AND WHEREAS It fully appears to this Court upon the report of two severall persons of the said Art who have annually for several years past by virtue of the said recited order been appointed by the Master and Wardens of the said Company to search and view the earth and clay within the limitts aforesaid wherewith Bricks and Tyles have been and are continued to be made and the demencons and contents of such Bricks and Tyles That severall persons within the Limits of the aforesaid have made and continue to make great quantitys of Bricks and Tyles of bad and unlawfull stuff not well seasoned or Tempered for the said purposes and of less demencons both in length breadth and thickness than by law and by the said recited order they ought to doe in contempt and defiance of the said order and to the great prejudice of Buildings and the deceipt of the buyers thereof for remedy of which evell practice and the better to enforce a Complyance with the said recited order and oblige all makers of Bricks and Tyles within the said Limitts for the future to make their Bricks and Tyles of good well seasoned and Tempered stuff and of the several lengths breadths and thickness aforesaid.

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED That if at any time or times hereafter it shall appear to the said Master and Wardens at any of their Courts hereafter to be held upon the View and report of the said Master and Wardens or any two of them or of any two honest persons of the said art by the Master and Wardens of the said Company for the time being to be annually nominated that any person or persons within the limits aforesaid have been guilty of making any number of quantity of Bricks or Tyles with bad or not well seasoned and Tempered stuff or of less demencons in length breadth or thickness than by the said recited order the same are prescribed or directed to be made such person or persons against or of whom such a report shall be made shall be forthwith summoned to attend the said Master and Wardens at their first and next Court to be held after such complaint to shew cause if he or they can why a sume or penalty not exceeding the severall sumes and penaltyes hereinafter mencioned shall not be levied on him of them for his or their offence or offences in making such Bricks or Tyles contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said recited order. And if the person or persons summoned shal either neglect to attend at such next Court or upon his attendance shall not shew good cause to the Contrary Then and in either of the said cases the said Master and Wardens shall and may at such next Court annexe and fine every person or persons or offending as aforesaid the sume of (interpolated) two shillings and sixpence for every Thousand of Bricks. And alsoe the sume of one shilling for every hundred of Tyles which shall have been made by each person or persons of bad earth or Clay or unlawful stuff or of less demencons than in and by the said recited order are appointed And in case such person or persons shall refuse or deny to pay the said amercement or fine which shall be the said Master and Wardens be so annexed and sett the same shall and may from time to time be recovered by acion of debt in the names of the Master and Wardens of the said fellowship or be levyed by Warrant made under the Company’s seal by the Clerke of the said Company by distress of the goods of such offender.