FIRST it is Ordained, That it shall and may be law­ful To search and try Earth, to the Master and Wardens of the Fellowship of Tylers and Brick-layers of London, or to two of them, or to two other honest men of the said Art, by the same Master and Wardens to be appointed twice every year, or oftener if they shall think it good, to enter into all and every place and places where any earth or clay shall be digged, within fifteen Miles compass of the same City of London, to make any Tyle or Brick of, or where any Sand, Chalk, or other stone shall be digged or broken, to be occupied with or about the laying of Brick or Tyle, or for the making of Lyme; And to view, search, and under­stand by their knowledge and discretions, whether the said earth or clay be good and lawful stuff, and well seasoned and tempered to make brick & tyle of, or no; and whether the Stone, Chalk, and Sand be meet and convenient to be Stone & Chalk occupied in the same Art, for the making of Lyme, or to be tempered with Lyme, And whether every Brick meant Brick, and intended to be uttered or put to sale, be of the length of nine inches, and in breadth four inches and one quar­ter, and two inches and one quarter in thickness, as they ought to be; And whether every plain Tyle do con­tain Plain Tyle, in length ten inches and a half, and in breadth six in­ches and a quarter of an inch, and in thickness half an inch and a quarter, as it ought to be; And whether every Pa­ving-tyle Paving-tyle, be of good, sufficient, lawful, and merchantable stuff; And whether every rough Tyle do contain in Rough Tyle, length thirteen inches, and in thickness one inch, with convenient depth accordingly, as they ought to do; And whether every Corner-tyle and Cover tyle doth contain Corner-tyle, Cover-tyle. [Page 2] in length ten inches and a half, with convenient thickness and depth accordingly, as they ought to do. And if the said Master and Wardens, or two of them, do finde any such default with any the Stuff aforesaid, meant to be put to sale, as is aforesaid; Or that any manner of person or persons shall bring, or cause to be brought any kinde of Tyle, Brick, or Lyme made of insufficient stuff, or not of the said assises; or any Sand not being lawful, meet, con­venient, or not sufficient, to be sold, and not occupied in Sand. the same Art, within the City of London, the Suburbs thereof, or within fifteen miles compass of the same City, Then it shall be to the said Master and Wardens then for Penalty to the offenders. the time being, and to their Successors, or to two of them, to break in pieces the said Brick and Tyle so insuf­ficiently The ill Tyles and Brick to break in pie­ces, and also to fine and amerce every owner and maker within one moneth, in their Court. or ill made, as is aforesaid, or wanting the thick­ness, breadth, or length aforesaid; and further to fine and amerce every of the owners and makers of the said Brick, Tyle, Lyme, or Sand, in the Court of the said Master and Wardens within one moneth after, to be kept according to the discretions of the said Master and Wardens.

Item, That the said Master and Wardens, or two of them, shall and may search and try every Cart that shall Search for Carts. come to the City of London, or the Liberties or Suburbs of the same, or fifteen miles compass, with Tyle or Sand to be sold, whether the Tyle cart do contain one thou­sand tyle to be carried therein at the least; And whether the said Sand-cart do contain fully the quantity of eigh­teen bushels at the least, and shall seal the same, or cause to be sealed the same Cart with the Seal or Mark of the Ci­ty Power to fine and amerce the owners or sel­lers in their Court, accord­ing to the quantity of the offence. of London; And if they finde any such default, then it shall be lawful to the said Master and Wardens, and their Successors for the time being, to fine and amerce the owners or sellers of the said Tyle or Sand, in the Court of [Page 3] the said Master and Wardens within one month after such default to be found, according to the quantity of their said offence or offences, as by the said Master and War­dens shall be thought meet and convenient; And the same Fine and Amerciament to be levyed and imployed to the use of the Master, Wardens, and Fellowship of the Company aforesaid.

Item, That it shall be lawful to the Master and War­dens Search for Lyme sacks & Lyme. of the said Fellowship, or two of them for the time being, as often, and when they shall think good, to search and try all and every sack or other thing, wherein any Lyme is, or shall be brought to the City of London to be sold, whether the same Lyme be well and sufficiently bur­ned; And whether every such sack being knit, do con­tain of Lyme after it is burnt, half a bushel by full mea­sure, and if they finde any such default, then to fine and Power to fine and amerce. amerce the owners or sellers of the said Lyme in the Court aforesaid, as is aforesaid, and the same Fine and Amercia­ment to be levyed and imployed by the said Master and Wardens, to the use of the said Master, VVardens, and Fellowship of the Company aforesaid.

