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Thomas Commons to Robert Edyvean, dated 26 February 1820
Document 1
This Indenture, made the twenty sixth Day
of February in the Year of our Lord 1820 WITNESSETH,
That John Robins and John Retallick Church-Wardens of the
parish of Roach in the County of Cornwall; And William
Stephens and William Faro Overseers of the Poor of the said parish,
in Pursuance and in Execution of an Order under the Hands of
Nicholas Kendall and Richard Gerveys Grylls the younger Clerks
two of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the
Hundred of Powder within the said County, bearing Date the
twenty first Day of February instant (testified by
their Allowance hereof) have put and placed, and by these presents do
put and place Thomas Commons aged Nine years or
thereabouts, a poor Child of the said parish, Apprentice to
Robert Edyvean of the said Parish of Roach, 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 Robert
Edyvean 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 Robert Edyvean 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 Robert Edyvean 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 Robert
Edyvean in case the said Robert Edyvean 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
of the same; but of and from all charge shall and will save the said
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
Seal’d and deliver’d in the Presence of
(signed) John Rowe
(signed) Joanna Robins |
the sign of Robert
Edyvean |
(In the left margin)
We whose Names are hereunder
written, Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid do consent to the putting forth
Thomas Commons an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of the above Indenture
(signed) Nic. Kendall
(signed) R. Gerveys Grylls Jnr
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. 198/14/1/45
Document 2
CORNWALL to wit. To William Stephens and William
Faro Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Roach in the
said County
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us Nicholas
Kendall and Richard Gerveys Grylls the younger Clerks two
of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the Hundred of
Powder within the said County, under and by virtue of an Act of
Parliament, passed in the fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of his present
Majesty intitled "An Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices"
to bind Thomas Commons a poor child, aged Nine
Years, belonging to your said Parish, Apprentice to Robert Edyvean
of the Parish of Roach in the said County yeoman
And whereas we the said Justices having this day enquired into the
propriety of binding the said Child Apprentice, and having particularly
examined and considered the several directions contained in the said
recited Act and also the circumstances and character of the said
Robert Edyvean do hereby declare that the said William
Stephens is a fit person to take the said Thomas Commons
Apprentice as aforesaid; and do order that you the said Overseers shall
be at liberty to bind such Child Apprentice accordingly.
Given under our Hands, this twenty first Day of February
in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty
(signed) Nic. Kendall
(signed) R. Gerveys Grylls Junr
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. 198/14/1/47
Contributed by John Evans
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