In addition to these Trades, skilled and semi-skilled, in which men and women worked together, certain skilled women’s trades existed in London which were sufficiently profitable for considerable premiums to be paid with the girls who were apprenticed to them.[417] These girls probably continued to exercise their own trade after marriage, their skill serving them instead of dowry, the Customs of London providing that “married women who practise certain crafts in the city alone and without their husbands, may take girls as apprentices to serve them and learn their trade, and these apprentices shall be bound by their indentures of apprenticeship to both husband and wife, to learn the wife’s trade as is aforesaid, and such indentures shall be enrolled as well for women as for men.”[418] The girls who were apprenticed to Carpenters were evidently on this footing. Footnote 417: Ante, p. 175. Footnote 418: Eileen Power, by kind permission, 1419. References in contemporary documents to women who were following skilled or semi-skilled trades in London are very frequent. Thus Thomas Swan is reported to have committed thefts “on his mistress Alice Fox, Wax-chandler of Old Bailey.”[419] Mrs. Cellier speaks of “one Mrs. Phillips, an upholsterer,”[420] while the Rev. Giles Moore notes in his diary “payed Mistress Cooke, in Shoe Lane, for a new trusse, and for mending the old one and altering the plate thereof, £1 5 0; should shee dye, I am in future to inquire for her daughter Barbara, who may do the like for mee.”[421] Isaac Derston was “put an app. to Anthony Watts for the term of seven years, but turned over to the widow—dwelling near: palls: who bottoms cane chaires, £2 10 0.”[422] That the bottoming of cane chairs was a poor trade is witnessed by the meagreness of the premium paid in this case. Footnote 419: _C.S.P.D._ cv. 53, Jan. 19, 1619. Footnote 420: Cellier (Mrs.) _Malice Defeated_., p. 25. Footnote 421: _Suss. Arch. Coll._, Vol. I., p. 123, _Journal Rev._, 1676. Footnote 422: _Monthly Meeting Minute Book, Peele_, Nov. 24, 1687.