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Also, that no one of the said trade shall induce the servant of another
to work with him in the same trade, until he has made a proper fine with
his first master, at the discretion of the said overseers, or of four
reputable men of the said trade. And if any one shall do to the contrary
thereof, or receive the serving workman of another to work with him
during his term, without leave of the trade, he is to incur the said
penalty.
Also, that no one shall take for working in the said trade more than
they were wont heretofore, on the pain aforesaid, that is to say, for
the _dyker_[187] of _Scottes stagges_, half a mark; the _dyker of
Yrysshe_, half a mark; the _dyker of Spanysshe stagges_ 10s.; for the
hundred of _gotesfelles_, 20s.; the hundred of _rolether_, 16s.; for the
hundred skins of _hyndescalves_, 8s.; and for the hundred of
_kiddefelles_, 8s.[188]
[Footnote 187: A package of ten.]
[Footnote 188: Printed in Riley, Memorials, 232.]
16. DISPUTE BETWEEN THE MASTER SADDLERS OF LONDON AND THEIR JOURNEYMEN
[_Guildhall, Letter-Book II, f. 309_], 1396.
Whereas there had arisen no small dissension and strife between the
masters of the trade of Saddlers of London, and the serving-men, called
_yomen_, in that trade; because that the serving-men aforesaid against
the consent, and without leave of their masters, were wont to array
themselves all in a new and like suit once in the year, and often times
held divers meetings, at Stratford and elsewhere without the liberty of
the said city, as well as in divers places within the city; whereby many
inconveniences and perils ensued to the trade aforesaid; and also, very
many losses might happen thereto in future times, unless some quick and
speedy remedy should by the rulers of the said city be found for the
same; therefore the masters of the said trade on the 10th day of the
month of July, in the 20th year, etc., made grievous complaint thereon
to the excellent men, William More, Mayor, and the Aldermen of the City
aforesaid, urgently entreating that, for the reasons before mentioned,
they would deign to send for Gilbert Dustone, William Gylowe, John Clay,
John Hiltone, William Berigge, and Nicholas Mason, the then governors of
the serving-men aforesaid; to appear before them on the 12th day of July
then next ensuing.
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