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Excerpt from The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, Vol. 2: Part I In some cases, at the expiration of the apprenticeship, a year of covenant was added, for which a salary was paid. Occasionally this year of covenant was left to the Option of the apprentice. In one or two instances it was provided that if the master died the apprentice 'might be free on payment of 108. To the master's executor; in another case the apprentice was to be free if his master's widow remarried. The great number of holidays in those times may account for holidays being seldom mentioned in these indentures, but there are instances in which they are provided for: in one case six days at Whitsuntide, in others a month or two at harvest, during which time they might earn what they pleased for themselves. A worsted weaver covenants to have his apprentice taught reading and writing two harvest seasons. A mercer covenants to send his apprentice to France for a year to learn the language, and a grocer to send his apprentice for a year to Flanders to be sufficiently taught to speak Dutch. Some masters covenant to make at their own cost their apprentices at the end of their term freemen of the city of Norwich, others to make them free of the fellowships of the Merchant Adventurers in the parts beyond the seas called the Old Hawnce, or the Merchant Strangers or the New Hance. A worsted weaver, to send his apprentice to a writing school for two months, one in the seventh and one in the eighth years. A grocer, to find his apprentice two years to Grammar School, to teach him grocers' craft and to hold courts, and to write and make accounts, and to deliver him 20 at end of the term. The science of a scrivener was writing, reading, and. Understanding all manner of evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."