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nor any of the Fellowshipp shall disburse or lay out any sume or sumes of money 
belonging to the said Fellowshipp on any account or pretence whatever without the 
consent and approbation of the Wardens Stewards and Seaven of the Assistants 
(or the Majority of Seaven of the Assistants present, if no more present) for the 
time being on the penalty of forfeiting to the said Fellowshipp double the sume 
he hath so laid out and expended, to be Sued for Recovered &c., &c. 
“Item it is hereby ordered and Established that the Wardens and Stewards 
shall twice in every Year give up a fair and just account of all sume and sumes 
of Money and other things by them received and Expended and on refuseing or 
Neglecting so to do upon reasonable request and notice given them by orders of 
the Majority of the Members of the Fellowshipp present at any meeting or 
meetings for that purpose to be held for the time being, shall forfeit and pay to 
the Clerke of the said Fellowshipp for the use thereof the sume of Five pounds 
to be recovered &c., &c. 
“In Witness whereof the said Wardens Stewards Assistants and Fellowshipp 
of Clothiers and Weavers within the Said Burrough of Wilton and four miles of 
the same have caused their Common Seal to be hereunto put the Day and [sic] 
abovesaid. 
** We have examined the By Laws above written 
and do Approve of the same Dated this 
Fourteenth day of July Anno Dni 1725, 
“ (Signed) P 
“ ALEX. DENTON.” 
(Seal of 1700 appended.) 
DeveLopmMent oF Witton Factory. 
The Wilton Factory, which has continued down to the present 
time under Royal patronage, found a warm supporter in Henry, the 
ninth Earl of Pembroke, and sixth Earl of Montgomery, to whom 
we are indebted for the introduction into this country of the manu- 
facture of the finest kinds of carpet, and for the development of one 
of the most important of our local industries. This nobleman, like 
many of his ancestors, was a man of refined taste, and spent large 
sums of money in adorning Wilton House. Lord Oxford says of 
him :—“ The soul of Inigo Jones, who had been patronised by his 
ancestors, seems still to hover over its favourite Wilton, and to have 
assisted the muses of Art in the education of this noble person. 
The towers, the chambers, the scenes which Holbein, Jones, and 
Vandyke decorated, and which Earl Thomas had enriched with the 
spoils of the best ages, received the last touches of beauty from Earl 
Henry’s hand.” During his travels in Flanders and France, the 
Earl is said to have taken great interest in the carpet works of those 
eountries, and noticing the superior quality of their fabrics over the 
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