Chapels
Meetings in the office for the consideration of trade matters, the settling of disputes respecting the prices of work and any other business embraced by trade rules. Readers and overseers are necessarily excluded, except on “goose” occasions, when the “whole force of the establishment,” apprentices, of course, excepted, receive “cards of invitation.” Chapels have for their head a personage who from the day of his inauguration is known by the cognomen of “Father,” and it is he who not only presides over the deliberations of chapels, but whose advice is taken on all difficult questions, even before a chapel is convened.—Straker.
A very amusing acount of the chapels of ancient times will be found in Hansard’s Typographia, p. 302.
“Our art was hailed from kingdoms far abroad,
And cherished in the hallowed house of God;
From which we learn the homage it received,
And how our sires its heavenly birth believed;
Each Printer hence, howe’er unblest his walls,
E&rsuo;en to this day his house a Chapel calls.”
Chapels
Meetings in the office for the consideration of trade matters, the settling of disputes respecting the prices of work and any other business embraced by trade rules. Readers and Overseers are excluded, except on occasions, when the a wayze-goose is under consideration. Chapels have for their head a personage who from the day of his inauguration is known as the “Father,” and it is he who not only presides over the deliberations of chapels, but whose advice is taken on all difficult questions, even before a chapel is convened.
A very amusing acount of the chapels of ancient times will be found in Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises,” 1683, which is copied into Hansard’s “Typographia,” p. 302, and Savage’s “Dictionary,” p. 10.
“Our art was hailed from kingdoms far abroad,
And cherished in the hallowed house of God;
From which we learn the homage it received,
And how our sires its heavenly birth believed;
Each Printer hence, howe’er unblest his walls,
E&rsuo;en to this day his house a Chapel calls.”