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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
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Lord the King Holden in and for the
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at the Session House for the said County
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(by adjournment) on Thursday the Twenty third day
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of June in the Thirty sixth year of the Reign of
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our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
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Britain Etc.
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William Palmer
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Hath at this present Session Exhibited
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his petition and Appeal setting forth That by Indentures of Apprenticeship bearing
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Date the 9th. Day of August 1793 The Petitioner was bound Apprentice for
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seven years to
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of Streatham Street in the
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in the
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Plater and Founder and in Consideration
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of £20. paid to him by the Petitioners Father he Covenanted to teach and
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instruct the Petitioner in the Act of a Plater and Founder which he followed
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as by the said Indenture would appear. That the said
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had divers
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times behaved towards the Petitioner with great Cruelty by violently Assaulting
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and Beating him without any just Cause and otherwise ill treated him by
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refusing an neglecting to find and provide him with necessary Food and by
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neglecting to teach him his Trade. That the said
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having on the
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20th. Day of June Instant violently and maliciously Assaulted Beat and Bruised
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the Petitioner in and upon his Head Neck Shoulders and divers parts of his Body
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with a Stick without any cause or provocation whatsoever on the Petitioners past
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for Protection who thereupon caused the said
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to come before him to answer the said Complaint and upon
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to find Sureties to answer the same at the present Session and advise
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the Petitioner to apply to your Worships for Redress and directed the Petitioner
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Father to take him under his protection until the hearing and determining
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of the said Complaint whereby the petitioner conceived himself aggrieved and
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prayed to be discharged from his said Apprenticeship Whereupon at the request of
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the said Petitioner It is Ordered that the Benefit of his said Appeal should be saved
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unto him and the hearing and determining thereof be and the same is hereby
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Adjourned until the next General Session of the peace to be holden for his County
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