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<p n="201">To The Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n201-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50397_occ66">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50397_occ67">Chairman of the Bench</rs>
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of Justices at<lb></lb>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo105">County of Middlesex</rs>
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And the rest of the Justices there Assembled</p>
<p n="202">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n202-1">James Thompson</rs>
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Datty late of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo106">Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo107">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and now of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo108">Saint Ann Westminster</rs>
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<p n="203"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-6">Frances Batty</rs>
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Yor Petitioners Mother being left a Widow & indigeat Circumstances did Apply for & Obtain the Charity<lb></lb>
Given by the Will of the late <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-1">Daniel Tanturier</rs>
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Esqr. for placing Out your Petitioner to some Trade or Business And <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-2">William Chisholm</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo109">Saint Ann</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50397_geo110">Westminster</rs>
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having been (by some of his Particulare Friends) Strongly recommended to Your Petitioners<lb></lb>
sd. Mother as (and no Other than) a Wood Carner in the General Way And of very great & Business And that all his Apprentices<lb></lb>
Proved very geed Workmen And had When Out of their time as large Wages as are Usually Allowed to Journeymen being Artists in that<lb></lb>
Way And a Treaty being had in pursuance thereof Your Petitioner after a time of Tryal At the desire & for the Satisfaction of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-3">William<lb></lb>
Chisholm</rs>
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And Your Petitioner being too Young to Form any Judgment to the Contrary from what he had Seen there Did with the Consent<lb></lb>
of his Sd. Mother On or about the Sixth day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred & Forty six Bind himself Apprentice to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-4">William Chisholm</rs>
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for the Space of Seven Years then to Come in Order (Upon such the Recommendation & Character) to Learn<lb></lb>
the Art of Curving in General And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50397_n203-5">William Chisholm</rs>
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in Consideration of the Sum of Fifteen Pounds in hand paid by or by<lb></lb>
the Order of Mr. Cheere the Executor Named in said Will Did Oblige himself to Teach or cause Your Petitioner to be Taught the<lb></lb>
Art of Carving And also Guilding Which (the not mentioned on Treaty) Your Petitioner As well as his said Mother then thought<lb></lb>
was a Branch belonging & Necessary to the said Art & Business of Carving</p>
<p n="204">That during the time of such Tryal And till about the Month of July last Year some tollerable work was done but chiefly in the picture<lb></lb>
France Way by a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50397_occ68">Journey man</rs>
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his said Master then kept but who then went Away And no other was Employed in the Shop or House of his said<lb></lb>
Master or any Work done there but what was Performed by Your Petitioner And One Younger than himself a Son of his sd. Master till sometime<lb></lb>
in July last And Which was no more that Picture Frances And of such low Value as Cannot as Your Petitioner humbly Conceives be<lb></lb>
Deemed Carving or Proper at such a length of time to Improve or Instruct your Petitioner in such the true Art of Carving Neither as Your Petition<lb></lb>
hath good reason to believe which Work allowed to be done in the Shops of any of the Masters of the sd. Art of Carving properly so called Such a<obscured></obscured>
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be spoke being put Out to such as are only Stiled Frame Makers or whose business in Confined to the Glass and Picture Frame Way and<lb></lb>
Yet such and no other hath been the constant Employment of Your Petitioner So that there is not the least Prospect of Your Petitioners<obscured></obscured>
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Learning such the Art of Carving under his said Master or of Getting his Bread When out of his time as a Carver Especially as his sd. Master<lb></lb>
hath never of himself done or Modelled any Work in the Carving Way for the Improvement of Your Petitioner</p>
<p n="205">That for these Reasons your Petitioner for some time before July last Did by his said Month & Other Friends Apply to his said Master requesting<obscured></obscured>
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Turn Your Petitioner Over to some other Master for the Remainder of the sd. Term that he might be Allot to get his Bread Which request the reasonable<lb></lb>
for absolutely refused without being first paid the Sum of Forty Pounds and still Persists therein Or on other Equally Emersonable Demands<lb></lb>
Altho hevery well knows that Your petitioner hath all along Notwithstanding these Discouragements behaved himself in the most Dutifull land<lb></lb>
Submissive Manner Even so far as to do things no ways relating to the business And some for beyond his Strength And that your Petitioner cannot Learn<lb></lb>
such the Art of Curving under him.</p>
<p n="206">That this sd. Master hath upon some of the Friendly Applications made to him for the purpose aforesd. And not before Confessed himself to be no<lb></lb>
Carve And that his Trade or Business related only to the Glass & Picture Frame making altho he in his Conscience very well known that<lb></lb>
at the time of Treaty as well as of Binding he Prosessed & Stiled himself a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50397_occ69">Carver</rs>
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And Which Your Petitioner as well as his sd. Months<lb></lb>
(as was then intended by him) Understood such Character so taken Upon himself to Denote Carving in General And not in such as<lb></lb>
may relate to France Making only Or in any other Limited Sense of the Word And that is shod. be so Understood by Your Petitioner and<lb></lb>
his said Mother And the better to remove all doubt therein She was Advised Previous to As well as at the time of Building as a<lb></lb>
Necessary Qualification to Attain a thorough knowlege of said Art of Carving to Cause Your Petitioner to be taught the Art of Drawing<lb></lb>
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