172 Internal Affairs of the Company. 



1644. July gth, 



"At this Court it is ordered that none of the Assistants 

 or Clothinge of this Fellowship shall come to the Hall 

 either on q'ter daie or at any Generall Meetings when 

 the Assistants and Clothinge meete in a light-coloured 

 suite upon paine to forfeit for every tyme soe comeinge 

 twoe shillings and sixpence." 



On one occasion we read of two members fined 

 for attending the Court in lawyers' gowns. Under 

 a regime so absolute the opportunities of adding 

 to the Company's exchequer were numerous 

 enough. The proceeds, however, derived from 

 these penalties were put into the Poor Box, from 

 which the Company's poor were relieved by the 

 Wardens at the Hall door after every Court. 



In the matter of the personal appearance of 

 their journeymen and apprentices the Company 

 appear to have exercised aesthetic discriminations, 

 although not of the modern type, as we gather 

 from the following curious minute : — 



1607. May i^tli. 



"At this Court the late apprentice of Roland Newton 

 named Wm. Dennard, and the apprentices of Bywell 

 and Browne named Henry Cavill and Anthony Scale 

 wearing long hair were polled closse and Thomas 

 Solomon the younger his man was polled also." 



The Company's faculty of ratiocination seems 

 to have been quaint and original, judged from the 

 following incident : — In the year 1719a Livery- 



