History of the Company. ii 



all goods which should be found to be deceitfully 

 wrong were ordered to be taken to the Guildhall 

 and condemned, and thence carried to Westchepe 

 and burned. No Joiner who was not of the mystery 

 was allowed to take an apprentice, and even then 

 not unless he were of ability to support him. 

 Lastly, among other obligations imposed upon 

 them, the Joiners were forbidden to have any old 

 saddle-bows, or parts thereof, in their possession. 



Eleven years later — namely, in 1320 — we read 



A.D. 1320. of a dispute between the Saddlers 



SSdtSand the Loriners, or makers of bits 



the Loriners, a.nd Other metal work for horse furni- 



J oiners and 



Painters. ture. The dispute appears to have 

 arisen out of the ordinances of the Loriners, con- 

 firmed to that craft by William Fitz Richard, Mayor, 

 in the forty-fifth year of the reign of tienry IIL 

 (a.d. 1 261). According to these, the Loriners en- 

 joyed the prescriptive right of w^hat was virtually 

 a monopoly of their particular branch of trade. 

 This privilege, however, was regarded by the 

 Saddlers as an infringement of their own liberties, 

 for they appeared to have considered the sale of 

 everything connected with the furniture and trap- 

 pings of horses as belonging to their own domain. 

 Accordingly they instituted a suit against the 

 Loriners before the then Mayor, Hamo de Chige- 

 well, and obtained an injunction. More than 

 this, the obnoxious ordinances of the Loriners 

 were ordered to be burned in Westchepe. The 

 result of this suit was in no way calculated to 



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