19th May, 1637. This Court upon divers treatise with Abraham Purrott a brother of this Companie being chosen into the livery by a former Court & he being summoned to appeare this daye by agreem{t} yet came not and hath alsoe formerly[179] answered that he will not hold the place of a liveryman nor paye the fine but would onely give a peece of plate of v{li} to this house as his gift in full satisfaction of all his fines & places, w{ch} this Court doth think to be farr short And therefore this Court doth impose and fine the said Abraham Purrott at xx{li} according to the ordinances confirmed by the Lords & by the Statute. [179] Formally. Several others were from time to time similarly fined, both in the 17th and 18th centuries. 2nd August, 1737. At this Court Robert Young who was the apprentice of James Phillips Surgeon was admitted into the freedom of the Company by service and was sworn, and the said M{r} Young at the same time took the Livery, and his master M{r} Phillips out of his own bounty and a just sense of the diligent and faithfull services of the said Robert Young during his Apprenticeship did not only pay the charges of the said M{r} Young’s freedom but did likewise bestow upon him his fine for the Livery being ten pounds. 29th October, 1751. It is ordered that upon all future days for swearing in the Lord Mayor of this City at Westminster when this Company shall have their Stand as usual No Liveryman shallbe admitted into the same without leave of the Master unless he shall walk in the Publick Procession cloathed in his proper Livery gown and hood according to his summons. 3rd October, 1752. It was further ordered-- That two men and a constable shall be hired to guard the Stand and see that the said Order be complied with. 9th November, 1765. Several liverymen notwithstanding former orders to the contrary, having appeared on the Company’s Stand on Lord Mayors’ days without their gowns and hoods, it was ordered that any liveryman transgressing in the like in future, should be fined half-a-guinea. THE YEOMANRY. The Yeomanry of the Barber-Surgeons appear to have had a most chequered existence, having been “established” and “put downe” several times, until finally they appear to have died out both in constitution and in name.