Note 767 — Chapter XIV

On being enrolled each man must pay to the craft 40 pence, and to the chamber at least 20s. and “more after the quantity of his good.” (Town Close Evidences, 42.) The profits of admission to the freedom of the city had in old times gone half to the bailiffs and half to the community, but now the craft claimed a definite share of the entrance money. (Arch. Journ. xlvi. no. 184, p. 328.) By the composition six men were to be chosen “to be of counsel with the chamberlains in receiving of burgesses.”