[139] Merewether and Stephens, 1408.
[140] Cromwell’s Charter to Swansea. Gross, II. 234.
[141] Cf. the ordinance which appears in the Tailors’ records, A.D. 1711, April 11. “No combrother shall at any one time have more than two apprentices, one having served 3½ years before the other apprentice be bound, and no apprentice above 17 years taken, and he must be unmarried.”
[142] It was also directed against the paying of the Shearmen in kind.
[143] Cf. also 18 Eliz. cap. 15 (Goldsmiths): 8 Eliz. cap. 11 (Haberdashers).
[144] In 1570-1 when Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales, passed through Shrewsbury.
[145] Shrewsbury Corporation Records.
[146] State Papers, Domestic, 1566? (p. 285).
[147] State Papers, Domestic, 1619, Oct. ?
[148] Ibid., 1620, Jan. ?