and customes and that by a Statute made after the last Eyre and to put their franchises and customes in certain which things no man can remember May it please your Majesty to command all the said Justices that they be ordered in point of challenge of their said franchises and customes as they were wont anciently to be ordred in other Eyres before the Statute and that by no Statute repugnant to their said franchises and customes they be bound or deprived of their Franchises and ancient customes and thereupon a Writ was sent to the Justices to surcease Whereas in time past A Writ to surcase there arose by some a matter of doubt of and upon the most ancient custome had and used in the city of London An ancient custome in the city of London for tenants for fixing goods of those things which by tenants for terme of life or for yeares were fixed to the houses without speciall licence of the Lord of the Soyl whether they should remaine to the Lords of the Soyle as parcell of the same or whether it should be lawful for such Tenants at the end of their tearme all such things that be fixed to remove Whereupon ancient Books being viewed and many Records searched and ancient proceedings and Judgments of the said city It was declared by the Mayor and Aldermen That by the old prescript custome of the aforesaid city That every of the said kinds of easments fixed to houses or to the ground by such kind of Tenants without speciall and expresse licence of the Lord of the Soyle if they be fixed with nailes of Iron or of wood as Pantises Glasse Locks Benches or such like or if they be affixed with Lime or clay commonly called Morter as Fornace Lead Candirons Chimneyes Corbels Pavements and such other or else if Plants they be rooted in the ground as Vines Trees Orchards c. It shall not be lawfull for such Tenants at the end of there Termes or at any time to pluck down remove or root out them or any part of the premises by any meanes but they alwayes remain to the Lord of the Soyle as parcell of the same Soyle or Tenements Mustings c. It is to be understood that all the Lands and Tenements Rents and Services within the city of London and in the Suburbs thereof are pleadable at Guild-Hall within the same city in two Hustings whereof the one Husting is called Husting of Plea of Land and the other Hasting is called Husting of Common-Pleas And the which Hustings are held in the said Guild-hall before the Mayor Sheriffes and Aldermen of the said city every weeke the dayes Munday and Tuesday viz. On the Munday to demand the demaudauts and to award nonsuites to allow essoynes and the Tuesday to award the default and to plead Writs of right Pattents But for certaine times no Hastings may be held by the custome of the city afore said viz. Husting of plea of Land ought to be held a week by it selfe at the aforesaid dayes But the enrolments and titles of the said Hustings make mention of Munday only Writs of Right Pattents In Husting of Plea of Land are pleaded Writs of Right Pattents directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes of London which Writs have this processe by custome of the city viz The Tenant or Tenants shall first have three summons at the cenements demanded at three Hustings of Plev of Land next ensuing after the livery of the Writ and of the Hustings without demanding the tenements at any aforesaid And after the three summons ended three essoynes at three other Hustings of Plea of Land then next ensuing and at the next ensuing after the third essoyne and the Tenants making default processe shall be made against them by a grand cape or petit cape after the appearance and other processe at the common law And if the Tenants shall appeare the demandants shall count against the Tenants in the nature of what Writ they will except certain Writs which are pleadable in Husting of common-Pleas as shall be declared afterward without making protestation to see in the nature of any writ And the Tenants shall have the view and shall be essoyned after the view as at the common-law And the Tenant shall have an essoyne after every appearance by custome of the City And although that such a writ be abated after the view by exception of joint-tenancie or other exception dilatory and other such Writ be revived the tenants by the custome of the City shall have the view in the second Writ notwithstanding the view before had And if the parties plead to judgment the judgment shall be pronounced by their Recorders mouth and six Aldermen were wont to be present at the least at the giving of every such judgment And every Bedell of the City by the advice of his Aldermen The Jurors summoned against every Hustings of Plea of Land shall summon 12. men Free-holders being the best and most sufficient of his Ward to come to Guild hall for to passe in an Enquest if there be need for the rest of the free-holders in the said Ward And if the parties plead and discend to an Enquest then shall the Enquest be taken of the people inheritors haveing at the least frankten ement of the same Ward where the Tenements are and other three wards next to the place where the Tenements are so that foure sufficient men of the same Ward where the Tenements are shall be sworne in the same Enquest if there be so many And no dammages by custome of the City are recoverable in any such Writ of Right Pattent And the Enquest may passe the same day by such common summons of the Beadell if the parties be at