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 Apprenticeship Order - John Bone
 
COUNTY
OF
CORNWALL
To NICHOLAS BRENT and JOHN FITZE Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Dominick in the said County of Cornwall,
 
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us JOHN KENDALL FLETCHER Doctor in Divinity and HENRY WOOLLCOMBE 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 late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, “An Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices,” to bind JOHN BONE a poor Child, aged Nine Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to WILLIAM DAW of the said Parish Farmer.

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 WILLIAM DAW do hereby declare that the said WILLIAM DAW is a fit Person to take the said JOHN BONE 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 September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty nine.
 
  (Signed) HENRY WOOLLCOMBE

(Signed) J. K. FLETCHER
 

Transcribed by Shirley Cattermole

Source:

LDS British Film 1596370

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