A treatise on the art of bread-making : wherin, the mealing trade, assize laws, and every circumstance connected with the art, is particularly examined / by A. Edlin.

Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the art of bread-making : wherin, the mealing trade, assize laws, and every circumstance connected with the art, is particularly examined / by A. Edlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    18. That every Monday, before three o’clock in the afternoon, a correct return* or account of wheat which shall have been so ejitcred in the aforesaid book, for the week next but one preceding such Monday, shall be prepared in Avriting, according to the following form, and certified on oath, which account shall be left at the Cocket Office, at the Mansion House, by the meal weighers of the City of London, who shall enter the same in a book provided for that purpose, and kept at the Town Clerk’s Office. 19. That every cornfactor shall deliver every Friday f, before three o’clock in the af- ternoon, to the said meal weighers, an account of the prices of all the wheat sold and delivered by him from the Monday to tha Saturday, both inclusive, in the week next preceding such Friday, w'ith the names and occupations of the respective buyers, and the apparent purposes for Avhich the wheat shall have been sold. 20. That a general return | of the quantities of all such wheat as shall have been sold and delivered within the City and Liberties of Lon- don and Bills of Mortality, or within ten miles of the Royal Exchange, in the course of the preceding week but one, together with the average price of such wheat, shall be prepared by the meal weighers, from the above accounts, every Monday afternoon, before three o’clock, which account shall be entered, before five I 4 o’clock * 37 Geo. 3. c. 68. sec. 2. t 37 Geo. 3. c. 68. sec. 3.