a person whose employment it is to manufacture any kind of commodity, as in iron, brass, wool, &c. Such are smiths, braziers, weavers, &c. By the law of England, if artificers or workmen conspire not to work under certain prices, they are liable to certain penalties by statute 2 and 3 Edw. VI. c. 15. A stranger, artificer in London, is not allowed to keep above two strangers servants, but he may have as many English servants and apprentices as he can get, (statute §1 Henry VIII. c. 16.) And, to prevent the destruction of our home manufactures, by transporting and feeding our arts to settle abroad, it is provided by statute 5 Geo. I. c. 27, that such as so entice or seduce them shall be fined 100l. and be imprisoned three months; and for the second offence shall be fined at discretion, and be imprisoned a year: and the artificers, so going into foreign countries, and not returning within six months after warning given them by the British ambassador where they reside, shall be deemed aliens, shall forfeit all their lands and goods, and shall be incapable of any legacy or gift. By statute 23 Geo. II. c. 13, the seducers incur, for the first offence, a forfeiture of 500l. for each artificer contracted with to be sent abroad, and imprisonment for twelve months; and for the second, 1000l. and are liable to two years imprisonment.