Rebuilding of London Act 1670

LIV. Market Place within Newgate to be granted to the City by Lease from the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul.

And further bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That for ever hereafter the said Maior and Co[m]monaltie and Citizens of London may and shall have a Market to be kept three or fower dayes in the weeke as to them shall seeme convenient upon the Ground now sett out by the assent of the Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul London for a Market place within Newgate, And that the said Deane and Chapter shall make and give one or more Lease or Leases of the said Ground to the said Maior Commonaltie and Citizens, and alsoe of the Wall of the said Church Yard abutting severally upon Pater noster Row and the Old Change for the Terme of forty yeares reserveing the yearely Rent of fower pounds for the Ground of the said Market place, and two pence for every Superficiall Foote of the Ground or Soyle of the said Wall as it is now sett out by the Surveyours of the City and of the said Deane and Chapter, and soe from forty yeares to forty yeares for ever at the like yearely Rent, and one yeares Rent after the Rates aforesaid to be paid by way of Fine for each of the said Grounds respectively upon the makeing every new Lease thereof, Which said Lease and Leases shall be good and effectuall in the Law as against the said Deane and Chapter and their Successors and all persons claimeing by from or under them, and that noe House, Shed, or other Building shall stand, or hereafter be erected and fixed upon the said Market place other then the Market house already built without the consent of the said Deane and Chapter, Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.