London to wit
The Examination of
John Burdet< no role >
Levi Polock,
apprehended and brought before me
James Townsend< no role >
Esquire
, one of
his Majesty< no role >
's Justices of the Peace
for
the said City Who saith, that, he believes, he is about
eighteentwenty six Years of Agethat he served an Apprenticeship
to one Bransdon a Cawer in Glass House Yard, Aldersgate
StreetSays, that the carving Business being on the
decline, he learned printing, and hath since worked
for himselfSays, that he worked about a Year
as a Carver
, before he commenced Printer, for Mr
Sussex
Chair Maker
and Carver
in Golden Land,
and then lodged at the House of one Smith, a
Packer in Fann's Alley Aldersgate Street
Says,
that one Delaporte, a Printer
, who
[..] at this time was a Tenant at his Father's to
prevailed on him to learn the printing Business, and
he received Five Guineas from Examinant and his
Father
as a Premium for learning him this
ExaminantSays, that he worked for Delaporte
about seven or eight Months,
afteraltogetherthat
he lodged at his Father's, the Shepherd and Flock
in White's Alley, Coleman Street
during the time
he worked with DelaporteSays that Delporte
paid him for printing Work, more than a dozen
times, whilst he remained with himthat he was
constantly with himSays, that he hath ever since
regularly carried on the business of a Printer, and
hath lived in no other Places, during three or Four
Years last past, than Fann's Alley, White's Alley
and Bull and Mouth Street
Says, that for the
last three Years, he has been confined three or Four
Months in a Year by the Rhenmatismthat he
was partly maintained by his Father, when so confined
Says, that for the last three Months, he has lodged
and worked in one of his Father's Tenements
that he has printed Bills for Mr Reeves, a Weaver
in Bishopsgate Street
Mr Smith a Hot Prosser
in ShadwellSays, that he has worked with a