FORMS OF APPLICATION, RECOMMENDATION, AND CERTIFICATES, FOR THE ADMISSION OF BOYS INTO THE ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM.
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To His Royal Highness the COMMANDER IN CHIEF, and Others His MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS for the Management of the Affairs of the Royal Military Asylum.
THE HUMBLE PETITION of . . .
in Behalf of . . .
the Child of . . . Soldier
in His Majesty’s . . . Regiment of . . .
SHEWETH, that the said . . . is the
lawful Child of . . . as by the
annexed Certificates will appear.
That . . . [70a]
Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays, that the said . . . may be admitted into the Royal Military Asylum; and if this Prayer be granted, your Petitioner hereby agrees, that the said Boy shall remain in the Asylum as long as the Commissioners thereof shall think fit; and that, when of proper Age, he shall be disposed of at their Discretion, as an Apprentice, or Servant; or placed, with his own free Consent, as a Private Soldier, in the Regular Army.
† [70b]
CERTIFICATE