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 Company unless it shall be otherwise thought fit and ordered by the Master Wardens and Assistants or the greater number of them. And in case any person or persons free of the said Company shall refuse to hold the said office or place of Steward or fail to make one such competent and sufficient Dinner or Feast as aforesaid or to bear and pay their proportionable charges or shares thereof that then every of the said persons which shall make default shall respectively forfeit and pay to the Master Wardens and Commonalty of the said Company the sum of Ten Pounds current money as a Fine or Mulct for such his or their refusal or neglect to be in default of payment thereof recovered and levied in such manner as is hereafter mentioned.

ALSO IT IS ORDAINED that every person and persons members of the said Company making for sale or selling anything belonging to the said Mystery within the Limits aforesaid or otherwise being free of the said Company shall upon Summons of the Beadle attend on every Quarter Court Day that shall be kept and held by the said Master Wardens and Assistants or at any other convenient time at the discretion of the Master Wardens at the Common Hall of the said Company for the time being or such other person as shall be appointed to receive the same. All their Quarterage money which shall be due and payable by them according to the proportions and rates following that is to say—The Master Wardens Assistants and Livery of the said Company and such as have been Masters Wardens Assistants and Liverymen of the said Company shall pay the sum of Twelve pence a quarter. And all other persons Members of the said Company shall pay the sum of Nine pence a quarter towards the support and maintenance of the said Company and defraying the necessary expenses of the same and every person who shall refuse or delay to pay the same Quarterage as aforesaid shall forfeit and