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<p n="149">This Indenture Witnesseth That <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n149-1">James Jefferson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ76">Son</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n149-22">James<lb></lb>
Jefferson</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo142">Witney</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo143">Oxford </rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ77">Blankett maker</rs>
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deced<lb></lb>
doth put himself Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n149-3">John Jones</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo144">Parish of St. Martin in the fields</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15055_geo145">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ78">Jeweller</rs>
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to learn his Art and with him after the Manner of an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ79">Apprentice</rs>
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to serve from the<lb></lb>
date hereofunto the full End and<lb></lb>
Term of EightYears from thence near following to be fully compleat and ended<lb></lb>
During which Term the said Apprentice his Master faithfully shall serve his Secrets<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
his lawful commands every where gladly do We shall do no Damage to his said Master nor see to be done of<lb></lb>
others but to his Power shall let or forthwith give Warning to his said Master of the same We shall not<lb></lb>
waste the Goods of his said Master nor lend them unlawfully to any he shall not commit fornication nor<lb></lb>
contract Matrimony within the said Term he shall not play at Cards Dice Tables or any other unlawfull<lb></lb>
Games whereby his said Master may have any less With his own Goods or others during the said Term<lb></lb>
without Licence of his said Master shall neither buy nor sell He shall not haunt Taverns or Play how<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
nor absent himself from his said Master service day or Night unlawfully But in all things as a faithful<lb></lb>
apprentice He shall behave himself towards his said Master and all his during the said Term<lb></lb>
And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n149-4">John Jones</rs>
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in Consideracon of by pound of lawful mony of Great Britain to him<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
paid byWork a Jefferson of Towd Street London Spinsted<lb></lb>
his said Apprentice in the Art of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15055_occ80">Jeweller</rs>
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which he useth by the best Means that<lb></lb>
can shall teach and instruct or cause to be taught and instructed Finding unto the said Apprentice<lb></lb>
Sufficient Meat Drink Washing andLodging and all other Necessaries during the said Term<lb></lb>
And for the true Performance of all and every the said Covenants and Agreements either of the said<lb></lb>
Parties<obscured></obscured>
deth himself unto the other by these Presents In Witness whereof the Parties abovenamed to these<lb></lb>
Indentures interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals the fifteenthDay of June<lb></lb>
in the EleventhYear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the faith Etc and in the Year of our Lord 1737</p>
<p n="150">Sealed & delivered (being first<lb></lb>
legally Stampt) in the presence of<lb></lb>
H Harvey<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n150-1">John Willson</rs>
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<p n="151"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15055_n151-1">John Jones</rs>
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