Also, That no manner person or persons occupying Working with ill Brick or Tyle. or exercising the Art of Tylers or Brick-layers within the City of London, the Suburbs thereof, or fifteen miles com­pass of the same, shall from and after the Feast of St. Mi­chael the Archangel next coming, lay or cause to be laid upon any House, Pent-house, or other Room covered with tyle, or any Brick-wall, within the same City, or the Sub­urbs thereof, or within fifteen miles distant from the same City, any Crasyer, or Samuel Tyle or Brick, or any other Tyle or Brick, then such Tyle or Brick as shall be suffici­ently and workmanly made, and wrought of good and lawful stuff, well annelled and burned, and of the assizes [Page 4] before expressed, upon pain of forfeiture for every time Forfeiture of the Brick and Tyle by seizure so doing, the said brick and tyle to the said Master and VVardens, and their Successors, which they shall take and seize to their best use and commodity.

And, That no manner of person or persons using the For Lathing. said Art or Mystery, shall lathe asunder above the scant­ling of seven inches, laying one filling Lath in the middest any manner of House, Pent-house or other Shed, within the same City, or fifteen miles compass of the same, with any other Lath then good, sufficient, and lawful heart lath, upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence, twenty shil­lings, the same to be levyed and imployed to the use of 20 s. the For­feiture. the said Master, VVardens and Fellowship, as is afore­said.

And, That the said Master and VVardens of the said To search for workmanship. Art or Mystery of Tylers and Bricklayers, or two of them for the time being, shall have full power and authority to search and oversee, whether that all manner of Reparati­ons and works of tyling and brick-laying within the said City, and the suburbs thereof, and within fifteen miles di­stant from the same City, be well, sufficiently, and work­manly made and laid, and all such Reparations and works of tyling and brick-laying, as they finde not well, or in­sufficient, or not workmanly made, within the same City and the suburbs of the same, or within fifteen miles distant from the same, by any occupying the same Art or Myste­ry, to cause and compel every such person and persons as took upon him or them the making thereof, the same re­parations and works sufficiently & substantially to amend; And over that, to cause the same person for his misdoing, to pay six shillings and eight pence, to be levyed and im­ployed Forfeiture 6 2. 8 d. in form aforesaid, to the uses aforesaid.

Also, That it shall be lawful to the said Master and Search for workmanship by forreins. VVardens of the said Art, or two of them for the time being, at all times from henceforth, at their wills and plea­sures, to search, try, and view whether that all manner of reparations and works of tyling and brick-laying done by forrein of the said Art or Mystery, in any place or places within fifteen miles distant of the same City, be sufficient­ly and workmanly made, and all such reparations and works of tyling and brick-laying, as they finde insufficient and not workmanly made and wrought, within the same space of fifteen miles, then to present every such default and person so offending, unto the Justices of the Queens The Fine to be taxed by the Justices of the Kings Bench. Bench, at the next Term after that such Fines may be tax­ed and set upon such offender, as may be for the profit of the builder, and commodity of the Commonwealth; the one half of all such Fines shall be to the onely use and be­hoof of the Queens Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, and the other half to be imployed to the Master, VVar­dens, and Fellowship of the Company aforesaid.

Also, That every person being free of the said Art or Obedience, and not coming to the Hall. Mystery of Tylers and Brick-layers, shall be obedient to the Master and VVardens of the said Art and Mystery, for the time being, and shall come to every Assembly of the said Master, VVardens and Fellowship of the same Craft, when they shall be warned by the Beadle of the same Fel­lowship, either for the Election of any Master or VVar­dens of the same Art or Mystery, or for the worship of the City of London, to attend and wait upon the Mayor and Sheriffs of the City for the time being, at their going to Westminster, or at any other time, or when they shall be called for any other cause or matter, as the Freemen of all other Companies in London do (except they have a good, reasonable, and sufficient excuse) upon pain of for­feiture [Page 6] for every time making default 12 pence, the same to be imployed to the use of the Masters, VVardens, and Fellowship of the art or mystery of Tylers and Bricklayers, as is aforesaid.

