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Apprenticeship Indenture, Mary Michell
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the Thirtieth Day of March in the
seventh 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 sixty seven Witnesseth, That
Ralph JORY Yeoman Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And
Hugh BROWN one of the 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, Mary MICHELL a
poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to James FUGLER of the
Parish of Merther in the said County Blacksmith 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 one and
twenty 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 Michael 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 James FUGLER the said Apprentice in the Business
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
Bartho. RICHARDS (signed)
Elizabeth MINORS (mark)
James FUGLER (signed) |
We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid
do
consent to the putting forth of the
above-said Mary MICHELL Apprentice,
according
to the
Intent and Meaning of the Indenture
abovesaid
Dan WRABB? (signed)
Francis GREGOR (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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