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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 GREGORY
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 Tenth day of
June, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Seven
BETWEEN WILLIAM PODE Esquire and JOHN BRADFORD Churchwarden of the
Parish of Saint Dominick in the County of Cornwall and BENJAMIN WORTH
and ROBERT PARKEN 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 GREGORY aged Nine Years or
thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to WILLIAM
WORTH 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 WILLIAM 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 WILLIAM 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 WILLM 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 WILLIAM
WORTH in case the said WILLM 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) WILLIAM WORTH (and Sealed)
On the Reverse:Wm. GREGORY
to
WILLIAM WORTH
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