Also, That every person of the said craft of Tylers and Presenting and binding Ap­prentices. Bricklayers, being free of the same craft, and also all for­reins, occupying the same craft, and inhabiting within 15 myles of the same city of London, that shall hereafter take any apprentice or servant, shall present and shew the same apprentice or servant, with his indenture of appren­tice-hood, or covenant Indenture, which herafter shall be made by the Clerk of the said Company, unto the War­dens of the said craft for the time being, within a quarter of a year, next after the date of the same Indenture, or co­venant Indenture, to the intent that they may under­stand under what form the same apprentice or servant is 10 s. Fine for this. bound.

And, That no manner of person or persons, being free Prentice for seven years, and no less. of the said Art or Mystery, take any apprentice for any less terme then for seaven years, according to the custome of London, upon payne to pay forty shillings as often times as he doth the contrary in any of the same points, in this article specified, to be levyed and imployed in maner and form aforesaid.

Also, That no person of the said craft from henceforth For undecent words. revile or rebuke the Master or Wardens of the said Craft for the time being, or any of them, or rayl or slander any of them, or any other person of the same craft, or any Of­ficer or Clerk belonging to the same craft, with unfit­ting or undecent words or language, in open audience of people, or in any other place or places secretly, upon pain to pay six shillings eight pence, as often as he so doth, to Six shillings eight pence. be levyed and imployed to the use of the said Master, [Page 7] VVardens, and Fellowship, in manner and form afore rehearsed.

Item, It is Ordained, That from henceforth no per­son Admitting of Apprentices to able men. of the said Craft take any Apprentice to him to be bound by Indenture, afore the VVardens and Assistants of the said Fellowship for the time being, have first known, approved and admitted the said Master or person so to have or take such an Apprentice, to be able as well in cunning, sufficient to, and for the instruction of his said Apprentice in the said Faculty, as in substance and otherwise for the keeping and sustaining of the said Ap­prentice in all things necessary and convenient to the same, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings for every Apprentice taken contrary to this said Ordinance, to be imployed to the use of the same Master, VVardens and Fellowship, as is aforesaid.

Also it is Ordained, That no person of the said Craft, No person to keep but one Apprentice, ex­cept he have been younger Warden. being a Freeman of the said City, and one of the Clo­thing or Livery, except he hath been first younger War­den, shall from henceforth have, take, and keep in his service at once, any more Apprentices then one, to the intent that the same Apprentice may be the better ap­plied, learned and occupied in his said Faculty. And if any person of the said craft being of the Clothing, and hath not been younger Warden, do contrary to this Ordinance, he shall forfeit for every time so doing, Forty shillings, to be imployed as is aforesaid.

Also it is Ordained, That if any person of the said Supplanting. craft from henceforth, by any sinister labour, mean, or procurement shall, or do supplant, undermine, or put out any other person of the said craft from any work by any such person first taken in hand (except that the [Page 8] first workman be fully paid off, and for his wages, and also discharged of the same work by the Master and Ruler of the same that shall set him on work, or by his or their deputy) that then the person so doing shall forfeit for every time so doing, forty shillings, to be ap­plyed as is last aforesaid.

It is Ordained and Established, That none of the said None to take any but as Apprentice. Craft being a Freeman, from this day forward, shall take no servant by covenant for two or three years, more or less, and set them to their crafts; but shall onely take them as their Apprentice for seven years or more, after the custom of the City of London, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings, to be levyed and imployed to the use as is aforesaid.

Also it is Ordained by these Presents, That no Free­man None to have any Appren­tice, except he hath been out of his years four years. of the said Company, being of the Yeomanry, and out of the Clothing, shall take or have to him any Ap­prentice or servant, before the said Freeman or Master have been first out of his years by the space of four full years, from the day of the making free of the said Free­man or Master, to be accompted, and then to take one and no more, at, by, and with the discretions of the Ma­ster, VVardens, and Assistants of the same Company, until he cometh to be of the Livery or Clothing; And that the said Freeman shall pay and bear scot and lot, and all other charges, as a Freeman of the City of London ought, and is bound to do, upon pain of Forty shil­lings, to be imployed to the use of the Commonalty of the said Company.

Also it is Ordained, That every Freeman taking any Enrolement of Apprentices. Apprentice, shall cause the same Apprentice to be In­rolled in the Chamber of London, according to the cu­stom [Page 9] of the same City within one year after the date thereof, upon pain of forfeiture of six shillings eight pence, to be imployed to the use of the Master, War­dens and Company of the Fellowship aforesaid.

