BROADNOXS case raym keb a habeas corpus be bring to remove the body of  Broadnox who be take by process upon a plaint exhibit in the court of the  sheriff in London and it be return that time out of mind the mayor alderman  and common council of the city have have the government and regulation of  trade Ventris within the city and power to make bylaws concern the same and  that they have make a bylaw that there shall be but carrs allow to work within  the city all which shall be licence by the precedent of Christ church hospital  and that there shall be pay for the licence of every car l fine and S per  annum to the say precedent to be employ for the use of the poor within the  hospital and that none shall use a car Ventris er p without such licence under  a certain penalty to be recover c provide that all person may send their own  carrs to the wharf c and carry good in their own carrs from wharf except such  as shall be trader or retailer in fuel that b without such licence wrought  with a car pro gain his not common with others and for the penalty forfeit  thereupon a plaint be levy against he c it be pray that there may be no  procedendo in this case for though the bylaw shall be admit to be good have  custom to warrant it as be adjudge in this court car nunc between player and  Jenkins yet it appear that the plaint be insufficient for in that no custom be  allege and in roll such a bylaw to limit the number of carrs be hold void for  there no custom be allege to ground it upon and then a bylaw can restrain  trade again it be unreasonable that such as trade in fuel shall not be permit  to bring home the wood which they buy in the country in their own cart or to  carry it out to their customer for though they may limit the number of carman  which in too great a multitude will be a nuisance and infest the street yet  they can restrain a man from use his own carrs to carry his own commodity as  to the first the court be of opinion that it be not necessary to mention the  custom in the plaint for it be law loci and they take notice of their own  custom in their own court as in Norwich the custom be that in debt upon a  specialty the debtor to confess scribe send petit quod to seek after de debt  is owed and no custom be set forth in the record to warrant that but here in  the habeas corpus they have return the custom which show they have good cause  to proceed upon their plaint for it have be often resolve that custom may  create a monopoly as the case in the register be a custom be that none shall  exercise the trade of a dyer in Rippon without the archbishop of York licence  as to the second the court doubt whether this bylaw can be adjudge reasonable  or good because it will restrain the woodmonger from bring their wood c home  in their own carrs so that though they bring it in the countrycarts as far as  the liberty of the city they must then unload and put it in citycarrs which  will be extreme inconvenient and so it Ventris will be if they shall send city  carrs to fetch it and though it may be reasonable to prohibit their carry of  their commodity out in their own carrs that they may not have so great a  opportunity to cheat in their measure yet there can be no colour to restrain  they from bring they in et adjornatur