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<p n="4136">Continued Wed 19th July 1749</p>
<p n="4137"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n4137-1">GrinsillWm</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-1" type="given" value="Wm"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-1" type="surname" value="Grinsill"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
.Elected<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20206_occ5882">Artsmaster</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_occ5882" type="occupation" value="Artsmaster"></interp>
}</note>
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At this Court the humble Petition of William Grinsill Citizen & Bromde <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20206_occ5883">weaver</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_occ5883" type="occupation" value="weaver"></interp>
<lb></lb>
was read Setting forthThat your Petitioner has been Freeman of the <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20206_geo2403">City of<lb></lb>
London</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_geo2403" type="placeName" value="City ofLondon"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_geo2403" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
upwards of Sixteen Years during which time<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
he has been<lb></lb>
set up in his Trade and has brought up several ApprenticesThat there being a<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of an Artsmaster in the Room of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n4137-2">Phillip Hilton</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-2" type="given" value="Phillip"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-2" type="surname" value="Hilton"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Deceased & the Petitioner being<lb></lb>
ready Curlling to take such a Number of Apprentices as the Court Shall think fit and<lb></lb>
to keep has Appartment in repair with Glazing Plaistering & Whiteing at his own<lb></lb>
Expence as is usually done by the Artsmasters & to Comply with all Orders of the Court<lb></lb>
and Comittee made & to be made in relation to Artsmasters And praying to be Elected<lb></lb>
an Artsmasters in the Room of the said Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n4137-3">Phillip Hilton</rs>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-3" type="given" value="Phillip"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-3" type="surname" value="Hilton"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4137-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and the Question being put<lb></lb>
that the said William Grinsill being Elected on Arts master of the Hospital he was<lb></lb>
nomine Contradicente Elected an Artsmaster till the next Election dayAnd it is<lb></lb>
Ordered that upon his Delivering a Certificate of his Settlement to the Clerk & producing<lb></lb>
a Copy of his Freedom of the City he be Admitted Accordingly upon giving Security as<lb></lb>
usuall and entering into the usual Covenants with a Covenant to be Added that he<lb></lb>
will not Set up any Engine Loomes in this Hospital And that the Journeyman which<lb></lb>
he shall Employ shall be such as have Served their Apprenticeships in the Hospital<lb></lb>
And it is further Ordered that he have such Appartment as the Comittee of this<lb></lb>
House Shall Direct.</p>
<p n="4138"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">BeadleVacancy on death<lb></lb>
of Seakins}</note>
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This Court declared the Vacancy of a Beadle of this Hospital on the decease<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20206_n4138-1">John Seakins</rs>
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<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4138-1" type="surname" value="Seakins"></interp>
<interp inst="BBBRMG20206_n4138-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
. And Ordered that the Election of a Beadle be the first Court next after<lb></lb>
tomorrow And that Notice thereof be incerted in the Ticketts.</p>
<p n="4139"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Kal</note>
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