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<p n="1139">To the Worshipful Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ329">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo713">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session Assembled</p>
<p n="1140">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1140-1">Richard Watson</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo714">Saint Anne</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ330">Glazies</rs>
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<p n="1141"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That on or about the Twenty Third day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven<lb></lb>
Hundred and Sixty Eight <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1141-1">John Milton</rs>
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did find himself Apprentice by Indenture to your Petitioner<lb></lb>
to learn his Art and with him after the manner of an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ331">Apprentice</rs>
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to some from the Day of the Date thereof<lb></lb>
for the Term of Seven Years in which said Indenture was contained the Covenants usual in such<lb></lb>
Indentures of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ332">Apprenticeship</rs>
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as well on the said John Miltons behalf as your Petitioners</p>
<p n="1142">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-1">John Milton</rs>
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immediately entered into your Petitioners Service as his Apprentice and<lb></lb>
continued therein untill the Month of May last past or thereabouts during which Time he committed<lb></lb>
many Misdemeanors in his Service and particularly in the said Month of May last or thereabouts<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-2">John Milton</rs>
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having been guilty of a flagrant Action of Obscenity to your Petitioners<lb></lb>
Domestick Woman Servant who complained to your Petitioner thereof your Petitioners to correct the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-3">John Milton</rs>
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and to reform and amend his Manners and to prevent his committing the like Offence<lb></lb>
infuture did as it was lawfull for him to do moderately chastise and beat the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-4">John Milton</rs>
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which occasioned an Application to be made by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-5">John Milton</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-6">John Sherwood</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ333">Esqr</rs>
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. one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ334">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo715">County of Middlesex</rs>
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complaining of being violently<lb></lb>
Assaulted and immediately corrected when Your Petitioner Appearance before the said Justice and no such Violence<lb></lb>
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as complained of appearing and the said John Miltons obsene Bohaviour being proved to the<lb></lb>
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Satisfaction the Complaint was dismissed and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-7">John Milton</rs>
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was ordered to return<lb></lb>
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your<obscured></obscured>
Master on Pair<obscured></obscured>
of<obscured></obscured>
if he failed to do so.<lb></lb>
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Your Peti<obscured></obscured>
and is employed<obscured></obscured>
of the<lb></lb>
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Trade and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-8">John Milton</rs>
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Frother Complained that Your<obscured></obscured>
had not employed any<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Journey man to Assist and instruct him therein the contrary whereof your Petitioner will prove to be<lb></lb>
true And he also complained that Your Petitioner had employed him chiefly as a Potter and an Errand<lb></lb>
Boy but being interrogated As to Tracts could only remember with Precision once carrying a Parcel to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo716">New River</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50634_geo717">Limehouse</rs>
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About Fifty or One Hundred Yards Distance and two or three Times fetching from the<lb></lb>
Bale and Mouth Inn in London some trifling Presents sent from the County ti Your Petitioner by his friends<lb></lb>
Whereupon the said Justices upon the Oath of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-9">John Milton</rs>
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alone and without Dany other Proof and<lb></lb>
for us other Cause whatsoover to the Knowledge of Your Petitioner ordered the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1142-10">John Milton</rs>
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to be<lb></lb>
discharged from his Apprenticeship to Your Petitioner and have as your Petitioner is informed and<lb></lb>
beleives given a Warrant or Certificate for such Discharge under their Hands and Seals</p>
<p n="1143"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Cooke Sofr. for Appellant</note>
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Your Petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved by such Judgment and Determination<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1143-1">Burford Camper</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1143-2">John Sherwood</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50634_occ335">Esquires</rs>
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Doth appeal therefrom<lb></lb>
to Your Worships and humbly prays that you will be pleased to order the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1143-3">John Milton</rs>
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to appear at a certain Day to be appointed to hear and abide the<lb></lb>
Judgment and Determination of your Worships touching this your Petitioners<lb></lb>
said Appeal And in regard your Petitioners has not had Notice of the said<lb></lb>
Warrant or Certificate of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Discharger by Service of a Copy thereof your Petitioner<lb></lb>
further prays your Worships to order the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50634_n1143-4">John Milton</rs>
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to produce the<lb></lb>
said Warrant or Certificate at the hearing of the said Appeal And that your<lb></lb>
Petitioners reasonable Costs in this behalf may be adjudged to him</p>
<p n="1144">And your Petitioner shall Etc:</p>
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