COUNTY OF
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To SAMPSON LUCAS and JAMES BATTEN 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 and JOHN TILLIE CORYTON, Esquires, 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 DOROTHY JOPE a poor Child, aged thirteen Years,
belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to EDMUND
HERRING of the said Parish, Yeoman.
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 EDMUND
HERRING do hereby declare that the said EDMUND HERRING is a fit Person
to take the said DOROTHY JOPE 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 first Day of July in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen.
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(Signed)
W. H. HORNDON
(Signed) J. T. CORYTON
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