2nd July, 1690. Ordered that the Clarke keep an accompt of all pˀsons faleing at a Court of Assistants and that every one faileing for every such time soe doeing shall forfeit v{s} & shall not be admitted to binde or make ffree untill he or they have made payment of the same of which they are to have notice except S{r} John Letheullier S{r} Humfry Edwin & M{r} Thomas Canham. 29th April, 1693. Ordered that the 2 Chirurgeons Governo{rs} & whome they shall thincke fitting to call to them Attend the Archbishopp of Canterbury conserning his Barber practiceing Chirurgery. 20th July, 1693. Ord{d} that a lease bee taken of the Archbishopp for one & twenty yeare from the 19{th} day of July 1693 for the Barge house[166] & that as the Governo{rs} have agreed a ffine of the same they pay to his Grace the sume of one hundred pounds besides ffees. [166] At Lambeth. 3rd October, 1693. Ordered that the Bargeman have a new coate & britches &c. 19th July, 1694. Ordered that M{r} George Minikin bee warned before the Lord Major to shew cause why he doe not attend the Court of Assistants as he hath been chosen one of them. 18th June, 1696. A new sun dial was ordered to be put up. About this period there seems to have been a general disinclination to serve as an Assistant, many of the Livery being fined £10 for refusing to serve the office, while some who had sat as Assistants were dismissed the Court for non-attendance. 25th October, 1697. Ordered that the Barge house bee mended & M{r} Warden Pinke take care to see it done. 18th August, 1698. Ordered that the Govern{rs} dispose of the Barge & let the Barge house from yeare to yeare. 12th October, 1698. Ordered That there may be papers made for a subscriptõn for a Barge. 21st October, 1700. Ordered that the ill manadgement of the late Master M{r} Tho: Lichfeild as to his office of Master and his other offices of Warden bee pˀsented to the next Court of Assistants in order to bee expelˀd the sˀd Court it being the opinion of this Comittee that he deserves soe to bee as alsoe for being any longer an examin{r} he haveing acted contrary to the establish{mt} of the Corporac͠on in the s{d} offices. 8th November, 1700. A Committee of the Court having waited upon the Commissioners of the Navy and reported that Mr. Lichfeild had committed irregularities in certifying men as qualified Surgeons for sea service, such men not being duly qualified, the Court adjudged him to be dismissed from his office of an Examiner in Surgery, and out of the Court of Assistants. 10th March, 1707. The new Clerk, Mr. Chas. Bernard, seems to have been industrious in searching out practising Barbers not free of the Company, as also others who had committed abuses; several were fined and compelled to take up their freedom and this day the following entries occur:--