Internal Affairs of the Company. 167 



six pence a peece for cominge late, w*"^ was D'^ to M"" 

 Warden Lee, x^'' 



1644. October it^tk 



"At this Court it is ordered that there shalbe a Court 

 on Wednesdaie come se'night. And it is further ordered 

 that he w^^ shalbe wantinge at nine of the Clock, at 

 w^'' time the Court is to sitt, is to paie for a fine ij^ vj*^ 

 for his or their late cominge." 



1654. August \\tJi. 



** At this Court Edward Smith (a warden) paid thirty 

 shillings for a fine for his absence on Quarter Day. D*^ 

 Ward" Melsonne xxxV 



The Company's ordinances were devised and 

 calculated to remind members that they belonged 

 not only to a Company but to 2. fellowship. Mem- 

 bers were expressly forbidden "to revile, rebuke 

 or reproue," or otherwise to '' behaue unseemly " 

 to one another upon a pain of five shillings, in- 

 creased by the ordinances of 1669 to ten shillings. 

 The act of striking or assaulting another member 

 was punishable by a fine of twenty shillings. 



The incident recorded in the following minute 

 is curious and interesting : — 



1 64 1. November I'^th. 



" At this Court Warden Cox complayned on Robt. 

 Dowgill for that he had abused (him), and at the same 

 tyme he was likewise complayned of by diverse others 

 of the Assistants. After w^^' he beinge asked whether he 

 would submit himself to the Table he answered he knew 



