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Apprenticeship Indenture, Peter Richards
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the Eighth Day of November in the
twenty first 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 Witnesseth, That
Henry JORY Yeoman Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And Hugh
BROWN Yeoman Overseer 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, Peter RICHARDS aged eight
years, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to Nicholas
EADDY of the sd. Parish Yeoman 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 Nicholas EADDY
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 Nicholas EADDY the said
Apprentice in the Art & Mastery of Husbandry which he now useth
after the best manner that he can or may 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 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 by the above
named Henry Jory & Hugh Brown
Henry JORY (signed)
Hugh BROWN (signed)
Nicholas EADDY (signed)
George QUASH (signed)
W REYNOLDS (signed)
M ALLISON (signed)
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We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid
(whereof one if of the Quorum)
do
consent to the putting forth of the
abovesaid ---------------- Apprentice,
according to the Intent and Meaning of
the above
Indenture
Philip ENOUFS (signed)
W H REYNOLDS (signed) |
| Sealed and Delivered by the
above named Abednego SARAH in the Presence of: |
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MARTIN (mark) |
Hobson WOOLCOCK (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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