Margtt Clarke< no role >

To the Rt. worshipfull his Maties: Justices of ye Peace for
the City of London

The humble Peticon of Margtt Clarke< no role >

Sheweth

That by writeing beareing date the 12th day of November last 1695 purporting
an Indre of Apprenticehood your Peticoner was putt for an Apprentice to one Humphrey Kirbey< no role > of St Brides
(to Leave to make Freing) for the space of 3 yeares ouley

That before the Last Winter the sd Master Pawned your peticonr. Cloaths yt. she
brought At wth her and at Winter turned your peticonr out of Dores almost naked Starved & eaten up with vermine
to shift for herself where she has remayned Ever since Subsisted only buy wt she has gott by Crying things abt ye
streetes haveing noe Freinds Liveing

That for ye Compll. aforesd and for yt (as your Peticonr. is advised) she is not bound
according to the statute

Your Peticonr therefore most humble ye Implores this honble Courte
the premisses Considered to Grant an order that ye sd Humphrey
Kirbye< no role > may attend this Court and shew Cause (if he Cam) why
your peticonr should not be Releived in ye premisses & discharged
of her Apprenticehood

And (as in all Duly) she shall ever pray
Etc

1696?