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Sheviock Parish Page Apprenticeship Indenture for John Johns, dated 21 April 1797This Indenture, made the twenty first day of
April in the thirty sixth year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth:
and in the Year of our Lord 1797 Witnesseth that Robert Warren
Church-Wardens of the Parish of Sheviock in the County of
Cornwall and John Avery and John Strode Overseers of
the Poor for the said Parish, by and with consent of his Majesty’s
Justices of the Peace for the said County whose Names are
hereunto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these Presents do put
and place John Johns aged ten years or thereabouts a poor Child
of the said Parish, Apprentice to William Stephens of the Parish
aforesaid 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 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 William
Stephens for himself, his Executors, and
Administrators, doth Covenant and Grant, to 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 William Stephens the
said Apprentice in Husbandry shall 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,
and Apparel, Lodging, Washing, and all other Things, necessary and fit
for an Apprentice; Provided always, That the said last mentioned
Covenant on the said William Stephens his Executors and
Administrators, to be done and performed, shall continue to be in force
for no longer Time than Three Calendar Months next after the death of
the said William Stephens in case the said William Stephens
shall happen to die during the Continuance of 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 Parishoners of the same: but of and from all Charge shall
and will save the said Parishoners harmless and imdemnified
during the said Term.
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