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work on Sunday or Holy Day, except upon Market and Fair days, 
under penalty of 3s, 4d. 
To allure or entice away any other Tailor’s servant or to 
receive any journeyman or hireling leaving his Master before the 
expiration of his contract made the wrong doer liable to a penalty 
of 6s. 8d. for each offence, and to preserve peace and order 
among the brethren any Tailor who “ did much slander reproach 
or abuse by word or deed any member of the company, or 
depraved or slandered another’s workmanship was upon proof 
before the Master to pay 3s. 4d. and double that amount if it 
were the Master himself who had been insulted.” 
In London 1562 — Kympton was fined for calling Mylney 
a craftey boye, and in Feb. 1564 one Aley was committed to 
prison for saying that Warden Browne was but a shifter and 
lived only by making shifts. 
In Bristol the Master could send the offender to prison. 
The obligation to be present at all meetings and to attend all 
funerals of brethren and the special services of the Church has 
already been noticed, but even more was required of him. Every 
brother was enjoined to pray each day for the well being of the 
fraternity, and in return when sickness and poverty came upon 
him he received relief from the common fund unless the 
“poverty or mischief resulted from his own fault as contecking 
(brawling), night going, company gathering,” in which case he 
was left to help himself as best he could. 
The Bath Tailors do not appear to have had a permanent fund. 
The entries ‘Thomas Deacon being supplied with a pair of 
shoes 1691 and that by consent,” and “2s. 6d. given to Thos. 
Bigg by me Thos. Fisher Master 1682,” being all I can find, but 
it was the custom to make a special collection whenever necessary 
as some papers accidentally left pinned into the book clearly 
prove. In 1693 a collection was made for James Stowell and 
John Webb. As their names appear high up in the list as far 
back as 1660 they were probably old men. On this occasion 

