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Show [4^] agreed to? And if the Offender, being duly cited to a pear, prove Rebel* and will not attend, then the Lod shall determine againft him, that he fhall forfwear [ renounce] his Mafonry, and fhall no more ufe this Craft-the which if he prefume to do, the Sheriff of the County ilsall prifon him, and take all his Goods into the King's Hands> 'till his Grace be granted him, and iftued. For this Caufe principally have thefe Congregations been ordain'd, that as well the lowest as the highest fhould be well and truly ferved in this Art forefaid throughout all the Kingdom of England.. Amen, fo mote it be. 4, When King Henry VII. was an Infant of four Years eld, the Parliament made the following A a against the working Mafons, w h o had, contrary to the Statutes for Labourers, confederated not to work but at their own Price and Wages, Title, Mafons pall not confederate themfelves in Chapters and Congregations. 44 Whereas, by yearly Congregations and Confedera-u cies made by the Mafons in their general Aflemblis*, •' the good Courfe and Effea of the Statutes for Labou- *' rers be openly violated and broken, in Subversion of *l the Law,, and to the great Damage of; all the Com- 44mons, our faid foyercign Lord the King, willing in '" this Cafe to provide a Remedy, by the Advice and * Affent aforefaid, and at the fpecial Requeft of the 44 Commons, hath ordain'd and eftablifhed, that fuch u Chapters and Congregations fhall not be hereafter 44 holden 5 and, if any fuch be made, they that caufe 11 iuch Chapters and Congregations', to be affembledand u holden, if they thereof be convia, fhall be juig'dfor 44 Felons, and that the other Mafons that come to fuch 4 Chapters and Congregations, be punifhed by Imprifon- 4 m e m of their Bodies, and make Fine and Ranibm at " the King's Will." This Aft has been often urged as feem- |