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<p n="1704">2d. Decr. 1715.</p>
<p n="1705">not read over to him before he Signed it He answered it was<lb></lb>
read to him but the Clerke had put that and Severall other things<lb></lb>
in it which he did not Say particularly That he did not Say he<lb></lb>
Saw Harris the Beadle when the Boys went out nor that<lb></lb>
he saw Male put a Form before the Gate nor that the Beadles<lb></lb>
could have hundred the rest of the Boys from going out</p>
<p n="1706">The Court haveing Sat Long and night comeing on<lb></lb>
agreed to adjourn the Further Examination of this matter<lb></lb>
till next Wednesday morning but the Artsmasters of this<lb></lb>
Hospital were ordered to attend the Court imediately & being<lb></lb>
all present Except Young (who was out of Town) & Bell<lb></lb>
(whose wife attended for him he being Sick) Mr. <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20204_occ2352">president</rs>
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told them That for want of their due care in keeping their<lb></lb>
Boys at home on Holy day nights (as they had been often<lb></lb>
charged by the Comittee of this House and by Messages<lb></lb>
from him) great Complaints had been made of Riots &<lb></lb>
disorders Comitted by their Apprentices and had reach'd<lb></lb>
even his Majestys Ears and occasioned Reflections upon<lb></lb>
the Governours from persons without doors who knew not<lb></lb>
the care they had taken and that the fault lay in the Artmar.<lb></lb>
which might in it's Consequences be prejudicial to the Charity<lb></lb>
of this house and therefore Strictly Charged them that for<lb></lb>
the Future they Should keep their apprentices at work on<lb></lb>
every holy day and Lot e'm play the morrow after in Lien<lb></lb>
of it and to give an account from time to time to the<lb></lb>
Trear or Comittee of this house of the names of Such<lb></lb>
Boys as went out of their Masters Houses on any Such<lb></lb>
holy days and the artsmars. being withdrawnTheir apprentices<lb></lb>
were called in & Reprimanded by Mr <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20204_occ2353">president</rs>
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and Charged to<lb></lb>
keep to work and not Stirr out of their Masters Houses on any holy-<lb></lb>
day for which they should play the next day after and they all promise<lb></lb>
to obey the Order of the Court therein.</p>
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