^{page 193 note 1} Prior to the national system, that is to say from its development at the close of the thirteenth century until 1562.

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^{page 198 note 1} 7 Henry IV, e. 17. Statutory property qualification. 12 Rich. II, c. 5. Children using agriculture until twelve years old not to be apprenticed to a trade. Cf. Dunlop, op. cit. Chap. i. and Chap. ii.

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^{page 206 note 1} Save in six specified trades. A clothworker, fuller, shearman, tailor, weaver or shoemaker could employ three apprentices only if he had one journeyman in his service. For every apprentice he took above the number of three, he had to engage an additional journeyman. 5 Eliz. c. 4 f. 33.

^{page 206 note 2} According to which the eldest son, and sometimes daughter, born to a man after he had become a free master, was entitled to the freedom of the father's guild, on reaching the age generally of twenty-one and upon the payment of usually lower fees than those charged to an ex-apprentice.

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