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Continued Thursday 30th April 1778.
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rejected
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Upon Reading the Petition of
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John Sanders
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four of the
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Artsmasters
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in this Hospital in the words and figures following
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Vizt." That your Petitioners being Anxious for the dignity and
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welfare of this Charitable foundation, and for the poor Youth
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placed there in under your Inspection, have with the greatest
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Deference to your Worships offered the following for your
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ConsiderationThat your Worships will be pleased to Enquire
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whether the Candidates offering themselves to fill the Vacancy of
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a Broad weaver are realy so, by serving a regular Apprenticeship
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thereto; doubts having arisen in the minds of your Petitioners
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concerning one of the present Candidates, do most humbly submit
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to your Worships, whether it is not essentially necessary, that those
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who have the Care of the Apprentices in your Hospital should not
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themselves have served a regular Apprenticeship in Order fully to
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Instruct them in the true Art and Mystery of that Business which
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they follow, Your Petitioners humbly think, that a Master, who
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has no legal right by Servitude can be a proper Person to
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superintend the Apprentices placed under his Care & Protection
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or is it possible such a Master can properly Instruct such Youths
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particularly, in the Art or Mystery of a weaver. " This Court
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having duly weighed and considered the said Petition is opinion
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that the said Arts masters have behaved very improperly as it does
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not Appear that there is any foundation in Truth for what they
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have set forth in their said Petition and a Motion being made
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and seconded and the Question put, that the said
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be
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reprimanded it was carried in the Affirmative and there upon
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they were called into Court and reprimanded by Mr. President
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Accordingly.
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Upon Reading a Report from the Committee of this
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House dated 24th. April Instant under the Hands of
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