Sir
You are requested to give your Opinion whether or not the
following Phrases are expressive of the different Branches of the Mystery
Trade or Science of Barberry vizt.

Barber, Tonsure Hair Poller, Hair Cutter, Hair Dresser, Peruke
Maker, Tate Maker, Teeth Drawer.

Also your opinion on the following Question Are all who
have servedthea regular Apprenticeship to the said Profession [..] their
alian, Foreigners as well as Freemen of the Barbers Company exempt
from serving Ward or Parish Offices bearing of Arms Serving on
Inquests and Juries as expressed in an Act of the 19th. Year of the Reign
of Geo: 2d. by which the Barbers and Surgeons of London was made
two seperate and distinct Corporations

Whether persons are liable to Fines or Imprisonments who
take up the Mystery or Profession of Barbery in any of it's Branches
without having served an Apprenticeship to the said Trade according
to the Act made for that purpose in the 5th. year of the Reign of Eliz.
Page 957 Sec. 5.

Sir,
The Parcel contains a Latin Copy from the Letters Patent of
Edward the 4th. given to the Barbers Company of London with an
English Translation also Extracts from other Charters Letters Patent &
Acts of Parliament now in Possession of the Barbers Company with an
Act of Henry the 8th. uniting the Barber Surgeon and Surgeons as one
Company also an Act of 15th. year of the Reign of George the 2d. disunitg.
the same these Sir I refer to your Consideration or to other Acts relating
thereunto which you may have in your Possession I am

Little Charlotte Street
Janry. 22d. 1785

Sir
with due respect
Your hble Servant
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