Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

An Indenture for an Apprentice so put out.

THis Indenture made the, &c. day of, &c.* 1.1 in the year of the Reign, &c. Between A. B. and C. D. Church-wardens of the Pa∣rish of E. in the County of &c. and F. G. H. I. Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish, &c. of the one part, and K. L. of, &c. of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said Church∣wardens and Overseers, by the Assent of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace of the said County, whose names are hereunto written, (according to the form of the Statute made in the 23. year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for the Relief of the Poor) have put out and bound M. L. a poor Child of the said Parish of E. Apprentice to the said K. L. till the said M. L. shall come to the age of 24 years. During which time the said Apprentice his said Master well and faithfully shall serve, his Secrets keep, his Command∣ments lawfull and honest every-where willingly shall doe. He shall do no hurt nor damage to his said Master, nor consent to be done of

others, but to his power shall lett the same, or forthwith give notice to his said Master there∣of. He shall not waste the Goods of his said Master, nor lend them to any person without his consent. He shall not frequent Taverns, Inns or Alehouses, (except it be about his said Master's business there to be done.) He shall not (during the said term) play at Cards, Dice, or other unlawfull Games. He shall not, either by day or night, absent himself from his said Master's service: But in all things (as a good and faithfull Servant) shall demean himself to∣wards his said Master and all his. And the said K. L. his said Apprentice shall (during the term aforesaid) educate and bring up, or cause to be educated and brought up, in his Trade, with due and reasonable Chastisement; and find and allow unto him (during the said term) suffi∣cient wholesome and competent meat, drink, lodging, washing, apparel, and all other ne∣cessaries meet for such an Apprentice: And in the end of the said term shall find, provide for, and deliver unto his said Apprentice double Apparel, that is to say, Apparel meet for him to have and wear as well on the Lord's days as on the working-days, both of Linnen, Wool∣len, Hose, Shoes, and all other necessaries meet for such an Apprentice to have and wear. In Witness whereof the parties above said to these present Indentures their hands and seals inter∣changeably have set, the day and year first above written.

Notes

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  43 Eliz. cap. 2. 2 Iustices, 1 of the Quorum. Man-child till he shall come to the age of 24 years; Wo∣man-child till she shall come to the age of 21, or the time of her mar∣riage.