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To the Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
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for the County of Middx as their Generall Quarter
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Sessions of the Peace assembled
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The humble Petition of
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Elizabeth Harr
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Spinster
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Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petr. was put out
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Apprentice
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by the Trustees of the
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Parish of
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St. Giles's in the Fields
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in
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his Wife of the Said Parish to learn the Act or
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Business of a Mantria maker
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That your Petr. hath continued
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in the Service of her Said Master and Mistress
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upwards of three years without the least improve
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-ment in the Said Business your Petr. being Cheifly
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imployed in nurseing and attending four or five
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Children
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That your Petr. Said Master
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hath absconded for Six Months Past past leaving
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his Said Wife and five Children by meaur whereof
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and her own neglect of Business She is reduced
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to very indigent pawned or made away with
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Your Petrs. Clothes for Subsistance & your Petr.
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is moreover greatly abused by her Said Mistress
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and in want of necessarys Wherefore and
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for as much as your Petr. is not likely ever to be
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instructed in the Said Trade by her Said Master
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or Mistress
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Your Petr. most humbly prays
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your Worships to appoint a
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day for her Said Master or
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Mistress to attend & Shew
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cause why your Petr. Should
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not be discharged from their
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Service
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And your Petr. as in duty bound shall ever Pray Etc
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