7. If any brother should be impleaded, either within Lenne or without, the brethren there present ought to assist him in their council, if they are called, to stand with him and counsel him without any costs; and if they do not, they are to forfeit 32 pence. 8. None of the brethren is to come into the guild before the alderman and his brethren with his cap or hood on, or barefoot, or in any rustick manner, if he does he is to be amerced 4 pence. 9. If any one should sleep at the guild, either at the general meeting or at their feasts and drinking, he is to forfeit 4 pence. 10. If any one turns him rudely to his brother, or calls him by any rude name, [he is] to be amerced 4 pence. 11. If any one is called and cited at a prime (or general meeting) and does not come before the issue of the first consult, he is to pay 1_d._ by order of the dean; and if he refuses and sits down, he is to be amerced 4 pence. 12. If any one should be cited to the prime, and shall be found in the town, or shall come late to the drinking, and the dean shall say to him to be there at the next prime, and he does not come before they begin to take judgments of defaults, he shall either make some reasonable excuse, or pay 12_d._ and if he comes before the defaults are adjudged, and shall depart without leave, shall pay 12_d._ 13. If any one of this house shall buy any thing, and a brother shall come in unexpectedly before the agreement, {457} or at it, he ought to be a partner with him that buy, and if the buyer refuses it, he is to be amerced half a mark. 14. If any servant of the brethren comes at the drinking, or the prime, he is to lay down the cap and cloak, and give it to the janitor to keep, whilst he enters and speaks to his master, and then he is to depart forthwith: if it is at the drinking, let him drink once or twice, provided he does not sit, and then he is to depart, and if he does not, his master is to be amerced. 15. If any one refuse to obey the precept of the alderman, or dean, for the honour and profit of the house, he is to be amerced 12_s._ 16. If any poor brother shall dye, the alderman and brethren shall see that his body be honourably buried, of the goods, or chattels of the house, or out of alms, if he has not wherewith to bury himself. 17. If the alderman shall dye, none belonging to him, neither son, or any other can act in any thing as alderman but the brethren may choose a new alderman whom they please. 18. If any brother shall dye, the dean is to summons all the brethren to make their offerings for the soul of the deceased; and if any one is absent, he is to give one halfpenny at the next prime following, for the soul of the defunct, and the dean is to have 4_d._ of the alms collected for citing the brethren.