The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London

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IV. This relates to the Clerk (see [Clerk]).

V. That a Minute book be kept to record all the orders made at any Court, and that such orders be read at the next Court and signed.

VI. That no freeman shall serve a foreigner under a penalty of 13s. 4d. for every time so offending, and any foreigner taking a freeman to serve with him should be fined 26s. 8d.

19th November, 1555. John Demynge, “Cowper[142] & ffre denysen,” was granted a lease of a house belonging to the Company at St. Katherine’s, Tower Hill, at £2 per annum for thirty years, with a fine of £4 on sealing the lease and a “barrell of doble beare.”

26th November, 1555. Thomas Glynton, Goldsmith, was to have a lease of the house in Tower Street, where he then dwelt, for 30 years from Christmas, 1555, no rent stated, but a fine of £10 to be paid on sealing the lease.

5th March, 1556. Several further Ordinances and awards were made by the Court, among which were the following:—

I. That the Masters and Governors should not let the Hall to anyone to—

daunce or use anye other kynde of games els whereby the sealinge or other things being broken in the hall or kitchen shall redowne to the losse of the Company Yf therefore the sayed M^r and governors for the tyme being doo let out the hall to any bodye to thentent aforesayde w^tout the consent of the hole howse to be called for the same they should forfeit and pay etc.

IV. The ffourthe Artycle is that if any of the Lyverye or of the yomanrye come to sesse any man being a jornye man to serve him as the order is that he taketh I^d for a yere or ij^d for ij yere That his M^r shall not put him awaye at his pleasure as many now a dayes do, but he shall complayne to the M^r and Governors for the tyme of the demeaner usuage and evell behaveor of the sayed Journyman for noen kepinge of his M^rs howse all the weke daye by reason wherof he dothe lose his customˀs or that he goeth out at his pleasure and come in at his will againe w^tout asking of any leave of his M^r or mysteris w^ch pertayneth not to a servaunte for to doo for theyse consyderac͠ons and other the m^r maye complayne. The Jornyman lykewise may complayne of his M^r yf that he doo not paye him his wages and to have his meate and dryncke as Jornymen shoulde have according to the agremẽt of bothe the partyes as the M^r and the Jornyman shalbe at a pointe when he cometh to sesse any Jornymen because that if the Jornyman doo not his dewtye that he may be punysshed and put in prison to thentent that Jornymen may be kept in good order otherwise then they be nowe. And that the M^r and govˀnors for the tyme being shall declare to the Jornyman what is his dewty to his M^r when he dothe come to be seste to thentent that he shall knowe his dewtye to his M^r and if he doo not the same then he knoweth the pryce. And agayne to declare to the Jornyman what his M^r shall doo to him, as to paye his wages mete and dryncke and other things that a Jornyman oughte to have. Yf any of the Clothinge or of the yomanrye put awaye his Jornyman before his yere or yeres come out and not declaring the matter to the M^r and governors [he] shall forfaycte at every tyme so doinge for a ffyne to the hall vj^s viiij^d. And that all ffremen being Journymen may be preferred and taken, being a workman before any fforyner duynge his dewty to his M^r as is aforesayed because we are bounde to preferre the ffremen w^ch beare scot and lot to the Cytye and company w^ch the Jornymen doo not being forryners but come out of the contrye to learne there scyence here and so after warde goo away agayne w^ch is not to the welth of the Companye.