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<p n="429">To the Worshipfull his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ136">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo270">Middx</rs>
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in General Sessions assembled<lb></lb>
The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n429-1">Isaac Seedsman</rs>
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<p n="430"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner by Indenture dated on or about the<lb></lb>
twenty fourth day of July One thousand seven hundred and Sixty<lb></lb>
was bound Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n430-1">Thomas Pike</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo271">Wych Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo272"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo273">St. Clement Danes</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50522_geo274">Middx</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
Term of seven Years to learn his Art and Mistery</p>
<p n="431">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n431-1">Thomas Pike</rs>
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hath divers and sundry times cruelly<lb></lb>
beat and bruised your Petitioner, our Sprained your Petitioners<lb></lb>
left <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
wrist very violently by striking him with a large Piece of wood<lb></lb>
upon the same and ours pulled your Petitioner violently down by the<lb></lb>
Hair of his Head against a Bedstead Which nut the same very Ferribly<lb></lb>
That on the twenty ninth day of March Last the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n431-2">Thomas Pike</rs>
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<lb></lb>
struck your Petitioner with an Iron Square on the right Side of his<lb></lb>
Head and Wounded him thereon and at the same time sprained leg<lb></lb>
Thumb so that he was Obliged to be under the Care of a Surgeon<lb></lb>
sometime for Cure</p>
<p n="432">Yor. Petitioner therefore Most humbly Prays<lb></lb>
that your Worships will be Pleased to<lb></lb>
discharge your Petitioner from his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50522_occ138">Apprenticeship</rs>
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to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n432-1">Thomas Pike</rs>
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<p n="433">And your Petitioner shall ever Pray Etc</p>
<p n="434"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50522_n434-1">Isaac Seedsman</rs>
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