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To the Worshipful his Majesties
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Justices of the Peace
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The Humble Petition of
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Benjamin Warner
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of the Parish of
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in the said County
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Butcher
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner on the Seventh day of November
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in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
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and twenty Eight became bound an Apprentice unto
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Edwd. Tomkins
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of the said
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parish of Saint Mary White
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Butcher
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. And on
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the fourteenth day of September In the Year of our Lord One
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Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty One was Turned
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over unto the said
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Benjamin Warner
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of the Parish and
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County aforesaid Butcher with him to serve during
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the remainder time of has said Apprenticehood from
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the date of the said Indenture Relation being there
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unto had may more fully appear during which time the said
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was and is to Teach and Instruct the
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said Stephen Wicks the Trade Art and Mistery of a
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Butcher and likewise by said Indenture was to provide
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for his said Apprentice good and Sufficient wearing
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Apparel during the said Term, But the said
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hath refused and still doth refuse to provide for
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his said Apprentice any Manner of Wearing Apparel
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So that your Petitioner is quite naked and diver stimes
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your Petitioner is very refused beat and wounded in
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a Barbarus manner.
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Beggs that
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your Worshipps may be pleased to order that he be
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wholy Discharged from his sd.
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Apprenticehood
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or
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Such otherwise as your Worshipps shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray and so forth
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Stephen Wicks
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