History of the Company. ^;^ 



malice or evil disposition, will not pay the said vadlet or 

 servant his wage for his service, according to the agree- 

 ment between them made, or that the master wish him 

 to do service against his will after his agreement has 

 been well and lawfully fulfilled, that then the master 

 suffer the same penalty. 



" Also, if any vadlet or servant of the same mistery 

 can be found in any default towards his master, whether 

 it be by covin or enticement of another, or by his own 

 malice, let him suffer the same penalty. 



" Also, if anything of the said mistery, in manner 



crupper and the breast leather, and if he does otherwise he 

 shall pay a fine of 20 sols, half to the King and the other half 

 to the brotherhood. 



'' No Saddler may have more than two apprentices to his 

 trade, that is to say, one in painting and one in trimming, 

 unless it be his child or his wife's child, or some poor person 

 whom he maintains out of charity and without agreement for 

 money or service. 



" No Saddler may take apprentices other than the persons 

 above named unless he take them at least for a term of three 

 years' service, and at least at 8 livres of deniers * and 5 sols to 

 the brotherhood ; and for more money and longer service he 

 may take them, but for less money or shorter service he may 

 not take them. 



" The apprentice must not enter on the business until he 

 has paid his 5 sols, and the master 5 sols for each apprentice, 

 to the brotherhood. 



" The three Masters of the trade, or two, or one (of them) 

 ought each month, once at least, to go through the houses to 

 protect the above-named trade of Saddlers, and ought every- 

 where to take bad work where they find it, show it to the 

 Viewers, and if it is found and adjudged as bad it should be 

 burned by the Provost of Paris. 



' ' Every Saddler and every one of his varlets ought, and is 



* The livre, like the sol, differed in value in different parts of France. 



