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these penalties to two shillings and sixpence and 

 three shillings and fourpence respectively. Mis- 

 demeanour at burials were similarly punished. 



1609. October i6th. 



'' The same daye rec. of Alexander Corser, for wearing 

 of a hatt at John Hall's buryall vj*^^." 



1633. May i/[th. 



"At this Court Daniell Potter was fined ij' vj'' for 

 coming in a fallinge bande to the buryall of Mr. 

 Freeman, whereof hee paid vj*^ w^^' was D'^ to Mr. 

 Warden Pease." 



1633. June I'^th. 



" At this Court Edmund Sheppard was fined in ij' vj*^ 

 for not coming to the buryall of Mr. Thomas Freeman, 

 whereof hee paid xij*^ w'^^ was delivered to Mr. Warden 

 Pease." 



The funeral was generally followed by a feast or 

 repast, towards the charge of which the departed 

 member customarily bequeathed a sum of money. 

 When this did not happen, the Company appear 

 to have borne the expense. In November, 1645, 

 however, the Court ordered that no more should 

 be spent in burial feasts than was bequeathed for 

 the purpose. 



The following minute refers to the burial of 

 an Assistant, who apparently died in straightened 

 circumstances : — 



