The
Statutes
of
the
Streetes
of
this
Cittie
,
against
Noysances
.
FIrst
,
no
man
shall
sweepe
the
filth
of
the
streate
into
the
Canell
of
the
Cittie
in
the
time
of
any
rayne
or
at
any
other
tyme
vnder
payne
of
vj.
s.
viij
.
d.
2
No
man
shall
cast
,
or
lay
in
the
Streetes
,
dogs
,
cattes
,
or
other
carreine
,
or
any
noysome
thing
contagious
of
ayre
.
Nor
no
Inholder
shall
lay
out
dunge
out
of
his
house
but
if
the
cart
be
ready
to
carry
the
same
away
incontinently
,
vnder
payne
of
xl
.
s.
3
No
Brewer
shall
cast
wilfully
,
Dreggs
,
or
drosse
of
Ale
or
Beere
into
the
Canell
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
4
No
man
shall
encomber
the
Streetes
with
Timber
,
Stones
,
Cartes
,
or
such
like
,
vnder
payne
of
forfayture
of
the
same
thinge
,
that
so
encombreth
the
streetes
which
is
twenty
shillinges
fine
,
if
hee
amoue
it
not
at
the
warninge
of
the
Sergeant
of
the
Market
.
5
Euery
buylder
of
houses
oughte
to
come
to
the
Mayor
,
Aldermen
,
and
Chamberlayne
,
for
a
speciall
licence
for
hourde
of
,
by
hym
to
bee
made
in
the
high
Streete
,
and
no
Builder
to
encomber
the
Streetes
with
any
manner
of
thinge
,
takinge
downe
for
the
preparinge
of
hys
new
buildinge
,
vnder
payne
of
forty
shillings
,
except
he
make
a
hourd
of
xl
.
s.
6
No
man
shall
set
any
Cartes
in
the
streetes
by
night
time
,
vnder
the
payne
of
xij
.
d.
and
recompence
to
such
persons
as
shal
be
hurt
thereby
if
any
such
be
,
xij
.
d.
7
No
Budge-man
shall
leade
but
two
horses
,
and
he
shall
not
let
them
goe
vnled
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
8
No
man
shall
ride
or
driue
hys
carre
,
or
carte
a
trotte
,
in
the
street
,
but
paciently
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
9
No
man
shall
gallope
his
horse
in
the
streete
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
10
No
man
shall
shoote
in
the
streete
,
for
wager
or
otherwise
,
vnder
like
paine
of
ij
.
s.
11
No
man
shall
bowle
,
or
cast
any
stone
in
the
streete
for
wager
or
gaine
or
such
like
,
vnder
pain
of
ij
.
s.
12
No
man
shall
digg
any
hole
in
the
streete
for
any
matter
,
except
he
stop
it
vp
againe
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
and
recompence
to
any
person
hurt
thereby
ij
.
s.
13
No
man
shall
bury
any
dunge
,
or
goung
,
within
the
liberties
of
this
Citie
vnder
paine
of
xl
.
s.
14
No
Goungfermour
shall
carry
any
Ordure
till
after
ix
.
of
the
clocke
in
the
night
,
vnder
paine
of
thirtene
shillings
,
foure
pence
.
15
No
Goungfermer
shall
spill
any
Ordure
in
the
street
,
vnder
paine
of
xiij
.
s.
iiij
.
d.
16
No
man
shal
baite
Bull
,
Bear
,
or
Horse
in
the
open
streete
,
vnder
paine
of
xx
.
s.
17
No
man
shall
haue
any
Kine
,
Goates
,
Hogs
,
Pigs
,
Hens
,
Cocks
,
Capons
,
or
Duckes
,
in
the
open
streete
,
vnder
paine
of
forfayture
of
the
same
.
18
No
man
shall
mainetayne
any
byting
Curres
,
or
mad
Dogges
,
in
the
streetes
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
and
recompence
to
euery
party
hurte
therewith
ij
.
s.
19
No
Cartes
that
shall
be
shodde
wyth
Spignayle
,
that
shall
come
vppon
the
streetes
of
this
Cittie
,
vnder
paine
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
20
No
Cartes
vsing
dayly
carryage
within
the
Cittie
,
nor
Car
shall
haue
wheeles
shod
with
any
Iron
,
but
bare
vnder
paine
of
vj.
s.
21
No
man
shall
burne
any
straw
,
Rishes
,
or
other
thing
,
Linnen
,
or
wollen
,
in
the
Streetes
,
by
night
or
by
day
,
vnder
paine
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
22
No
man
shall
blow
any
horne
in
the
night
,
within
this
Cittie
,
or
Whistle
after
the
houre
of
nyne
of
the
clocke
in
the
night
,
vnder
paine
of
imprisonment
.
23
No
man
shall
vse
to
goe
with
visoures
,
or
disguised
by
night
,
vnder
lyke
payne
of
imprisonment
.
24
Made
that
Night-walkers
and
Euisdroppers
,
like
punishment
.
