THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY.
And
23.
week
the master shall appoint each
new
account each week to the
treasurer,
and
a treasurer,
who
shall
shall be answerable to
137
make all payments, and
him \tlie, masUr\ for the
contents of the box.
And
And
24.
25.
workmaster,
which
the master has power,
if
come
a master or fellow
if
him
to
he so
will, to rest in the lodge at
free of the craft or trade,
shall he grant his wish,
shall he adjudged of master
and
and he
fellows.
And
tide.
vesper
and demand a mark of a
God
shall give for the service of
to master
and fellows
shall
that
he pledge
mark doubly.
the
No
26.
master shall withliold his mark from his apprentice for a further space than xiiij.
it be that the apprentice has wasted his master's time, he shall then first do his
days, unless
behest before that and the
And no
27.
several clericals
feast.
master shall show any reluctance to pledge bis apprentice's mark, and the
he may bid thereto, with a penny wheaten bread of xv. gr., a loaf of xv.
whom
meat, and two stoups of wine
gi'.,
he bid more then
;
and the apprentice shall not bid more than
x. fellows,
and
if
he buy more, that the master suffer not thereby.
28. The master shall knock with three blows, the warden with two consecutively, and one
for
shall
announcements
at morning, noon,
and
eve, as is the old usage of the land.
The master may appoint an apprentice who serves
29.
warden,
if
he be able to maintain
it,
for
knowledge to
tlie
office
of
in order that the building suffer not.
mark to travel during his apprenticeship, if the
master have no employment, and must let him travel.
31. No master shall allow his apprentice to pledge his mark, unless he have served his
The master may lend
30.
his apprentice a
time.
No
master shall lay snares for another and entice away his apprentice, so reads the
No
32.
master shall employ any one who has brought himself to shame or dishonour
he is worse than a hound him shall the master set down as void of
;
letter.
33.
by word or deed
either
;
lionour, likewise also the fellows.
And no master
34.
and
or
warden
unwilling to pay.
is
shall be held of good report
If this be
brought home
to him,
who borrows and remains owing
he shall be warned and told to
good by a certain time, and if he do this not