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<HEAD>AN ABSTRACT OF THE BILL Now depending for Regulation and better Government of the COMPANY of <HI>Painter-Stainer<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> LONDON:</HI> Together with &s;ome REASONS of the Principal Branches of it.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Preamble, fol.</HI> 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eclared &s;o by Stat. 1 <HI>Jac. 20.</HI></NOTE>REcites it to be an ancient Company and incorporated with Power to Over&s;ee, Rule, and Govern, all the Fellowes of the &s;ame Society, and all others u&s;ing th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ame Art, and all material Works and Merchandize concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Grievance.</HI></NOTE>That Aliens and others not free of the Company, for the mo&s;t part unskilful, u&s;e the Art and and take Apprentices.
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<ITEM>1^&s;^t^. To the prejudice of the Com+pany.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2^d^l^y. To the detriment of the People.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3^d^l^y. The di&s;grace of the Nation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And 4^t^h^l^y. The contempt of the Lawes.</ITEM>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Enacted.</HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">at. 5. <HI>Eliz.</HI> c. 4. forbids u&s;ing <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y Trade, not being bred <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pprentice to it, in <HI>London,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> el&s;ewh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re.</NOTE>That none u&s;e the Trade in <HI>London</HI> or <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> miles di&s;tance, unle&s;&s;e bound by Indenture to one of the Company for &s;even years upo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> pain of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> for every offence.</P>
<P><HI>Provi&s;o,</HI> That this Act &s;hall not prejudice tho&s;e that have already &s;erved &s;even years to any Free-man, and are not as yet free, &s;o that they up their freedoms befo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> the 24^t^h^. of <HI>December</HI> 1664.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">anted by the Charter.</NOTE><HI>Provi&s;o,</HI>That Per&s;ons, which for their skill in Painting are now admitted, or hereafter &s;hall be admitted into the Company, &s;hall not be Sued or troubled for working <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> a Painter within the &s;aid <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> miles of <HI>London,</HI> and that they &s;hall not u&s;e the &s;aid Art within the City of <HI>London,</HI> or the Liberties thereof.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ecital Star. 1. <HI>Jac.</HI> cap. 20. <HI>Grievance.</HI></NOTE>Recites the Act 1^o. <HI>Jac. cap.</HI> 20. That forbids Plai&s;terers to u&s;e the Painters Trade: and the <HI>Provi&s;o</HI> in it, that Plai&s;terers might u&s;e Whiting, Blacking, Red-Lead Red-Oaker, Yellow-Oaker, and Ru&s;&s;et mingled with &s;ize only and not with oyle, by pretence whereof the Plai&s;terers u&s;e the Painters Trade.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Enacted.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ccording to the Letters Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ents of the Company, 19 <HI>July <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">3 Eliz.</HI> And the Stat. 1 <HI>Jac.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ap. 20.</NOTE> ENACTED, That the Plai&s;terers lay the&s;e Colours flat and plain, in &s;ize only and not in Oyle, and that in mixing the Colours none &s;hall Glaze them with varni<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> upon pain of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> for every offence.</P>
<P>Gives Power to the Ma&s;ter and Wardens, or any one of them, with &s;ome of the Company, not exceeding four in all, at convenient times to &s;earch any Places whe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Painting is &s;old, to &s;ee if it be well wrought; and if not, to &s;eize it, and to carry it away, and deface and de&s;troy them.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Stat. 1 <HI>Rich.</HI> 3. c. 9. No &s;tran|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er &s;hall exerci&s;e a Handicrafts <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ade, except they fir&s;t &s;erve Native.</NOTE>The Ma&s;ter, Wardens, A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and Livery, have Power every year to choo&s;e twelve of the Company, being skilful Arti&s;ts, and they or any &s;even may Licen&s;e N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+tives or Strangers, not free of the Company, being Arti&s;ts, to u&s;e the Trade, not taking above <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> pounds for the &s;ame, and the Per&s;ons licen&s;ed paying as others of th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Company.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Granted by their Charter.</NOTE><HI>That the Ma&s;ter, Wardens, A&s;&s;i&s;tants, and Livery have Power to make Rea&s;onable By-Lawes, for Re&s;triction of the number of Apprentices and Journe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+men, and for other Honourable things, for the better Government of the Company.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tat. 1. <HI>Rich.</HI> 3. cap. 9.</NOTE>That all Aliens, not licenced as afore&s;aid, &s;hall depart the Realm or work as Journey-men, to a Free-man of the Company, and his name and his Ma&s;ters to be entred <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the Hall Book <HI>gratis,</HI> upon pain of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></P>
<P>The Offences &s;hall be inquired of in the Kings Courts of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> or the Courts of Record, within the Juri&s;diction, whereof the Offences &s;hall &s;o be committed the Ju&s;tices of <HI>Oyer</HI> and <HI>Terminer,</HI> Goale delivery or of the Peace; and one moiety of the penalties to his Maje&s;ties u&s;e, and the other moiety with rea&s;onable co&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Suit to the Plaintiff or Informer.</P>
