126 THE DERBY COMPANY OF MERCERS. 



Nopersonwho ^tX^ it is further Ordered & Decreed, that noe person or 



has not served a ^-^ _ _ 



due apprentice- persons tiot havinge served an Apprentishinp in some of these 



ship in one of the '^ ° rr fr 



said trades to one Trades aforesaid, Duely & truely to some one of the said 



of the Company -^ ■' 



in the Borough^ Company in the said Burrough, by the space of Seaven yeares 

 Freeman of the ,^(. jj^g least, shall be made a ffreeman of the said Company, 



Company wiin- ' r j' 



oftheofficTs^nd without thc Conscnt of the Steward, Wardens, & Brethren of 

 ofthe<xhi?Free- the Said Company, for the tyme being, And of the major part of 

 piny °nor to keep the Other ffrecmcn of the said Company, nor shall keepe open 



a shop nor use, ^,.^, . , 



any ot the said shopp, nor use any of the said trades appertaynemge to the said 

 penalty of five Company, within the said Burrough, upon payne that every 



pounds for every 



month hr offends, such person that shall doe Contrary to this Ordinance & Order 



or any parte thereof, shall fforfeit, for every Moneth that hee 



shall soe offend, to the use of the said Company, fifive pounds. 



The Steward (Attb it is furthcr Ordered & Decreed, that it shall be LawfuU 



Wardens and ^-^ 



Brethren have to & for the Said Stcward, Wardens, & Brethren of the said 



power of dislramt ' ' 



against; offenders Company, for the tyme beinge, or any two of them, to enter, 



and to sue them l j > j o ' j ) i 



Court'^of RecOTd'' ^^'^^ tymc to tymc, into any house or houses, shopp or shopps 

 of any offender or offenders contrary to any of the Order or 

 Orders, Ordinance or Ordinances herein specified. And there to 

 the use of the said Company, to take & Carry away any goods 

 or chattells of every such offender or offenders, by way of 

 distress, And the same to Detayne & Keepe, to the use of the 

 said Company, untill the fforfeyture or fforfeytures for which they 

 or any of them shall be soe taken & distrayned, shall be truely 

 paied to the Steward, Wardens, or Brethren of the said Com- 

 pany, for the tyme beinge, to the use of the said Company, or 

 to sue or Implead any of the said offenders, in the Court of 

 Record within the aforesaid Burrough, upon an Accon or 

 severall Accons of debt, as the Case shall require, for any of 

 the said fforfeytures herein contayned, at theire discretion, or 

 in any other Court of Record, 

 a ^rCTt!ce'° ''a'nd ^^-^^ ^^ '^ further Ordered & Decreed, that what person soever 

 turis wlthin'^si'x *-*^ ^^^ ^^^^ Company shall take a servant to be an Apprentice, 

 sirshiii°ngs°a'^fid ^^^^^ Cause his said servant to be bound, And his Indentures 

 eifh'^mo'nth ^he' ^o bc Sealed within one Moneth or Six Weekes at the ffarthest 

 offends. ^j-jgj. j^jg Comeinge unto him, or else hee shall forfeit & paie 



