By the mayor whereas by the laws and statutes of this realm, constituting and appointing the assize of fewel, it is provided and required that all billets and faggots exposed to sale shall contain the demensions following ... City of London (England). Lord Mayor. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B26161 of text R41753 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB 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 B26161 Wing L2885Y ocm 31360546

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By the Mayor .

WHereas by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm , constituting and appointing the Assize of Fewel , It is provided and required , That all Billets and Faggots exposed to Sale , shall contain the Demensions following ; that is to say , Every Billet shall contain in length , Three Foot Four Inches ; And every Billet named a Single , shall contain in compass , being round bodi'd , Seven Inches and an half ; And no Single to be made or marked out of Cleft Wood . And every Billet marked One , commonly called a Cast , to contain in compass , being round , Eleven Inches ; And half round , Thirteen Inches ; And being quarter Cleft , to contain in compass Twelve Inches and an half . And every Billet marked Two , commonly called Two Cast , to contain in compass , being round , Sixteen Inches : And half round , Nineteen Inches ; And being quarter cleft , to contain in compass Eighteen Inches and an half . And all Faggots shall contain in compass , besides the Knot of the Bond , Four and Twenty Inches ; And every Faggot-Stick or Bend within the said Bond , to contain in length full Three Foot , except only one Stick or Bend to be One Foot long , to stop or harden the binding thereof . Now the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of this City of London being informed that notwithstanding the Penalty in that case provided , whereby all unsized Fewel is to be seized , as forfeited : And notwithstanding a publick Admonition given by Sir Thomas Davies Lord Mayor , in the time of his Mayoralty , that the said Forfeitures should be taken , great Quantities of Billets and Faggots wanting the Assize aforesaid , are continually exposed to Sale within this City and Liberties , to the great deceit and abuse of the Citizens and Inhabitants thereof : His Lordship is resolved to use his utmost Endeavour that the said Laws may hereafter , be within this City , more carefully and duly observed ; and hath for that end given strict and positive Orders , That all Billets and Faggots exposed to Sale within this City and the Liberties thereof , that shall be found to want of their due Assize , according to the demensions aforesaid , shall be seized and disposed of as by the said Laws is appointed . And his Lordship gives this publick Intimation of his Resolution herein ; to the end all Persons that shall hereafter bring up to this City any Billets or Faggots to be sold , may take care that the same be of the full Assize , and thereby avoid the Penalty in that behalf .

Given at the Guild-Hall of the City of London , the Second Day of April , in the Three and Thirtieth Year of his Majesties Reign .

Printed by Samuel Roycroft , Printer to the Honourable City of LONDON .