194 The Company and the Trade. 



1626. August 31^/. 



" This daie Michaell Harman was fined in five shil- 

 lings for setting forreyners on worke, whereof hee paid 



A Statute, 5 Elizabeth, c. 8, entitled '' An 



Act touching Tanners Courriours Shoemakers 



and other artificers occupyeing the cutting of 



Leather," established Leadenhall as 



Leadenhall. , , , • ^ /-^' r ^ 



the only market m the City for the 

 sale of tanned leather, and enacted that none 

 should buy such leather except those who in- 

 tended to work it into wares, Monday being the 

 only day upon which it could be purchased. 

 Further, all tanned hides or skins before they 

 were sold were required to be examined and 

 sealed by authorities appointed by the City. The 

 bartering of leather at any other place was pro- 

 hibited under a heavy penalty ; an exception, 

 however, was made in favour of the '' Sadlers 

 and Gyrdlers," who we read '' maye selle theyr 

 Neckes and Shreddes of tanned leather redd 

 w^Mut incurring any Payne or Forfeyture for the 

 same." The of^ce of searching and sealing was 

 to be performed by four or more expert persons 

 appointed annually by the Mayor and Aldermen 

 of the City. This Act was repealed i James I., 

 c. 25, but an Act which had been previously 

 passed in the same year, i James I., c. 22, 

 re-enacted its principal provisions with some 



little modification. Sections 30 and 

 Sealers of 3 1 require the Mayor and Aldermen 



to elect eight searchers from one or 



