Michael Wilson a poor boy, with the assent of two justices, was bound apprentice to Thomas Jackson of Austwick, who was tenant to Thomas Jackson, clerk of Clapham, who had agreed to indemnify T Jackson of Austwick, who sent the pauper the next day to Mr Jackson of Clapham, with whom he stayed about seven or eight weeks, and attended his sheep, and then ran away to his mother, whereupon Mr J of Clapham agreed the pauper should stay with his mother, and that he would pay her for the boy’s board and clothes, which he did for between two and three years ; afterwards Mr Jackson of Clapham agreed with the boy’s brother, who was a mason, and lived at Austwick, that the boy should serve him for the remainder of the time in the indenture ; accordingly the boy did serve his brother the mason at Austwick the remainder of the time.
By the order of two justices, which was confirmed by the sessions, the boy was removed to Clapham; and now Mr Clayton, on behalf of the parish of Austwick, came to shew cause why both the orders should not be quashed ; and objected, that although one master might consent that his apprentice might go to another master and serve out his time with him, yet that a second master could not turn him over to a third, as has been done here ; for if so, the apprentice might be turned over to forty different masters; and therfore he said the pauper was well settled at Clapham, where his last legal service was.
Citations:
[1799] EngR 53, (1799) 1 Wils KB 158, (1799) 95 ER 548 (B)
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Updated: 05 May 2022; Ref: scu.347880