_First_, that no person using the trade of weaving woollen cloth be suffered to keep more looms than that the statute made ao v{to} Elizabethae alloweth. 2. _Item_, that all such persons as are now permitted to be master weaver, and themselves have not served their full term of apprenticeship, whether he be above or under the age of xxxtie years and married or unmarried, shall not make or take any apprentice to serve him as apprentice hereafter, neither shall any serve him as an apprentice. 3. _Item_, that every such person permitted to be a master weaver which hath not served his full years of apprenticeship shall not keep above one loom going; and no apprentice to work with him but a journeyman or journeymen. 4. _Item_, none hereafter to be made apprentice to the art of weaving broad cloth but according to the form of the statute _ut supra_. 5. _Item_, that all such as are now allowed to be apprentices, their names to be registered, and none hereafter to be made apprentices but such persons as are appointed overseers of the said occupation to be first made acquainted thereof, to the end no abuse may be suffered, nor unlawful shift used to defraud the true meaning of the said statute. 6. _Item_, that no weaver shall sell his apprentice and take another before the first have served seven years. 7. _Item_, that none shall work as a journeyman except he bring certificate that he hath served full seven years, or his master to testify the same. 8. _Item_, that no clothman shall keep above one loom in his house, neither any weaver that hath a ploughland shall keep more than one loom in his house. 9. _Item_, that no weaver shall keep two apprentices in one loom working except one of them be in his last year. 10. _Item_, that no apprentice shall come forth of his covenant of apprenticeship before he be four and twenty years of age, to avoid young marriages and the increase of poor people. 11. _Item_, that no person or persons shall keep any loom or looms going in any other house or houses beside their own, or maintain any to do the same. 12. _Item_, that all those that have entered into the trade of broad weaving contrary to the statute within these two years may be expelled and put from the same trade, and all those that are journeyman (_sic_) and have not served their time, if they be not married, may return and serve their seven years out, or else to be put from their occupation. 13. _Item_, that all those that are entered in contrary to the statute, having other things to live upon, may be expelled, and put from the trade. 14. _Item_, that all weavers dwelling in any town corporate, borough, or market town, may call into their fellowship all weavers dwelling within three miles compass of any of the said towns, as well journeymen and [as?] masters, and that there may be so many overseers of these said companies as may be fit for the same. 15. _Item_, that every master weaver of these several companies