THE CRAFT GUILDS OF FRANCE.
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and the said master shall be
be reimbursed by the said apprentice
he who undertakes for him the payment
:
required to inform thereof the said apprentice, or
of the said fifteen
10. Item.
sols.
When
any master
or his wife shall die, the other masters shall be required to
accompany the body to the burial, and to this purpose the beadle shall be required to inform
masters and fellows.
all tlie
11. Item.
to
pay any
And
fees,
he who
is
a masterpiece, or
excepting those attending the taking of the oath, and the patent which he
will be required to take out equally with the other masters
his
make
elected beadle shall not be required to
:
and they
shall suffice
him during
life.
12. Item.
fees to the
The sons
king and
of masters having
made
exempt from aU
and patent, which they
their masterpiece shall be
to the chest, excepting those of their reception
will be required to take out.
One day every week, and on the day that aU the masters shall agree, the
shaU be required to transport themselves throughout the city and inspect the
provosts
to the
masonry and work in course of erection whether it be well and duly made according
art of architecture; and if they find the work to be not duly made, and that danger might
13. Item.
;
ensue, they are required to advise the masters of the works thereof, in order that they may
condemned to
remedy it as prescribed and the master who shall have made the fault shall be
;
at his own expense, the
put in a good state, according to the art of architecture and masonry,
work which he had done and undertaken, and fined one crown to the king, and twenty sols
to the chest.
14. Item.
Masons
are inhibited
to undertake
and forbidden
any work
to the prejudice
of the public, and against the ordinances of the king, under pain of ten crowns fine, applicable
as above, half to the king and half to the chest of the guild.
15. Item.
No mason who
is
not a sworn master
may undertake
a
new
edifice in ashlar
work, from the foundations upwards, the sworn masters of other sworn towns of this kingdom
if it so please them, to make any
excepted nevertheless, proprietors may employ fellows,
:
repairs to the
damages which have accrued
to their
houses, and
edifices,' to
make
change and remove doors,
other reparations in ipicrre
windows, bars, bolts, privies,
and the master-masons shall not dispute therefor
ressicrc} provided it be not carved work,
etc., re-tile
all
with the fellows working at such repairs.
16. Item.
And no
servant or fellow
who
shall
have been hired by a master
shall leave
him unless he have completed the time for the which he was hired, and promised to serve,
be for a legitimate reason.
No master shall entice, suborn, or debauch any servant or fellow of another
master, nor receive him into his house, nor find him work, unless it appear that he has taken
his leave by writing, or otherwise that the first master declare it to the other master who
unless
it
17. Item.
fine, payable and api^licable as aforesaid.
Should any difference arise between the masters and the fellows on account of
the provosts shall endeavour, by all means in their power, to bring them into accord
wishes to receive him, under pain of one crown
18. Item.
the
craft,
According to the best
end of Renouvier's woik explains this e.xpression by the word Moellon.
above
either mean rubble, or the soft stone found near Paris, some ten or twelve feet thick,
French dictionaries this may
'
The glossary
the hard freestone.
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