Show Selling Bread In Old London Bread Dread n which like Uke coals Is advancing in price was also formerly a matter of ol state regulation In tho the thirteenth century for tor example an enactment was In force that the profit of the baker on each quarter of wheat was to tobe tobe tobe be for tor his own labor six cents and such bran as might be sifted from the meal Again In London only farthing and halfpenny loaves were allowed allowed al al- al lowed to be made and It was a serious offense for tor a baker to sell sen loaves of any other size Nevertheless other kinds of loaves were sometimes smuggled smuggled smug into the market hidden In various vari arl various arlous ous ways ways under under r a towel In the folds of a garment or beneath the arms A curious ordinance In the city of London Lendon Lon Len don forbade the baker If It he sold by re- re tall to sell seU bread In or before his house before the oven In which it was baked or Indeed anywhere butIn butin but In Jn the market assigned to him There seems to have been a a. strange prejudice prejudice dice against bread made In Jn South South- wark one reason given being because the bakers' bakers of ot are are not amenable to the Justice of the city city city- London Chronicle |