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<p n="152"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo82">Middlesex</rs>
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(to wit)</note>
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To the Worshipsfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n152-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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Esqr<lb></lb>
and the rest of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50579_occ45">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo83">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
of the Peace held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo84">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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in and for the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="153">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n153-1">Francis Fox</rs>
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son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n153-2">John Fox</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo85">Hanover Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo86">Long Acre</rs>
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in the County aforesaid Staymake</p>
<p n="154"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner in and by certain Indentures<lb></lb>
of Apprenticeship bearing date on or about the sixteenth day of March<lb></lb>
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty four was<lb></lb>
bound Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n154-1">Richard Morphew</rs>
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of Maiden Lane near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo87">Covent<lb></lb>
Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50579_occ46">Jeweller</rs>
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to learn his Art or Trade and with him after the<lb></lb>
manner of an Apprentice to serve from the day of the date of the said<lb></lb>
Indenture to the full end and Term of seven years and by the said Indre<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n154-3">Richard Morphew</rs>
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in<del>the</del>
consideration of the sum of thirty five<lb></lb>
pounds to him paid did not only Covenant to teach your Petitioner the said<lb></lb>
Art or Trade of Jeweller but also to find and provide for your Petitioner<lb></lb>
sufficient Meat drink Washing and Lodging for and during the said Tenn</p>
<p n="155">That your Petitioner entered into the service of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n155-1">Richard<lb></lb>
Morphew</rs>
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and faithfully serv'd him as his Apprentice under the said Indenture<lb></lb>
untill on or about the end of November or begining of December last past<lb></lb>
when the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n155-2">Richard Morphew</rs>
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was Arrested and soon afterwards<lb></lb>
moved himself by Habeas Corpus into his Majesties Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo88">the Fleet</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and doth now remain a Prisoner in the Custody of the Warden of the said<lb></lb>
Prison charged with three Actions only issued out of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50579_geo89">Marshalsea Court</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and the total sum swore to in those three Actions amount to no more<lb></lb>
than twenty three Pounds seven Shillings and six pence</p>
<p n="156">That Your Petitioner continued in the faith full service and<lb></lb>
discharge of his duly as an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50579_occ47">Apprentice</rs>
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with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n156-1">Richard Morphew</rs>
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<lb></lb>
untill the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50579_n156-2">Richard Morphew</rs>
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was Arrested and went to Prison<lb></lb>
as aforesaid when your Petitioner was obliged to go home to his Parents<lb></lb>
and is in manifest danger of receiving no benefit or advantage from the<lb></lb>
said Indenture to follow the said business or have any Part of the<lb></lb>
consideration money returnd.</p>
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