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[002583] [Plumbing Apprenticeship Indenture]. William Hinkins aged Thirteen Years … Binds Himself Apprentice to George Rivers Higgins of Royston … Plumber, Glazier, House and Coach Painter … For Seven Years. Royston, Hertfordshire: No Publisher, 1828. First Edition. 8vo (Oblong). Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Part printed part manuscript apprenticeship indenture, approximately 250mm x 205mm 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 William Hinkins, aged thirteen years “and upwards”, with the consent of his mother Catherine Hinkins of Bassingbourn, and George Rivers Higgins of Royston, Hertfordshire, plumber, glazier coach and house painter, for seven years, dated the 31st December 1828, 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