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interfere therein, and appoint a day of love^ at St. Paul's 

 Church, as between the aforesaid WilHam and WiUiam, 

 namely, Wednesday, the Feast of St Dunstan f the 

 aforesaid William de Stokwelle, compassing mischief, 

 did cause all the Painters, Joiners, Lorimers, (and) 

 Gelders^ to be collected, together with other workmen, 

 in order to act by force of arms, and in affray of the 

 said City ; and then took counsel to make the Saddlers 

 aforesaid concede, by compulsion, that if any man of 

 the one trade shall have cause of offence, as against any 

 one of the other trade, then in such case, all the Painters, 

 together with all the [other] trades, shall no longer be 

 bound to work, but shall close their selds ; and that if 

 any offence shall be found to have been committed on 

 the one side or the other, the parties shall not be recon- 

 ciled without two of each trade [intervening therein]. 



" ' And further, the aforesaid copresmethes'^ have made 

 an ordinance among themselves, out of their own heads, 

 that if any strange workman of the same trade shall 

 come to the said City, he shall not be received on any 

 terms, until he shall have made oath to conceal their 

 misdeeds.^ And whereas the said Painters and Joiners 

 do set every point of their trade at a fixed price, at no 

 time has there been any certainty as to the aforesaid 

 points in practice established ; by reason whereof, they 

 are making themselves kings of the land, to the destruc- 

 tion of all the people of the land, and to the annihilation 

 of the Saddlers aforesaid. As to the which they pray 

 for redress.' 



^ A day for making terms of reconciliation. 

 ^ The Deposition of St. Dunstan, 19th May, must be 

 meant. 



' Meaning gilders. 



' Co]:)persmilhs — the Lorimers in copper. 



* Malveiste. 



