THE CRAFT GUILDS OF FRANCE.
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have served previously and accomplished his three years of apprenticeship; which he
shall cause to be sufficiently made apparent, and also that after his said apprenticeship he has
shall
served the masters of the said city or elsewhere for three or four years.
The consuls and provosts shall be required to prescribe to the aspirants the
other matter of architecture or
masterpiece, which tliey will inspect; designs, models, or some
Three days after the said presentation at latest, the consuls and prolearning of the said craft.
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vosts shall, for this purpose, cause to assemble before them, by their beadle, the masters of the
the
craft, within the said three days, in order to deliberate together on the said masterpiece,
shall be prescribed according to the greater voice
which
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make
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said masterpiece having been prescribed, the aspirant shall be required to
who shall be thereto appointed, in
in presence of one of the said provosts or masters,
order that no abuse or deceit
may
arise.
The beforesaid masterpiece being achieved and presented
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and opinion.
to the said consuls,
provosts, and four of the most ancient masters, who will examine the said masterpiece and the
aspirant on the erudition of architecture and the art of biulding well, and having deemed him
capable and sufficient, the said consuls and provosts shall be required to present him to the saM
governor or his lieutenant, at the offices of the domain, in order to certify to his sufficienc3%
take and receive the oath required in such case, and likeunto the other sworn crafts of the
and until he shall have taken the said oath and received the act and letters of the said
city
;
mastership he shall not work or undertake work in the said city as a master, under penalty
of a fine of four crowns, which shall be paid and applied, half to the king and half to the
chest of said trade. And he shall pay for his master's right twenty sols to the king, and
twenty
sols to the craft chest, to sustain the
companions
passing, or
who
are
ill,
and
poor masters fallen into necessity, and the poor
under the said necessities and he
for their assistance
;
no further expense, nor banquets which are forbidden by the royal ordinances.
shall be put
And if he be not found competent they shall prescribe him a time to form himself and
to
learn, in order to afterwards re-present himself.
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7.
Every
year,
on the
first
Sunday of the month of November,
shall
be elected and
appointed two consuls and provosts of the craft, who shall keep the box and collect the pence,
ordained as well to sustain and assist poor masters and suffering companions, as for defraying
be proper to incur for the maintenance of the guild. And to take
charge of a key of the case, they shall also elect one of the oldest masters, who will keep it,
and the provosts shall keep account of
together with the first provost, during the said year
the cost which
it
may
;
the pence which they distribute to the poor masters or suffering fellows, or other expenses
which they may legitimately incur, in order that they may, at the end of their year, remit
into the hands of the
new
provosts their accounts of receipts and expenses, with the said
privileges or other papers concerning the guild.
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Every Saturday
or
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