Catalogue description Charter, and copy from the wardmote amending the constitution of the Company

Stating that the mayor should in future be warden ex officio, and that the common cryer should be beadle ex officio, that the two wardens should be chosen by the freemen, and that the four common councilmen and four freemen of the Company should be similarly elected as assistants; stating that part of the fines payable for freedoms and for non-attendance at the annual dinner, etc. should be handed to the chamberlains for the general use of the Corporation; stating that many freemen of the company had refused to be freemen of the Town, hoping thereby to avoid the burdens of public office, and that in future freemen of the Company may be summoned to attend the mayor and jurats at the Guildhall to be made freemen of the Town; with regulations for the fines payable by new freemen of the Town, and the penalties for jurats and common councilmen failing to attend the wardmotes