COUNTY OF
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To SAMPSON LUCAS and JAMES BATTEN Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Dominick in the said County of Cornwall
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us 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 said County of Cornwall under and by
Virtue of an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-sixth Year of the
Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, “An Act to regulate the Binding
of Parish Apprentices,” to bind MARY JOPE a poor Child, aged twelve
Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR of the said Parish, 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
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR do hereby declare that the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR is a
fit Person to take the said MARY 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 Sixth Day of May in
the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen.
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(Signed)
E.J. CLARKE
(Signed) J.K. FLETCHER |
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