Meetings of the Company and Membership

The Meetings of the Court were not held at regular intervals; seemingly only when occasion called. To take one of the earliest examples of which there is a record, in the year 1614 there was the Statutory Court of Election on February 10, and the next meeting was held nearly three months later, on April 28, 1615. Nor was there a regular rule about the Meetings of the Assistants. It was not until 1630 ¹ that the company decided that for the future “for the better and more speedy regulating divers business of the company which are far out of order” the Assistants should meet once a week. Three months later ² the stress of business both at home and abroad was so great that it was resolved to hold meetings of the Assistants twice a week.