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At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King
began and holden for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall.
in Saint John Street in the said County on Monday the fifth.
day of December in the Ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third King of Great Britain Etc and from
thence continued by several Adjournments until Friday the
sixteenth day of the same Month of December and on the
same Friday the Sixteenth day of the same Month of
December being holden by Adjournment as aforesaid before
John Hawkins< no role > , John Spencer Colepeper< no role > . Bartholomew Hammond< no role >
Benjamin Cowley< no role > , John Adam Frederick Hesse< no role > Esquires and
others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to
keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanors
committed in the same County

Whereas Henry Bingham< no role > heretofore the Apprentice of John
Marcchaux< no role > late of Bend Street in the Parish of Saint George Hanover
Hanover Square in this County Razor maker Hath at this Present Session Exhibited his Petition Setting forth That the
Petitioner was by Indenture bearing date the Tenth day of may
One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty four bound Apprentice to the
said John Marcchaux with him to serve from the Ninth day of April
then last for the Term of seven Years That in Pursuance of the said
Indenture the Petitioner from the time of the Execution there of did
live with and serve the said John Marcchaux as his apprentice
Honestly Orderly and saith fully and to the Utmost of his power
and ability until the time of the death of the said John Marcchaux
which happend some time in the month of November One thousand
seven hundred and sixty six That notwithstanding the Petitioners
apprenticeship was (as he was advised and believes) determined by the
Death of his said Master the Petitioner had nevertheless from and
since the death of his said Master continued to live with and serve
Mary Marcchaux< no role > his Widow as an Apprentice in manner aforesaid
until on or about theday of November last when the Petitioner
by means of the Cruelty and ill usage theretofore used and exercised by
the said Mary Marcchaux to the Petitioner and of her threatenings
and menances of worse for the future the Petitioner was Oblidged to
Quit the service of the said Mary Marcchaux That the said Mary
Marcchaux hath by her Attorney and otherwise threaten to force the
Petitioner back again into her service by methods of law and thereby
praying