and to over-great Annoyance of the Parifhioners there, and of other the King's Subjects and Strangers ' that pafs by the fame; (2) Complaint whereof, at many and divers Seafons, alfo by the Space of Sixteen ' Years continually, as well by the Canons and petty Canons of the faid Cathedral Church, Landlords ' there, as alfo by many other of the King's Subjects of right honeft Behaviour, hath been made unto di- ' vers Mayors 'and Aldermen of the City of London, and no Remedy had ne found ; (3) that it may pleafe ' our faid Sovereign Lord, of bis abundant Grace, to provide for the Confervation as well of his moft Royal ' Perfon, as to fuccour his poor Subjects and Suppliants in this Behalf, confidering that in few noble Cities ' and Towns, or none within Chriftendom, whereas travelling Men have laboured, the common Slaughter- ' houfe of Beafts fhould be kept in any fpecial Part within the Walls of the fame, left it might ingender ' Sicknefs, unto the Deftruction of the People :' '4) The King our Sovereign Lord, in Confideration of the PremifTes, hath, by the Advice and Aflent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, of the faid Parliament aflembled, and by Authority of the fame, ordained and enacted, That no Butcher, nor his Servant, flay no Manner Beaft within the faid Houfe called the Scald'mg-boufe, or within the Walls of Lon- don, upon Pain to forfeit for every Ox Twelve Pence, and every Cow, and every other Beaft Eight Pence ; (-5) the one Half thereof to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other Half to every of the King's Lieges that will fire 'for the fame by Action of Debt, and no Protection or EfToin be allowed to any of the Defen- dant-, againft whom ariy fuch Aftion fhall be conceived ; and that in the fame Action of Debt fuch Procefs be made, as in other Actions of Debt fued at the Common Law. (6) And over this it is ordained and en- ' ■■■ - • ailed
