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[002582] [Shoemaking Apprenticeship Indenture]. John Clark Aged Fifteen Years or Thereabouts … With the Consent of His Father … Binds Himself Apprentice to WiIlliam Camps … Boot and Shoemaker. Royston, Hertfordshire: No Publisher, 1825. First Edition. 8vo (Oblong). Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Part printed part manuscript apprenticeship indenture, approximately 255mm x 210mm in size.

Slightly water stained to top right hand corner, but no loss of sense, central horizontal crease, but generally quite bright and clean.

Standard apprenticeship indenture between John Clark, aged fifteen years “or thereabouts”, with the consent of his father William Clark, a victualler, and William Camps of Royston, Hertfordshire, boot and shoemaker, for five years, dated the 21st February 1825, with the usual warnings against bad behaviour, “he shall not commit fornication nor contract Matrimony within the said Term, he shall not play at cards or Dice Tables … he shall not haunt Taverns or Playhouses”.

With the tax stamps and wax seals, quite an attractive example