EARLIEST LONDON TRAFFIC LAWS.


A Proclamation for the restraint of the multitude, and promiscuous use of Coaches, about London and Westminster. London: Robert Barker and heirs and assigns of John Bull, 1635. Printed broadside, 370 x 280 mm. Engraved headpiece and initial. Paper toned, dampstaining to lower quarter, some loss just impinging on imprint to lower margin.THE EARLIEST ATTEMPT TO REGULATE LONDON TRAFFIC? In response to the overcrowding of London's streets by coaches, the King limits coach travel within the city, declaring that "from the feast day of Saint John the Baptist next comming, no hackney or hired Coach, or Coaches be used or suffered in London or Westminster, or the Suburbes or Liberties thereof; Except the same hackney Coach or Coaches bee to travaile at the least three Miles out of London or Westminster, or the Suburbes thereof, or futher."THE EARLIEST ATTEMPT TO REGULATE LONDON TRAFFIC? In response to the overcrowding of London's streets by coaches, the King limits coach travel within the city, declaring that "from the feast day of Saint John the Baptist next comming, no hackney or hired Coach, or Coaches be used or suffered in London or Westminster, or the Suburbes or Liberties thereof; Except the same hackney Coach or Coaches bee to travaile at the least three Miles out of London or Westminster, or the Suburbes thereof, or futher."