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Apprenticeship Indenture - John Pomroy
Cowl
THIS INDENTURE, made the Sixth Day of December in the
Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Fourth 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 twenty seven WITNESSETH, That in Pursuance and Execution of
an Order under the Hands of JOHN KENDALL FLETCHER Doctor in Divinity and
HENRY WOOLLCOMBE, Clerk, two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace,
acting in and for the County of Cornwall bearing date this sixth day of
December 1827 (made according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the
Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George III, entitled “An Act to
regulate the binding of Parish Apprentices.”) JOHN WORTH and NICHOLAS
BRENT Churchwardens of the Parish of Saint Dominick in the said County.
And CHARLES WILSON and WILLIAM RICKARD Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish, have put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place JOHN
POMROY COWL aged Thirteen Years and upwards, a poor Child of the said
parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to ISAAC CRADDICK of the said parish
of Saint Dominick in the said County 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
CRADDICK 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 CRADDICK 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 CRADDICK 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 CRADDICK in case the said ISAAC CRADDICK 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 of Saint
Dominick 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 abovesaid to these present Indentures
interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals the day and year
above-written.
Sealed and delivered in the Presence of
(Signed)
THOS. TREWEEK
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(Signed) ISAAC CRADICK |
We the Justices of the Peace abovesaid, whose Names and Seals
are here-under written and affixed (whereof one is of the Quorum) do
consent to and allow the putting forth of the above said JOHN
POMROY COWL
Apprentice, according to the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture
(Signed) J.K. FLETCHER
(Signed) HENRY WOOLLCOMBE |
On the Reverse:
1827
John Pomroy Cowle
To
Isaac Cradock
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