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as an apprentice to his s d - master, will and faithfully shall serve, 

 his secrets shall keepe, his commands lawfull and honest every 

 where shall do, the goods of his s d - ma 1 - hee shall not inordinatly 

 wast, nor them to any one lend, without his s d ma 1 - lyeence, from 

 the business of his s d - ma 1 - hee shall not absent himselfe, but as a 

 true and faithful servant shall, during the s d - terme of seven years, 

 behave and .demean himselfe towards his s d - master and all his. 

 And the said Ralph Wood shall, during the s d - terme of seven years, 

 find and provide /or his s d - son all sorts of apparrell, whether linnen, 

 woollen, or other, as also meat, drink, washing, and lodging, fitting 

 and necessary for an apprentice to such trade as afores d - And the 

 s d. j)r. Thomas Wedgwood in consideration thereof, and of the s d - 

 seven years service, doth hereby covenant, promisse, and agree, 

 that hee, the s d - D r - Thomas Wedgwood, shall and will, during the 

 s d - terme of seven years, teach and instruct, or cause and procure 

 to be taught and instructed, him, the s d - Aaron Wood, his s d * ap- 

 prentice, in the businesse of the potting trade afores d - so fan* as 

 turning in the lath, handling, and trimming, as much as thereunto 

 belongeth, .or the beet way and method he can. And the s d - D r * 

 Thomas Wedgwood doth also promisse and engage to pay unto his 

 s d - apprentice, the s d - Aaron Wood, for every weeke's worke done 

 by the s d - apprentice in the first, second, and third year of his s d * 

 apprenlishipp, the sum of one shilling weekly, of good and lawfull 

 money of Great Brittaine, and for every weeke's worke done by 

 jthe s d - apprentice in the fourth, fifth, and sixth year of his s d - ap- 

 prentishipp, the full sum of one shilling and sixpence, and for every 

 weeke's worke done by the s d - apprentice, in the seventh and last 

 year pf his s d - apprentishipp, the full and just sum of four shillings 

 of lawfull money of Great Brittaine. And the s d * D r - Thomas 

 Wedgwood doth hereby further covenant, promisse, and agree that 

 }ie, the s d - D r - Wedgwood, shall, and will, over and above the 

 jsreekely wages afores d - give yearly to the s d - Aaron Wood, his s d - 

 apprentice, one new paire of shoes during the s d - terme of seven 

 years,. In wittnesse whereof, the s d - parties afores d - to these 

 p r -sent Indentures have interchangeably put their hands and scales 

 the day and year first above written : 



c RALPH WOOD. 

 " Staled and delivered in " AARON WOOD. 



the presence of " Dr. Tiio: WBDGWOOD." 



" SARA >< WOOD. 

 her mark. 



