people, and to avoid that most abominable sin of idleness out of the Realm."
Later on the merchants were in trouble for trying to capitalise the weaving industry, and an Act of Queen Mary sets out that the rich oppress the weavers By engrossing of looms into, their indi Sand "Ponsesion, and. letting maintain: themselves, maintain their "wives, which, "of course, enabled the capitalist to force the weavers to work for them at starvation wages. So the Act enjoined that "no person using the feat or mystery of cloth: making" should own more than one loom fu the country, "or two ina should)
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Again, it was so. Clothes might oat more but this fu Paraments pinion was a small' price to pay. for having a large-class of sturdy Independent workers. __Nor vas this ideal confined to the King's Grace." Froude recalls that the Great City Companies—Fish-tiangers, Goldsmit existed primarily which once penetrated the trading life of England, tet on foot te that mont ieceandey, if most dirt condiction of commercial excellence unier which should ae Yalta with Hoo whatever hina hod monestly be what they pretend to be.
So the Companies supervised both qualities and prices." When "certain merchants were found to be trying to "corner" French wines, they were idden to sell off their' stocks at Prescribed prices or forfeit the lot, And tradesmen who took advantage of market fluctuations were rebuked for "thei greedy and" covetous minds" and "og" more regarding their own singular Mere snd profit than "the commonweal of the Realm."
But if Parliament saw to it that rices were fair and capitalists not allowed to dictate terms of work, they were also particularly careful to see that the" labourers did not shirk the work available.
Vagrancy laws. were terrible harsh "sturdy and valiant beggars Shalto berry, although received no," croy "front the the provision for. those who. were really past work was far from liberal, and, Yen. who had_ worked hard while they were able to work were treated like decayed soldiers. entitled. to. wear out. their age
of others." {ner regtictions) at the expense But at the other end, a genuine d persistent effort was made, by Apprenticeship, to. prepare every child for the work he was best fitted do, and no one might start in a tale' "Or " manufacture" without himself competent in his craft. Froude says:—The State further promising for teel that all able-bodied men should be found in work, and not allowing any man to work at a business for which he was. unfit, insisted as its natural right that children should not be allowed to grow up in idleness, to be returned
Every child, so far as possible was 3 mature age pon its hands to be trained up in some business 1 Friendliness.
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Children whose parents could remark at}. 3 mus siento afard the small face Eeenary were apprenticed to a trade, the res! stet abe leo Though she agriculture, and those whose parents Plane that ape] Parently comes: generally neglected to do their duty by them feminine were taken charge of and ap-From Seitser armour. "yon Prenticed by the magistrates.
'So much for the modern' notion that, even to suggest that the un-this" some-the——grudge employed, should work for their relief pay, is a heinous offence. As for the black-coated brigade ideal, the 16th century view was that,' next to a man's duty to God, 22 "the Sirst condition of a worthy life
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