Many of the guilds bought sites on which they built a chapel, which was later used as a secular meeting place. The guild officers commonly included an alderman, stewards, a dean, and a clerk, who were elected. The guild officers sat as a guild court to determine discipline for offenses such as false weights or measures or false workmanship or work and decided trade disputes. The brethren in guild fraternity were classified as masters, journeymen, or apprentices. They were expected to contribute to the support of the sick and impoverished in their fellowship. Their code required social action such as ostracizing a man of the craft who was living in adultery until he mended his ways. The rules of the Company of Glovers were: 1. None but a freeman of the city shall make or sell gloves. 2. No glover may be admitted to the freedom of the city unless with the assent of the wardens of the trade. 3. No one shall entice away the servant of another. 4. If a servant in the trade makes away with his master's chattels to the value of 12d., the wardens shall make good the loss; and if the servant refuses to be judged by the wardens, he shall be taken before the mayor and aldermen. 5. No one may sell his goods by candlelight. 6. Any false work found shall be taken before the mayor and aldermen by the wardens. 7. All things touching the trade within the city between those who are not freemen shall be forfeited. 8. Journeymen shall be paid their present rate of wages. 9. Persons who entice away journeymen glovers to make gloves in their own houses shall be brought before the mayor and aldermen. 10. Any one of the trade who refuses to obey these regulations shall be brought before the mayor and aldermen. Cordwainers [workers in soft cordovan leather from Spain, especially shoes] of good repute petitioned the city of London in 1375 for ordinances on their trade as follows: "To the mayor and aldermen of the city of London pray the good folks of the trade of cordwainers of the same city, that it may please you to grant unto them the articles that follow, for the profit of the common people; that so, what is good and right may be done unto all manner of folks, for saving the honor of the city and lawfully governing the said trade. In the first place - that if any one of the trade shall sell to any person shoes of bazen [sheepskin tanned in oak or larch-bark] as being cordwain, or of calf-leather for ox-leather, in deceit of the common people, and to the scandal of the trade, he shall pay to the Chamber of the Guildhall, the first time that he shall be convicted thereof, forty pence; the second time, 7s. half a mark; and the third time the same, and further, at the discretion of the mayor and aldermen.