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<p n="3080">5th Decemr. 1718</p>
<p n="3081">Subscribed (which are ye usual play days for the apprentices in this City) it<lb></lb>
would in Some measure put a Stopp to these disorders.</p>
<p n="3082"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2.</note>
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That as the apprentices after Slip out when their Masters are abroad<lb></lb>
Therefore when any of the Boys be Seen playing about the hospital<lb></lb>
or in the Streets especially on publick days if the Beadle's were to carry em' home<lb></lb>
their Masters will correct em' and it would be a meanes to care these Evils.</p>
<p n="3083">That upon ye Masters Complaints The apprentices are frequently comittee<lb></lb>
to ye hempblocks for then punishment and the Masters have lately found<lb></lb>
that they are Supplyed by ye rest of the apprentices with food and money So a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
to make it rather a pleasure to em' than a punishment and the Masters<lb></lb>
only Loose their work for that time And Whereas the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20204_occ4526">Governor</rs>
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. at a Court<lb></lb>
27th. July 1716. Ordered That whose ever of the Boys Should at any time<lb></lb>
be found in a Riot or Tumult Should be Stript corrected & turned out of the</p>
<p n="3084"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3.</note>
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houseThe Masters think that if upon their Complaints agt their<lb></lb>
apprentices they were to be whipt in Court before ye Governours and the<lb></lb>
rest of the Boys and Sent home agen to their Masters it would have<lb></lb>
a better effect</p>
<p n="3085"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4.</note>
<lb></lb>
And humbly desire Such Orders as Shall be made hereupon Should be<lb></lb>
hung in all ye Masters workshops.</p>
<p n="3086">That upon Inquiring after the Ring leaders of the late disturbance on<lb></lb>
the 5th Instant they are informedThat <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n3086-1">James Rainsford</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-1" type="given" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-1" type="surname" value="Rainsford"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
took ye Gun powder<lb></lb>
from under the Gate & that <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n3086-2">William fly</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-2" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-2" type="surname" value="Fly"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
his fellow apprentice held ye Candle<lb></lb>
to fill ye Lock and that <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n3086-3">Jonathan Trevisa</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-3" type="given" value="Jonathan"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-3" type="surname" value="Trevisa"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3086-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
lighted a paper at ye Candle &<lb></lb>
touched ye powder with it which not breaking ye Lock, fly or Ramsford<lb></lb>
beat it a sunder with a peice of Iron</p>
<p n="3087"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">ex & Kal.</note>
<lb></lb>
Then <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n3087-1">Jonathan Trevisa</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-1" type="given" value="Jonathan"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-1" type="surname" value="Trevisa"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
was called in who frankly and ingeniously told<lb></lb>
the Comittee That on the 5th instant between 8 & 9 in the evening three<lb></lb>
half penny worth of Gun powder was taken in at ye Side of ye little Gate<lb></lb>
of this hospital (where there is room for a man's hand) and was put into a<lb></lb>
padlock and fired by <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20204_n3087-2">James Rainsford</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-2" type="given" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-2" type="surname" value="Rainsford"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20204_n3087-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and did not Splitt ye Lock and<lb></lb>
afterwards three half penny worth more of powder was taken in the Same<lb></lb>
was which Wm. fyl into ye Lock and propt it up that the powder<lb></lb>
might of Scalter & he haveing a Candle in his hand Treaser lighted<lb></lb>
a peice of paper by it and Sett fire to the powder ut that not blowing ye<lb></lb>
Lock a sunder Rainsford forced it upon with a peice of Iron and the Boys<lb></lb>
imediately ran out togetherThat he door not know who Sent</p>
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