COUNTY OF
Cornwall |
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To CHRISTOPHER SPEAR and GEORGE SARGENT Overseers of the Poor of the
Parish of St. Dominick in the said County of Cornwall
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us JOHN TILLIE
CORYTON Esquire and JOHN KENDALL FLETCHER Clerk, D.D., two of His
Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Middle Division 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 JOPE a poor Child, aged
Eleven Years, belonging to your said Parish of St. Dominick Apprentice
to JOHN HAWKE of the said Parish of Saint Mellion in the said County,
Yeoman.
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 JOHN
HAWKE do hereby declare that the said JOHN HAWKE is a fit Person to take
the said JOHN JOPE 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 June in the Year of our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty eight.
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(Signed)
J. T. CORYTON
(Signed) J. K. FLETCHER |
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