Section VIII Proviso for Freemen of the Company to employ Persons, for certain Purposes although they have not served Apprenticeships.

Provided alwaies that it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Freeman of the said Company of Silk-throwers to sett on work and imploy any Person or Persons being Native Subjects to His Majesty and no others whether they be Men Women or Children to turn the Mill tye Threads double Silke and wind Silke as formerly they have used to doe although such Person or Persons who shall be so sett on worke and imployed in the works and services aforesaid shall not have served or been bred up as Apprentices to the Trade of Silk throwing by the space of seven yeares and that all and every the said Person and Persons who shall be so sett on worke and imployed by any Freeman of the said Company in the workes and services aforesaid X1shall & may be imployed by any Freeman of the said Company in the works & services aforesaid or any of them without any lett or molestation Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding