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Excerpt from The Old Common Law and the New Trusts We find a series of statutes regulating the price of bread.' The act of 1709 (8 Anne) reenacts the prior acts and gives an elaborate table regulating the size of the loaves to be sold for 2, 6, 12 or 18 pence accordingly, so that when wheat is 5 shillings per bushel and the magistrates allow is. 6 pence the bushel to the baker for baking, then a one penny loaf must weight 7 ounces and 2 drachms, and the eighteen penny loaf I 1 pounds, 9 ounces and 6 drachms. It provides that the mayor and aldermen within the City of London and the mayor, bailiffs, aldermen or other chief magistrates for the time being of any other city, town, corporation or borough, or two or more justices of the peace in towns where there shall be no such mayor, bailiff, aldermen or chief magistrates, shall severally and respectively, and from time to time as there shall be occasion, set, ascertain and appoint the assize and weight of all sorts of bread, to be sold or exposed to sale by any baker or other person whatsoever within the limits of their several jurisdictions, having respect to the prices of grain, meal or flour, wherever such bread shall be made, which shall bear the several public marks in or about the city, where such assize shall be so set, and reasonable allow ance being made to the bakers for their charges, pains and livelihoods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.