Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session pacis [..] Due Regine tent
& com Middx apnd Hicks hall in St. John street in Com prd.
P adjorn die Mercur scilt decimo quarto die Aprilisanno regin
Due Anne Dei gra Magne Britanie Franc & Hibine
Regine Fidei Defensor Etc septimo coram Josepho offley< no role > Johe
Metcalfe< no role > Thoma Cullum< no role > Benjamino Hilton< no role > Aris & al socijs suis Justic
dce Due Regine ad pacem in Com prd. conservand necuon
ad divers felon tusgr & al malefacta eodom Com
P petrat audiend & terminand assign Etc

Upon the humble peticon of Margaret Berry< no role > exhibited into this
Court setting forth that she was by Indenture beareing date the
thirtyeth day of January in the yeare of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred & six put an Apprentice to thomas Butter feild< no role >
of Wapping in Stepney parish cane chairmaker & Sarah< no role > his
wife to learn his art and with him after the manner of an
Apprentice to serve for the terme of six yeares comenceing
from the day of the date of the sd. Indenture, And that the said
Thomas Butter feild< no role > & his wife have barbarously beaten &
abused the Petr. & [..] not allowed her comon necessarys, and
that the sd. Thomas Butterfeild< no role > was therefore sumoned before
John Steuart< no role > Esqr. one of her Maties. Justices of the peace for this
County who for want of good conformity in the said Thomas
Butterfeild< no role > could not compound & agree the matter between
him & the sd. Apprentice and therefore caused the said
Thomas Butterfeild< no role > to be bound in a recognizance taken
before him the sd. John Stenart< no role > to appeare at this present
Generall Quarter Sessions of the peace held for this County
to answer the premisses It was therefore prayed by the
Petr. that she might be discharged from her Sd. apprentice hood
Now upon heareing of what was insisted on by the Petr. & alsoe
by the sd. Thomas Butterfeild< no role > & his wife & their respective
Councell This Court saw noe just cause to discharge the Petr.
from her sd. apprentice hood for any of the facts suggested
in her sd. peticon But on produceing the sd. Indenture of
apprenticehood It appeareing to this Court that the Petr. was
not thereby bound Apprentice for the terme of seven yeares
as the law in such case directs This Court is of opinion that
the sd. Indenture is voyd & of noe effect, and doth therefore