Volume 1

Hertford County records.

  • Hertfordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905-
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Hertford County records. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    205. 206. 208. his son-m-Iaw, Joseph Baylie, was apprenticed to Richard Goodman, of Braughin, shoemaker, for nine years, of which he has served five; but now for about twelve weeks the said Richard Goodman has gone and left the said Joseph Baylie, who has therefore been obliged to return to his father-in- law. Anne, the wife of Goodman, not only refusing to keep the said .Joseph in her house, but also to deliver up to him his indentures of apprenticeship. Prays that the said Anne may be forced to deliver up the said indentures. Petition of Margaret Boffey, the wife of Richard Boffey, of Ware, setting forth that six years ago she took a child of Thomas Gardiner, of “ Stephney, near London,” to keep ; but the child's friends are since dead and petitioner unpaid for keeping the child upwards of three quarters of a year. An order at Quarter Sessions directed that the parish should take the child, but they refuse to do so. Prays for relief. Order at general sessions that, whereas the justices at Hertford declared that Thomas Carter ought not to be settled at Shenley, but at St. Peters, in or near St. Albans; and whereas the churchwardens and overseers there, refused to receive him, the said churchwardens and overseers are bound over to appear and answer the said matter, and the inhabitants of St. Peters shall, in the interim, maintain and provide for the said Carter. Indenture witnessing that whereas an order was made at Sessions that the justices should take care for the putting forth of John Williams, a poor child kept at the charge of the county, as an apprentice to some good trade, the justices whose names are subscribed, do place the said John Williams, aged about thirteen, as an apprentice to Roger Woodward, of Shenley, brickmaker, until he be twenty-four years of age. He is to serve his said master well and truly, and shall be of good demeanour towards his said master and all his family, and in all things behave himself as becomes a true and faithful servant; and the said Roger Woodward, in con- sideration of the sum of three pounds ten shillings to him paid, covenants during the said term to provide the said apprentice sufficient meat, drink, lodging, apparel, and all