14th October, 1613. Att this Court it is ordered that such widdowes as have been masters wyves and doe keepe shoppes or bynd appnˀtices shall paye their quarteradge but for such as doe neither keepe shoppes nor bynd appnˀticꝭ they shall not paye any quarteradge And yet notwthstandinge they shalbe bydden to the feastꝭ yerelie.
24th May, 1614. Whereas this Company hath receaved a preceptt from the lord Mayor of this citty forbidding thereby all superfluitie & excesse of Dyet at the ffeastꝭ of this company and thereby injoyning that such feastꝭ as accustomably have been made & provided by this Company shalbe hereafter keept more sparingly & frugally then in former tymes they have, Wherefore it is ordered that there shalbe keept & made on the ellection daie this yere ensuing a smale ellection dynner according to the tenor of the said precept.
25th August, 1614. The above precept soon being forgotten it was this day ordered—
that there shalbe kept an Auditt dynner in such manner & forme as formerlie in other yeares have byn accustomed. And such allowance as formerlie hath byn allowde is to be paid by the howse.
10th July, 1615. At this Court it is ordered that the Cooke shalbe removed & displaced from his place of beinge Cooke of this Companie not onely for that he hath abused and wronged manie who have byn Mrs & Stewardꝭ of the feastꝭ in unsemelie wordꝭ but for a generall dislike taken against him by this howse & for not pˀforminge his office in such sorte as is right he shold & ought to doe.
1624. The funds being very low this year the Court held no election dinner, but regaled themselves with cakes and wine, and the following order was made for the Yeomanry:—
2nd September, 1624. This Court being moved whether the yeomanry of yis Compa. should hould any election dinner or noe. It is for the reason then shewne expressely ordered with a generall consent that the yeomanry shall onely keepe their Election as this Court lately did onely with Cakes and wyne and neither feast musick or sermon to be had at that time.
20th July, 1625. This daye the letter directed to this Companye from my lord Maior of London in effect tending the prohibiting of publicke feastingꝭ in our Hall and the contributeing of those moneys that should be saved thereby the one halfe to be paid unto the chamber of London and the other halfe to the poore of our Companie, so hereupon it is ordered by this Courte yt Ten poundꝭ shalbe distributed to the poore of this Companie at the discretion of the present Mrs & noe money at all to be paid into the Chamber of London.
10th July, 1628. This daye our Mr propounding to this Court whether there should be a greate Election dinner or a small dinner or onely Cakes and wine upon the next Election daye for choise of new Mrs, whereupon by most voyces it was ordered that there should be a greate Election dinner held this yeare and the allowance of xxli towardꝭ that charge to be defrayed.
28th January, 1631. This Court being informed of Swinnertons abusive and naughtie pewter from tyme to tyme brought to serve this Hall at feastꝭ doe dismisse him from serving that place any longer.