THE CRAFT GUILDS OF FRANCE.
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and peace
:
and
if it
happen
any one should attempt
tliat
him
to prosecute
privileges, the provosts are required
the
office of
sworn
the domains, inasmuch as the said court
and
to undertake their handicraft
before the governor or his lieutenant, at
is
the protector of the privileges of the
crafts of the said city.
Should any servant or fellow of the said craft have committed a theft, or any
house of one of the masters, against him, his wife, family,
villany, deceit, or forfeiture in the
or other, it shall not be permitted to the other masters to give him employment
chambermaid,
nor work until he shall have made condign reparation and should any master employ him, he
19. Item.
;
crown
shall be put to one
applicable as aforesaid;
fine,
prosecute the reparation in the aforesaid court.
And in order that the sworn masters
20. Item.
and the masters are required
to
not pretend ignorance of the present
be kept inviolably by them, they shaU cause them
may
and ordinances, and that they may
on the day of their assembly and
statutes
election of consuls
to be read once a year
and provosts
;
on
the which day the masters shall be required to be there, except under legitimate excuse and
M'hoso shall contravene shall be fined twenty sols of Tours, applicable half to the king, half to
;
the chest.
21. Item.
And
two fellows present themselves
if
delay the presentation of the second
achieved, and he received master
;
and
the
until
for the mastership, the provosts
masterpiece of the
this within the fortnight.
first
shall