558 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
and by the latter act, in certain of 
those parishes, namely, the seven- 
teen parishes without the walls of 
London, the twenty-three in Mid- 
dlesex and Surrey, being within 
the Bills of Mortality, and the 
liberty of the Tower of London, 
and the ten parishes within the 
city and liberty of Westminster, a 
list of poor children bound ap- 
prentices, was directed to be de- 
livered annually from each parish 
to the clerk of the company of 
Parish-clerks, to be bound up 
and deposited with that company. 
To those lists your Committee 
have had access, an abstract hav- 
ing been made by the clerk of 
the Committee; and it appears 
from them that the whole num- 
ber of apprentices bound, from 
the beginning of the year 1802 
to the end of the year 1811, from 
these parishes, amounts to 5,815 ; 
being 3,446 males, and 2,369 fe- 
males. Of these were bound to 
trades, watermen, the sea-ser- 
vice, and to househould employ- 
ment, 2,428 males, and 1,361 fe- 
males, in all 3,789; fifteen of 
whom were bound under eight 
years of age, 493 between eight 
and eleven years, 483 between 
eleven and twelve, 1,656 between 
twelve and fourteen, and 1,102 
between fourteen and eighteen. 
Though not immediately appli- 
cable to the subject of inquiry, 
it may not be altogether irrele- 
vant to mention, that of this 
gross number of children amount- 
ing to 3,789, there were bound 
to the sea-service, to watermen, 
lightermen, and fishermen, 484; 
to household employments, 528 ; 
and to various trades and pro- 
fessions 2,772: the remaining 
children amounting to 2,026, be- 
ing 1,018 males, and 1,008females, 
were bound to persons in the 
country ; of these, 58 were under 
eight years of age, 1,008 between 
eight and eleven, 316 between 
eleven and twelve, 435 between 
twelve and fourteen, and 207 be« 
tween fourteen aad eighteen, be- 
sides two children whose ages are 
not mentioned in the returns from 
their parishes. 
Before they enter on the sub- 
ject of what has become of these 
children, your Committee beg 
leave to observe, that from all the 
parishes within the city of Lon- 
don, only eleven apprentices have 
been sent to masters at a distance 
in the country; that of the five 
parishes in Southwark, only one 
(St. George’s) has sent any con- 
siderable number ; that in West- 
minster, the patish of St. Anne 
has not sent any since the year 
1802 ; those of St. Margaret and 
St. John, since the year 1803; and 
the largest and most populous pa- 
rish of St. Pancras has discon- 
tinued the practice since the year 
1806. From those of Newington, 
Shadwell, Islington, and several 
others, no children have at any 
time been sent. 
The Committee directed pre- 
cepts to be sent to the various 
persons in the country to whom 
the parish apprentices, to the 
amount of 2,026, were bound, 
directing them to make returns, 
stating what had become of 
them, to the best of their know- 
ledge. These returns have in 
general been complied with, but 
in some instances have not, ow- 
ing probably to the bankruptcy 
or discontinuance in business of 
the parties to whom these chil- 
dren were apprenticed; and in 