issue and the Jurors come And otherwise processe shall be made to cause the Enquest to come at another Hasting of Plea of Land ensuing by precept of the Mayor directed to the Sheriffes And the Sheriffes shall be ministers by the commandement of the Mayor to serve the writs and to make execution thereof Notwithstanding that the originall writ be directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes joyntly And it is to be understood that as well the Tenants as the Demandants may make their Attornies in such Pleas. And if the Demandants count against those Tenants in the nature of a Writ of right and the parties discend to an enquest upon the meereright then shall the enquest be taken of 34. in the nature of a grand assize according as the custome requires so that alwayes six be of the Ward where the Tenements be if there be so many of the same ward empannelled in the Enquest of 24. Vouching to warranty And the Tenants in all such writs may vouch to warranty within the said City and also in a forreign county if the Vouches haue no tenements within the City And if the Tenants in such writs do vouch to warranty in a forreign County in which case processe may not be made
against the vouches by law of the said City then the Record shall be made come before the Justices of the Common-Pleas at the suit of the Demandant and there processe shall be made against the vouchee and when the voucher shall be ended in the said Bench then shall all the plea be sent back again to the Hasting there to proceed in the plea according to the custome of the City and according to that which is fully contained in certain Statutes And also if the Tenants in such writs plead in barre by a release bearing date in a forraign County or plead other forraign matter which may not be tryed within the said City then the Demandant shall bring the processe into the Kings Bench for to try the said matter as it is alledged and according as it is found the plea shall be sent backe againe into the Husting there further to proceed according as the case requires and all the same time the plea shall cease in the Husting in manner as it is done at this day And also it hath been used heretofore that a man might sue in the Husting of plea of Lands for to have Execution out of certain Judgments given in the Husting and that by Bill in the nature of a scire face without Writ And it is to be understood that the summons which are made to the tenants in such writs of Right may be made two or three dayes before the said Husting or the morrow next before the said Husting In the Hustings of Common-pleas are pleadable Writs Awrit of exgravi qurelea called Ex gravi querela for to have execution of the tenements out of the Testaments which are inrolled in the Hustings Writs of Dower unde nihil habet Writs of Gravelkind of custome and of service instead of a Cessavit Writs of Error of Judgments given before the Sheriffes Writs of waste Writ de partitione facienda betweene Coparteners Writs of quid juris clamat and per quae servitia and others The which Writs are close and directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes And also Replegiaries of things taken of distresses wrongfully taken are pleadable before the Mayor and Sheriffes in the same Husting of Common-pleas by plaint without writ And it is to be understood that the same Sheriffes are ministers to execute the office and serve all the Writs and Replegiaries by a precept of the Mayor directed to the said Sheriffes and the processe is after this manner First in a Writ of ex gravi querela warning shall be given to the tenants viz. two or three dayes before the Husting or in the morning before as in a Plea of Land and so shall be done of all other summons touching the same Husting And if the warning be given and testified by the Sheriff or his Ministers the tenants may be essoyned once and if the tenants make default at the said warning testified then shall the grand Cape be awarded if they appeare they may be essoyned after the view and thereupon all other processe shall be made fully as is said in a Writ of Right Patent in the Hustings of the Pleas of Land Item In a Writ of Dower unde nihil habet the Tenants shall have at the beginning three Summons and one essoyne after the three Summons and afterwards shall have the view and after the view one essoyne and the tenants in such a Writ of Dower shall have the view although they enter by the same husband of the Demandant and also notwithstanding the husband died seized And also the Tenants may vouch to warranty and be essoyned after every appearance and also other processe shall be made as in a writ of right in the Husting of Plea of Land And if the Demandant recover Dower against the Tenants by default or by Judgment in Law in such a Writ of Dower and the same woman demandant shall alleadge in Court of Record that her husband died seized then the Mayor shall give commandement to the Sheriffes by precept that they summon an Enquest of Neighbors where the Tenements are against the next Husting of Common-pleas to enquire if the husband died seized and of the value of the tenements and the dammages shall be enquired of by the same Enquest Item In a Writ of Gravillete the tenants shall have three summons and three essoines they shall also have the view they may vouch to warranty Denizen and Forreigner and they shall be essoyned and they must enter their exceptions and all other processe