f 24v (19 April)
...
Susan Nash the daughter of Nicholas Nash late of
the parish of Holyrood within this Towne Ioyner deceased, being a poore
child is this day by the Churchwardens and ouerseers of the poore of the
said parish with the consent of Mr Mayour and the rest of the
Iustices putt Apprentice to Edmund Hanny of this Towne Musitian and Christabell his
wife for the terme of Eight yeares from the day of the date abouewritten. To haue
double apparrell meete & decent at the termes end. They haue receiued three
pounds of Mr Thomas Cornelius one of the Churchwardens of the said parish.
And they promiss that if the child shall dye within a yeare next
ensueing; to pay backe vnto the Ch Towne Twenty shillinges for
the vse of the other children of the said Nash.
...
°Susan Nash to Edmund
Hanney and his wife°
Record title: Apprenticeship Register of
Poor Children
Repository: Southampton City Archives
Shelfmark: SC9/2/13
Repository location: Southampton
Contents are as stated on f 1: 'The names of Poore
Children bounde Apprentice by the Maior Aldermen and
Assistauntes of the Towne of Southampton for the tyme beine as
followeth vizt.' This register was distinct from the general register of
apprentices begun at the same time (SC9/2/12), which recorded
apprenticeships privately arranged by indenture. The poor apprentices
were children of paupers, and often orphans, for whom the parish and
town took responsibility, and apprenticing them was seen as a
preventative against vagrancy. For further details about the
apprenticeship arrangements, see the introduction to Wills and Merson,
Southampton Apprenticeship Registers, pp ix–lxvi. It
is interesting that the musicians get apprentices only from
among the poor children and that is also true of apprenticeships
recorded before this register was started.
24 November 1609–19 March 1706; paper;
English with some Latin rubrics; iii + 89 + xii; 297mm x 202mm; modern
pencil foliation; good condition; 18th-c. paper cover, title on front of
cover: 'Book of Apprentices | 1609 to 1705.|.'