YE shall sweare that yee shall bee good and
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true to our Sovereigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth, etc. and
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to the heires of our said Sovereigne Ladie the Queene.
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Obeysant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Mini-
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sters of this Citie. The Franchises and customes thereof yee
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shall mainteine, and this Citie keepe harmeles in that that
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in you is. Ye shall be contributorie to all manner of charges
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within this Citie, as summons, Watches, contributions,
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taskes, tallages, lot, and scot, and all other charges, bearing
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your part as a free man ought to doo. Yee shall colour no for-
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reines goods, under or in your name, whereby the Queene or
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this Citie, might or may loose their Customes or advanta-
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ges. Ye shall know no forreine to buy or sell anie Marchan-
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dise with any other forreine within the Citie or the Fran-
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chise thereof, but yee shall warne the Chamberlaine there-
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of, or some Minister of the Chamber. Yee shall im-
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plead or sue no free man out of this Citie, whiles yee may
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have right and law within the same Citie. Yee shall take
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none Apprentice, but if hee bee free borne (that is to say) no
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bond mans sonne, nor the childe of any Alien, and for no lesse
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terme then for seven yeeres, within the first yeere yee shall
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cause him to be enrolled, and at his termes end ye shall make
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him free of this Citie, (if he have well and truely served you.)
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Ye shall also keepe the Queenes peace in your owne persons,
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ye shall know no gatherings, conventicles nor conspiracies
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made against the Queenes peace, but ye shall warn the Ma-
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yor thereof, or let it to your power. All these points and Arti-
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cles yee shall well and truely keepe, according to the lawes
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and customes of this Citie to your power. So God you help,
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and by the holie contentes of this Booke.
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