shall be made as before is declared in a writ of Right in the Husting of Plea of Land saving if the tenant make default then the demandant shall have Judgment to recover and hold for a yeare and a day upon this condition that the tenant may come within the same year and day next ensuing and agree for the arrearages and finde Surety as the Court shall award to pay the Rent within the services loyally after ward to have againe his tenements And within which yeare and day the tenant may come and cause the demandant come in Court by a Scire fac Ascire face brought by the tenants with in the yeare and day and have again his tenements doing as is aforesaid Then after the yeare and day the demandant shall have a Scire fac against the tenant to come and answer if he can any thing say A sctre fac brought by the demandant after the yeare day wherefore the said demandant ought not to held the tenements quietly to him and his heires for ever And if the tenant come not or if he come and can say nothing then the Judgment shall be that the Demandant shall recover the tenements quietly for ever according to the Judgments called Shartford by custome of the foresaid City In a writ of wast processe shall be made against the tenants by summons attachments Of a writ of waste and distresses according to the statutes thereof made and if the tenants come and plead then he shall have noe essoyne and so after every appearance and if he make default at the grand distresse then there shall be a commandement to the Sheriffe by precept from the Mayor that the Sheriffe should see the place wasted That the Enquest shall not tax but simple damages and the court shall treble it This is enacted by the Statute of Gloc. capiat and enquire of the waste and damages according to the statute and that the enquest should returne at the next Husting of Common-Pleas and the Plaintiffe shall recover the place wasted and treble damages by the Statute Item In a Writ of Error of Judgment given in Court before the Sheriffe in actions personall and in assize of novel disseisin or mortdancestor taken before the Sheriff and Record the Writ of Errour shal be directed to the Mayor and Sheriffes and the Mayor shal make his precept to the Sheriffes to cause them to bring the Record and processe at the next Husting of Common
Pleas and that they warne the parties to heare the Record And after that the Record and Processe be in the Husting although the Defendant come by the warning or make default the errours shal be assigned and there the Judgment shal be affirmed or reversed as the Law requires And it is to be understood that by the usage of the said City when a man is condemned in debt or attaint of dammages in any action personally before the Sheriffs and bringeth such a Writ of Errour he himselfe which bringeth the writ ought and was wont before that he be delivered out of prison to find sufficient surety of men abiding in the same City before the Mayor and Sheriffes to pay the mony or to have the body forthwith comming in case that the Judgment be affirmed And so it shal be done where dammages shal be recovered in Assizes before the Sheriffs and Coroner c. Item In a Replegiarie Replegiarie the processe is such If any man take a distresse in an other mans ground within the said City he to whom the goods belong may come to one of the Sheriffs and have a minister by commandement of the Court to goe to the party that tooke the goods and if he may have the sight to take the same goods by two wise men and then there shal be a plaint made in the Sheriffes paper in this manner Such a one maketh his complaint against such a one of his goods unjustly taken in his house or in his freehold in such a Parrish And the same party shal there find two sufficient pledges to pursue his plaint and to make returne of the goods or the price thereof in case that the returne be awarded and so he shal have the deliverance And the parties shal have a day prefixed at the next Husting of Common-Pleas the Sheriffe shal make a Bil contayning all the matter and the plaint and shal bring the same Bill to the same Husting and there it shal be put on the File and the parties shal be called for At which day the one and the other may be essoyned of common essoyne And at what time soever the Plaintiffe makes default returne shal be a warded to him that hath them and the returne in such case is awardable three times by the custome and at the third time not replevisable And at what time soever he that hath them maketh default then it shal be awarded that the same goods shal remaine to the Plaintiffe viz. they shal remaine without recovering of any dammages And if so be that the Sheriffe may not have a sight of the distress taken then he shal so certifie in the said Husting and there shal be awarded a Writ of Withernam and thereupon processe shal be made And if the parties come avoury be made they may plead to a Judgment or to an issue of enquest according as the case requires And the parties may be essoyned after every appearance And if the party claime property in the distresse then that certified in the Husting processe shall be made by precept directed to the Sheriffe to try the property And though the party be essoyned to serve the King in a Replegiary and at the day that he hath by essoyne maketh default or brings not in his warranty he shal be amerced In a writ de partitione fac to make partition between partners of tenements in