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(felt), or with other stuff that is good and lawful, under 

 the same penalty. 



"Also, that no harness be made new unless it be 

 good and sufficient, and not lined with old leather, 

 under the same penalty. 



"Also, that no seat of a saddle be nailed with nails of 

 tin, but only with nails of iron, under the same penalty. 



"Also, that no sewing nor skirts be nailed with nails 

 of tin nor of pewter, if they be not well and lawfully 

 rivetted with iron or v/ith latten, under penalty beneath 

 written. 



ing nor dyed with any manner of dye which is not well and 

 truly curried, that is to say, all the four {cors) of every bow from 

 one peak to the other, which is called currying by {chantians)^ 

 unless they be varnished saddles made for Templars or persons 

 in religion, or saddles which {demuereni) varnished fustian; and 

 whosoever shall otherwise do it (the saddle) shall be burned 

 when it is found without redemption and without ransom. 



" No Saddler may put old curried furniture with new work, 

 that is to say, that the saddle be new or old, the drapery 

 new or old, or the covering be new or old, unless he make 

 it at the request of some person other than one of the trade 

 who shall have desired and wished that it be made with new 

 and old seuni together. 



" No Saddler may stitch basil with shoe-leather or any 

 other manner of leather unless it be in a saddle which is called 

 a bassette (a country saddle). 



" No Saddler may stitch basil with cowhide nor with calf 

 for any furniture of what kind soever. And if any does so 

 the work should be burned. 



" No Saddler may put hair into a saddle trimmed with 

 shoe-leather, that is to say, (one) of which the seat and lappet 

 are of shoe-leather, and if he do so the saddle should be 

 burned. 



" No Saddler ought to make a sumpter saddle, or saddle 

 trimmed with shoe-leather or black basil, unless the currying 

 thereof is well and sufficiently curried. 



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