WHereas the Company of Painter-Stainers have been an antient Brotherhood in this City , and for the better Exercise of the●r Ar● and Government of those that use the same Art of Painting of latter times have been Incorporated , the better to enable them for the Exercising and Ordering of that Trade , and performance thereof by Men of Skill and Cunning. But of late years , by reason that divers Freemen of this City do daily practise , use , and exercise Painting in and about the same ; neither have been brought up as Apprentices to the said Art , nor being free of the Company of Painter-Stainers , but of sundry other Companies of this City : which Freemen of other Companies using Painting as aforesaid , have taken upon them , and daily do , to have and keep more number of Apprentices , than the Freemen of the said Company of Painter-Stainers , using the said Art of Painting , by the Ordinances of their said Tompany lawfully may or can do , to the pestring and filling of this City with Men of that Faculty and Profession , and to the great prejudice and hindrance of the Freemen of the Company of Painter-Stainers : by reason whereof much bad and deceitful Workmanship is daily practised and used within this City , which ariseth principally by reason those Freemen of other Companies are not subject to the Search and Ordinances of the said Company of Painter-Stainers , so that their Defaults and Abuses cannot be discovered , espied , or amended ; nor the Offenders punished according to their Demerits , as they should be , in case they were subject to the said Company of Painter-Stainers . For Remedy and Reformation whereof , and to the intent that all Freemen of this City , practising and using the Art of Painting within this City , may be in time reduced , and brought to be free of the Company of Painter-Stainers ; and that the Master and Wardens of the said Company for the time being , may hereafter have a more free and absolute Survey and Search , and Correction and Punishment of all Freemen of this City , using their Art within the same City and Liberties thereof , ( of what Company soever they be ) than heretofore they have had , whereby Frauds and Of●ences may come to be discovered , and Offenders punished , according to the ancient Customs of this City in like Cases used : Be it Enacted , Ordained , and Established by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor , the Aldermen his Brethren , and the Commons in this Common Council assembled , and by the Authority of the same , That all Persons free of this City , ( of what Company soever they be ) using the said Art of Painter-Stainers within this City and Liberties thereof , and making gain thereby , shall from henceforth be under the Survey and Search of the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Painter-Stainers for the time being ; and shall from time to time be subject to the Ordinances of the said Company , touching the Exercise of the said Art of Painting only . And be it further Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That no Person or Persons whatsoever , being Free of any Company of this City whatsoever , ( other than of the said Company of Painter-Stainers , ) which doth or shall use or practise the said Art of Painters , within this City and Liberties thereof , and shall make gain thereby , shall from henceforth take and bind any Apprentice or Apprentices to him , or themselves , but within one month after the taking of such Apprentice , and before the binding of such Appretice or Apprentices , shall first present him or them before the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Painter-Stainers , at the Common-Hall of the said Tompany ; and upon su●h Presentation of any Apprentice or Apprentices at the Place aforesaid , the same Apprentice or Apprentices shall become bound by Indenture to the Master or one of the Wardens of the said Company , for the time being , for the Term and number of Years agreed upon between the said Master and Apprentice or Apprentices , and the Party so presenting him or them : And that after the binding of such Apprentice or Apprentices in form before declared , the said Apprentice or Apprentices shall at the Charges of the Master so presenting the same Apprentice , be by the Party to whom he was bound set over before the Chamberlain of the said City of London for the time being , to the Party by whom he shall be so presented , and him shall serve the residue of his Term , to the intent that at the expiration of the said Term , the said Apprentice or Apprentices may be made free of the said Company of Painter-Stainers . And be it further Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That if any Person or Persons using the Art of Painting within this City or Liberties thereof , and not being free of the said Company of Painter-Stainers , shall at any time or times hereafter take any Apprentice or Apprentices bound unto himself , or in any other manner than is before declared , he or they shall forfeit for every Apprentice so bound the Sum of Twenty Pounds of lawful Money of England , to be recovered by Action of Debt , Bill , or Plaint , to be commenced and presented in the Name of the Chamberlain of the said City of London for the time being , in the King's Majesty's Court to be holden in the Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City , before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said City , wherein no Essoign or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed for the Defendant : And that the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being , in all Suits to be prosecuted by virtue of this present Act against any Offender , shall recover the Ordinary Costs of Suit to be expended in and about the prosecution of the same . And be it further Enacted , by the Authority aforesaid , That one Moiety of all Forfeitures to be recovered by virtue of this Act , ( the Charges of Suit for recovery of them being deducted and allowed ) after the recovery and receipt thereof , shall be paid and delivered to the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being , to the Vse of the Mayor , and Commonalty , and the Citizens of the same City : And the other Moiety of the same Forfeitures ( the Charges of Suit deducted as aforesaid ) to be paid and delivered over to the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Painter-Stainers for the time being , to the Vse of their said Company , to the intent that the said Master and Wardens of the said Company for the time being , may be the more careful to prosecute Suit against the Offenders in this behalf , in the Name of the Chamberlain of this City for the time being .