No, a journeyman is not a man on a journey. The 'journey' here comes from the French 'jour' or 'journee' (pronounced joornay), which means 'day'. A journeyman was a day labourer who had served his apprenticeship.
The Statute of Artificers of 1563 laid down the journeyman's hours of work as being, in summer, from, at or before 5 a.m. until between 7 and 8 p.m., with not more than 2 1/2 hours off for breakfast, dinner and drinking; and in winter from dawn till dusk. [Terrick Fitzhugh, Dictionary of Genealogy, p160]
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