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[[Image:Medieval baker with his apprentice.jpg|thumb | [[Image:Medieval baker with his apprentice.jpg|thumb|right|335px]]The learning of a trade through apprenticeship, in which a young person was placed with and formally bound to a master, has roots way back in medieval times. By the 16th century it was generally accepted as a means of providing technical training to boys and a very few girls in a wide range of occupations. | ||
The Statute of Apprentices of 1563, sometimes called the Statute of Artificers, made apprenticeship compulsory for anyone who wished to enter a trade. It remained on the statute book until 1814. In that long period, no man could, in theory, set up as a master or as a workman till he had served his seven years' apprenticeship. A supply of labour in particular trades and to a certain standard was thus ensured. The historian G.M. Trevelyan said that apprenticeship was the key to the new national life of the Elizabethan era, almost as much as villeinage had been to the old. | The Statute of Apprentices of 1563, sometimes called the Statute of Artificers, made apprenticeship compulsory for anyone who wished to enter a trade. It remained on the statute book until 1814. In that long period, no man could, in theory, set up as a master or as a workman till he had served his seven years' apprenticeship. A supply of labour in particular trades and to a certain standard was thus ensured. The historian G.M. Trevelyan said that apprenticeship was the key to the new national life of the Elizabethan era, almost as much as villeinage had been to the old. | ||
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The article has been adapted with permission of ''Family Tree Magazine'' (UK; http://www.family-tree.co.uk) from Anthony Camp's article 'Apprenticeship' in ''Practical Family History'', no. 64 (April 2003) pages 12-14. | The article has been adapted with permission of ''Family Tree Magazine'' (UK; http://www.family-tree.co.uk) from Anthony Camp's article 'Apprenticeship' in ''Practical Family History'', no. 64 (April 2003) pages 12-14. | ||
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