MIDDLESEX .

AT the General Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex ,
at the Session-House for the said County, (by adjournment)
on Thursday the twenty first Day of Februaryin
the Thirty ninthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc.

Whereas Catherine Gates< no role > of Poplar in the County of Middlesex Widow and
James Gates< no role > her Son; Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting
forth That the Petitioner James Gates< no role > by Indenture of Apprenticeship bearing date the first day of
december 1794 was bound an apprentice for the term of Seven Years to Robert Leach< no role > of
Shadwell in the said County Carpenter Ship Joiner and Cabinet maker : That the said Robert
Leach< no role > in consideration of the Sum of Twenty Pounds paid to him by the said Catherine Gates
Covenanted and Agreed to teach and instruct or cause the Petitioner James Gates< no role > to be taught
and instructed in the Art of a Carpenter Ship Joiner and Cabinet maker; which he then followed
reference to the said Indenture being thereunto had would morefully and at large appear
That the said James Gates< no role > had served the said Robert Leach< no role > under such Indenture from the
date thereof to the present period and still continued to serve him under the same; but the
instead of the said Robert Leach< no role > Performing the Covenants contained in the said Indenture
on his part and teaching the Petitioner James Gates< no role > the Principal part of the business [..]
had wholly neglected so to do nor was it in his power he having for Seven Months last
past been confined for Debt in the Marshalsea Prison by reason whereof and by other
misfortunes in Trade his said master was reduced to great distress and rendered incapable
of teaching the Petitioner his business pursuant to the conditions of the said Indenture
and that the petitioner the said James Gates< no role > had been obliged to go from place to place in
consequence of his Masters misfortunes endeavouring to get work for the purpose of procuring
subsistence for himself and the family of his said Master: whereby the Petitioners conceived
themselves aggrieved: and prayed the Court to take their case into consideration and discharged
the said James Gates< no role > from his Indenture of Apprenticeship to the said Robert Leach< no role > so that her
might be bound to another Master for the remainder of the said term, and order the [..]
Robert Leach< no role > to pay back to the said Catherine Gates such proportion of the said Sum of Twenty
Pounds given with the said James Gates< no role > as an Apprentice Fee to the said Robert Leach< no role > [..]
to the Court should seem meet Whereupon at the request of the said Petitioners It is Ordered
that the benefit of their said Appeal should be saved unto them and the hearing and determin [..]
thereof be and the same is hereby adjourned until the next General Quarter Session of the peace to be
holden for this County and on notice hereof in the mean time to be given unto the said Robert Leach< no role >
he and all persons concerned do attend the Court at the Session house aforesaid on Thursday the
fourth day of April next at the hour of nine in the forenoon of the same day to hear and abide the
Judgment and determination of the said Court touching the said Appeal

By the Court
Selby