Not to buy or
Sell [..] ye Years
of an Apprentice

No Person within the limits aforesaid Shall Sell
Contract or Bargain for the Years or Terme of
his Apprentice nor Surrender his Terme to any
Person or Persons without Lycence from the
Master and Wardens.

And no person Shall accept take or Receive
or have any Apprentice from any other person
whatsoever nor Contract for any Such with any
Master of Such Apprentice or any other for
that purpose without Consent of the Master and
Wardens upon forfeiture of 40 Shillings for Every
Such Offence(follo 22 & 23)

The Master and
Wardens to Dispose
of an Apprentice
if the Master dye
or Give over his
Trade

If any Person free of Said Company within the
limitts aforesaid Dye or Leave of his Trade having
an Apprentice or Apprentices that have not Served
out their Apprenticehood, Then the Master and Wardens
or any 3 of them may Assign over Said Apprentices
to any of Said Trade as they Shall think fitt(Except
he become Apprentice to Some other Trade for
7 Years at Least then to Come.

If Such Apprentice So Assigned without Past
Cause Refuse to Serve ye the Master & Wardens or any 3 of
them may Punish by Imprisonement or otherwise

Every householder or Master taking Such
Apprentices not assigned or Sett over as Aforesd. to
forfeit for Every Such offence 40s More or less at
Discretion of the Master & Wardens to the use aforesaid
(follo 23 & 24)

Against Misrule
and Disorder

Every householder of Said Company within the
limitts aforesaid to Use Diligent Care & heed to See his
Apprentices and Journymen goe to Church or to Some
other place where Gods word is preached at Due times
in the Day on Sundays and Hollydays and to Spend ye
Rest of ye Same Sundays & Hollydays in honest & Lawfull
(Exercises