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upon pain of five pounds for every garment that shall be made, 
we can understand that the regulation affected every member of 
the community. Most of the sewing and making of garments 
was done by men, and it was only recently that needles of the 
modern pattern had been introduced into England. 
We smile now when we read of a dress being tried on before a 
judge, but then it was a thing of constant occurrence. The 
dressmaker dreads the criticism of the magistrate on garments 
tried on in court, but then loss of Civil rights and utter ruin might 
result from a badly cut train or a wrinkled coat, and we cannot 
wonder that the names of but few Tailors appear among the 
Town Councillors. 
The punishment for non-performance of work existed in 
former times in many trades. Even the Farriers in London 
when they failed to cure a horse of sickness were in those days, 
or a little before, brought before the Mayor and Alderman 
and punished at their discretion in the way of making restitution 
for such horse to the person to whom the same belonged, while 
if a carpenter or mason failed to fulfil his contract others of 
his trade were bound to finish his task. 
In Aberdeen the Master was hedged round by rules which 
preserved his dignity. 
“ There shall not be license to no Master to play at no pastime 
upon any work day with no servant of said crafte.” 
It seems to be an endeavour to handicap him at golf. 
In Bristo] every Master was allowed two apprentices, and 10 
or 12 old Masters could make orders for the Company, and some 
advantages must have been granted to the Bath Masters to com- 
pensate them for the loss of time entailed on them by attendance 
every Monday at 11 o’Clock on the Mayor at the Guildhall, when 
applications for freedom were considered. 
Important duties may sometimes have been thrust upon them, 
but none | trust as trying as those imposed on Wm. Dunn, Head 
of the Guild of Tailors at Aberdeen, a.D. 1597, to whom 
