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of Apprenticeship bearing date on or about the sixteenth day of March
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in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty four was
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bound Apprentice to
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pounds to him paid did not only Covenant to teach your Petitioner the said
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Art or Trade of Jeweller but also to find and provide for your Petitioner
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sufficient Meat drink Washing and Lodging for and during the said Tenn
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and doth now remain a Prisoner in the Custody of the Warden of the said
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and the total sum swore to in those three Actions amount to no more
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than twenty three Pounds seven Shillings and six pence
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That Your Petitioner continued in the faith full service and
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discharge of his duly as an
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was Arrested and went to Prison
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as aforesaid when your Petitioner was obliged to go home to his Parents
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and is in manifest danger of receiving no benefit or advantage from the
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said Indenture to follow the said business or have any Part of the
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