No livery is to be worn except that of the Gild or Corporation. When the town bell rings the alarum members of the Gild are to go to the help of the Bailiffs only.
[66] Tailors' Composition, of 1478. Cf. _Eng. Gilds_, pp. 286, 385, 407, 420, etc.
[67] There are examples of the town drawing up trading ordinances to which the Gildsmen conformed. Cf. The Usages of Winchester and the Ordinances of Worcester in _Eng. Gilds_, pp. 349, 370. Cf. also pp. 334-337.
[68] Also before they could hold land in mortmain it would be necessary to obtain a charter.
[69] The Oath of the Freemen of the Mercers' Company is given as a note to this Chapter.
[71] "The position of master and journeyman was not that of capitalist and labourer, so much as that of two fellow-workers, one of whom, from his superior status, was responsible to the town for the conduct of both." Cunningham, 211. As showing the position of an apprentice in the 15th century a Shrewsbury Indenture is given as a note to this Chapter.
[72] Cunningham, 211, n. 1. Brentano, 40, 68.
[73] "The Stock in Trade required to set up in business was not great and an apprentice when his term of service was over, became a master almost as a matter of course. Journeymen were scarce, or at any rate not plentiful enough to have much influence on Trade.... Thus Capital and Labour were united." _Quarterly Review_, Vol. 159, p. 53.
[76] For interference with Free Election on the Continent cf. Brentano.
[79] Cf. the four Auditors to superintend the accounts of the London Grocers (1348) and the six members who were chosen "to aid the Wardens in the discharge of their duties" (1397), of whom Mr George Howell says: "_Other than these, no notice of the existence of a committee or of assistants, in England, appears earlier than the sixteenth Century_." _Conflicts of Capital and Labour_, p. 40. Brentano, p. 62. Cf. the four Assistants in the Merchant Gild of Ipswich, Gross, I. 24.
[80] The "Four Men of Counsel" of the Mercers were, by the Composition of 1480-81, chosen by the Wardens.
[81] Mercers' Composition, 1480-81. Tailors' and Skinners', 1563.
[83] Several of these are in the Town Museum at Shrewsbury.
[84] A "Key-keeper" appears later in the lists of officers.