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We whose Names are here
under-written, Justices
Of the Peace for the County
aforesaid (whereof one Is
of the Quorum) Do consent to
the putting forth William COCKIN
an Apprentice According to the
Intent and Meaning of this
Indenture.
(Signed): W. H. HORNDON
(Signed): WESTON HELYAR |
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THIS INDENTURE made the second day
of May, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ten
BETWEEN NICHOLAS STEER Churchwarden of the Parish of Saint Dominick in
the County of Cornwall and WILLIAM WORTH and DIGORY FLETCHER Overseers
of the Poor of the said Parish by and with the Consent of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace for the said County whose Names are hereunto
subscribed HAVE put and placed, and by these Presents Do put and place
WILLIAM COCKIN aged Eight Years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said
Parish, Apprentice to JOHN WORTH Junior 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 said 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 during the said Term. And the said JOHN WORTH for
himself, his Executors and Administrators doth covenant and grant to and
with the said Church-Wardens 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 JOHN WORTH 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, Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and other Things
necessary and fit for an Apprentice; (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said
last mentioned Covenant on the said JOHN WORTH, 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 JOHN WORTH in case the said JOHN WORTH 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 of Saint Dominick harmless and indemnified during the
said Term;
IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties aforesaid to these presents their Hands,
and Seals have set the Day and Year first above written.
(Signed) JOHN WORTH (and Sealed)
On the Reverse:
William Cockin to John Worth Junr.
May 2nd 1810
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