Chapter VIII: Preface (8)

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 1{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{t}out 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.

VII. No Liveryman was to presume to come into the parlour, whilst the Court was sitting, without being sent for.

VIII. Freemen were not to put away apprentices to make room for others by whom they might get money.

IX. Two Stewards for the Anatomy were to be chosen every year.

X. The Clerk having claimed to provide the napery and vessells, and to appoint the Cook for the Anatomy dinners, alleging an old custom to that effect, it was ordered that he should not again do so as he had aforetime for a “lytle lucer of moneye,” but that the Stewards of the Anatomy should make their own provision and “dresse there meate clenly and honestlye because of worshipfull men comyng thereunto,” and if the Clerk again offended he was to “paye to the hall for a fyne his half yeres wages w{ch} is x{s.}”