Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
XX. Provided that it shall not be lawful to any person dwelling in any
city or town corporate exercising any of the misteries or crafts of a
merchant trafficking into any parts beyond the sea, mercer, draper,
goldsmith, ironmonger, embroiderer or clothier that doth put cloth to
making and sale, to take any apprentice or servant to be instructed in
any of the arts [etc.] which they exercise, except such servant or
apprentice be his son, or else that the father or mother of such
apprentice or servant shall have ... lands, tenements (etc.) of the
clear yearly value of 40s. of one estate of inheritance or freehold at
the least....
XXI. From and after the said feast of St. John the Baptist next, it
shall be lawful to every person being an householder and 24 years old at
the least and not occupying husbandry nor being a labourer dwelling in
any town not being incorporate that is a market town ... and exercising
any art, mistery or manual occupation ... to have in like manner to
apprentices the children of any other artificer not occupying husbandry
nor being a labourer, which shall inhabit in the same or in any other
such market town within the same shire, to serve as apprentices as is
aforesaid to any such art [etc.] as hath been usually exercised in any
such market town where such apprentice shall be bound.
XXII. Provided that it shall not be lawful to any person dwelling in any
such market town exercising the art of a merchant trafficking into the
parts beyond the seas, mercer [etc. as above, section XX] to take any
apprentice or in any wise to instruct any person in the arts [etc.] last
before recited, after the feast of St. John Baptist aforesaid, except
such servant or apprentice shall be his son, or else that the father or
mother of such apprentice shall have lands [etc.] of the clear yearly
value of 3l. of one estate of inheritance or freehold at the least....
XXIII. From and after the said feast it shall be lawful to any person
exercising the art of a smith, wheelwright, ploughwright, millwright,
carpenter, rough mason, plaisterer, sawyer, lime-burner, brickmaker,
bricklayer, tiler, slater, healyer, tilemaker, linen-weaver, turner,
cooper, millers, earthen potters, woollen weaver weaving housewives' or
household cloth only and none other, cloth-fuller otherwise called
tucker or walker, burner of ore and wood ashes, thatcher or shingler,
wheresoever he shall dwell, to have the son of any person as apprentice
... albeit the father or mother of any such apprentice have not any
lands, tenements or hereditaments.
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