For ascertaining the Port of London for the Use of Merchants, King Charles II. by vertue of an Act of Parliament in the 14th Year of his Reign, entitled, An Act for preventing Frauds, &c. did issue out of a Commission under the Seal of the Court of Exchequer, in the 19th Year of his Reign, Anno 1667. to the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord High Treasurer, and many other Officers of State, and other eminent Persons, Citizens and others, to regulate the Port of London, and for the assigning and appointing all such, and so many open Places to be Keys and Wharfs, as should be meet for the shipping and landing of Goods, Wares and Merchandizes within the said Port of London; and for the appointing, limiting and bounding all those Places by sufficient Meets and Limits, and to set the Number, Heighth, Breadth, Form and Building of all the Cranes that are, or shall be built upon the said Wharfs; and to set down and appoint the Extent, Bounds, Limits and Privileges of the said Port. In pursuance of this Commission, the said Commissioners made a Certificate, dated at the Custom-House, May 24. 1667. of all the lawful Keys, Wharfs and Places for landing, one and twenty in all; and the Limits of each set forth East, West and Northward. And they certified the common Key called Billinsgate to be a common open Place for the landing or bringing in of Fish, Salt, Victuals or Fuel of all sorts, and all native Materials for Building, and for Fruit, and for carrying out the same, and for no other Wares or Merchandizes. And they certified concerning the Bridge-house in Southwark, that it may be allowed as a Place convenient for the landing of any kind of Corn, bought and provided for the Provision or Victualling of the City. To this Certificate Anthony Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Morice, Secretary of State, and thirty more subscribed. And lastly, to confirm and ratify this Certificate, the King allowed it by an authentic Instrument under the Seal of the Exchequer, and directed the Execution thereof. The Certificate and Confirmation are as follow:

BY virtue of his Majesties Commission under the Seal of his Majesties honourable Court of Exchequer hereunto annexed, bearing date the 29th day of March last past, to Us and others directed, for the assigning and appointing all such, and so many open Places to be Keys and Wharfs, as shall be méet for the shipping and landing of Goods, Wares and Merchandize within the said Port of London, and for the Appointing, Limiting, Bounding and Settling all those Places by sufficient Metes, Limits and Bounds; and also to set forth the Number, Height, Breadth, Form and Building of all the Cranes that are or shall be built upon the said Wharfs; and to set down and appoint the Extents, Bounds, Limits and Priviledges of the said Port, according to the Tenour of an Act of Parliament made and enacted in the Fourtéenth Year of his Majesties Reign, entituled, An Act for preventing Frauds, and Regulating Abuses in his Majesties Customs.

We the said Commissioners, by virtue of his Majesties said Commission, have, the twenty third day of April, in the said Ninetéenth Year of his Majesties Reign, and at several Days and Times sithence, searched, surveyed and viewed, and inquired into, by the best ways and means we could, all and every the convenient and useful open Place and Places, to be Keys or Wharfs for the shipping, lading or landing of Goods, Wares and Merchandizes within the said Port of London, below the Bridge towards the Sea; and the Height, Length, and Breadth and Form of building of all the Cranes which are or shall be built thereupon; And also the Extent, Bounds, Limits and Priviledges of the said Port, in Manner and Form hereafter following: And do declare all other Places within the said Port to be unlawful for the shipping or landing of Goods, Wares or Merchandize, and utterly to be debarred from that Priviledge by Force of the said Statute, and other the Premisses. And, FIRST, We humbly conceive and certifie that the Keys, Wharfs, and Places hereafter named, may be assigned, appointed, and allowed by his Majesty to be lawful Keys, Wharfs or Places for the Shipping, Lading, or Landing of Goods: That is to say, the Wharf or Key called

1. BREWERS KEY, bounded on the East with Tower Dock, containing from East to West seventy thrée Foot, and in breadth from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

2. CHESTERS KEY, containing from East to West Fifty one Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

3. GALLEY KEY, containing from East to West One hundred and one Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

4. WOOL-DOCK, containing from East to West Sixty one Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

5. CUSTOM-HOUSE KEY, containing from East to West Two hundred and two Foot, besides Six Foot more at the East end thereof, betwixt that and Wool-Dock, being a Common Sewer arched over, and from the River of Thames Northward all the Extent of Ground which shall not be employed or used in the building of his Majesties Custom-house and Offices thereunto belonging: Stone-Stairs on the West side thereof, containing fiftéen Foot in breadth, is declared to be a place for Wherries and Passengers, and fetching of Water only, and not for any Goods or Merchandize.

6. PORTERS KEY, containing from East to West One hundred and thrée Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

7. BEAR KEY, containing from East to West Sixty two Foot four Inches, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

8. SABS DOCK, excluding the Stairs there, (which are hereby declared no lawful place of shipping or landing of Goods or Merchandize) containing from East to West Thirty Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot.

9. WIGGONS KEY, containing from East to West fifty two Foot and a half, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

10. YOUNGS KEY, containing from East to West forty six Foot four Inches, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

11. RALPHS KEY, containing from East to West Eighty one Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot in the narrowest place.

12. DICE KEY, containing from East to West One hundred and eleven Foot, and from the River of Thames Northward forty Foot: and if the Stairs on the East side thereof be taken away, and the Passage leading thereunto laid into the said Key,