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<p n="5289">Continued Thursday 30th April 1778.</p>
<p n="5290"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9477">Artsmasters</rs>
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Petition<lb></lb>
rejected</note>
<lb></lb>
Upon Reading the Petition of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-1">Thomas Reynolds</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-2">Thomas Dunn</rs>
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<interp inst="BBBRMG20208_n5290-2" type="surname" value="Dunn"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-3">Robert Lemare</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-4">John Sanders</rs>
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four of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9478">Artsmasters</rs>
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in this Hospital in the words and figures following<lb></lb>
Vizt." That your Petitioners being Anxious for the dignity and<lb></lb>
welfare of this Charitable foundation, and for the poor Youth<lb></lb>
placed there in under your Inspection, have with the greatest<lb></lb>
Deference to your Worships offered the following for your<lb></lb>
ConsiderationThat your Worships will be pleased to Enquire<lb></lb>
whether the Candidates offering themselves to fill the Vacancy of<lb></lb>
a Broad weaver are realy so, by serving a regular Apprenticeship<lb></lb>
thereto; doubts having arisen in the minds of your Petitioners<lb></lb>
concerning one of the present Candidates, do most humbly submit<lb></lb>
to your Worships, whether it is not essentially necessary, that those<lb></lb>
who have the Care of the Apprentices in your Hospital should not<lb></lb>
themselves have served a regular Apprenticeship in Order fully to<lb></lb>
Instruct them in the true Art and Mystery of that Business which<lb></lb>
they follow, Your Petitioners humbly think, that a Master, who<lb></lb>
has no legal right by Servitude can be a proper Person to<lb></lb>
superintend the Apprentices placed under his Care & Protection<lb></lb>
or is it possible such a Master can properly Instruct such Youths<lb></lb>
particularly, in the Art or Mystery of a weaver. " This Court<lb></lb>
having duly weighed and considered the said Petition is opinion<lb></lb>
that the said Arts masters have behaved very improperly as it does<lb></lb>
not Appear that there is any foundation in Truth for what they<lb></lb>
have set forth in their said Petition and a Motion being made<lb></lb>
and seconded and the Question put, that the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-5">Thomas<lb></lb>
Reynolds</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-6">Thomas Dunn</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-45">Robert Lemare</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5290-7">John Sanders</rs>
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be<lb></lb>
reprimanded it was carried in the Affirmative and there upon<lb></lb>
they were called into Court and reprimanded by Mr. President<lb></lb>
Accordingly.</p>
<p n="5291">Upon Reading a Report from the Committee of this<lb></lb>
House dated 24th. April Instant under the Hands of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5291-1">Nathaniel<lb></lb>
Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9479">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9480">Alderman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9481">treasurer</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20208_n5291-2">Nicholas Nixon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20208_occ9482">Esquire</rs>
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