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the Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
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said City at their General Quarter Session of the Peace
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The Humble Petition of
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That your Petitioner on the fifth day of May One Thousand
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Seven Hundred and Seventy four took
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by Indenture
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for the Term of Seven Years with whom he had the
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Sum of five Pounds and five Shillings
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been guilty of drivers misdemeanours (that is to say)
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Embezzling and spoiling the Goods of your Petitioner and refusing to
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do the necessary work of an Apprentice
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That on the fifteenth day of June One Thousand Seven
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Hundred and Seventy Six the said
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Absented himself
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from the Service of your Petitioner without the leave and consent
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of your Petitioner and is now absent since which time the said
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hath Associated with celle and disorderly Persons
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That your Petitioner therefore cannot with safety to
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into his House
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by which means your Petitioners think himself Aggrieved
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Your Petitioner therefore most Humbly
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praythat he may
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be discharged from his Indenture to the said
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And your Petitioner will ever pray
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