122 History of the Company. 



Master Wardens and Assistants of the said seuerall 

 Companies or any of them, and thereupon the place or 

 places of such person or persons soe remoued should 

 be voyd ; And whereas his Ma^^^ in Councell is pleased 

 to order, And it is hereby ordered accordingly, That 

 Thomas Fisher, Edward Fisher, Wardens, S"" Peter 

 Rich, Edward Benskin, Robert Wareing, Francis Bulsell, 

 W"" Morgan, John Sawyer, John Webb, Robert Johnson, 

 Robert Stoakes, Henry Fetter, Thomas Chew, John 

 Hall, Cadogan Thomas, and Elias Rich, Esq'', Assistants 

 of the Company of the Saddlers, be and they are hereby 

 remoued and displaced from being any longer Wardens 

 or Assistants of the said Company. 



'* And His Ma^^ is further pleased to order that the 

 Lord Major and Court of Aldermen doe forthwith 

 signifye his Ma^'^^ pleasure herein to the said Company. 



"Wm. Bridgeman. 



" A True Coppy of the Order of 

 Councell. 



''Wagstaffe." 



Then follows this terse minute : — 



"Vpon readeing of w^^' said Orders this Court was 

 broake up." 



The displacement of these Assistants was Im- 

 mediately followed by an order of the Court of 

 Aldermen, removing them from the Livery. 



The vacancies thus created in the Court were, 

 for the most part, filled by the election of other 

 Assistants to take their places. But the disorder 

 already occasioned was complicated by the refusal 

 of some resolute members thus elected to serve, 

 and of others to take the oath of allegiance pre- 

 scribed by the Charter. 



