Middx

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the County of
Middx at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the County aforesaid by adjournment on Thursday to twenty
fifth day of April in the twenty seventh Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second
King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role > Richard Ricards< no role > Walter Berry< no role > George Garrett< no role >
Esquires and others their Follows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace
in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other
Misdeeds committed in the same County

Whereas John Abbott< no role > exhibited his humble Petition unto this Court at this present
General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County of Middx by adjournment on
Tuesday the twenty third day of April instant Setting forth That by Indentures of
Apprenticeship bearing date the twenty eighth day of August One thousand seven
hundred and fifty one the Petitioner was bound Apprentice to Robert Noyes< no role > of the
Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the said County Carver for the Space of Seven
Years And that the Petitioners Father Thomas Abbott< no role > paid as a Consideration to the
said Robert Noyes< no role > at the time of the executing of the said Indentures the Sum of
Twenty pounds And that the Petitioners said Master Robert Noyes< no role > hath very
frequently taken him and his Fellow Apprentice into Gardens belonging to other Persons
to pilfer Trees that were growing Flower Roots and Box for Borders and divers other
things till at length the Petitioner began to apprehend the total Consequences that
wight result from such unjust Proceedings and therefore the Petitioner applied to his
Friends to interpose in his favour to prevent his Destruction And the Petitioner
therefore most humbly prayed this Court to discharge him from his said Indentures of
Apprenticeship and to Order that his said Master may return Part of the said Twenty
pounds Consideration money to the Petitioner Whereupon it was by an Order made
by this Court on the said twenty third day of April instant Ordered By this Court that
the said Robert Noyes< no role > should have Notice of the said Petition and that he and all
Persons concerned should attend this Court on this present Thursday the twenty
fifth day of April instant at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide
the Judgment and Determination of this Court touching the Matters contained in
the said Petition, the aforesaid Session being now on the same day holden by
adjournment for the said County of Middx Now upon hearing of what was alledged
by the said John Abbott< no role > the Petitioner and his Council and also by the said Robert Noyes< no role >
and his Council and upon Examination into the truth of the premisses For as much as it appeareth
to this Court that the Substance of the said Petition is true It is Ordered by this Court that
the said john Abbott< no role > be and he is hereby absolutely discharged of and from his Apprentice hood
to the said Robert Noyes< no role > In Testimony whereof We four of his Majestys Justices