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We whose Names are here-under written, Justices
of the Peace for the County of Cornwall aforesaid (whereof one
Is of the Quorum) do consent to and allow the putting forth WILLIAM
BENNETT of Saint Dominick
an Apprentice, according
to the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture.
(Signed): W. H. HORNDON
(Signed): E. J. CLARKE |
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THIS INDENTURE made the Fifth day of
June in the Fifty seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord,
One Thousand Eight hundred and seventeen Witnesseth, That in Pursuance
and in Execution of an Order under the Hands of WILLIAM HICKS HORNDON
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 County of Cornwall bearing even Date herewith (testified by
their Allowance hereof.) NICHOLAS STEER and JOHN WORTH Churchwardens of
the Parish of St. Dominick in the said County of Cornwall and RICHARD
COWLE and ARTHUR COUCH Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish have put
and placed, and by these Presents do put and place WILLIAM BENNETT aged
Nine Years, and upwards, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR of the said Parish Yeoman with him to dwell and serve,
from the Day of the Date of these Presents, until the said Apprentice
shall accomplish his full age of Twenty One years, according to the
Statute in that Case made and provided, DURING all which Term the said
Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all lawful
Business, according to his Power, Wit, and Ability, and honestly,
orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave himself towards
his said Master and all his family during the said Term. And the said
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR for himself, his Executors and Administrators doth
Covenant and Grant to and with the said Churchwardens and Overseers, and
every of them, their, and every of their Executors and Administrators,
and their and every of their Successors, for the Time being, by these
Presents, that he the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR the said Apprentice in
Husbandry shall and will teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and
instructed in the best Way and Manner that he can And shall and will
during all the Term aforesaid, find, provide and allow unto the said
Apprentice meet, competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, and Apparel,
Lodging, Washing, and other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice:
(PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said last-mentioned Covenant on the Part and
Behalf of the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR, his Executors and Administrators,
to be done and performed, shall continue and be in Force for no longer
Time than Three Calendar Months next after the Death of the said
CHRISTOPHER SPEAR in Case the said CHRISTOPHER SPEAR shall happen to die
during the continuance of such Apprenticeship, according to the
Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of
King George the Third, intituled, “An Act for the further Regulation of
Parish Apprentices,”) And also shall and will so provide for the said
Apprentice, that he be not any Way a Charge to the said Parish or
Parishioners of the same; but of and from all Charge shall and will save
the said Parish and Parishioners harmless and indemnified during the
said Term:
IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties abovesaid to the present Indentures
interchangeably have set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year
above-written.
| (Signed) NICHs. STEER |
(and Sealed)
Churchwardens |
(Signed) RICHARD COWLE (and Sealed) |
Overseers |
| (Signed) JOHN WORTH |
(Signed) ARTHUR COUCH (and Sealed) |
On the Reverse:
William Bennett
To
Christopher Spear
1817
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