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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King Holden for the
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George the second King of the Great Britain
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assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Folonies
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Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.
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begin and holden for the County of Middx on Monday
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fifteenth day of July instant Setting forth
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That the petitioner was on the twenty fourth day of June One Thousand seven hundred and fifty two
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to learn his
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Art and to live with him after the manner of an Apprentice for the Term of Seven years And that by
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Indenture duly executed a Consideration of forty pounds was mentioned as really and truly paid and although
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in the said Indecture of Apprenticeship no more is mentioned to be paid than forty pounds yet the sum of
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One hundred and five pounds was really and bone side paid to the said Horbury and that the petitioner continued
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to live will the said Mr. Norbury under the said Judentures of Apprenticeship two Years And that the said Mr.
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Norbury about four Months after the Petitioner was bound to him took his son to serve him as an Apprentice
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allthough the said Norbury had not Business sufficient to imploy the petitioner and contrary to an express
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Agreement made between the petitioners Mother and Mr. Norbury and that the Petitioners Master instead
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of instructing him in the Art which he was bound as an Apprentice to learn was forced by his said Master to
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work in his Garden and at the Dung Cart and to do all such Business as is done by a Day Labouring Man always
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giving preferrence to his son in doing the Business which the Petitioner of night ought to have done in then
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profession of a Surgeon and
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And that the Petitioners said Master locked the Petitioner out of his
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said House at ten of the Clock in the Evening and that the Petitioner his Brother Mr. Darley and Mr.
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have applied to the petitioners Master in order to his being received into his said Service when the said Mr.
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Norbury absolutely refused to let the Petitioner into his Service or to refund any past of the money received with
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the Petitioner as an Apprentice And the Petitioner therefore humbly prayed that he might be discharged
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from his said Judenture of Apprenticeship in Order to his learning his Business and that the said Master
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might return to the Petitioner the Sum of One Hundred and five pounds above mentioned so given with him as
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an Apprentice or such part there of as this Court should think meet Whereupon it was by an Order made by
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this Court on the said
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Fifteenth day of July instant
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Notice of the said Petition and that he and all Persons concerned should attend this Court on this present
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Friday the nineteenth day of July
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Judgement and Determination of this Court touching the Masters contained in the said Petition Now
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upon Motion made unto this Court by Mr. Lawson of Council for the said
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William Norbury
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praying that
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the hearing and determining of the said Petition may be adjourned and offering divers reasons for
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that purpose This Court by Consent of Mr. Serjeant Hayward of Council for the said
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John Buck
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doth Order that the hearing and determinning the Master of the said Petition be and the same is
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hereby adjourned untill the next General Session of the peace to be holden for the said County And that the
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and all persons concerned do attend the Court of the said next General Session
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of the Peace to be holden for the County on Wednesdaythe
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eleventhday of September
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next at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgment and Determination of the
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same Court touching the said Petition.
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By the Court
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Waller
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