this indenture made 7.6.1707 witnesseth that Dan Roggers and Isaac Potter churchwardens and Jn Pratt and Jonathan Dooe overseers of the poor of Earls Colne with the consent of two justices of the peace have put and bound Mary Garrett a poor friendless child of the said parish of Earls Colne as apprentice to and with Rich Maning of Colne Engaine yeoman and with him after the manner of an apprentice to dwell and serve from this date until she reach the full age of twenty one years she to serve her said master etc and her master covenants to find and provide meat and drink etc and at the end of the term to give her two comely suits of apparel etc witnessed on stamped paper Rich Maning witnesses Sam Burton Thos Cakebread justices of the peace Jo Eldred Jn Cressener