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Title: The Creighton Chronicle
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Creighton University
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Publisher: Creighton University
Contributing Library: Creighton University Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Creighton University Archives

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aft guilds; and the London of that time was not the greatcity of today, but had a population of 25,000. The corporatestanding of the craft guilds was usually given by the towngovernment, though it was not uncommon for them to have itby charter from the crown. A brief outline of the organization of the craft guilds maynot be out of place here. All of them had a strictly industrialand a social phase. Each craft guild of the town secured pro-tection from outside influences for its members by permitting noone to carry on any handicraft to sell the product of his skillunless he was approved by the guild of that trade. Whilepractically any man who was a capable artisan and who observedthe rules of the craft was a member of the guild of that craft,generally more definite approval was necessary; so that beforehe was permitted to work in a town he was required to have thetestimony of some members of the craft guild as to his ability.But usually he obtained a place in the craft as a full member
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^j(«W) ^j(£*» XS^W) - r. THE SOCIAL VALUE OF MEDIEVAL GUILDS 503 only after he had successively been apprentice, journeyman andmaster. When a young man began as an apprentice, he was boundout to a master craftsman for a varying period of years, oftenas many as seven, by signed articles of agreement between themaster and the parents of the boy. By this agreement, themaster was to furnish food and lodging for the boy and to teachhim all he himself knew of the trade. The boy on his part wasto live in the masters house, to obey his commands, to maintaininviolate his masters confidence and to do him no harm by im-proper behavior. Upon rounding out his period of apprentice-ship he was freed from the supervision of the master, and be-came a journeyman or a workman in his own right. The wordjourneyman may have originated from the practice of hiringthese men, who had completed their apprenticeship, by the day,from the French word journee, or it may have originated fromthe custom the workmen

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