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one mentioned the Mayor and Citizens, The date of the trial I 
have not yet been able to ascertain. 
John Salmon declared that he had all his life desired to trade 
in the city on his own account but dared not by reason of the 
custom, dreading lest he should suffer the same fate as his 
brother, and therefore had bound his two sons apprentice that 
they might enjoy the privilege denied to him. 
Ann Harrup told about the woman found with the clothes 
under her cloak, and the new vestments sent among the clean 
linen from the wash, and how her husband, notwithstanding his 
extraordinary care, had been twice caught and fined. 
It was argued that the custom to restrain a man in a particular 
place from using his trade was beneficial in other places besides 
London, since these customs were for the advantage of the com- 
munity and not contrary to the liberty of the subject. Magna 
Charta was cited, but all in vain. Glazby was triumphant. 
Whether it was the authority of the Corporation, the uncertain 
position of Glazby, the contract with the Master that was fatal I 
cannot say. The company was worn out, and with Evill’s case 
yet undecided they determined not to carry the suit to a superior 
court, and after a procession on May 29th, 1765, dissolved. 
But even the end of the Company was regular. Each member 
seems to have seceded from the Company in due form, and the 
secession witnessed by Mr. Jefferys, Town Clerk of Bath. The 
Company was not killed; it ceased to exist from lack of members. 
RULES AND CONSTITUTIONS OF THE MERCHANT TAYLORS 
OF BATH. 
Whereas by an Act of Parliament holden at Westminster in 
the nineteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh it is 
ordained and enacted that no Masters Wardens and Fellowships 
of Crafts or Misterys nor any of them shall take upon them to 
make any Acts or Ordinances nor to execute any by them there- 
tofore made in disinheriting or diminution of the Prerogative of 