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<HEAD>THE REASONS.</HEAD>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Rich.</HI> 3. c. 9. 14. 15. <HI>Hen. 8. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">. 9. 32 H.</HI> 6. c. 16. 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">a. 4.</NOTE> FIr&s;t, There have been &s;everal Acts of Parliament formerly made, which will extend to the Principal Branches of this Act, but are ancient and defective in for things, and do not &s;o well regulate and impower the Company to admit tho&s;e that are skilful in the Art in this manner, but they are all far more &s;evere agai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> them, then this.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Stat. 5 <HI>Eliz.</HI> an ill remedy.</NOTE>Secondly, It is certain that the Stat. 5. <HI>Eliz. cap.</HI> 4. Provides, that none &s;hall exerci&s;e a Trade, but that penalty being but Forty &s;hillings, which is &s;o little and ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be proved, that it will be in a manner, no remedy to reduce and di&s;cover tho&s;e that work privately, and have not &s;erved Seven years; in regard it cannot be do without much charge and diligence, and no co&s;ts of Suit recovered in that Action.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly, Tho&s;e that have &s;erved Seven years, it is mo&s;t probable, are more skilful then tho&s;e that have not &s;erved, any time; and be&s;ides, their Service and Freedo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> are lyable to all Duties of their Company and Taxes. And therefore, if tho&s;e not free &s;hould have a greater Priviledge, it would not onely di&s;courage the Indu&s;try the Freemen, but ruine them and the Government of the Society, and make a failer in this Art.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> Fourthly, The Freemen for the mo&s;t part are Hou&s;e-keepers, and beat all Publick charges; but on the contrary, the others are many of them incon&s;iderable pe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ons, and are very numerous, in and about this City, and have no certain place of Habitation: But if this Act pa&s;s, it will bring them under the Government of Company, and make them liable to Taxes for His Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> Fifthly, If tho&s;e that are Freemen of the Company of Painter-Stainers, cannot bring in the &s;trangers, which have any equal advantage with the Members of t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Granted by the Charter to call others to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dmit them.</NOTE> Company, and to bear and equal burthen with them, which is in a manner granted them by their Charter; the Company cannot be &s;upported, but mu&s;t inevitably fall, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> be de&s;troyed, by the encroachment upon them.</P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="Object."> <HI>If it &s;hall be Objected, That any that &s;hall be famous for Painting, and comes from beyond the Seas, he &s;hall not be admitted to u&s;e that Art.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> The former Acts that have pa&s;&s;ed, provide for that, and do altogether re&s;train them: And by the Statute <HI>Rich.</HI> 3. if they u&s;e this Art, they &s;hall fir&s;it their Per&s;on E&s;tate.</P>
<P>In relation to the Provi&s;o in the Stat. 1. <HI>Jac. cap.</HI> 4. which gives power to the Plai&s;terers to lay Whiting, Blacking, Red Lead, Read Oaker, Yellow Oaker, a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Ru&s;&s;et, mingled with Size onely.</P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> <MILESTONE N="1"> Fir&s;t, The very Title of that Act is, <HI>A Plai&s;terer &s;hall not u&s;e the Occupaiton of a Painter;</HI> and the whole Body of that Act is again&s;t the Plai&s;terers, to forb them to u&s;e the Art of Painting: The intent of which <HI>Provi&s;o,</HI> was to give them liberty to u&s;e it, to lay tho&s;e Colours plain, as nece&s;&s;ary for their Profe&s;&s;ion about t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Seiling of Rooms, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Secondly, In the &s;ame Act, immediately after that <HI>Provi&s;o,</HI> there is a <HI>Provi&s;o</HI> which limits the ways of a Painter, for laying tho&s;e or other Colours in Size, which a high mea&s;ure &s;hews the intent of the Act to be as is above &s;et forth.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> Thirdly, The Plai&s;terers under pretence of this Act, &s;tretching it to their own advantage, incroach very much upon the Painters trade, in regard mo&s;t peices of goo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Painting may be done by the&s;e Colours, with the mixture of them each with the other; whereby the Plai&s;ters being altogether unskilful in that Art, pretend to do &s;ev<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+ral Paintings, which are done &s;o ill, as that they cannot de&s;erve the name of Painting, although done at far greater rates then what the Painters u&s;ually have for Pain<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+ings of that nature.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4"> Fourthly, It tends to the &s;candal and di&s;grace of the Art of Painting within our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5"> Fifthly, It hath been upon &s;everal Debates by the Painters again&s;t the Plai&s;terers, declared by Law, to be on the Painters &s;ide; but to avoid the&s;e Strifes and Debat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Explanation of the afore&s;aid <HI>Provi&s;o,</HI> is humbly offered.</P>
<P>The Charter, which creates the Company of Plai&s;terers, gives them the name of <HI>Dawbers;</HI> neither is there any Charter, wherein Colours are mentioned, but th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> u&s;e of Lath, Loam, and Lime, is onely granted them.</P>
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