To Sir John Fielding< no role > Knight and the others
his Majesties Justices, at the general Quarter
Sessions of the peace, held at the Guild Hall
in and for the City and liberty of Westminster
Assembled.

The humble Petition of John Chase< no role >

Sheweth.

That your petitioner on the Thirteenth
day of July One Thousand seven hundred and
Sixty seven, did take by Indenture of Apprenticeship
Michael Samson< no role > , to serve as an Apprentice, to
the full End and Term of seven years, from the
fifteenth day of June then last past

That Quite Contrary to the Articles
of his Indenture of Apprenticeship , he has absented
himself divers of times from your Petitioners
service without any provocation for so doing

That in the Month of July one Thousand
Seven hundred and Sixty Eight, for absenting
himself from your Petitioners Service, and for divers
other misdemeanours, your Petitioner took him
before Sir John Fielding< no role > Kinght, where with
his own promise, of Amendment for the future
and the recommendation of Sir John Fielding< no role >
your Petitioner became again reconciled to
him

That in the month of Augst. in the
same year, he again absented himself from
your Petitioners house for the space of one whole
night, and was during that time with a Girl of