A certain statute made by the mayor and council, with the consent of the tailors, for the regulation of the tailors' craft, viz. that each year within the two months after Michaelmas, all resident craftsmen will be advised by the sergeant-at-mace to appear before the mayor in the gildhall to elect two burgesses of the most suitable of their number to be their headsmen. Which burgesses thus elected are to take oath to [see performed] the following:

• To make search of [i.e. supervise] the craft among all residents.
• Not to allow any newcomer to set himself up in the craft unless he has proper knowledge of it (which shall be determined by mayor and headsmen).
• Any newcomer admitted to the craft who does not wish to be a burgess shall pay, for the right to set up in the craft, 40d. each to mayor, community, and headsmen (the last to be put towards the cost of the Corpus Christi day procession); any wishing to become a burgess shall pay only the 40d. to the headsmen/procession.
• Craftsmen shall be answerable to the headsmen for resident seamstresses, a farthing a week or 2d. a quarter, and double for outsider seamstresses.
• Any craftsman who is not a burgess but has an apprentice shall pay 40d. towards the cost of the Corpus Christi procession.
• If anyone complains of bad workmanship by a craftsman, and the latter is found guilty, he shall compensate the aggrieved party in the presence of the mayor and headsmen.
• If a craftsman speaks slander of the deeds of any man, and the slanderous accusation cannot be proven, he shall be punished according to the judgement of mayor and headsmen by forfeiting 40d. towards the Corpus Christi procession.
• If anyone not of the craft slanders any [crafts?]man, and the slanderous accusation cannot be proven, he shall be punished according to the judgement of mayor and council.
• If there are any disputes between members of the craft, they are not to bring the complaint to court, but before the headsmen who will try to arbitrate a settlement; failing that, the headsmen shall bring the matter before the mayor. Failure to comply will result in a fine (prescribed in an existing statute). If any headsman shows partiality or lets anything other than good conscience rule his judgement, the aggrieved party may complain to the mayor; or if any headsman fails to arbitrate, so that the dispute is not resolved and the parties resort to the courts, the delinquent headsman will be fined.