25
No
Hammar
man
,
as
a
Smith
a
Pewterer
,
a
Founder
,
and
all
Artificers
,
making
great
sound
,
shall
not
worke
after
the
houre
of
nyne
in
the
night
,
nor
afore
the
houre
of
four
in
the
Morninge
,
vnder
payne
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
26
No
man
shall
cast
into
the
Diches
of
this
Citie
,
or
the
Sewers
of
this
Cittie
,
without
the
walles
,
or
into
the
Walles
,
Grates
,
or
Gullyttes
of
this
Cittie
,
any
manner
of
carryn
,
stinking
flesh
,
rotten
fishe
,
or
any
rubbyshe
,
doung
,
sande
,
grauell
,
weedes
,
stones
,
or
any
other
thinge
,
to
stoppe
the
course
of
the
same
,
vnder
payne
of
cleansing
of
,
at
his
owne
cost
and
charge
,
vnder
paine
of
imprisonment
.
27
No
man
shal
make
any
wided
rawtes
in
anye
of
the
towne
Dyches
,
or
the
towne
gullits
,
vnder
paine
of
xx
.
s.
28
No
man
shall
builde
nigh
the
Walles
of
this
citie
,
without
licence
of
the
Lord
Maior
,
Aldermen
,
and
Chamberlaine
,
vnder
paine
of
throwing
downe
the
same
,
and
no
lycence
may
bee
graunted
except
that
the
Chamberlaine
freely
at
al
times
conuenient
and
needeful
for
ingresse
and
entree
,
out-goynge
,
and
cleare
recourse
.
29
No
man
shall
goe
in
the
streets
by
night
or
by
day
,
with
bow
bent
,
or
arrowes
vnder
his
girdle
,
nor
with
swoorde
vnscabberd
,
vnder
payne
of
imprisonmente
,
or
wyth
hand-gunne
,
hauinge
there-with
powder
and
matche
:
except
it
be
in
an
vsuall
May-game
,
or
sight
.
30
No
man
shall
after
the
houre
of
nine
at
the
Night
,
keepe
any
rule
whereby
any
such
suddaine
out-cry
be
made
in
the
still
of
the
Night
,
as
making
any
affray
,
or
beating
hys
Wife
,
or
Seruant
,
or
singing
,
or
reuyling
in
his
house
,
to
the
disturbaunce
of
his
neighbours
,
vnder
payne
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
31
No
man
shall
make
any
affray
vpon
any
Officer
,
which
with
good
demeaner
doth
his
message
,
by
commaundement
of
my
L.
Maior
,
or
any
Alderman
,
or
M.
Sheriffes
,
or
M.
Chamberlain
,
or
misbehaue
him selfe
in
any
rayling
vpon
any
Iudge
of
this
Citie
,
or
their
Officers
,
which
by
commaundement
be
sent
to
bring
any
breaker
of
this
law
and
custome
to
Ward
,
or
to
distresse
,
or
such
lyke
vpon
payne
of
Imprisonment
of
forty
dayes
,
and
forfayture
of
the
double
penalty
,
for
the
offences
asseasing
rayling
vppon
any
Alderman
,
or
Mayor
in
his
office
,
is
Iudgemente
of
the
Pillory
,
rayling
vpon
Master
Chamberlayne
in
his
Office
,
forty
daies
imprisonment
,
beating
,
threatning
,
and
rayling
of
an
officer
is
imprisonment
,
after
as
the
trespas
is
.
32
Memorandum
that
euery
offence
founde
in
this
Citty
,
it
is
accustomed
that
the
Officer
,
a
Freeman
,
findinge
it
,
whiche
is
called
primus
Inuentor
,
hath
halfe
the
penalty
by
the
grace
of
the
Court.
33
Also
euery
Freeman
may
finde
any
offence
,
but
he
hath
no
power
to
bring
the
Party
before
any
Iudge
of
this
Cittie
,
without
an
officer
,
except
the
party
will
come
to
his
aunsweare
by
freewill
.
34
No
man
hath
power
to
arrest
,
attach
,
or
make
distres
of
any
goods
forfitable
,
or
offences
,
except
the
constable
or
Sergeant
of
the
Mase
.
35
No
Butcher
or
his
seruant
shal
not
vse
to
driue
any
Oxe
or
Oxen
,
a
trotte
in
the
streetes
,
but
peaceably
and
if
an
Oxe
happen
to
bee
let
goe
,
when
hee
is
prepared
to
slaughter
the
Butcher
shall
forfayte
ij
.
s.
besides
recompence
,
if
any
person
bee
hurt
thereby
.
36
No
Butcher
shall
scauld
Hogs
but
in
the
common
scaulding
house
,
vpon
paine
of
vj.
s.
viij
.
d.
37
No
Butcher
shall
sell
any
mesell
Hog
,
or
vnwholesome
flesh
vnder
paine
of
x.
li.
38
No
Butcher
shall
sell
any
olde
stale
victuall
:
that
is
to
say
,
aboue
the
slaughter
of
three
dayes
in
the
Winter
and
two
in
the
Sommer
,
vnder
paine
of
x.
li.
39
None
vnreasonable
Victuall
for
all
manner
of
victuals
.
