To the Worshipfull his Majestys Justices of the Peace
at Hicks's Hall in the County of Middlesex

The humble Petition of Thomas Chambers< no role > an Apprentice -

Sheweth

That your Petitioner on or about the nineteenth day of
March One thousand seven hundred and fifty four was bound
Apprentice to Thomas Lawes< no role > of East Street Red Lyon Square
Houlborn Carpenter for the Term of seven years

That your Petitioner has honeslly served his said
Master without field or deceipt and never say out of his Masters
House without his knowledge and Consent

That your Petitioners Master being of every hot hasty and
Angry Temper did without any Lawfull Cause on the Twenty
sixth day of April last Cause your Petitioner to be carried before
John Fielding< no role > Esqr . and complaind of your Petitioners being an Idle
Apprentice on which the said Mr. Fielding (your Petitioner having
no Person to speak for him) Committed your Petitioner to Clerkenwell
Bridewell where your Petitioner has remaind ever since

That your Petitioners said Master has had several
Applications made to him requesting That He would take your
Petitioner again or Turn him over to another both which he
has refused Insisting That He will not take your Petitioner
again nor discharge him out of Confinement Unless your
Petitioner can find a Master that would allow four Shillings a
week for the remainder of your Petitioners time or that your
Petitioners Friends would give him Thirty Pounds for the whole
and other He would Assign over his Indenture

That your Petitioner is an Orphan and has no Relations
Except an Uncle who lives at Canterbury

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays
your Worships to take his Case into Consideration
and Order that his said Master may take him
again or Turn him over to another or make such
farther order therein as to your Worships
shall seem meet.

S: Farren
Sollr :

And your Petitioner as in Duty bound
shall ever pray Etc