250 The Wilton Carpet Industry. 
Successors, doe grant to the said Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, and Fellowshipp 
& their Successors that the said Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, and six other 
of the said Fellowshipp, or the majority of them, for the time being shall and may 
have full power, authority, and liberty, by virtue of these presents, to meet so 
often as the Wardens & Stewards shall think fitt and convenient, at the places 
aforesaid, to make, ordaine, constitute, appoint, & sett down from time to time 
such good & wholsome By-laws, Acts, orders & ordinances in writeing as to 
them or the majority of them for the time being as aforesaid shall seem meet 
necessary and convenient according to the best of their discrecons for & con- 
cerning the due exercise & benefitt of the said Trades or Misteries and for the 
discovery, correction, punishment, & reformacon of such abuses & deceits, as 
are or shall be practised in the said Trades or Misteries or either of them, and 
also for the good order & government of the said Wardens, Stewards, Assistants 
& Fellowshipp aforesaid, and their Successors, and for declareing after what 
manner, order, & forme the said Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, & Fellowshipp 
and their Successors & every member of the same shall behave and demeane 
him and themselves in the exercise of their said Trades or Misteries, or either of 
them, for the generall good of our Subjects. And whensoever the said Wardens» 
Stewards, Assistants, and six others of the said Fellowshipp, or the majority of 
them, shall make, ordain, and establish such By-laws, Acts, orders, and ordinances 
to provide and limitt reasonable paines and penalties, either by fines, amerciaments 
or otherwise upon any Offender or Offenders which shall transgress, breake, or 
violate the said Laws, orders, or ordinances soe made, or to be made as aforesaid. 
Which said Fines and Amerciaments shall and may be sued for, taken, levied, 
recovered, and retained by the s‘ Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, and Fellowshipp 
and their Successors, either by Warrant of Distress under the handsof the Wardens 
and Stewards or the majority of them, and seale of the said Corporacon to be 
directed to, and executed by the Yeoman of the said Fellowshipp as aforesaid, or 
by Accon of Debt, or any other Lawfull wayes or meanes to and for the use and 
benefitt of the said Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, and fellowshipp and their 
Successors without the lett of us, our heires or Successors, and without rendring 
any account or thing therefore to us, our heires or Successors. All which By- 
laws, Acts, orders, and ordinances so as aforesaid to be made, Wee will and comand 
shall be observed and kept under the paines and penalties therein to be contained 
soe as the same By laws, Acts, orders, ordinances, fines, and penalties be reasonable 
and not repugnant to the Laws, Statutes, Customes, and Rights of Our Realme of 
England. And our express will & pleasure is, and wee doe hereby possitively 
direct and comand that noe person or persons whatsoever shall be admitted into 
the Offices or Trusts of Wardens, Stewards, Assistants, Clerk, or Yeoman of the 
said Fellowshipp, neither shall any of the Fellowshipp whatsoever Act, or be 
assisting in the makeing any of the By-laws, Acts, orders, and ordinances to be 
made for the benefitt and advantage of the said Corporacon before they and each 
and every of them shall have first taken aswell the Oaths appointed by Act of 
Parliament Entituled “An Act for Abrogateing the Oaths of Supremacy, and 
and Allegiance & appointing other Oaths,” as also the Oath for the due execucon 
of their severall Offices and Trusts ; which said Oaths, our will & pleasure is shall 
be Administred by the Clerk of the said Fellowshipp in the presence of the 
Wardens who served the yeare before, or before any two or more of the Assistants 
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