Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBV34/2/38
  • Title
    Removal order & Settlement Examination for James Taylor. Removed from Redenhall with Harleston, County of Norfolk to Cople.
  • Date free text
    14 November 1843
  • Production date
    From: 1843 To: 1843
  • Scope and Content
    Removal Order. Certificate of Chargeability - chargeable from 30th October 1843 to the parish of Harleston. On dorse the Examination of John Hotson, Clerk to the Board of Guardians: The within certificate is duly signed by Mr Charles Etheredge, Chairman of the Board of Guardians, and is the proper handwriting of the deponent. Information and complaint of Thomas Arnold, one of the Overseers of the Poor of the parish of Redenhall with Harleston, County of Norfolk unto us two of Her Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the County of Norfolk one being of the quorum who saith tat James taylor late of the parish of Cople in the County of Bedford hath lately come into their said parish of Redenhall with Harleston not having obtained any legal settlement there, and hath become chargeable thereto. And that the last legal settlement of the said James Taylor is in the said parish of Cople in the said County of Bedford and that he ought by law to be sent thereunto and the said Overseer prays that Justice may be done in the premises. 13thNovember 1843. Examination of James Taylor, singleman at present residing in the workhouse belonging to the Depwade union in the County of Norfolk: I am now about 33 years of age and was born as I have heard and believe in the parish of Cople in the County of Bedford where my father Joseph Taylor, a lacebuyer, and my mother Hannah his wife resided. When I was about 14 years of age I was legally bound apprentice by Indenture to Mr Robert Smith, a carpenter and joiner in the parish of Cople, for the term of five years on the following terms (that is to say) the Premium agreed on was £40 half paid down and and the other half of the expiration of half the term, my Master to board me the six working days in every week and my father to board me on Sundays and to find me lodging, clothing and other necessaries during the term. I served the said Robert Smith under the said Indenture of Apprenticeship and resided in the parish of Cople aforesaid during the whole of the said term of five years except for about three weeks at the end thereof , when in consequence of a quarrel with the said Robert Smith my Master I left his service and he gave me the remainder of the term (namely about three weeks) on my mother paying him £2 or thereabouts and agreed to give up the said Indenture of Apprenticeship to me and delivered to me a note to go for the same to the office of Mr Rudd a solicitor at Bedford at which office the Indenture was prepared and deposited. I delivered Mr Smith's not eto Mr Budd's clerk and received the Indenture from him shortly after the expiration of the whole of the five years. During the whole of the time I served the said Mr Smith under the said Indenture I residied in the parish of Cople and lodged in my father's house there. I kept the Indenture in my custody until I enlisted for a soldier in the Royal Artillery of Foot in October 1830 at Woolwich and shortly afterwards when at Woolwich Barracks I destroyed the said Indenture of Apprenticeship by burning it thinking at the time that I should never again have occasion for it as I had enlisted for a soldier. i put the said Indenture into the fire with my own hand. I perfectly well recollect at the Time I was bound signing the said Indenture at the said office of Mr Budd where it was made and it was a deed on parchment partly written and partly printed and had a blue stamp upon it and three seals were affixed to it of wax and ribbon and at the time I signed I said 'this is my act and deed' or words to that effect and at the same time I put my finger on the seal opposite my name. My father and Mr Smith my master at the same time signed and sealed the said Indenture in a similar manner. Mr Budd and his clerk were both then present. I am sure only one Indenture was made and I recollect Mr Budd's sayimng that one would do as well as two as that one could be left at his office. After I took the said Indenture from Mr Budds office i several time before I destroyed it observed the said stamps, the said three signatures of myself. ,my father and my master , and the said three seals upon it. From the tme I left the said Mr Smith to the time I enlisted for a soldier I worked as a journeyman carpenter for different persons. I was discharged from the artillery service on the 1st January 1832 and from that time to February last I have worked as a journeyman carpenter in different places. In February last I received an injury to my feet whilst working on a railway near Carlisle which has disabled me. I got as far as the parish of Redenhall with Harleston on the 27th October last and could get no furthe on account of my lameness and consequently have become chargeable to that parish and on the 30th October last was received into the Depwade Union workhouse where I now remain. Since the said apprenticeship I have not to my knowledge or belief done any act to gain a settlement.
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