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said Counsell House or Guildhall erected made constituted 
ordained established and published These Laws Ordinances and 
Constitutions following (That is to say)— 
1.—Inprimis it is ordered established and decreed That from 
henceforth and at all times hereafter in every year upon the 
Monday sen’night before the Feast of St. John the Baptist all the 
Householders of the said Fellowship of Marchant Taylors of the 
said City of Bath shall be summoned and warned by one Officer 
thereunto appointed and chosen by the said Fellowship or the 
greatest part of them upon the said Day to come and to repair to 
the Common Hall or place appointed for the said Fellowship to 
elect and choose (according to their Ancient Custom) three of the 
said Fellowship or Company whereof two to be the new Masters 
and one to be the new Warden of the said Fellowship or Company 
of Marchant Taylors for the year then next following And that 
no person or persons of the said Mistery or Craft shall absent 
himself then thence at the time of such Election without reason- 
able Cause upon pain that every Person being then so absent 
shall forfeit and loose the sum of Three shillings and Four pence 
of Current Money of England the same to be paid to the Masters 
of the said Fellowship of Marchant Taylors for the time being to 
and for the use of the Poor of the said Craft or Mistery of 
Marchant Taylors to be levied by distress or recovered by Action 
of Debt in the name of the said Masters of the said Fellowship 
or Company of the said Mistery or Craft of Marchant Taylors 
for the time being in the Court of Record of the said City of 
Bath. 
2.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed That if any 
Person or Persons so elected or chosen to be Masters of the said 
Fellowship or Company shall refuse to take upon them the said 
place and Execution thereof whereunto they shall be elected and 
chosen ‘That then he or they so refusing shall forfeit and loose 
the sum of Twenty shillings of Current Money of England the 
same to be paid employed and levyed as aforesaid And that the 

