THE DERBY COMPANY OF MERCERS. 



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Know all men by these p'sents, that wee, Joseph Sadler, 

 Ironmonger ; Leonard Sadd,* Apoth ; Abell Litchford, Apothe- 

 cary ; William Litchford, Mercer; Richard Ward, Chandler; 

 Joseph Williams, Chandler ; John Strong, Ironmonger ; 

 Thomas Strong, Ironmonger ; Jane Carter, widdow, Mercer ; 

 Mary Parker, Mercer ; Edward Wast, Tobacconist ; Mr. W'°. 

 Willott ; Thomas Brookes, ffeltmaker ; John Bourne, Cord- 

 winer; Anne Bloodworth, Grocer; John Radcliffe, Upholster. 

 [Here a space of about an inch has been left for other 

 names, and the obligation continues in the words of the 

 previous one, from " who have hereunto sett our hands, &c.," 

 to " by which we were made a company," and then ends as 

 follows] : — 



Witness our severall hands & scales as aforesaid, the four- 

 teenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand six 

 hundred & seventy five. 



Joseph Sadler t O 



Jane Carter O 



Richard Ward O 



Edward Weast O 



William Willott O 



Thomas Brookes O 



Anne Bloodworth 



John Bourne O 



John Radclyffe O 



Francis Cockayne O 



Richard Hodgkinson Q 



Joseph Parker 



Witness, Hen : Corden. 



Other members 

 of the Com| any 

 oblige themselves 

 to the officers as 

 in the previous 

 obligation. 



JMayur 1787. 



t " O " indicates a seal, 



