“The assise of bread after that above contained truly may be holden after the selling of wheat; that is to say, of the best price, of the second price, and of the third, and as well wastell bread as other bread shall be weighed after, of what kind so ever it be, as it is above, by a mean price of wheat; and then the assise or the weight of bread, shall not be changed but by six pence increasing or distressing in the selling of a quarter of wheat.  Also, the baker shall be amerced 2s. 6d., and his quartern bread may be proved faulty in weight; and if he pass the number he shall go to the pillory, and the judgment of the trespass shall not be forgiven for gold nor silver; and every baker must have his own mark on every manner bread; and after eight days bread should not be weighed:  and if it be found that the quartern bread of the baker be faulty he shall be amerced 15d., and unto the number of 2s. 6d.  And it is to know that the baker ought not to go to the pillory, but if he pass the number of 2s. 6d. default quartern bread, and he shall not be merced, but if the default of bread pass 15d.

“The rule set upon White Bakers and Brown Bakers, —­The rule is that white bakers should inowe make and bake all manner of bread, and that they can make of wheat:  that is for to say, white loaf bread, wastell buns, and all manner white bread that hath been used of old time; and they inowe make wheat bread sometimes called Crybill bread, and basket bread such as is sold in Cheep to poor people.  But the white bread baker shall bake no horse bread of any assise, neither of his own neither of none other men’s, to sell.  The brown baker shall inowe make and bake wheat bread as it cometh ground from the mill, without any boulting of the same; also horse bread of clean beans and peason; and also bread called household bread, for the which they shall take for every bushel kneading bringing home 1 penny; but they shall bake no white bread of any assise, neither of their own, neither of none other men’s, to sell.  And what person of the said bakers offend in any of the articles above writ, shall as oft as he may be proved guilty pay 6s. 8d., half to the use of the Chamber of London, and the other half to the use of the master of the bakers.

“The assise of bread within London.

“Mem.—­That the farthing loaf of all grains, and the farthing horse loaf, is of like weight.

“Mem.—­That the halfpenny white loaf of Stratford must weigh two ounces more than the halfpenny white loaf of London.

“That the penny wheat loaf of Stratford must weigh six oz. more than the penny wheat loaf of London.

“The halfpenny wheat loaf of Stratford must weigh three ounces more than the halfpenny wheat loaf of London.

“Three halfpenny white loaves of Stratford must weigh as much as the penny wheat loaf.

“The loaf of all grains:  that is, the wheat loaf, must weigh as much as the penny wheat loaf and the half-penny white loaf.