THIS INDENTURE

Witneſſeth that

Hugh (Foster after w) Foster

of his own free will and with the Conſent of
Gentleman, Mayor of the Town or Borough of Stamford in the County of
Lincoln, and Truſtee for the Annuity or Rent Charge of Forty one Pounds one
ſhilling and eight pence, given by the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Exeter
deceafed, for putting out poor Children of the ſaid town Apprentices; doth put
himſelf apprentice to George Sparrow of the Town (S) Sparrow
his art and with him after the manner of an apprentice, to ſerve from the
thirtieth day of January now last, first one thousand STOKE HUNDRED and ninety

for, during, and unto the full end and term of Seven Years from thence next
enfuing, and fully to be compleat and ended; during which term his ſaid
apprentice his ſaid maſter faithfully ſhall and will ſerve, his ſecrets keep, his
lawful commands every where gladly do; he ſhall do no damage to his ſaid
maſter nor fee it to be done of others; but to the beſt of his power ſhall forth-
with give notice of the fame to his ſaid maſter: the goods of his ſaid maſter he
ſhall not waſe, nor the fame without licence of him, to any give or lend: hurt
to his ſaid maſter he ſhall not do, cauſe or procure to be done; he ſhall neither
buy nor ſell without his maſter's licence; taverns, inns or alehouſes, he ſhall
not haunt; at cards, dice, tables, or any other unlawful games he ſhall not
play: matrimony he ſhall not contract, nor from the ſervice of his ſaid maſter
day or night abſent himſelf, but in all things, as an honef and faithful appren-
tice, ſhall and will demean and behave himſelf, during the ſaid term; and
the ſaid George Sparrow
of
lawful money of Great Britain, to him paid by the ſaid Mayor, the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, the ſaid apprentice in the art of a
which he now ufeth,
maſter
and will teach and inſtruct, or cauſe to be taught and inſtructed in the
beſt way and manner that he can, finding and allowing unto the ſaid apprentice
ſufficient and wholesome meat, drink, washing, lodging, and apparel of all
forts during the ſaid term: and for the true performance of all and every the
the covenants and agreements aforefaid, either of the ſaid parties bindeth him-
ſelf unto the other firmly by theſe preſents. In witneſs whereof, the Parties
aforefaid, have hereunto fet their hands and ſeals, the
year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord King GEORGE the Third, and in the year of our LORD, one
thouſand ſeven hundred and

which he now ufeth,
and will teach and inſtruct, or cauſe to be taught and inſtructed in the
beſt way and manner that he can, finding and allowing unto the ſaid apprentice
ſufficient and wholesome meat, drink, washing, lodging, and apparel of all
forts during the ſaid term: and for the true performance of all and every the
the covenants and agreements aforefaid, either of the ſaid parties bindeth him-
ſelf unto the other firmly by theſe preſents. In witneſs whereof, the Parties
aforefaid, have hereunto fet their hands and ſeals, the
thirtieth day of January
in the
thirty fifth
year of the reign of our
Sovereign Lord King GEORGE the Third, and in the year of our LORD, one
thouſand ſeven hundred and

Sealed and delivered
in the Prefence of

Hugh Foster