Poor Law - Devon
Warrant to the Constable of Rose Ashe in Devon, requiring him to appear before Justices Courtney and Gifford at South Molton on the 20th June by 'ten of the clock in the fore noone. Then and there to present unto the justices all such poore children as are fitt to be bound out apprentices and the names and surnames of all such persons as are fitt to take them .... And also to present all young and single persons living out of service having no visible means save there labour to live by - And warn them to putt themselves into service before the 20th ... or present them unto the justices. And also to present all offences and misdemeanours which you know to have been committed since the last sessions .....'
14th June 1688, manuscript on one side of paper, 30.5cm x 19.5cm, several folds, docket verso;
Apprenticeship Indenture Witnessing that 'John Chappell and John Nott, Church-Wardens in the Parish of Fremington in the County of Devon and Thomas Williams, William Rowe and Joseph Magridge, Overseers of the Poor .... have put and placed ... John Bray, a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to Alexander Hooper, with him to dwell and serve ... until the said Apprentice shall accompllsh his full age of twenty and four years ..... 10th July, 29 George II (1755).
Printed pro-forma with blank spaces for manuscript addition of names, dates etc. Signed and sealed by Hooper, with two signatures of Justices and two of witnesses, duty stamps, three folds;
County of Salop, Justices Order 'To the High Constable of Drayton Division in the Hundred of Bradford North in the Said County' requiring him to command all of his Petty Constables to appear before the justices at the Talbot in Drayton to receive a Warrant for 'enforcing the King's Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue and for preventing and punishing of Vice Profaneness and Immorality .... Herein fail not', signed and sealed by two justices.
8th August, 1787, manuscript on paper, 32cm x 20.5 cm, several folds, edges worn, some tanning. (3)