Note 14 — Chapter VI

Were those individuals really manufacturers, they would not require a Licence to vend their articles. See Act of Parliament, 50 Geo. III. cap. 41, sec. 23. enacts: “Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, that nothing in this Act shall extend to prohibit any person or persons from selling any printed papers, licensed by authority, or any fish, fruit, or victuals; nor to hinder the real worker or workers, or maker or makers of any goods, wares, or manufactures of Great Britain, or his, her, or their children, apprentices, or known agents or servants usually residing with such real workers or makers only, from carrying abroad or exposing to sale, and selling by retail or otherwise, any of the said goods, wares, or manufactures of his, her, or their own making in any mart, market, or fair, and in every city, borough, town corporate, and market town. Nor any tinkers, coopers, glaziers, plumbers, harness makers, or other persons usually trading in mending kettles, tubs, household goods, or harness whatsoever, from going about and carrying with him, or them, proper materials for mending the same.”