+---------------+---------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+ | When the | | | | | | Average Price | Allowance to | Total Price. | Quartern | Peck Loaf | | of Flour is | the Baker. | | Loaf | | | per Sack. | | | | | +---------------+---------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+ | 50/ | 10/ per sack | 60/ | /9 | 3/ | | 51/8 | " | 61/8 | /9-1/4 | 3/1 | | 53/4 | " | 63/4 | /9-1/2 | 3/2 | | 55/ | " | 65/ | /9-3/4 | 3/3 | | 56/8 | " | 66/8 | /10 | 3/4 | | 58/4 | " | 68/4 | /10-1/4 | 3/5 | | 60/ | " | 70/ | /10-1/2 | 3/6 | | 61/8 | " | 71/8 | /10-3/4 | 3/7 | +---------------+---------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+ --(_Times, July 1, 1796._) The Aldermen also had the power of visiting the bakers' shops within their Wards, of fining dishonest bakers, and distributing their bread, gratis, to the poor,--a summary, and most effectual, way of dealing with the rogues. "Wednesday, a cheap Baker in Bishopsgate-Ward was fined, by the Lord Mayor, 5s. per ounce, on 16 ounces short weight, in seven quartern, and nine penny loaves, taken by the inquest of that Ward from out of his shop."--(_Times, March 29, 1793._) * * * * * "Saturday Mr. Justice Russell, and the Peace Officers of Greenwich, went to all the bakers, and weighed their bread, to find out if the poor, and other inhabitants, had their due weight: when many loaves, found deficient in weight, were immediately given away at the doors of the bakers to those poor persons who were not under any relief from the parish."--(_Times, Jan. 12, 1795._) * * * * * "Monday, in consequence of an information, Mr. Justice Addington, attended by several officers, went to a Baker's shop, in Holborn, where they found 70 loaves, short of the standard weight, 181 ounces. The Magistrate fixed the penalty of 5s. per ounce, which amounted to £45, 5s., but which was mitigated to £40. The Magistrate, and officers, then went to a Baker's in Little Turnstile, and found 54 loaves short of the standard, 142 ounces, amounting at 5s. an ounce to £36, but which was mitigated to £30. The loaves were distributed to the poor in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden."--(_Times, July 8, 1795._) * * * * *