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may be chosen by the men of the same Mystery there 

 dwelhng to observe the premises and to make scrutiny 

 as often as it shall seem expedient, and if any Girdler's 

 work should be ornamented with lead, pewter, or tin, or 

 other base material by the said men so elected, it may 

 be presented to the scrutiny aforesaid before the Mayor 

 of the City aforesaid, or before the mayors or Keepers 

 of other cities, boroughs, and vills of our said Kingdom 

 in places where the said false work shall be found, and 

 by consideration of the said Mayor or Keeper the said 

 false work shall be burnt, and by their discretion the 

 workmen punished for their false work, and the amercia- 

 ments coming from such punishments shall remain to 

 the Mayors and Keepers and the Commonalty of the 

 places where such work shall happen to be found. And 

 that the men of the Mystery aforesaid so elected for 

 making the scrutiny aforesaid in the City aforesaid as 

 often as they shall come to other cities, boroughs, or 

 vills of the said Kingdom where the said Mystery is 

 used, together with other men of the same Mystery for 

 this elected, may in places where they come, make 

 scrutiny of such works and defaults of the same work- 

 men [and] present them to the Mayor and Keepers of 

 the places aforesaid, as is aforesaid, as in our Letters 

 Patent thereof made is said more fully to be contained. 

 And although lately by our writ we commanded you 

 that in the City aforesaid and its suburbs, and in other 

 places within your liberty where you should deem it 

 expedient, you cause those Letters to be publicly pro- 

 claimed, and our ordinance and grant abovesaid as 

 much as to you pertains to be firmly upheld and observed 

 in the same City and Suburbs. Yet nevertheless, after 

 the issuing of the said writ so to you directed, the 

 Saddlers of our City aforesaid before us and our 

 Council have seriously complained that they by pretext of 

 the ordinance aforesaid are manifoldly disquieted by 



