Per Week and frequently was obliged to go on the Lords Day to same of then
to get Payment And your Petitioner is very deficient in his Business not
having been put to or learnt any thing of the Cabinet or Upholstery Businesses
and has only been put to making Deal Tables

That your Petitioner having nothing to do and having refused to-
carry things off the Premises clandestinely was very much abused by the
said Andrew Gilchrist< no role > Wife who is apt to get very often in Liquor was-
advised by Mr Squib the Anctioner that of your Petitioner had any Friends to
go to them and not continue with such people And Your Petitioner about the
17th Day of December last went to his Friends where he still is

That your Petitioner is in great hopes he an procure a person in the said
Businesses to take your Petitioner for the remainder of the said Term but not
without some Money

That your Petitioners Brother has often applied to the said Andrew
Glichrist< no role > to discharge Your Petitioner or to Turn your Petitioner over but he
refused and insisted Your Petitioner should bring his Chest of Tools which
Your Petitioner Purchased with his own Money to the Fleat Prison to Work there
as the said Andrew Gilchrist< no role > said they covid serve them both to Work with he
not h [..] any Tools of his own Vizt Your Petitioners Friends advised your
Petitioner not to do so the said Andrew Gilchrist< no role > not hearing any Business to do
And as Your Petitioner humbly Conceives a very improper place for Your Petitioner
to Work or be in

That Your Petitioner hath served the said Andrew Gilchrist< no role >
faithfully and honestly from the said 17th day of November 1789 to the 17th.
day of December last Except about 6 Weeks Your Petitioner having broke
a Blood Vessel when Your Petitioner went to his Mother thinking to be taken
more are of and was at your Petitioners Mother Expences.

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays
Your Worships to discharge Your Petitioner from his
said Apprenticeship or that the said Andrew Gilchrist< no role >
may Assign over Your Petitioner to another Person
of the same Trade for the Remainder of the said
Term of Seven years and that he refund so much
and such part of the said Sum of 15 Guineas the
Money so given with Your Petitioner as the