THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY.
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and
faith, to
further his advantage and avert his loss, so far as he
may
or can, without
any
exception or reservation.
LXVI. And
the master, on his part, shall give his apprentice, during said five years,
according to ancient usage and custom of the craft, ten florins, namely, every year two florins,
as his wages, beside his keep and maintenance.
LXVII. He
shall also promise to be true
and obedient
worthy craft in all things
into variance or discord with his master or any
concerning the craft, and if he should fall
other stonemason, or craft apprentice, to lay
all
to a
matters connected therewith before a craft to
be adjudged and reconciled, that in all things, for good or ill, he may obtain justice and
judgment according to craft usage, and not to appeal against the sentence thus pronounced,
but to strictly submit himself thereto.
who has been accepted and
but whatever ought to be told or read to him, that shall he be told and
pronounced free,
communicated, in order that none may excuse himself, or complain that, had he previously
LXA'"III. Furthermore, nothing shall be withheld from any one
known
thereof,
he would not have joined the
LXIX. And
two carved
in every case
craft.
tickets [a system of
"
tally "] of a like import shall
be prepared, of which one shall be deposited with the lodge, the other with the
security, in
order that each side may know how to demean himself.
LXX. And
every master
who
accepts an apprentice shall pay to the craft not more than
bohemians or blapperts.
In like manner, an apprentice, when he has been declared
"
knocked "] free, shall be indebted to the craft one florin, and sliall not be required
[literally
five
to give more.
And
that
witness thereof, by those
may
who
be expended
[literally
consumed,
"
spent in drink,"
etc.],
in
are present at the giving of the freedom.
LXXI. And no master
shall extend the [preliminary] trial of a
rough apprentice, who is
enough according to the articles, for a longer space than fourteen days, unless he be his son,
or the master have a
righteous cause for delay, on account of the security, for instance, and he
old
seek nothing wrong thereby.
JJ^ien
LXXII. And
any one
leaves
during
Ms
ApprenticesJiip.
happen that an apprentice leave his master during his years of
without righteous cause, and serve him not his full time, no master shall
apprenticeship,
sliould
it
employ such apprentice. And none shall stand by him, or have fellowship with him in any
wise, until he shall have served his years honourably with the master wliom he left, and have
made
atonement, and bring information thereof from his master as is aforesaid. And no
apprentice shall ransom himself from his master unless he enter into wedlock with his master's
full
consent, or have other righteous cause that compels
place with the knowledge of the brotherhood,
him
or his master thereto,
according to tlie
judgment
and
it
shall take
of the stonemnsons.