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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 Jacob FLETCHER
an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this
Indenture.
(Signed): W.H. HORNDON
(Signed): WESTON HELYAR
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THIS INDENTURE made the Tenth day of
April, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Six
BETWEEN WILLIAM PODE Esqr SAMPSON 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 JACOB FLETCHER aged ten Years or thereabouts, a poor Child
of the said Parish, Apprentice to MARY FITZE with her 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 Mistress 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 Mistress during the said Term. And the said MARY FITZE for
herself, her 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 she the
said MARY FITZE 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 she 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 MARY FITZE, her 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 MARY FITZE in case the said MARY FITZE 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 aforesaid to these Presents their Hands,
and Seals have set the Day and Year first above written.
THE MARK OF MARY FITZE (and Sealed)
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