Fee to the Weigher; Weigher refusing to receive or ship Goods, &c; Penalty.
And to the end the Trade for Butter and Cheese may not bee ingrossed by particular Persons but may bee free and open to all Persons and especially to all the Cheesemongers who are free of the City of London Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Warehouse-keeper Weigher Searcher or Shipper of Butter and Cheese at any Port or Place in this Kingdom shall receive into his or their Possession or Warehouse all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to him or them for any of the Cheesemongers free of the City of London or other Person makeing the said Commodities and shall take due care thereof until the same [X1shall] be shipped and shall shipp the said Butter and Cheese successively as it shall come to his or their Hands respectively (without undue preferring one Mans Goods before anothers) on the next Shipp or Hoy or Vessel that shall come to such Port or Place to lade Butter and Cheese for London (except the Owners of the said Goods shall give Order to the contrary) and shall receive for his and their respective care and pains therein of the Owners of the said Goods the sum of two shillings and six pence for every Load and no more and soe proportionably And if any such person or persons or his or their servant or servants shall refuse or neglect to receive such goods or to take due care thereof or shall not ship the said goods as they come to his or their hands successively as aforesaid that every such offender and offenders being thereof convict in manner as aforesaid shall forfeit for every Ferkin of Butter Ten shillings and for every Weigh of Cheese Five shillings to be levied in manner as aforesaid
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: can O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]