that it was his Duty and Interest as an Apprentice to receive
Instruction but no part of that Duty to give it

That with a View to Terrify your Petitioner as he
and his Friends are now well Convinced into an Acquiescence
with the unjust Measurer of the said Deodatus Bye towards
Your Petitioner in with holding from him theproper
Instruction due to him as an Apprentice and to Compel him
to a Continuance at press work and at such Work to Assist
such Apprentice as the said Deodatus Bye proposed taking he
the said Deodatus Bye contrived and put in Execution the
following unjust plan and practices with respect to Your
Petitioner, that is to say,Your Petitioner with other the
Apprentices of the said Deodatus Bye< no role > and Henry Law< no role > partner
with the said Deodatus Bye< no role > on the 25th. day November
having as was frequent and unavoidable broker Holes in
three or four Pieces of old and Spoiled parchment which
attached to Printing presses are called Tympins the
original Cost of which amount only to a few Pence and the
Mending whereof is not attended with any Expence whatever
It was signified to Your Petitioner from the said Deodatus
Bye through the Medium of one of his Journeymen that he
had sent for a Constable and that Your Petitioner was to be
Apprehended on a charge which was the Same for
which several Spittlefield weavers some Years ago had been
Hung And that Your Petitioner and another Apprentice
named "James Cook< no role > " would be timed for this Offence at the
Old Baily and the best they were to expect was Transportation

That Your Petitioner though Unconscious of any
offence yet being greatly Terrified at such Threats of being
Apprehended and Tried precipitately left the said Deodatus