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1627. Jamiary lyth. 



" At this Court Robert Barthrop complayned of 

 William Standysh for teaching a stranger his trade, 

 being not bound, and for haveing of twoe apprentizes 

 w*^^ he ought not to haue, ffor w^^ his offence hee is fined 

 in fforty shillings, w^^ hee is to bring in the next Court 

 daie." 



By the ordinances ratified 3rd Elizabeth, no 

 member of the Company was permitted to take 

 any apprentice or other person to work for him 

 in the art of Saddlery until that member had 

 been licensed to do so, as well as to keep a shop 

 to his own use by the Wardens and Assistants of 

 the Company. The number of apprentices to be 

 kept, moreover, was strictly limited. The War- 

 dens of the Company were not allowed to keep 

 more than three apprentices at any one time. 

 Members of the Clothing or Livery were re- 

 stricted to two ; and Freemen who were not of 

 the Livery were not allowed to take a second 

 apprentice until the first had entered upon his last 

 year of servitude.- In 1608, however, the liberty 

 of the yeomanry to take a second apprentice was 

 extended to a year earlier, that is to say, when the 

 first had entered upon his last year but one of ser- 

 vice.^ Minutes similar to the following occur over 

 and over again : — 



^ Ordinances, 3rd Eliz., 1560-1. 

 ^ Ordinances, 5th James I. 



