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Item it is ordayned that noe person or persons of the said Art or Mistery shall bargaine, sell, giue or set ouer his pren∣tice or prentices, without the special priuity, licence, and consent of the said Master and Wardens, or their deputies in remote places, to the end they maye forsee that they may be set ouer to such as may lawfully take them and shall be able to teach them their trade, and find them all things neces∣sary,
vpon paine to forfaict to the said Master and War∣dens to the vse of the said Corporation for euery such of∣fence forty shillings of lawfull money of England. And if it hapen any person of the said Corporation to dye and depart this life, leauing any apprentice who hath serued two yeares or aboue of his tearme. It is ordayned that it shall be lawfull for the widdow of the party deceased to make her best benefit of him, during her widdow-hood that shee can. And that vpon request made to any Master worke∣man of the said Art or Mistery that he hath meanes to im∣ploy him, hee shall set him to worke for such reasonable wages as he is able to earne. But if at the time of his Mast∣ers decease he shall not haue serued the full time of two yeares, or that the widdow die before the expiration of such apprentiship, or that his Master shall giue ouer his pro∣fession. That then it shall be lawfull for the said Master and Wardens and their deputies, to assigne and set ouer euery such apprentice, to such persons as they shall thinke con∣uenient. And if they refuse so to serue them, to correct and punish them according to the quality of the offence and person.* 1.1
Submission to the ordi∣nances.