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Margret Stephens to James Vercoe, dated 17 July 1820
Document 1
This Indenture, made the seventeenth Day of
July in the Year of our Lord 1820 WITNESSETH, That
John Pearce Truscott and John Robins Church-Wardens of the
parish of Roach in the County of Cornwall; And John
Pearce Truscott and John Bate Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish, in pursuance and in execution of an Order under the Hands 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 seventeenth
Day of July (testified by their allowance hereof) have put
and placed, and by these presents do put and place Margret Stephens
aged fourteen years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said
Parish, Apprentice to James Vercoe 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 her
full Age of twenty one years or day of marriage 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 herself towards
her said Master and all his during the said Term. And
the said James Vercoe 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 Vercoe the said Apprentice in the occupation of
Housewifery 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 Vercoe 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 Vercoe in case the said James Vercoe 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
(signed) John Rowe
(signed) James Roberts Jnr. |
(signed) James Vercoe |
(In the left margin)
We whose Names are hereunder
written, Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid do consent to the putting forth
Margret Stephens an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture
(signed) John C. Rashleigh
(signed) 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. 198/14/1/52
Document 2
CORNWALL to wit. To John Pearce Truscott and
John Bate 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 Esq. 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 present
Majesty intitled "An Act to regulate the Binding of Parish Apprentices"
to bind Margret Stephens a poor child, aged 14 Years,
belonging to your said Parish, Apprentice to James Vercoe of
the said Parish Yeoman in the said County
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 Vercoe do hereby declare that the said James Vercoe is a
fit person to take the said Margret Stephens 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 seventeenth Day of July
in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty
(signed) John C. Rashleigh
(signed) 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. 198/14/1/51
Contributed by John Evans
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