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At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King held at the
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Town Court House near Westmr. Hall in and for the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter
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Saturday to wit the tenth day of July in the sixteenth year of the Reign of
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out Sovereign Lord George the second now King of Great Britain France
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and others their Fellows Justices
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of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the peace within the said
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Liberty and also to hear and determine diver Felonies Trespasses and
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other Misdeeds done and Committed within the said Liberty
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Upon Reading the Humble Petition of
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James Leynham
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thereby shewing That the said Petitioner was an
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John Peter
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Vierne
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and had served him truly about five years and Nine months And the Condition of
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the Petitioner Indenture was he should learn the Trade of a Cabinet maker, but
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instead thereof that the Petitioner had been wholly Employed in making Picture
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Frames which business is not so good and beneficial as the other and that when
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the Petitioners Term is Expired he will be Intirely Ignorant of the Trade ir business
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to which he was Round.
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That the sd. Petitioner had not Necessarys fit for and Apprentice having only
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Bread and Beer and some times bread and water for several Meals in the Week
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It was therefore prayed that this Court would take his Case into Consideration
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and either Oblige the said
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Vierne to turn him over to some other Master
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in order to learn his Trade and be better provided for with necessarys of Else that this
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Court would be pleased to discharge him from his Indenture of Apprentice ship
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It was Ordered that the said
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Vierne should attend this Court this day
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at Nine of the Clock, in the forenoon to she cause why the said Apprentice
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should not be discharged from his Indenture of Apprentice hood and the said
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Vierne being duly served with a Copy of the said Petition and Order
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Attended this Court accordingly and upon a full hearing of the said Matter
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between the said Master & his said Apprentice and Examination of Several
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witnesses upon oath as well on the behalf of the said Master as of the said
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It appeared to this Court that the said
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Vierne had not
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found and provided for his said Apprentice sufficient and Necessary Provisions
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It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court that the said James Leynham the
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said apprentice be and he is hereby absolutely discharged from his said Indenture
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of Apprentice hood to the said
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Vierne And we whose hands and seals
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are hereunto set being four of his Majestys
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for the said Liberty
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(one of us being of the Quorum) present at the said sessions have pronounced and
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declared and do pronounce and declare that for the reasons aforesaid we have discharged
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and do accordingly discharge the said
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James Leynham
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of and from his Apprenticehood
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to the said
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Vierne and of and from the service of the said
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Vierne
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accordingly Dated under our hands and seals the tenth day of July in the year of
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Lord 1742
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