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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06315	[Charter to Shipwrights company]	Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (London, England); Egerton, Thomas, Sir, 1540?-1617.; Fleming, Tho.; Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.	1612 (1612)	STC 16785; ESTC S114020	51,816	72

Citie of London and the Sheriffes Iustices Constables and other officers and ministers of the said Citie for the time being And also the seuerall Mayors of our Cities of Bristoll and Rochester and of our seuerall Townes of Yarmouth Plymouth Dartmouth Ipswich Southampton Woodbridge Hull and Newcastell respectiuely for the time being And all other Mayors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Bayliffes Constables and other officers and ministers of vs our heires and successors whatsoeuer within our said Realme of England and Dominion of Wales That they and euery of them be from time to time and at all times heereafter helping aiding and assisting to the said Master Wardens and Cominalty and to their successors and to euery or any of them for the time being and to euery of their deputie or deputies Officer or Officers for the time being for euer aswell in and for such search view and suruey so to be made as aforesaid As also for and in the execution of all and singuler graunts ordinances lawes constitutions and orders heerein contained or heereafter vpon or by vertue of these presents to be made allowed and approued in all things according to the true intent and meaning of the same vpon paine of our high displeasure and as they will answere the contrary And these our Letters Patents or the Inrolement thereof shall be good and effectuall in the Lawe to the said Master Wardens and Cominalty and their successors to all intents constructions and purposes against vs our heires and successors for euer Any Act of Parliament statute Law Prouision Proclamation restraint or other matter cause or thing whatsoeuer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Prouided alwaies that these our Letters Patents or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend or be construed to extend or be prei●ditiall to our Cinque-Ports or to the liberties or members of the same or any of them or to any Iurisdiction power or aucthority of the Lord-warden of the Cinque-Ports for the time being which hee hath or in any wise or sort hee ought or may lawfully vse exercise or claime to or with the office of the Lord-warden of the Cinque-Ports or of any other office or offices belonging incident or appertaining to the said office of Lord-warden of the Cinque-Ports Any graunt power priuiledge matter or thing before in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Although expresse mention of the true yearely valew or certenty of the premisses or of any of them or of any other gifts or graunts by vs or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors to the said Master Wardens Cominaltie before these times made in these presents is not made Or any statute act ordinance prouision Proclamation or restraint before this time had made set forth ordained or prouided or any other thing matter or cause whatsoeuer to the contrary notwithstanding In wittnesse whereof wee haue caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witnesse our selfe at Westminster the sixt day of May in the 10. yeare of our Raigne of England France and Irland and of Scotland the fiue and fortieth To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chauncellor of England Sir Thomas Flemming Knight Lord cheef Iustice of England and Sir Edward Coke knight Lord cheefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Plees Send greeting in our Lord God euerlasting Whereas in a certaine Act or Statute in the Parliament holden at Westminster the fiue and twentieth day of Ianuary in the Nineteenth yeare of the Raigne of the late king of famous memory Henry after the conquest the seauenth made and ordained for the weale and profit of the subiects it was amongst other things ordained established and enacted that no Master and Wardens and fellowship of Crafts or Misteries or any of them no rulers of guildes or fraternities should take vpon them to make any Acts or ordinances ne to execute any Acts or ordinances by them theretofore made in disinheritance or diminution of the Kinges Prerogatiue or of others nor against the common profit of the people but if the same Acts and ordinances were examined and approued by the Chancellor or Treasorer of England or cheefe Iustice of either Bench or three of them or else before the two Iustices of Assises in their Circuit or Progresse in the Shire where such Acts or ordinances be made vpon paine or forfaiture of xl li. for euery time that they doe the contrary As by the said Act of Parliament doth and may appeare Know you now that Phinees Pett Master of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith in the County of Surrey and William Bright Nicholas Symonson and Nicholas Clay now Wardens of the said Art ot Mysterie with the whole Assent and consent of the Assistants of the same willing and desiring the said Act of Parliament in all and euery thing to be duely obserued and kept the twentieth day of Iuly in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland defendor of the faith c. the tenth and of Scotland the fiue and fortieth haue exhibited to vs a certaine Petition containing diuers Articles Acts