The Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex assembled in General Quarter Sessions at Hicks hall
in & for the said County.

The Humble Petition of the Overseers
of the Poor of the Parish of Chelsea in
the County of Middlesex .

Sheweth

That on the first Day of August One thousand Seven hundred
and Forty nine Sarah Burnett< no role > aged Eleven Years or thereabouts a poor
Child of the said Parish of Chelsea was bound an apprentice to George
Good< no role > (by the name of George Good< no role > of the Parish of Chelsea aforsaid
Victualler) by Indenture bearing date the said first day of August aforesd .
untill she should accomplish her full Age of Twenty One Years or day
of Marriage.

That soon after the Girl was so Bound, her Mistress (the Wife of the
said George Good< no role > ) frequently beal and abused her in a most barbarous
manner and turned her out of Doors without any just Reasonand
one him in Pticular knocked her down with a Broomstick which occasioned
the loss of some blood. The Girl upon this violent ill usage come to
the Parish Officers and complained to them, begging at the same
time, that She [..] might not go back again to her Mistress for that
she was afraid of being killedtwo Mistress [..]
she was so extreem passionate

The Parish Officers in order to be satisfied about the Complaint
of the Girl had the Mistress & her before a Justices of Peace , and upon
the Mistresses promising to be more favourable to the Girl for the future
took her Home with her, but the Mistress, the very same Day Beal
& Abused the Girl again most violently, and with any the least pro-
vocation, only because ye Girl had been with the Parish Officers to
Complain. So that the Child came back to the Parish officers, and has
been kept in the Workhouse at Chelsea are since for several Weeks
pass

Your Petitions therefore humbly pray
this Court will please to Discharge the sd
Girl of her Apprenticeship and to order that
the Forty Shillings wch was paid by the
Parish Officers at her binding may be returned
in order to bind her out to some other Prison-
Or to make such Order as this Court shall
sum Meet.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.

George Noris< no role >
John Hicking< no role > }
Overseers of the Poor