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To the Rt Worshipfull his Majestys
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Justices of the peace
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in their general Quarter Sessions
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The humble Petition of
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Alexander Gage
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of the Parish of
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Covent garden
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in the
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Perukemaker
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Sheweth
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That by Indenture bearing date the 19th. day of August 1743 George which was bound an
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Apprentice
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to your Petitioner by the then Churchwardens and
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Overseer of the poor
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of the
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parish of
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Charlton
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in the
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to Serve from the day of the date
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of the said Indre untill the said
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George
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Winch
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should accomplish his age of twenty four years according to the Statute in that case made
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and provided
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That your Petr. imediately took the said
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George Winch
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to his house and provided competent
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and sufficient meal drink Apparrele lodging and all other thing's necessary and fit for an Apprentice
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agreeably to the terms of the said Indenture, and during the time be continued with him, taught
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and instructed him in the best manner he was able in his trade of
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Perukemaking
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That for about eighteen months past the said Apprentice has not only been disorderly and
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disobedient to Your Petr. and his Family, but about a year ago ran away from him and was
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absent a week or thereabouts And has frequently since neglected to attend your Petrs. Customers
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by which means Your Petr has been greatly injured in his business. And the said apprentice
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has been so far from being concern
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his
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Misbehaviour and neglect of duty, that he has
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frequently declared, he would follow his business no longer but would go to Sea, and has often
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told your Petr. Servants that he would not work, and that if your Petr. corrected him he would
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make a riot in the Street and break your Petrs. Windows and do other mischief, and has several
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time's threatned to run away from your Petr., notwithstanding your Petr. never treated him with
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any Sort of Severity, and about three months ago he actually ran away from your Petr. and
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has never returned to his Service Since
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that this Court
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would be pleas'd to order the said Apprentice's discharge from your
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Petitioner or that ye Court would
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make such other order
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therein as shall be reasonable and just
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And your Petr shall pray Etc
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J. Spranger Agt. for
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the Petitioner
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