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<p n="95">To the Worshipful his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50412_occ45">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo88">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="96">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n96-1">Morris Clutton</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo89"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo90">Parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo91">County of Middlesex</rs>
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</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50412_occ46">Apothecary</rs>
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</p>
<p n="97"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by Indenture bearing date the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50412_date12">Ninteenth day of<lb></lb>
January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and<lb></lb>
fifty</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n97-1">Henry Seale</rs>
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Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n97-2">Henry Seale</rs>
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late of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo92"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo93">Witney </rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo94">County of Oxon</rs>
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</rs>
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deceased did put himself Apprentice to Your Petr.<lb></lb>
to Serve Your Petr. from the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Second day of April then last<lb></lb>
Past for the space of Seven Years in Consideration of five<lb></lb>
Shillings and no more</p>
<p n="98">That Your Petitioner Relying on the honesty & integrity<lb></lb>
of his said Apprentice entrustes him from time to time to Receive<lb></lb>
money in his Shop as also with the Key of the Till or drawer<lb></lb>
wherein the said money was Kept and having some Reason to<lb></lb>
Suspect that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n98-1">Henry Seale</rs>
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had made too free with such<lb></lb>
money very lately detected him in taking out of the said Till One<lb></lb>
Guinea and a five Shilling Piece the money of your Petitioner<lb></lb>
when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n98-2">Henry Scale</rs>
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acknowledged that at fact and Confessed that<lb></lb>
he had at different times taken money out of the said Till for the<lb></lb>
space of three quarters of a Year or thereabouts Whereupon Your<lb></lb>
Petr. caused him to be carried before a Magistrate who Comitted<lb></lb>
him to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50412_geo95">Bridewell</rs>
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</p>
<p n="99">Your Petr. therefore humbly Prays Your Worships to<lb></lb>
take his Case into Your Consideration and to discharge<lb></lb>
his said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50412_occ47">Apprentice</rs>
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from his said Indenture</p>
<p n="100">And Your Petr. (as in in duty bound) will ever Pray Etc:</p>
<p n="101"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50412_n101-1">Morris Clutton</rs>
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