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Robert Roach to Andrew Pearce, dated 15 December 1828
Document 1
This Indenture, made the fifteenth Day
of December in the Year of our Lord 1828 WITNESSETH, That
John Robins and John Bate Church-Wardens of the
Parish of Roach in the County of Cornwall; And Thomas Stick
White and Thomas Francis Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish,
in pursuance and in execution of an Order under the Hands and Seals
of John Colman Rashleigh Esquire and Nicholas Kendall Clerk two of his Majesty’s Justices of
the Peace, acting in and for the Hundred of Powder within the
said County, bearing Date the fifteenth Day of December
instant (testified by their allowance hereof) have put and placed,
and by these presents do put and place Robert Roach aged nine years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish,
Apprentice to Andrew Pearce of the said Parish farmer 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 Andrew
Pearce 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
Andrew Pearce 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 Andrew Pearce 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 Andrew
Pearce in case the said Andrew Pearce 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 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
| Sealed and delivered in the
Presence of |
Andrew Pearce (signed & sealed) |
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(signed) Matthew Thomas
(signed) Nicholas Kent |
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(In the left margin) We whose Names are
hereunder
written, Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid,
do consent to the putting forth
Robert Roach an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture
(signed & sealed) Nic. Kendall
(signed & sealed) John C. Rashleigh
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. 198/14/1/79
Document 2
CORNWALL to wit. To Thomas Stick White and
Thomas Francis Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Roach
in the said County
WHEREAS you the said Overseers having proposed unto us John Colman
Rashleigh Esquire and
Nicholas Kendall 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 late
Majesty intitled "An Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices"
to bind Robert Roach a poor child, aged nine Years, belonging to your said Parish, Apprentice to
Andrew Pearce
of the Parish of Roach aforesaid the said County farmer
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
Andrew Pearce do hereby declare that the said Andrew Pearce is a fit person to take the said
Robert Roach
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 fifteenth Day of December
in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty eight
(signed & sealed) John C. Rashleigh
(signed & sealed) Nic. Kendall
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. 198/14/1/78
Contributed by John Evans
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