The question of remuneration to the jurés for loss of time naturally arises. Usually a definite fraction of the fines was awarded to them. Besides, too, the honor which accrued to them, exemptions from the duty of the watch and from certain of the fines of the trade, are mentioned. Most gilds had officers of only one rank upon whom all the duties fell. Occasionally discrimination was made, and two superior officers chosen from the masters held the power of handing down decisions while their _valet_-assistants exercised supervision, and reported infractions of the rules to the masters. Perhaps the most frequent number of _jurés_ in a gild was two or four. The armorers, the iron-shield-makers, the potters, the rope-makers, bead-makers, gold-beaters, braid-makers, spinners of silk, etc., had two, the fullers, the tallow-chandlers four. The brass-shield makers were so few that they did not elect a juré, but asked the Provost to hear their cases directly. Only one _guard_ is mentioned in the statutes of the clasp-makers and the flower-hat makers. The curriers have three, the farriers six, the goldsmiths two or three, the head-dress makers eight, and later only four. The bakers and the retailers of fruit and vegetables had twelve officers. The most feudal feature of the craft-gild organization is, perhaps, the dependence of the gild on the Crown or its officials or vassals. Most of the gilds were dependent upon (relevaient à) the Prévôt de Paris. To him the _prud’hommes_ carried complaints, against other gilds, for example, and it was he who appointed a _prud’homme_ to execute for him the functions suggested above. We have seen that Louis the Younger granted to a woman the ‘mastery’ of five gilds, which remained enfieffed to the sixteenth century. The grand pantler was the judge of the bakers, and each year appointed a master to look after the gild. The grand chamberlain looked after the wool-weavers, haberdashers, tailors and upholsterers, and others who had to do with clothing and furnishings; the cup-bearer (_échanson_) had the wine merchants, and the _maréchal_ the smiths, farriers, helmeters, locksmiths and other iron-workers. The grand butler tried to keep order among the wine-shop keepers. To his mason, Guillaume à Saint Patrie, the king confided the masons, stone-breakers, plasterers, etc.