To the Right Worshipfull his Majties-Justices of the
peace at Hickshall for the County of Middx in
Generall Sessions Assembled

The Humble peticon of Thomas
Banbury< no role > apprentice to John
Whaley< no role > of the parish of St Leonard
Shoreditch in the Said County
Stock in Needle Maker

Humbly Sheweth

That your peticoner was bound by Indenture
apprentice to his Said Master betiext Five and
Six Yeas agoe as by Indenture it doth appear
and always performed his Masters business
honestly and Justly hitherto and behaved himself
to his Said Master as an Apprentice ought to doe

That yor. peticoner hath been Very much abused
Severall times by his Said Master in a very
barbarous and Inhumaine Manner and hath
given him Severall Wounds upon his body
to the Dainger of his life and has threatened to
make an Example of him upon the accot. of his
Mother and wanted fond convenient for him
and Cloaths Necessary as he was bound to doe

Therefore yor. peticoner for the reasons
above mensoned Humbly prays Such
releife in the premes as to yor Worshipps
Judgemt. Shall Seem meet

And yor peticoner as in Duty bound
Shall ever pray

Thomas< no role >

the mark of
B Banbury