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Apprenticeship Indenture of William Killek als Spratly, 1745 (PR/115/14/16)
This Indenture, made the Eighteenth Day of May in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George y^e second by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Annoq; Dom. 1745 Witnesseth, That Richard Sibley and John Hook Church-wardens of the Parish of Iver alis Ever in the County of Buckingham And John Binfield, Miller and John Elton Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish, by and with the Consent of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County whose Names are hereunto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these Presents do put and place William Killek Alis Spratly a poor Child of the said Parish, Apprentice to James Brown of y^e Parish of East Molesey in the County of Surrey Gardner with him to dwell and serve from the Day of the Date of these Presents, until the said Apprentice shall accomplish his full Age of Twenty and four years according to the Statute in that Case made and provided : During all which Term, the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all lawful Businesses, according to his Power, Wit, Ability ; and honestly, orderly, and obediently in all Things demean and behave himself towards his Master and all his during the said Term. And the said James Brown for himself, his Executors and Administrators, doth covenant and grant to and with the said Church-wardens and Overseers, and every of them, their and every of their Executors and Administrators, and their and every of their Successors, for the Time being, by these Presents, That the said James Brown the said Apprentice in y^e Art or Mistery he now Useth, shall teach and Instruct, or Cause to be taught and Instructed And shall and will, during the Term aforesaid, find, provide, and allow unto the said Apprentice, meet, competent, and sufficient Meat, Drink, and Apparel, Lodging, Washing and all other Things necessary and fit for an Apprentice And also shall and will provide for the said Apprentice, that he be not any Way a Charge to the said Parish, or Parishioners of the same ; but of and from all Charge shall and will save the said Parish and Parishioners harmless and indempnify'd during the said Term. And at the End of the said Term, shall and will make, provide, allow and deliver unto the said Apprentice double Apparel of all Sorts, Good and New, (that is to say,) a good New Suit for the Holy-days, and another for the Working-days. In Witness whereof, the Parties abovesaid to these present Indentures interchangeably have put their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year above written.

Seal'd and Deliver'd in the Presence of

James Brown

	John Pontifex
	John Spencer

[In margin:]
We whose Names are hereunto subscrib'd Justices of the Peace of the County of Bucks aforesaid, do (as much as in us lies) consent to the putting forth of the said William Killek Alis Spratly Apprentice, according to the Intent and Meaning of this Indenture.
[On back:]
Rec^d y^e Eighteenth Day of May within written With y^e Apprentice within Mentioned the Sum of seven pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Brittain by Me
Wittness
Rec^d y^e 1^st[?] Day of June with y^e within written Apprentice y^e sum of seven pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Brittain
Rec^d by Me

Wittness		John Pontifex		James Brown
		John Spencer

Settlement Examination of William Spratley, Blacksmith, and wife Ann, Stoke Poges, 1775 (PR/198/13/3/19)
The Examination of William Spratley now residing in the parish of Stoke Poges in the said County of Bucks touching the place of his legal settlement taken on Oath this 22^d day of May 1775 before us two of his Majestys Justices of the peace in and for the said County.
This Examinant on his Oath saith that he was born in the parish of Eton in the said County of Bucks that about ten years ago he was bound apprentice with the Consent and approbation of John Gill and John Mist Overseers of the poor of Eton aforesaid to Joseph Jones of the Parish of Stoke Poges in the said County of Bucks Fruiterer for the Term of Seven years That he lived with his said Master in the said Parish of Stoke Poges for about four years when he was turned over to John Buckland a Blacksmith of the Parish of Stoke Poges aforesaid that he lived with the said John Buckland for the full End of the aforesaid Seven years That he then hired himself to the said John Buckland at the end of his said apprenticeship for three years for half a Guinea a year and his Meat Drink washing Lodging and Clothes and has lived with him the said three years and settled with him and received the said Wages

Taken on Oath the day and year first above written before us			The Mark of
	H hephyr[?]		X
	Robt Campbell		William Spratley

All Souls College estate (MaR/1/1-13) [folder of photographs of maps]

Padbury, All Souls College estate, 1590 (MaR/1/14.T) [set of photographs of map]

An Account of All the people in the parish of West Wycombe Bucks: 1760 [Box 24]