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the same King or any other nor against the common profit of the 
people But if the same Acts or Ordinances be examined and 
approved by the Chancellor Treasurer of England or Chief Justice 
of either Benches or two of them, or before both the Justices of 
Assize in the Circuits or Progress in the Shire when such Acts 
or Ordinances be made upon pain of Forfeiture of Forty Pounds 
for every time that they do the contrary—And whereas the 
Masters Wardens Fellowship and Company of Marchant Taylors 
within the City of Bath in the County of Somerset upon their 
earnest Petition to Richard Chapman Gentleman Mayor of the 
said City of Bath in the said County of Somerset, and to the 
_ Aldermen and Common Council of the said City together with 
the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council at the Court or 
Convocation of the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council 
held at their Council house or Guildhall within the said City of 
Bath the Twelfth day of May in the Fourth Year of the Reign of 
our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England 
Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Taking 
Council and discerning of the Statutes Laws Articles and 
Ordinances touching and concerning the said City of Bath and 
the good ruling estate and governance thereof and find it as well 
by their own experience as also by Conference amongst them- 
selves and with most of the Inhabitants in the said City of Bath 
of the same Trade or Occupation of Marchant Taylors to be very 
necessary to make constitute establish and publish certain Laws 
Ordinances and Constitutions for the better ordering and govern- 
ance of the said Trade or Occupation and of such person or 
persons as now use or exercise or as hereafter shall use or exercise 
the said Trade or Occupation within the said City of Bath Have 
for the good Profit Weal and Peace of the said City and of all 
_ resorting thither and having occasion there, on the Market days 
or other times to buy any thing or otherwise to contract with 
_ any of the said Trade or Occupation for any thing touching their 
said Trade Have at their aforesaid Court or Convocation in the 
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