Rebuilding of London Act 1670

II. and also the Royal Exchange, Guildhall, Sessions-house in the Old Baily, &c.

Ground to be assigned for public Market-places, and other Places.

And to the end that fitt and commodious places within the said City and Liberties thereof may be sett out and appointed for the rebuilding and keepeing of Markets with more convenience then heretofore they were, soe as the principall Streets may not be pestered and obstructed thereby as heretofore hath beene accustomed, And that the Royall Exchange, Guildhall, the Sessions house in the Old Bayly and the common Goales and Prisons [X1 in] the said Citty may be enlarged and made more commodious for the publique use and ornament of the Citty and better secured from the danger and casualtie of Fire, and that some convenient distance, intervall and circuit of Ground may be left betweene the Royall Exchange and other Houses to be built within the said Citty. Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the Maior Aldermen and Commons of the said Citty in Common Councell assembled shall and may and are hereby impowered to imploy such places and portions of Ground within the said City and Liberties thereof as by and with his said Majesties approbation now are or before the tenth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty nine shall be sett out and adjudged necessary and convenient aswell for the publique Market places there as alsoe for the ornament enlargement and convenience of the said Royall Exchange and other places aforementioned, and every or any of them respectively.

Editorial Information

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