and ordinances for the better order rule and gouernment of the said Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights and of the person and persons now practising and professing or which heereafter shall practise or professe the said Art or Mysterie or any thing thereunto appertaining dwelling and inhabiting or which heereafter shall dwell and inhabit within the Realme of England or Dominion of Wales and for the Common weale and conseruation of the good estate of the said Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights And haue instantly desired vs that wee all and euery their Acts and ordinances heereafter mentioned by them to vs exhibited would examine and approue and them and euery of them to correct and amend in due and conuenient manner and forme as the said recited Act of Parliament requireth Wee well perceiuing and considering their said supplication to be good and acceptable according to their said desires and by the aucthoritie of the said Act of Parliament to vs giuen all and euery their Acts and ordinance so to vs exhibited haue seene read wel vnderstood and all and euery of them examined corrected and reformed the tenor whereof heereafter followeth viz. Inprimis it is ordained that vppon the day of election of new Master and Wardens of the said Corporation the same Master and Wardens so to be elected shall choose foure persons whereof two to be of the Assistants and the other two to bee of the better sort of the Cominaltie of the said Art or Mysterie who are not Assistants who haue called the Auditors of the said Company for the Accompts and reckonings of all such Officers and Accompts of the said Art or Mysterie are or ought to be Accomptable for or concerning any money goodes plate profits or

name of Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid they shall and may be able and capable in law to haue hold purchase receiue take possesse and enioy aswell any mannors mesuages landes tenements rents reuersions seruices and other hereditaments in Fee to them and their successors for euer As also all and singuler goods chattels and other things whatsoeuer and the same manners messuages lands tenements rents reuersions hereditaments goods chattels and other the premisses and euery or any part or parcell thereof to demise graunt let set assigne and dispose at their will and pleasure and to make seale and accomplish all deedes euidences and writings of for and concerning the same and euery parcell thereof in that behalfe needfull necessarie or conuenient to be made or had And that they and their successors by the same name of Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid shall and may be persons able and capable in law to sue and be sued plead and be impleaded answere and to be answered to defend and to be defended in all or any Court or Courts place or places iurisdiction or iurisdictions whatsoeuer and before any Iudge Iudges Iustices or other person or persons officer or officers whatsoeuer in all and singuler actions plaints Pleas suits quarrels causes matters and demaunds of whatsoeuer kinde nature qualitie or sort in such manner and forme by all those waies and means and to such end and purposes as any other Corporation or any our liege people of this our Realme of England being Corporations or persons able and capable in deede or law may or can haue hold purchase receiue possesse enioy retaine giue grant demise alien assigne dispose plead and be impleaded answere and be answered and to defend and be defended or do permit and execute by any lawful waies or meanes whatsoeuer And also that the said Master Wardens and Cominalty of the Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights of Redrith aforesaid shall and may make or cause to be made and may haue a Common Seale for them and their successors for euer to serue for the ensealing doing and confirming of all and singuler their causes affaires and businesse whatsoeuer And that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Master Wardens and Cominaltie and their successors the same Seale at their will and pleasure from time to time to breake deface alter change and make new as to them shall seeme most meete and conuenient And further we will and for vs our heires and successors we do grant by these presents That from henceforth for euer there be and shall be one Master three Wardens sixteene Assistants of the said Corporation Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid to be constituted and chosen in such manner and forme as heereafter in these presents is expressed and specified And for the better execution of the premisses and also for the good rule and gouernment of the Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights aforesaid from time to time for euer we haue assigned ordained and constituted And by these presents for vs our heires and successors do assigne name ordaine and constitute our welbeloued subiect Phinees Pett our seruant and Master Ship-wright to be the first Master of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights willing that the said Phinees Pett be and shall continue Master of the said Art or Mysterie from the day of the date of these presents vntill the morrow after the feast of Saint Bartholmew Th'apostle now next ensuing and then from thenceforth vntill some other meete and sufficient man of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights aforesaid be elected sworne to execute the said Office of Master