COUNTY OF
Cornwall |
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To WILLIAM RICKARD and CHRISTOPHER SPEAR 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 JOHN TILLIE
CORYTON, Esquire and EDWARD JOHN CLARKE, Clerk, 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 RICHARD GREGORY a poor Child, aged Thirteen
Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to
MARY FITZE of the said Parish Widow.
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 MARY
FITZE do hereby declare that the said MARY FITZE is a fit Person to take
the said RICHARD GREGORY 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 Seventh Day of May in the Year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen.
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(Signed)
J.T. CORYTON
(Signed) E.J. CLARKE |
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