performance hereof, shall for every such default forfeite and paie to the use of this Company treble the value of every booke that he shall leave undelivered contrarie to this ordenance; Out of the which forfeiture, upon the levyinge and payment thereof, there shalbe provided for the use of the said Librarye that booke for the not delivery whereof the said forfeiture shalbe had and paid. And to the intent all printers and others of this Company whome it shall concerne maie take notice of this ordenance, and that any of them shall not pretend ignorance thereof, It is ordeyned that once in every yere at some generall assemblie and meetinge of the said Company upon some of their usuall quarter daies, or some other tyme in the yere at their discretion, this presente ordinance shalbe publiquely read in their Hall, as other their ordenances are accustomed to be read there 'John Haryson 'John Norton, Mr. 'Richard Field } Wardens 'Humphrey Lownes } 'Edward White 'Humfry Hooper 'Simon Waterson 'William Leake 'Robert Barker 'Thomas Mane 'Thomas Dawson 'John Standishe 'Thomas Adames 'John Haryson[58] 'Ri. Collins, Clerk of the Companie. 'Havinge lately byn entreated, as well by the said Sir Thomas Bodley, Knight, as by the Maister, Wardens, and Assistants of the foresaid Company of Stacõners, to take some spetiall notice of this their publique acte and graunte, and (in regard of our beinge of his Maiestyes highe Comission in ecclesiasticall causes) to testifie under our handes with what allowance and good likinge we have thought it meete to be received, Wee doe not onlie as of merrit comend it to posteritie for a singuler token of the fervent zeale of that Company to the furtherance of good learninge and for an exemplarie guift and graunt to the Schollers and Studients of the Universitye of Oxford, But withall we doe promise by subscribinge unto it, that if at any tyme hereafter occasion shall require that we should help to maynteyne the due and perpetuall execucõn of the same, Wee will be readie to performe it, as farre as either of our selves thoroughe our present authoritie or by any whatsoeuer our further endeavours it maie be fitlye procured. 'G. Cant. 'Jo. London 'Jo. Benet 'Tho. Ridley 'Tho. Edwardes 'G. Newmane 'John Spenser 'Richard Moket 'R. Cov. & Lich. 'Jhon Boys 'Char. Fotherbye 'Martin Fotherby 'John Layfeilds 'Jo. Roffens 'George Montaigne (_sic_) 'Rob^t. Abbott 'Henr. Hickman 'John Dix 'Willm. FFerrand.' [57] For the use of this document the author is indebted to the Keeper of the Archives, Rev. J. Griffiths, M.A. [58] Probably the son of the John Haryson who signs above. A.D. 1613.