40
No
Victualer
of
this
Citty
,
shall
geue
any
rude
or
vnsettinge
language
,
or
make
any
clamor
vpon
any
man
or
woman
in
the
open
market
,
for
cheapinge
of
victuall
vnder
payne
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
41
No
Butcher
shall
cast
the
inwardes
of
beastes
into
the
streetes
,
cleaues
of
beastes
feete
,
bones
,
hornes
of
Sheepe
or
other
such
like
,
vnder
paine
of
ij
.
s.
42
The
Poding
cart
of
the
shambles
shall
not
goe
afore
the
houre
of
nine
in
the
night
,
or
after
the
houre
of
fiue
in
the
morninge
,
vnder
the
paine
of
vj.
s.
viij
.
d.
43
No
man
shall
cast
any
Vrine
boles
,
or
ordure
boles
,
into
the
streetes
,
by
day
or
night
,
afore
the
houre
of
nine
in
the
night
:
And
also
hee
shall
not
cast
it
out
,
but
bring
it
downe
,
and
lay
it
in
the
Canell
,
vnder
the
paine
of
iij.
s.
iiij
.
d.
And
if
he
do
cast
it
vpon
any
persons
head
,
the
party
to
haue
a
lawfull
recompence
,
if
he
haue
hurt
thereby
44
No
man
shall
hurt
,
cut
,
or
destroy
any
Pipes
,
Sesperalles
,
or
winde
Ventes
pertayninge
to
the
Condite
,
vnder
paine
of
imprisonment
and
makinge
satisfaction
,
though
he
doth
it
out
of
the
Cittie
,
if
he
may
be
taken
within
the
Citie
.
45
No
man
within
thys
Cittie
may
make
any
Quill
,
and
breake
any
Pipe
of
the
Condite
,
comminge
throgh
his
house
,
or
nigh
his
ground
,
vnder
payne
of
the
Pillory
,
or
take
any
water
priuily
vnto
his
house
.
46
Casting
any
corrupt
thinge
,
appoysoning
the
water
,
is
Lourgulary
and
felony
.
47
Whosoeuer
destroy
or
perrish
any
Cockes
of
the
Condite
,
must
haue
imprisonment
,
and
make
satisfaction
.
Old
Lawes
and
Customes
of
this
Cittie
.
No
man
shall
set
vp
Shop
,
or
occupy
as
a
Freeman
afore
hee
bee
sworne
in
the
Chamber
of
London
,
and
admitted
by
the
Chamberlaine
,
vnder
paine
of
.
48
No
man
shall
set
ouer
hys
apprentise
to
any
other
person
,
but
by
licence
of
M.
Chamberlayne
,
and
there
to
be
set
ouer
vnder
paine
.
49
No
man
which
is
a
Forraine
,
shall
not
buy
nor
sell
within
the
Liberties
of
this
Cittie
,
with
another
Forraine
,
vnder
payne
of
forfayture
of
the
goods
so
forraine
bought
and
solde
.
50
No
Freeman
shall
bee
disobedient
for
to
come
at
M.
Chamberlaynes
commaundemente
,
to
any
summons
to
him
giuen
by
any
Officer
of
the
Chamber
,
vnder
payne
of
imprisonment
.
51
M.
Chamberlaine
hath
power
to
send
a
Freeman
to
Ward
,
so
that
hee
incontinently
after
sende
to
the
Lord
Mayor
,
the
cause
why
that
he
is
punished
,
so
that
the
Lord
Maior
release
him
not
but
by
the
Chamberlaines
assent
,
and
if
he
be
a
great
Commoner
,
and
disobaying
to
the
Chamberlayne
,
M.
Chamberlayne
may
referre
it
to
a
Courte
of
Aldermen
.
M.
Chamberlayne
hath
authority
for
to
send
or
commaund
any
Apprentise
to
the
Counter
for
their
offences
,
and
if
their
offences
be
great
as
in
defyling
their
maisters
houses
by
vicious
liuing
,
or
offendinge
hys
maister
by
thefte
,
or
disslaunder
,
or
such
like
,
then
to
commaund
hym
to
Newgate
.
Apprentise
enrolled
,
hys
maister
payeth
ij
.
s.
vj.
d.
Apprentice
set
ouer
,
hee
that
receiueth
ij
.
s.
Apprentice
made
free
,
he
payeth
iiij
.
s.
Apprentise
neuer
enrolled
,
and
made
free
,
his
maister
payeth
xiij
.
s.
ij
.
d.
A
man
made
free
by
his
Fathers
Copy
,
payeth
xviij
.
d.
A
Proclamation
made
in
the
time
of
the
Mayrolty
of
Sir
Michell
Dormer
knight
.
An
Act
of
Common
Councell
made
in
the
Euen
of
Sainte
Michaell
,
Anno
Regis
Henrici
Octaui
,
xxxi
.
that
no
person
shoulde
lay
any
wares
in
the
streete
,
or
beyonde
the
edge
of
their
stall
,
vpon
payne
of
forfayture
the
first
time
vj.
s.
viij
.
d.
the
second
time
xiij
.
s.
iiij
.
d.
and
the
third
time
the
ware
so
layd
.