To the Worshipful his Majestys Justices of the Peace
acting in and for the County of Middlesex in general
Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled

The Humble Petition of Thomas Robert
Jackson< no role > Son of Thomas Jackson< no role > of the
Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the
County of Middlesex Watchmaker

Sheweth

That your Petitioner with the Consent and Approbation
of his said Father did by Indenture bearing date the fifteenth day
of December which was in the Year of our Lord 1791 put himself
Apprentice to Thomas Davis< no role > of Tottenham Court Road in the Parish
of Saint Pancras in the said County Carpenter and Joiner to learn
his Art and with him after the manner of an Apprentice to serve
from the date thereof unto the full end and Term of Seven Years and
the said Thomas Davis< no role > in Consideration of the sum of Twenty one
pounds paid to him by the said Thomas Jackson< no role > did agree to teach and
Instruct or Cause to be taught and instructed your Petitioner in
the Art of a Carpenter Etc which he the said Thomas Davis< no role > then
used by the best means that he could and to find unto your Petitioner
sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and all other necessarys during
the said Term, Cloaths washing and Mending excepted as by the said
Indenture will more fully appear

That in pursuance of the said Indenture your Petitioner
served the said Thomas Davis< no role > as his Apprentice at his Workshop in
Tottenham Court Road aforesaid in the said County of Middlesex
until the Month of April in the Year 1793 about which time the said
Thomas Davis< no role > was arrested and afterwards confined in the Kings
Bench Prison and a Commission of Bankrupt was afterwards issued
against him and all his Goods and Effects were Sold and your
Petitioner had no certain Place of abode and was not in any manner
Instructed as such Apprentice for many Months during the said [..]
Davis's being so confined in Prison

That after the said Thomas Davis< no role > procured his Liberty
from his Confinement he undertook many Jobs of Work as a Carpenter
in the Counties of Surrey Essex Etc [..] Hampshire without having any
certain place of abode and your Petitioner was employed in such
Jobs and suffered many great hardships thereby and the said Thomas