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78 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. No butcher or other is to have a stall in the High Street except upon payment of a consideration to the city. No one can bny undressed leather or skins if he be not of the franchise, on pain of forfeiture ; and no one of the franchise can take them in the same state out of the liberty. No fishmonger or poulterer can buy for resale before the hour of tierce has sounded^ No victuals brought into the city, and once put up for sale, can be taken out of it for sale without leave of the bailiff. No reo-rater is to leave the city for the purpose of buying victuals on their way to tiie city, in order to raise their price, on pain of 40 days im- prisonment. The custom as to fish is, that no one may have a board except of the kino- ; and each board is charged to>vards the king's rent a farthing for every day on which there is fish on it to sell. No franchise can exempt from this charge. Every cart bringing fish for sale into the city pays a halfpenny to the king's rent for the board which it stands before. And if the cart be not of the franchise, it pays to the k'mg2^d. ; and every horse-load of fresh fish not of the franchise pays lid., and of salt fish a halfpenny. A cart, not of the franchise, bringing salmon for sale pays 4cZ., unless it brings only one salmon : and a horse-load, 2d., unless there be only one fish ; and if on a man's back, Id. From every 100 lampreys there are due 5 lampreys to the bailiff's to their own use, and no other custom. Every seller of herrings in Lent by retail is to pay Qd. to the king and a pitcher of wine to the bailiffs, of whatever franchise he be. The usage of butchers is that every butcher not of the franchise, who keeps a stall, is to pay to the king, of custom, 25d. per annum. AH persons not of the franchise, who bring cattle, sheep, or pigs, and sell them alive, are to pay 5d. a year to the king for custom of paddocks, and to the city clerk. Id. for enrolling their names, provided the number sold exceeds one. And to this duty all dealers in those animals, not being freemen, who frequent the city, are chargeable, if they come more than once. And they are to stand their beasts in the paddocks without the West-gate from Michaelmas to St. Nicholas from morning till high tierce, and afterwards in ^Minster Street, where they are to stand all the rest of the year. Every baker of bread for sale is charged 2d. per an. to the king and Id. to the city clerk ; and he must make white bread, well baked, according to the vend of corn and the assise of the king's marshalsea ; that is to say, if the farthing loaf be at all deficient beyond 2d., he is to be amerced, and so in proportion for every default within 3s. If the deficiency exceeds 3*., he is subject to the judgment of the city. Every woman selling bread in the High Street, not having the freedom, pays to the king 2s. a year, and to the city clerk. Id., if she sells by the year ; if less, then in proportion. If she sells in the blind streets, 6d. or 3d. according to her handiwork ; and she is not to procure bread except where the baskets shall stand, on pain of amercement both of buyer and seller, before the hour of noon ; nor shall she procure bread of any baker from whom she cannot have security. If she does, she shall herself be security for him.