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We whose Names are here
under-written, Justices
Of the Peace for the County
aforesaid (whereof one Is
of the Quorum) Do consent to
the putting forth Elizabeth BENNETT
an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this
Indenture.
(Signed): J. T. CORYTON
(Signed): WESTON HELYAR
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THIS INDENTURE made the second day
of May, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Eleven
BETWEEN NICHOLAS STEER and JOHN WORTH Churchwardens of the Parish of
Saint Dominick in the County of Cornwall and WILLIAM WORTH and DIGORY
FLETCHER Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish by and with the
Consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County whose
Names are hereunto subscribed HAVE put and placed, and by these Presents
Do put and place ELIZABETH BENNETT aged eight Years or thereabouts, a
poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to ISAAC CRADICK with him to
dwell and serve from the day of the date of these Presents, until the
said Apprentice shall accomplish her full Age of twenty one years or be
married, according to the Statute in that Case made and provided; DURING
all which said Term the said Apprentice her said Master faithfully shall
serve in all lawful Business, according to her Power, Wit, and Ability,
and honestly, orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave
herself towards her said Master during the said Term. And the said ISAAC
CRADICK for himself, his Executors and Administrators doth covenant and
grant to and with the said Church-Wardens and Overseers, and every of
them, their, and every of their Executors and Administrators, and their
and every of their Successors, for the Time being, by these Presents,
That he the said ISAAC CRADICK the said Apprentice in Housewifery shall
and will teach, and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in
the best way and manner that he can And shall and will during all the
term aforesaid, find, provide and allow unto the said Apprentice meet,
competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and
other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice; (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That
the said last mentioned Covenant on the said ISAAC CRADICK, his
Executors and Administrators, to be done and performed, shall continue
and be in force for no longer Time than Three Calendar Months next after
the Death of the said ISAAC CRADICK in case the said ISAAC CRADICK shall
happen to die during the Continuance of such Apprenticeship, according
to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-second Year of the
Reign of King George the Third, intituled, “An Act for the further
Regulation of Parish Apprentices,”) And also shall and will so provide
for the said Apprentice, that she be not any way a Charge to the said
Parish or Parishioners of the same; but of and from all Charge shall and
will save the said Parish of Saint Dominick harmless and indemnified
during the said Term;
IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties aforesaid to these Presents their Hands,
and Seals have set the Day and Year first above written.
(Signed) ISAAC CRADICK (and Sealed)
On the Reverse:
Elizabeth Bennett Apprentice
To Isaac Cradock May 2nd. 1811
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