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The ancient Custom of this City touching the admission of any Person to the Freedom and Liberties of the same
1. First, the Mayor of the said City, of his own free guise may admit any one per∣son to the said Liberties.
2. Also, the Court may admit another
person to the Liberties at their will and pleasure.
3. Also, the Heir of any Franchized man may by his Patrimony claim his Free∣dom, whether the Inheritance descends from the Grandfather, Father, Ʋncle, Brother, or any other person being Freeman of the said City, by and under whom he derives any E∣state of Inheritance.
4. Also, all such as have served as Ap∣prentices under any Franchized man for se∣ven years space, at the request of the Ma∣ster, upon the testimony of the truth thereof, that he truly served out his said time, are to be admitted Freemen, paying the usual Fees of the Court, viz.
| To the Mayor | 1 s. | 8 d. |
| To the Recorder | 1 s. | 4 d. |
| To the Townclark | 8 d. | |
| To the Camberlain | 8 d. | |
| To the four Bayliffs 8 d. a piece | 2 s. | 8 d. |
| To the Swordbearer | 4 d. | |
| To the four Serjeants at Mace 4 d. a piece | 1 s. | 4 d. |
| To the Poor of the Mawdlin | 1 d. | |
| For Inrolment of the Appren¦tices Indentures | 1 s. | 0 d. |
| 9 s. | 9 d. |
5. Lastly, all other persons are to be ad∣mitted by way of Redemption, and by such reasonable Fines as the Mayor and Common Council of the said City shall set on them.
All which do thus appear in the course of the Court Rolls in the several Reigns of this King, King Edward the Third, King Richard the Second, &c.