Commune Concilium tentum die veneris primo die Junii, Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi, etc. decimo octavo, in praesentia johannis Allen Maioris, Gulielmi Butler militis, johannis Milborn militis, johannes Mundy militis, Thomae Baldry militis, Gulielmi Bayly militis, Thomae Semer militis, jacobi Spencer militis, johannis Rudstone, Radulphi Dodmer, johannis Browne, Nicholai Lambert, Stephani Peacock, johannis Harding, Nicholai jennings, Henrici Dacres, johannis Canulen, & Christopheri Askew. Vic.  
AT this Common Council, it is agreed, granted, ordained, and enacted, That if hereafter any Freeman or Freewoman of this City, take any Apprentice, and within the term of seven years, suffer the same Apprentice to go at his large liberty & pleasure: and within or after the said term, agree with his said Apprentice for a certain sum of money, or otherwise for his said service, and within or after the end of the said term, the said Freeman present the said Apprentice to the Chamberlain of the said City, and by good deliberation, and upon his Oath made to the said City, the same Freeman or Freewoman assureth and affirmeth to the said Chamberlain, that the said Apprentice hath fully served his said term (as Apprentice:) or if any Freeman or Freewoman of this City, take any Apprentice, which at the time of the said taking hath any wife, or if any Freeman or Freewoman of this City, give any wages to his or her Apprentice, or suffer the same Apprentices to take any part of their own getting or games. Or if any Freeman or Freewoman of this City hereafter colour any Forraines Goods, or from henceforth buy or sell for any person or persons, or with or to any person or persons, being Foreign or Foreigners, Clothes, Silks, Wines, Oils, or any other Goods or Merchandise (whatsoever they be) whether he take any thing or things for his Wages or Labour, or not. Or if any persons or persons being free of this City, by any colour, crafty, or deceitful mean or means from henceforth, do buy, sell, or receive of any Apprentice within the same City, any Money, Goods, Merchandise, or Wares, without the assent or Licence of his Master or Mistress. And upon examination duly proved before the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being. And the same reported by the mouth of the said Chamberlain, at a Court to be holden by the Mayor and the Aldermen of the same City in their Council Chamber: That aswell the said Master as the said Apprentice shall for evermore be disfranchised.  
❧ God save the King. ❧   

Printed by William jaggard, Printer to the Honourable City of London. 1617.