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 Apprenticeship Order - Richard Hill
 
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
 

Transcribed by Shirley Cattermole

Source:

LDS British Film 1596370

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