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To the Worshipfull His Majestys
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Session of the Peace Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Apprentice to
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That by a certain Indenture bearing date the Twenty third day of
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November in the Year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and Sixty Eight
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It is Witnessed that your Petitioner by and with the Consent and
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Approbation of his said Father did put himself Apprentice to the said
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to learn his Art and with him after the manner of an
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Apprentice to Serve from the said Twenty third day of November unto the
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full end and Term of Seven Years from thence next following to be fully
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Compleat and ended And the said
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did thereby
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Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said
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Samuel Collyer
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that for and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty one Pounds (the
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Receipt whereof he did thereby acknowledge) your Petitioner in the
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Art of Joiner and Cabinetmaker which he used by the best means
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that he could should Teach and Instruct or cause to be taught and
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Instructed as by the said Indenture relation being thereunto had
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may more fully and at large Appear.
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That your Petitioner is at Times imployed in Sweeping and cleaning of the
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House and the Windows thereof and in doing diverse and sundry other
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Household Work and business under the Direction of the Maid Servant guite
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Contrary to the said Trade and Business of a
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as
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also to the said Indenture of Apprenticeship
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That your Petitioner is an Infant about the Age of fifteen and that his
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said Master without any reasonable Cause whatsoever hath already at
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different Times struck and beat your Petitioner very much and that about the
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middle of the Month of February last he violently assaulted and beat your
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Petitioner and gave him a black Eye and upon every trifling Occasion
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threaten's to cut out his little Heart with a Saw or the first Tool he lays
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hold of
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That on Friday the third day of March last your Petitioners said Master
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without any Provocation or reasonable of Justifiable Cause whatsoever given
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him by Your Petitioner with a large knotted Cord did violently and
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unmercifully beat your Petitioner at two different Times on the same Day
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Insomuch that your Petitioner was bruised to that degree that he Underwent
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great Pain Torture and Anguish thereby for several Days afterward.
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