F IRST, whereas by the yearly congregations and confederacies made by the masons in their general chapiters and assemblies, the good course and effect of the statutes of labourers be openly violated and broken, in subversion of the law, and to the great damage of all the commons ; (2) our said lord the King willing in this case to provide remedy by the advice and assent aforesaid, and at the special request of the said commons, hath ordained and established, That such chapiters and congregations shall not be hereafter holden, (3) if they thereof be convict, shall be judged for felons. (4) And that all the other masons that come to such chapiters and congregations, be punished by imprisonment of their bodies, and make fine and ransome at the King’s will. [p. 95] Excerpts faithfully transcribed from THE Statutes at Large, FROM THE Fifteenth Year of King Edward III. TO THE Thirteenth Year of King Hen. IV. inclusive. To which is prefixed, A TABLE containing the TITLES of all the STATUTES during that Period., VOL. II., By DANBY PICKERING, of Gray’s-Inn, Esq; Reader of the Law Lecture to that Honourable Society. CAMBRIDGE, Printed by JOSEPH BENTHAM Printer to the UNIVERSITY; for CHARLES BATHURST, at the Cross-Keys, opposite St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-Street, London; 1762. CUM PRIVILEGIO. from a copy in the Law Library of the British Columbia Court House, Vancouver. Note that the long "s" has been converted to conventional usage. Page numbers noted in brackets.