Clerk of the Market Act 1640

III. Clerks of the Market and other Officers sealing, &c. other Weights, &c. or refusing to seal, &c.

On Payment of proper Fee.; Penalty £5.

And for the more ease of his Majesties Subjects Be it further Enacted That if any Clarke of the Market within his aforesaid precincts and limits of the Verge of the Kings house onely or any Maior or other Officer whatsoever who by vertue of this Act shall have power to inquire of any abuses in Weights and Measures shall seale or give allowance unto any other Weight or measure weights or measures other then according to the said Standard of the Exchequer or shall upon reasonable request and warning refuse to seal or give allowance unto such weight or measure weights or measures as are according to the said Standard of the Exchequer paying only such Fee or fees for such allowance as by the Statute or statutes or by ancient custome are in that behalfe formerly provided and allowed and no more That then the said Clarke of the Market Maior and other Officer or Officers of Citie Burrough or Towne and the said Lord and Lords of Libertie or Liberties and his and theire Deputie and Deputies and Agents respectively shall forfeite for every such offence five pounds to be leavied as aforesaid to the use of the poore of the parish where such offence is or shall be committed.