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To Sir
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John Fielding
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and the others
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his Majesties Justices, at the general Quarter
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Sessions of the peace, held at the
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Guild Hall
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in and for the City and liberty of
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Westminster
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Assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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John Chase
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Sheweth.
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That your petitioner on the Thirteenth
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day of July One Thousand seven hundred and
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Sixty seven, did take by Indenture of Apprenticeship
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Michael Samson
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, to serve as an Apprentice, to
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the full End and Term of seven years, from the
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fifteenth day of June then last past
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That Quite Contrary to the Articles
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of his Indenture of
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Apprenticeship
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, he has absented
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himself divers of times from your Petitioners
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service without any provocation for so doing
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That in the Month of July one Thousand
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Seven hundred and Sixty Eight, for absenting
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himself from your Petitioners Service, and for divers
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other misdemeanours, your Petitioner took him
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before Sir
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John Fielding
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Kinght, where with
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his own promise, of Amendment for the future
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and the recommendation of Sir
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John Fielding
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your Petitioner became again reconciled to
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him
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That in the month of Augst. in the
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same year, he again absented himself from
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your Petitioners house for the space of one whole
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night, and was during that time with a Girl of
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