YE shall sweare that ye shall be good and true to our Soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, &c. and to the heyres of our sayd soueraigne Lady the Queene. Obeisant and obedient ye shall be to the Maior and Ministers of this Citie. The Fraunchises & customes therof ye shall main­taine, and this Citie keepe harmeles in that that in you is. Ye shall be contributorie to all manner of charges within this Citie, as summons, Watches, contributi­ons, taskes, tallages, lot, and scot, and all other charges, bearyng your part as a free man ought to doe. Ye shall colour no foreines goodes, whereby the Queene might loose her customes or aduaūtages. Ye shal know no fo­reine to buy or sell any marchaundise with any other fo­reine within y^e Citie or the Fraūchise therof, but ye shall warne the Chamberlaine therof, or some minister of the Chāber. Ye shall impleade or sue no free man out of this Citie, whiles ye may haue right & law within the same Citie. Ye shall take none Apprentice, but if he be Free borne (that is to say) no bond mans sonne, nor the child of any alyen, and for no lesse terme then for seuen yeares, within the first yeare ye shall cause him to be enroled, & at his termes end ye shall make him free of this Citie (if he haue well & truely serued you.) Ye shall also keepe the Queenes peace in your owne persons, ye shall know no gatheryngs, conuenticles nor cōspiracies made agaynst the Queenes peace, but ye shall warne the Maior ther­of, or let it to your power. All these pointes and Articles ye shall well and truely keepe accordyng to the lawes & custome of this Citie to your power. So God you helpe, and by the holy contentes of this Booke.