THE CRAFT GUILDS OF FRANCE.
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rich, for
as strong, for so long as
weak
it
shall please the king that
he keep the said
afterwards the said Master William did take the form of oath aforesaid before
the Chastelet.
YII. The masons, the inortarers, and the plasterers
tlie
craft
;
and
Trovost of
I'aris at
workmen
may have
as
many
in their service as they please, provided always that they instruct
assistants
and
them not in any
point of their handicraft.
shall swear by the saints
every mason, and every mortarer, and every plasterer,
each one in his place and if they know
that he will keep the craft aforesaid weU and truly,
that any one do iU in anything, and act not according to the usages and customs of the craft
aforesaid, that they will lay the same before the master whensoever they shall know thereof,
And
VIII.
:
and on
their oath.
IX. The master whose apprentice shall have served and completed his time shall appear
before the master of the craft, and bear witness that his apprentice has served his time well
and truly
the saints
X.
:
and then the master who keeps the craft shall cause the apprentice to swear
that he will conform to the usages and customs of the craft well and truly.
And no
Dame
at
one shall work at his craft aforesaid after the stroke of none
time
flesh
during
Notre Dame
;
unless
And
;
it
any one work beyond the hours
on the
street.
aforesaid, he shall pay
master
seize the tools of
may
XVII. The master of the
iiij
him who
craft
XVIII. And
craft, if
aforesaid, unless it
pence as fine to the master
be of necessity in the
who keeps
the craft, and the
shall be recast in the fine.
has cognisance of the petty justice and fines of the masons,
the plasterers, and the mortarers, and of their
jjlease the king, as also of deprivation of their
de propreti.
the
Notre
and of a Saturday in Lent, after vespers shall have been chanted
be to close an arch or a stairway, or to close a door frame placed
works
if
(3 p.m.) at
liy
workmen and
craft,
and
apprentices, as long as
of bloodless beatings,
it
shall
and of clameur
any of the aforesaid craftsmen be summoned before the master who keeps
he absent himself he shall pay a fine of iiij pence to the master, and if he appear
if
and acknowledge
at the time
shall
be fined
shall
pay
iiij
pence
[his fault]
to the master,
forfeit, and if he pay not before night he
he deny and be found to have done wrong he
he shall
and
if
pence to the master.
XIX. The master who rules the craft can not levy but one fine for each offence; and if
he who has been fined is so stiffnecked and so false that he will not obey the master or pay
iiij
his fine, the master
XX.
If
may
forbid
him
his craft.
any one of the aforementioned
by the master shall nevertheless use his
crafts
whose