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Sheviock Parish Page Apprenticeship Indenture for Mary Powel, dated 6 April 1819This Indenture, made the sixth day of
April in the fifty ninth year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
Britain, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and nineteen Witnesseth
that in Pursuance and in Execution of an Order under the Hands of
William Little, Benjn. Tucker Esqr. Thos. Penwarne and J V J Arundell
Clerk four of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and
for the S Division of East Hundred within the County
of Cornwall bearing the Date this 6th Day of April
(testified by their Allowance hereof.) Samuel Lyne
Church-Warden of the Parish of Sheviock in the said County and
William Bews and William Helman Overseers of the Poor for the
said Parish have put and placed, and by these Presents do put
and place Mary Powel aged nine years and upwards a
poor Child of the said Parish Apprentice to John Littleton
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 her full age of twenty one years 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 Littleton
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 John Littleton the said Apprentice
in Housewifery 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 John Littleton 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 John
Littleton in case the said John Littleton 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 Parishioners of the said Parish harmless and
indemnified during the said Term.
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(In left margin) N.B. Words in italics are inserts in a
pre-printed form, those in italics and brackets are
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