To the Right Honourable for Thomas Hallifax< no role > Knight
Lord mayor of the City of London And the Worshipfull the
Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City
at their General Quarter Session of the Race Assembled

The Humble Petition of Thomas Collin< no role > of Ball
Alley Lombard Street London Fishing Tackle maker

Sheweth

That your Petitioners on the fifth day of May One Thomas
Seven Hundred and Seventy four Took William Joyceby< no role > Indenture as his
Apprentice for the Term of Seven Years with whom he had the Sum of
Five Pounds and five Shillings

That the said William Joyce< no role > hath during the Term of his
Apprenticeship been Guilty of divers Misdemeanours (that is to say)
Embezzling and Spoiling the Goods of your Petitioner and refusing to do
the Necessary work of an Apprentice

That on the fifteenth day of June One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Seventy Six the said William Joyce< no role > Absented himself
from the Service of your Petitioner without the leave and consent of
your Petitioner and is now absent since which time the said William
Joyce< no role > hath Associated with idle and disorderly Persons and common
Pickpockets and hath been confirmed in the Bridewell on the Borough

That your Petitioner therefore cannot with safety to
himself take the said William Joyce< no role > into his House by which means
your Petitioner think himself Agrieved

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly pray
that he may be discharged from his Indenture
to the said William Joyce< no role >

And your Petitioner will ever pray