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Apprenticeship Indenture, Methusalem Martin
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the thirteenth Day of May in the
twenty sixth 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 six Witnesseth,
That Michael WILLIAMS Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall
And Walter VISACK and Richard SARAH 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, Methusalem MARTIN aged about nine
years, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to
William TREMAYNE of the same Parish Gentleman
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 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 him self, towards his
said Master and all his
during the said Term. And the said William TREMAYNE
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
William TREMAYNE the said Apprentice in
the Art of Husbandry shall and will teach and Instruct or cause to be
taught and Instructed 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. 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
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
Wm.TREMAYNE (signed)
Tobs. TILLY (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 Methusalem MARTIN
Apprentice,
according to the Intent and
Meaning of
the above
Indenture
Thos. GLYNN (signed)
S.SANDYS (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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