The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London - Unknown

20th March, 1604. This daye it is ordered that on thursdaye next the M^rs of this Company shall attend the Lord Maior to knowe his pleasure concerninge their places of standinges.

The Masters on this occasion procured an order of the Court of Aldermen ranking the Company as sixteenth in order of precedence, and this is set forth in the Minute Book as follows:—

17th April, 1604. A Copie of an order of Courte set downe the daye and yere hereaft^r expressed concerninge the place of this Company in all assemblies of the Companyes of this Cytie.

Martis decimo septimo die Aprilis 1604 Annoqʒ regni Dñi nr̃i Jacobi Regis Anglie &c. sc̃do.

Bennet
Maior

Soane Garrard Lee Hollydaye Wattes Rowe Craven Anderson Swynerton Hayes ac Romney uñ vĩc &c.

Where it appeareth to this Court aswell by the humble supplicac͠on of the Maisters or Govˀnors of the Mistery & Coiãltye of Barbors and Chirurgeons of this Cytie as by an ord^r taken by the same Courte the fowerth daye of ffebruary in the tyme of the Maioraltie of S^r Stephen Peacock knighte and in the fower and twenteth yere of the reigne of the Late Kinge of famous memory Kinge Henry the eight That the M^rs or Governors of the said mistery & Coiãlty of Barbors & Chirurgeons & their pˀdecessors in the order of their goinges standinges rydinges sittinges & oth^r assemblies of the livˀyes of the sevˀall Companyes of this ho: Cytie have bene alwayes tyme oute of mynde reputed taken & placed as the seaventeneth Company amongest oth^rs the sevˀall Companyes of this Cytie next & imediatly from & aft^r the Company of Mercers Grocers Drapˀs ffishemongers Goldsmythes Skinners Marchaunttaylors Haberdashers Salters Iremongers Vinteners Stockfishmongers Clothworkers Brewers Lethersellers and Pewterers And forasmuch as it doth likewise appeare to this Co^rte that sythens the makeinge and establisheinge of the said order the said M^rs or Governo^rs of the said Mistery and Coiãltie of Barbors and Surgeons have enjoyed the Benifit of the said order and borne all chardges taxes and contribuc͠ons whatsoevˀ imposed on them from tyme to tyme w^th credytt to the good likinge of the Magistrats and Governors of this Cyttie as well as other Companies of like sorte and State have done And yett notw^thstanding of late at the Royall passages of the Kinge and Queenes most exelent Ma^ties and the prince of wales attended by the Nobilitie and gentry of the land through this Cyttie on the fifteenth daie of March last when through ignorance theie were misplaced by the Comittie appoynted by this Cyttie for the mannaginge of those affaires. It is therefore this daie upon due considerac͠on had of the pˀmisses, and for that the said Company of Stockfyshmongers have bene since the tyme of the said order wholelie dissolved and abrogated and noe Company or Corporac͠on remayninge w^thin this Cyttie of that name, ordered and decreed that the said M^rs or Governors of the said Misterie and Coiãltie of Barbors and Surgeons shalbe from henceforth reputed taken and placed as the syxeteenth Companie w^thin this Cyttie in all theire goeings rydinges sytteinges standeinges and assemblies whatsoever, any misplaceinge of them on the said fifteeẽth daie of March last to the contrary notw^thstandinge.

Sebright.