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Apprenticeship Indenture, Richard Brenton to Anna Maria Hillyar, dated 7 August 1827

This Indenture made the seventh day of August in the eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the fourth 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 Twenty seven Witnesseth, that in Pursuance and in Execution of an Order under the Hands of William Molesworth Clerk and Richard Gully Bennet Esquire two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the Hundred of Pydar within the County of Cornwall bearing date the seventh Day of August instant (testified by their Allowance hereof) Richard Blake Hillyar and John Pearse Churchwardens of the Parish of Padstow in the said County And John Kendall and Thomas Hawkey Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Padstow have put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place Richard Brenton aged Fifteen Years, and upwards, a poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice to Anna Maria Hillyar of Padstow aforesaid Spinster with her 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 Mistress 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 her the said Mistress and all hers during the said Term. And the said Anna Maria Hillyar for her self, her 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 the said Anna Maria Hillyar the said Apprentice in the Art of Husbandry shall teach and instruct, or cause to be taught or instructed in the best Way and Manner that he can during the said Term. 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 all other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice: (Provided Always, That the last mentioned Covenant on the Part and Behalf of the said Anna Maria Hillyar or her 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 Anna Maria Hillyar in Case the said Anna Maria Hillyar shall happen to die during the continuance of such Apprenticeship, according to the Provision 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 of Padstow 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 Term: In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to the present Indentures interchangeably set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year above written.
Sealed and delivered in the Presence of

Anna Maria Hillyar (signed)

(Written in the top left hand corner of the Document)
 
We, whose names are here-under
written, Justices of the Peace for
the County of Cornwall (whereof one is
of the Quorum) do consent to and allow
the putting forth of
Richard Brenton
an Apprentice to
Anna Maria Hillyar
according to the Intent and Meaning of
This Indenture.
 
Wm. Molesworth (signed)
R G Bennet (signed)

Document 2

To John Kendall and Thomas Hawkey Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Padstow in the said County of Cornwall.
Whereas you the said Overseers having proposed unto us William Molesworth Clerk and Richard Gully Bennet Esquire two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the Hundred of Pydar 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 George the Third, intituled "an Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices" to bind Richard Brenton a poor Child aged Fifteen years belonging to your said Parish of Padstow Apprentice to Anna Maria Heilyar of Padstow in the County of Cornwall Spinster And we the said Justices having this Day enquired into the propriety of binding the said Child and Apprentice to the said Anna Maria Hillyar and having particularly examined and considered the several Directions contained in the said recited Act, and also the circumstances and character of the said Anna Maria Hillyar do hereby declare that the said Anna Maria Hillyar is a fit Person to take the said Richard Brenton 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 Seventh day of August in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and 27.

Wm. Moleworth (signed)
R.G. Bennet (signed)

N.B. Words in italics are insertions in a printed form, those in brackets and italics are inserted by the transcriber

Source:- LDS Film No. 1596395

 
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