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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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acting in and for the
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Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled
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The Humble Petition of
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Son of
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of the
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Parish of
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in the
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Watchmaker
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner with the Consent and Approbation
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of his said Father did by Indenture bearing date the fifteenth day
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of December which was in the Year of our Lord 1791 put himself
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Apprentice to
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Thomas Davis
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of
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Tottenham Court Road
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in the Parish
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of
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Saint Pancras
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in the said County
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Carpenter
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and Joiner to learn
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his Art and with him after the manner of an Apprentice to serve
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from the date thereof unto the full end and Term of Seven Years and
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the said
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Thomas Davis
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in Consideration of the sum of Twenty one
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pounds paid to him by the said
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Thomas Jackson
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did agree to teach and
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Instruct or Cause to be taught and instructed your Petitioner in
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the Art of a Carpenter Etc which he the said
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Thomas Davis
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then
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used by the best means that he could and to find unto your Petitioner
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sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and all other necessarys during
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the said Term, Cloaths washing and Mending excepted as by the said
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Indenture will more fully appear
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That in pursuance of the said Indenture your Petitioner
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served the said
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Thomas Davis
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as his
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Apprentice
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at his Workshop in
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Tottenham Court Road
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aforesaid in the said
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County of Middlesex
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until the Month of April in the Year 1793 about which time the said
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Thomas Davis
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was arrested and afterwards confined in the
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Kings
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Bench Prison
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and a Commission of Bankrupt was afterwards issued
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against him and all his Goods and Effects were Sold and your
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Petitioner had no certain Place of abode and was not in any manner
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Instructed as such Apprentice for many Months during the said
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Davis's being so confined in Prison
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That after the said
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Thomas Davis
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procured his Liberty
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from his Confinement he undertook many Jobs of Work as a
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in the Counties of Surrey Essex Etc
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without having any
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certain place of abode and your Petitioner was employed in such
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Jobs and suffered many great hardships thereby and the said Thomas
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