[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 13, 2025.

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Item it is ordayned and established that euery person of the said Art or Mistery shall vpon his appeareance before the said Master and Wardens or any three or two of them or any their deputies,* 1.1 become bound in fiue hundreth Pounds of Lawfull money of England to the said Master and War∣dens for the time being, vpon Condition to be endorsed or subscribed to this effect following, that is to say. That

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they nor any of them shall at any time voluntarily worke beyond the seas for any forraine Prince or State or volun∣tarily giue any direction or aduice to any other person or persons to worke for any such forraine Prince or state with∣out speciall licence first had and obtained by warrante in writing vnder the hands of three of the Lords of his Ma∣iesties most honorable priuy Counsell his heires or succes∣sors at the least. And likewise take his Corporall oath to such effect as is mentioned in the said condition-And whoso∣euer shall refuse to enter into such bond and take such Cor∣porall oath as aforesaid shall forfet and pay to the said Mast∣er and Wardens to the vse of the said Corporation fiue pounds of lawfull money of England, and from thence∣forth to be disabled to be of the said Corporation or So∣ciety. For making and entring of which said bond the Clark for the time being shall or may take twelue-pence, and for entring and ministring the said oath eight pence.

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