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To the Right Worspll. her Matys Justices of ye Peace for ye County of Middx
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The humble Piticon of
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Elizabeth Oliphent
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of the
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Hamblett of Lyme
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house
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parish of Stepney
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in the said County
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That one Mary Ashley by her Indre of Apprenticeship bearing date the 20th. of August
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Anno Dui 1711 did browne Appentice to your Petr. for the term of five years as by the
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said Indre may appeare.
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That the said
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Mary Ashley
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did dwell and live wth. your petr. about 12 Months and did
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afterwards abscond from her said Mistress, and took to ill practices, and has been in
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Bridewell
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divers limes.
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That yor Petr. did complain to ye Worspll. Justice Johnson & Justice Kirbey about a year last
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past of her sd Apprentice in order to be discharged from her,
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And did about
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the same time, as near as your petr. can tell it was this Quartrly Sessions was a twelve
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Month make a pelicon to this Honble Bench desiring your Worspps to be pleased
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to order that your peticoner may be discharged from her sd Apprentice And your petr.
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thinks your Worspps did char her from her said Apprentice.
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That ye Churchwarden and Overseers of the poor of the sd Hamblett have lately brought the sd
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Mary Ashley
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to
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your petr. requiring her keep her by reason she is reduced to system poverty
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Your petr. therefore
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prays yor. Worspps to be pleased to inquire wherther
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she is not discharged
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