The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade.

  • Justice, Alexander.
Date:
M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]
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Credit: The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pence in Money ; and if either Party be abufed or impofed upon, no vaste to be cdi by the ‘ Ki. injured Perfon.* THAT at the sae monthly Mestaath of. other emergent Calls concerning the Trade, every Prefident, Stewards and Clerk,. thall be allowed Four-Pence to bear their Expences, and the Prefi- dent, Stewards, and other Affiftants being upon Trades Bufinefs one whole Day, fhall be allowed one Shilling for their Day’s Work, and Four-Pence _ to qetsey their Expences. __ ae “AR TICLE Xiv. THAT the Prefident and Stewards fhall ferve — their feveral Offices one Quarter of a Year, and fhall thereby be freed from ferving any of the faid Offices for the Space of one Year, except it is their own Choice, and by the Confent of the So- ciety; and any Pichon for Steward, after ne 7 y * The Frank mentioned in this, and the Sixth ais. is the Weavers Arms, engraved.on a Copper Plate, with this Motto un- der, THI$ 18 TO CERTIFY THOSE IT MAY. CONCERN, That N. B. of in the County of LINEN | and Corton Broad-Ware Weaver, hath duly ferved an Ap- { prenticefhip of feven ou in the fame Bufinefs, with N. B. Given at this Day of 1758. Anditisnotonly — to fhow that they have ferved a a tial Apprenticefhip, but toindem- nify all Perfons, they may go to Work with, from any Debts they may contract while with them, for theyare to lodge i itwiththemasfoon ~ as they go to Work, aad are not to receive it back until they have — | paid all their Arrears, And no Perfon is to fhop a Journeyman without his Frank, on Penalty of paying Five Shillings, as this Ar- ticle directs.