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<p n="14"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.Ss</note>
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To the Right Worshipfull his Maties <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65356_occ3">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City and Libty of Westmr in Quarter Sessions Assembled.</p>
<p n="15">The Humble Peticon of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65356_n15-1">George Allatt</rs>
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ye <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65356_occ4">Son</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65356_n15-2">Thomas Allatt</rs>
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of the parish of St.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo4">Martins in the feilds</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo5">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65356_occ5">Coachmaker</rs>
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<p n="16"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That on the 20th. day of June 1717 your Peticoners was sent out<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
apprentice to<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65356_n16-1">Coull Wray</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65356_occ6">Linen draper</rs>
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for Years and on the 5th. of November last Your Petr.<lb></lb>
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was by the Consent of all partyee turnd over to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65356_n16-2">Walter Watkins</rs>
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a Linen<lb></lb>
draper<obscured></obscured>
Peltmell to whom your Peticoners father spaid the sume of 30th, on that Account</p>
<p n="17">That Virtue the 27th. of April last about half an hour past Eight at Night Your Peticoner<lb></lb>
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desired fice Mistress (his Master not being there) to give him le abe to go into <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo6">the strand</rs>
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which she did & desired him to Callat the 3 June in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo7">Chandeis Street</rs>
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& see if her husband was<lb></lb>
their, which your Peticoner<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
did accordingly, but his Master not being there he went to see<lb></lb>
a friend at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo8">Thistle</rs>
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and Crown in <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65356_geo9">Charles Court in the Strand</rs>
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but not finding him yor Petr.<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
went<lb></lb>
directly to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his Consent house at the Newse Gate where he stayd till about a Quarter after nine<lb></lb>
of the Clock and then he went to his Misters house, when he Came there he found his Master<lb></lb>
Standing at the Door who asked him where he had been, but without staying, for an Answer at the same<lb></lb>
instant with his first gave him such a Violent blew on his face and Nose that he verily believes<lb></lb>
he Cost against of blood, but not Content with that gave him a great many other blowe about his<lb></lb>
head and face, whereupon his Masters Wife hearing your Peticoner<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Cry out in a Violent<lb></lb>
Marine Came out of a back parlour desired him to sell her husband where he had been wh<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
he said as seen as he was able & she likewise told her husband that She had given him Isaac<lb></lb>
to go out yett notwithstanding he Continued still to strike him, and with his first gave him<lb></lb>
such a Violent blow upon his right Eye that your Peticoner<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
thought his Eye had been strike<lb></lb>
out, after his Master had given him that blew, he went and Lock'd the door & Comanded him to<lb></lb>
bed, but your Peticoner<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
being very ill and feverish by reason of the blowe he had received<lb></lb>
but particularly that on his Eye, went the next Morning to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his father house where he<lb></lb>
was so ill of it that he did go abroad till the 17th of May last, Except the next Morning<lb></lb>
when your Petioconer gett a Warrant against<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
his said Master for this barbarous usage<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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<p n="18">That your Peticoner humbly Apprehend the Law never intended to allow any<lb></lb>
Master the Liberty of treating his Servant with such unreasonable Severity and forasmuch<lb></lb>
as Your Peticoner deed really believe yt. the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
may be us'd much worse, if not in danger of<lb></lb>
his life, if he Shed. Continue with his Master</p>
<p n="19">Your Peticoner therefore humbly prays<lb></lb>
Your Worships that you will be pleasd' to make an<lb></lb>
order to discharge<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
him from his said master & that<lb></lb>
so much of the said Thirty Pounds which your Pe<obscured></obscured>
one father<lb></lb>
paid with him to his said Master may be return'd to<lb></lb>
Your Peticoners father as your Worshipps shall think reasonsable</p>
<p n="20">And your Peticoner shall ever<lb></lb>
pray Etc</p>
<p n="21"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65356_n21-1">George Allatt</rs>
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