Humbly sheweth— That notwᵗʰstanding yoʳ petʳˢ great care and good endeavʳ by making searches and orders, according to their oath and charter, whereby to suppress disorders and abuses in deceitfull working and making of ironwork, yet by the evill example and refractorie of some ill-affected persons of their society, whose names are here under menconed, their authority and orders are slighted and disgraced, and many who have been heretofore obedient and conformable doe now by their meanes continue refractory and disorderly, and yoʳ petʳˢ and their charters are so notoriously scandalised and abused that of themselves they cannot reforme the same, nor have they any hope of redresse therefore but by yoʳ honoʳˢ favor. They therefore most humbly beseeche yoʳ honoʳˢ to take their great wrong and just grievance into yoʳ hoᵇˡᵉ considerations. And to be pleased to send for the said disorderly and obstinate persons hereunder named before you. And to take such order wᵗʰ them for their conformity and obedience to the ordinances made and to be made for the good governmᵗ of the said society and prevencon. of deceits & abuses as to yʳ grave and hoᵇˡᵉ wisdome shall seem meete. And they shall ever praye for yoʳ honoʳˢ. The names of the six disorderly Blacksmiths appear to have been:—George Johnson, William Bickford, Hanns Garrett, Leonard Berars, William Browne, and Henry Baily. Whether their nonconformity and other troubles led the Company to obtain a new charter we know not, but it is quite clear they did obtain one of Charles I., in his fourteenth year, and dated February 16, 1638-39. By this new grant all persons carrying on the business or trade of a blacksmith or spurrier within the City of London or suburbs four miles round were incorporated as “the Keepers or Wardens and Society of the Art or Mystery of Blacksmiths, London,” to have four keepers or wardens and twenty-one assistants, and to make by-laws and ordinances, to examine all spurs, ironwork made, &c., within the City and four miles round, and to hold lands to the extent of 30_l._ above the former charter allowance of 30_l._ In accordance with this grant and power the Company framed new orders (confirmed by the Judges), dated in December, 1640, and one of these allowed the Company to “call, nominate, choose, and admit into the yeomanry of the said Society such and so many persons being freemen of the said Society as they should think meet, honest, and of ability to be called and admitted into the said yeomanry.”