To the Worshipfull John
Hawkins< no role > Esqr : one of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex And to the rest of his Majesty's
Justices Assembled at their General Session
of the Peace holden at Hicks Hall in
and for the said County

The humble Petition of John Phillips< no role >
Sheweth

That your petitioner is an Engravr and lives in
the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
On the 10th: day of March 1769 one Joseph Holmes< no role >
was bound Apprentice to your Petitioner for the Term
of Seven Years and Received a Consideration of Ten
Pounds and ten Shillings with the said Apprentice
That your petitioner's said Apprentice on the
23d day of April following Absented himself three
days and three nights from your Petitioners House
without any reason or provocation whatsoever
And At the camest intercession of his Monk your
Petitioner forgave him that offence but your
Petitioner could not prevail on his said Apprentice
to inform him at what place he was during the
Above timed That the said Joseph Holmes< no role > has
made it a practice to absent himself from your Petitioner's
Service without your Petitioner licence and went
away from your Petitioners house on the 21st. day
of June 1769 and was Absent untill the 27th. day of
September And the only caused he made when
he returned was that he did not like the