To the Honourable Assembly of the Commons house of PARLIAMENT, and to the Committees for grievances of the same HOUSE:  
The Answer of the Master, Wardens and fellowship of Woodmongers, London, to the Complaint of some few Wharfingers and others, whereof, some are foreign, and some free of the same City.  
THe government of Carres and Carremen within the City of London was anciently time out of mind in the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London.  
At a Court holden before the said Mayor and Aldermen xj. Octobris Anno 22. Eliz. It was ordered that the government of the said Cars and Carremen should from that time be in the Master and Wardens of the company of Woodmongers of the City of London.  
After, his Majesty by his Letters patents dated the xxix. of August and in the third year of his reign did incorporate the said Woodmongers and Carremen by the name of the Master, Wardens and fellowship of woodmongers of London.  
After the xxi. Of October in the said third year of his Majesty's reign the government of all Cars and Carremen, within the said City was by Act of Common Council confirmed unto the said Master Wardens and Fellowshipp and their Successors. They paying to Christ's Hospital for the relief of the poor there 150li. Per annum, And it was by the same Act further enacted that from thenceforth all persons using the trade of Carremen should be translated to the Company of Woodmongers.  
After the said Master Wardens and fellowship did make diverse ordinances for the government of the said Cars and Carremen which ordinances the xviii. of May Anno, 5. jacobi were confirmed by the late Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, Sir john Popham, Knight, then Chief justice of the king's bench, and Sir Edward Coke Knight then Chief justice of the Common pleas according to the statute of 19 Henry 7.  
XXX. Novembris Anno 6. jacobi, it was ordered by the Lords of the Council that all persons using the trade of Carres should be ordered and governed according to the before recited Act of Common Council. And that the number of Cars within London should not exceed 400. And that none of them should be used but by the licence of the Company of Woodmongers and Carremen.  
XI. Octobris Anno 9 jacobi, the before recited Charter and ordinances were decreed in the Court of Star-chamber.  
After diverse disordered persons not conforming themselves according to the said ordinances the Lords of the Council were pleased to direct their Honourable letters to the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen requiring them to call the said persons before them and to cause them presently without delay or excuse to submit themselves to the said ordinances or else to commit them to prison until they should so conform themselves.  
The 20. of November Anno 16. jacobi Regis, a second decree was made in the starr-chamber, whereby the decree of the xi of October in the ix. year of his Majesty's reign the order of the Lords 30. Novembris Anno 6. jacobi, the letters of the Lords of the Council before mentioned the ordinances of the said Company of Woodmongers, the before mentioned Act of Common Council and all other ordinances established for the government of the said Company of Woodmongers & Carremen were decreed to be after truly observed performed and kept according to the purport and true meaning thereof.  
After the xv. of October Anno 17. jacobi, the said last mentioned decree was in all the points aforesaid confirmed by a third decree in the said Court of Starr-chamber & diverse persons that is to say Robert Wright Thomas Newton Thomas Guy William Barwell Edward Hopkines and Robert Violet, And also Matthew Kimpster and William Sligh should be restrained and prohibited to use or work any Car or Carres within the said City liberties & suburbs thereof without allowance of the said Woodmongers upon pain of punishment to be inflicted upon them by the censure of the said Honourable court: And it was then further decreed by the said Court that such persons as then did or should after use Carres and were free of any other Companies in London then of the said Woodmongers should forthwith be translated over to the said company of Woodmongers in manner and form as by the said Act of Common Council is set down and prescribed. And that such person or persons as did or should refuse or neglect to be translated after request made unto them according to the said Act should undergo and be subject to the Censure and punishment of the said most Honourable Court of Starr-chamber for his or their contempt in that behalf: And lastlie it was ordered by the said high Court that the said Robert Wright for his contempt should be committed to the prison of the Fleet there to remain until he should conform himself and show obedience to the decrees orders and ordinances established as aforesaid.  
All which notwithstanding the said Robert Wright and the other persons before mentioned and diverse others by their example do not only continue Contemners of the said Act of Common Council ordinances and decrees but do also become suitors to the high Court of Parliament to put in use diverse things contrary to the said Act of Common Council ordinances and decrees.