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<p n="125">To the Worshipfull his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ32">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of the County of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50385_geo65">Middx</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="126">The Humble petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n126-1">Davis Pritchard</rs>
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<p n="127"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Indentures of Apprenticeship bearing date the 27th. day of May 1746 your<lb></lb>
Petitioner became bound to serve <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n127-1">William Bowler</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50385_geo66">the Lower</rs>
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precinct of the Parish of Aldgate<lb></lb>
in the County aforesaid Barlorts <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ33">Peruke maker</rs>
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for the Term of Seven Years</p>
<p n="128">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n128-1">William Bowler</rs>
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during the time your petitioner lived with him took no care<lb></lb>
to Instruct your petitioner in the said Business being frequently drunk & almost continually<lb></lb>
absent from his Shop</p>
<p n="129">That abt. the beginning of Febry last your petitioners sd. Master belong being Arrested for a large<lb></lb>
sum caused himself to be removed into the Rules of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50385_geo67">Kings Bench prison</rs>
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& conveyed off<lb></lb>
all his Goods being Apprehensive of an Execution agt. them & shut up his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ34">House & Shop</rs>
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&<lb></lb>
Sent your petitioner home to his Friends so that in Case they had not releived him your petitioner<lb></lb>
must have perished in the Street</p>
<p n="130">That yr. petitioner & his Friends have several times applyed to the sd.<del>Thomas</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n130-1">William<lb></lb>
Bowler</rs>
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requesting him to provide for your petr. but the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n130-2">William Bowler</rs>
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only said he<lb></lb>
might come & live with him, which your petitioner says is in a Garret at an Alehouse in the<lb></lb>
Rules aforesd. where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n130-3">William Bowler</rs>
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has no manner of Business & intends as your<lb></lb>
petitioner is informed to turn <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ35">Schoolmaster</rs>
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</p>
<p n="131">That your petitioner is at present intirely destitute of Employment & unless this Court<lb></lb>
gives him releif your petitioner will be utterly Incapacitated from getting his living.</p>
<p n="132">Yr. petitioner therefore Humbly prays your Worships to take<lb></lb>
the premes into Consideration & for the reasons aforesaid<lb></lb>
be pleased to make such Order touching your petitioners<lb></lb>
discharge from the said Indenture of app<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="133">And your petitioner will ever pray.</p>
<p n="134"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n134-1">Davis Prichard</rs>
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