La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

Ingresos de los aprendices
A page from the City Register for part of July 1744, showing the daily collections of stamp duty from masters for their indentures of apprenticeship and articles of
clerkship entered with their named apprentices. The entries give not only the date and amount paid, but the name, abode and occupation of each master, the name of the apprentice
(and up to 1752 that of the father or guardian, and often his or her parish of residence, status or occupation), date the indentures were signed, start date and length of
apprenticeship, details of any transfer or assignment of the term agreed, and the premium paid, on which the calculation of duty was based. Marginal entries show where part of the
premium was paid for by a public charity or parish, since this was exempt, or where a value had to be estimated, because no money had been paid as a premium. (PRO ref. IR
1/17)
There is no central register of formal indentures of apprenticeship, setting out the terms agreed between the two parties (the parent or guardian of the young
person concerned, and the master agreeing to take him or her on). These were private documents and rarely survive, unless details were extracted and written down in
registers of a local guild or livery company to which the master belonged, by the public or private charity, company, business or parish as parties to them. A large
collection of such private indentures may be examined in the library of the Society of Genealogists
Fuente: www.pro.gov.uk.