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A28613 The cities great concern in this case of question of honour and arms whether apprentiship extinguisheth gentry discoursed : with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth. Bolton, Edmund, 1575?-1633?; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645. 1674 (1674) Wing B3505; ESTC R37123 30,025 126

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Dials Watches and the like fine works of Smith-craft as had also a late Baron of England which they practised and other persons also of Royal progeny are at this day excellent in several Artifices 4. If then such honour be done by God himself as aforesaid not onely to those that are necessary Handy-crafts but to those also which are but the Handmaids of Magnificence and outward Splendor as Engravers Founders and the like he shall be very hardy who shall imbase honest Industry with disgraceful censures and too unjust who shall not cherish or encourage it with praise and worship as the ancient Policy of England did and doth in constituting Corporations and adorning Companies with Banners of Arms and some special men with notes of Nobleness 5. And as of all commendable Arts all worthy Commonweals have their use so in London they have as it were their Palace But into the body of the City none generally are incorporated but such only as through the straight gates of Apprentiship aspire to the dignity and state of Citizens That the Hebrew Bondmen were not in Moses's Law among themselves like to our Apprentices howsoever the seventh year agrees in time with the ordinary time of our Apprentices Obligations is evident both in the Books of Exodus and Deuteronomy For first their title to their Bondmen grew to their Lords by a Contract of Bargain and Sale which was indeed a kind of Servitude For when the seventh year in which the Bondage was to determine and expire if then he resolved not to continue a Bondman for ever he was compelled to leave his wife if married in his Lord's house during bondage together with his children born in that marriage behind him though himself departed free but withall rewarded also So that voluntary Bondage is not only de jure gentium as the Roman Laws import by which a man might sell himself ad participandum pretium but also de jure divino positivo By which notwithstanding it doth not appear that such a Bondage was any disparagement or dis-enoblement in Jewish blood among the Jews because in Exodus we read of a provision made for the Hebrew Bondwoman whom her Lord might take in marriage to himself or bestow her upon his Son if he so thought good but might not to violate her Chastity as if he had jus in corpus But the Condition of an Apprentice of London resembleth the Condition of no person's Estate in either of the Laws Divine or Imperial for he directly contracteth with his Master to learn his Mystery or Art of honest living neither hath his Master who therefore is but a Master not a Lord Despoticum Imperium over his Apprentice that is such a power as a Lord hath over a Slave but quasi curaturam or a Guardianship and is in very truth a meer Discipliner or Teacher with authority of using moderate Correction as a Father not as a Tyrant or otherwise Immoderate Correction whosoever doth use is by a Gracious Statute of the fifth of Queen Elizabeth subject to be punished with the loss of the Apprentice by absolutely taking him away 6. Which things so often as I deeply ponder I cannot but hold it as loose and as wandring a conceit and as uncivil a Proposition in civil matters as any that Apprentiship should be imagin'd either to extinguish or to extenuate the Right of Native Gentry or to disable any worthy or fit person to acquisitive Armories for how can it in God's name work that effect unless it be criminal to be an Apprentice Because no man loseth his right to bear Arms or to write Gentleman unless he be attainted in Law for such a cause the Conviction whereof doth immediately procure corruption in Blood which as in this case no man yet hath dreamed of Again when by the old Common Law of England there are but onely two sorts of Bondmen Villains in gross and Villains regardant to a Mannour and it is most certain that our Apprentice or Scholar in City Mysteries is neither one nor other of them what ignorance then or offence was Mother at first of this not Paradox but palpable Absurdity that Apprentiship extinguisheth Gentry or that Apprentices are a kind of Bondmen when as the greatest and most famous Cities of Germany which were or have been composed of Apprentices or such as from them have become Masters as Norimbergh Lubeck Magdenburg c. are as Imperial and free Cities not thought unworthy to be matriculated into the Empire or to have places in their Dyets as some of the Estates thereof THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRD PART 1 2. FOR clearer understanding the Question the Service of an APPRENTICE described 3. The four main Points of the Indenture discussed the Service the Time the Contract the Condition 4. The Case of Laban and Jacob weighed 5. Of the mutual Bond between Master and Apprentice 6. An Apprentice proved to be in no respect a Bondman Of the right of blood in Gentry and of the right of wearing Gold rings among the Romans 7. The Master's power over the Apprentice's body objected and solved Aristotle's error about Bondmen Of young Gentlemen Wards in England Of University Students and of Soldiers in respect of their Bodies 8. Apprentiship a degree in Common-weal 9. Of the Tokens or Ensigns of that degree the flat round Cap and other 10. Unwisely discontinued 11. Resumption of Apprentiships Marks or Habits rather wished than hoped 12. The injurious great absurdity of the Adversaries Opinion and the Excellency of London Whether APPRENTISHIP extinguisheth GENTRY THE THIRD PART 1. THough in the premises we conceive to have said enough for the establishing our Negation in this Important Question that Apprentiship is not a kind of Bondage consequently that it cannot work any such effect as is before supposed yet to leave no tolerable Curiosity unsatisfied we will set before us as in a Table the whole Condition of an Apprentice meaning chiefly such an Apprentice as being the Son of a Gentleman is bound to a Master who exerciseth the worthier Arts of Citizens as Merchants by Sea Whole-Sale-men and some few others which may more specially stand in the first Class of the most generous Histories as those in which the Wit or Mind of man hath a far greater part than Bodily labour 2. Such an Apprentice therefore when first he comes to his Master is commonly but of those years which are every where subject to Correction His ordinary Services these he goes bare-headed stands bare-headed waits bare-headed before his Master and Mistress and while as yet he is the youngest Apprentice he doth perhaps for Discipline sake wipe over night his Master's shooes for the morning brusheth a Garment runs of Errands keeps silence 'till he have leave to speak followeth his Master or ushereth his Mistress and sometime their young Daughters among whom some one or other of them doth not rarely prove the Apprentice's Wife walks not far out but with his permission and