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on the
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petrs. complaint for being a loose idle & disorderly Apprentice
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And the petr. therefore prayed that this Court would be
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pleased to discharge the petr. from his said Apprentice,
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the matter of which petition was appointed to be heard and-
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determined by this Court on this present Friday the twelfth
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day of September instant, Now upon hearing of what was
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alledged by the said David Wheatly the petr. and his Councel
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and also by the said
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being brought before this
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Court to answer the premisses, And upon examination into the
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truth of the matters aforesaid It appeareth to this Court that-
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the said
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william Cook
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the Apprentice hath in an illegal
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manner imbezled the money of his said Master David wheatly,
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and that he hath threatued to cleave his said Master down
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with a pairing shovel, and that he declared he knew his said Master's-
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busyness tho he would not do it, And that he threatued to do-
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his said Master all the mischeife he could, And that he was
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a very disorderly Apprentice, Wherefore And For that the
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doth now consent in this Court that this
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Court should discharge him from his said apprentice hood to-
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the said David Wheatly, And For that the said David
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wheatly doth also consent unto and desire such discharge It
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is Ordered by this Court that the said
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be and
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he is hereby absslutely discharged of and from his said apprentice-
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hood to the said David Wheatly, And wee whose hands &
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seales are here unto
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Sett being four of his Maties
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for this County (one of us being of the Quorum) present
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at the said Sessions have pronounced & declared and do pronounce
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& declare that for the reasons aforesaid wee have discharged
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and do accordingly discharge the said
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of & from his
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apprenticed hood to the said
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David Wheatly
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, Dated under our hands
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& seales the said twelfth day of September in the said ninth
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yeare of the reign of our said sovereign Lord King George the second,
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By the Court
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Walter
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