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Apprenticeship Indenture, Mary Harris to Thomas Rowe
Brewer, dated 16 May 1826
Document 1
This Indenture, made the sixteenth Day of
May in the seventh 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 Six
Witnesseth, that in Pursuance and in Execution of an Order under the
Hands of Humphry Willyams and Richard Gully Bennet Esquires 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 sixteenth Day of May instant (testified by their
Allowance hereof.) Richard Blake Hellyar & 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 Mary Harris aged Eleven
Years, and upwards, a poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice
to Thomas Rowe Brewer of the said parish of Padstow yeoman with
him to dwell and serve, from the day of the Date of these
Presents, until the said Apprentice shall accomplish her full
age of Twenty one or day of marriage according to the Statute
in that Case made and provided, During all which Term the said
Apprentice her said Master faithfully shall serve in
all lawful Business, according to her Power, Wit and Ability,
and honestly, orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave herself
towards him the said Master and all his
during the said Term. And the said Thomas Rowe Brewer 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
Thomas Rowe Brewer the said Apprentice in the art of
housewifery 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 Thomas
Rowe Brewer 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 Thomas Rowe Brewer
in Case the said Thomas Rowe Brewer 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 she 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 Term:
In witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to the present Indentures
interchangeably set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year above
written.
(signed) T R Brewer
(In the upper 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
Mary Harris
An Apprentice to
Thomas Rowe Brewer
according to the Intent and Meaning of
this Indenture
(signed) H. Willyams
(signed) R Gully Bennet
Sealed and delivered in the Presence
of
(no sigature)
Document 2
Cornwall To wit. 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 to us Humphrey Willyams
and Richard Gully Bennet Esquires 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 Mary Harris a poor Child aged
eleven years belonging to your said Parish of Padstow
Apprentice to Thomas Rowe Brewer of Parish of Padstow
in the County of Cornwall yeoman And whereas we the said Justices having this Day enquired
into the propriety of binding the said Child an Apprentice to the said
Thomas Rowe Brewer do hereby declare that the said Thomas
Rowe Brewer is
a fit person to take the said Mary Harris 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
sixteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Six
(signed) H. Willyams
(signed) R Gully Bennet
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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