Shorter Major

Tovis 26to: die Januarij 1687 Aoqr:
RRs Jacobi Sedi AngL etc 3tio:

Upon A Peticon now presented to this Court by the companies of Carpenters
and Joyners London therein complaining of divers Suitts comenced in the
outer Court in Mr. Chamberlaines name agt. divers Sawyers not being free of
this Citie and Severall Carpenters and Joyners for imploying them contrary
to former Orders of this Court and Perticulerly an Order made the 25th.
day of June 1633, This Court takeing that matter into Serious consideracon
And being of Opinion(As it hath been formerly declared and determined
in this Court)That the Said Sawyers are no other then Workemen and
Laborers to the Carpenters, Joyners and Such other like trades, As also that
there is not A Sufficient Number of Freemen Sawyers to serve them in
the said worke, And if there had been A Sufficient Number yet the confineing
of that worke to freemen and excludeing all Foreigners from the same would
encourage the said Freemen to impose on their Masters that were to imploy
them and give them an Occasion to raise and inhance the rates and prizes
of their worke and Service, And in Regard also(As this Court hath been
informed)there are divers Unfreemen constantly imployed in the Labour
of Sawing who have greately approved themselves by there diligence, care
and Skill in the said worke, And to deprive the Psons whom they have
well Served from all Libertie to imploy them againe would(as they declare)
be A great hardship and greivance to them. It is therefore thought fitt
and Ordered by this Court That all Suites comenced in the Outer Court agt:
the said Unfree Sawyers or any others for imploying them shalbe Stayed
and no further proceeded in And that for the further Noe Suites shall
there be comenced on that Acct. But that all Unfreemen may be imployed
within this Citie and the Liberties thereof by Carpenters, Joyners and other
like trades in Performeing their Sawying worke without prosecution or
molestation for the same Until further Order of this Court, Nevertheles
it is by this Court thought reasonable and fitt and recomended to the said
Companies of Carpenters, Joyners and others who shall have occasion for
Sawying worke, that when any of them want Sawyers to doe their worke
and may easily and conveniently have freemen to be imployed therein who
can and will worke with Care and Skill and at moderate and reasonable
rates such as are generally and Usually taken for that worke, that the
said Freemen be by them generally preferred & imployed before Foreigners.

Wagstaffe

The 10th: Feb: 1687 .

Edward Hillier< no role > admitted to the Freedome of this Company by Redemption
Recd of Mr. Hillier for his Fine Comon & otherwise£00:17s:00d