Report.
Select Committee.
Taste masters
given up of
Artsmasters
introduced.
Once highly
useful when in 1708
(for instance) there
move 140 apps.
at one time.

and Task Mistresses to attend to the work within the House
and Poor Artificers to be supplied with work out of the House,
certain Persons have been introduced into the establishment,
called Arts Masters who have been accommodated, free of Rent
Repairs and Taxes with Houses and other advantages within
the Hospital, on condition of their taking and instructing a
certain number of Apprentices; that these Persons were"
originally useful parts of the institution, being at one time
under agreement to retain, each of them, twenty Apprentices
to be named by the Governors; and their being a period to
which your Committee has referred, Vizt. in the Year 1708.
when these Arts Masters, had One hundred & forty Apprentices
alone time, a circumstance that might have had very"
beneficial effects in, providing for one of the Original Objects of
the Charity, "idle uneducated youth of the Metropolis,
"advancing to maturity without Character or Occupation"

Durg preceedg.
16 Yrs 111 Lane
served their time 58
run away 84 died
none now
in the Horpe
note It is not recom-
mended to take any mone

That, during the preceding period of thirty one Years
from 1767 to the 22d. Decr. 1798, there have been One hundred
and Seventy three Lads Apprentices to the Arts Masters,
that, of these, there have been, during the same period as many
as One hundred and eleven who have Served out their time,
of the remainder, fifty eight have run away (some of whom
are at Sea) Four have died, and none now remain in the
House.

How the 111 who
served our their time
one disposed of

That, of the One hundred and eleven apprentices who
have Served out their time five only are Master Workmen,
Fifty Nine are Journeymen, Eight are Servants, Thirteen in
the Army or Navy, Ten in various other Situations, & Sixteen
have died, but of them, as many as Seventy five have received
from Lock and Fowke's Charity their Gifts of Twenty Pounds
each, under the allegation of having actually Set up in
Business, a circumstance that has been required to intitle
them to those Donations.

That