_Gild of the Glovers_, founded 1354.--This was a purely secular Gild. The Ordinances now before us purport to be made by the masters and keepers [or wardens] of the Craft of Glovers in the City of London, and the bretheren. The following is a brief abstract only, for the Ordinances themselves are very full and extended: (1) Every brother shall pay sixteen pence a year, by quarterly payments, towards providing two wax tapers to burn at the high altar of the Chapel of our Lady, in the new Church-haw beside London, and also to the poor of the fraternity who well and truly have paid their quarterage as long as they could. (2) If any brother be behind of payment of his quarterage by a month after the end of any quarter he shall pay 16 pence, that is to say, 8d. to the old work of the Church of St. Paul of London, and the other 8d. to the box of the fraternitie. Also, as often as any brother be not obedient to the summons of the wardens, or be not present in the “heveyns that folk be dead,” and in offering at the funeral of a brother, and in attendance at church with the fraternitie on the feasts of the Annunciation and Assumption, and others, he shall pay 16 pence in like manner. (3) Every brother shall come to _Placebo_ and _Dirige_ in the “hevenys of dead folk” in suit or livery of the fraternitie of the year past, and on the morrow to mass, and there offer, in his new livery or suit, upon pain of 16 pence. (4) If a brother be behind in his quarterage for a year and a day, and though it be in his power to pay it, he maliciously refuse, he shall be summoned before the official of the Consistory Court of London. [See chapter xx.] (5) If any brother or sister be dead within the City, and have not of his (or her) goods him (or her) to bury, he (or she) shall have burning about his (or her) body five tapers and four torches, at the cost of the bretheren, provided the deceased have continued seven years in the fraternity, &c. (6) All the bretheren be clothed in one suit, &c. (7) The Masters, Wardens, and bretheren shall attend and hear mass on the feast of the Assumption, &c. (8) Every brother shall keep his livery for four years, &c. (9) The fee for entrance into the fraternity; also the form of oath. (10) On the day of the feast, when the bretheren have eaten, they shall go together to the Chapel of our Lady before mentioned, and there continue the time of _Placebo_ and _Dirige_, and on the morrow shall attend mass of _Requiem_, and from thence come together to their Hall, on pain of 16d. (11) If any brother revile another, he shall be fined 6d. or 8d., &c. (12) All the bretheren, with their wives, shall go together to their meat the Sunday next after Trinity Sunday, &c., &c. (13) Concerning the admission of apprentices. (14) Fines for “contrarying” against the rules. (15) Penalties for disobedience of rules and regulations as to apprentices.