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IV. Auy person being elected to the office of Master, Warden, or 

 Yeoman, and refusing to fill the same, to forfeit, for Master, 

 four marks ; Warden, forty shillings ; Yeoman, twenty shillings. 

 The Master, Wardens, and Fraternity to elect another person 

 in the room of him so refusing. 



V. No person of the Fraternity to receive more apprentices than 

 by the laws of the Realm he may lawfully do, nor suffer a son 

 or servant to serve in any of the trades included by the Guild, 

 above the space of six months, unless before the end of that 

 term he present him before the Master and Wardens of the 

 Fraternity, to be bound by indenture. The indenture to be 

 made by the Town-clerk, and by him entered in the Book of 

 Admissions of apprentices of the Borough, and within a month 

 after to be entered in the Book of Admissions of apprentices of 

 the Fraternity by the clerk of the same. The Town-clerk not 

 to receive, for making and entering the indenture, more than 

 two shillings, and the clerk of the company fourpence. Any 

 person taking such son or servant contrary to this ordinance, 

 the same being proved before the Master, to forfeit forty shil- 

 lings to the use of the Fraternity. 



VI. The master of every apprentice who has faithfully served in 

 any of the above trades, to present the said apprentice at the 

 next Quarter Meeting after the expiration of his term, before 

 the Master, Wardens, and Fraternity to be admitted as a fi'ce 

 brother of the same, and to exercise the trade within the Bo- 

 rough where he hath served as apprentice. And for his admis- 

 sion to pay to the Master three shillings and fourpence, and to 

 the clerk for the entry thereof, fourpence. The Master and 

 Wardens at the suit of their newly elected brother, to make 

 certificate thereof to the Town-clerk under their hands and seals. 

 And upon such certificate the Town-clerk to make an instrument 

 in writing, to be signed and scaled by the Mayor, testifying his 

 freedom of the Fraternity. The Town-clerk to receive for this 

 instrument eightpencc, and the Mayor for his seal to the same, 

 fourpence. 



V^II. Every person of tlic Fraternity to pay quarterly the sum of 



