156 Internal Affairs of the Company. 



fellowship, or occupation without the express con- 

 sent of the Wardens and Assistants of the 

 Saddlers' Company in writing under their common 

 seal, upon a penalty of twenty pounds, half of 

 which penalty was to be paid to the Crown and 

 the other to the Company. 



1663. December 22nd. 



" Ordered y* Edward Fisher, Carpinter and member 

 of this Company at his earnest request and his p'mise 

 to giue unto this Company a peece of plate shall be 

 translated to y*" Comp^ of Carpinters." 



A somewhat similar law seems to have been 

 adopted by other Companies, as on the 22nd 

 December, 1653, we read that — 



" At this Court Robert Waring whoe on the 29 Sep- 

 tember last was translated by cosent of six of the 

 members of y® Society of Goldsmiths to this Society 

 (the Saddlers) was made free of this Society and gave 

 20s. to the use of the poore of this fellowshipp. D"^ to 

 Warden Milsonne xxV 



On the 13th October, 1663, three members of 

 the Company having assumed the trade of Inn- 

 holders and been proceeded against by the Inn- 

 holders' Company, were defended by the Saddlers' 

 Company, although the cause and the result is 

 not stated. That the Company, however, did 

 not always resist the translation of its members is 

 clear from the followin^r : — 



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