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shall not observe This our Order, every such Member at and for 
every time so offending (after notice hereof) shall forfeit and pay 
the sum of three shillings and fourpence of lawfull money of 
Great Britain. The same to be paid to the Masters of the said 
Company of Merchant Taylors for the Time being. To and for 
the use of the Poor of the said Company, or in default of such 
Payment, to be levied by distress or recovered by action of debt. 
In the names of the Masters of the said Company of Merchant 
Taylors for the time being in the Court of Record of the said 
City of Bath, or in any other Court of Record whatsoever. In 
Witness whereof we have made published and signed this our 
by Law or Order the said fourth day of November, 1732.” 
Signed by 47 Members. 
Robert Guest at the same time being threatened with a prosecu- 
tion at first fled over the bridge to Lyncomb and Widcomb having 
declined to aid Collins in his lawsuit, and when Collins com- 
pounded Guest did the same. 
Shewrin, of Monkton Farley, was known to make clothes for 
Bath customers, but it appears they could not catch him. In the 
case, however, of Amsbury, they were more successful and he was 
fined. 
Roger Prosser deserves a passing notice. He was in 1740 a 
-non-freeman Taylor but kept also a public-house called the Seven 
‘Stars, within the city. Knowing and being conscious of the force 
and obligatoriness of the custom, he kept his workshop over the 
bridge in Lyncomb and Widcomb, but nevertheless worked for 
people in the city, and sent the clothes to his customers by secret 
ways, but he, too, was caught, and with another offender, one 
Totterdale, who afterwards became an ardent persecutor, was 
‘admitted freeman of the city 4th January, 1741, and to the 
freedom of the Company eight days afterwards. 
Richard Crow, Patrick Crosby, Murphy, Stephen Orchard, 
; ohn Morgan, and Sheen were also prosecuted. In Orchard’s case 
ne Company were at first non-suited on the decision of the Town 
