Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & SocialBesant, Walter
History
Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social
Besant, Walter
London (England) -- History -- To 1500; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- To 1500
Also, that no officer of his lordship the King shall make any prise
within the City aforesaid, or without, of the goods of citizens
against their will, unless he shall immediately make due payment for
the same.
Also, that no prise shall be made of the wines of the said citizens by
any servant (of ourselves) or of our heirs, or of any other person,
against their will; that is to say, (prisage) of one tun before the
mast and of one tun behind the mast.
Also, that no officer or purveyor of the King or of his heirs shall
trade, by himself or by others, within the said City or without, in
anything as to which their offices are concerned.
Also, that the lands lying without the City of such citizens of London
as have been, or shall hereafter be, officers of the City aforesaid,
shall be held liable for keeping the said City harmless, etc., as to
matters that concern their offices, in the same way as their tenements
within the same City.
Also, that no market shall in future be held within seven miles in
circuit of the City aforesaid.
Also, that all Inquisitions to be taken by the Justiciars and other
officers of the King as to men of the said City shall be taken at
Saint Martin’s le Grand, and not elsewhere, except inquisitions taken
at Iters at the Tower and for delivery of the Gaol of Newgate.
Also, that no citizen shall be impleaded or troubled at the Exchequer
or elsewhere by bill; except as to those matters which concern his
lordship the King or his heirs.
Also, that the citizens of London shall have all their liberties and
free customs whole and unimpaired, as freely as they ever had the same
(the Statute for merchants, to the injury of the liberties of the
City aforesaid, in the Parliament at York in the ninth year of Edward
the Third enacted to the contrary notwithstanding), etc.” (Riley’s
_Trans._ pp. 129-132.)
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