To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Godschall< no role > Knt . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and the rest of his Majesties
Justices of the peace for the said City in their General Quarter
Session of the peace assembled.

The humble petition of Rebecca Clarke< no role > a Poor
Girl about the Age of Seventeen years.

Sheweth

That your Pe [..] ly a certain Indenture bearing date [..] Sixth
day of April 1741 was bound Apprentice by the Parish of St. Thomas Apostle
London to one Thomas Peart< no role > of the Parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate
London Carpenter till She should accomplish her full Age of twenty one
years to learn his Art and the said Thomas Peart< no role > during the Term of
her Apprenticeship was to find and provide for her Meat Drink and other
Necessaries. as by a Copy of the same Indenture hereunto annexed doth
more fully appear.

That your Petitioner hath only Served upwards of half a year of her
Apprenticeship That her said Master had Five pounds Consideration of
the parish, Forty Shillings of which were to be laid out for Cloaths for
your Petitioner and her said Master was to have the remaining three
pounds for his Use.

That your Petitioner hath been beat and abused by her said Master
with a Bull's Pizzle in such a manner that her right Arm was so much
bruised that your Petitioner might have lost the Use of it, had not it
been for your Lordship's great Goodness and Clemency to get your petitioner
into Saint Bartholomews Hospital .

That Your Petitioners said Master (hath contrary to the Conditions
of the said Indenture) kept your Petitioner so bare in Cloaths & other
Necessaries that your Petitioner in January last in the hard weather was
obliged to wear Shoes without Soles and for want of necessary Apparel
Cheer Cloaths then being in a very tattered Condition) was almost perished
with Cold.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays this honourable
Court Will take her Case into Consideration and discharge
her from her cruel & deplorable Scituation with her said
Master and that She might not only be discharged from her
Apprenticeship for the cruel Treatment aforesaid, But that
her said Master may also refund the money which he
received of the aforesaid parish as Consideration money

And Your Petitioner will ever pray.

The Mark of
Rebecca [mark] Clarke< no role >