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Apprenticeship Indenture - Mary Ann
Hicks
THIS INDENTURE, made the Third Day of December in the
Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William 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 thirty five Witnesseth, That in Pursuance and in Execution
of an Order under the Hands of JOHN KENDAL FLETCHER Clerk Doctor in
Divinity and JOHN TILLIE CORYTON Esquire, two of his Majesty’s Justices
of the Peace, acting in and for the County of Cornwall bearing date this
third day of December 1835 (made according to the Provisions of an Act
passed in the Fifty-Sixth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty, King
George the Third, entitled “An Act to regulate the binding of Parish
Apprentices.”) JOHN REED HAWKE and RICHARD PERKEN Churchwardens of the
Parish of St Dominic in the said County. And EDMUND HAMBLY and GEORGE
HARRIS Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish, have put and placed,
and by these presents do put and place MARY ANN HICKS aged Eleven Years
and upwards, a poor Child of the said parish of Saint Dominic Apprentice
to WILLIAM GARLAND of the said parish of Saint Dominic in the said
County with him to dwell and serve from the day of the Date of these
Presents, until the said Apprentice shall accomplish her full Age of
Twenty-one Years or until she shall marry according to the Statute in
that case made and provided. During all which Term the said Apprentice
her said Master faithfully shall serve in all lawful Business, according
to her Power, Wit, and Ability; and Honestly, Orderly, and Obediently,
in all things demean and behave herself towards her said Master and all
his during the said Term. And the said WILLIAM GARLAND 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
WILLIAM GARLAND the said Apprentice in Housewifery shall and will teach
and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best way and
manner that he can during the 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 WILLIAM GARLAND 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 WILLIAM GARLAND in Case
the said WILLIAM GARLAND 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 she be not any way a
charge to the said Parish of Saint Dominic or Parishioners of the same;
but of and from all Charge shall and will save the said Parish of Saint
Dominic harmless and indemnified during the said Term.
In Witness whereof, the Parties above-said to these Indentures,
interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals, the day and year above
written.
Sealed & delivered in the presence of
(Signed) JOHN REED HAWK
(Signed) RICHARD PARKEN
Churchwardens |
(Signed) EDMD. HAMBLY
(Signed) GEORGE HARRIS
Overseers |
We the Justices of the peace above-said, whose
names
are hereunder written and seals affixed, (whereof one is of the Quorum) do
consent to, & allow the putting forth of the above said MARY
ANN HICKS Apprentice, according to the intent and meaning of this Indenture
(Signed) J.T. CORYTON (and Sealed)
(Signed) J.K. FLETCHER (and Sealed) |
In the Margin:
(Signed) Wm. GARLAND (and Sealed)
(Signed) EDWARD COUCH
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On the Reverse:
William Garland
Indenture for
Mary Ann Hicks
Decr. 3rd. 1835
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