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 Apprenticeship Order - James Dawe
 
Cornwall,
TO WIT.
WHEREAS, JAMES DAWE a poor Child, aged nine Years and upwards, belonging to the Parish of Saint Dominick in the said County of Cornwall, hath, this Day, been brought before us, two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, for the said County, by WILLIAM RICKARD and CHRISTOPHER SPEAR Junior, Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint Dominick pursuant to the provisions of an Act, passed in the 56th. year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act to regulate the binding of Parish Apprentices,” to the intent that we might enquire into the propriety of binding the said JAMES DAWE Apprentice to JOHN HAWKE of the parish of Saint Mellion in the said County of Cornwall, Yeoman to whom it is proposed, by the said Overseers, to bind the said JAMES DAWE.

We the said Justices, upon particular consideration and enquiry, think it proper that the said JAMES DAWE should be bound Apprentice to the said JOHN HAWKE, do declare, that the said JOHN HAWKE is a fit Person to whom the said JAMES DAWE may be properly bound as an Apprentice; and order that the said Overseers shall be at liberty to bind the said JAMES DAWE accordingly.

Given under our Hands this Second day of March in the year of our Lord 1826.
 
  (Signed) J. T. CORYTON

(Signed) HENRY WOOLLCOMBE
 

Transcribed by Shirley Cattermole

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LDS British Film 1596370

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