The bailiffs shall execute
the office of bailiff and administer justice well, honestly and
impartially, delivering justice to the poor as well as the rich,
according to the law and the good customs of the town, and
[they shall] observe, preserve and maintain all
franchises, liberties, ordinances,
customs and statutes of the town. They shall punish according to their
deserts those breaking or rebellious against these franchises, ordinances
and statutes, as well as those breaking the king's peace; the bailiffs
and chamberlains (or two of the said chamberlains with them at least)
shall affeer and assess the fines and
amercements of such evil-doers,
according to the seriousness of the offence. The bailiffs are to levy,
or make to be levied, the said fines for the profit of the town; they
are in no way to meddle with any revenues that is, rents, farms,
fines, amercements, wrecks, waifs, strays, forfeitures, customs (by
water or by land) or with any other manner of thing accumulating
profit for the town. The bailiffs are to acquit and discharge
themselves of all types of charges relating to the king's
fee-farm of the town, as shall
hereafter be more fully laid out in another ordinance on that subject.