6d. After his term, his entry shall not be more than 3s.4d.
This replaced the various fees ranging from this to 40s.
No master of a craft may require his apprentice to make an oath
not to compete with him by setting up a shop after the term of his
apprenticeship.
No alien may take up a craft or occupation in the nation.
No brewer of ale or beer to sell shall make wood vessels or
barrels, and coopers shall use only good and seasonable wood to
make barrels and shall put their mark thereon. Every ale or beer
barrel shall contain 32 of the King's standard gallons. The price
of beer barrels sold to ale or beer brewers or others shall be 9d.
An ale-brewer may employ in his service one cooper only to bind,
hoop and pin, but not to make, his master's ale vessels.
No butcher may keep a tanning-house.
Tanned leather shall be sold only in open fairs and markets and
after it is inspected and sealed.
Only people living in designated towns may make cloth to sell, to
prevent the ruin of these towns by people taking up both
agriculture and cloth-making outside these towns. No one making
cloth for sale may have more than one woolen loom or forfeit 20s.
This to protect the weavers' ability to maintain themselves and
their families from rich clothiers who keep many looms and employ
journeymen and unskillful persons at low wages. No one owning a
fulling mill may own a weaving loom.
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