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BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS VOL.XXXIlI CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565 Part Il 1542 - 1552 BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS General Editor: PROFESSOR PATRICK M cGRATH, M.A., Assistant General Editor: Miss ELIZABETH RALPH, M.A , F.S.A. VOL. XXXIII CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532 - 1565 PART II 1542 - 1552 To the Reverend Sam Culveiwell CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565 PART II 1542-1552 EDITED BY ELIZABETH RALPH and NORA M. HARDWICK Printed for the BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY 1980 ISSN 0305-8729 © Eli;:.abeth Ralph and Nora M Hardu·ick Produced for the Society by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, Gloucester Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Bum Limited Trowbridge & Esher CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments VI Editorial Method vii List of abbreviations Vlll Introduction 5 Text 5 Appendix 1 152 Appendix 11 153 Appendix 111 156 Index of Persons 159 Index of Places 182 Subject Index 191 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We should like to thank all those who in various ways have contributed to the production of this volume: the staff of the Bristol Record Office and Mr. G. Langley and Mrs. M. Crudge of the Bristol Reference Library who willingly met our needs, and Dr. Basil Cottle who helped to identify the many difficult place names. We are particularly grateful to Miss Mary Williams, the City Archivist for her unfailing help. I acknowledge with thanks a grant from the Marc Fitch Fund. EDITORIAL METHOD The apprenticeship enrolments are written in Latin and have been translated into English and calendared. There are, however, some memoranda written in English and these have been trans cribed in the form in which they appear and placed within inverted commas. For convenience of reference each entry has been numbered in consecutive sequence and this is the number which is given in the index. Editorial comment such as the modern version of place names has been put in square brackets. The apprenticeship enrolments begin with the date written above the entry. In the margin against each entry is the name of the master with the letters viijd. The sum of 8d. was the Town Clerk's fee for enrolment of each indenture. In calendaring, these marginal notes have been omitted, but other marginal notes have been included. A specimen of the first entry is as follows: [p. 239] ij die0 octobris [1542] h etc Richardus Edwardes filius Thome Edwardes de Bristoll' whytawer posuit seipsum apprenticium Willelmo Rede coryer Civitate Bristoll' et Johanne uxori eius lam in arte de Coryour quam etc a die dati presentis usque finem termini septem annorum extunc etc Soluetque xvj solidos sterling' ac iiijd. per liberate Bristol/' predicte cum duplice apparatu etc nomine etc. Words shown in italics, being common form, are not included in the calendar. In addition the scribe condensed several standard clauses, indicated by etceteras. These are explained by Denzil Hollis in Part I, p.13. ABBREVIATIONS app apprentice d daughter dee deceased Jun junior f fee to be paid by the master for the apprentice's freedom of the city n d no date s son wf wife yrs years English and Welsh counties Beds Lanes Rado Berks Leics Sa lop Bucks Lines Som Derb Mid Staffs Glam Mon Warw Glos Northants Wilts Hants Notts Worcs Herts Oxon Yorks Hunts Pembs INTRODUCTION Bristol possesses an almost complete set of Apprentice Books from 1532 and a complementary series of Burgess Books from 1558. Those admitted to the freedom of the city between the years 1532 and 1558 can be found in the Mayor's Audits' which contain lists of burgesses giving the fees which they paid, so that in fact there is a record of those made free from 1532. The volume of apprenticeship indentures now edited covers the period 1542-1552 and is Part II of the first Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532-1565.2 The first part, 1532-1542 was transcribed and edited by Denzil Hollis and published by the Bristol Record Society in 1948.3 In the Introduction of Part 1, Mr. Hollis described the format of the volume in great detail and discussed the system of apprenticeship in Bristol using all relevant contemporary records. Recently Dr. Anne Yarborough of the Catholic University of America has made a study of the system of apprentices in Bristol before the Statute of Artificers for a Ph.D. dissertation, 'Bristol's apprentices in the 16th century: the cultural and regional mobility of an age group.' Subsequently, she has written an article entitled 'Geographical and social origins of Bristol apprentices, 1542- 1565' which will be published shortly.• In view of the work done by Mr. Hollis and that already done and still being done by Dr. Y·arborough it is not the intention of this present Introduction to consider the significance of the indentures enrolled, but only to comment briefly on points of interest. The enrolments show that an organised system of recording the indentures was in operation at least thirty years before the Statute of Artificers and Apprentices of 1563 which initiated a national regulation of apprenticeship uniform for towns and country. The system in Bristol was largely based on the customs of London.5 '. B.R.O. 2. B.R.O. 04352. 3. Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532-1565, Part 1, 1532-1542 by Denzil Hollis, (Bristol Record Society, vol.XIV. 1948.) 4. Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol.98. 198 l. 5. The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar ed. by L. Toulmin-Smith, (Camden Society 1872), pp. 102-103.

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