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<p n="151">To the Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
for the County of Middx as their Generall Quarter<lb></lb>
Sessions of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="152">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50236_n152-1">Elizabeth Harr</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50236_n152-1" type="surname" value="HARR"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50236_n152-1" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50236_occ47">Spinster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50236_occ47" type="occupation" value="Spinster"></interp>
</p>
<p n="153"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="154">That your Petr. was put out <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50236_occ48">Apprentice</rs>
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<lb></lb>
by the Trustees of the<obscured></obscured>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50236_geo61">St. Giles's in the Fields</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
his Wife of the Said Parish to learn the Act or<lb></lb>
Business of a Mantria maker</p>
<p n="155">That your Petr. hath continued<lb></lb>
in the Service of her Said Master and Mistress<lb></lb>
upwards of three years without the least improve<lb></lb>
-ment in the Said Business your Petr. being Cheifly<lb></lb>
imployed in nurseing and attending four or five<lb></lb>
Children</p>
<p n="156">That your Petr. Said Master<lb></lb>
hath absconded for Six Months Past past leaving<lb></lb>
his Said Wife and five Children by meaur whereof<lb></lb>
and her own neglect of Business She is reduced<lb></lb>
to very indigent pawned or made away with<lb></lb>
Your Petrs. Clothes for Subsistance & your Petr.<lb></lb>
is moreover greatly abused by her Said Mistress<lb></lb>
and in want of necessarys Wherefore and<lb></lb>
for as much as your Petr. is not likely ever to be<lb></lb>
instructed in the Said Trade by her Said Master<lb></lb>
or Mistress</p>
<p n="157">Your Petr. most humbly prays<lb></lb>
your Worships to appoint a<lb></lb>
day for her Said Master or<lb></lb>
Mistress to attend & Shew<lb></lb>
cause why your Petr. Should<lb></lb>
not be discharged from their<lb></lb>
Service</p>
<p n="158">And your Petr. as in duty bound shall ever Pray Etc</p>
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