of the said Art or Mystery of Shipwrights of Redrith aforesaid according to the ordinances and prouisions in these presents expressed and limited if the said Phinees Pett shall so long liue vnlesse the said Phinees Pett shall happen in the meane-time for some misgouernment or other iust cause to be remoued whom for such iust cause we will and ordaine to be remoueable according to the forme heerein expressed And also we haue assigned ordained named and constituted and by these presents for vs our heires and successors do assigne name ordaine and constitute our welbeloued subiects William Burrell Nicholas Symonson and Thomas Dymock three other Shipwrights to be the first three Wardens of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights aforesaid Willing that they the said William Burrell Nicholas Symonson and Thomas Dymock shall be and continue Wardens of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights from the day of the date of these presents till the morrow after the feast of Saint Bartholmew the Apostle now next ensuing the date heereof and from the morrow after the said Feast vntill three other meete and sufficient men of the Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights aforesaid be to the said Offices of Wardens elected and sworne to execute the same according to the ordinances and prouisions in these presents limited and expressed if they the said William Burrell Nicholas Symonson and Thomas Dymock shall so long liue vnlesse they or any of them respectiuely in the meane-time shall be remoued for their misgouernment or for some other iust cause whom for such iust cause wee likewise will and ordaine to be remoueable according to the forme heerein expressed And moreouer for the better assistance and counsell of the said Master and Wardens in and about the execution of their seuerall Offices wee haue assigned named ordained and constituted and by these presents for vs our heires and successors doe assigne name ordaine and constitute our welbeloued subiects Mathew Baker William Bright Edward Stephens Nicholas Clay Iohn Apslin Peter Pett Thomas Ienkins Iohn Graues Robert Bourne Iames Marshe William Hedger Thomas Wells William Pickes Iohn Maye Edmund Iordan and Richard Watford to be the first and present sixteene Assistants of the said Art or Mysterie Willing that they the said Mathew Baker William Bright Edward Stephens Nicholas Clay Iohn Apslin Peter Pett Thomas Ienkin Iohn Graues Robert Bourne Iames Marshe William Hedger Thomas Wells William Pickes Iohn Mare Edmund Iordan and Richard Watford and all other Assistants of the said Art or Mysterie for the time being shall be and continue Assistants of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid for and during their naturall liues and shall from time to time be aiding counselling and assisting vnto the said Master and Wardens for the better gouernment rule and direction of the said Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the said Art or Mysterie and euery member thereof vnlesse they or any of them shall be remoued from the same place of Assistant or Assistants for some misdemeanor or other iust cause whom for such cause we likewise will and ordaine to be remoueable according to the forme heerein also expressed And for

by their said Charter there is an oath to be administred to the said Master Wardens and Assistants and also to Iorney-men vpon their admittance and noe fourme of the said oath set downe It is ordered and decreed that the fourme of the said oath shall bee as followeth That is to say The Oath of the Master You shall be true to our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie his heires and successors and you shall endeuour your selfe the best you can iustly lawfully and indifferently to execute and cause to be executed your Office of Master so farre forth in euery respect as lawfully you may And in like manner shall obserue and cause to be obserued all the good and lawfull Orders Ordinances and Constitutions herein contained and heereafter to be made for the common good weale and profit of the said Corporation and all the grants powers and aucthorities granted by the Kings Maiestie to the Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mysterie of Shipwrights of Redrith in the Countie of Surrey without sparing any person for affection meede dreade or promise of reward during the time you shall remaine and be in the said Office of Master And of all and euery such goods plate and summes of money or any other thing or things that by reason of your said Office shall come to your hands or possession you shall according to Th'ordinances heerein specified make a good true iust and plaine accompt or else pay such fines as you shall be ordered to pay for your not so doing You shall not for any malice nor for loue or affection assesse any person in a greater or lesser summe than after the quantitie and qualitie of his offence according to your discretion and according to th' ordinances in these presents mentioned So help you God 43 The like Oath for the Wardens and Deputies respectiuely mutatis mutandis The Oath of the Assistants You shall sweare that you shall bee true to our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie his heires and lawfull successors and you shall indeauour your selues so farre forth as you lawfully may to the best of your skill aswell for and concerning the giuing and vsing your faithfull aduices and counsell to the Master and Wardens