ing   between  merchant  and  merchant,  and  alfo  the  oflTce  of
keeper  of  the  piibhc  fcales  or  weights  *  within  the  faid   city  *  °*  39?*
for  weighing  of  all  mercandizes  by  averdupois,  and  alfo  of  all
kinds  of  fpices,  wares,  and  things  in  the  faid   city   there  tt>
be  weighed;    and  alio  the  faid  late  king  Henry  tie  8th,  by
the  faid  letters  patent,    gave  and  granted  to  the  faid  znayor,
commonalty  and  citizens  of  his  city  of  London,  the  autho-
rity and  power  of  making,  nominating  and   afiigning  from
time  to  time,  all  and  all  manner  of  clerks,  porters,  fervants
and  minifters,  of  the  great  beam  and  fcales,  and  of  the  iron
beam,  and  of  the  hanging  beam,  called  the   ftill-yard  beam,
and  of  the  faid  weights,  and  alfo  all  other  clerks,  fervants,
porters  and  minilters  to  the   faid  office  appertaining.     And  ^"^°"?°  '*
we  further  certify,  that  within  the  faid  cicy  there  is  had,  and  i^^s^or  aas"
from   the   time  whereof  the  memory  of  man  is  not   to  the  of  common
contrary-,  was  had  a  certain  cuftom  ufed  and  approved,    to  couutil.
