APPENDIX B.— A Copy of the
Fundamental Laws and Ordinances
Of the Cutlers' Company, approved by Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, the Lord High Treasurer Godolphin, and the Chief Justices Sir John Holt and Sir Thomas Trevor, on the 20th March, in the third year of the reign of Queen Anne, 1703.
To all to whom these Presents shall come We SIR NATHAN WRIGHT Knight Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England SYDNEY LORD GODOLPHIN Lord High Treasurer of England SIR JOHN HOLT Knight Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench and SIR THOMAS TREVOR Knight Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster send Greeting
RecitalsWhereas in a Statute made in a Parliament holden at Westminster the Five and Twentieth day of January in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh made and ordained for the weal and profit of his Subjects
IT WAS (amongst other things) ORDAINED established and enacted That no Master Wardens and Fellowships of Crafts or Misteries nor any of them nor any rulers of Guilds or Fraternities should take Recitals