That is to say, That they will teach the
s:^d apprentice or Cause her to be taught in the Art of good
housewifery, and also to read and write well. And will find and
provide for and give unto s:^d apprentice good and sufficient
Meat Drink washing and lodging both in Sickness and in health, and
at the Expiration of said term to Dismiss s:^d apprentice with
two Good Suits of Apparrel both of woolen and linnin for all parts
of her body (viz) One for Lord-days and one for working days
Suitable to her Quality. In Testimony whereof I Samuel Wales and
Margaret Burjust Have Interchangably Sett their hands and Seals
this Third day November Anno Dom: 1753, and in the twenty-Seventh
year of the Reign of our Soveraig'n Lord George the Second of
great Britain the King.
Signed Sealed & Delivered.
In presence of
SAM VAUGHAN Margaret Burgis
MARY VAUGHAN her X mark.
This quaint document was carefully locked up, with some old deeds and
other valuable papers, in his desk, by the "s:^d Samuel Wales," one
hundred and thirty years ago. The desk was a rude, unpainted pine
affair, and it reared itself on its four stilt-like legs in a corner
of his kitchen, in his house in the South Precinct of Braintree. The
sharp eyes of the little "s:^d apprentice" had noted it oftener and
more enviously than any other article of furniture in the house.
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