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Apprenticeship Indenture, Henry Tozer
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the fifth Day of April in the
fifteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the
Second 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 forty two Witnesseth,
That John LASKEY Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And
the said John LASKEY and Francis TRESIDDER 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, Henry TOZER a poor Child of the said Parish,
Apprentice to Mark JOHNS of the said 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
four 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 Mark
JOHNS 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
Mark JOHNS the said Apprentice in Husbandry Business shall &
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 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. And at
the end of the said Term, shall and will make, provide, allow and
deliver unto the said Apprentice double Apparel of all Sorts, good and
new (that is to say) a good new Suit for the Holy-Days, and another for
the Working-Days. 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 (being
first
Duly stamped) in the Presence
of
James HALS (signed)
John LOW (signed) |
We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid do
consent to the putting forth of the above-
said Henry TOZER Apprentice, according
to the Intent and Meaning of the Indenture
abovesaid
Hen. FOOTE (signed) Mark JOHNS (signed)
Josp. THOMAS (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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