1 82 The Company and the Trade. 



offend Ing or doing the contrary shall forfeite and 

 lose for every defaulte fourtye shllHngs for every 

 monethe." 



Similarly the Company's ordinances forbade any 

 member to teach the art of Saddlery to any 

 person (except his own son) unless and until that 

 ^ , . person had been bound apprentice 



Regulations con- ^ ■'••'■ 



cerning to him for the purpose. Every 

 ppren ices. M^s^er was bound to present his 

 apprentice to the Wardens at the next assembly 

 in the Common Hall of the Company after the 

 binding, in order that the Wardens might examine 

 him, and, as the ordinance expresses it, see 

 " whether hee bee a Freeborn subject of the 

 King of England or not, and to see whether hee 

 bee cleane and whole lymed " (limbed), etc. 

 Upon the apprentice being duly admitted to 

 serve, his master paid unto the Wardens 2^-. 6</., 

 increased in 1669 to 6s. 



1605. November 12///. 



" It was further ordered at this Courte that Thomas 

 Potter for keeping of Goodalc, his apprentice, two yeres 

 together and not in all that tyme presented him, was 

 fyned for that fault for breaking the orders of o"" house 

 twenty shillings w^' he paid to Warden Penyale." 



1609. December ^tJi. 



" At this Courte Oliver Houghton was appoynted to 

 bringe in his fyne for keepinge a prentyse unpresented 

 at the next quarter day." 



