Ray Gadney, Apprentices of masters learn the trades of their masters, and may be freed after their terms of service have expired, their occupations the same as their masters'. They then are allowed to trade in the cities or towns where their masters lived. If they wish to trade in different towns, they may need to pay the redemption fees charged by these towns. But, once the apprentices have served their time and were freed, they are free to take up different occupations. Those never apprenticed could marry the daughters of freemen and pay redemption fees for the privilege of trading in the wives' home towns, no matter what trades. Your ancestor, the son of a master bookbinder, after his freedom was granted, obviously decided not to follow his father's trade but branch out as a tailor. If in a different town, you should check the freedom registers of that town for the payment of his redemption fee. Richard Goulden