Many of the books printed at this time bear the names of women printers,[316] but though women might own and direct the printing houses, there is no indication that they were ever engaged in the manual processes of printing. The printers’ trade does in fact furnish rather a good example of the effect upon women’s economic position of the transition from family industry to capitalistic organisation. It is true that many links in the evolution must be supplied by the imagination. We can imagine the master printer with his press, working at home with the help of his apprentice, his wife and children; then as his trade prospered he employed journeymen printers who were the real craftsmen, and it became possible for the owner of the business to be a man or woman who had never been bred up to the trade. Footnote 316: e.g. _An Essay of Drapery_ ... by William Scott, printed by Eliz. Alde for S. Pennell, London, 1635. Calvin, _Institution of Christian Religion_. Printed by the widowe of R. Wolfe, London, 1574. The fourthe edition of _Porta Linguarum_ is printed by E. Griffin for M. Sparke. London, 1639. Apprenticeship was still exacted for the journeymen. A Star Chamber decree in 1637 provides that no “master printer shall imploy either to worke at the Case, or the Presse, or otherwise about his printing, any other person or persons, then such only as are Freemen, or Apprentices to the Trade or mystery of Printing.”[317] While in 1676 the Stationers’ Company ordained that “no master-printer, or other printer or workman ... shall teach, direct or instruct any person or persons whatsoever, other than his or their own legitimate son or sons, in this Art or Mystery of Printing, who is not actually bound as an Apprentice to some lawful authorised Printer.”[318] Footnote 317: Arber, _Transcript_, Vol. IV., p. 534. Footnote 318: _Ibid._ Vol. I., p. 16. From the omission here of any mention of daughters it is clear that the Master Printers’ women-folk did not concern themselves with the technical side of his trade; but some attempt was evidently made to use other girls in the unskilled processes, for on a petition being presented in 1635 by the younger printers, concerning abuses which they wished removed, the Stationers’ Company adopted the following recommendation, “That no Master Printer shall hereafter permit or suffer by themselves or their journeyman any Girles, Boyes, or others to take off anie sheets from the tinpin of the presse, but hee that pulleth at the presse shall take off every sheete himself.”[319] Footnote 319: _S.P.D._, ccci., 105, Nov. 16, 1635.