And it is provided in the said composition or ordinaunce, that if this, or any ambiguity or any thing is to be amended in the said composition, that to be interpreted and added by the mutuall consent of six or five of the auncienteste of both the bodies, under theire handes, and that interpretation or addition to be taken as parte of the saide composition.

And it is manifest that this is but a quarrell of malice devised by Mr. Maior and others, against the said Hammond a schollers servant, both for that Mr. Maior and his brethren doth still suffer the same fault of hogges unringed to goe abroad in the same or the like places of the fallow feildes, in those persons beinge of theire owne bodie without any punishment.

And also for that divers of the Aldermen have practized and declared to the said Hammond if he would become a Townesman, and leave to be a schollers servant, that he should have all favor and tolleration in this and in all other thinges frelie.

On the 2nd of June, a grace passed for increasing the stipend of the Public Orator, to whom all persons admitted to answer the questions were to pay 6d. and all inceptors in arts 12d.