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of the Company was presented to This Court & read Setting forthThat they was
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thereof they made Several By lanes for the better regulation of the their Trade which are Rat
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by the Earl of Cla
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under there hands and Seals dated the 4th. of July 1664That by one of the said
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By lanes It is Ordered that on Person then using a which Should
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up the
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said Art or Trade should keep or bind any Apprentice otherwise then as as therein
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Apprentice Vizt:Any Person who had sure free of the said Company One Year
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might keep one Apperntice & no more till he should have been free four Years & then
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any Person other then his Male Child or Children or Apprentice to be bound undo or bred
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of the said Company the said Trade or Mastery or any thing thereto belonging Send for any
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for just & pay to the Master & Warden for the time being £50
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That they no Informed
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William Spencer
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Qualify'd to keep but 2 Apprentice is making Interest to be one of the Artsmasters of
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the
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be Elected they Apprehend he must be Obliged to
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keep a much greater Number than he is Qualified to keep according to the said By law
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That therefore they hope the Count will be pleas'd to take this into Consideration &
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not Elect a Person an Artsmaster who cannot be a Service able as others night be
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without Bread of the said By Laws Which the company shall think themselves obliged
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to Maintain by bringing Actions as often as the said
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shall be Guilty
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of a Breach thereof
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Upon Reading the Several humble Petition of
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Citizens and
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Citizen &
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of
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to be Admitted on
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Arstmaster
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in the said Hospital in the room of
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deceased
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And they being Severally put in Nomination
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the plurality of hands Appear'd to be for the said
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James Lipscome
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Whereupon It is Order'd that the said
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James Lipscomes
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(upon delivering
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a Certificate of his Settlement to the Clerk Ge
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dusing a Copy of his freedom
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of this City) be Admitted an Artsmaster of the Hospital until the next Election Day
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Giving Seventy as usual in the like Cases & Entring into the Usual Covenants
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with a
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to be added that he will not Set up or Use any Engine Looms
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in this Hospital and that Jarneymen which he shall Empley in his said Trade
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shall be such as have Served their Apprenticeship in this Hospital
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And it is further Order'd that he have such Appartment as the Committee
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of the House shall Direct.
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