g z 6 APPRENTICE. 
to take any fuch apprentice, under thirteen years of age, 
or who {hall not appear to be fitly qualified both as to 
health and ftrength of body for that fervice. 4 Anne, c. 19. 
i. 16. The boy’s age lhall be inferted in the indenture, 
being truly taken from a copy of the entry in the regilter- 
book (where It can be had), which copy (hall be given and 
attefted by the minilter without fee: and, where no fuch 
entry can'be found, two fuch juftices, and fuch head offi¬ 
cers, {hall as fully as they can inform themfelves of fuch 
boy’s' age, ana from fuch information ffitjll infert the fame 
in the indentures. 3 and 3 Anne, c. 6. f. 1. And the church¬ 
wardens and overfeers (hall pay down to the matter, at the 
time of the binding, the fum of 50s. for clothing and bed¬ 
ding ; and the charges by this aft appointed ffiall be allow¬ 
ed* on their accounts. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 6. f. 2. 
The churchwardens and overfeers lhall fend the inden¬ 
tures to the colleftor of tire cuftoms at the port where- 
unto the mailer belongeth ; who ffiall enter the indenture 
in a book, and make an indorfement upon the indenture 
of the regillry thereof, fubfcribed by him, without fee. 
And if he ffiall negleft or refufe to enter fuch indentures, 
and indorfe the fame, or make falfe entries, he ffiall for¬ 
feit 5I. to the poor of the pariffi from whence fuch boy* 
was bound. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 6. f. 5. Such apprentice ffiall 
be conveyed to the port to which his mailer belongeth, 
by the churchwardens and overfeers, or their agents; and 
the charges thereof ffiall be paid as by the vagrant act 
of n and i 2 Will. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 6. f. 10. That is to 
fay, out of the gaol and marffialfea money ; which, by the 
12 Geo. 11 . c. 29. is directed to be paid out of the general 
county rate. 
1 he counter part of the indenture ffiall be fealed and 
executed by the mafter, and attelted by the colleftor of the 
port, and the conftable or other officer who carries the ap¬ 
prentice; which officer ffiall tranfmit fuch counterpart to 
the churchwardens and overfeers of the place from whence 
the apprentice was bound. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 6. 1 . 11. And 
the colleftor or his deputy ffiall tranfmit a certificate un¬ 
der his hand, to the commiflioners of the admiralty, con¬ 
taining the name and age of fuch apprentice, and to what 
ffiip he belongs; and on receipt of fuch certificate, a pro¬ 
tection (hall be made and given gratis to fuch apprentice, 
till he attain the age of eighteen years. Id. f. 5. 
Alfo every perlon who ffiall voluntarily bind himfelf 
apprentice to the fea-fervice, ffiall not be impreffed for 
three years from the date of his indentures ; which inden¬ 
tures ffiall be regiftered, and certificates thereof given and 
tranfmitted by the colleftor as aforefaid ; on receipt of 
which certificates, prcteftions ffiall be made and given for 
the firlt three years w ithout fee. Id. f. 15. But by 4 Anne, 
c. 19. No perfon of the age of eighteen years (hall have 
any protection from being impreffed, who ffiall have been 
in any fea-fervice before he bound himfelf apprentice, f. 17. 
But every perfon not having before ufed the fea, who 
ffiall bind himfelf apprentice to ferve at fea, ffiall be ex¬ 
empted from being impreffed for three years: and the 
commiflioners of the admiralty, on due proof of the cir- 
cumftances, ffiall grant a protection accordingly, without 
fee. 12 Geo. II. c. 17. 
When fuch pariffi or voluntary apprentice ffiall be im- 
prefled, or voluntarily enter into the ■ king’s fervice, the 
owner or mafter, his executors, adminiftrators, or afligns, 
ffiall be intitled to able feamen’s wages for fuch of the ap¬ 
prentices as ffiall upon due examination be found quali¬ 
fied for the fame, notwithftanding their indentures of ap- 
prenticeffiip. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 6. f. 17. Such poor boys 
bound out, or afligned over, to the fea fervicee, until they 
lhall attain to the age of eighteen years, ffiall be exempted 
from the payment of 6d. a month to Greenwich hofpital. Id. 