London a writ close shal be directed to the Mayor and Sheriffs containing the matter according to the forme of such a Writ And the parties shall be warned by precept of the Mayor directed to the said Sheriffs and the tenants may be essoyned and if they come they may plead their matter and if they make default the Partition shall be awarded by default Item Of the Bedle every Bedle by the advice of his Alderman against every Husting of Common-Pleas shall summon 6 Free-holders the better and sufficienter of his Ward to come to the aforesaid Guild-hall to passe in Enquest if there be need if there be so many Free-holders in the said Ward And the Enquest shall be presented as is aforesaid in the Husting of Plea of Land Item Of Exigonts Briefs of Exigent are demandable in the Husting as well in the Husting of Common-Pleas as in the Husting of Pleas of Land But those Exigents that are demanded in the one Husting shal not be demanded in the other Husting And at the fifth Husting the outlawries and veniries shall be awarded in full Husting before the Mayor and Aldermen by the mouth of their Recorder And also all Judgments that are given in Husting after every Husting shall be enrolled sent to the Chamber of Guild-hall afore-said Item It is to be understood that all the amerciaments made at those Hustings do appertaine to the Sheriffes of the City Item The Aldermen of London are summoned to come to the husting Of summoning the Aldermen to the Husting and they ought by usage of the said City to be summoned by an Officer of the Sheriffes Of exigents Of summoning the Aldermen to the Husting sitting upon a horse of a 100. S. price at least And if it happen A taile that between Merchant and Merchant or Citizen and Citizen there be debate of Debt and a tayle be shewed forth by the party and such tayle be denyed the partie that bringeth the tayle shall make his proofe according to the Law Merchant but shall prove the same by Citizens or Merchants or other good and loyall men Of assize of Mertdancester not by villaines Item The Assizes of Mordancester are held and determinable before the Sheriffs and the Coroner of London on the Saturdayes from fourteene deyes to fourteene dayes at the Guild-hall the processe wherein is in this manner viz. He that will have such assize shall come in the Husting or in the congregation of the Mayor and Aldermen in the Chamber of Guild-hall any munday as it is said in the assize of freshforce shall make a Bill containing the forme of assize of Mortdancestor according to the case and the Bill shall be enrolled And afterward the common Clerk shall make another Bill containing the whole matter of the first Bill making mention of the title of Husting or of the day of the Congregation of the Mayor and Aldermen and that Bill shall be sent to the Sheriffes or to one of them to serve according to the custome And which Bill shall be ferved by any Sergeant or other Minister of the Sheriffes viz. The said Minister the Wednesday next after the livery of the Bill shall make his summons at the tenements demanded by witnesse of two Free-men of the Cittie which ought to be at Guild hall the Saturday next ensuing to array and summon the Jurors and so afterwards against the Saturday from fourteene dayes to fourteene dayes at their wills and so may the tenants sue if they will for their deliverance And the arraignments of the panneis of such
assizes shal be made by the Sheriffes their Ministers or by the Mayor and Aldermen if any of the parties shall come to demand upon reasonable cause in manner as the use is in assizes of fresh force And in such assizes of Mortdancestor the parties may be essoyned as at the Common-law and the tenants may vouch to warranty within the said City and also in a forraign County if the Vouchee have no tenements within the City And if the tenants plead a Release bearing date in a forraign County or other forreign matter that may not be tryed within the City or that they vouch to warranty in a forraign County him that hath nothing within the City then at the suit of the party the Record shall be brought in the Court of our Lord the King by a writ delivered to the Sheriffes and Coroner and there shall such forreign pleas and forreign voucher be tryed and determined and after sent back to the said Sheriffes and Coroner to goe forward and proceed according to the custome of the City And continuance shall be made in such assizes upon the causes aforesaid and upon other reasonable causes And when the Assizes shall be determined Judgment ought to be given then the same Assizes shall be engrossed and entred of record by the said Sheriffes and Coroner and after sent to Guild hall to remaine there of Record in manner as the Assizes of fresh force ought to be The City of London A custome that free-men of the City of London may bequeath their tenements of which they were solelyscized is an ancient City of our Lord the King that now is and of his Progenitors In which City such a Custome is held and where of the time is not to the contrary hath been held that every Freeman of the aforesaid city being soly seized of any Lands or Tenements within the aforesaid City by all the time aforesaid might and may bequeath such his Temements to any person or persons it likes him best as well secular as religious in see-taile or for terme of his life c. Item Assizes of novell desseisin called fresh force of lands and tenements and rents within the