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<p n="178">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50926_occ50">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo189">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in general<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="179">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n179-1">Thomas Robert<lb></lb>
Jackson</rs>
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Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n179-2">Thomas Jackson</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo190">Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo191">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50926_occ51">Watchmaker</rs>
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<p n="180"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner with the Consent and Approbation<lb></lb>
of his said Father did by Indenture bearing date the fifteenth day<lb></lb>
of December which was in the Year of our Lord 1791 put himself<lb></lb>
Apprentice to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n180-1">Thomas Davis</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo192">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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in the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo193">Saint Pancras</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50926_occ52">Carpenter</rs>
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and Joiner to learn<lb></lb>
his Art and with him after the manner of an Apprentice to serve<lb></lb>
from the date thereof unto the full end and Term of Seven Years and<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n180-2">Thomas Davis</rs>
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in Consideration of the sum of Twenty one<lb></lb>
pounds paid to him by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n180-3">Thomas Jackson</rs>
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did agree to teach and<lb></lb>
Instruct or Cause to be taught and instructed your Petitioner in<lb></lb>
the Art of a Carpenter Etc which he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n180-4">Thomas Davis</rs>
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then<lb></lb>
used by the best means that he could and to find unto your Petitioner<lb></lb>
sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging and all other necessarys during<lb></lb>
the said Term, Cloaths washing and Mending excepted as by the said<lb></lb>
Indenture will more fully appear</p>
<p n="181">That in pursuance of the said Indenture your Petitioner<lb></lb>
served the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n181-1">Thomas Davis</rs>
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as his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50926_occ53">Apprentice</rs>
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at his Workshop in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo194">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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aforesaid in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo195">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
until the Month of April in the Year 1793 about which time the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n181-2">Thomas Davis</rs>
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was arrested and afterwards confined in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo196">Kings<lb></lb>
Bench Prison</rs>
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and a Commission of Bankrupt was afterwards issued<lb></lb>
against him and all his Goods and Effects were Sold and your<lb></lb>
Petitioner had no certain Place of abode and was not in any manner<lb></lb>
Instructed as such Apprentice for many Months during the said<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Davis's being so confined in Prison</p>
<p n="182">That after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50926_n182-1">Thomas Davis</rs>
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procured his Liberty<lb></lb>
from his Confinement he undertook many Jobs of Work as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50926_occ54">Carpenter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Counties of Surrey Essex Etc<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50926_geo197">Hampshire</rs>
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without having any<lb></lb>
certain place of abode and your Petitioner was employed in such<lb></lb>
Jobs and suffered many great hardships thereby and the said Thomas</p>
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