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On market days a bell to ring at 11,
selling before. punished as forestanding,
rates, &c. taken every market.
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LIII. And to the end that the said markets may be regularly kept: be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon all market days a market bell shall ring at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, for the opening the market, and if any farmer or other person or persons whatsoever, shall sell or put to open sale any wheat in the said market before ringing the said bell, such offender or offenders shall and may be proceeded against as forestallers of the market, and may be punished as forestallers are to be punished by law, and that on every market day the mayor of said city for the time being, or some person by him duly authorized or appointed, shall duly attend to take the rates and prices of corn, and the quantity that shall be in the market, to the end that a new assize of bread may be weekly regulated and published.
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