Barbers -- England -- London -- History -- Sources; Barbers' Company (London, England) -- History; Surgery -- England -- London -- History -- Sources
ITEM. That no brother of the said Fraternity entice any servant from
the service of his master, privily or openly.
ITEM. If any dispute arise between any of the brethren, which God
forbid, it is to be amicably settled by the decision of the Masters
of the said Fraternity [_and they are_] to deal plainly,[33] and that
no one sue another in other manner than at the assize (_?_) [_and
then only_] if he be empowered by leave of the said Masters to be
recorded.
[33] _i.e._, honestly.
ITEM. That each brother of the said Fraternity shall come
each quarter of the year and pay his quarterage to the
collectors[34] . . . . . .
[34] I am unable to complete this sentence.
ITEM. It is agreed between all the said brethren that whoever of them
refuses his office when it comes to him, if he wishes to be relieved
of it, that he pay to their common box.
ITEM. If any brother be absent from their Mass and Feast when it
shall be once a year, he shall pay so much in offerings and all other
things as one present.
ITEM. That none of the said brethren put [?] another out of his
house.
ITEM. If any brother by chance delay his payments beyond a
year-and-a-half, that he make acquittance within two years without
any [_penalty_] beyond the ordinary fine. And if he be thus forgiven
that he settle the matter at once.
AND to hold these points pursuant to amendment alone if the Mystery
will that they be amended, this Fraternity are sworn among themselves
and have each of them pledged his troth, and so from each who shall
[_hereafter_] be of the said Fraternity. And it is agreed amongst
them that this Indenture be enclosed in their common box, and the
counterpart be held by the Masters for the time being of the said
Fraternity.
The document which the Masters found amongst their records made in “the
time to which memory runneth not” probably ends here, and the following
Items (see the third one) were doubtless additional Ordinances made
circa 1387.
ITEM. That each brother of the said Fraternity pay in pledge for his
livery, when he has the same, forty pence at the least.
ITEM. That each brother keep the livery two whole years before he may
give, or sell, or alienate it in any manner, under pain of paying to
the Company for their pardon, a noble of gold.
ITEM. It is ordained that on the Sunday following the Assumption of
our Lady in the 11th year of King Richard the Second,[35] that the
Surveyors of the said Mystery be elected by the assent of all the
Fraternity, and no longer by the Masters.
[35] 18th Aug., 1387.
ITEM. That none of the said Fraternity hereafter pay more than
fourteen pence for his feast.
ITEM. It is ordained that each Master who shall choose any other man
to be in his place, that is to say for to be Master; he who shall
choose such man to be Master for the year shall be bound by himself
for him, in an obligation to the Company for the money.[36]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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