Middlesex
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King holden in and for the County of
Middlesex
at the Session House for the said
County (by adjournment) on Wednesday the
Fifth day of August in the Thirty fifth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain Etc.
Whereas William Copson< no role >
an apprentice of Robert Jones< no role >
late of
Warwick Street near Charing Cross
in the said County Leather
Trunk maker but now a Prisoner in the Kings Bench Prison Hath
at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth
That by Indentures of Apprenticeship bearing date on or about the
15th. day of december 1792 He was bound Apprentice to the abovenamed
Robert Jones< no role >
for the Term of Seven Years and the said Robert Jones< no role >
in
consideration of Ten pounds to him paid by the Petitioners Father
at the time of the Execution of the said Indentures Covenanted to teach
and instruct or cause to be taught and instructed the Petitioner in the
Art or Business of a Leather Trunk Maker which he then used and
carried on in Warwick Street aforesaid That the Petitioner served the
said Robert Jones< no role >
under such Indentures from the date thereof down
to the Month of May last when the said Robert Jones< no role >
was Arrested
and was afterwards committed to the Kings Bench Prison where he
now remains a Prisoner. That the said Robert Jones< no role >
had not
lately kept any Journeyman to Assist him in his business since she
had been in confinement and the Petitioner had gone daily to the
Kings Bench Prison aforesaid where he had continued some times the
whole day in business the said Robert Jones< no role >
not having business for
him to do whereby the petitioner was wholly prevented from attaining
to any degree of knowledge in the branch of business which the
said Robert Jones< no role >
undertook to teach him and should the
Petitioner continue in the same state of Indolence and Inactivity
he was fearful he should lose the benefit of what he had already
attained in the said business; That the Petitioners Father would
undertake to provide a proper master for him if he was discharged