History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
History
History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
If any man hath heretofore builded, erected, or set
up any house, wall, pale, shed, or any such like thing whatever; or
if any hereafter shall erect, build, or set up any house, wall, shed,
pale, or any such like thing whatsoever, to the annoyance of the
market-place, or of the block-house there, and shall not, upon
warning given him by the constable, or his deputy for the time being,
pull down or remove away the same within ten days after such warning
given, that then he shall forfeit the sum of five pounds.”
“_Orders for Payment of the_ QUARTER SHARE.—These being almost
literally the same as those presented to, and ratified by, Lord
_Buckhurst_ and Mr Shelley, in 1580, are purposely omitted; as are
also, for the same reason, the Orders for the LENGTH OF NETS in this
second book of Customs.”
“_Orders concerning the_ LANDMEN.—_Item_. It is ordered, that the
constable and churchwardens of _Brighthelmston_ for the time being,
with two or three of the substantial landmen, shall yearly cess, tax,
and rate towards the common charge of the town, as well all the
landmen, husbandmen, and artificers, and all of the inhabitants
having land there; and also all such persons as have lands,
tenements, or other yearly profits by land, in the said town, and
dwell in other places, according to the quantity of their lands,
tenements, and profits, proportionably with the said inhabitants; the
which cessment, rate, or taxation, shall be yearly made and set down
in writing, under the hands of the said constable, churchwardens, and
substantial landmen, before the feast day of _Epiphany_, and shall
amount unto half as much as the quarter share shall come unto yearly:
and further it is ordered, that such persons as dwell in other
places, and have in their own occupation within the said town, lands,
tenements, or other yearly profits, shall likewise yearly pay all
such sums of money as they, and every of them, in manner and form
aforesaid, shall be rated and taxed, upon pain of such forfeitures
and punishments as are to be inflicted on the inhabitants of the said
town, for not paying such sums of money as they, in like sort, shall
be cessed, taxed, or rated.”—“_Item_. Whosoever, being a landman,
husbandman, artificer, or inhabitant, or every other occupier of land
or tenements of and in the said town, that shall not yearly, before
the feast day of the _Purification of St. Mary_, pay unto the
Churchwardens for the time being, all such sum or sums of money as he
or they shall be cessed, rated or taxed, shall for every time so
doing, forfeit the double value thereof.”—“_Item_. If any owner or
lessee of any house in Brighthelmston, admit any tenant or tenants,
under-tenant or under-tenants, into his said house, except the said
tenant or tenants shall, by the opinion of the constable and the
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