City of London of desseisins made within 40 weekes are held and are determinable before the two Sheriffes and the Coroner of the said City in common every Saturday in Guild-hall except certain times that the assizes may not be held for reasonable causes and therein the processe in this manner viz. When any man is agrieved and disseised of his Freehold within the City or Suburbs thereof he shall come to any husting held at Guild-hall or for want of the husting to the Chamber of Guild-hall to the congregation of the Mayor and Aldermen any Munday and there shall make a Bill and the Bill shall be thus A. of D. complaines of intrusion against C. of E. of his free tenement in such a Parish of London or in such a Parish in the Suburbs of London And the same Bill shall be enrolled and thereupon another Bill shall be made containing the whole matter of the former Bill by the common Clerke of the City making mention of the title of the husting or of the day of the Congregation of the Mayor and Aldermen And that Bill shall be delivered to the Sheriffe or to one of them to make processe and doe right to the parties And then ought the Bill to be served the Wedensday next ensuing viz. The Sheriffes Officer to whom the Bill is delivered shall summon the tenant or the tenants mentioned in the said Bill of assize by the view of two Freemen of the City and that at the tenements where the disseisin is made or at the tenee ments where out the Rent is supposed to be issuing and it shall be said there to the tenants that they keep their day at Guild-hall the Satturday then next ensuing at their perill And the names of the two summoners shall be endorsed upon the Bill and then the Plaintiffe may sue to array the assise and summon the Jurors against that Satturday or against other Satturdayes after at his will And so may the tenants sue for their deliverance if they will and such summons shall be made the Fryday before the satturday And the arraynments at the perils of the Jurors shall be made by the Sheriffes or their Officers or by the Mayor and Aldermen if any of the parties upon a reasonable cause will pray the same And afterward the same assises shall be pleaded and ruled for the most part also as it otherwise at the common-law And if a Release bearing date in a forraign County Bastardy or other forraign matter which cannot be tryed within the said City be pleaded in such assizes then else Plaintisse may sue to cause the Record to be brought to the Court of our Lord the King to try the matter there as the case requires and when the matter shall be determined in the Kings Court all the processe shall be sent back to the said Sheriffes and Coroner or to their Successors or to proceed forward according to the custome of the City in manner as it hath been heretofore And it is to be understood That no discontent is within the City of assizes c. that there hath not been any discontinuance in such assises neither is there any mention made in the Record of the dayes between the assize brought and the day that the assize shall be taken or Judgment given if it be not for a necessary cause or that such assizes be taken before the Sheriffes and Coroner as is aforesaid and Judgment be thereof given then shall such assizes determined be entred of Record and after shall be brought into the Chamber of Guildhall to remaine there in the Treasury as of Record And it is to be understood that a man may not enter into any tenements within the said City by force nor hold any tenements by force and armes in disturbance of the peace c. Imprimis It is to be understood Of the Sherisss Court that the Sheriffes holds the Courts of our Lord the King before them in the Guild-hall of London and pleas of debt of any summe whatsoever and of all actions personals at the suit of the parties And each of the said Sheriffes holds his Court at Guildhall by himselfe severally and that by vertue of the plaints and quarrels made before the one and the other of the same Sheriffes as well in their Countors as at Guildhall according to the custome of the aforesaid City And every of the said Sheriffes use to hold by himself two generall Courts in the week and every day for the deliverance of forraigners strangers if need be if they be not let by Festivall dayes or other reasonable causes Item The Clarkes and Officers of the said Sheriffes presently upon the plaints made use to award a capias or other processe against the Defendants by the testimonies of the Sergeants of the
the Sheriffes and there make his suit as the law requires c. Item Of merciments Touching the amerciaments taken upon the plaints in the Courts of the Sheriffes it is used if the demand be of 40. s. or under to take 4. d. and if they passe 40. s. the usage is to take 12. d. for the amerciament Item Of Landlords If a lessee within the City be fugitive or absent himself whereby his goods within the house be arrested yet the lessor called the Landlord shall be served before all others for the rent of the house being behind by two years and for so much money goods shall be left within the said house to the use of the said Landlord And although that such a Farmer within the said City commit Fellony Of giving warning to the Landlord or other contempt for which his goods and chattels are arrestable and subject to forfeiture yet the lessor by usage of the City shall be paid for his rent behind by two yeares as is aforesaid of the goods found within