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upon his promise to behave himself well for the future.
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acquainted the Court that the said Boy had made it his practice to steal his Victuals &
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that he carried it to
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a very dissolute Fellow and a
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lived for sometime in Newgate with blind Cooper. Another of Mr. Thatchers
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whom Mr. Thatcher works for acquainted the Court that he was ready to make Affidt.
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(if require) That the said Parsley has not earnd Mr. Thatcher above 13 pence a
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blind Cooper in
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for sometime and had nothing to say in his defence as to the other
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matters he was chargd with And the Court being well satisfyd that the said Parsley
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is a notorious lewd idle fellow and keeps very bad Company It is Order'd that
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he be corrected in the presence of the rest of the Apprentices in this Hospital (which
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behave themselves but very indifferently since and that the said Lewis got drunk one night
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and took a Hackney Coach and endeavored to Cheat the Coachman of his FareThe said
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acknowledgd these things to be true but said he paid the Coachman suite And that
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he has had a sore Thumb which has linderd him from working but promissd to do his Work
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well for the futureThe said
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John Henwood
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not being a Court he being sent on in
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Errand by his Master nothing was done as to him but the said
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John Lewis
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was reprimanded
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by Mr.
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President
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and Order'd to return home to his Master
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