it>8 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



" officers of this corporation, thereunto affigned, upon pain that 

 " will fail thereof. 



" Anfl that no manner of perfon or perfons, \vhatfoeverwithin 

 " the limits and bounds of this fair prcfume to break the Lord's 

 " day in felling) fhcwing, or offering to fale ; or in buying, or 

 " offering to buy, any commodities whatfoever ; or in fitting* 

 " tipling, or drinking, in any tavern, inn, or ale-houfe, tipling- 

 " houfe, or cook's houfc, or in doing any other thing that may 

 " tend to the breach hereof, upon the pains and penalties con- 

 " taincd in feveral acts of parliament, which will be feverely in- 

 " flictcd upon the breakers thereof. 



" And, finally, that what perfons foeveriind themfelves grieved, 

 ' injured, or wronged, by any manner of perfon in this fair, 

 46 that they come with their plaints before the fie wards in this 

 " fair, aliigncd to hear and determine pleas, and they will ad- 

 " miniftcr to all parties juilicc according to the laws of this land, 

 " and the culloms of this corporation." 



Befidcs thcfe courts, the mayor holds 



Three Gilds annually, for the enrolling and turning over^ap- 

 prentices, and making others free who have performed the obli- 

 gations in their indentures ; and for hearing an-d determining 

 differences between matters and their apprentices. Any matter 

 refufing to make his apprentice free when he ought, on com- 

 plaint thereof to the mayor, he will fummon the matter before 

 him, and if he mew no good caufe to the contrary, the mayor 

 will make him free. 



If a matter mifufe his apprentice, either by beating him, neg- 

 lecting to ihttrtid him, or to find him ncccffaries, the mayor will 



fummon 



