THE DERBY COMPANY OF MERCERS. 1 29 



(jXtxb to the end that these orders By lawes & Establishments g JJ^^^ Common 



may be at all tymes hereafter ffirme & stable, TJ?ee have to this P^jln" 'yrT^^l! 



present writeinge put the Common Seale of our Corporation, year'^ThTrefgn 



uppon this present Seaventh day of January, in the six & ii '"^ 

 twentith yeare of the Raigne of our most gratious Soveraigne 

 lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, 

 Scotland, ffrance, & Ireland, King Defender of the ffaith &c. 

 Anno Dom. 1674, 



Sealed* at a Comon Hall, houlden for the said Burrougb ,^ Signed by the 



' " Mayor and Town 



the seaventh day of January 1674. ^'^'''• 



Geo Black wall Maior. 

 Tho Gery Com. Cler. 

 Memorand That Wee S' Hugh Wyndham Kn', one of his Grant is con- 



firmed and sign 



Ma"'^ Justices of the Co" of Comon pleas, and S' Edward ed by sir Hugh 



Wyndham and 



Thurland Kn', one of the Barons of his Ma"" Co' of Excheq'', sir Edward 



* Thurland. 



Judges of Assize for the Midland Circuit, haveinge first 

 perused & examined the By lawes within written, doe hereby 

 allow, approve, & confirme the same ; Witness o' hands this 

 xxvii"* day of July Anno Dni 1675. 



Hugh Wyndham 

 Edw Thurland 

 [" Such signatures were made necessary by two Acts passed 

 in the times of Henry VI. and Henry VII. (15 H. VI. c. 6 ; 

 19 H. VII. c. 7)." For example, the Bye-laws of the Gild of 

 the Joiners and Carpenters, Worcester, were confirmed " by 

 Sir James Montagu, lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and 

 JefTerey Gilbert Esq', a Baron of s"^ Court, Justices of the 

 Oxford Circuit." Toulmin Smith's " English Gilds," p. 210. 

 London, 1870.] 



Further Orders from the Minute BooK.t 



Aug. 14, 1675. Wee the Stewards, Wardens, & Brethren of 

 the Company of Mercers, within the Burough of Derby in the 



* The seal has been cut oflF. 

 f In the minute book the bonds and obligations immediately follow the 

 copy of the Grant. These orders liave been extracted verbatim from the 

 minute book and placed here, so that all the by-laws may be together. 

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