[Charter to Shipwrights company]

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Title
[Charter to Shipwrights company]
Author
Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (London, England)
Publication
[London :: T. Dawson,
1612?]
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Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (London, England) -- Early works to 1800.
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"[Charter to Shipwrights company]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.

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Item it is ordained that euery Iorney-man of the said Art or Mistery,* 1.1 being hired for wages by the day, or week, shall betwixt the midst of the months of March and Septem∣ber come and be at their worke at or before halfe an hower before sixe of the clock in the morning, and continue at worke and not depart vntill halfe an hower after six at night reseruing onely conuenient times of eating and sleeping in the sommer time. And betwixt the midst of September and the midest of March, shall be and continue at their worke from the spring of the day in the morning vntill night of the same day, except the times appointed for dinner, vp∣on paine to loose and forfet foure pence for euery hower of wilfull absence, and two pence for euery hower of neg∣ligent absence, to be deducted and defalked out of his wa∣ges that shall so offend to the vse of the said Corporation.* 1.2

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