[21] It is understood that H. R. H. the Duke of York pays Mons. Ude, his French Cook, £500 per annum.

[22] Good families generally allow the footman a proper dress of this sort, exclusive of his liveries, as it is equally creditable to both master and servant, that the livery he is to appear in, when attending his ordinary avocations, should be kept clean, and look respectable. If it were always to be well and clearly understood, between every master and the servants to whom he gives livery, what shall be the number and kind of garments, to be given yearly, or otherwise, and that to be made a rule, from which no deviation should be made, it would prevent much of the unpleasant feeling on this subject, which has frequently been found to arise subsequent to the agreement.

[23] Picture-frame makers clean them with a soft brush and strong size waters. Fly spots may be prevented by rubbing frames with garlic or onion.

[24] Fourteen pounds of hay a day, or one hundred pounds per week, with three feeds of corn a day, is deemed sufficient for a horse that is not over worked.

[25] The feed given to each horse, worked in the usual way is, a quartern of oats and a few beans, three times a day, with some chaff, or not, as may be desired. In the choice of oats, the shorter and fuller the grain the better; when bitten in two, they should be dry and mealy: they should feel hard in the hand, and when hard grasped should slip through the fingers; oats with thin bodies and long tails are the worst. When brought by sea, if they have lain long in bulk, they will have become heated, and have acquired a musty smell, to counteract which the corn dealers, when they are brought into their granaries, spread them thin on an upper floor, and turn them frequently, to cool, after which, they pass them through screens placed under holes in the floors, from the upper to the lower floors, which sweetens them much, and frequently enables the corn dealers to pass them off on inexperienced Coachmen and Grooms as fresh farmer’s oats, which latter it will always be best to buy. As horses should always be fed with fresh clean corn, it would be well to rounce them in a hair bag, which takes off all the tails and filth, and they should afterwards be passed through a sieve, to free them from dust and other extraneous matter, at the time of feeding.

The finest-conditioned horses in England are fed thus: When at grass, equal quantities of oats and old white peas; when in the stable, two thirds oats and one third old white peas.

This Indenture witnesseth, That _____ Son of ____ late of ____ , doth put himself Apprentice to ____ Citizen and ____ of London, to learn his art, and with him (after the manner of an Apprentice) to serve from the day of the date hereof, unto the full end and term of seven years, from thence next following to be fully complete and ended; during which term the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve, his secrets keep, his lawful commands every where gladly do. He shall do no damage to his said Master, nor see it to be done of others; but that he to his power shall let or forthwith give warning to his said Master of the same. He shall not waste the goods of his said Master, nor lend them unlawfully to any. He shall not commit fornication, nor contract matrimony within the said term. He shall not play at cards, dice, tables, or any other unlawful games, whereby his said Master may have any loss. With his own goods or others, during the said term, without licence of his said Master, he shall neither buy nor sell. He shall not haunt taverns nor play-houses, nor absent himself from his said Master’s service day or night unlawfully; but in all things, as a faithful Apprentice, he shall behave himself towards his said Master, and all his, during the said term. And the said Master in consideration, of ____ his said Apprentice in the same art which he useth, by the best means that he can, shall teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed, finding unto his said Apprentice, meat, drink, apparel, lodging, and all other necessaries, according to the custom, of the City of London, during the said term. And for the true performance of all and every the said covenants and agreements, either of the said parties bindeth himself unto the other by these presents. In witness whereof, the above named to these Indentures, interchangeably have put their hands and seals, the ____ day of ____, in the ____ year of the Reign of our Sovereign, ____ of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ____ Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord, &c.

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   TEMPERANCE.
70 -Water Health and Wealth.
60 -Milk and Water Serenity of Mind.
50 -Small Beer Reputation, long Life, & Happiness.
40 -Cider and Perry
Cheerfulness, Strength, and Nourishment,
30 -Wine
 when taken after meals, and
20 -Porter
 in moderate quantities.
10 -Strong-Beer
0 -
  INTEMPERANCE.
Vices Diseases. Punishments.
10 -Punch Idleness and Sickness, Puking, and
and Trembling of the Hands Debt;
Peevishness. in the Morning;
20 -{Toddy and Black Eyes;
{ Crank Quarreling, Bloatedness
Inflamed Eyes, Rags;
and Red Nose & Face;
Hunger;
30 -Grog Fighting, Sore and swelled
Legs; Hospital;
    { Lying,
40 -Flip   { and Jaundice, Pains Jail;
    { Swearing, in the Limbs, and
burnings in the Whipping;
{Bitters Obscenity; palms of the hands,
50 -{infused in and the soles of
{Spirits Swindling, the feet; The Hulks;
{Brandy, Rum, Perjury, Dropsy;
60 -{and Whiskey, in Epilepsy, Palsy;
{the morng. Burglary, Melancholy; Botany Bay;
Murder, Madness;
{Do during the and Apoplexy; The
70 -{day and night. Suicide. DEATH. Gallows.
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