[Charter to Shipwrights company]

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Title
[Charter to Shipwrights company]
Author
Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (London, England)
Publication
[London :: T. Dawson,
1612?]
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Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (London, England) -- Early works to 1800.
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"[Charter to Shipwrights company]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.

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Item it is ordayned for the better experience and cunning to bee had in the said Art or Mistery,* 1.1 and for the better ser∣uice to his Maiesty and the Common wealth, that euery person or persons that doe or shall vse practise or professe the said Art or Mistery any or thing thereunto appertaning, as the making, building, caulking, or reparing of Ships, Pin∣naces, Boats or other vessells, or the making or triming of Masts, Oares, Pumpes, Tops, Pullies, or any other In∣struments of wood pertayning to shipping, shall practise and exercise themselues and their seruants in euery perticular point and mistery of the said profession, as members of one entire body and branches of one and the selfe-same

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Art or Mistery, to the end they be not hereafter diuided to the great inconuenience both of his Maiesties seruice, and Common wealth. And if any person or persons shall be hereafter found remisse, or disobedient therein, he shall be reasonably fined and punished at the discretion of the said Master and Wardens or the more part of them.

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