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before-mentioned, be found defective, secretly or openly, 

 which can lawfully be found or proved by the four 

 masters of the said mistery, let the same thing be 

 destroyed by the decree of the Mayor and discretion of 

 the said masters and let him in whose possession such 

 thing be found suffer the same penalty. 



" Also, that it be allowed at any time to the four 

 masters aforesaid of the said mistery, to search house, 

 shop, and chamber within the franchise of the said City, 



bound by oath, to make known to the Masters of the trade if 

 any one of the trade, be he their master, or their neighbour, 

 or another, transgresses in any of the things above-named 

 against the aforesaid trade. 



" No Saddler may take a varlet into the service of his 

 trade for more than one day unless the varlet has sworn on 

 the true Saints that he will do his trade well and truly, and 

 observe the above-named regulations, and if he does otherwise 

 he shall pay a fine of 5 sols to the King ; and if the varlet 

 has not been willing to work for another at his trade for two 

 days or more continually, and he can prove it, and if he proves 

 it he shall be quit of the 5 sols, and he against whom he 

 shall prove it in his presence shall pay them. 



" None may, or ought, to put into his work nails of ivory 

 or enamel of any kind soever, and if he do so the work 

 should be burned, for the work is not good nor true. 



" No Saddler may put into, his work goods made outside 

 the City of Paris before the goods shall have been inspected 

 by the Viewers who protect the trade, that is to say, painting 

 by the Painters, coverings and thongs and saddles by the 

 trimmers, and saddle-bows by the Carpenters, and if any put 

 them into his work he shall forfeit the work, and it shall be 

 burned, and he shall pay a fine of 10 sols to the King. 



" None may work at the trade of Saddlery in Paris, that is 

 to say, trim shoe-leather, unless he have bought the trade 

 from the King, or had the work from a man who has bought 

 the trade fiom the King. 



