1/6 Internal Affairs of the Company. 



1655. February ^t/i. 



" At this Court it is ordered that Warden Sheppard 

 shall lay out ;^5 in wine and Naples biskett for Mr. 

 Christy his Buriall and deliver to Mrs. Christy 5;^ in 

 money as the guift of this fellowship." 



In certain bye-laws of the Company, laid 

 down in 1624, it was " ordeyned that ever here- 

 after at the buriall of any other brother or sister, 

 there shall be no service of cornfitts, bread, nor 

 wyne given to the Liverie in the streets, but 

 whatsoever shall be given shall be paied in readie 

 money to be laied out in a dinner or supper for the 

 said fellowship." 



The Hall was occasionally let for burial cere- 

 monials and feasts on the occasion of the death 

 of persons not members of the Company, and the 

 letting of the Hall for funerals was at one time a 

 privilege permitted to the Clerk. In April, 1721, 

 however, this privilege was withdrawm, the Clerk 

 being allowed only 13.9. /[d. on each funeral, the 

 rates for which are thus defined : — 



" When the Hall and all the avenues are hung with 

 mourning and an alcove made, fiue guineas. 



" When hung with mourning without an alcove, at 

 three guineas. 



" When made use of without mourning, two guineas. 



"And the undertakers to make good all damages." 



From a minute about the same time we also 

 learn that prior to this it was the custom for the 



