COUNTY
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To NICHOLAS BRENT and JOHN FITZE 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 KENDALL
FLETCHER Doctor in Divinity and HENRY WOOLLCOMBE, 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 late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, “An Act to
regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices,” to bind SIMON JOPE a poor
Child, aged Ten Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick
Apprentice to WILLIAM MITICHELL of the said Parish Farmer.
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
WILLIAM MITCHELL do hereby declare that the said WILLIAM MITCHELL is a
fit Person to take the said SIMON 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 Fourth Day of September in the Year of our
Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty nine.
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(Signed)
HENRY WOOLLCOMBE
(Signed) J. K. FLETCHER |
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