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We, whose Names are here-under written, Justices
of the Peace for the County aforesaid (whereof one is of the Quorum) do consent to and allow the putting forth
MARY JOPE of Saint Dominick
an Apprentice, according
to the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture.
(Signed): E. J. CLARKE
(Signed): J. K. FLETCHER |
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THIS INDENTURE made the Sixth Day of May in the fifty
ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third 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 nineteen Witnesseth, That in Pursuance and in Execution of
an Order under the Hands of EDWARD JOHN CLARKE, Clerk and JOHN KENDALL
FLETCHER, Doctor in Divinity two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace,
acting in and for the Middle Division of the Hundred of East within the
County of Cornwall bearing even date herewith, (testified by their
Allowance hereof.) JOHN WORTH and JOHN HERRING Churchwardens of the
Parish of Saint Dominick in the said County and SAMPSON LUCAS and JAMES
BATTEN Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish have put and placed, and
by these Presents do put and place MARY JOPE aged fourteen Years, and
upwards, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to CHRISTOPHER
SPEAR of the said Parish, Yeoman 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 be married 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 family during the said Term. And the said
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR 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 CHRISTOPHER SPEAR 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 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 other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice:
(PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the last-mentioned Covenant on the Part and
Behalf of the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR, 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
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR in Case the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR 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 abovesaid to the present Indentures
interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year
above-written.(Signed) CHRISTOPHER SPEAR (and
Sealed)
On the Reverse
62
Mary Jope to Geo. Spear
St. Domk.
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