Your Petitioners Friends namely the Father and
Mother of your Petitioner are advised by persons of long
Experience in the Trade of a Printer That your Petitioner
without a Knowledge of Case WorkYour Petitionercan never
enter upon or set up the Printing Business with any Skill or
Competency for the acquiring his Livelihood therein and that
The Knowledge of Press work Confers no other Qualification on
Your Petitioner that that of common Labourer or Drudge in a
Printer Office

That though as will appear from the date of the
said Indentures and Calculating to the present time the greater
part of Your Petitioners Apprenticeship is run out Yet in all
that time Your Petitioner sheweth and is ready to Prove the
said Deodatus Bye< no role > hath with held instructing Your Petitioner
Causing time to be Instructed at Case Work though repeated
applied to for that purpose and Sollicited for such Instruction
but the said Deodatus Bye< no role > hath always avoided and refused
the same and during all that time hath only kept him unemployed
at press.

That the said Deodatus Bye< no role > far from attending to the
Sollicitations of Your Petitioner that he might be but to case Work
and on the Contrary showing an intent and determination to
persist in the Continuance of Your Petitioner at Press work [..]
lately Order Your Petitioner to take upon him the Instruction
of same other Apprentice whom the said Deodatus Bye< no role > was
about to Engage to which Your Petitioner by the advice and
direction of his said friends objected alledging that so fore from
being able to Instruct another Your Petitioner was in want of
Instruction himself at the same time submitting to the said
Deodatus Bye< no role > the necessity to being put to Case Work as also