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