COUNTY OF
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To RICHARD COWLE and ARTHUR COUCHE Overseers of the Poor of the Parish
of Saint Dominick in the said County of Cornwall
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us WILLIAM HICKES
HORNDON Esq. and EDWARD JOHN CLARKE, Clerk, two of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Middle Division of the
Hundred of East within the said County of Cornwall under and by Virtue
of an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of
his present Majesty, intituled, “An Act to regulate the Binding of
Parish Apprentices,” to bind ANN DAWE a poor Child, aged nine Years,
belonging to your said Parish of St. Dominick Apprentice to JAMES BATTEN
of St. Dominick aforesaid.
AND whereas we the said Justices having this day enquired into the
Propriety of binding the said Child Apprentice, and having particularly
examined and considered the several Directions contained in the said
recited Act, and also the Circumstances and Character of the said JAMES
BATTEN do hereby declare that the said JAMES BATTEN is a fit Person to
take the said ANN DAWE Apprentice as aforesaid; and do Order that you
the said Overseers shall be at Liberty to bind such Child Apprentice
accordingly. Given under our Hands this 2nd. Day of April in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen.
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(Signed)
W.H. HORNDON
(Signed) E.J. CLARKE |
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