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12.—Item. It isOrdered Established and Decreed that no Person 
shall be admitted to be free of the said Company of Marchant 
Taylors before such time as he doth take a Corporal Oath before 
the said Masters and Company of Marchant Taylors to observe 
maintain and keep all the lawful Orders and Constitutions 
already made and hereby or hereafter to be made for the good 
Government of the said Company of Marchant Taylors upon pain 
every one doing the Contrary to forfeit and pay to the Use of 
the Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors the sum of 
Six Shillings and Eight Pence the same to be paid and levyed in 
manner and form aforesaid. 
13.—Item. It is Ordered Established and decreed that no Jour- 
neyman Taylor not being a Shop Keeper or free of the said Company 
shall privately or openly receive or take any kind of Taylor’s 
work to make the same in any secret Place within the said City 
or the Libertys thereof and take the money and reward for the 
same upon pain to forfeit and loose for every time offending the 
sum of Six Shillings and Eight Pence to the Use of the Poor of 
the Company of Marchant Taylors the same to be paid and 
levyed as aforesaid, 
14.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed that if any 
of the said Company of Marchant Taylors shall at any time 
hereafter open his Shop Window or do any Work upon any 
Sabbath Day or Holy Day (except it be upon a Market Day or 
Fair Day) the Party so doing shall forfeit and loose for every time 
he shall so offend the sum of Three Shillings and Four Pence to 
the Use of the Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors 
to be levyed and recovered as aforesaid. 
15.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed That if 
any of the said Company of Marchant Taylors shall at any time 
hereafter induce procure or allure by any unlawful Means or Ways 
any other man’s Servant of the said Craft or Mistery of Marchant 
Taylors to depart and absent himself out of and from the Service 
of his said Master with whom he shall then dwell or work That 
