Clerk of the Market Act 1640

IV. Clerk of the Market, &c. taking unlawful Fines or Fees;

or imposing Fines, &c. without legal Trial, &c.; First Offence, Penalty £5. Second Offence, £10. Third and every other Offence, £20.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if the Clarke of the Market his Deputy or Deputies or Agents within the Verge aforesaid or any Maior or any other Officer or Officers of any City or Town or any Lord or Lords of Liberties his or their Deputy or Deputies Agents or Assignes respectively shall take or receive of any of his Majesties Subjects by colour of the said Office any common Fine or Fines or any Fees other then are [X1 former] allowed by the Statute or statutes or ancient custome in that behalfe made or used shall take any Fee or Fees or other sum of money Reward or considerac[i]on for the making signing or examination of any weights or measures which have beene formerly marked or sealed or shall Impose or Assesse or cause to be Imposed or Assessed any Fine or Amerciament Fines or Amerciaments without a due and legall triall of the offences for which the said Fine or Fines Amerciament or Amerciaments are Imposed or Assessed or shall otherwise misdemean himselfe in the execution of his said Office and be thereof lawfully convicted He shall forfeit for the first Offence whereof he shall be so lawfully convicted five pounds And for the second offence ten pounds And for the third offence and every other offence afterwards twenty pounds to be levied as aforesaid to the use of the poore of the parish where such offence shall be committed

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: formerlie O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]