MISCELLANIES, 
some cases the information re- 
' quired has been furnished by the 
overseer of the poor, to whom 
the charge of assigning the ap- 
prentices devolved, on the failure 
of the master. 
The general classification may 
be made as follows: 
Now serving under indenture 644 
Served their time, and now 
in the same employ......... 108 
Served and settled elsewhere 99 
Berti eaveras taieese dees scciacses 4/80 
Enlisted inthe army ornavy. 86 
Quitted their service, chiefly 
BUA WAY esas ses cats nsecees 
Not bound to the person men- 
tioned in the return kept 
by the company of Parish- 
Clerks ile. sradisncasecasastesass3 58 
Sent back to their friends... 57 
Transferredtotradesmenindif- 
ferent parts of the kingdom 246 
Incapable of service ......... 18 
Not accounted for or men- 
PONCD teciee seas socensvweasdeaine’ 5 
In parish work-houses....,.... 26 
Not satisfactorily or intelli- 
gibly accounted for by the 
personsto whom they were 
bound, or by the overseers 
where the masters have 
become bankrupts ......... 433 
166 
2,026 
Of thenumber comprised under 
the Jast head, consisting of 433, 
some few of the masters have sent 
a return, but without giving an 
account of the whole of the 
apprentices; so that it may be 
fairly judged that one-third. of 
ae cannot be accounted for at 
all. 
Your Committee having ab- 
stracted the whole list of parish 
apprentices boundintothecountry, 
might make this Report more full, 
by enumerating the particular re- 
559 
turns made by each master, or by 
the overseer, as well as the names 
of such masters as have not given 
any answers at all, or unsatis- 
factory ones; but they conceive 
that it might be invidiousto do so, 
especially as those details would 
make no difference in the state of 
the question which it is their ob- 
ject to bring before the consider- 
ation of the House. They therefore 
abstain from inserting any such 
returns in their Appendix, satis- 
fied that the House will give them 
credit for the reason of such omis- 
sion. They think it right, how- 
ever, to state generally, that of the 
children bound in ten years, the 
following is the proportion of the 
different trades and employments : 
Silk Throwsters ...+..+«. 118 
Silk Manufacturers,,.... » 26 
— 144 
Flax Dressers ....scccseee  2L 
Flax Spinners ......4...2. 58 
Flax Manufacturers... 88 
Sail-clothManufacturers 8 
— 175 
Woollen Manufacturers 25 
Worsted Spinners ...... 2 
Worsted Manufacturers 146 
Carpet weavers ...0000 2 
— 174 
Frame-work Knitters ... 9 
Earthenware Manufac- 
fUTENS eoicdicedeseves Se 3 
Cotton Spinners .......0. 353 
Cotton Weavers ..ccccore 67 
Cotton Manufacturers 771 - 
- Cotton Twist: Manufac- 
CUTETS * cccssecnsncebecsce vi 
Calico Weavers ..cscccee 
Fustian Manufacturers 71 
Cotton Candlewick Ma- 
kere sic. ceisesabsstecesae * 24 
Manufactures (sup= 
posed to be cotton) 28 
2,026 
