COUNTY OF
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To ARTHUR COUCH and RICHARD COWLE 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 JOPE a poor Child, aged nine Years,
belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to EDWARD
COUCHE of Smeaton, in 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 EDWARD
COUCHE do hereby declare that the said EDWARD COUCHE is a fit Person to
take the said RICHARD 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 Fifth Day of February 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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