she was then Pregnant with a Child or Children likely to be
born a Bastard or Bastards

That the said Officers of Hendon when they applied to
your Petitioner as aforesaid desired your Petitioner to take the said
Sarah Wallis< no role > again into his Service which your Petitioner refused
to do on account of her long absence and misbehaviour particularly
her then disgraceful State of Pregnancy whereupon your Petitioner was
Summoned to appear before the sitting Justices at the Publick
Office in Bow Street Covent Garden in the said County of Middlesex
to answer the Complaint of the said Sarah Wallis< no role > and upon his
appearance there he still refused for the reasons aforesaid to
receive her again into his Service whereupon the said Justices
bound your Petitioner in a Recognizance to appear at the last
General Sessions of the Peace which was held for the said County and your
Petitioner appeared accordingly in this Court on the County
day of the said last General Sessions in expectation that this
Court would have heard the said Sarah Wallis< no role > (she being
then present) and also your Petitioner upon the matters of
complaint that he then appeared to answer and that this
Court would thereupon have Discharged the said Sarah
Wallis< no role > from her Apprenticeship but in stead thereof this
Court (as your Petitioner then understood) referred the matter back
to two Justices out of Sessions whereupon your Petitioner
went with the said Sarah Wallis< no role > before the sitting Justices
at the said Publick Office in Bow Street , and after two
hearings there on two different days before Nicholas Bond< no role >
and John Bond< no role > Esquires two of the said Justices your
Petitioner was again, that is to say on the Eighth day of
December last, bound in Recognizance to appear at the present
Sessions and answer the Complaint of the said Sarah Wallis< no role >
And the said two Justices in the same Eighth day December
last Determined or Ordered (but did not to your Petitioners
Knowledge make any Order in Writing) that your Petitioner
should