within one month next after his entertainment of any Person in order to being his Apprentice, Present such Person before the Governors or two of them, at a Court to be by them held; and there bind such Person to him before the said Governors, by Indenture; upon pain of forfeiting 20l. of lawful money: And the Clerk of the said Company SHALL NOT BIND any Person who has not been so presented and examined, upon pain of forfeiting the sum of 10l. of lawful money and being liable to be removed from his said Office. And no Apprentice shall be turned over from one Master to another, but at a Court in the Presence of the Master and Wardens or one of them: And One Guinea, and no more, shall be paid for the same."
Which said Ordinance or By-Law, so made as aforesaid, after the making thereof as aforesaid, and long before the said Richard Guy had offered the said Melmoth, or the said Melmoth had offered himself to be admitted and bound before them or any of them, an Apprentice to the said Richard Guy, for the Term of 7 years, in the said Art Science or Mystery of Surgery, according to the Custom aforesaid, to wit, on the 9th day of the same April in the said year of our Lord 1748, was examined approved and allowed by the Right Honourable Philip Lord Hardwicke the then Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and by Sir William Lee Knt. the then Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, and Sir John Willes Knt. the then Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Bench, according to the Form of the Statute in that Case made and provided.
They further return That the said Ordinance or By-Law, so made examined approved and allowed as aforesaid, hath ever since the making examination approbation and allowance thereof as aforesaid, been, and now is in full force and effect, and in no wise annulled revoked and vacated.
They then return That after the making examination approbation and allowance of the said Ordinance or By-Law as aforesaid, and before the Issuing of this Writ, to wit, on
