[69] The Oath of the Freemen of the Mercers’ Company is given as a note to this Chapter.
[70] Cf. [Appendix].
[71] “The position of master and journeyman was not that of capitalist and labourer, so much as that of two fellow-workers, one of whom, from his superior status, was responsible to the town for the conduct of both.” Cunningham, 211. As showing the position of an apprentice in the 15th century a Shrewsbury Indenture is given as a note to this Chapter.
[72] Cunningham, 211, n. 1. Brentano, 40, 68.
[73] “The Stock in Trade required to set up in business was not great and an apprentice when his term of service was over, became a master almost as a matter of course. Journeymen were scarce, or at any rate not plentiful enough to have much influence on Trade.... Thus Capital and Labour were united.” Quarterly Review, Vol. 159, p. 53.
[74] Brentano, 40.
[75] Merewether and Stephens.
[76] For interference with Free Election on the Continent cf. Brentano.
[77] Tailors’ Composition, 1563.
[78] Cf. infra, [Chap. VI.]