# Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662, Section V: To what Persons Commissioners may grant Licenses.


Priority to ancient Coachmen and their Widows.
And the said Commissioners for the licensing and regulating of Coaches are to take especial care not to license any person to drive or keepe any Hackney Coach or Coach Horses that useth any other trade or occupac[i]on and in the first place to license all such persons as have beene ancient Coach men or such Coach men as have suffered for theire service and affections to His late Majesty or His Majesty that nowe is or the widdow or widdowes of any of them that have Coaches of theire owne

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/2/section/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/streets-london-and-westminster-act-1662/section-V
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