# Paving the Haymarket Act 1696, Section V: Recital of 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 8.


§ 15.; and that Informations had been filed against Persons offending for want of due Notice, &c. to the great Discouragement of the Market.; A Bell to be rung. Twice every Market Day; On Default of ringing the Bell, the next Market to be Toll-free
And whereas by an Act made in the Second Yeare of his present Majesty and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surrey and for regulating the Marketts therein mentioned Itt was amongst other Things enacted That from and after the Fifteenth Day of December One thousand six hundred & ninety no Person or Persons whatsoever should permitt or suffer his or their Waggon Cart or Carr to stand or be in the Place called the Hay Markett neare Picadilly in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Feilds and Saint James within the Liberties of Westm[m] loaden with Hay or Straw to sell the same from Michaelmas to Lady Day after Two of the Clock in the Afternoon and from Lady-Day to Michaelmas after Three of the Clock in the Afternoon on paine to forfeit for every Offence and Neglect Five Shillings respectively And whereas diverse Persons using the said Place called the Hay-Markett neare Picadilly aforesaid have had severall Informations against them for offending against the said Statute and paid the Penalties thereof which hath been chiefly occasioned by the want of convenient Notice before the times limitted by the said Act did determine and several Informations on the said Act have been given long after the supposed Offences co[m]mitted whereby the several Persons using the said Hay Markett by the length of time have not been able to disprove such Informations which hath been a great Mischief and Discouragement to the Persons using the said Hay Markett For prevention of which Mischiefs and Inconveniences for the time to come be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Person or p[er]sons so to be from time to time appointed to collect the said Toll do twice on every Markett Day to witt on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in every Week ring or cause to be rung a large Hand Bell round the said Place called the Hay-Markett before any Forfeiture of Five Shillings for the said Offence shall be incurred whereof the first time to be an Hour before and the last time att the Expiration of the said respective Hours in and by the said recited Act appointed for all Persons using the said Markett as aforesaid to leave the same on every Default or Defaults of ringing such Bell twice as aforesaid no Person or Persons whatsoever using the said Hay-Markett for the said Purposes the next im[m]ediate usual Markett-Day or Days after every such Default or Defaults shall be liable to pay any Toll for any Waggon Cart or Carr-standing or that shall stand in the said Hay-Markett to sell Hay or Straw and the said Markett is hereby in that case and on such Day or Days as aforesaid declared to be Toll-free.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/17/section/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/paving-the-haymarket-act-1696/section-V
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