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institutes, or cloisters, shall
hold and judge according to our ordinances
;
for thereby their
and harm avoided. Therefore each
advantage shall be greatly advanced, who have to build,
one shall have a book, and be acknowledged as superior of his circuit and district by all the
masters and fellows of that province. He shall also have perfect power, which is given to
each at this assembly, and enjoined upon him, conjointly with his fellow masters, by virtue of
their superiority, to firmly rule this craft, to punish his subjects, accept brothers, help the
of his neighbourhood, nevertheless in such wise that nothing
sick, to call a
general assembly
be cut short of the Ordinances.
IVJicre
XXIV. And
a Book
all
there shall he the Collection
is,
those to
whom
for the Poor and Sick Brothers.
books of the ordinances are given, shall faithfully collect
the weekly penny from the fellows and if a fellow become sick, shall assist him. Likewise,
where such a superior has a master under him, having employment and fellows, he shall order
;
weekly pennies in a box, and give him a box for that purpose, which box
shall be emptied by and accounted for to each superior of a district every year, and be
employed for the assistance of the poor and sick of our craft who are under him.
him
to collect the
And
who has
every master
a box, and has received account every year of his neighbours
bohemian
^
every year at Rlichaelmas to the chief lodge at
with a ticket whence it comes, as a sign of obedience and brotherly love that it
Strassburg,
may be known that all things as aforesaid have been carried oiit.
of their boxes, shall send a
;
The Places which, having Books, are
XXV.
Speyer, Zurich,
suljcct to the
Chief Loclge at Strassburg.
Augspurg, Franckfurt, Ulm, Heilbrunn, Blassenburg, Dressden,
Nuremberg, Saltzburg, Mentz, Stutgarten, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Basel, Hagnaw, Schletstatt,
Regenspurg, Meysenheim, Miinchen, Anspach, Costenz.
Of a
XXVI.
If a fellow has travelled
and wishes
to serve a
a Master for a
Felloiu ivho ivishes to serve
and served the
craft,
and
is
time.
also previously of this guild,
craftsman for a time, the said master and
workman
shall not accept
each other for less than one year or thereabouts.
Of a Master or Fellow
XXVII.
all
vjho should disoheg these Ordinances.
All those, be they master or fellows,
who
are of this guild, shall hold in obedience
points and articles, as stand both before and hereafter written.
But
if
any one should
perchance break one of the points and become punishable, if afterwards he be obedient to the
regulations by sufficing to that which he has been ordered as amends, he shall have done
sufficient, and be released from his vow as regards the article wherefor he has been punished.
Hoiv
the
XXVIII. The master who
care that the
Masters of this Guild shall preserve the Book.
has charge of the book shall, on his oath to the guild, have a
either by himself or by any other person, or lent so that
same be not copied
;
the books remain in full force, as resolved by the craftsmen.
But should any one be in need
of one or two articles more or less, that may any master give him in writing.
And every
master shall cause these Ordinances to be read every year to the fellows in the lodge.
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