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XII. The Weaver's Hall, appointed by the Mayor and Council of 

 the Borough for the public meetings of the three Fraternities, 

 to be maintained and repaired at their equal cost. The Com- 

 panies to take precedency as they are named, and every brother 

 according to the date of his admission — the Master and Wardens 

 presiding over all. The Yeomen on receipt of instructions from 

 Master and Wardens to summon the brethren to the Hall on the 

 days of quarter meeting, and as often as occasion require, and 

 failing this, to forfeit, for each default, ten shillings. A brother 

 absenting himself, without reasonable excuse, to forfeit one 

 shilling. 



XIII. No foreigner or stranger, not being a Burgess or inhabitant 

 of the Borough and free of the Fraternity, to sell within the 

 Borough, except on fair days, any commodities appertaining 

 to either of the trades included by the Fraternity other than 

 corn, grain, victuals, wool, woollen or linen yarn, woollen or 

 linen cloth of their own making, upon pain of forfeiture for 

 every offence, forty shillings. 



XIV. No person of the Fraternity to entice the apprentice or hired 

 servant of another from his service before his term expire, with- 

 out the consent of his master, and the Master and Wardens of 

 the Fraternity, upon pain of forfeiting forty shillings. Nor 

 any apprentice or hired servant to leave his service before the 

 expiration of his term, without a similar penalty. Every such 

 servant to bo re-delivered by the Master and AVardens of the 

 Fraternity into the hands of his master, to fulfil his time of 

 service. And if they cannot within twenty days after complaint 

 made to them, take some order therein, the case to be referred 

 to the Mayor of the Borough. 



XV. None of the Fraternity to presume at any time to speak any 

 despiteful or unseemly words, or otherwise misbehave themselves 

 towards the Master and Wardens, or any of the bretliren, upon 

 pain of forfeiting, on proof of the same by one or more witnesses 

 ut a general meeting, such sum as shall bo thought meet by tlie 

 Master and Wardens. 



XN'l. The Masler of the Fraternity to deliver yearly on the dtiy of 



