246 The Wilton Carpet industry. 
who had served at least seven years’ apprenticeship in the factory 
and had been elected members, and prohibiting all persons not 
licensed by the corporate body from carrying on a similar business 
within four miles of Wilton. 
The steward’s badge of the Wilton Weavers’ Fellowship, of 
which a photo-print accompanies this paper, is an oval plate of thin 
silver, measuring 5 inches by 4 inches, to be worn on the arm, 
bearing the arms of the Weavers’ Fellowship within a wreath, 
without crest or motto. It has the Britannia hall mark and the 
date letter of 1700 with the maker’s mark a with stag’s head over, 
for Benjamin Watts. 
The larger seal has a silver head with a massive ivory handle 
standing 3% inches high. On the neck is inscribed  Donum: Tho: 
Dennett Clici! hujus: societatis: 1700.” The arms—on a chevron 
between three leopard’s faces, in their mouths a shuttle, as many roses. 
Crest—a leopard’s face as in the arms, ducally crowned. Motto— 
“ Weave trust with trvth”’? The arms are well engraved and sur- 
rounded by elaborate mantling. 
The smaller seal is of silver with a flat head and plain open handle 
14 inches high, inscribed on the back, “ W™ Parker 1770.” The 
arms, without motto, are coarsely engraved. 
[The arms of the London Weavers, as given by Burke, are azure, on a chevron 
argent between three leopard’s faces, in their mouths a shuttle or, as many 
roses gules, seeded of the last, barbed vert. Crest—a leopard’s face as in the 
arms, ducally crowned gules. Motto—weave truth with trust. 
Those of the Edinburgh weavers, gules, on a chevron argent between three 
leopard’s fuces, shuttles in their mouths or, as many roses of the field.] 
There is also a banner belonging to the Weavers’ Fellowship. 
Tue CHARTER. 
“ William the Third, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, 
France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. To all to whome these psents 
shall come greeting. Whereas our wel-heloved subjects, the Mayor & Bur- 
gesses of Our Burrough of Wilton, in Our County of Wilts, & severall of the 
Tahebsants of thesaid Burrough and places adjacent, useing, & exerciseing the Art 
or mistery of Cloathing & Weaveing have by their humble Peticon repecaoatal unto — 
1 Clerici. 
