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more of the following Companies, viz., Cord- 

 wainers. Curriers, Saddlers, and Girdlers. The 

 following are the Clauses in question : — 



" Section 30. — Provided always that none of the several 

 Masters and Wardens of the several Companyes of 

 Cordwainers, Curriers, Girdlers, or Sadlers, shall search 

 any person or persons but such as use and exercise the 

 mistery or occupacon of the said Master and Wardens, 

 and that the Coachmakers dwelling within the said City 

 of London, or three miles from the same, shall be under 

 the Survey and Search of the Master and Wardens of 

 the Company of the Saddlers of London. 



" Section 31. — And be it further enacted that the said 

 Mayor of the City of London and the Aldermen for the 

 time being, upon like pain of forty pounds likewise to 

 be levyed and employed, shall likewise yearly appoint 

 eight of the most substantiall, honest, and expert persons, 

 being Freemen of some of the Companyes of Cord- 

 wayners, Curriers, Saddlers, or Girdlers within the City of 

 London, whereof one shall be a Sealer and keep a Seal 

 for the sealing of Leather, to be prepared, who shall be 

 sworn before the said Mayor and Aldermen for the time 

 being to do their office truely. Which said Searchers 

 and Sealers shall view and search all and every tanned 

 hide, skin, or leather which shall be brought as well to 

 the market of Leaden Hall as to any other lawful Fair 

 or Market therefore usually appointed within three 

 miles of the said Citye, whether the same be sufficiently 

 and throughly tanned and throughly dryed, according to 

 the true purport and meaning of this Statute or no. And 

 finding it sufficiently and throughly tanned and throughly 

 dryed in such manner and form abys this Statute is ap- 

 pointed, shall seal the same with the said Seal."^ 



^ This Statute contains many curious enactments ; among 

 others, that calves shall not be killed under five weeks old ; 



