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BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS VOL. XLIII CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK 1532-1565 Part Ill 1552-1565 BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS General Editor: JOSEPH BETTEY, M.A., Ph.D, F.S.A. Assistant Editor: MISS ELIZABETH RALPH, M.A.. F.S.A. VOL. XLIII CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK PART Ill 1552-1565 CALENDAR OF THE BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOK PART III 1552-1565 EDITED BY ELIZABETH RALPH Printed for the BRISTOL RECORD SOCIETY 1992 ISBN 0 901538 13 2 ISSN 0305-8730 © Elizabeth Ralph Bristol Record Society is grateful to The Greater Bristol Trust for a grant in support of this volume Produced for the Society by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud, Glos. Printed in Great Britain CONTENTS Page Acknowledgements vi Editorial Method VII List of Abbreviations VIII Introduction IX Text 1 Index of Persons 129 Index of Places 149 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my thanks to all those who in various ways have contributed to the production of this volume: the staff of the Bristol Record Office, the City Archivist, Mr. John Williams who helped to identify the Welsh place names, Miss Nora Hardwick who gave me assistance in the identification of all other place names and Miss Mary Morris who typed the manuscript. VI EDITORIAL METHOD The apprenticeship enrolments were written in Latin and have been translated into English and calendared. There are, however, some memoranda written in English and these have been transcribed in the form in which they have been written. For convenience of reference each entry has been numbered in consecutive sequence and this is the number given in the index. Some of the entries are not in strict chronological order and have been added later in a different hand. Editorial comments and the modern version of place names are contained within square brackets. Because of the many different forms used, the identification of place names has been extremely difficult and in many instances quite impossible. Names of persons have presented even more problems than the names of places. In preparing the index it has been difficult to decide at what point variations in spelling develop into distinct names. VII ABBREVIATIONS app apprentice d daughter deed deceased 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 Herts Pembs Berks Hunts Radnor Bucks Lanes Salop Carm Leics So m Ches Lines Staffs Derb Mid Warw Glam M on Wilts Glos Northants Worcs Hants Notts Yorks Heref Oxo n VIII INTRODUCTION Bristol po es e an almost complete set of Apprentice Books from 1532, and this volume provides a calendar of the third and final part of the first Bristol Apprentice Book 1532-1565, which is now in the Bristol Record Office (B.R.O. 04352). The first part of the Appren tice Book, covering the years 1532-1542 was edited by Denzil Hollis and published by the Bristol Record Society, Volume XIV, 1948. The second part, covering the years 1542-1552 was edited by Elizabeth Ratp h and Nora M. Hardwick and published by the Bristol Record Society, Volume XXXI, 1980. The Introduction to Volume XIV contains a detailed account of the Apprentice Book and of the system of apprenticeship in Bristol, during the sixteenth century based on numerous contemporary records. The Introduction to Vol. XXXI also provide information on the way in which apprenticeships were arranged and enrolled by the Town Clerk of Bristol. This shows that a careful method of recording indentures had already been developed in Bri tot for many years before the Statute of Artificers and Apprentices or Statute of Labour (5 Eliz. c. 4: Statutes of the Realm, iv, 414) and provided a national scheme for binding apprentices to crafts or husbandry under the supervision of Ju tices of the Peace or of Mayors and chief officers of cities, boroughs or corporate towns. Details of the system of apprenticeship in Bristol and a description of the format and contents of the first Bristol Apprentice Book and of its importance as a source for many aspects of Bristol history during the sixteenth century will be found in the Introductions to Vols. XIV and XXXI. IX
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