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Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602 (Hardcover, New)
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Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Society New Series
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Edition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence
for historians. Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the
Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of
consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed
apprentices - and in huge numbers, as the material inthis volume
demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand
apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a
familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but
the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite
exceptional. Moreover, sixteenth-century enrolments are much fuller
than their more familiar seventeenth-century successors, containing
miscellaneous information of great interest, notably lists
ofworking tools, details of journeymen's wages, and stipulations
about apprentices' behaviour. The data is discussed in an
Introduction which re-examines the apprenticeship system on the
basis of the unusually plentiful statistics, throwing new light on
such matters as length of service, payment of premiums, and the
rates of career failure and success. Oxford recruited apprentices
from an astonishingly wide area; their places of origin are
identified and mapped, and an analysis of their social and
geographical origins breaks new ground in the field of migration
studies. More prosaically the calendar provides the genealogist and
local historian with the names, parentage, and places of origin of
thousands of young men from all over England and Wales - crucial
raw material for much-needed further research.on the later
movements of qualified apprentices. Alan Crossley is a member of
the modern history faculty, University of Oxford.
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