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Assise of Victuals Act 1511

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 3 Hen . VIII. and Anno Dom 1511 An Act repealing an Act made atYork for selling of Victual by head Officers during their Office.

(3 Hen. 8) C A P. VIII.

'WHERE in the Parliament of King Edward , Son of King Edward , holden atYork in the Twelfth Year of his Reign, among other Things it was accorded and enacted, That no Minister in City or Borough, which by Reason of his Office ought to keep Assises of Wines and Victuals, as long as he should be Attendant to that Office, should merchant Wines and Victuals in Gross or at Retail, upon a certain Pain limited and expressed in the said Statute, as in the same more plainly doth appear; (2)sithen the making of which Statute and Ordinance, many and the most Part of all the Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate within this Realm ofEngland , be fallen in Ruin and Decay, and not inhabited with Merchants and Men of such Substance as they were at the Time of making of the foresaid Statute and Ordinance; for at this Day the Dwellers and Inhabitants of the same Cities and Boroughs be most commonly Bakers, Brewers, Vintners, Fishmongers, and other Victuallers, and few or no other Persons of Substance be within many of the said Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate, other than the foresaid Victuallers, at this Day, able and sufficient to bear Office within the same, and to content, answer, and pay unto the King's Grace his Fee-ferm wherewith they be charged: (3) In Consideration whereof, and for the Ease, Comfort, and Relief of the foresaid poor Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate, and of the Inhabitants of the same,' be it ordained, established, and enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, by the Advice of his Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, of this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That whensoever and as often as any Victualler chosen to bear any Office within any City, Borough, or Town Corporate, which for the Time that he shall stand and be in such Office should have the Assessing and Correction for selling of Victuals, that then Two discreet and honest Persons of the same City, Borough, or Town Corporate, not being Victuallers, ne any of them being a Victualler, shall be chosen by the Commonalty...

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