APPENDIX OF CASES. 
193 
Aii information was preferred by the appellant (as parent 
and next friend of Samuel Burton, a member of the Stoke 
Bruern Friendly Society), against the respondent, as secre 
tary of the society, for that Samuel Burton, a member of 
the society, was then insane, and an inmate of the North 
ampton General Lunatic Asylum, and, as such, sick, and 
entitled to relief from the society, which relief has been 
refused to him. 
At the hearing, on the 2nd of July, 1871, a copy of the 
rules was put in, of which the following axe material:— 
On the first page was the preamble ; 
“ Whereas it is a laudable custom in Great Britain, for 
divers artists and other [well] disposed persons to meet 
and form themselves into societies for the relief of such 
members as by illness or accident shall not be able to work 
at their usual employment; it is therefore agreed by us, 
rrho have entered our names in a book and subscribed, as 
follows:— 
“ Rule 11. That if any member remove from his present 
place of abode to any part of England, he shall be allowed 
two months to send his contribution money in, or forfeit 
Is. 6d., hut if he neglect to send it in three months he shall 
be excluded. And if the person absent shall duly send 
ms contribution, and be there taken sick and unable to 
w ork at his trade, he shall send a certificate signed by the 
minister, churchwarden, and doctor of the parish where he 
resides, certifying how long he hath been ill, and what his 
disorder is. But if such member’s illness shall continue 
mr more than a month, he shall send a certificate every 
month as above, and on the receipt of such certificate he 
shall receive his money the same as if he were present. 
“Rule 13. That no member shall be entitled to any 
benefit from this society until one year has expired from 
he day of his entrance, and all his contributions, &c., to 
-.‘at time be cleared off; he shall then receive 8.s. per week 
< uring any sickness or accident that may befall him, unless 
? . n °ting or drunkenness (the venereal' disease excepted), 
_, UC l shall be carried to him by the stewards weekly; 
1° are required to visit and inquire after the state of the 
■ iclv, tor which they shall receive 3d. per mile from the. 
jox for their trouble; and accordingly make their report 
Is societ y> m case °f failure, to forfeit for each offence 
„ * Rule 32. That if any member shal 1 , by quarrelling,, 
(gating, wrestling, or any other unlawful cr needless exer- 
c , lse mil into either sickness, lameness, or blin ’ness, &c., he 
■ s mil not be allowed the benefit of this society.” 
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