of making a Grateful return for Your Petitioners lenity He no
sooner finds himself at Liberty but launches out into the same
Course of Behaviour and Instead of the least Appearance of
Amendment he appears Improved in Wickedness and continues
the same disorderly and Ungovernable

That Your Petitioner had been informed that Luke Colling< no role >
the Father gives Countenance to his Son the said Apprentice in
his Disobedience and doubts not but to prove that the said Luke
Collins< no role > threatned that he would send three Men And that he
himself would be one And that they would do for your Petitioner Meaning
as Your Petitioner apprehends to do him some Bodily Harm

That from the repeated Misbehaviour of the said Apprentice
and the Threats of his Father Your Petitioner is not only under
fears and Apprehensions for the safety of himself and family
but in danger of losing the Benefit of the rest of his Apprentices
by the bad Example set them by this

That Your Petitioner at the Quarter Session held at Hicks's
Hall by Adjournment on Friday the fifth day of July last
presented a petition to the purport and Effect above sett forth
when it was ordered that the said John Collins< no role > should have
Notice thereof And that He and all persons concerned should
All end the Court on Saturday then next to hear and Abide the
Judgement and Determination of the said Court touching
the Petition

That your Petitioner the sd. John Collins< no role > and other
persons concerned Accordingly Attended the Court in order
to hear the petition But the Same not coming on it was
Ordered to stand over till the then next Sessions.

That your petitioner Accordingly Attended such next
Sessions in Septr. last but he and his Counsel not being there
early enough in the Morning when the same was called on
the Petition for that reason and no other was dismissed

That the said John Collins< no role > the Apprentice during the
Time the sd Petition continued undetermined and since
the same was dismissed hath Continued disobedient and
refractory and not in the least Attended to the Lawfull
Commands of your petitioner but on the Contrary Hath
Committed several Irregularities particularly by staying
out at Nights And coming Home at unseasonable Hours
Drunk, And by his Conduct seems to set your Petitioner
at Defiance