John Maliber sued Agnes Dalston alias Boste in 1493, claiming that she had unjustly withheld from him a bequest or legacy from her late husband, Thomas Dalston. Maliber had been Thomas Dalston’s apprentice, only newly beginning the usual seven-year term when Dalston died in 1484. Dalston’s surviving will indicates that he was a citizen glover.[1]Continue reading “John Maliber c. Agnes Dalston alias Boste”
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John Fern c. Henry Heed
John Fern, a young man likely from South Mimms, Hertfordshire, came to London to apprentice himself to a citizen ironmonger, Henry Heed. The paternalistic relationship that should have developed between the master and apprentice evidently broke down and Heed publicly accused Fern at least twice of dishonesty (a highly damaging allegation for a young manContinue reading “John Fern c. Henry Heed”
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