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then the party so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such 
offence the sum of Six Shillings and Eight Pence to the use of the 
Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors to be levyed or 
recovered as aforesaid. 
16.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed That if 
any Journeyman or hired Servant of the said Company of 
Marchant Taylors shall depart from his said Master before the 
Tyme or Term of his Service or Contract be expired without the 
goodwill and Lycence of his said Master without just and Lawful 
Cause and shall be set on Work by any other Person of the said 
Company of Marchant Taylors within one Quarter of a Year then 
next following Then the Master that shall receive such Person 
into his Work and knowing thereof shall forfeit and pay for every 
time so offending therein the Sum of Six Shillings and Eight Pence 
to the use of the Poor of the said Company of Marchant Taylors 
to be levyed or recovered as aforesaid. 
17.—Item, It is Ordered Established and Decreed that every 
Journeyman Taylor that shall come to work in the said City or 
Suburbs thereof shall first ask leave of the said Master of the 
said Company of Marchant Taylors before he shall work and 
after he hath wrought Ten Days then he shall pay for his free 
sewing Eight Pence and for Quarteridge Two Pence as long as 
he doth work within the said City or the Suburbs thereof the 
same to be paid to the Masters of the said Company for the time 
being towards the defraying and bearing of the Common Charges 
of the said Company of Marchant Taylors. 
18.—Item. It is Ordered Established and Decreed That if 
any Taylor inhabiting within the said City or the Libertys there- 
of shall much slander or reproach or abuse by Word or Deed the 
Masters of the said Company of Marchant Taylors or either of 
them That then upon lawful Proof thereof made he shall forfeit 
and pay to the use of the Poor of the said Company of Marchant 
Taylors for every time he shall so offend the Sum of Six Shillings 
and Eight Pence The same to be levyed or recovered as aforesaid. 

