Desborough Study : Settlement Records
Peter Gray
Bond against Chargeability
18th November 1714
Noverint[?] universi p[er]
p[re]sentes me Peter Gray de
Lubnun in Comitatu Leicestr pisto Teneri firmiter obligari
Bartin Gutteridge & William Buckby Churchwardens & Thomas Loake
& Richard Lole overseers of the poore of Desborough in the
County of Northton in quadraginita libris bone et legalis monete
mag britani Solvend eidem Bartin Gutterindge Will Buckby Thomas
Loake & Richard Lole aut Suo Certo Atturnato Executibus
Adm:rbs
Suis ad quam quidem Solution bene Fidelit faciend obligo me
heredes Executrs admrs meos firmitr p[er]
p[re]sentes Sigillo
meo Sigillat dat decmo oct die Novembr Anno Regni Domns nostri
Georgius prim dei gratia magnus Britania Francie et Hibern Regis
fidei Defens &c uno Anno Dom 1714
The Condic[i]on of this
Obligac[i]on is Such that if the
above Bounden Peter Gray doth not take any Apprentices or hire
any Servants for a yeare to make them settlements in the Parish
of Desborough in the County above said that then this
obligc[i]on
shall be voide and of none effect but if the said Peter Gray
shall take any Apprentices or hire any Servants to make them
Settem[e]nts in the
p[ari]sh of Desborough
afores[ai]d them this
obliga[t]ion shall be and remaine in full force & virtue
| Sealed & Deliver'd the paper being
first stamp'd according to the Late Act of Parliam[e]nt in
the presence of us |
Peeter Gray
|
Wm Iliffe
William [illegible]
Note: If Peter, whilst living in Lubenham[?] in Leicestershire under a
certificate of legal settlement from Desborough, took an
apprentice or hired a servant for a year the said apprentice/servant would
subsequently have the right to legal settlement at Desborough. They could then
become a financial burden to the parish if they became unable to support
themselves; hence the requirement for him to sign this bond with the
churchwardens and overseers of the poor at Desborough.