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A53410 The orders, rules, and ordinances ordained, devised, and made by the master and keepers or wardens and comminalty of the mystery or art of Stationers of the city of London, for the well governing of that society Stationers' Company (London, England) 1678 (1678) Wing O403; ESTC R11816 21,973 31

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to be Second or under-Warden of the said Society instead of the person so refusing and for such time as he should have served Second or under-Warden by such Election if he had not refused and untill there shall be a second or under-Warden chosen who shall take upon him the Execution of the said Office and take the said Oath the same method shall be observed and penalties incurred upon every such refusal AND IT IS further Ordained That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society or the major part of them shall and may from time to time and at any time or times hereafter when they shall think fit at a Court of Assistants make choice of such and so many of the Members of the said Society who have paid their Fines for not serving or else have served according to the Custom of the said Society in the Office or Place of Renter-warden of the said Society as they or the major part of them shall think fit to be Assistants to the said Master and Wardens and of common Council of the said Society and that every person and persons so chosen as aforesaid shall before he or they take upon him or them his Office or place of an Assistant as aforesaid or sit in any Court of Assistants of the said Society take an Oath before the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society or the major part of them which Oath is to be administred in a Court of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society or the major part of them according to the form for that purpose hereafter appointed Every which said person or persons so chosen to be an Assistant as aforesaid shall after his being sworn as aforesaid pay to the Clerk of the said Society for Administring the Oath and Registring his Name the usual Fee of Ten Shillings and to the Beadle of the said Society his usual Fee of Five Shillings AND it is hereby likewise Ordained That within some time convenient after the Election and Oath taken by the new Master and Wardens of the said Society as aforesaid not exceeding two moneths the last Master and Wardens and every of them shall give a true and just accompt in writing unto such persons as shall be appointed by the then Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society or the major part of them in a Court of Assistants Auditors for that purpose of all Iewels Plate Money Linnen Charters Deeds Evidences Obligations Writings Books and Papers whatsoever and of all other Goods and Chattels whatsoever belonging to the said Society and which did at any time come to his or their hands charge or custody and shall likewise safely deliver them to the Master and Wardens then in being together with his or their Key or Keys and also all other things whatsoever belonging to the said Society which are or were in his or their custody and not accompted for upon pain of Forfeiting to the use of the said Society for every Month that every such person or persons shall neglect to Accompt as aforesaid or detain any of the said Premisses after the time limited hereby over and above the full value of the same such person or persons having no just Impediment for so doing which shall be so allowed by the Master Wardens and Assistants or the major part of them in a Court of Assistants the summe of One hundred pounds And it is likewise Ordained that the said Accompts with the Inventory and such other things as shall be so delivered up shall immediately after the Auditing and Allowance thereof be fairly entred by the Clerk of the said Society into a Book for that purpose provided which Book shall be safely kept by him in his Office AND also it is further Ordained That the common Seal of the said Society together with the Plate Iewels Goods Charters Writings Evidences and all other things belonging to the said Society shall remain and be in one or more Chest or Chests which said Chest or Chests shall also stand in the Hall or such other place as the Master Wardens and Assistants or the major part of them in a Court of Assistants shall direct and to which there shall be three several Locks and Keys the custody of one of which said Keys shall be in the Master of the said Society for the time being the custody of another shall be in the first or upper Warden for the time being and the custody of the third shall be in the second or under Warden for the time being during their respective Offices and untill their Accompts shall be audited only And if it shall happen the said Master or either of the said Wardens to be sick or travail out of the said City or shall absent himself for Fourteen days that then in such case every such Master and Warden respectively shall leave his or their Key or Keys with some other honest and able person or persons being one of the said Assistants so that the said Companies affairs may not suffer prejudice by want thereof Vpon pain to forfeit for every such default to the said Master and Keepers or Wardens and Comminalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London aforesaid the summe of Five pounds ALSO it is further Ordained That no Leases Demises Annuities Grants Gifts or Bargains and Sales of what nature or kind soever of any House or Houses Lands Tenements or other thing or things whatsoever appertaining to the said Society nor any Obligations Bills or Specialties whatsoever shall at any time be granted by or pass under the Common Seal of the said Society unless the same be ordered so to be by the Master Wardens and Assistants or the major part of them in a Court of Assistants upon pain that the Master and each Warden which shall be master or Warden at the time of such offence ●ffending contrary to this Ordinance shall forthwith be Disfranchised and pay each of them for such their Offence to the Master and Keepers or wardens and Comminalty of the Mystery or Art of Stationers of the City of London aforesaid over and above the damage which the said Society shall receive for such their offence the summe of one hundred pounds a piece AND also it is Ordained That the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Society or the major part of them in a Court of Assistants when and as often as they shall think fit may Elect choose and admit into the Livery or Cloathing of the said Society such person and persons free of the said Society as they shall think fit and that after Election of any person into the Livery or Cloathing aforesaid the Master of the said Society shall cause the Beadle of the said Society to put upon him so elected a Livery Gown after the manner heretofore accustomed in the said Society and then the said Master shall put upon his shoulder a party-coloured Hood made after the usual manner after