Last Is the Mistery of Barbery or Shaving in the
several Branches before mentioned within the
Meaning of the Statute of the 5th. of Elizth. as to
Service of an Apprenticeship for 7 Years? and
does the Service of an Apprenticeship pursuant
to that Statute intitle Persons not free of the sd.
Company to carry on the Mistery of Barbery
or Shaving in all it's Branches within the City
of London, Suburbs thereof and seven Miles round.
or within any and what part of that District?
And are Persons who carry on the said Mistery
within the said District or any Part thereof as
well Freemen of the said Company as those who
Served an Apprenticeship pursuant to the Said
Statute of Eliz. and others who have not so
done subject to the Controul and Punishments
as well of the Rulers of the Bakers Company under
the several Charters Acts and Bye Laws above
Stated as to the Penalties of the said Act
of the 5th. of Elizabeth And how and in what
manner?

The prohibitory Clause of the Statute 5th. Eliz. Chas. 4th. Sect. 31st.
extends only to those Trades that were in Existence at the Time
of that Statute i.e. in 1562 in all the Proceedings that I have
met with upon this Clause the Courts have declined to a strict
construction against the Plls and to a favorable and large Constructn.
for the Benefit of the Defts Instances of which have been in
Salk. 610 1st. Shaw 241 - Raynard and Chase in 1st. Burrows
and Beach & Turner 4th. Burr. This leads me to doubt doubt
whether all the Branch of Barbery would be considered to
fall within it because some of them are of a more modern
date and upon this point much would depend upon the
Evidence of Usage The general Trade of a Barber is without
doubt within the Meaning of the Statute