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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our<lb></lb>
Lord the King Holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo217">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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at the Session House for the said County<lb></lb>
(by adjournment) on Thursday the Twenty third day<lb></lb>
of June in the Thirty sixth year of the Reign of<lb></lb>
our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great<lb></lb>
Britain Etc.</p>
<p n="207">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-1">William Palmer</rs>
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Hath at this present Session Exhibited<lb></lb>
his petition and Appeal setting forth That by Indentures of Apprenticeship bearing<lb></lb>
Date the 9th. Day of August 1793 The Petitioner was bound Apprentice for<lb></lb>
seven years to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-2">John Stephens</rs>
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of Streatham Street in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo218">Parish of St. George<lb></lb>
Bloomsbury</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo219">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Plater and Founder and in Consideration<lb></lb>
of £20. paid to him by the Petitioners Father he Covenanted to teach and<lb></lb>
instruct the Petitioner in the Act of a Plater and Founder which he followed<lb></lb>
as by the said Indenture would appear. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-3">John Stephens</rs>
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had divers<lb></lb>
times behaved towards the Petitioner with great Cruelty by violently Assaulting<lb></lb>
and Beating him without any just Cause and otherwise ill treated him by<lb></lb>
refusing an neglecting to find and provide him with necessary Food and by<lb></lb>
neglecting to teach him his Trade. That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-4">John Stephens</rs>
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having on the<lb></lb>
20th. Day of June Instant violently and maliciously Assaulted Beat and Bruised<lb></lb>
the Petitioner in and upon his Head Neck Shoulders and divers parts of his Body<lb></lb>
with a Stick without any cause or provocation whatsoever on the Petitioners past<lb></lb>
The petitioner applied to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-5">Nicholas Bond</rs>
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Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo220">County of Middlesex</rs>
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for Protection who thereupon caused the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-6">John Stephens</rs>
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to come before him to answer the said Complaint and upon<lb></lb>
hearing the said Complaint the said Justice ordered and directed the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n207-7">John<lb></lb>
Stephens</rs>
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to find Sureties to answer the same at the present Session and advise<lb></lb>
the Petitioner to apply to your Worships for Redress and directed the Petitioner<lb></lb>
Father to take him under his protection until the hearing and determining<lb></lb>
of the said Complaint whereby the petitioner conceived himself aggrieved and<lb></lb>
prayed to be discharged from his said Apprenticeship Whereupon at the request of<lb></lb>
the said Petitioner It is Ordered that the Benefit of his said Appeal should be saved<lb></lb>
unto him and the hearing and determining thereof be and the same is hereby<lb></lb>
Adjourned until the next General Session of the peace to be holden for his County</p>
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