Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
History
Source Book of London History, from the earliest times to 1800
London (England) -- History
The same lord Henry the seventh, by his letters patent as aforesaid,
for pacifying and taking away from henceforth controversies and
ambiguities in that behalf, and to fortify and by express words to
explain and declare the liberty and custom aforesaid to them the
said mayor and commonalty and citizens, and their heirs and
successors, and willing the said liberties to be peaceably and
quietly had, possessed, and enjoyed to the said mayor and commonalty
and citizens, and their successors, with the forfeitures aforesaid,
against the said late lord King Henry, his heirs and successors
granted, and by his said charter confirmed to the same mayor and
commonalty and citizens, and their successors, that no stranger from
the liberties of the same city may buy or sell from any other
stranger to the liberty of the same city, any merchandises or wares
within the liberties of the same city; and if any stranger to the
liberty of the same city shall sell or buy any merchandises or wares
within the liberty of the same city of any other stranger to the
liberty of the same city, that the same mayor, commonalty and
citizens, and their successors, may have, hold, and receive all and
all manner of such like merchandises and wares, so bought and to be
bought, sold or to be sold, within the liberty of the said city,
between whatsoever strangers to the liberty of the same city, as
forfeited; and all the forfeitures of the same, and also the
penalties, fines, and redemptions whatsoever anyways forfeited, lost
or to be lost, or to be forfeited or due thereon, to the use and
profit of the same mayor and commonalty and citizens, and their
heirs and successors, without hindrance of the same late king, his
heirs or successors, and without any account or any other thing to
be rendered or paid thereof to the late king, his heirs and
successors, any statute, act, or ordinance of us or our progenitors
made to the contrary notwithstanding; although the same mayor and
commonalty, and citizens of the said city, or their predecessors,
have before that time used, abused, or not used those customs and
liberties: Saving always, that the great men, lords, and nobles, and
other English and strangers, of what condition they shall be, may
freely buy whatsoever merchandises in gross for their families and
proper uses within the liberties of the said city, without any
forfeiture, loss, or hindrance whatsoever, so that they do not sell
again the said merchandises to any other.
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