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" Also, if any master, or vadlet, or servant disagree, 

 owing to some dispute between them, let no other 

 master of the said mistery be so daring as to put or 

 help the aforesaid vadlet to any work until the master 

 and the vadlet shall have been brought to a reasonable 

 agreement by the four masters of the said mistery, 

 under the same penalty. 



" Also, if any vadlet or servant of the said mistery has 

 served any master in the said mistery for any fixed 

 term, by covenant between them made, and no default 

 be found in the vadlet or servant, and the master, from 



shoe-leather, or anything else, and if he who demands a share 

 wishes to take half of it, he shall take as little as he should 

 pay for and of any manner of thing be pleased for the price 

 he should pay. 



"None of the trade may trim a saddle if it be not sold 

 before it is trimmed unless they be saddles for store or var- 

 nished saddles, or white saddles of polished white, or fustian 

 saddles, nailed on the rings behind with metal nails, without 

 any gold nails, and if any makes one in any other manner, the 

 saddle may be given up and sold for nothing, for work which 

 is trimmed before it is sold is neither good nor sufficient, and 

 (saddles) are not trimmed before they are sold with any 

 loyalty. And if he does this in any other manner he shall 

 pay a fine of lo sols to the King. 



" No Saddler may put a saddle in a window either below 

 or above overlooking the street unless it be on a peg, that is to 

 say, that the saddle-bow be over the peg, and if any one does 

 so he shall have a fine of 12 deniers * to pay to the King. 



" None may work on Sunday nor on the four feasts of Our 

 Lady, that is to say, in mid-August, in September, at Candle- 

 mas, and in March, unless it be in arms for a shield in- case of 

 need, or to put one (?) {estoiz) and one breast leather to a saddle, 

 or to attach harness to a sumpter-saddle, that is to say, the 



* Penny. The old French penny equalled in value the tenth part of 

 our English penny. 



