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The assize of bread : together with sundry good and needfull ordinances for bakers, brewers ... : and also other assizes in weights and measures ... whereunto there are also added sundry good and needfull orders in making and retailing of all kinds of lawful breads ...

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Main Author:	Powel, John, gent
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Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
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Artachthos, or, A new booke declaring the assise or weight of bread : not onely by troy weight, according to the law, but by avoirdupois weight, the common weight of England ... and conteining divers orders and articles made and set forth by ... His Majesties most honourable Privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread ... whereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine introduction to the art of numeration ... and lastly hereunto is added a true relation ... of the most remarkeable dearths and famines which have happened in England since the coming in of William the Conquerour ...
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The assize of bread : Together with sundry good and needfull ordinances of bakers, brewers, inholders, victuallers, vintners, and butchers: and also other assizes in weights and measures ... by the lawes of this realme, are commanded to bee obserued and kept by all manner of persons, as well within liberties as without. Whereunto there are also added, sundrie good and needfull orders, ... Newly correctged and enlarged from twelue pence the quarter of wheate, vnto three pounds and sixe pence the quarter, ...
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The assize of bread : Together, vvith sundry good and needfull ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, victualers, vintners, and butchers: and also other assizes in weights and measures, which by the lawes of this realme, are commanded to bee obserued and kept by all manner of persons, as well within liberties as without. Whereunto there are also added, sundrie good and needfull orders, ... Newly corrected and enlarged from twelue pence the quarter of wheate, vnto three pounds and sixe pence the quarter, according to the rising and falling of the price thereof in the market, by sixe pence altring in euery quarter of wheate. Ioh. Cant. ... H. Hunsdon. Tho. Buchurst. ... S.I. Woolley.
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Artachthos or A new booke declaring the assise or weight of bread : not onely by troy weight, according to the law, but by avoirdupois weight the common weight of England at what price soever, not exceeding five pound the quarter of wheate, shall be sold in the market and conteining divers orders and articles made and set forth by the right honourable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread lawfull and vendible, within this realme ... whereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine introduction to the art of numeration ... And lastly hereunto is added. A true relation or collection of the most remarkeable dearths and famines which have happened in England since the comming in of William the Conquerour, as also the rising and falling of the price of wheate and other graine, with the severall occasions thereof.
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The assise of bread : newly corrected and enlarged, according to the raising & falling of the price of wheate in the market, togither with sundrie good and needful orders commanded to be kept in making of all kindes of bread, that are appointed to be sold in all places whatsoeuer: whereunto are added, sundrie other good ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, uintners, butchers, and victualers. And also other assises in weightes and measure, to bee obserued and kept. Agreeing with the auncient statutes of this realme, tending greatly to the generall comon wealth of the same. Seene allowed, and commaunded to bee kept, by the right honourable the lords, and others of the Queenes Maiesties priuie counsaile. ...
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Important considerations, upon the act of the thirty-first of George II. relative to the assize of bread.

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Review of the statutes and ordinances of assize : which have been established in England from the fourth year of King John, 1202, to the thirty-seventh of his present Majesty /
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The assise of bread : newly corrected and enlarged, from twelue pence the quarter of wheate vnto three pound and sixe pence the quarter, according to the rysing and falling of the price thereof in the market, by sixe pence altering in euerie quarter of wheate, together with sundrie good and needful ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, victuallers, vintners, and butchers: and also other assises in weights and measures, which by the lawes of this realme are comanded to be obserued and kept by all maner of persons, as well within liberties as without. Whereunto there are also added, sundrie good and needful orders in making and retailing of all kindes of of lawfull breads, ... The which satutes [sic] and auncient orders and customes, for making and retailing of all lawfull sorts of bread, as foresaid, haue beene heretofore seene, allowed, and are commaunded to bee kept, by the right honourable the lords, and others of the Queenes Maiesties honourable priuie counsaile. ...
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The report from the committee, appointed (upon the 2d day of December, 1766) to consider an act made in the thirty-first year of King George the Second, for the due making of bread : and to regulate the price and assize thereof, together with the accounts referred to the said committee.
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The assise of bread : newly corrected and enlarged, from twelue pence the quarter of wheate, vnto three pound and sixe pence the quarter, according to the rysing and falling of the price thereof in the market, by sixe pence altering in euerie quarter of wheate, together with sunderie good and needful ordinances for bakers, brewers, inholders, victuallers, vintners, and butchers: and also other assises in weights and measures, which by the lawes of this realme are commanded to be obserued and kept by all maner of persons, as well within liberties as without. Whereunto are also added, sundrie good and needful orders in making and retailing of all kindes of bawfull breads, ... The which satutes [sic] and auncient orders and customes, for making and retailing of all lawfull sorts of bread, as aforesaid, haue beene heretofore seene, allowed, ... by the right honourable the lords, and others of the Queenes Maiesties honourable priuie counsaile. ...
Published: (1597)

Here begynnethe the boke named the assyse of bread : what it ought to waye after the pryce of a quarter of wheete. And also thassyse of al maner of wood, lathe, bourde, tymbre, and the waight of butyre, and chese. Enprynted at the request of Mychaell Englysshe and Iohn Rudstone aldermen of the cyte of London.
Published: (1532)

The town of Bedford, to wit. The assize of bread to be made of wheat, set forth the [blank] day of [blank] by the mayor of the town and borough of Bedford, in the county of Bedford, in pursuance of the statutes in this case made and provided; to commence and take place on [blank] next, and to be observed and kept, until the further order of the mayor of the said town and borough for the time being; and which is and are to be observed and kept by all persons who shall make on bake bread for sale, or sell, or expose the same to sale, within this town and borough, or the liberties thereof.

Anno regni Georgii III, Regis ... decimo tertio, at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the tenth day of May, Anno Domini 1768 ... : and from thence continued ... to the twenty-sixth day of November, 1772, being the Sixth Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain ; The measure of regulating the assize, and of the due making of bread, explained : with a short commentary on the nature and scope of the provisions of the late act /

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An act for regulating the assize of bread.

A Copy of the report of an essay of bread made in the year 1669 : by order of the then Court of Aldermen : with some remarks, which were made on passing the Act of 31st of George II. entitled, An Act for the Due Making of Bread, and to Regulate the Price and Assize thereof, &c. : which shew, that the said essay was not made according to the then bread-table : with a comparison of that table with the tables of the 8th of Anne and 31 George II : to which is added, an appendix, by way of attempt to explain the table in the said statute of 51st of Henry III.
Published: (1758)

Assize of bread. June 21, 1796. The regulation of the assize of bread being generally misunderstood, the following tables, extracted from the act of Parliament of the 31st Geo. II. will at once shew by what authority the magistrates regulate the price of bread, with the allowance to bakers of 1s. 6d.
Published: (1796)

Thus endeth the Statute upon the A[ssize] of breade ....
Published: (1540)