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Mary Stephens to John Retallick, dated 17 July 1820

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 Mary Stephens aged ten years or thereabouts, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to John Retallick 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 John Retallick 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 John Retallick 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 John Retallick 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 John Retallick in case the said John Retallick 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

(In the left margin)
We whose Names are hereunder
written, Justices of the Peace for the
County aforesaid do consent to the putting forth
Mary Stephens an Apprentice, according to
the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture
   (signed) Nic. Kendall
   (signed) 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. 198/14/1/53

Contributed by John Evans

 
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