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Continued Wed 19th July 1749
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At this Court the humble Petition of William Grinsill Citizen & Bromde
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was read Setting forthThat your Petitioner has been Freeman of the
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upwards of Sixteen Years during which time
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he has been
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set up in his Trade and has brought up several ApprenticesThat there being a
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of an Artsmaster in the Room of Mr.
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Deceased & the Petitioner being
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ready Curlling to take such a Number of Apprentices as the Court Shall think fit and
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to keep has Appartment in repair with Glazing Plaistering & Whiteing at his own
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Expence as is usually done by the Artsmasters & to Comply with all Orders of the Court
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and Comittee made & to be made in relation to Artsmasters And praying to be Elected
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an Artsmasters in the Room of the said Mr.
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and the Question being put
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that the said William Grinsill being Elected on Arts master of the Hospital he was
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nomine Contradicente Elected an Artsmaster till the next Election dayAnd it is
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Ordered that upon his Delivering a Certificate of his Settlement to the Clerk & producing
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a Copy of his Freedom of the City he be Admitted Accordingly upon giving Security as
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usuall and entering into the usual Covenants with a Covenant to be Added that he
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will not Set up any Engine Loomes in this Hospital And that the Journeyman which
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he shall Employ shall be such as have Served their Apprenticeships in the Hospital
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And it is further Ordered that he have such Appartment as the Comittee of this
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House Shall Direct.
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of Seakins}
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This Court declared the Vacancy of a Beadle of this Hospital on the decease
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of
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. And Ordered that the Election of a Beadle be the first Court next after
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tomorrow And that Notice thereof be incerted in the Ticketts.
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