f 19 (6 September)
...
Isaack Breed the sonne of Peter Breed of this towne woollkember beinge a poore childe of the age of xj yeares or thereaboutes is by the Churchwardens and overseers of the poore of the parish of holyroodes with the Consent of the Mayor and Iustices of this towne put Apprentice vnto Edmond hannye of this towne Musitian To learne that trade as allso the making of Instrumentes & such other thinges as the said Edmund now vseth from the date abouewritten for the terme of Tenn yeares Thapprentice to haue xx s. in money or two instrumentes at his termes end, And hee hath now in money with him xxx s./.
Record title: Apprenticeship Register of
Poor Children
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC9/2/13
Repository location: Southampton
Contents are as stated on f 1: 'The names of Poore
Children bounde Apprentice by the Maior Aldermen and
Assistauntes of the Towne of Southampton for the tyme beine as
followeth vizt.' This register was distinct from the general register of
apprentices begun at the same time (SC9/2/12), which recorded
apprenticeships privately arranged by indenture. The poor apprentices
were children of paupers, and often orphans, for whom the parish and
town took responsibility, and apprenticing them was seen as a
preventative against vagrancy. For further details about the
apprenticeship arrangements, see the introduction to Wills and Merson,
Southampton Apprenticeship Registers, pp ix–lxvi. It
is interesting that the musicians get apprentices only from
among the poor children and that is also true of apprenticeships
recorded before this register was started.
24 November 1609–19 March 1706; paper;
English with some Latin rubrics; iii + 89 + xii; 297mm x 202mm; modern
pencil foliation; good condition; 18th-c. paper cover, title on front of
cover: 'Book of Apprentices | 1609 to 1705.|.'