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May 1796

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General 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, ()
on Monday the TenthDay of May in
the Thirty sixthYear of the Reign of our S overeign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , Rupert
Clarke
< no role > , William Clexton< no role >
Esquires , and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.

Whereas George Darley< no role > an apprentice to John Tirrell< no role > Did at the last General Session of the
peace held in and for this County Exhibit his Petition and Appeal setting forth That by Indentures of
Apprenticeship bearing date the 18th. day of October 1792 the Petitioner was bound Apprentice
for seven years to John Tirrell< no role > of Stephen Street in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the County
of Middlesex Carpenter That the said John Tirrell< no role > in Consideration of twenty pounds paid to him by the Petitioners
Fathers Covenanted promised and agreed to teach and instruct or cause the petitioner to be taught
and instructed the art of a Carpenter Joiner and Surveyor and any other Business appertaining to
Building which he followed as by the said Indenture reference being thereto had will appear That the
Petitioner had served the said John Tirrell under such Indenture from the date thereof to the present time
and still continued to serve him under the same but that in stead of the said John Tirrells performing
the Covenant in the said Indenture on his part and teaching the Petitioner the Art of a Carpenter
Joiner and of a Surveyor as by his said Covenant he underlook to do he the said John Tirrell< no role > had whole
neglected to learn him the said Arts and had only employed the petitioner in cleaning Bricks
screening rubbish making Mortar and carrying bricks and mortar of the Bricklayers and clearing at
Foundations which the Petitioner humbly submitted was the business of a Bricklayer's labourer and not
of an Apprentice bound to learn the Art of a Carpenter Joiner and of a Surveyor and that the said
John Terrill had in other respects ill treated the Petitioner in his Apprenticeship whereby the Petitioner
conceived himself aggrieved and prayed to the discharged from his Apprenticeship and that the said
John Tirrell< no role > should pay back to the Petitioner such proportion of the said sum of twenty pounds
given with him as an Apprentice Fee as should seem meet: which said appeal stood duly adjourned
until this day Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective
Parties their Counsel and Witnesses in and concerning the Premises It is Ordered that the said
Appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed

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