Every mafter fo obliged to take fuch apprentice, ffiall 
after his arrival into any port aforefaid, and before he 
clears out of fuch port, give an account in writing under 
his hand, to the colleftor, containing the names and num¬ 
ber of fuch apprentices as are there remaining in his fer¬ 
vice, f. 9. And every cuftom.-houfc officer ffiall infert at 
the bottom of their cocquets, the number of men and boys 
011-board their refpeftive ffiips at their going out, deferr¬ 
ing the apprentices by their names, ages, and dates of their 
indentures, for which no fee (hall be taken, f. 14. And 
the colleftor in the port ffiall keep a regifter, containing 
the number and burden of all ffiips belonging to the port° 
together with the matters or owners mimes, and alfo the 
names of all fuch apprentices in fuch ffiips, and from what 
pariffies and places they were fent; and ffiall tranfmit gratis 
true copies thereof figned by him, to the quarter feflions, 
or to fuch towns corporate, pariffies, or places, when and 
fo often as he ffiall be reafonably required fo to do ; and 
every colleftor refuting or neglefting to fend fuch copy, 
ffiall forfeit 5I. to the poor of the pariffi from whenceTuch 
boy was bound, f. 13. 
Two juftices near the port, and mayors of towns cor¬ 
porate, in or near adjoining to fuch poYt to which fuch 
(hip or veffel ffiall at any time arrive, may determine alt 
complaints of ill ufage from the mafter to fuch apprentice, 
and alfo of all fuch as (hall voluntarily put themfelves ap¬ 
prentices to the fea-fervice, and make fuch order therein 
as they are now enabled by law to do in other cafes be¬ 
tween matters and apprentices, f. 12. All the penalties 
aforefaid ffiall, by warrant of two juftices of the county, 
city, or town corporate, be levied by diftrefsand fale. f. 18. 
If any mafter, who hath been obliged to take fuch parilh 
boy an apprentice, ffiall die, during the term; his widow, 
or his executor or adminiftrator, may aflign over fuch ap¬ 
prentice to any other mafter who hath not his complement 
of 1 apprentices. 4 Anne, c. 19. f. 16. 
By the 2 Geo. ill. c. 15. Mailers, apprentices, mariners, 
and others, employed in fifhing-veffels upon the coafts, are 
exempted, during fuch their employment, from being irn- 
prefted. {. 22, 23, 24, 25. 
Of Differences ariftng between the Mafer and. Apprentice .— 
A mafter may by law correft and chaftife bis apprentice, 
for negleft or other mifbehaviour, fo it be done with mo¬ 
deration. The mafter may not of his own accord difeharge 
his apprentice ; but, if they cannot agree, they may proceed 
in one of thefe two ways: either upon the ftatute of the 
5 Eliz. c. 4. or upon the ftatute of 20 Geo. II. c. 19. 
By the 5 Eliz. c. 4. “ If any fuch mafter ffiall mifufe or 
evil intreat his apprentice, or the faid apprentice ffiall have 
any juft caufe to complain, or the apprentice do not his 
duty to his mafter, then the faid mafter or apprentice being 
grieved, and having caufe to complain, lhall repair unto 
one juftice of the county, or to the mayor or other head 
officer of the city, town corporate, or market-town, or 
other place where the mafter dwelleth ; who (hall by his 
wifdotn and diferetion take fuch order and direftion be¬ 
tween the mafter and his apprentice as the equity of the 
caufe (hall require: and if, for want of good conformity in 
the mafter, the faid juftice (or head officer) cannot com¬ 
pound and agree the matter, he (hall take bond of the 
faid mafter to appear at the next feifions ; and on his ap¬ 
pearance, and hearing of the matter there, if it be thought 
meet to difeharge the faid apprentice, then the juftices, 
or four of them at the lead, (one of the quorum,) or the 
faid mayor or other head officer, with the confentof three 
other of his brethren, or men of belt reputation in fuch 
city, town corporate, or market-town, ffiall have power, 
in writing under their hands and feals, to pronounce and 
declare, that they have difeharged the faid apprentice of 
his apprenticehood, and the caiffe thereof: and the faid 
w riting, being insolled by the clerk of the peace, or town- 
clerk, among!! the records, (hall be a fufficient dllcharge 
for the apprentice againft his mafter, his executors and 
adminiftrators. And, if the default ffiould be found to be 
in the apprentice, then the faid juftices, or the faid mayor, 
or other head officer, with the adiftance aforefaid, ffiall 
caufe fuch due correction and puniffiment to be admim- 
ftred unto him, as by their wildom and diferetions ffiali 
be thought meet.” f. 33. 
If any fuch mafter. That is, any fuch mafter as is before 
mentioned in this ftatute, in the trades therein fpecified; 
and 
