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tte said Morriss willbecome bounde by recognyasaunce before some justyce of 

 peace of the same sheire that the said John Hewse durying the tyme of his said 

 apprentyshippe shalhe remayne and contynewe in safety of his lyfe foi" any thing 

 used to be done or comytted to the contrary by the said Morrys Henley his 

 mayster." 



At the Trinit)^ Sessions, 1592 : — 



" It is ordered that Arthur Husband shall deliv' John Crawley to his father 

 before nine of the clocks of this next daye or to be comitted to gayle." 

 " Fiat [the entry concludes] capias versus eundem Husband." 



By the end of the century the magisterial interest in apprentice 

 law would seem to have subsided (a condition of mind to which the 

 readers of these pages have, it is to be feared, by this time been 

 also reduced), for at the Michaelmas Sessions of 1600 : — 



" It is ordered that noe Informacons shalbe exhibited into this Courte against 

 anie pson for using or exercising anie misterie or manuell occupacon wherin he 

 hath not ben Apprentice unles the same be first made knowne to some Justice o£ 

 the Peace neare the place where the pson dwelleth against whome such informacon 

 is or shalbe exhibited and that the same Justice doe consent therunto And that 

 all informacons hertofore exhibited into this Courte against badgers of woolleQ 

 yarne shall cease and be noe further prsecuted until further order be taken." 



The hundred juries may have considered that the hint was not for 

 them — as indeed perhaps it was not. Certainly the jury of the 

 Hundred of Westbury were moved at the Easter Sessions, 44th 

 Eliz., to present : — 



Elizabeth Vooke, of Dilton for keeping a servant, anglice a jour- 

 neyman who has not served as an apprentice. 



William Axford, of Bratton, for taking an apprentice to the art 

 of weaving, to which art he had not himself been apprenticed. 



William Collier and John Swetland, each of Bratton, for keeping 

 apprentices who were sons of labourers in husbandry. 



Among the persons indicted at an earlier sessions was Alice 

 Clifford, for exercising an art " in qua non fuit educata/' 

 (To be Contimied.J 



[The Committee desires to acknowledge the liberality of Mr. E. W. Merriman 

 iu presenting the plate which accompanies his paper.] 



