Middlesex
To the Worshipfull
William Manwaring< no role >
Esquire
and the rest of his Bretheren Justices of
our Lord the King Assigned to keep the peace in and
for the County of Middlesex
In Quarter Session Assembled.
The humble Petition of Jane Stewoud the natural and
lawful Mother of James Steward< no role >
Sheweth
That by Indentures of Apprenticeship bearing date on or about
the Twenty eighth day of May 1793. the said
James Steward< no role >
of his
Own Voluntary Will and Cry and with the Cousact of your Petitioner
his said Mother did put himself Apprentice to
James Taylor< no role >
of the
Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
Watch maker
for the Tenn of Seven
YearsThat in Consideration of the Sum of Ten pounds to him the
said
James Taylor< no role >
then paid He did ley the said Indenture
Coseuant that He would during the said Tenn of Seven Years team
and Instruct the said
James Steward< no role >
in the Trade and business
of a Watchmaker
which to the said
James Taylor< no role >
then used and
Would find and provide for his said Apprentice Sufficient meat
driven and Lodging.
That the said James Stewond< no role >
was oblidged for the space
of a Year and a half to sleep with three other Apprentices of the
said James Taylor< no role >
in one Bed upon the Floor and during all
that trial laid only three clean fleets.
That instead of finding the said James [..] Steward< no role >
with good and sufficient meat and drinch the said James Taylor< no role >
from Poverty was unable to procure meat insounch that very
frequently for many Days together the said James Taylor< no role >
fed.
his Apprentices on Bread and Potatoes only.
That Instead of teaching the said James Steward< no role >
the
Trade of a Watchmaker
the said James Taylor< no role >
Chiefly employ
him in going of Errands on his ours private Concurns and in
carrying things to Pawn.
That the said James Taylor< no role >
for the space of two Months
and upwards has been confined in the Prison of Newgate
for
Debt and has been Released from theme only about a Week
ago but Where he now dwells this Deponent doth not know
not Can learn altho she hath made enquiry for that purpose