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Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« on: Sunday 21 November 21 13:03 GMT (UK) »
I've just come across a newspaper article for a run away apprentice. It says "my Indentrued Apprentice, in the fourth year of his articles, has absconded without any just cause"

Does articles mean the apprentice was in the fourth year of his apprenticeship?

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Re: Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 21 November 21 13:53 GMT (UK) »
Yes I would think so
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Re: Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 21 November 21 13:56 GMT (UK) »
I'd agree with that, too.

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Re: Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 21 November 21 14:13 GMT (UK) »
Thanks both, I'd thought check rather than assume. Any idea how long apprenticeships lasted? In this case it was for a hatter.

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Re: Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 21 November 21 14:30 GMT (UK) »
Typically apprenticeships were for 7 years.

See https://www.londonlives.org/static/IA.jsp
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Re: Apprentice in "fourth year of his articles"
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 21 November 21 15:41 GMT (UK) »
Edmund Wingates "Exact abridgement of all the statues in force ...." (up to the end of the 17th Century) includes Acts in the 2nd year of Elizabeth I and the 17th year of James I which specified 7 years for apprentices, although James' Act included a clause -.
"VII This Act shall not prohibit parents, lawfully exercising the the said Art, to employ their sons in their own Houses, so that they be bound apprentices by Indenture for seven years, which may not expire until the Age of 22 years".

Yet to spot legislation for the later period you may be interested in.
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