Carpenters' Company:
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1st May 1676 - 9th August 1715

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About Presenting
Apprentices

No Person or Persons within the limits aforesaid
Shall take any Apprentice or Apprentices unless
he Present him or them before the Master and
Wardens for the time being and to pay for ye Same
2s:6d.

Upon Disobeying this Ordinance to forfeit and
Pay forty Shillings for Every time So Offending
or less at the Discretion of ye. Said Master & Wardens

All Apprentices so Presented within 3 Months
after binding are to be Enroll'd according to the
Custom of the City upon forfeiture for Every
Offence 3s..4d to the use aforesaid(follo 16..17)

About making the
Indentures.

The Clerk to make all Indentures for all
Persons bound and to take Reasonable Fees.

If made Elsewhere to forfeit 10s. whereof one
Moiety to the Clerk and the other Moiety to the
use of the fellowship follo 18.

All apprentices of
Carpenters of other
Company's & freemens
Sons brought up to Carpen-
try to be bound to a
free Carpenter

All Persons with in the Limitts aforesaid as
Shall Occupy Said Trade of Carpentry being Free
of any other Trade Shall not take an Appren-
tice untill he be bound to a freeman of the
Carpentry and likewise Enrolld unto him then to
be Brought to the Chamberlain of London &
thereby the Carpenter be Turned over to the
Person of the other Fellowship. And at the End
of his Terme to be presented before the Master
and Wardens of Carpenters at their hall to be
Examined Etca And to be Sworn According
to this oath provided-And then to pay for his
Admission 3s:4d- [..]
After the Said Master with the Master & Wardens
(or




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