Paisley Hammermen SocietyRegistered

THAT IS TO SAY the said Persons Subscribing Hammermen, Clockmakers Burgesses and Inhabitants within the said Burgh CONSIDERING that in all Trades and Incorporations there and indigent and necessitous persons that are without means to supply their outward necessity AND CONSIDERING also that the most proper and effectual means for applying such indigent persons and preventing increase of their numbers is by persons of one craft entering into a Society and collecting a common Purse whereby poor and indigent Children of any person of said united craft may be brought up and put to Trades as age or inclination may lead them, and as shall be thought most advantageous for them by the Representatives of the said Craft and that aged, poor and indigent persons may be supplied as meed may require HAVE THEREFORE and for preventing several abuses in the said Trade conform to the Acts made or to be made by the Bailies and Council in their favour,