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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

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

or warned to appeare vpon any such Iuries or enquests could not nor cannot plead or alleadge the said former Letters Pattents nor these presents or the priueledges and authorities hereby giuen and granted vnto them for their discharge in that behalfe whereby diuers issues fines and amercements are many times returned against them contrary to our true intent and meaning Wee doe therefore graunt for vs our heires and successors vnto the said Master Wardens and Comminalty and their successors for euer That if any issues fines and amercements shall be returned forfeited or imposed by or vppon any of the said person or persons of the said Corporation Trade Art or Mistery for or in respect of not doing or not performing of any of the said seruices or other things whereof they are hereby exempted or freed or mentioned to be exempted or freed That then the same person or persons his or their heires executors administrators and assignes and euery of them and all his and their landes tenements goods and chattels shall be for euer freed and discharged of and from the same issues fines and amerciaments and euery of them And wee doe require and commaund the Barons of our Eschequer that in respect of the pouerty of many that are to be releeued in this case they giue them all expedition and ease in the proceedings and pleading for their discharge in that behalfe And because this Corporation of Ship-wrights hath bin principally instituted made for the mainteinance and encrease of Nauigation and for the better and more substantiall making building and repairing of ships and also for the trayning vp instructing of Ship-wrights Ship-carpenters labourers and workemen to make them more ready able and skilfull for seruice All which things do very greatly concerne the defence safety wealth and profit of our selfe our Kingdomes and subiects Therefore wee doe not onely straightly charge and command all and euery person and persons which are or shall be of the Cominaltie of this Corporation That they doe dutifully submit themselues to such good and wholesome lawes statutes and ordinances as shall be heereafter ordained and made by vertue of these Letters Patents for the gouernment rule order and direction of this Corporation and of all the members thereof But wee doe also straightly require charge and command all Masters Wardens and Assistants deputies and other the principall Officers of this incorporation now being and that heereafter shall bee That they and euery of them in their seuerall Offices and places doe carefully diligently and circumspectly looke to the due and seuere execution of all such lawes statutes and ordinances so to be made as aforesaid that the same may be truely performed and accomplished according to the tenor and true meaning of the same vpon paine of our heauy displeasure and indignation and of such punishment and imprisonment as by our lawes may be inflicted on them and euery or any of them wherein our meaning is to extend the greater punishment vpon such as hauing offices and places of trust and charge committed vnto them shall by wilfulnesse negligence remisnesse partialitie or otherwise offend themselues or suffer others to offend in those things whereof they ought to bee the reformers and redressers and at whose hands wee expect to receiue and haue amendement and reformation of all offences that shall bee committed by any others in that behalfe And forasmuch as the pouertie of Ship-wrights and persons belonging to the said Corporation is now much more increased then in former times and not able to be releeued supported and maintained by the duties and reuenues of the said Corporation which heertofore they haue had or were enabled to haue being so small in yeerely value Therefore and to the end the said Master Wardens and Comminalty and their Successors may bee from henceforth the better enabled from time to time to beare and sustaine their charges and expences drawne and occasioned by reason of the Corporation and to releeue and maintaine the poore of the same wee haue of our more especiall grace certaine knoledge and meere motion giuen and graunted and by these presents for vs our heires and successors doe giue and graunt vnto the said Master Wardens and Comminalty of the said Art or Mistery of Ship wrights of Redrith aforesaid and to their successors especiall licence and free and lawfull faculty power and authority that they their successors for euer shall and may not onely haue receiue and purchase to them and their successors for euer to their owne proper vse and behoofe as well of vs our heires and successors as of any other person or persons whatsoeuer Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Rents Reuersions Seruices and other Hereditaments whatsoeuer which are not held of vs our heires and successors in chiefe or by Knights seruice nor of any other by Knights seruice So alwaies that the same Manours Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Rents Reuersions or Hereditaments by the said Master Wardens and Comminalty or their successors so to bee receiued purchased obtained or had as aforesaid doe not exceed the cleare yeerly value of forty pound by the yeere aboue all charges deductions and reprizes The Statute of Lands Tenements not to bee put in Mortmaine or any other Statute Act or Ordinance prouision restraint or any other matter cause or thing whatsoeuer to the contrary notwithstanding And further wee haue giuen and graunted And by these presents for vs our heires and successors wee doe giue and graunt special licence and ful free power authority to any and euery of the subiects of vs our heires and successors and to all and euery body and bodies Corporate and Politique and other person and persons whatsoeuer and to euery of them That they and euery of them shall and may giue graunt bequeath assigne or by any wayes or meanes whatsoeuer alnie deuize or assure vnto the said Master Wardens and comminalty and to their successors for euer any Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Rents Reuersions Seruices and other Hereditaments whatsoeuer which are not held of vs our heires or successors in chiefe or by Knights seruice or of any other by Knights seruice So that the same Mannours Lands Tenements and other the premisses so as aforesaid to bee giuen graunted assigned or deuised doe not exceed in the whole the cleare yeerely value of forty pound per annum aboue all charges deductions and reprizes The Statute of Lands and Tenements not to bee put in Mortmaine or any other Act Statute Ordinance Prouision or restraint or any other matter cause or thing whatsoeuer to the contrary notwithstanding And finally we doe by these presents for vs our heires and successors straightly charge and command Aswell the Lord Admirall of England for the time beeing and also the Iudge of our Admirality and principall Officers of our Nauy and al Viz. Admirals Marshals Sergeants and other officers of our Admiralty As also the Lord Mayor of our

IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland defendor of the faith c. To all to whom these presents shall come greting Whereas wee are credibly informed as well by our right trustie and right welbeloued Cosin and Counselor Charles Earle of Nottingam Lord high Admirall of England and Captaine Generall of our Nauy Royall as also by our principall officers of our said Nauy how slenderly and deceiptfully aswell our owne Ships and Barges as also other Shippes Boates Pinnaces like vessels of our Marchants and other our subiectes vsed in continuall seruice and trafficke are made and wrought to the great losse danger and preiudice of vs and our said subiectes and also of the great needlesse and wastfull charge and expences which wee doe from time to time beare and susteine in building and repairing of our owne Shippes and Pinnaces which are and haue beene the chiefest and greatest defence of this our Realme from the assaults of such enemies as haue practized the ouerthrow of the same Wee weighing the manifould dangers losses and hinderances which might and were likely more and more to ensue thereof if speedy remedy be not therefore had and prouided And intending to prouide for the strengthning of these our Kingdomes and Dominions with sufficient Shipping for defence and seruice thereof And to th' intent that aswell our selfe might from time to time be furnished stored and supplied with the fittest and ablest Ship-wrights and worke-men for the building making and repairing of our owne Shippes Pinnaces and other vessels As also that our Marchants and other our subiects might also in their worke and building from time to time be stored and supplied with skilfull able and sufficient Ship-wrights and work-men And for the better suppressing of deceiptes and abuses of diuers persons which should take vpon without sufficient skill and knowledge to make or repaire any Shippes Boates Pinnaces or other vessels to the great danger and hindrance as well of our selfe as of diuers other our louing subiectes Wee did by our Letters Patents vnder the great Seale of England bearing date the two and twenteth day of Aprill In the yeare of our raigne of England France and Ireland the third and of Scotland the eight and thirteith Incorporate the Company of Ship-wrights and the Persons being Ship-wrights or Carpenters vsing the art or mistery of building and making of Shippes within our Realme of England and dominion of Wales by the name of Maister Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mistery of Ship-wrights of England and did grant vnto them by our said Charter or Letters Pattents diuers Preuiledges Liberties and immunities mentioned and contayned in the saide Letters Pattents tending to the reformation of the saide Abuses and deceites And whereas diuers defects and imperfections haue been sithence by experience found to be in the said Charter aswell in the extend thereof to what persons it should extend As also in the want of sufficient aucthoritie and meanes to gouerne and order the said Corporation and the men and members thereof and the affaires of the same and the Shipwrights workemen apprentices and seruants vsing the said art and for want of power and meanes to reforme preuent order and correct many contempts misdemeanors deceits and offences in the said art or misterie and the matters and things thereunto appertaining and to punish stubborne obstinate and disobedient persons of that profession whereby manifold errors deceits inconueniences are stil practised and continued to the great hindrance of the Nauigation of this kingdom the often losse hazard of mens liues and goods and the especiall preiudice of our owne seruice and the Common-wealth Know yee that wee for reformation amendment and supplie of the defects and imperfections aforesaid and for redresse of the said great and manifold errors enormities deceits and inconueniences at the Petition of the said Master Wardens and Cominaltie and for the great desire wee haue that good and conuenient lawes orders and ordinances should be established and vsed in and about the Corporation and Companie and the said Art or Misterie and for the aduancement of the good estate of the Shipping and Nauigation of this Kingdome to the good seruice both of our selfe and the Common-wealth Haue of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion granted constituted and ordained and by these Presents for vs our heires and successors doe grant constitute and ordaine That all and euery person and persons being Ship-wrights Calkers or Ship-carpenters or in any sort vsing exercising practising or professing the Art trade skill or misterie of building making trimming dressing grauing launcing winding drawing stocking or repairing of Ships Caruels Hoyes Pinnaces Crayers Ketches Lighters Boates Barges Wherries or any other vessell or vessels whatsoeuer vsed for Nauigation fishing or transportation within or about our Realme of England and dominion of Wales or of making trymming or repairing of Masts Toppes Pullies Pumpes for ships Oares or any other instruments or appurtenances of wood thereunto belonging or any other Carpentrie worke whatsoeuer belonging to or vsed occupied or imployed in or about any Shippes Pinnaces or other vessell or vessels aboue mentioned or in any sort appertaining to shipping sayling rowing stocking launching or Nauigation shall from henceforth foreuer be and shall be taken and accounted to be one body Corporate and politique in matter deede and name By the name of Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith in the Countie of Surrey and them by the name of Master Wardens and Cominaltie of the Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith in the Countie of Surrey wee doe for vs our heires and successors really fully and wholly erect make ordaine create incorporate constitute and declare by these presents one body corporate politique in matter deede and name And wee will and by these presents for vs our heires and sucessors of our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion doe graunt to the said Master Wardens and Cominaltie and their successors for euer That they by the said name of Master Wardens and Cominalty of the said Art or Mysterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid shall from henceforth haue perpetuall succession And that they and their successors by the said name of Master Wardens Cominaltie of the said Art or Misterie of Ship-wrights of Redrith aforesaid be and shall be at all times hereafter a bodie Corporate and politique able capable in deed in law to haue hold occupie enioy possesse and retaine all and singuler vsages customes liberties priuiledges immunities iurisdictions franchises preheminences benefits profits and commodities whatsoeuer to them heeretofore granted or belonging or heereafter to be graunted or belonging or incident requisite or fitte to or for them or for such a Corporation to haue and enioy of what kind nature or qualitie soeuer they shall be to them and their successors for euer And that also by the same