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We, whose Names are here-under written, Justices
of the Peace (whereof one is of the Quorum) do consent to and allow the putting forth
ISAAC BENNETT of St Dominick
aforesaid an Apprentice, according
to the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture.
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THIS INDENTURE made the twenty third Day of December
in the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third
by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord, One thousand
Eight Hundred and nineteen Witnesseth, That in Pursuance and in
Execution of an Order under the Hands of WILLIAM HICKES HORNDON, Esquire
and EDWARD JOHN CLARKE, Clerk, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace, acting in and for the County of Cornwall, bearing even date
herewith (made according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the
Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, King GEORGE the
Third, intitled “An Act to regulate the binding of Parish Apprentices.”
JOHN WORTH and JOHN HERRING Churchwardens of the Parish of Saint
Dominick in the said County, And SAMPSON LUCAS and JAMES BATTTEN
Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish, have put and placed, and by
these Presents do put and place ISAAC BENNETT aged Eleven years, and
upwards, a poor Child of the said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to
ISAAC CRADDOCK of the said parish, Yeoman 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 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 and all his during the said Term. And the said
ISAAC CRADDOCK for himself, his Executors and Administrators, doth
Covenant and Grant to and with the said Churchwardens 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 CRADDOCK 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 during the said Term.
And shall and will, during all the Term aforesaid, find, provide, and
allow unto the said Apprentice, meet, competent, and sufficient Meat,
Drink, and Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and all other Things necessary and
fit for an Apprentice : Provided always, That the last-mentioned
Covenant on the part and behalf of the said ISAAC CRADDOCK 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 CRADDOCK in Case the said ISAAC CRADDOCK 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, intitled, (“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, harmless and indemnified during the said Term:
In Witness whereof the Parties above said to these present Indentures
interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year
above-written.(Signed) ISAAC CRADICK (and
Sealed)
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