582 NO BUTCHER TO HOLD MORE THAN TWO STALLS I~ THE SHAMBLES.
brought to remove said presentment, ordered, that llr. Hoare do write to Mr. Croker to do the needful in Dublin that it may be brought to tryal Present-Mr. 1\.fayor, Sher. Winthrop and Barry, the Recorder; Alden. Bennett, Cramer, Atkins, Millerd, Austin, Huleat, Croker, Pembroke. Jack- son, Farren; Mr. Carre, Engain, Owgan, Dring, C. S. 22 Feb., 1738. That Mr. Mayor and the Sheriffs do give a letter of Attorney under the Cor- poration Seal to Mr. Joseph Francklyn, the Chamberlain, empowering him to distrain for all rents, due, &c., from the several tenants to this Corporation. By order, 5 Dec., 1737, the two holdings formerly set to Ald. Rye, then out of lease, should be set reserving part of the middle floor; and whereas we are now of opinion that it would be more for the advantage of the Cor- poration that said holdings should be set entire, we now repeal said order, and that the holdings be set by cant for 99 years, agreeal)le to the map which Ald. Huleat and Croker are desired to prepare. It appears to this board that several of the Butchers are now in posses- sion of two stalls in the English Shambles, which is found very inconveni- ent; ordered, that when the leases of the present stalls shall expire, leases shall be drawn with such restrictions as shall prevent any Butcher from holding two stalls, and that no stall shall be let to a Papist, nor under 18 pence per week. That Jo. Huleat shall provide three beams, scales and weights sufficient that one of them shall be fixed in the new Shambles out of North Gate; ....__ another in the English Shambles;·a third, in the Irish Shambles. That John Hardoway attend at the Shambles out of North Gate; John Dempsey and John Parlett the English Shambles and Irish Shambles in the City, to weigh all the meat , and that no butcher shall weigh but at said beam, paying the accustomed pl'ice, and that they be sworn to do justice between buyer and seller. Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Westhrop; Alden. Atkins, Millerd, Huleat, Croker, Fuller, Jackson ; Mr. Engain, Carre, and Owgan. 20 lJfarch, 1738. Whereas Ald. Knapp informed :\Ir. 1\Iayor the 17 inst., that the Speaker directed him to acquaint the Corporation that in case they would make a
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