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80 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: VOL. IV.
III.
DEE MILLS,
CHESTER.
9. Bakers'
Company
bound, 1464.
HarL MSS.
2054. 45.
Ibid., 2054. 42.
Ibid., 2054. 42.
the same cittie upon any market day in the same citie,
that such
brede as remayneth thereof unsould the same market day noe pscn
of the sayd citty shuld bye any such brede to sell agayne but on a
market day :
We the sayd maior and his counsell ordayne that noo mannr of
psons of the sayd citty put to sale nor bye within the same citty any
such brede baken out of the sayd citty only on the Wennysday or
Seturday, which be market days uset in the same cittee, agaynst the
custome aforsayd upon payne of xx^
[to be levied as before stated].
In Wittnesse wherof the sayd maior to this psent writinge hath
set the seall of his office and the ; sayd alderman and stuards of the
same craft with alle there brethrn of the same craft in the same citie—
that is to wyt, Jo. dyson, Jo. lancastr, Robt. botyll, Danall baxter,
Jo. Corroke, William Masey, Thos. Mason, Rich. Anyon, Tho. Coke,
Willm. Jellemyn, Randolf baxter and Edwd. dyson — to this writinge
have set their scales.
Geven at Chester the xii day of January, in the yeare of the reigne
of Kinge Edward, the fourth after the Conqueste, the seconde [1463].
Edward, &c. To our trustie and welbeloved the and
sherriffes of our cittie of Chester.
We lete you to wite that we have understood that by a supplicacon
presented to us on behalfe of our welbeloved the alderman,
stewards and brethren of the craft of bakers within our cittie of
Chester, that Wheras it hath been ordeined and used tyme out of
mynd [&c., as in the above civic charter of 1463]
. . .
And that the bakers soe admitted owe their sute unto our milnes
there called dee milnes and be bounden to grind their comes there
and in noe other : place
And whereas certain people are using the craft without being
admitted as bakers [&c., as in the charter].
Gcven at Westminster under our Privy Seal 2
of our reign [1464].
June, the third y^'
The above w^as confirmed by an inspeximus charter
of Edward, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester,
29 November, 18
before his murder,
Edward IV. (1479), four years
as Edward V., in the Tower of
London. Seventeen years later
granted by Prince Arthur :—
a confirmation was
The most illustrious Arthur, eldest son of Henry the Seventh,
King of Englind and France and Lord of Ireland Prince of ;
Wales,
Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, to all to whom these letters
-
shall come, greeting :
We have inspected a ct-rtain ordinance of the alderman, stewards
and brethren of the craft of bakers in our city of Chester framed for
the convenie ce and benefit of the said craft and of our mills there
in these words —
:
"
Be It knowne to all men that in the citty of Chester ther is and