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No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or

artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by

apprenticeship or by service. When such a person, therefore,

carried his industry to a new parish, he was liable to be

removed, how healthy and industrious soever, at the caprice of

any churchwarden or overseer, unless he either rented a tenement

of ten pounds a-year, a thing impossible for one who has nothing

but his labour to live by, or could give such security for the

discharge of the parish as two justices of the peace should judge

sufficient.