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 WILLIAM BOND a poor Child, aged thirteen
Years, belonging to your said Parish of Saint Dominick Apprentice to
RICHARD HOLMES Esquire of Westcott in the said Parish.
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
RICHARD HOLMES do hereby declare that the said RICHARD HOLMES is a fit
Person to take the said WILLIAM BOND 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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