COUNTY OF
Cornwall |
 |
To CHARLES WILSON and Wm. RICKARD Overseers of the Poor of
the Parish of St. Dominick in the said County of Cornwall
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us JOHN KENDALL
FLETCHER Clerk, D.D. and HENRY WOOLLCOMBE Clerk two of His Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Middle Division 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 late
Majesty King George the Third, intituled, “An Act to regulate the
Binding of Parish Apprentices,” to bind RICHARD HILL a poor Child, aged
12 Years, belonging to your said Parish of St. Dominick
Apprentice to EDMUND HAMBLY of the said Parish of Saint Dominick,
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 EDMUND
HAMBLY do hereby declare that the said EDMUND HAMBLY is a fit Person to
take the said RICHARD HILL 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 December in the Year of our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty seven.
| |
(Signed)
J. K. FLETCHER
(Signed) HENRY WOOLLCOMBE |
|