By the mayor to all constables, beadles, and other His Majesties officers and loving subjects within the city of London, and every of them.

By the mayor to all constables, beadles, and other His Majesties officers and loving subjects within the city of London, and every of them. City of London (England). Lord Mayor. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A49062 of text R41298 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L2885K). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A49062 Wing L2885K ESTC R41298 31354841 ocm 31354841 110274 2240874999

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A49062) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 110274) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1745:7) By the mayor to all constables, beadles, and other His Majesties officers and loving subjects within the city of London, and every of them. City of London (England). Lord Mayor. 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : 1667?] Order to apprehend persons defacing or pulling down proclamations. Right half of sheet contains "The oath of the constables within the City of London." Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Guildhall Library (London, England) eng London (England) -- History -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo By the mayor to all constables, beadles, and other His Majesties officers and loving subjects within the city of London, and every of them. Corporation of London. Lord Mayor 1667 2 513 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

By the Mayor . To all Constables , Beadles , and other his Majesties Officers and loving Subjects within the City of London , and every of them .

THese shall be in his Majesties Name , straightly to charge and command you and every of you to apprehend and take all such person and persons , as at any time hereafter shall deface or pull down any Proclamation fixed upon any poste or wall , and them forthwith to commit to close prison , and to certifie me thereof . Not failing hereof at your perils .

God save the KING .

The Oath of the Constables within the City of LONDON .

YE shall sweare , that ye shall keep the peace of our Soveraign Lord the King well and lawfully after your power . And ye shall arrest all them that make contention , riot debate or affray in breaking of the said peace , and leade them to the house or Counter of one of the Sheriffes . And if ye be withstood by strength of misdoers , ye shall rear on them an out-cry , and pursue them from street to street , and from Ward to Ward , till they be arrested : and ye shall search at all times when ye be required by the Scavengers or Bedles , the common noyance of your Ward . And the Bedle and Raker ye shall help to rear and gather their salary & quarterage , if ye be thereunto by them required , And if any thing be done within your Ward against the Ordinance of the City , such defaults as ye shall find there done , ye shall them present to the Mayor and Ministers of the City and if ye be letted by any person or persons , that ye may not duly do your office , ye shall certify the Mayor and Councel of the City , of the name or names of him or them that so let you . Ye shall also swear , that during the time that ye shall stand in the office , and occupy the room of a Constable , ye shall once at the least every month certify and shew to one of the Clerks of the Mayors Court , and in the same Court , as well the names as surnames of all Freemen which ye shall know to be deceased within the month , in the parish wherein ye be inhabited , as also the names and surnames of all the children of the said Freemen so deceased , being Orphans of this City , and you shall enquire of all and every the offences done contrary to the statutes made , 1 Jacobi , 4 Jacobi , 21 Jacobi , to restrain the inordinate haunting and tipling in Innes and Alehouses , and for repressing of drunkennesse , and due presentments thereof make according to the said statutes . And thus ye shall do as God you help .

God save the KING .