then the usual custom for an apprentice to board with his master and not a practice chiefly confined to children brought up by charity, made a great difference. Both kinds of apprentices were bound in the same way and would tend to be dealt with in the same manner. The selection of the master would make the principal difference; and the welfare of the apprentice would depend upon the care taken by the administrators of the charities and the parochial funds in providing masters for the children. [513] _D. S. P._ Chas. I., Vol. 293, No. 129. [514] _Ib._ Vol. 190, No. 56. [515] Dalton's _Country Justice_, 4th edition, 1630, p. 93. See Chapter VIII. [516] Among such bequests were:-- Bristol, Edw. Cox, 1622. _Reports of the Char. Com._ VI. pp. 532-533. " Andrew Barker, 1658. _Ib._ p. 467. Oxford, Thomas' Charity, 1639. _Ib._ p. 381. Exeter, Sir John Acland, 1609. _Reports of Char. Com._ p. 155. Maidenhead, Rixman's Charity, 1628. _Ib._ XXXII. Pt. 1, p. 77. At Reading besides Laud's gift there were John Johnson's Charity, 1614, and Marten's Charity, 1635. _Ib._ p. 43. Both these were in existence in 1652, but have been lost for many years. Wokingham, Laud's Gift and Planner's Charity, 1605. _Ib._ p. 213. Hereford, Wood's Charity, 7 James I. _Ib._ Pt. 2, p. 29. West Wickham, Lady Slaney, 1607, £3 a year. _Rep._ VI. p. 271. [517] _Records of the Borough of Reading_, Vol. III. pp. 512, 513. In 1640 £100 was paid for half the year and ten boys were appointed to be bound apprentices with such masters as the Mayor and aldermen had arranged, £10 being paid apiece for them. [518] _Reports of Char. Com._ XXXII. Part 1, 221. The picture in the _Fortunes of Nigel_ of Jenkin Vincent, the London apprentice of this time brought up at Christ's Hospital, could not have been very unlike the reality. Great hardship must have been inflicted in some cases[519], but when the practice was new and the custom general, the apprentice bound by charitable funds would not usually be treated much worse than other apprentices. Otherwise it is not probable the Privy Councillors in their public capacity, and an Archbishop and many other charitable people in their private capacities, would have taken so much trouble to extend this practice by finding the funds for the purpose of thus providing for the maintenance and education of poor children. [519] In the Records of the Borough of Reading between 1630 and 1640 we have an instance of complaint by a pauper apprentice. We are told that "At this daye complaynt was made by the officers of Shinfeild that heretofore they gave v li in money and bound John Chaplen, borne in their parishe, apprentice to William Applebye of Readinge, weaver, for 15 yeares by indenture, of whiche terme 9 yeares are expired, and that the said apprentice for lacke of meate and drinke and apparell hath often-tymes run awaye, and is nowe brought agayne by the officers of Shinfeild desiringe a reformacion or restitucion of the v li.