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(to wit)</note>
To The Right Honourable<del>Robert</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n194-1">Thomas Harley</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ85">Lord Mayor</rs>
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and the rest of his Majesties Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo127">City of London</rs>
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at their Quarter Sessions of the<lb></lb>
Peace hold at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo128">Guildhall</rs>
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in and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo129">City of London</rs>
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<p n="195">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n195-1">John Fox</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n195-2">Francis Taxson</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n195-3">John Fox</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo130">Hanover Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo132">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ86">Staymaker</rs>
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<p n="196"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n196-1">Francis Fox</rs>
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in and by certain<lb></lb>
Indentures of Appreticeship bearing date on or about the sixteenth of<lb></lb>
March in ye year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty Four was<lb></lb>
bound <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ87">Apprentice</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n196-2">Richard Morphew</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo133">Maiden Lane</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo134">Covent Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ88">Jeweller</rs>
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to learn his Act or trade and with him after the manner of an<lb></lb>
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to serve from the day of the date of the said Indenture to the full end<lb></lb>
and term of seven years and by the said Indentures the sd <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n196-3">Richard Morphew</rs>
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in consideration of the sum of thirty five Pounds to him paid by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n196-4">John Fox</rs>
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the Father did not only Covenant to teach your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n196-5">Francis Fox</rs>
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the sd Art or<lb></lb>
Trade of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ90">Jeweller</rs>
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but also to find and Provide for him sufficeint meat drink<lb></lb>
Wasting and Lodging for an during the said Term</p>
<p n="197">That your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n197-1">Francis Fox</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ91">entered into the servcie</rs>
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of the sd Richd.<lb></lb>
Morphew and faithfully served him as his Apprentice under the sd. Indenture makth<lb></lb>
on or about the end of Novr. or the beginning of December last past when the sd. Richd.<lb></lb>
Morphew was Arrested and soon afterwards moved himself by Habeas Corpus into<lb></lb>
his Majestys Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo135">the Fleet</rs>
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and doth now remain a Prisoner in the Custody<lb></lb>
of the Warden of the said Prison charged with three Actions issued out of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15079_geo136">Marshalsea Court</rs>
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and the total swore to in those three Actions amount to as<lb></lb>
more than twenty three Pounds seven shillings and six pence</p>
<p n="198">That not with standing your Petitioner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n198-1">Francis Fox</rs>
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contained in the<lb></lb>
faithfull service and discharge of his duty as an <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15079_occ92">Apprentice</rs>
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with the sd Richd Morphew<lb></lb>
untill the said Richd. Morphew was Arrested and went to Prison as afsd. when your<lb></lb>
Petitioner was Obliged to go home to his Parents and is in manifest danger of<lb></lb>
receiving no benefit or advantage from the said Indenture to follow the said business<lb></lb>
or have any part of the consideration money returnd as the the sd. Richd. Morphew before<lb></lb>
and since his confinement as afsd. has be discontinued from being employed by any<lb></lb>
Person on Account of his indigent circumstances & now what wokrk is done is on<lb></lb>
his own Account and so soon as one peice of work is finished he sends his youngest<lb></lb>
Apprentice to Pawn the same under which circumstances shou'd your Petitioner Francis<lb></lb>
Fox be obliged to go back again to his said Master he is afraid and has reason to believe<lb></lb>
that he shall meat with ill treatment</p>
<p n="199">Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your worships to order<lb></lb>
him the said Francis Far to be discharged from ye sd. Indenture whereby he is<lb></lb>
so bound to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n199-1">Richd. Morphew</rs>
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as afsd. and that ye same may be cancelled<lb></lb>
or that your Worships will be pleased to make such other order as the nature<lb></lb>
of the pase may require and as to your Worships shall seem meet</p>
<p n="200">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc</p>
<p n="201"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n201-1">John Fox</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15079_n201-2">Frans. Fox</rs>
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