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of the said City It is thereupon Ordered Established and Decreed 
That no Stranger or Foreigner at any time hereafter shall openly 
set up and use or exercise the Craft or Mistery of a Taylor within 
the said City of Bath Except he be first allowed to be a work- 
man by the Masters of the said Company for the time being or 
: by the greater part of the said Company and shall also first be 
made Free of the said City according to the said Ancient Custom 
within the said City of Bath at all times heretofore used and 
except he shall likewise make good proof unto the Masters of the 
said Company for the time being that he hath served and been 
brought up as an Apprentice in the said Craft or Mistery of a 
Taylor by the space of Seven Years or above upon pain that every 
_ one doing the Contrary shall forfeit and loose for every Day that 
he shall so openly use or exercise the said Craft or Mistery in the 
said City the sum of Three Shillings and Four Pence to the Use of 
the Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors to be paid 
levyed and recovered as aforesaid. 
8.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed that no 
person which hath or shall serve as an Apprentice within the 
said City to the Craft or Mistery of a Marchant Taylor by the 
space of Seven Years or above shall or may keep an open shop 
within the said City before he be made Free of the said City and 
have payed to the said Masters of the said Company of Marchant 
Taylors for the time being the sum of Five Shillings for and 
towards the defraying and bearing of the Common Charge of the 
said Company upon Pain to forfeit and loose Twelve Pence for 
every Day so offending to the Use of the Poor of the said 
Company of Marchant Taylors to be paid levyed and recovered 
_as aforesaid. 
9.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed that no 
Foreigner or Country Taylor shall at any time hereafter come or 
send or bring into the said City or the Libertys thereof any kind 
of Work or Apparel ready made except the owners thereof do 
send the stuff for the same to the said Country Taylor to be 
