In Vol. 32, Part 2 of this Journal it was mentioned that at the age of fourteen Moses Harris was apprenticed to the business of the famous London geographer and globe maker Charles Price (1679-1733), which by then was in the ownership of Charles Pricejunior, the premises being in Bridewell Precinct near Fleet Street; he had inherited a third of his father’s stock, with the remainder divided between his mother and sister. On the 5th December 1744 he became a freeman by patrimony, thereby establishing his place in the livery company, and enabling him to immediately take on Harris as an apprentice for a period of seven years. The sum involved was E15 (the equivalent of E3,760 today)1, paid in full on the 31st of December by his father Joseph Harris.
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