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wherever any saddle or harness appertaining thereto 

 can be found, and lawfully to examine them whether 

 they be good and suitable in manner aforesaid or not. 

 And whensoever any prove rebellious against the four, 

 and are unwilling to allow them to search in manner 

 aforesaid, then let them take a serjeant of the 

 Chamber with them to any place where any such can 

 be found, and let him whosoever rebels suffer the same 

 penalty. 



" No Saddler or any other may deliver a trimmed dyed 

 saddle before it has been varnished, unless it be a sumpter- 

 saddle, and if he do so he shall pay a fine of 5 sols to the 

 King, 



" None may nor ought to put (?) icontresangles) nor other 

 harness, unless it be good and true, that is to say, if it have not 

 one border of (?) {conane)^ that is to say, of pigskin, or have at 

 least one border of new leather which is as good, and whoever 

 does so his work shall be burned. 



" None may nor ought to call out to or address a purchaser 

 who is before another's stall, nor before another's house, if he 

 do so he shall have a fine of 5 sols to pay to the King and 

 5 sols to pay to the brotherhood. 



" None may nor ought to refuse to allow anything of his 

 trade to be seen by the Masters, sworn guardians of the trade, 

 to see of them is anything finable therein. And if he do so 

 he shall have a fine of 10 sols to pay to the King. 



" No Saddler or Painter owes anything in respect of any- 

 thing which he sells or which he buys belonging to his trade 

 provided he uses it in his work, save 40 sols de Paris, which 

 every Saddler of Paris and every Lorimer, for whatsoever he 

 sends out, ought each year to pay to the King at the fair of 

 Saint Ladre (Saint Lazare), and thereby is he free to go to 

 fairs and markets ; and these 40 sols the four Viewers of the 

 trade assess, more on one, less on another, as it seems good to 

 them. And these four men, or two of them at least, demand 

 at the Chatelet one Serjeant to take from each of those who 



