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 Apprenticeship Order - George Coad
 
COUNTY OF
Cornwall
To WILLIAM RICKARD and CHRISTOPHER SPEAR Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Dominick in the said County of Cornwall

WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us JOHN TILLIE CORYTON, Esquire 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 GEORGE COAD a poor Child, aged Nine Years, belonging to your said Parish of St. Dominick Apprentice to CHARLES WILSON of the said Parish of St. Dominick 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 CHARLES WILSON do hereby declare that the said CHARLES WILSON is a fit Person to take the said GEORGE COAD 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 fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen.
 
  (Signed) J.T. CORYTON

(Signed) E.J. CLARKE
 

Transcribed by Shirley Cattermole

Source:

LDS British Film 1596370

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