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Sheweth
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in and by certain
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Indentures of Appreticeship bearing date on or about the sixteenth of
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March in ye year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty Four was
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to serve from the day of the date of the said Indenture to the full end
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and term of seven years and by the said Indentures the sd
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Richard Morphew
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in consideration of the sum of thirty five Pounds to him paid by the said
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John Fox
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the Father did not only Covenant to teach your Petitioner
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Francis Fox
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but also to find and Provide for him sufficeint meat drink
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Wasting and Lodging for an during the said Term
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That your Petitioner
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Francis Fox
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Morphew and faithfully served him as his Apprentice under the sd. Indenture makth
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on or about the end of Novr. or the beginning of December last past when the sd. Richd.
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Morphew was Arrested and soon afterwards moved himself by Habeas Corpus into
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his Majestys Prison of
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and doth now remain a Prisoner in the Custody
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and the total swore to in those three Actions amount to as
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more than twenty three Pounds seven shillings and six pence
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That not with standing your Petitioner
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Francis Fox
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contained in the
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faithfull service and discharge of his duty as an
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with the sd Richd Morphew
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untill the said Richd. Morphew was Arrested and went to Prison as afsd. when your
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Petitioner was Obliged to go home to his Parents and is in manifest danger of
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receiving no benefit or advantage from the said Indenture to follow the said business
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or have any part of the consideration money returnd as the the sd. Richd. Morphew before
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and since his confinement as afsd. has be discontinued from being employed by any
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Person on Account of his indigent circumstances & now what wokrk is done is on
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his own Account and so soon as one peice of work is finished he sends his youngest
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Apprentice to Pawn the same under which circumstances shou'd your Petitioner Francis
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Fox be obliged to go back again to his said Master he is afraid and has reason to believe
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that he shall meat with ill treatment
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Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray your worships to order
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him the said Francis Far to be discharged from ye sd. Indenture whereby he is
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so bound to the said
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as afsd. and that ye same may be cancelled
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or that your Worships will be pleased to make such other order as the nature
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of the pase may require and as to your Worships shall seem meet
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc
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