1. _Corn Dealers._ Corn brought to London by land is to be taken in bulk to the Market within Newgate before the Friars Minors or at Gras chirche (Gracechurch Street). That “none” of it is to be sold before the hour of Prime, _i.e._ 6 A.M. to 7 A.M. And that corn brought by water shall be offered to the common people by retail during a whole day.
2. _On Forestalling._ It is forbidden to meet dealers coming with their wares by land or water before they have put up their wares for sale.
3. No one to sell anything dutiable until he has paid the duty.
4. No freeman of the City to enter into partnership with a stranger (_i.e._ one who is not a freeman).
5. Bakers are to make loaves of two sizes, viz. two for a penny, and four for a penny. Bread shall be sold in the market only. Every baker to have his own stamp by which his bread may be known. The baker of brown bread not to make white bread and the converse. A baker shall not buy corn to sell it again. A baker shall not sell his flour to cooks for making pastry. Once a month every baker’s bread shall be examined.
If a baker be found to be selling bread under weight he is to be placed on a hurdle with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck and dragged through the “great streets where there may be most people assembled and through the great streets which are the most dirty.” For a second offence he is to be dragged in like manner and set in pillory. For a third offence he is to be dragged, set in pillory, his oven pulled down and himself forbidden to carry on that trade any longer.
A baker is not allowed to give the regratess (_i.e._ the woman who retails bread from house to house) the “handsel money” of sixpence on Monday or the “curtesy-money” of threepence on Friday: but, instead, he is to give her thirteen loaves as twelve.
6. _Of Brewers and Taverners._ No measures to be used except the gallon, pottle, and quart. These are to be stamped by the Alderman. The tun of the brewster (brewing was conducted principally by women) to contain 150 gallons. And since the measures (which were made of wood) do sometimes shrink from dryness, they are to be examined four times a year.
7. No stranger to sell by retail in the City unless he has been received into the freedom and enrolled at Guildhall.