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<p n="824">To the Right Honourable <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ304">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n824-1">Thomas Hallifax</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ305">Knight</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ306">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo648">City of London</rs>
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And the Worshipfull<lb></lb>
the Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the<lb></lb>
said City at their General Quarter Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
Assembled</p>
<p n="825">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n825-1">Thomas Collins</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo649">Ball Alley</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo650">Lombard Street</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ307">Fishing<lb></lb>
Tackle maker</rs>
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<p n="826"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner on the fifth day of May One Thousand<lb></lb>
Seven Hundred and Seventy four took <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n826-1">William Joyce</rs>
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by Indenture<lb></lb>
as his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ308">Apprentice</rs>
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for the Term of Seven Years with whom he had the<lb></lb>
Sum of five Pounds and five Shillings</p>
<p n="827">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n827-1">William Joyce</rs>
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hath during the Term of his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15088_occ309">Apprenticeship</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15088_occ309" type="occupation" value="Apprenticeship"></interp>
been guilty of drivers misdemeanours (that is to say)<lb></lb>
Embezzling and spoiling the Goods of your Petitioner and refusing to<lb></lb>
do the necessary work of an Apprentice</p>
<p n="828">That on the fifteenth day of June One Thousand Seven<lb></lb>
Hundred and Seventy Six the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n828-1">William Joyce</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15088_n828-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Absented himself<lb></lb>
from the Service of your Petitioner without the leave and consent<lb></lb>
of your Petitioner and is now absent since which time the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n828-2">William Joyce</rs>
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hath Associated with celle and disorderly Persons<lb></lb>
and common Pickpockets and hath been consideration in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo651">Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15088_geo652">the Borough</rs>
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</p>
<p n="829">That your Petitioner therefore cannot with safety to<lb></lb>
himself take the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n829-1">William Joyce</rs>
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into his House<lb></lb>
by which means your Petitioners think himself Aggrieved</p>
<p n="830">Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly<lb></lb>
praythat he may<lb></lb>
be discharged from his Indenture to the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n830-1">William Joyce</rs>
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</p>
<p n="831">And your Petitioner will ever pray<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15088_n831-1">Thos. Collins</rs>
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</p>
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