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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 Henry EGGEFORD
an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this
Indenture.
(Signed): WESTON HELYAR
(Signed): W.H. HORNDON |
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THIS INDENTURE made the Seventeenth
day of October, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
five BETWEEN WILLIAM PODE, Esqr.. and SAMSON LUCAS Churchwardens of the
Parish of Saint Dominick in the County of Cornwall and JOHN BULLEN and
WILLIAM RICKARD 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 HENRY EGGEFORD aged Eight Years or thereabouts, a poor
Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to THOMAS BRENT with him to dwell
and serve from the day of the date of these Presents, until the said
Apprentice shall accomplish his full Age of twenty one years, according
to the Statute in that Case made and provided; DURING all which said
Term the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all
lawful Business, according to his Power, Wit, and Ability, and honestly,
orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave himself towards
his said Master during the said Term. And the said THOMAS BRENT 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 THOMAS BRENT the said Apprentice in Husbandry 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 THOMAS BRENT, 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 THOMAS BRENT in case the said THOMAS BRENT 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 he 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 above said to these presents their
Hands, and Seals have set the Day and Year first above written.
(Signed) THOs. BRENT (and Sealed)
On the Reverse:Henry Egford to
Mr. Thos. Brent
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