Middlesex

To the Worshipful his Majestys Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex in their General quarter
Sessions of the Peace holden for the said County in the
Month of July One Thousand Seven Hundered and Eighty
Nine - Assembled

The Humble Petition of Charles Halsted< no role > apprentice
to John Godfrey< no role > of the Parish of Saint James Westminster
in the said County of Middlesex Haberdasher

Sheweth

That he was bound an apprentice by Indenture
to John Godfrey< no role > of the parish of Saint James Westminster
aforesaid Haberdasher And that he she said John
Godfrey< no role > hath misused and ill created him the said
Apprentice And Particularly That he has several times
struck and kicked the petitioner and otherwise cruelly
treated him upon the most slight occasions And that
one sunday when the said John Godfrey< no role > was going into
the County he desired the said Petitioner to take a parell
into the City in order to prevent him the petitioner from
going to see his Friends on that Day That where the
said John Godfrey< no role > had set off for the County the petitioner
immediately took the said parcel to the place directed
by the said John Godfrey< no role > and returned Back in our Hou [..]
and a Greater when he former the said John Godfrey< no role > had
returned who immediately came up to him the petitioner
and said God Damn you you sen of a Bitch where have
you been and immediately struck the petitioner several
Times over the Body and Face [..]
[..] and Cut the