98 History of the Company. 



A minute of the Company's proceedings in 

 July, 1652, records that the above-mentioned 

 Nathaniel Walters was fined 30^'. by the Com- 

 pany '' for makeing defective saddles for y^ State's 

 service." 



Among the numerous other obligations imposed 

 upon the City Companies, was a re- 

 quirement to keep a store of gun- 

 powder for the defence of the City; the Saddlers' 

 Company appear to have had their " gunpowder 

 house " in the garden of a house belonging to 

 them at London Wall. On the 22nd January, 

 1649, we read that — 



" At this Court our master receaved nyneteene pounds 

 tenn shillings for the gunpowder he sold of the Com- 

 panies." 



On the 3rd September, 165 1, Cromwell 



Battle of defeated the Royalist troops at Wor- 



Worcester. cester, and his army entered and 



plundered the City, and on the 19th December 



ensuing, the following minute occurs : — 



" Att this Corte upon y° peticon of Anthony Norris 

 of Worcester a member of this fellowship being 

 plundered there at the comeing in of the army. It 

 is ordered that y'' Renter Warden shall deliver forty 

 shillings to Mr. William Freeman to bee sent to him as 

 the guifte of this Company." 



On the 17th October, 165 1, it was ordered 

 that — 



