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Master or any Work done there but what was Performed by Your Petitioner And One Younger than himself a Son of his sd. Master till somtime
in July last And Which was no more than Picture Frances And of such low Value as cannot as your Petitioner humbly Conceives be
Deemed Carving or Proper at such a length of time to Improve or Instruct Your Petitioner in such the true Art of Carving Neither as Your Petition
hath good reason to believe is such Work Allowed to be done in the Shops of any of the Masters of the sd. Art of Carving Properly so Called Such when
be spoke being put Out to such as are only Stiled frame Makers or whose Business is Confined to the Glass and Picture France Way And
Yet such and no other hath been the constant Employment of Your Petitioner So that there is not the least Prospect of your Petitioners
Learning such the Art of Carving under his said master Or of Getting his Bread When out of his time As a Carver Especially his sd. Master
hath never of himself done or Modelled any Work in the Carving Way for the Improvement of Your Petitioner

That for these Reasons Your Petitioner for some time before July last Did by his said Mother & Other Friends Apply to his said Master requesting him
to Turn Your Petitioner Over to some other Master for the Remainder of the sd. Term that he might be Able to Get his Bread Which request this reasonable
for absolutely refused Without being first paid the Sum of Forty Pounds And still Persists therein Or on other Equally Equally measurable Demands
at the hevery well knows that Your Petitioner hath all along Notwithstanding these Discouragements behaved himself in the most Dutiful land
Submissive Manner Even so for as to do things No ways relating to the business And some for beyond his Strength And that Your Petitioner cannot Learn
such the Art of Carving under him.

That his Sd. Master hath upon some of the Friendly Applications made to him for the purpose aforesd. And not before Confessed himself to be no
Carner And that his Trade or Business related only to the Glass & Picture France making altho he in his Conseience very well knows that
at the time of Treaty as well as of Binding he Prosessed & Stiled himself a Carver And Which Your Petitioner as well as his sd. Mother
(As was then intended by him) Understood such Character so taken upon himself to Denote Carving in General And not in such as
may relate to France Making only Or in any other Limited Sence of the Work And that it Shod. be so Understood by Your Petitioner and
his said Mother And the better to remove all doubt therein She was Advised previous to as well as at the time of Binding as a
Necessary Qualification to Attain a thorough knowlege of said Art of Carving to Cause Your petitioner to be taught the Art of Drawing
& Modelling And for that purpose Your Petitioner hath been Enabled tho at Considerable Expense to make some Progress
therein And his Master could not said being Covenced at the time As the Truth realy is that no Treaty would have been Carried on with him
had it been Known that he was not a Carver in the General Way Especially as a Prosessed & Able Master in such Art & Business might
then have been Provided for that Sum

About the begining of July last his sd. Master having some large Picture Frances bespoke And finding that his refusing such Your
Petitioners request had Caused a Resolution to be taken to Apply to the then next general Quarter Sessions for Relief And which
would have been Hod not the sd. Mr. Cheere Advised to try Gentle Methods first He the sd. William Chisholm< no role > in Order to Defeat Your Petitioner of
Relief in this Court Engaged two Workmen whom he may Stile Artists in Carving to do the same But without being or intending
any Improvement thereby to Your Petitioner and by means thereof to Gain the Forty pounds so Demanded as aforesaid.

Therefore and by reason of the very Imposition aforesaid And a being Contrary to the
Intention of the Worthy Executor As well as his said Testater And as what he hath
been Taught by his said Master is of titlle or No Use in such the true Art of Carving
Your Petitioner most humbly Prays that he may be forthwith Discharged from the
said William Chisholms< no role > Servere And that he may be Ordered to Deliver us or
assign the said Indenture to and as soon as Master can be Procured And that he
may be also Ordered to pay back such part of the said Fifteen Pounds As
The Court shall think Proper Or that Your Petitioner may have such other
Relief in the Presoners As to Your Worships shall seem Meet

And Your Petitioner
Shall Ever pray Etc.