To the Worshipful Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex at their General Quarter
Session Assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Richard Watson< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. of the Parish of Saint Anne in the said County
Glazies

Sheweth

That on or about the Twenty Third day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty Eight John Milton< no role > did find himself Apprentice by Indenture to your Petitioner
to learn his Art and with him after the manner of an Apprentice to some from the Day of the Date thereof
for the Term of Seven Years in which said Indenture was contained the Covenants usual in such
Indentures of Apprenticeship as well on the said John Miltons behalf as your Petitioners

That the said John Milton< no role > immediately entered into your Petitioners Service as his Apprentice and
continued therein untill the Month of May last past or thereabouts during which Time he committed
many Misdemeanors in his Service and particularly in the said Month of May last or thereabouts
the said John Milton< no role > having been guilty of a flagrant Action of Obscenity to your Petitioners
Domestick Woman Servant who complained to your Petitioner thereof your Petitioners to correct the said
John Milton< no role > and to reform and amend his Manners and to prevent his committing the like Offence
infuture did as it was lawfull for him to do moderately chastise and beat the said John Milton< no role >
which occasioned an Application to be made by the said John Milton< no role > to John Sherwood< no role > Esqr . one of
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex complaining of being violently
Assaulted and immediately corrected when Your Petitioner Appearance before the said Justice and no such Violence
[..] as complained of appearing and the said John Miltons obsene Bohaviour being proved to the
[..] Satisfaction the Complaint was dismissed and the said John Milton< no role > was ordered to return
[..] your [..] Master on Pair [..] of [..] if he failed to do so.
[..] Your Peti [..] and is employed [..] of the
[..] Trade and the said John Milton< no role > Frother Complained that Your [..] had not employed any
[..] Journey man to Assist and instruct him therein the contrary whereof your Petitioner will prove to be
true And he also complained that Your Petitioner had employed him chiefly as a Potter and an Errand
Boy but being interrogated As to Tracts could only remember with Precision once carrying a Parcel to the
New River at Limehouse About Fifty or One Hundred Yards Distance and two or three Times fetching from the
Bale and Mouth Inn in London some trifling Presents sent from the County ti Your Petitioner by his friends
Whereupon the said Justices upon the Oath of the said John Milton< no role > alone and without Dany other Proof and
for us other Cause whatsoover to the Knowledge of Your Petitioner ordered the said John Milton< no role > to be
discharged from his Apprenticeship to Your Petitioner and have as your Petitioner is informed and
beleives given a Warrant or Certificate for such Discharge under their Hands and Seals

Cooke Sofr. for Appellant

Your Petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved by such Judgment and Determination
of the said Burford Camper< no role > and John Sherwood< no role > Esquires Doth appeal therefrom
to Your Worships and humbly prays that you will be pleased to order the said
John Milton< no role > to appear at a certain Day to be appointed to hear and abide the
Judgment and Determination of your Worships touching this your Petitioners
said Appeal And in regard your Petitioners has not had Notice of the said
Warrant or Certificate of [..] the Discharger by Service of a Copy thereof your Petitioner
further prays your Worships to order the said John Milton< no role > to produce the
said Warrant or Certificate at the hearing of the said Appeal And that your
Petitioners reasonable Costs in this behalf may be adjudged to him

And your Petitioner shall Etc: