We whose Names are here
under-written, Justices
Of the Peace for the
aforesaid (whereof one Is
of the Quorum) Do consent to
the putting forth JOHN
SPEAR
an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this
Indenture.
(Signed): JOHN CORYTON
(Signed): WESTON HELYAR
HIS
INDENTURE made the Sixteenth day of October, in the Thirty fourth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, and in the Year of our Lord 1794. WITNESSES, That NICHOLAS
STEER, and WILLIAM BRENT, Church-Wardens of the Parish of Saint
Dominick, AND, WILLIAM BOND and RICHARD COWL Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish by and with the Consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace for the said County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have put
and placed, and by these Presents do put and place MARY HEWITT aged
Fourteen years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish
Apprentice to FRANCIS HATCH for Ashton 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, 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 FRANCIS HATCH for
himself, his Executors and Administrators doth covenant and grant to and
with the said Church-Wardens 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 FRANCIS HATCH the said Apprentice in Housewifey shall and will
teach, and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best
way and manner that he can
And shall and will during all the term
aforesaid, find, provide and allow until the said Apprentice meet,
competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and
other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice; (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That
the said last mentioned Covenant on the said FRANCIS HATCH, 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 FRANCIS HATCH IN CASE THE SAID FRANCIS HATCH 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, intituled, “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 or Parishioners of the same; but of and from all Charge shall and
will save the said Parish and Parishioners harmless and indemnified
during the said Term;
IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties above said to these present Indentures
Interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals the Day and year first
above written.
HIS
INDENTURE made the Sixteenth day of October, in the Thirty fourth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, and in the Year of our Lord 1794. WITNESSES, That NICHOLAS
STEER, and WILLIAM BRENT, Church-Wardens of the Parish of Saint
Dominick, AND, WILLIAM BOND and RICHARD COWL Overseers of the Poor of
the said Parish by and with the Consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the
Peace for the said County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have put
and placed, and by these Presents do put and place MARY HEWITT aged
Fourteen years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish
Apprentice to FRANCIS HATCH for Ashton 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, 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 FRANCIS HATCH for
himself, his Executors and Administrators doth covenant and grant to and
with the said Church-Wardens 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 FRANCIS HATCH the said Apprentice in Housewifey shall and will
teach, and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best
way and manner that he can