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This Indenture Wittnesseth That
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the
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in ye County of Middx with thassent of
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according to a Statute in that case made & provided have putt
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John Phibbs
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wife
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to dwell &
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serve from the day of the date of these prsents unto the full end & terme of
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seaven yeares from thence next ensueing and fully to be compleate & ended
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Dureing all which said terme wee the Churchwardens &
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with thassent aforesaid Doe Order and appoint that the said
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Mary Ellis
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well
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and faithfully shall serve, her secretts keepe, her Commandments lawfull &
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honest every where shall gladly doe hurt to her said Mrs. she shall not Doe, or
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consent to be done of others, but shall prevent it if she may, or else from time to
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time admonish her thereof, the goods of her said Mrs. she shall not wast northen
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to any body lend without her consent neither from her service by day or night
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Shall not absent her selfe, but in all things as a good and faithfull servant
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ought to doe shall be have her selfe towards her Mrs. & all hers dureing the
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said terme of seaven yeares Tavernsor Alehouses she shall not frequent
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except it be about her Mrs. bussinesse there to be done At Cards Dice or
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any other unlawfull games she shall not play where by her Mrs. may receive
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any prejudice Fornication she shall not Committ Matrymony dureing the
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said terme she shall not contract And the said
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Mary Phibbs
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shall teach and
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instruct or cause to be taught and instructed her said Apprentice in the Art
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of a Seampstresse which she now useth according to her best skill and
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Knowledge And the said
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Mary Phibbs
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shall give and find to her said Apprentice
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sufficient meate drink washing Lodging Apparrell Linnen and all other
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necessarys meete & Convenient for such an Apprentice dureing the said terme
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And for the true Pformance of all the said Articles in forme aforesaid to be
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kept the said Pties bind themselves each to other by these prsents In
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Wittnesse where of the said Pties to these prsent Indres interchangeably have
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sett theire hands and seales this
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2d. day of August in ye fourth yeare of the
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raigue of or Soveraigne Lord James ye 2d. Over England Scotland France &
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Ireland King et Annoqr Dui 1688
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