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<p n="271">To Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65481_n271-1">John Fielding</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65481_occ111">Knight</rs>
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and the others<lb></lb>
his Majesties Justices, at the general Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the peace, held at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65481_geo193">Guild Hall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in and for the City and liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65481_geo194">Westminster</rs>
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Assembled.</p>
<p n="272">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65481_n272-1">John Chase</rs>
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<p n="273"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth.</note>
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That your petitioner on the Thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of July One Thousand seven hundred and<lb></lb>
Sixty seven, did take by Indenture of Apprenticeship<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65481_n273-1">Michael Samson</rs>
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, to serve as an Apprentice, to<lb></lb>
the full End and Term of seven years, from the<lb></lb>
fifteenth day of June then last past</p>
<p n="274">That Quite Contrary to the Articles<lb></lb>
of his Indenture of <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65481_occ112">Apprenticeship</rs>
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, he has absented<lb></lb>
himself divers of times from your Petitioners<lb></lb>
service without any provocation for so doing</p>
<p n="275">That in the Month of July one Thousand<lb></lb>
Seven hundred and Sixty Eight, for absenting<lb></lb>
himself from your Petitioners Service, and for divers<lb></lb>
other misdemeanours, your Petitioner took him<lb></lb>
before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65481_n275-1">John Fielding</rs>
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Kinght, where with<lb></lb>
his own promise, of Amendment for the future<lb></lb>
and the recommendation of Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65481_n275-2">John Fielding</rs>
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<lb></lb>
your Petitioner became again reconciled to<lb></lb>
him</p>
<p n="276">That in the month of Augst. in the<lb></lb>
same year, he again absented himself from<lb></lb>
your Petitioners house for the space of one whole<lb></lb>
night, and was during that time with a Girl of</p>
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