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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Select Committee.
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Taste masters
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introduced.
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useful when in 1708
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and Task Mistresses to attend to the work within the House
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and Poor Artificers to be supplied with work out of the House,
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certain Persons have been introduced into the establishment,
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called Arts Masters who have been accommodated, free of Rent
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Repairs and Taxes with Houses and other advantages within
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the Hospital, on condition of their taking and instructing a
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certain number of Apprentices; that these Persons were"
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originally useful parts of the institution, being at one time
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under agreement to retain, each of them, twenty Apprentices
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to be named by the Governors; and their being a period to
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which your Committee has referred, Vizt. in the Year 1708.
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when these Arts Masters, had One hundred & forty Apprentices
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alone time, a circumstance that might have had very"
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beneficial effects in, providing for one of the Original Objects of
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the Charity, "idle uneducated youth of the Metropolis,
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"advancing to maturity without Character or Occupation"
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16 Yrs 111 Lane
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served their time 58
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run away 84 died
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none now
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That, during the preceding period of thirty one Years
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from 1767 to the 22d. Decr. 1798, there have been One hundred
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and Seventy three Lads Apprentices to the Arts Masters,
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that, of these, there have been, during the same period as many
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as One hundred and eleven who have Served out their time,
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of the remainder, fifty eight have run away (some of whom
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are at Sea) Four have died, and none now remain in the
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How the 111 who
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served our their time
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one disposed of
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That, of the One hundred and eleven apprentices who
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have Served out their time five only are Master Workmen,
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Fifty Nine are Journeymen, Eight are Servants, Thirteen in
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the Army or Navy, Ten in various other Situations, & Sixteen
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have died, but of them, as many as Seventy five have received
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from Lock and Fowke's Charity their Gifts of Twenty Pounds
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each, under the allegation of having actually Set up in
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Business, a circumstance that has been required to intitle
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them to those Donations.
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