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<p n="3356"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report.<lb></lb>
Select Committee.<lb></lb>
Taste masters<lb></lb>
given up of<lb></lb>
Artsmasters<lb></lb>
introduced.<lb></lb>
Once highly<lb></lb>
useful when in 1708<lb></lb>
(for instance) there<lb></lb>
move 140 apps.<lb></lb>
at one time.</note>
</p>
<p n="3357">and Task Mistresses to attend to the work within the House<lb></lb>
and Poor Artificers to be supplied with work out of the House,<lb></lb>
certain Persons have been introduced into the establishment,<lb></lb>
called Arts Masters who have been accommodated, free of Rent<lb></lb>
Repairs and Taxes with Houses and other advantages within<lb></lb>
the Hospital, on condition of their taking and instructing a<lb></lb>
certain number of Apprentices; that these Persons were"<lb></lb>
originally useful parts of the institution, being at one time<lb></lb>
under agreement to retain, each of them, twenty Apprentices<lb></lb>
to be named by the Governors; and their being a period to<lb></lb>
which your Committee has referred, Vizt. in the Year 1708.<lb></lb>
when these Arts Masters, had One hundred & forty Apprentices<lb></lb>
alone time, a circumstance that might have had very"<lb></lb>
beneficial effects in, providing for one of the Original Objects of<lb></lb>
the Charity, "idle uneducated youth of the Metropolis,<lb></lb>
"advancing to maturity without Character or Occupation"</p>
<p n="3358"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Durg preceedg.<lb></lb>
16 Yrs 111 Lane<lb></lb>
served their time 58<lb></lb>
run away 84 died<lb></lb>
none now<lb></lb>
in the Horpe<lb></lb>
note It is not recom-<lb></lb>
mended to take any mone</note>
<lb></lb>
That, during the preceding period of thirty one Years<lb></lb>
from 1767 to the 22d. Decr. 1798, there have been One hundred<lb></lb>
and Seventy three Lads Apprentices to the Arts Masters,<lb></lb>
that, of these, there have been, during the same period as many<lb></lb>
as One hundred and eleven who have Served out their time,<lb></lb>
of the remainder, fifty eight have run away (some of whom<lb></lb>
are at Sea) Four have died, and none now remain in the<lb></lb>
House.</p>
<p n="3359"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">How the 111 who<lb></lb>
served our their time<lb></lb>
one disposed of</note>
<lb></lb>
That, of the One hundred and eleven apprentices who<lb></lb>
have Served out their time five only are Master Workmen,<lb></lb>
Fifty Nine are Journeymen, Eight are Servants, Thirteen in<lb></lb>
the Army or Navy, Ten in various other Situations, & Sixteen<lb></lb>
have died, but of them, as many as Seventy five have received<lb></lb>
from Lock and Fowke's Charity their Gifts of Twenty Pounds<lb></lb>
each, under the allegation of having actually Set up in<lb></lb>
Business, a circumstance that has been required to intitle<lb></lb>
them to those Donations.</p>
<p n="3360">That</p>
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