Bond of apprenticeship, 23 September 1561

Component identifier:

Item 23

Content Summary:

English.

Bond of apprenticeship, indented. 'Thomas Ellyatt is bound apprentice to John Betty 'with hym to dwell and as a servant to be alowyd to serve hym after the forme of the Statue of Northampton and Cambrydge lately for servantes edyfyed made and provided'. From Michalmas next after these presents for six years. To be paid 'a penny a yere yerely'.

Parties: Thomas Ellyatt, the sonne of John Ellyatt of Martyn in the countie of Wyltes', 'husbondman', to John Betty of the city of New Sarum, 'draper'

See also Series 4, Barbara Ross, Guide to the Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection [Canberra: NLA] 1985, pp. 128-132

Immediate source of acquisition:

The documents in this collection were presented to the National Library of Australia by Sir Rex Nan Kivell in 1969. He referred to it as ‘The Nan Kivell Calligraphy Collection’. The documents were collected by him as specimens of early calligraphy and/or examples of early documentation. He acquired them over a number of years from varied sources which were not recorded. However, it seems likely that the group of legal documents in Series 1 relating to the Elliott family of Salisbury would have a single provenance. Nan Kivell had a country house in Devizes, Wiltshire, which is only a short distance from Salisbury.

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