Also, That it shall be lawful for the Master and A Beadle. VVardens aforesaid, to have a Beadle to be attendant upon them to warn the Company, to come to their Hall or other place, where any Assembly shall be for any matter touching the said Fellowship, or other­wise.

And, Also to have a Clerk to make their Inden­tures A Clark. of apprentice-hood, and Leases and Conveyan­ces of their Lands, and to be with them at every Court day, and to Register what is done, every of the said Court dayes.

And, That it shall be lawful to the said Ma­ster To distrain for the penalties. and VVardens, and their Successours, to distrain for any of the penalties before-expressed, in any of the houses of the said offenders, aswell free as forrein, and to detaine the distress so taken, until such time as the same offender shall have paid unto the said Master and VVardens, such pains and penalties as so shall be set upon him for this offence.

And if any matter of variance rise between any of To appease con­troversies. the said Fellowship, for any wrong or matter personal, then the Master and Wardens of the said Fellowship, upon complaint to any of them made, shall have full power and authority by these presents, to call both the said parties before them, and to hear and determine the same matter, if they can.

Also, That it shall be lawful for the Master and To keep Courts VVardens of the said Fellowship for the time being, [Page 10] to call to them the most part of such as have been VVardens of the said Company of Assistants, and to keep their Courts at such times, and as often as to them shall be thought good, and by the consent of the most part of them, to take order for such as are offen­ders, and by their discretions to make good and rea­sonable Laws and Constitutions for the correction and better rule and government of the Freemen of the said Fellowship.

It is also Ordained, That from henceforth the Reading the Ordinances. Wardens of the said Craft of Tylers and Bricklayers, shall yearly, that is to say, three or four times of the year, cause all the Ordinances made above for the good rule and government of the said Art, openly to be read in their Common-Hall, when they then and there shall assemble, to the intent that none of the said craft shall excuse him by any ignorance or lack of knowledge of the same.

It is Ordered, That none of this Company shall Task-work. take any maner of task-work in London, or the Sub­urbs thereof, of any Mason, Carpenter, Plaisterer, or other workman that taketh any work belonging to this Company, by task, but work with him by Day-work, without license of the Master, Wardens and As­sistants, or the more part of them, upon pain of forty shillings.

It is Ordered, That if any of this Company do sell Selling Ap­prentices. or do away, or make over his Apprentice to any, ei­ther free of this Company, or to any other, or to any forrein, without the consent of the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of this Company, or the more part of them, that then every person so setting over his Ap­prentice, [Page 11] and he of this Company that taketh such Apprentice without the same consent, shall forfeit and pay to this Company five pounds, and from thence­forth such persons so offending, shall from thenceforth be barred to take any Apprentice until the years of him so set over, be expired.

It is Ordered, That if any person or persons of this Arresting. Company, shall at any time hereafter sue, arrest, or imprison, by any ways or means, any other of the same Company, without the license or consent of the Ma­ster, Wardens and Assistants, or the more part of them, that every such person so offending, shall forfeit to the use of this Company, six shillings eight pence.

Also it is Ordered, That none of this Company Apprentices for eight years. shall take any Apprentice for any less term then for eight years, and none to be bound under the same term, and during the same term to have no other, otherwise then the Ordinances doth allow.

ALso it is Ordered, That every one of this Com­pany, Chamflets. as well of the Livery as of the Yeoman­ry, that maketh any Chimney or Chimneys, shall cut and hew the Chamflets two inches and a half square, and also well, workmanly, and cleanly joynt and finish all such work as they shall take in hand, upon pain of mending the same work, and to pay for a Fine six shillings eight pence.

IT is Ordered and Agreed this present day, by the Master, Wardens and Assistants of this Company, That if any of this Company being warned to the Burial of any person or persons of this Company, or if his or their wife, do miss, and come not to such place, and hour, as he shall be warned to attend at every such Burial, Every person so missing, to pay Twelve pence, except he or they have a lawful ex­cuse.

IT is also Ordained, That none of the said Compa­ny shall work with any Carpenter, Mason, Plaiste­rer, or other workman not of this Company, that ta­keth any thing by Task, belonging to this Science, nor work, or do any of the said work so taken by any of them, without the license of the said Master and Wardens, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings for every time so doing.

It is also Ordered, That none of the said Company shall sell, or otherwise do away his Apprentice to any, but onely to one of this Company, and that with the license of the Master and Wardens, upon pain of for­feiture of forty shillings for every time so doing.