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" Also, if any covin or assembly of the Company be 

 secretly made by the vadlets and servants of the said 

 mistery, for obtaining from their masters more wages 

 than they ought (to have) in their mistery, to the pre- 

 judice of the people, and it can be discovered or proved, 

 let such suffer the penalty beneath written. 



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

 foreign, be discovered, and by the four masters proved 

 in any default aforesaid, let him pay for his first offence 

 to the Chamber of the City, 6s. Sd. ; for the second 

 offence, 1 3 j. ^d. ; for the third offence, 20s. ; and, for the 

 fourth, let him abjure the mistery within the City of 

 London, according to the judgment of you and the four 

 masters aforesaid. 



'' The names of those elected before the Mayor and 

 Aldermen for keeping the aforesaid articles, viz. : — 



William Lincolne,-^ 



John Pountfreit, 



Roger Excestre, 



Gerard atte Nook, J 



are assessed what is assessed on him. And these four men 

 elect the Master of the trade each year. 



" Saddlers who trim with shoe-leather or other leather of 

 what kind soever, and those who sell saddles trimmed with 

 any kind of curriery, ought to aid the Cordwainers in paying 

 the (?) {hueses) to the King, and thereupon they may work in 

 any kind of curriery they please. 



" The Masters who shall be appointed to protect the trade 

 are quit of all the charges and all the expenses, and of all the 

 outgoings which they say on their oath they have paid and 

 disbursed to protect the trade, and they may, and ought to, 

 assess and collect, from one more, from another less, according 

 to what seems good to them, saving the taxation due to the 

 Provost of Paris, if need there be." — Regulations relating to 

 the Trades of Paris, collected in the Xlllth Century, and 

 known under the name of the Book of Trades of Stephen 



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