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Apprenticeship Indenture, Margaret White
(Printed form with handwritten insertions, shown
in italics)
This Indenture made the Twenty seventh Day of May in
the Twenty second 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 nine
Witnesseth, That John COADE Church-Warden of the Parish of
Perran-Arworthal in the County of Cornwall And
Ann ALLEN Widow and the said John COADE 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, Margaret WHITE aged fourteen years & upwards a poor
Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to Humphry WHITE of the said
Parish Yeoman 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 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 Humphry WHITE 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 Humphry WHITE the said Apprentice in Housewifry
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 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. 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
in the Presence
of
William LASKEY (signed)
? JOHNS (signed)
Hum WHITE (mark) |
We whose Names are subscribed, Justices
of the Peace of the County aforesaid (as far
as in us lie) do consent to the putting forth of
the above-said Margaret White
Apprentice, according
to the Intent and
Meaning of the Indenture
abovesaid
J.HILLOP (signed)
Thos. GLYNN (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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