[Charter to Shipwrights company]

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Item it is ordained that euery person and persons of the said Art or Mysterie shall at all times heereafter be and shew himselfe to bee of good and honest behauiour, and bearing both in word and deede toward the said Master, Wardens, and Assistants, and their deputies, Officers, and Ministers for the time beeing and euery of them, and shall bee, and shew himselfe to bee tractable, conformeable and obedient tou∣ching all and euery their lawfull constitutions, ordinances, causes and matters concerning the said Art or Mysterie, And if any person shall at any time heereafter be found wilfully obstinate, stubborne or disobedient, or in any wise resisting against the said Master Wardens and Assistants or any of them or any their deputies Officers or Ministers to the let hinderance, or disturbance of the due execution of their said Offices, or shall at any time begin attempt or make any priuie assemblie, conuenticle, counsell, or conspi∣racy against the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, for

the time beeing or any of them, or in any sort tending to the violation or breach of any good ordinance or order now in force or hereafter to be made and ordained for the good gouernment of the said Corporation, or shall at any time directly or indirectly practise or attempt any thinge which may in any wise be preiuditiall or hurtfull to the lawfull and good estate of the said corporation, or hauing knowledge or notice of any vnlawfull attempt, practise or conspiracy, shall not within conuenient time discouer the same to the said Master Wardens and Assistants, or their deputies or some of them, and this or any of these things being proued before the said Master and Wardens or three of them by the testimony of two honest and sufficient witnesses. It is ordained that euery such offendor shall for euery such offence contrary to this ordinance, forfaict and pay to the said Master and Wardens to the vse of the said Corporation forty shillings of lawfull money of England: And it is further ordayned that no person of the said pro∣fession vpon paine of forty shillings to be imposed and lea∣uied as aforesaid shall after sufficient warning giuen imploy or sett any such insolent and disobedient person to worke vntill he hath submitted and conformed himselfe, accord∣ing to his Maiesties expresse pleasure in that behalfe decla∣red in the said Charter.* 1.1

Notes

• * 1.1

  None of the compa∣ny to reuile another.