Middlesex

Geo Booth

At the General Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King holden in and for the County of
Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street
by adjournment on Thursday the seventeenth
day of September in the eighteenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain Etc Before Sir John Hawkins< no role >
Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet
Thomas Brooksbank< no role > Charles Sheppard< no role > Esquires
and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord
the King of signed to keep the Peace in the County
aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers
felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours
Committed in the same County

Thos. Brooksbank< no role >

Chas. Sheppard< no role >

Wilnor

Whereas George Brigham< no role > Hath at this present Session Exhibited
his Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Indenture of Apprenticeship
bearing date the twenty sixth day of February one thousand seven
hundred and seventy six one Joseph Smith< no role > a poor Boy of the parish
of [..] Lawrence in the Borough of Reading in the County of Birks became
bound an Apprentice to the Petitioner to learn the Art of a Taylor for the
term of seven years and that the Sum of ten pounds was paid to the
Petitioner as an Apprentice for as by the said Indenture will more fully
appear That the Petitioners said Apprentice has of late at four different
times Eloped from the Petitioners Service and has since declared that he
will not learn his Trade nor stay with the Petitioner and that while he does
stay with the Petitioner he will do him all the Injury he can The
Petitioner is Apprehensive that his said Apprentice from staying out of his
House has contracted some bad companions and that from such connections
it will be dangerous to suffer him to continue in his house any longer and
praying relief Etc Now upon hearing the said Appeal in the presence and hearing
of the said Joseph Smith< no role > and the said George Brigham and It appearing
unto this Court that the substance of the said Petition is true It is ordered
that the said George Brigham< no role > be and he is hereby absolutely discharged from
his said Apprentice In Testimony whereof we four of the Justices present
in the said Session at the making the said Order of discharge as aforesaid
Have hereunto set own hands and Seals the nineteenth day of September
in the eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third
King of Great Britain Etc and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and seventy eight