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<p n="94">To the Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ41">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo82">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo83">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="95">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50471_n95-1">Thomas Chambers</rs>
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an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ42">Apprentice</rs>
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-</p>
<p n="96"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner on or about the nineteenth day of<lb></lb>
March One thousand seven hundred and fifty four was bound<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ43">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50471_n96-1">Thomas Lawes</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo84"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo85">East Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo86">Red Lyon Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo87">Houlborn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ44">Carpenter</rs>
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for the Term of seven years</p>
<p n="97">That your Petitioner has honeslly served his said<lb></lb>
Master without field or deceipt and never say out of his Masters<lb></lb>
House without his knowledge and Consent</p>
<p n="98">That your Petitioners Master being of every hot hasty and<lb></lb>
Angry Temper did without any Lawfull Cause on the Twenty<lb></lb>
sixth day of April last Cause your Petitioner to be carried before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50471_n98-1">John Fielding</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ45">Esqr</rs>
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. and complaind of your Petitioners being an Idle<lb></lb>
Apprentice on which the said Mr. Fielding (your Petitioner having<lb></lb>
no Person to speak for him) Committed your Petitioner to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo88">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo89">Bridewell</rs>
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where your Petitioner has remaind ever since</p>
<p n="99">That your Petitioners said Master has had several<lb></lb>
Applications made to him requesting That He would take your<lb></lb>
Petitioner again or Turn him over to another both which he<lb></lb>
has refused Insisting That He will not take your Petitioner<lb></lb>
again nor discharge him out of Confinement Unless your<lb></lb>
Petitioner can find a Master that would allow four Shillings a<lb></lb>
week for the remainder of your Petitioners time or that your<lb></lb>
Petitioners Friends would give him Thirty Pounds for the whole<lb></lb>
and other He would Assign over his Indenture</p>
<p n="100">That your Petitioner is an Orphan and has no Relations<lb></lb>
Except an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ46">Uncle</rs>
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who lives at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50471_geo90">Canterbury</rs>
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</p>
<p n="101">Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays<lb></lb>
your Worships to take his Case into Consideration<lb></lb>
and Order that his said Master may take him<lb></lb>
again or Turn him over to another or make such<lb></lb>
farther order therein as to your Worships<lb></lb>
shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="102">S: Farren<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50471_occ47">Sollr</rs>
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:</p>
<p n="103">And your Petitioner as in Duty bound<lb></lb>
shall ever pray Etc</p>
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