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journeymen, inferentially a distinct and different 

 body. Viewed in that light it is possible that the 

 apprentices were intended — in this particular inci- 

 dent it is extremely likely. Again, on numerous 

 occasions we find in the Company's books records 

 of apprentices bound for terms of seven and eight 

 years, the apprentice being described in scores of 

 instances as *' yeoman," and the ordinary impracti- 

 cability of holding a man apprentice after he 

 had attained his majority would suggest that these 

 yeomen were decidedly very young men. We 

 are inclined to think, however, that wherever 

 the word yeomanry occurs as referring to a class, 

 the body intended to be understood is the shop- 

 keepers — '' householders," as they were called. 

 In the ordinances of 21 Charles II., it is stated 

 that the members of the Livery shall be taken into 

 the clothing from the yeomanry ; the ordinances 

 of 6 James I., moreover, contain an enlargement 

 of the liberty of the yeomanry for keeping appren- 

 tices, from all of which it is pretty clear that 

 whatever may have been the original signification 

 of the term, the term yeomanry referred to the 

 working members of the trade and Company next 

 below the Livery, in contradistinction to those 

 members of the Company who pursued other 

 trades and occupations. The yeomanry are men- 

 tioned as attending the quarter Courts. 



The ordinances of the Company prohibited any 



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the Company, of the Company to any other Mystery, 



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