The Court sometimes acted in the capacity of private trustees of the estates of deceased members, and among the archives there remains a deed of acknowledgment signed by the Master and Wardens in 1637, wherein it is recited that Richard Mapes, a former Master of the Mystery, deceased, had left legacies to his four children, then being infants, and had appointed his wife Faith, executrix and trustee, with the proviso that in the event of her marrying again the Court of this Company were to be the trustees for the said children, and that the widow, having remarried, had paid over the children’s portions to the Masters or Governors. Attached is the seal of the Barber Surgeons, unfortunately not perfect, though a good specimen. 8th February, 1638. It is ordered that the Seaven liberall Sciences shalbe provided for the Theater by the M{r} and Wardens at the house charge soe it exceede not x{li.} x{s.} the carveing of them. 29th March, 1638. The whole of the Assistants and Livery were called together to know what they would give to the building fund, when the following sums were promised. M{r} Serj Clowes x{li.} Morrice Griffith v{li.} M{r} Rich Wateson x{li.} W{m} Bennett iij{li.} M{r} Michaell Andrews x{li.} Robert Terrill ij{li.} M{r} Hen Blackley x{li.} Edward Arris v{li.} M{r} Warden Burgen v{li.} Humfrey Painter iij{li.} M{r} Warden Cotton v{li.} Thomas Allen ij{li.} x{s.} M{r} Warden Lingham v{li.} Lawrence Loe v{li.} M{r} John Heydon v{li.} Robert Bulluck iij{li.} M{r} Nicholas Heath v{li.} Thomas Bowden iij{li.} M{r} William Huckle iij{li.} John Dorrell iiij{li.} M{r} Martine Browne x{li.} James Clarke iiij{li.} M{r} W{m} Kinge v{li.} Hugh Warde ij{li.} M{r} John Pinder v{li.} William Watson iij{li.} Edward Charley v{li.} Nicholas Brothers iij{li.} Edward ffleete v{li.} John Meredith iij{li.} Henry Eaton v{li.} Thomas Biggs iiij{li.} Henry Boone v{li.} Phillip Gill v{li.} Samuell Sambrooke iij{li.} Charles Stamford iij{li.} Hugh Napkin ij{li.} James Walsall iij{li.} 3rd July, 1638. This daye was made knowne to this Court y{t} Jo{n} Pemberton formerly chosen an Assistant hath given his answeare that he will not hold that place nor come to the Hall unlesse he were drawne with wild horses thither, whereupon this Court doth fine him at x{li.} & that he shalbe prosecuted for the same at Lawe. 16th August, 1638. A stormy election of Master and Wardens was holden this day, and a very precise minute of the proceedings is entered, from which it appears that the Court and Livery being assembled, the Master declared--