By an inquisition taken at Newcastle upon Tyne, January 4th, 1446, it appeared that common baking and brewing for sale were restricted to that town, and no where else within the port of Tyne.

An old ordinary of this society, now lost, appears to have been in their possession A. D. 1583, and long afterwards, as several entries in their old books testify.

There is a record of this society, dated Nov. 4, 1661, setting forth that their antient ordinary was lost, and enjoining them to meet yearly on the 23rd of November, unless it should fall on a Sunday, and then the day after, to elect the twelve of the society and four wardens, who were empowered by the name of the wardens of the art and mystery of bakers and brewers, to prosecute, sue, and implead, and be prosecuted, sued, &c. only within the courts of Newcastle upon Tyne; to make laws for the government of the society, impose fines, &c.; forbidding any brother to strike another at any meeting with fist, hand, elbow, dagger, staff, stick, rod, or otherwise, on pain of 20s. ; and ordering that no apprentice should be taken under seven years, nor a second till the first had served six years; as also that the society should attend the burials of their brethren, on pain of a penalty of 3s. 4d. for every omission.

There are only 8 members of this society.

Their meeting-house is in the Black-Friars.

ARMS. First Shield. Gules, a balance between three garbs or; on a chief barry wavy of four argent, and azure, an arm embowed proper, vested gules, cuffed or, issuing from clouds affixed to the upper part of the centre of the chief, of the fifth, radiated of the last, between two anchors of the second; the hand supporting the balance.

CREST. Two arms embowed proper, issuing out of clouds of the last, vested gules, cuffed or, holding in their hands a chaplet of wheat of the last, for the Bakers. Second Shield. Gules, on a chevron argent, between three pair of barley garbs in saltire or, three tuns sable, hooped of the third. CREST.-A demi-Moorish woman, couped at the knees, proper; her hair dishevelled or, habited sable, frettée argent, her arms extended, holding in each hand three ears of barley of the second, for the Brewers. MOTTO.-In God is all our trust.

Tanners.

THE ordinary of the Tanners, anciently called barkers, dated November 8th, 1532, enjoined the society to come yearly in their best array and apparel, at the feast of Corpus Christi, and go in procession, set forth their pageants, &c. on pain of forfeiting a pound of wax. Not to take any Scot by birth for an apprentice, under a penalty of 20s. That each brother should have but one butcher to buy slaughter of, on pain of £10, and not to buy above eight fothers of bark, or forty trees, on pain of 6s. 8d.; also to supply each other with bark, &c.

The society consists of 26 members; they have their meeting-house on the south side of the Black-Friars.

ARMS.-Argent, on a mount in base, an oak tree proper; on a chief azure, a bull's face of the first, between two fountains. CREST.-A bull's head erased, proper. MoTTO.-Deus noster refugium.