the same house Item Warning to the Tenant Where there be tenants within the City holding at will and will go out of their houses and surrender the same up they shall give warning to the lessor before their departure viz. of the houses that they have to farme for 40. s. rent and under they shall give warning by a quarter of a year before the departure at the perill of the tenant And in the same manner Of Execution at the. choise of the Plaintiff warning shal be given to the tenant if the lessor will put out the tenant c. Item When a man is condemned at the parties suit in debt or in dammages before the Sheriffes the party that hath so recovered may make choyce to have the body of him which is condemned committed to prison untill he hath made an agreement or to have of his goods at his perill Item Of Maynpernors and Attorneys received in the counters The pledges and Maynparnors and Attornies taken and received within the Sheriffs Countors and other processe there made are held to be of record as well as at the Courts holden within Guildhall Item Of Attornies Every Alderman of London may by usage record Attornies in pleas depending in the Sheriffes Courts and else-where in the Hustings and in the Chamber Item Of day given to the Enquest When an Enquest between parties is joyned and sworn before the Sheriffes in pleas personall if the parties will agree the Court by usage may give day to the Enquest to advise themselves of their verdict untill some day ensuing in manner as the parties may accord and that at the perill of the plaintiffe if any Juror dye or any other case happen in the meane time Item The amerciments of Inroes The Jurors which are summoned in an Enquest are not to be amerced although they make default above 3. d. but if they tarry long and will not come the Sheriffes by usage may shut up their doors and constrain them to come Item Enquest of Office The Enquests of office which are taken by the Sheriffe to inquire of frayes and batteries made against the Peace are not traversable by new Enquest by usage but at the parties suit every party shall make his answer notwithstanding the Enquest of office Item It is to be understood that there be other points and usages touching the Sheriffs Court whereof a man cannot have remembrance of all c. Item Of generall Attoenies That all generall Attornies made and received within the Countors of the Sheriffes of London are held to be upon record as well as if they were taken at the Courts held at Guild-hall And such Attornies are and ought to be entred in the grand paper of the aforesaid Sheriffes for the fee thereof due c. Item That none shall offer any injury in deed nor word to the Sergeants or to the Bayliffes of the said City nor that none disturbe them in doing execution of judgments attaches distresses or other things which pertaine to Bayliffes or Sergeants to doe and which are commanded them upon pain of imprisonment and to make ransome according as the custome willeth to be done Whereupon Custome for citizens to buy and sell in publicks open places as to the taking of the said sa it the action lyeth nor for that the City of London is an ancient City of the King of England that now is And that in the said City there is held and time out of mind whereof the memory of man is not to the contrary hath been holden a common Market every holyday as well for the Citizens of the said City as for all other men whomseover to buy and to sell all and all manner of things and merchandizes in all publicke and open places within the City and the Suburbs and Liberties of the same so that one of the contractors be a Freeman of the said City of London And the said defendant saith that as to the trespasse when c. A. B. was possessed of the said salt and he so being of the said salt possessed c. that is to say on the 20. day March c. in the fifth yeare of the King that now is being a holyday the said A. B. in one open place viz. in an open shop of the defendants scituate in the parish of St. c. London aforesaid of the said City of London openly did sell to the aforesaid defendant the aforesaid salt and the cover thereof for 10 l. which the said defendant so the said A. B. then there did pay By reason whereof the said defendant in the time and place where the trespasse is supposed to be done c. the said Salt of his Cover then and there took and carryed the same away as lawfull it was c. which said taking and carrying away of the said Salt and Cover are the same taking and carrying away of the said Salt and Cover whereof the said plaintiffe c. And the said plaintiffe by his aforesaid Attorney cometh and requireth according to the custome of the said City of London how the said defendant is a Free man of the said City And the said defendant by his Attorney aforesaid saith that by his Apprentiship that the Twentieth day of May in the seventeenth Yeare of the Raigne of King H. 8. He by the Name of Thomas Barne of Dale in the County of Liccester Husband was Apprentice unto John Ward Citizen Alderman and Grocer of London and in his Apprentiship stood according to the custome of the said City and admitted into the liberty of the said City and sworne in the time of Iohn Rudston then Mayor of the said City and Iohn Husse then Chamberlaine thereto and entred in the booke which is signed with the letter M. of the buyings and admissions of Freemen as of Record before the said Chamberlaine fully appeareth Moreover that the said