We, therefore, the Mayor, Justices, and
principal inhabitants of Great Yarmouth, do recommend this example
as worthy to be imitated; and we flatter ourselves the Military
will not hesitate to adopt it, being fully convinced that
appearances are at all times to be sacrificed to the public weal,
and that in doing this they really do good.
"W. TAYLOR, Mayor.
"January 27th, 1795."
Lord Hawkesbury, on February 20th, 1800, presented a bill in the House
of Commons prohibiting bakers from vending bread that had not been baked
a certain number of hours. The bill was read a first and second time,
and immediately went into Committee. It passed this stage, and went to
the House of Lords, where it was at once passed. Subsequently it
received the royal assent.
We find in a local paper, dated March 31st, 1800, that a baker in Hull
was fined L10 for selling bread within twenty-four hours of its having
been baked, agreeable to Act of Parliament for that purpose.
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