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Thomas Julian Grigg to James Stick, dated 12 July 1820
Document 1
This Indenture, made the twentieth Day of
March 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
Willliam 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 twentieth
Day of March (testified by their allowance hereof) have put
and placed, and by these presents do put and place Thomas Julian
Grigg
aged eleven years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said
Parish, Apprentice to James Stick 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 James Stick 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
James Stick 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 James Stick 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 James Stick in case the said James Stick
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 above said 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 |
(signed) James Stick |
(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 Julian Grigg an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of this 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. 198/14/1/37
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 Clerk 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 Julian Grigg a poor child, aged 11 Years,
belonging to your said Parish, Apprentice to James Stick 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
James Stick do hereby declare that the said James Stick is a
fit person to take the said Thomas Julian Grigg 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 twentieth Day of March
in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty
(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. 198/14/1/36
Contributed by John Evans
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