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To the Rt Worshipfull his Majesties Justices of
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ye. Peace for the County of Middesex
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The Humble Petition of
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Humble Sheweth
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That your Worships Peticoners Husband
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Joseph Lacy
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did (without the good
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liking of your Petioner) put her Eldest Son
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Abraham Lacy
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Apprentice to
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Daniel Blackeman
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who then Lived the next Door to your Petioner
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Perukemaker
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; Who all ways did neglect to find his said Apprentice Lodging
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according to the Agreement Not with Standing your Petitioner found her said
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Son a Bed and Sufficient Linning Yet he Came whom, to your Petitioner
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Overrun with Vermine in a deplorable Condition, And being in want and
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greatly Neglected her Said Son has been forced to run away from the sd
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Blakman four or five times to get Refreshment. And the said Blakman
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Allmost ever Since he has had her Son is all ways Mooveing from Place
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to Place and reffuses to be Seen except on a Sunday, And Not with Standing
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The Child was never Enrol'd Neither is the sd Blakman fitt Person to
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to have an Apprentice in regard of his unsettled State of Life and
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constant neglect of him Yet he gives out Threatning Speeches what he
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will doe at your Petitioner or any of her friends that Shuccour the sd
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Child and Yet the sd Blakman doth Now refuse or Neglects to Enquire
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for or Scearch after the sd Child but on the Contrary when he
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was tould That his Said Prentice was in
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High Park
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He Cur sd him
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and said if he came again he had a Master to send him farr, enough
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Your Petitioner therefore most Humble Prayes you
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Worshipps to Grant an Order that her said Son
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may be discharged from his said Master that She &
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her Said Son and her other two Fatheless Children
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which are very Small may not be ruen'd and as
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in Duty Bound She Shall ever Pray
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