Commune Concilium tentum die veneris primo die Iunij, Anno Regni Regis Henrici octaui, &c. decimo octauo, in praesentia Iohannis Allen Maioris, Gulielmi Butler militis, Iohannis Milborn militis, Iohannes Mundy militis, Thomae Baldry militis, Gulielmi Bayly militis, Thomae Semer militis, Iacobi Spencer militis, Iohannis Rudstone, Radulphi Dodmer, Iohannis Browne, Nicholai Lambert, Stephani Peacock, Iohannis Harding, Nicholai Iennings, Henrici Dacres, Iohannis Canulen, & Christopheri Askew. Vic.
AT this Common Councell, it is agreed, granted, ordained, and enacted, That if hereafter any Free-man or Free-woman of this Citie, take any Apprentice, and within the terme of seuen yeeres, suffer the same Apprentice to go at his large libertie & pleasure: and within or after the saide terme, agree with his saide Apprentice for a certaine summe of money, or otherwise for his said seruice, and within or after the end of the said terme, the saide Free-man present the saide Apprentice to the Chamberlaine of the saide Citie, and by good deliberation, and vpon his Oath made to the said City, the same Free-man or Free-woman assureth and affirmeth to the said Chamberlaine, that the said Apprentice hath fully serued his saide terme (as Apprentice:) or if any Free-man or Free-woman of this Citie, take any Apprentice, which at the time of the saide taking hath any wife, or if any Free-man or Free-woman of this City, giue any wages to his or her Apprentice, or suffer the same Apprentices to take any part of their owne getting or games. Or if any Free-man or Free-woman of this Citie heereafter colour any Forraines Goods, or from henceforth buy or sell for any person or persons, or with or to any person or persons, being Forraine or Forrainers, Clothes, Silkes, Wines, Oyles, or any other Goods or Merchandize (whatsoeuer they be) w [...]ether hee take any thing or things for his Wages or Labour, or not. Or if any persons or persons being free of this City, by any colour, crafty, or deceitfull meane or meanes from henceforth, do buy, sell, or receiue of any Apprentice within the same Citie, any Money, Goodes, Merchandize, or Wares, without the assent or License of his Master or Maistresse. And vpon examination duely prooued before the Chamberlaine of the sayde City for the time being. And the same reported by the mouth of the saide Chamberlaine, at a Court to be holden by the Maior and the Aldermen of the same City in their Councell Chamber: That aswell the saide Master as the saide Apprentice shall for euermore be disfranchised.
❧ God saue the King. ❧