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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
1479- 80 41. Rogers [Rodgers]. 
A charter granted to the Tailors' Craft ; the only one of which there 
is any trace. — B.B. The corporation from time to time made stringent 
bye-laws for the regulation of certain trades, especially those connected 
with the victualling of the town — bakers, butchers, brewers, hostelers 
(innkeepers), and the like — and against forestalling and regrating. 
1480- 81 42. Tho: Gregorthead [Tregarthen]. 
1481- 82 43. Tho. Greswell [Tresawell]. 
1482- 83 44. Nicholas Heynstoll [Heynscott]. 
1483- 84 45. Tho. Greyson. 
1484- 85 46. Pearse Craswell [Pers Carswell]. 
1485- 86 47. Tho: Tresawell. 
1486- 87 48. Tho: Greyson. 
1487- 88 49. Nich? Heynstoll [Heynscott]. 
1488- 89 50. Perin Earle [Peryn Erie]. 
1489- 90 51. Tho: Greyson. 
Regulations made by mayor, twelve and twenty-four, concerning the 
use of copes and vestments in burial offices, and fees to be paid for the 
same. 
1490- 91 52. Nich? Heynstoll [Henscott]. 
Roger Machado, ambassador to Spain and Portugal, who visited 
Plymouth in 1489, mentions Nicholas Aynsle, Knight, as a leading in- 
habitant. Doubtless this was Henscott. 
1491- 92 53. Jn° Painter [Paynter]. 
1492- 93 54. W m Thickpenny [Thykpeny]. 
Elected member 1495. He was also one of the customers of the port. 
1493- 94 55. Thickpenny [Thykpeny]. 
Act passed banishing from the town Nicholas Law and Avys his wife, 
not to be four days and four nights therein henceforth, under "xx n 
penalty." — B.B. An act of the council passed on the same date as tho 
preceding (July, 1492) sets forth: "yf any pson or psons of the Inhit- 
aunce of the said Toune rebell and dysbey the mayer for the tyme being 
or distvrbe and lett him to doo and execute even J ustice within the said 
Boroughe or drawe a knyfe hanger swerde upon the Mayer or sett his 
hondes vpon his kny ve hanger or swerde entending to drawe it vpon the 
Mayre or Bill Axe or Cleve or any other Abylenients of werre, or letting 
of the Mayre and his officers to mynistre their office according vnto the 
Kinges lawes then hit shalbe at the libertye of the said Mayre to punishe 
him or theym so offending in svche pryson within the said Boroughe as 
it shall please him." The act goes on to state that freemen are to be 
imprisoned in the Guildhall ; that any one declaring the counsel of the 
town to any foreign person shall be punished at the mayor's discretion, 
put out of the council, and disfranchised for ever ; and afterwards pro- 
ceeds : "Also yf any pson or psons in tyme coming seke any helpe 
and Mayntenaunce of any lorde, knyght, or any other what degree or 
