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To the Worshipfull his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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The humble Petition of
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Thomas Chambers
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That your Petitioner on or about the nineteenth day of
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March One thousand seven hundred and fifty four was bound
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Thomas Lawes
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of
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Houlborn
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for the Term of seven years
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That your Petitioner has honeslly served his said
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Master without field or deceipt and never say out of his Masters
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House without his knowledge and Consent
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That your Petitioners Master being of every hot hasty and
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Angry Temper did without any Lawfull Cause on the Twenty
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sixth day of April last Cause your Petitioner to be carried before
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John Fielding
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Esqr
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. and complaind of your Petitioners being an Idle
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Apprentice on which the said Mr. Fielding (your Petitioner having
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no Person to speak for him) Committed your Petitioner to
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Clerkenwell
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Bridewell
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where your Petitioner has remaind ever since
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That your Petitioners said Master has had several
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Applications made to him requesting That He would take your
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Petitioner again or Turn him over to another both which he
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has refused Insisting That He will not take your Petitioner
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again nor discharge him out of Confinement Unless your
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Petitioner can find a Master that would allow four Shillings a
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week for the remainder of your Petitioners time or that your
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Petitioners Friends would give him Thirty Pounds for the whole
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and other He would Assign over his Indenture
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That your Petitioner is an Orphan and has no Relations
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Except an
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Uncle
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who lives at
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Canterbury
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays
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your Worships to take his Case into Consideration
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and Order that his said Master may take him
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again or Turn him over to another or make such
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farther order therein as to your Worships
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shall seem meet.
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S: Farren
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Sollr
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And your Petitioner as in Duty bound
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shall ever pray Etc
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