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CHAPTER III. 

 Internal Affairs of tfie Company. 



The Constitution of the Company. — The Master and Wardens, Origin 

 of their Titles. — Renter Warden. — Under-Renter. — *' Cuplillers." — 

 Election Day. — Election of Wardens. — The Livery. — Quarterage. 

 — The Yeomanry. — Translation. — Feasts, Quaint Custom. — The 

 Yeomanry's Dinner, or Bartholomew Feast. — Religious Observances 

 of the Company. — Burials, the Funeral Pall, or "Burial Cloth," — 

 Courts or Assemblies. — Fines. — The Company a " Fellowship. " — 

 Members not to rebuke one another ; not to sue one another at 

 law without license. — Peacemaking, Quaint Incidents. — Etiquette 

 at Meetings. — Light-coloured Clothes prohibited at Meetings. — 

 Apprentices "polled close." 



HE Company appears, from Its earliest 

 record, to have been governed by four 

 Wardens and about twenty Assistants. 

 The earliest titles of the Wardens 

 recorded in the Company's books are (i) Master; 

 (2) Upper Warden ; (^) Second 



The Wardens. ' \vJ/ 



Warden ; (4) Renter Warden. The 

 title of Upper Warden was, however, in August, 

 1663, adopted as an alternative or supplementary 

 title to that of Master, the Wardens then ranking 

 as Master or Upper Warden, Second Warden, 

 Third Warden, Renter Warden. In the year 

 1737, upon the election of Frederick Prince of 

 Wales as perpetual Master of the Company, the 

 de facto or Acting Master assumed the title of 

 Prime Warden, which, however, was relinquished 



