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and entered in the boot,
Judge, ita order to wake

Ottertriant% Counsel, however, again übj•cted
to the hook, the ground that it was nut a rt.:-
10,13 r book of Nero ttttt .
Thv hook wis swain banded to his

or r/eq_thii;i. r-

.t to be an
hong to the Comohny.
Hewitt was then examined as to the
ltand-writing, which, he said. wire esseistuento up-
on the Campine for thin- exits-met. and with the
rums ass assessed he charged hiinsrlf, sad acconot-
ed for them; bat nos 'being questioned by the
Judge, it appeared that these e,,trier weir re.
sio;ctively made prior to the money bring collect-
ed, and, therefore, as the Judge said, could only re-
late toss thing in rotors. and to be hereafter done.
Milli/its', Reports, couthisoing the repot of en
ausuccesfoil motion its the Court of Kitag's Bench,
to set aside the Verdict that. in 1780, had beets ob-
tained by the Carpenters' Company, of Shrews.
bury, egoism a prison of the name of flaywerd,
tor carryoz on that trade without bring free, was
banded up to the Judge by Plaintiffs' Counsel, fur
the purpose of *hewing that the evidence now pro-
due, d was similar to *lilt was adduced tin trial
of that cause ; and from that report it appeAred
that the evidence consisted of " entries of Amis.
rime% sonic /IS far beck as the reign of Henry VIII.
of persons, some into the Caorpenters' Company,
some into the Bricklayer'. and some, tuto the
Phosterere ere.—of Mamie-ea of anes pard by per.
arms tor having harked in those troika 'Without
14io g free of the Compaoly—end of the lestithonv
of our witness, thruway it 4 years of age, who said
he had been employed to call meetings 0r the
Company, and 'they were Called by the aggregate
names stated on the declaration."
Ills Lordship then asked them to point out some
instances of fines paid by ;seism's fool' working at the
tootle lint being (revise'', and those of . foreigners
paying their ten pounds were shewn, lOU those, his
Lordship said, were admission fees, sod not similar
to the fines mentioned in Douglas's Kefiotfs ; and
lie felt convinced that. upon that trial, there
must have been something more produced then was
to he fhitiod in the book handed up to him, which hr
was perfectly satisfied dm not the *cedilla of any
person charging himself with monies reeeived, bbt
merely a mensorasidbus book of the various transom-
. lions of the Company.
lr Richard Wood, baker, who had been disfran-
' chisel, said he war 613 yenta of age, and had lived
in Shrewsbury all his life; he was a freeman above
40 years, disrlig. which time foreigners were not
allowed to carry on the trade without paying a film
of In/.; but if the epprenticeship was served to a
freeman of the Company, the fine was only If. 101.
• remembered a person of the name of Nuke,
t. who married a freeman's widow, and carried on the
'boiainese ii, Frankwell ; belieerd lie paid the
fu-
reigaer's fine. Rue* %troilism till, who car.
rigid on business its Dog-hose, whe was not free at
the time ; witness lived with hint, slid knew hi was
applied too, and that some of the Company asked
Will to come to tilt Town Hall and take up his free-
dom, or .11.1 would sue him for it; believes he went
and los ml the line, as lie afterwards attended meet-
ings of the Company. and walked mu procession.
Recollected Joiliot Burley in business, who had not
weed his tune out, and believer he paid the
fureogsier's fine, as he also afterwards walked in
process:mi. and none dud so but persons free of the
Company: Persons setting up were always applied
to fur their freeduni ; if they refused,' they wore
'summoned ; runic took it up, and some left the
town. Korn that Mrs. Breather). Mr. Healing.
and Sir. Poole carried nit the trade without bring
free. Aim action was commenced spinet Poole,
but lie produced a discharge from the Militia, and
the actin,, dropped.
Mr. John Rowdier, baker, who had been dis-
franchised, said he served his apprenticeship at
' Venlock, and afterwards set op in Shrewsbury,
where his father resided, slid whereof he was a
burgess ; *fitness was summoned to take up his
freedooni, and he promised if they would wait until
Holy Thursday he would pay them. which hr after-
',ads dui, and load our guinea again ; carried
on business for thirty years, and during his tome
none were permitted to carry it on without paying.
Proof of Defendant's exercising the trade, and
admissions of freemen on proper stamps, were then
put ; after which,
Mr. DavneEt addressed the Jury on behalf of
the Defendant, in his usual eloquent and ergo-
me. tatter style, during which he sometimes coin-
tnented in severe satire upon part of the evidence
soldioc.ol for the Plaintiffs, particularly their honk
of .occoolintr, which he deloominated a towpiete
hoorge-pooge, and totally unfit to be any m-
assive whatever. He also took an objection, on
the ground that the Plaintiffs' declaration had
nut bten horne out by the evidence; the Plaintiffs
in the (Ise laration stating themselves to be known by
a variety of names, and as being a body politic mid
corp orate, sold no proof hod appeared of their brio%
Ico own by aoy other mime than the Company of
li.ikers, nor any whatever of their being a hotly
coo mm rave or politic.
Mr. Baron Gsaitow, however, thought the prov-
ing it its one mime was sufficient.
Another obit-viten was also taken on the ground
that in the decimation the Plaintotta were defined
as bring ii certain guild and freernity, and compe-
toy of linkers, said the Imo grilses and freemen of the
said town amid borough, which was inn proud, in
*lnch the Judge concurred, and observed, that it
'hewed tither that none hot burgesses ought to hum
sidonoted, or that the whole of the hui‘esses had the
right.
This objectirm %vas, however, set aside by Plain-
tiffs Cuthowl pooling on( snottier count, to a ;licit
she proceedingsbegatide aura that slid not column

the above definition of thr Company., and *lnch,
although it ►ehired to the insole In the first count,
-et dirt not to the dt finitiun : in which his Lard-
ennesorreil.
Vo *tine.pro were called on behalf of the Defend-
ant.

The JVriflE then !vegan to sinn vp ihr evidence;
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nos ;tort Hilt, hot 11 011 it regard* the rights and
Niivt-
lrge. clamiett he the Platiititts, nod also as it it.
I uteul to the ittletotta and beuttit of the public; and