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<p n="265">To the Right Honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n265-1">John Barber</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ77">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ78">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the City of<lb></lb>
London and To the Worshipful his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for<lb></lb>
the said City in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace<lb></lb>
Assembled.</p>
<p n="266">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n266-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Nicholson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ79">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n266-1">Ryley Lanyon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Dancing Master.</p>
<p n="267"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That Your Petitioner by Indenture bearing Date the third Day<lb></lb>
of September One thousand seven hundred and twenty eight was according<lb></lb>
to the Custome of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15044_geo149">City of London</rs>
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bound apprentice to his Father<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15044_n267-1">James Nicholson</rs>
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Citizen and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15044_occ80">Sadler</rs>
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Your Petitioner being unacquainted<lb></lb>
with the Laws of this Realm and the Custome of this City Afterwards<lb></lb>
to wit the Sixth Day of May One thousand seven hundred and thirty<lb></lb>
two did bind himself Apprentice to the said Ryley Lanyon for the<lb></lb>
Term of Seven years which last binding Your Petitioner was enticed<lb></lb>
and over persusaded to comply with by the said Ryley Lanyon who<lb></lb>
would frequently meet your Petitioner when from home and use<lb></lb>
many Arguments with your Petitioner to become his Apprentice<lb></lb>
since which the said Ryley Lanyon hath immoderately beat and<lb></lb>
corrected Your Petitioner with an unlawfull Weapon and otherwise<lb></lb>
misused your Petitioner</p>
<p n="268">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
prays your Lordship and Worships will discharge<lb></lb>
him from his said Apprenticeship with the said<lb></lb>
Ryley Lanyon.</p>
<p n="269">And Your Petitioner shall Ever<lb></lb>
pray and so forth</p>
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