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Apprenticeship Indenture, Elizabeth Magar
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the Fourteenth Day of April in the
twenty fourth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord
George the Third by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and
Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and so forth; and in the Year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty four Witnesseth,
That Nicholas EADDY Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And Francis
TREBILCOCK and Thomas TIDDY Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish, by and with the consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace
of the said County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have
put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place, Elizabeth
MAGAR aged about thirteen years, a poor Child of the said Parish,
Apprentice to Martin WILLIAMS Occupant of the Tenement of Sparnon in
the said Parish 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 years or be married
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 her self, towards her said
Master and all his during the said Term. And the said
Martin WILLIAMS for him self, 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 the said
Martin WILLIAMS the said Apprentice in the Art of Housewifry
shall and will teach and Instruct or cause to be taught and Instructed
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. 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 said Term. IN WITNESS whereof, the Parties abovesaid to these
present Indentures interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals the
Day and Year above written.
Seal’d & deliver’d
in the Presence of
Martin WILLIAMS (signed)
Michael WILLIAMS (signed)
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We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid
do
consent to the putting forth of the
abovesaid Elizabeth MAGAR
Apprentice,
according to the Intent and
Meaning of
the above
Indenture
E MARSHALL (signed)
J ROGERS (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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