and great cunning, or be some great notable means and cause of great
worship, and yet that all manner of thing that shall appertain to the
governance of the said guild, or to any possessions or goods thereof,
or choosing of any brother into the said guild, or correction of any
default done to any brother, or by any brother thereof, and all other
things that appertaineth to the rules of the said guild, or by the
more part of them dwelling within the said city.

"Also, that all the possessions and moveable goods, that now or
hereafter shall appertain to the said guild, be all only employed and
applied to the worship of God and our Lady, and of the glorious
martyr, St. George, and to the worship of the brethren of the said
guild, and for the health of the souls of all those that have been
brethren and sisters of the said guild, are and shall be in time
coming, and in none otherwise; and hereto every man be sworn at his
coming in specially, that henceforward shall be any other brother in
the said guild, that he shall here do all that is in his power, and
in no wise give his assent nor his favour to the contrary.

"Also, that every year be chosen surveyors, and such convenient
officers as shall be thought necessary by the discretion of the
aldermen and brethren of the said guild; and that every year the said
alderman and four brethren of the said guild, whereof two be aldermen
of the said city, be chosen for to see a reckoning, and to know the
disposition and governance of all the possessions, moveables, and
goods appertaining to the said guild, and to make a writing of the
estate thereof, and shew that to the brethren of the said guild
yearly, or else to a certain number of brethren, resident in the said
city thereto named.

"Also, that every four years, once be given hoods or liveries of suit
to each of the brethren of the said guild, and them honestly to be
kept and worn to the worship of the glorious martyr, St. George, and
of the brotherhood, if it seemeth to the said alderman and common
council convenient.

"Also, although the aldermen of the city, and every person of common
council of the same city, be brethren of the same guild, yet if it
happen that any of them, or any other citizen or brother of the said
guild, be discharged of his aldermanship, or put out of the said