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Answering of the Money and Stock belonging to the said 
Company and likewise to yield a true account of the same with 
the increase thereof and of all benefits aud profits growing or 
happening to the said Company at the end of their said Year and 
before they shall be discharged of the said office. 
5,—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed That all 
and every Person and Persons of the said Craft or Mystery of 
Marchant Taylors within the said City do and shall when and 
as often as need shall be required to be done and performed by 
them upon pain to forfeit the sum of Three Shillings and Four- 
pence for every such Absence and Default made (except they have 
Lycence of the said Masters or some lawful excuse for such De- 
fault and Absence) the said Forfeiture to be to the use of the 
Poor of the said Craft or Mystery of Marchant Taylors to be paid 
and levyed as aforesaid. 
6.—Item. It is Ordained Established and Decreed That 
every Person of the said Company of Marchant Taylors shall upon 
reasonable Warning especially four times in every Year Videlt 
once in every Quarter Assemble themselves together upon 
their Quarter Days at their Hall or appointed Place then and 
there to do such things and to disburse such Payments and taxa- 
tions as heretofore have been accustomed and used to be done 
and paid upon pain of everyone making default to forfeit and pay 
the sum of Three Shillings and Four Pence to the Use of the 
Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors to be payed levyed 
and recovered as aforesaid. 
7.—Item. Whereas by the ancient Custom and Libertys of the 
said City of Bath time out of mind used and enjoyed by the 
Masters and Company of Marchant Taylors dwelling and inhabit- 
ing within the said City no Stranger or Foreigner may lawfully 
use or exercise the Craft or Mystery of a Taylor within the said 
City of Bath except he shall be first allowed to be a workman by 
the Masters of the said Company for the time being or the 
greatest part of the said Company and shall likewise be made free 

