Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ Document : 293 Title: Bond of Indenture Between Henry Ewing and Patrick Ewing Author(s): Ewing, Henry; Ewing, Patrick A Bond of Indenture Betwixt Henry Ewing and Patrick Ewing 1761 At Glasgow the thirteen Day of March one Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty one Years. It is intended, agreed, & finally ended, betwixt the parties under written, on the one & other parts. Whereas Patrick Ewing son Lawfull to Patrick Ewing at Dumbarton is become bound, as he hereby with the Specially advice, & Consent of his father; Binds & oblidges himself as apprentice, & Servant to Humphrey Ewing Merchant & shop keeper in Glasgow, in his employment, & busineſs as a Merchant, & Shopkeeper, in Saids burgh, and that fo the whole space of Four Years, compleats furth & from his Entray thereto which is commenced this presant Date, as above written this presant Year during whch haill space from thence Patrick's Ewing's Son & Father do bind & oblidge themselves conjunctly & Severaly that he the said Patrick Ewing Merchant & shop keeper in Glasgow, in his employment, & busineſs, as a Merchant, & Shopkeeper, in Said burgh, and that for the whole space of Four Years, compleats furth & from his Entray there to which is commenced this presant Date, as above written this presant Year during which haill space from thence Patrick's Ewing's Son & father do bind & oblidge themselves conjunctly & severaly that he the said Patrick Ewing the apprentice shall faithfully & honestly serve & obey the said Humphrey Ewing his master, in his Employment, & busineſs, foresaids, & that he shall not conceal or be privy to his master's skaith at any time, but shall timously advertise him thereof, & use his utmost Endeavours, to Stop, & hinder, the same, and that he shall not absent himself from his master's service, at the Commons time & hours of [¿] without his masters leave, had & obtained hereto: ( sickneſs only excepted ) & for every Day that he shall so absent himself accepted as said is; They bind, & oblidge, themselves [¿] & severally, as said is either to content, & pay to the said Humphray Ewing the master, one shilling sterling money per day, or else that he the said apprentice shall serve his said master, in the Station foresaid, Two Days for Ilky one thereof at expiration, hereof at the masters option which of them to choose, & the absent Days to be liquidate, & proving. Humphrey Ewing Patrick Ewing Patrick Ewing And Proven, by the masters oath, or Subscribed accd. [¿] under his hands in Case of his Decease, without further probation Likeas the said said Humphrey Ewing the maaster on the other part, binds, & oblidges himself, faithfully, & honestly, to teatch, & Instruct, the said Pattrick Ewing his apprentice, in his busineſs, & employment, foresaids, & shall teatch him, to know the Qualities of the whole kinds of Goods he Deals in & shall show him the prime costs of all his goods, & how to sell them again, & shall use his utmost Endeavours to make him skilfull, in his busineſs; and the said Humphrey Ewing his master, binds & oblidges himself. During the whole space of apprenticeship foresaid, to maintain, & Entertain, the said Patrick Ewing his apprentice in bed, & boanding, suitable to his Station, rank, & Degree & to free, & relive, the said father thereof, [¿] that his father is to furnish his said son with Cleaning, & washing of his Linning's, &c., as becomes one of his ranks, & Degree, & that the said Patrick Ewing his father, is to pay for the said Hump Ewing his master eight Pounds Sterlg. her Annum, during the foresaid space of four years, and both the said parties: viz. the master on the one part & the apprentice, & the saids Patrick Ewing his father on the other part. Bind, & oblidge, themselves to perform theire respective parts of the premise, to others. [¿] under the Penalty of Ten Pounds Sterlg., of liquidate expences, (where a penalty is not already insert to the paid but the party failzier to the party, observer, or willing, to to observe the same By & off our performance Consenting to the Registration hereof, on the Books of Council, & Seſsion, or & other's Competent, that letters & execution [¿] of Horning, and others needfully in Six Days may paſs and others [¿]. In Witneſs whereof these presents containning of this, & the preceeding page, written on Stampt paper by me [¿] Merchant & shopkeeper in Glasgow; and are all subscribed at Place, Day, Month, & Year, of God, as above, written before these witneſses Daniel McCallum, W Andrew Harvie both [¿] & shop keepers in said Burgh: Humphrey Ewing Daniel McCallam Witneſs. Patrick Ewing Andrew Harvie witneſs... Patrick Euing I Walter Ewing mercht. in Glasgow Eldest lawful son and heir of the now deceast Humprhew Ewing mercht, in Glasgow within deſigned, Do hereby acknowledge and and declare, that the also within deſigned Patrick Ewing younger who was apprentice to my said father, Did faithfully and honeſtly save my said deceast father for the whole space of the within for denture and fulfilled the whole obligations therein mentioned on his part; and therefore I hereby in right of my said father [¿] acquitt & forever discharge the said Patrick Ewing younger, and the [¿] Patrick Ewing elder his father of the said [¿] and whole obligations prestable by them on their part, and all I can anyways as repreſenting my father ask or demand of them as any of them by and thro' the said Indenture And oblige me to [¿] and this discharge to the said [¿] and younger as all hands. [¿] whereas there preſents wrote by George Thomson writen in Glasgow are ſubscribed at Glasgow the Twenty fifth of July One thousand ſeven hundred and ſixty nine years before these witneſses Michael Thomſon vintner in Glasgow and the said George Thomson writer hereof Mich: Thomson witneſs Walter Ewing Geo: Thomson witneſs