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 St. John Street in the County aforesaid by adjournment on
Friday the Nineteenth day of July in the Twenty eighth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the second King of the Great Britain Etc. before George Errington< no role > George Green< no role > John
Good< no role > child Richard Ricards< no role > Esqrs . and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King
assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Folonies
Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.

Whereas John Buck< no role > son of Timothy Buck< no role > late of Chancery Lane London Gent deced
exhibited his humble petition unto this Court at this present General Quarter Session of the Peace
begin and holden for the County of Middx on Monday fifteenth day of July instant Setting forth
That the petitioner was on the twenty fourth day of June One Thousand seven hundred and fifty two put
Apprentice to William Norbury< no role > of the Parish of Sunbury in Middx Surgeon and Apothecary to learn his
Art and to live with him after the manner of an Apprentice for the Term of Seven years And that by
Indenture duly executed a Consideration of forty pounds was mentioned as really and truly paid and although
in the said Indecture of Apprenticeship no more is mentioned to be paid than forty pounds yet the sum of
One hundred and five pounds was really and bone side paid to the said Horbury and that the petitioner continued
to live will the said Mr. Norbury under the said Judentures of Apprenticeship two Years And that the said Mr.
Norbury about four Months after the Petitioner was bound to him took his son to serve him as an Apprentice
allthough the said Norbury had not Business sufficient to imploy the petitioner and contrary to an express
Agreement made between the petitioners Mother and Mr. Norbury and that the Petitioners Master instead
of instructing him in the Art which he was bound as an Apprentice to learn was forced by his said Master to
work in his Garden and at the Dung Cart and to do all such Business as is done by a Day Labouring Man always
giving preferrence to his son in doing the Business which the Petitioner of night ought to have done in then
profession of a Surgeon and Apothecary And that the Petitioners said Master locked the Petitioner out of his
said House at ten of the Clock in the Evening and that the Petitioner his Brother Mr. Darley and Mr. [..]
have applied to the petitioners Master in order to his being received into his said Service when the said Mr.
Norbury absolutely refused to let the Petitioner into his Service or to refund any past of the money received with
the Petitioner as an Apprentice And the Petitioner therefore humbly prayed that he might be discharged
from his said Judenture of Apprenticeship in Order to his learning his Business and that the said Master
might return to the Petitioner the Sum of One Hundred and five pounds above mentioned so given with him as
an Apprentice or such part there of as this Court should think meet Whereupon it was by an Order made by
this Court on the said Fifteenth day of July instant Ordered that the said William Norbury< no role > should have
Notice of the said Petition and that he and all Persons concerned should attend this Court on this present
Friday the nineteenth day of July instant at ten of the Clock in the forenoon to hear and abide the
Judgement and Determination of this Court touching the Masters contained in the said Petition Now
upon Motion made unto this Court by Mr. Lawson of Council for the said William Norbury< no role > praying that
the hearing and determining of the said Petition may be adjourned and offering divers reasons for
that purpose This Court by Consent of Mr. Serjeant Hayward of Council for the said John Buck< no role >
doth Order that the hearing and determinning the Master of the said Petition be and the same is
hereby adjourned untill the next General Session of the peace to be holden for the said County And that the
said William Norbury< no role > and all persons concerned do attend the Court of the said next General Session
of the Peace to be holden for the County on Wednesdaythe eleventhday of September
next at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgment and Determination of the
same Court touching the said Petition.

By the Court
Waller