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138 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
to frauds practised by gardeners in the City, who sold dead trees
and bad seeds “ to the great deceit and loss ” of their customers.
But it appears that these abuses continued to exist, and a second
Charter was granted in the fourteenth year of James I., and the
Company was invested with further privileges. No person was
allowed to “ use or exercise the art or misterie of gardening,
within the said area, without the licence and consent ” * of the
Company, nor were any persons who had not served their
apprenticeship, and received the freedom of the Company
permitted to sell any garden-stuff, except within certain hours,
and in such places and markets as were open to other foreigners
who had not the freedom of the City. The Company were also
permitted to seize any “plants, herbs or roots that were exposed
for sale by any unlicenced person and distribute them among the
poor of the place where such forfeitures shall be taken.” And
it was also lawful for any four members of the Guild “to search
and viewe all manner of plants, stocks, setts, trees, seedes,
slippes, roots, flowers, hearbes and other things that shall be
sould or sett to sale in any markett within the Cittie of London
and sixe myles about,” and to “burn or otherwise consume” all
that was found to be “unwholesome, dry, rotten, deceitfull or
unprofitable.” William Wood was elected first Master under
the new charter. There were two Wardens, the number of
Assistants was increased to twenty-four, a Beadle was appointed,
and the Company was granted a livery. The rights and
privileges of the Company were again confirmed by Charles I.,
in 1635. The arms are a man digging, and the supporters two
female figures with cornucopiae ; the crest, a basket of fruit, and
the Motto, “ In the sweat of thy browes shalt thou eate thy
bread.” Although licenced by the Charter, to have a Hall in
which to assemble, they never appear to have possessed one.
The Company for long has ceased to exercise its privileges, but
it still exists, and ranks seventieth among the City Guilds.fi
All the herbs already in cultivation were retained, mostly on
account of their medicinal properties, which were in many cases
* Second Charter, 1616, in the possession of the Company.
fi There is an account of the Company in Bradley’s Treatise on Husbandry
and Gardening, 1726.
to frauds practised by gardeners in the City, who sold dead trees
and bad seeds “ to the great deceit and loss ” of their customers.
But it appears that these abuses continued to exist, and a second
Charter was granted in the fourteenth year of James I., and the
Company was invested with further privileges. No person was
allowed to “ use or exercise the art or misterie of gardening,
within the said area, without the licence and consent ” * of the
Company, nor were any persons who had not served their
apprenticeship, and received the freedom of the Company
permitted to sell any garden-stuff, except within certain hours,
and in such places and markets as were open to other foreigners
who had not the freedom of the City. The Company were also
permitted to seize any “plants, herbs or roots that were exposed
for sale by any unlicenced person and distribute them among the
poor of the place where such forfeitures shall be taken.” And
it was also lawful for any four members of the Guild “to search
and viewe all manner of plants, stocks, setts, trees, seedes,
slippes, roots, flowers, hearbes and other things that shall be
sould or sett to sale in any markett within the Cittie of London
and sixe myles about,” and to “burn or otherwise consume” all
that was found to be “unwholesome, dry, rotten, deceitfull or
unprofitable.” William Wood was elected first Master under
the new charter. There were two Wardens, the number of
Assistants was increased to twenty-four, a Beadle was appointed,
and the Company was granted a livery. The rights and
privileges of the Company were again confirmed by Charles I.,
in 1635. The arms are a man digging, and the supporters two
female figures with cornucopiae ; the crest, a basket of fruit, and
the Motto, “ In the sweat of thy browes shalt thou eate thy
bread.” Although licenced by the Charter, to have a Hall in
which to assemble, they never appear to have possessed one.
The Company for long has ceased to exercise its privileges, but
it still exists, and ranks seventieth among the City Guilds.fi
All the herbs already in cultivation were retained, mostly on
account of their medicinal properties, which were in many cases
* Second Charter, 1616, in the possession of the Company.
fi There is an account of the Company in Bradley’s Treatise on Husbandry
and Gardening, 1726.