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To the Worshipful Worshipful his Majesty's
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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That on or about the Twenty Third day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
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Hundred and Sixty Eight
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did find himself Apprentice by Indenture to your Petitioner
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to learn his Art and with him after the manner of an
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to some from the Day of the Date thereof
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for the Term of Seven Years in which said Indenture was contained the Covenants usual in such
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as well on the said John Miltons behalf as your Petitioners
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immediately entered into your Petitioners Service as his Apprentice and
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continued therein untill the Month of May last past or thereabouts during which Time he committed
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many Misdemeanors in his Service and particularly in the said Month of May last or thereabouts
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the said
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having been guilty of a flagrant Action of Obscenity to your Petitioners
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Domestick Woman Servant who complained to your Petitioner thereof your Petitioners to correct the said
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and to reform and amend his Manners and to prevent his committing the like Offence
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infuture did as it was lawfull for him to do moderately chastise and beat the said
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which occasioned an Application to be made by the said
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John Sherwood
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. one of
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his Majesty's
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complaining of being violently
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Assaulted and immediately corrected when Your Petitioner Appearance before the said Justice and no such Violence
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as complained of appearing and the said John Miltons obsene Bohaviour being proved to the
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Satisfaction the Complaint was dismissed and the said
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was ordered to return
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your
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Master on Pair
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of
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if he failed to do so.
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Your Peti
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and is employed
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of the
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Trade and the said
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Frother Complained that Your
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had not employed any
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Journey man to Assist and instruct him therein the contrary whereof your Petitioner will prove to be
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true And he also complained that Your Petitioner had employed him chiefly as a Potter and an Errand
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Boy but being interrogated As to Tracts could only remember with Precision once carrying a Parcel to the
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at
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About Fifty or One Hundred Yards Distance and two or three Times fetching from the
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Bale and Mouth Inn in London some trifling Presents sent from the County ti Your Petitioner by his friends
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Whereupon the said Justices upon the Oath of the said
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alone and without Dany other Proof and
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for us other Cause whatsoover to the Knowledge of Your Petitioner ordered the said
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to be
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discharged from his Apprenticeship to Your Petitioner and have as your Petitioner is informed and
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beleives given a Warrant or Certificate for such Discharge under their Hands and Seals
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Cooke Sofr. for Appellant
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Your Petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved by such Judgment and Determination
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of the said
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Burford Camper
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and
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John Sherwood
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Doth appeal therefrom
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to Your Worships and humbly prays that you will be pleased to order the said
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John Milton
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to appear at a certain Day to be appointed to hear and abide the
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Judgment and Determination of your Worships touching this your Petitioners
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said Appeal And in regard your Petitioners has not had Notice of the said
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Warrant or Certificate of
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the Discharger by Service of a Copy thereof your Petitioner
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further prays your Worships to order the said
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John Milton
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to produce the
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said Warrant or Certificate at the hearing of the said Appeal And that your
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Petitioners reasonable Costs in this behalf may be adjudged to him
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And your Petitioner shall Etc:
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