The occasion of this solempne meeteing & the necessarye succession of the Governors & governem{t} of this Corporac͠on. And thereupon a ballatting box being sett on the table and the names of the auncient M{rs} & Assistants and livery being severally put into the twoe Sells of y{t} box, o{r} M{r} according to order did first drawe forth the names of theis twelve pˀsons following for Electors viz{t} for the Six Surgians M{r} Rich Wateson M{r} Martine Browne M{r} Jo{n} Pinder Tho. Tomlinson Edward Arris & Henry Eaton. And for the other six M{r} Richard Powell M{r} William Huckle M{r} Jo{n} Davyes M{r} Samuell Die Hen. Hodgkinson & Evan Owen. And thereupon the said Electors haveing w{th}drawne themselves from the publique Assemblye & taken their oathes upon the holye evangelists for the election of fower Masters or Governo{rs} for the yeare ensueing, The M{rs} and the rest of the Assembly made their repaire to the Church and after Sermon upon their returne to the Hall the Masters being called to those 12 Electors they were informed that the Election could not proceede and be made, by reason that certain of the Electors being of divers trades were unable to agree upon two persons expert in Barbery, and these Electors refusing to choose two Masters Barbers, a Court was at once held and the six Barber Electors were discharged, six more Electors being chosen and called; two of these, however, being contaminated by those already dismissed, refused to serve, and eventually a fresh set of Electors was chosen, who retired, and elected Mr. William Clowes, Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, as Master, and three others Wardens, “and after dinner ended and the Seremonye pˀformed by the Masters or Governo{rs} of chooseing the new M{rs} or Governo{rs} with silver Garlands in the publique Hall,” the new Master and Wardens were sworn in. 8th November, 1638. A great feud having arisen between the Court and Richard Morrice, an Assistant, a suit was prosecuted against Morrice in the Earl Marshal’s Court, when the sentence pronounced against him was that he should attend the Court at the Hall, and there bareheaded rehearse in an audible voice an abject apology, the exact words of which are set out. This Morrice did, and the Master and Wardens having testified the same, he was again called into Court, when it would seem that his apology had been made under fear of the Earl Marshal and not of his free will, for the Court calling upon him to make answer “for his contentious carriage & foule & bitter languages & invective speeches by him given from Court to Court ag{t} divers Assistantꝭ to the generall disturbance of their Courtꝭ he refused to cleare himselfe or to give answeare,” whereupon the Court dismissed him from his place as an Assistant.