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A History of the County of Berkshire
… of the 'multitude of forreigners both clothworkers and journeymen keeping shop and working in the Town.' 355 In 1650 …
A History of the County of Surrey
… who had served no terms of apprenticeship and yet employed journeymen of their own nationality to work as …
A History of the County of Warwick
… or not. The later orders are directed rather against journeymen than foreign masters, a change of emphasis which … to the intervening crisis of the Great Poor Law. In 1573 journeymen might work in the borough for a fortnight and thereafter could become free journeymen on the payment of 2 d. 143 If they failed to make …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and a pewterer. In 1586-7 a survey 9 of craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices in the town (Table I) revealed … 12 TABLE 1 Warwick Tradesmen, 1586-7 Trade Masters Journeymen Apprentices Servants Tanners 17 4 7 6 Butchers 16 …
Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
… a number of others, who appear to have been apprentices or journeymen, to commit a violent assault on Giles Pykeman, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to in 1425 as one of the meeting-places of a number of journeymen, particularly those of the tailors' craft, who had … of weavers' deeds passim. It is just possible that the journeymen's lamp mentioned in an arbitration of 1424 between the master and journeymen weavers ( Leet Bk. 93, 95) was maintained in this …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to reports of unauthorised assemblies of apprentices and journeymen and required that a proclamation be issued against … of the kind did indeed arise in 1424 between masters and journeymen weavers: journeymen had complained about the excessive number of looms …
A History of the County of Warwick
… attempted to help them to control their apprentices and journeymen who were a frequent source of trouble. In 1527, for example, journeymen cappers were ordered to work their full hours and dyers' journeymen were forbidden to form their own guild. 63 The …
A History of the County of Warwick
… which included his apprentices, and foreman among his own journeymen. His womenfolk and children helped with the … and weaving, and beneath his roof, too, some of the journeymen might have their miserable homes. 15 The journeymen and their families formed that mass of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of manufacturers and shopkeepers, and a working class of journeymen, labourers, and those engaged in the humblest … guilds. 25 The largest class consisted of apprentices, journeymen, humbler tradesmen, and the unemployed. The divisions between classes were never rigid. Journeymen became master craftsmen and the status of …