of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith in the Countie of Surrey for the time being for their more better execution of their said Offices And to giue vse your faithful aid and assistance in euery respect as much as in you lyeth and lawfully you may doe for the due obseruation of all the good and lawfull ordinances heerein contained or heereafter to be made according to the true intent and meaning of the same and of the powers grants and aucthorities granted by the Kinges Maiestie to the Master Wardens and Cominaltie without sparing or impeaching any person or persons whatsoeuer either for affection or malice or in respect of any reward meede dread or promise of reward during the time you shal be an Assistant touching the said Art or Mysterie So help you God 44 The Oath of euery one that is made free You shall be true to our Soueraigne Lord the King to his heires and successors you shall be obedient from time to time in all matters lawfull to the Master and Wardens of this Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights for the time being and readie to come to their lawfull summons except you haue a lawfull excuse Or else you shall pay such reasonable penalties as you shall forfait for your disobedience according to the Ordinances heeretofore made by the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Art or Mysterie Which Ordinances and euery of them to your power you shall obserue and keepe and all the lawfull counsels of the Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the said Art or Mysterie which at any time of assembly shall lawfully be had in Communication among them then at their common Hall you shall keepe secret not disclose the same to any person of the same Cominaltie nor to any other especially to any such person whom the same matter doth concerne and touch So help you God All which Ordinances and constitutions in manner and forme aforesaid at the request of the said Phinees Pett Master of the said Act or Mysterie of Ship wrights and of the said William Bright Nicholas Symonson and Nicholas Clay now Wardens and Cominaltie of the same by aucthoritie and vertue of the said Act of Parliament made in the said nineteenth yeare of King H. 7. Wee the said Chauncellor and cheefe Iustice of either Bench aforesaid haue seene read examined and perused and for good laudable and lawfull Ordinances constitutions and Oathes so far as we lawfully may wee doe allow and approue by these presents In witnesse whereof wee haue heereunto subscribed our names and set to our seales the tenth day of September In the yeares of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord Iames by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland defendor of the faith c. the tenth and of Scotland the fortieth THO. ELLESMERE Cane THO. FLEMING EDVV. COKE The preamble The reasons and ground of this Charter Who are to bee of the Corporation The name of the Corporation To haue a Common Seale To haue a Master three Wardens and sixteene Assistants Nomination of the first Master Nomination of the first Wardens Nomination of the first Assistants The day of election of Masters Wardens To bee remoueable for misdemean or and others chosen To be fined for refusall or neglect To appoynt Deputies in remote places Their duty and office To haue a Clarke Power to choose inferior officers To take in any person to bee of the company and again to displace them Keeping retayning of Apprentices To be boūd and enrolled at their Common Hall Courts and consultation Power to make lavves Offendors to be fined Power to leauie and recouer duties fines c. by distrease or action of Det. Restraint from discouery of the secrets of of the trade Punishmēt of such as shall depart from their worke and be mutinous Hearing of complaints Searches surueyes Power to trade beyond the seas Surueying of Tounage Power to punish Imprisonment of offendors Freedome from Size or Sessions Submission to the Charter Power to purchase The Kinges charge The Preamble Election of Auditors Election of Stewards The company to heare a sermon vpon the election day For prouiding a dinner vpon the election day Election of Beadles For hauing a Chest with foure lockes and keyes Searches and surueies None to be set to worke vnles he hath beene aprentice to the trade For distinction approbatiō of Mr. workemen Admittance of yard-keepers Taking of apprentices Binding enrolling and presenting of Apprentises Formerly bound to be enrolled at the Hall Making of Indentures Setting ouer of Apprentices Submission to the ordinances Appearance at the Hall vpon summons Restraining of worke on Sundaies Against inticing away of prentices Contributions for maintenance of the Corporation Suppressing of conspiracies against Charters and ordinances None of the company to reuile another Payment of quarterage Perfecting the company in the Knowledge of the Trade Coming to departure from worke Continuance at worke begun Tonnage of Ships poundage vpon old taske worke Poundage of persons that goe to Sea No insufficient person to goe to Sea Keeping of monthly quarterly Courts Restraining of worke to any forraine Prince Yeelding vp of accompt Deciding of controuersies To restrane the discouery of the Secrets of the trade For imployment so the company at their dweling places An order for Calkers Buriall of the Assistans Freemen to be imployed be one Forrayners Di●strayning for Fines Deputy Assistants in the Thames Oath of the Maister c. 1612