Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBZ3/3/74
  • Title
    Folio.74 William Phillips,a fifer in the Bedfordshire Militia. Settlement examination.
  • Date free text
    15 February 1813
  • Production date
    From: 1813 To: 1813
  • Scope and Content
    He is near 23 years of age, born in the parish of St Paul, Bedford where his father lived. His father belonged to Flitwick. At the age of between 13 and 14 years of age this Examinant did the day before Michaelmas Fair day at Bedford nine years ago being then a fifer in the Bedford Volunteers and receiving pay as such, let himself to James Tew of St Cuthbert, Bedford, cordwainer for two years. Tew was to teach him the business of a cordwainer, he was to work for Tew only for the whole of the two years except at such times only as he should be wanted as a fifer. Tew was to have the benefits ofhis work, and was to pay nothing to him for the first year but was to pay him a guinea a quarter during the last three quarters of the second year. The Examinant to board, odge and clothe himself. There was no agreement in writing. He worked with his master during the whole of the two years according to his agreement and received the stipulated wages but was absent to do his duty as a fifer which was only occasional and not regular, never for a whole day. When employed as a fifier it was only in the afternoon and might be about 26 days in the year. During thw whole of the two years he boarded and lodged with his father in St Paul, Bedford. He was married at St Mary, Bedford on 10th February instant to his wife Lucy [Pickett], by whom he has one child not yet named, being born on 11th instant.
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