or ruRBECK. 197 



We, whose Names are hereunder written being a Company 

 of Marblers or Stone Cutters doe by theis presents binde our- 

 selves and every and either of us respectively joyntly and 

 severly, and the heires executors and assigncs of us and 

 every and eyther of us respectively joyntly and severly in 

 the sum of Tenn Poundes of Lawful English money, To allow 

 and maintaine All the said Aiticles above mentioned And 

 upon the breach of any one of these Articles we doe all consent 

 and allow uphold and maintaine that the Offender or Breach- 

 maker of any of theis Articles shall pay according unto the 

 fFyne of the article for his offence, or shall be putt by his trade, 

 and no man in our Company to deale with him, untill he shall 

 give satisfaction for his faulte doun unto his Company of Marblers 

 or Stone Cutters. And we doe likewise binde ourselves, our 

 heires, executors, and assignes for ever, That ye Offender shall 

 paie according to the breach of the article agreed on for his of- 

 fence, or be put by his trade, and no man in the Company to 

 deale with him untill lie shall give satisfaction for his fault soe 

 doun unto his Company of Marblers or Stone Cutters To these 

 and every and eyther of these Articles Clauses and agreements 

 before mentioned and expressed we doe binde our selves our 

 heires executors and assignes and every and eyther of us 

 respectively in the forfeiture of Tenn Poundes of good and 

 Lawful English money for the use and benefit of the Company 

 of Marblers or Stone Cutters To allow uphold and maintaine 

 all these Articles agreed on 



In witnesse whereof we have hereunto putt our hands and 

 seales, the day and yeare above written. 



[ Here follow names. And about a hundred years later, the 

 signature is added of 



Antho: ffurzman, 



Maior, a**- 1655.] 



It will be observed, that the Purbeck Marble seems to have 

 been the early subject of the trade of the Island. This one would 

 expect to be the case from the very general use in England of 

 that Marble, for Ecclesiastical Buildings. Accordingly, the 

 Company takes its name from that branch of the Stone Trade ; 



