Taxation (No. 6) Act 1696

III. Hawker, &c. trading without or contrary to Licence; Penalty £12

Refusing to produce Licence to Mayor, &c.; Penalty £5.; and on Non-payment; Punishment.

And be it further enacted That if any such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman from & after the said Fource and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven be found trading as aforesaid without or contrary to such Licence such Person shall for each and every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Twelve pounds the one Moiety thereof to the Informer & the other Moiety to the Poor of the pish wherein such Offender shall be discovered and that every Person so trading who upon demand made by any Justice of the Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace of any Towne Corporate or Borough where hee or she shall so trade shall refuse to produce and shew unto such Justice of Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace his or her Licence for so trading to be granted as aforesaid that then the person so refusing shall forfeit Five pounds to be paid to the Churchwardens of the Parish where such demand shall be made to the Use of the Poor of the same and for Nonpayment thereof shall suffer as a co[m]mon Vagrant and be co[m]mitted to the House of Correction.