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<p n="344">committed to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50311_geo282">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50311_geo283">Clerkenwell</rs>
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on the<lb></lb>
petrs. complaint for being a loose idle & disorderly Apprentice<lb></lb>
And the petr. therefore prayed that this Court would be<lb></lb>
pleased to discharge the petr. from his said Apprentice,<lb></lb>
the matter of which petition was appointed to be heard and-<lb></lb>
determined by this Court on this present Friday the twelfth<lb></lb>
day of September instant, Now upon hearing of what was<lb></lb>
alledged by the said David Wheatly the petr. and his Councel<lb></lb>
and also by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-1">William Cook</rs>
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being brought before this<lb></lb>
Court to answer the premisses, And upon examination into the<lb></lb>
truth of the matters aforesaid It appeareth to this Court that-<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-2">william Cook</rs>
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the Apprentice hath in an illegal<lb></lb>
manner imbezled the money of his said Master David wheatly,<lb></lb>
and that he hath threatued to cleave his said Master down<lb></lb>
with a pairing shovel, and that he declared he knew his said Master's-<lb></lb>
busyness tho he would not do it, And that he threatued to do-<lb></lb>
his said Master all the mischeife he could, And that he was<lb></lb>
a very disorderly Apprentice, Wherefore And For that the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-3">William Cook</rs>
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doth now consent in this Court that this<lb></lb>
Court should discharge him from his said apprentice hood to-<lb></lb>
the said David Wheatly, And For that the said David<lb></lb>
wheatly doth also consent unto and desire such discharge It<lb></lb>
is Ordered by this Court that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-4">William Cook</rs>
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be and<lb></lb>
he is hereby absslutely discharged of and from his said apprentice-<lb></lb>
hood to the said David Wheatly, And wee whose hands &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
seales are here unto<del>setting</del>
Sett being four of his Maties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50311_occ116">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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for this County (one of us being of the Quorum) present<lb></lb>
at the said Sessions have pronounced & declared and do pronounce<lb></lb>
& declare that for the reasons aforesaid wee have discharged<lb></lb>
and do accordingly discharge the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-5">William Cook</rs>
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of & from his<lb></lb>
apprenticed hood to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50311_n344-6">David Wheatly</rs>
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, Dated under our hands<lb></lb>
& seales the said twelfth day of September in the said ninth<lb></lb>
yeare of the reign of our said sovereign Lord King George the second,</p>
<p n="345">By the Court<lb></lb>
Walter</p>
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