According to William Blackstones Commentaries on English Law, Book 4, Chapter 12 The punishment of bakers breaking the assize, was anciently to stand in the pillory, by statute 51 Hen. III. St. 6. and for brewers (by the same act) to stand in the tumbrel or dungcart: which, as we learn from domesdaay book, whas the punishment for knavish brewers in the city of Chester so early as the reign of Edward the confessor. Malam cerisiam faciens, in cahtedra ponebatur stercoris [He who made bad beer, was placed in a dung-cart.] ...
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