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of the said Company the sum of 30 pounds that is to say 20 
pounds in part of the Charges at Law which the said Company 
have already paid and ten pounds in part of the sum of twenty 
pounds being the sum agreed on for admitting him a Member 
and making him free of the said Company Thos. Collins hath 
promised and undertaken to secure by his bond to be by him 
duly executed within ten days next coming the further sum of 
‘Twenty two pounds and eighteen shillings being other charges 
which the said Company have also already expended at Law 
with the said Collins, and also the further charges which are now 
‘due to Mr. Samuel Webb Attorney for the said Company, at ten 
_ pounds by the year. The first payment to be made on the 
twenty fourth day of June 1737. And to be from thenceforth 
yearly paid on that day until the said whole Charges shall be 
fully paid. And in consideration also that the said Thomas 
Collins hath promised and engaged to pay the further sum of 
ten pounds at twenty shillings per quarter until the said last 
mentioned ten pounds shall be paid for his being admitted and 
made free of the said company. The first payment thereof to 
begin and be made on the fourteenth day of June next and to be 
continued quarterly till the same is paid, All further proceedings 
in this cause and all other suits and differences between the said 
Company and the said Thos. Collins are by mutual consent from 
henceforth to cease for ever and be no further prosecuted, and 
_ the said Thomas Collins when free of the City of Bath is voted 
and ordered to be made free of the Company of Merchant Taylors 
within the same according to the ancient usage of the said 
Company. Witness the hands of the said Masters John Tubb 
and Samuel Elkington and the said Thomas Collins this twenty 
sixth day of January, 1735. 
JOHN TUBB 
Witness hereto Sam ELKINGTON 
Witt ELKINGTON Clerk. Tuo COLLINS.” 

