Four prentices of London Heywood.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
Amongst the lower Rank, and working People, the idlest, and such as are most fond of making Holidays, with prentices and Journeymen to the meanest Trades, are the most honourable Part of these floating Multitudes.
"An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725)"
Bernard Mandeville Malvin R. Zirker
Home with great content with my wife, not so well pleased with the company at the house to-day, which was full of citizens, there hardly being a gentleman or woman in the house; a couple of pretty ladies by us that made sport in it, being jostled and crowded by prentices.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke