Barbers -- England -- London -- History -- Sources; Barbers' Company (London, England) -- History; Surgery -- England -- London -- History -- Sources
1st February, 1731. It is ordered that all the Liverymen shall attend
on Election day and Lord Mayors day in their Gowns and at publick
anatomys in their Capps upon Forfieture of Three shillings and
Fourpence for every offence.
8th July, 1731. A precept coming from the Lord Mayor recommending the
Company to contribute “towards the relief of the poor sufferers by the
late fires at Blanford Tiverton & Ramsey being read The Court upon
considerac͠on had thereof and from a just sense of the calamity and
distress of their fellow subjects the late inhabitants of the said
towns,” ordered £20 to be paid into the Chamber of London.
1732. The following fines were in force at this date, viz.:--
£6 6_s._ 0_d._ for a Barber admitted to the freedom by redemption.
£10 for a free Barber admitted to the Livery.
£30 for a Barber’s or Surgeon’s apprentice, made free by servitude,
admitted to the Livery, and for all offices to the parlour door.
£7 7_s._ 0_d._ for examination, admission and diploma of a foreign
brother.
£3 3_s._ 0_d._ for the same, if the applicant had been bound to a
foreign brother at the Hall.
5th March, 1733. It is hereby referred to the Master & Wardens M{r}
Serj{t} Dickins M{r} Serj{t} Amyand M{r} Petty M{r} Shott M{r} Parker
& M{r} Maurice to receive proposalls for Building a Cupola in the
Hall parlor and report the same to the next Court of Assistants.
19th July, 1733. Several of the livery attending upon a complaint
against a Jew in Duke’s place for exercising the trade of a Barber
without being free of the Company or having served seven years
apprenticeship It is ordered that the Clerk of the Company shall sue
the said Jew in such manner as he shall think fitt or be advised at
the Company’s expence.
4th May, 1736. At this Court Abraham Diaz Delgadoa Jew was admitted
into the freedom of the Company by Redemption for Ten pounds Ten
shillings which he paid down and was sworn upon the Old Testament
being a Jew.
3rd August, 1738. The Company contributed five guineas towards the
Organ recently set up in the Church of Saint Alban, Wood Street.
3rd April, 1739. M{r} John Owen a Freeman of the Company & who lives
at Islington was chosen Musicianer to the Company in the room of M{r}
Brown dec̃ed.
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