To the Right Honourable Sir 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 Peace
Assembled

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

Sheweth

That your Petitioner on the fifth day of May One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Seventy four took William Joyce< no role > by 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 drivers 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 celle and disorderly Persons
and common Pickpockets and hath been consideration in the Bridewell
in 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 Petitioners think himself Aggrieved

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

And your Petitioner will ever pray
Thos. Collins< no role >