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Matthew Cock to Richard Varco, dated 16 February 1808

This Indenture, made the sixteenth Day of February in the forty eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord 1808 WITNESSETH, That William Cowling and Benjamin Dyer the younger Church-Wardens of the Parish of Roach in the said County And the said Benjamin Dyer and Thomas Dyer Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish, by and with the Consent of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these presents do put and place Matthew Cock aged nine years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice to Richard Varco 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 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 himself towards his said Master and all his during the said Term. And the said Richard Varco for himself, 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 he the said Richard Varco the said Apprentice in the Art of Husbandry shall and will teach, and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed in the best way and manner that he can
And shall and will during all the Term aforesaid, find, provide and allow unto the said Apprentice meet, competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and other things necessary and fit for an Apprentice. (PROVIDED ALWAYS, That the said last mentioned Covenant on the said Richard Varco his Executors and Administrators, to be done and performed, shall continue and be in force for no longer Time than Three Calendar Months next after the Death of the said Richard Varco in case the said Richard Varco shall happen to die during the Continuance of such Apprenticeship, according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the further Regulation of Parish Apprentices"). 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 set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above-written

(In the left margin)
We whose Names are here
under-written, Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid (whereof one is of the
Quorum) Do consent to the putting forth
Matthew Cock an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of the above Indenture
(signed) Thos. Graham
(signed) Hawkins Tremayne

N.B. Printed form with hand-written insertions, shown in italics. Words in both italics and brackets are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed). Spellings are as found.
Source: LDS Film No. 1596395, CRO Ref P. 198/14/1/8

Contributed by John Evans

 
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