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<p n="156">To the Rt Worshipfull his Majesties Justices of<lb></lb>
ye. Peace for the County of Middesex</p>
<p n="157">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50155_n157-1">Susannah Lacy</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50155_geo63"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50155_geo64">Parish of St Gilles<del>Widow</del>
in the Feilds</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the County of Midds</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50155_occ39">Widd</rs>
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<p n="158"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humble Sheweth</note>
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<p n="159">That your Worships Peticoners Husband <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50155_n159-1">Joseph Lacy</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50155_n159-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
did (without the good<lb></lb>
liking of your Petioner) put her Eldest Son <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50155_n159-2">Abraham Lacy</rs>
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Apprentice to<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50155_n159-3">Daniel Blackeman</rs>
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who then Lived the next Door to your Petioner<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50155_occ40">Perukemaker</rs>
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; Who all ways did neglect to find his said Apprentice Lodging<lb></lb>
according to the Agreement Not with Standing your Petitioner found her said<lb></lb>
Son a Bed and Sufficient Linning Yet he Came whom, to your Petitioner<lb></lb>
Overrun with Vermine in a deplorable Condition, And being in want and<lb></lb>
greatly Neglected her Said Son has been forced to run away from the sd<lb></lb>
Blakman four or five times to get Refreshment. And the said Blakman<lb></lb>
Allmost ever Since he has had her Son is all ways Mooveing from Place<lb></lb>
to Place and reffuses to be Seen except on a Sunday, And Not with Standing<lb></lb>
The Child was never Enrol'd Neither is the sd Blakman fitt Person to<lb></lb>
to have an Apprentice in regard of his unsettled State of Life and<lb></lb>
constant neglect of him Yet he gives out Threatning Speeches what he<lb></lb>
will doe at your Petitioner or any of her friends that Shuccour the sd<lb></lb>
Child and Yet the sd Blakman doth Now refuse or Neglects to Enquire<lb></lb>
for or Scearch after the sd Child but on the Contrary when he<lb></lb>
was tould That his Said Prentice was in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50155_geo65">High Park</rs>
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He Cur sd him<lb></lb>
and said if he came again he had a Master to send him farr, enough</p>
<p n="160">Your Petitioner therefore most Humble Prayes you<lb></lb>
Worshipps to Grant an Order that her said Son<lb></lb>
may be discharged from his said Master that She &<lb></lb>
her Said Son and her other two Fatheless Children<lb></lb>
which are very Small may not be ruen'd and as<lb></lb>
in Duty Bound She Shall ever Pray</p>
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