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June 20, 1863
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 20, 1863.
FLY FISHING.
Piscator. “ Now then ! I think I shall get a Piss here ! ”
THE PRINCE OE WALES'S NEW LIVERY.
His Royal Highness the Prince op Wales, oh Thursday last, was
enrolled at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall an honorary member of that
ancient Company. On that occasion an oath was administered to His
Royal Highness, who, according to a report of the proceedings, “ could
not suppress a smile ” on hearing some of the obligations to which he
was required to pledge himself. Most happily, he did not choke himself
with the effort, in attempting to swallow some of them; as this:—
“ You shall not withstand or disobey the summons of the Master and Wardens of
the said mystery for the time being, by their officer therefore assigned ; but to the
same Master and Wardens you shall be obedient and obeisant at all times, without
you have a reasonable and lawful excuse. ”
The concluding salvo fortunately exempts the Prince from the duty
of dancing attendance on the Masters and Wardens of the Merchant
Taylors’ Company at call, and doing whatever they may please to tell
him. The Prince of Wales, when not wanted by the Queen or the
Public, must always have either business or pleasure of his own to
occupy him ; and the pleasure of his Royal Highness, to say nothing
of his business, would surely be a reasonable and lawful excuse for
declining to devote himself, under the motto of “ Ich Dien,” to the
exclusive service of the Merchant Taylors.
The Prince was also adjured to uudertake the following engage-
ment :—
“You shall not conceal any foreigner using the handicraft of tailory or merchan-
dises, to dwell within the franchises of the said City, but as soon as you know it,
you shall warn the Chamberlain of the same City thereof, or some Minister of the
Chamber, that he may do due correction therein as belongeth to his office to do.”
This condition his Royal Highness may have safely sworn to fulfil.
Any foreign tailor whom be might be pleased to patronise, either in the
City or elsewhere, would be sure enough to take good care that his
Royal client should not conceal him by any means. The plume of feathers
over the shop-front would preclude all possibility of concealment. It
is, however, doubtful whether this security for publicity would have
been contemplated with much satisfaction by the original members of
the Merchant Taylors’ guild. Those venerable citizens were evidently
imbued with verystrong Protectionist prejudices against “the foreigner.”
These further stipulations, for example, were also proposed to the
Prince:—
“ You shall cover no foreigner in any wise, under your own franchises, to your
profit, and singular advantage of the said foreigner, upon the pain that is .contained
in an ordinance thereof made. You shall take no foreign covenant man into your
service, but only of your own mystery, such as have well and truly served as appren-
tices seven years within the same City, or else apprentices duly bound, without
fraud or male engine.”
“ Male engine,” may be presumed to mean “evil contrivance;” for
engines have no genders, unless screws may be called engines, but,
though screws are male and female, we canuot conceive an apprentice
bound with a screw of either sex, although apprentices may be bound
to screws of both sexes, who stint them. From the first of the two
clauses it might be inferred that the Prince oe Wales, in his capacity
of tailor, is debarred from being employed by, as well as from employ-
ing, any but his own countrymen, since it seems to forbid him irom
clothing an alien. Regarding it in another point of view, we may
rejoice to think that the Prince of Wales did not, some four months
ago, make an affidavit that would have estopped him from extending
coverture to any other than a British spinster, or British widow, it
preferred. Considering all these things, it is no marvel, that the
Prince of "Wales could not suppress a smile; the wonder is that he
escaped bursting his buttons with laughter.
The Aspiration of a Prodigal Vow-Breaker.
“I would have the same law applied to resolutions that is enforced
at some respectable theatres with regard to places—what is taken in the
morning should oe religiously kept throughout the evening, thus,
would the day terminate with the pleasing satisfaction of one s engage-
ments being always happily performed ! ”
Duty on Tobacco.—It is not generally known, that in future there
is to be a heavy tax levied on the snuff of a candle.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [June 20, 1863.
FLY FISHING.
Piscator. “ Now then ! I think I shall get a Piss here ! ”
THE PRINCE OE WALES'S NEW LIVERY.
His Royal Highness the Prince op Wales, oh Thursday last, was
enrolled at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall an honorary member of that
ancient Company. On that occasion an oath was administered to His
Royal Highness, who, according to a report of the proceedings, “ could
not suppress a smile ” on hearing some of the obligations to which he
was required to pledge himself. Most happily, he did not choke himself
with the effort, in attempting to swallow some of them; as this:—
“ You shall not withstand or disobey the summons of the Master and Wardens of
the said mystery for the time being, by their officer therefore assigned ; but to the
same Master and Wardens you shall be obedient and obeisant at all times, without
you have a reasonable and lawful excuse. ”
The concluding salvo fortunately exempts the Prince from the duty
of dancing attendance on the Masters and Wardens of the Merchant
Taylors’ Company at call, and doing whatever they may please to tell
him. The Prince of Wales, when not wanted by the Queen or the
Public, must always have either business or pleasure of his own to
occupy him ; and the pleasure of his Royal Highness, to say nothing
of his business, would surely be a reasonable and lawful excuse for
declining to devote himself, under the motto of “ Ich Dien,” to the
exclusive service of the Merchant Taylors.
The Prince was also adjured to uudertake the following engage-
ment :—
“You shall not conceal any foreigner using the handicraft of tailory or merchan-
dises, to dwell within the franchises of the said City, but as soon as you know it,
you shall warn the Chamberlain of the same City thereof, or some Minister of the
Chamber, that he may do due correction therein as belongeth to his office to do.”
This condition his Royal Highness may have safely sworn to fulfil.
Any foreign tailor whom be might be pleased to patronise, either in the
City or elsewhere, would be sure enough to take good care that his
Royal client should not conceal him by any means. The plume of feathers
over the shop-front would preclude all possibility of concealment. It
is, however, doubtful whether this security for publicity would have
been contemplated with much satisfaction by the original members of
the Merchant Taylors’ guild. Those venerable citizens were evidently
imbued with verystrong Protectionist prejudices against “the foreigner.”
These further stipulations, for example, were also proposed to the
Prince:—
“ You shall cover no foreigner in any wise, under your own franchises, to your
profit, and singular advantage of the said foreigner, upon the pain that is .contained
in an ordinance thereof made. You shall take no foreign covenant man into your
service, but only of your own mystery, such as have well and truly served as appren-
tices seven years within the same City, or else apprentices duly bound, without
fraud or male engine.”
“ Male engine,” may be presumed to mean “evil contrivance;” for
engines have no genders, unless screws may be called engines, but,
though screws are male and female, we canuot conceive an apprentice
bound with a screw of either sex, although apprentices may be bound
to screws of both sexes, who stint them. From the first of the two
clauses it might be inferred that the Prince oe Wales, in his capacity
of tailor, is debarred from being employed by, as well as from employ-
ing, any but his own countrymen, since it seems to forbid him irom
clothing an alien. Regarding it in another point of view, we may
rejoice to think that the Prince of Wales did not, some four months
ago, make an affidavit that would have estopped him from extending
coverture to any other than a British spinster, or British widow, it
preferred. Considering all these things, it is no marvel, that the
Prince of "Wales could not suppress a smile; the wonder is that he
escaped bursting his buttons with laughter.
The Aspiration of a Prodigal Vow-Breaker.
“I would have the same law applied to resolutions that is enforced
at some respectable theatres with regard to places—what is taken in the
morning should oe religiously kept throughout the evening, thus,
would the day terminate with the pleasing satisfaction of one s engage-
ments being always happily performed ! ”
Duty on Tobacco.—It is not generally known, that in future there
is to be a heavy tax levied on the snuff of a candle.