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 pay to the Master Wardens and Commonalty of the said Company the sum of Three shillings and four pence for every such default of payment thereof to be recovered or levied in such manner as is hereinafter mentioned.

ALSO IT IS ORDAINED that if any person or persons of the said Mystery or which hereafter shall be free thereof shall at any time or times hereafter depart into the country and be resident and dwelling out of the City of London or Liberties of the same. That yet notwithstanding every such person or persons so long as he shall continue his Freedom shall bear and pay all manner of charges belonging to the said Company as if he were dwelling and resident within the Liberties aforesaid. And also shall bear such Office in the said Company as he shall be called unto or else pay such fines as by virtue of these ordinances shall be imposed upon him for the same.

ALSO for the avoiding of divers abuses and deceits heretofore used by divers persons in counterfeiting of another man's mark to give credit to his own bad wares whereby many of Her Majesty's Subjects are oftentimes much abused and deceived and to the end that every one may use his own proper mark by which his wares may be known and receive commendations or disgrace as he deserveth IT IS ORDAINED that every person and persons members of the said Commonalty using or which shall hereafter use the said Mystery or anything thereunto belonging within the Liberties aforesaid shall within fourteen days after admonition or warning to him or them in that behalf given present and deliver to the Master and Wardens of the said Mystery for the time being into their Common Hall to be registered and recorded one peculiar and selected mark solely and properly of itself and for himself without adding thereunto any other man's mark or any other mark in part or in all which said mark and none other he shall strike and set upon the