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To the Worshipful his Majesties
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The Humble Petition of
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of the Parish of
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Lime Spinner
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That by Indentures of
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Apprenticeship
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bearing Date on or about Ninth
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1756
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Term of Seven years
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That your Petitoner's said Master was to Teach your Petitioner the said Trade
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and Provide him sufficient Meat Drink Apparel Washing and Lodging and all other
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necessaries during the said Term And for the last Two Years of the said Team of Seven
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Years was well and truly to pay unto your Petitioner Five pounds and Four Shillings a
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Year as by the said Indentures May more fully Appear
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That your Petitioner's said Master before your Petitioner had been with him
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Since Months (tho' Your Petitioner faithfully Served him) suffered your Petitioner to go very
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Ragged and Barfoot and refused to find your Petitioner Apparel as he had engaged to do by
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the said Indentures and notwithstanding your Petr. often entreated his said Master there to and
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Particularly when your Petitioner had Served his said Master about Fourteen Months and
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was extremely Ragged and Barefoot your Petitioner insisted hath in said Master shod. find your Petitioner
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Shoes and other Apparel but your Petrs. said Master engaged there at then told your Petitionr.
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he'd Petitioner on Board a Man of Warr even if he but asked him for shoes.
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That your Petitioner being so Served by his said Master as aforesaid about
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March 1758 got himself a Birth on Board the Hercules Private Ship of Warr and hath since
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Served his Majesty also in the Diana Transport and has been very ill for almost Five
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Months last past of an Ague and Fever
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That your petr. since his quitting the said Diana Transport and since his Recovery
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from his said illness hath applyed by several People to his said Master and offend to serve him the remainder
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but his said Master refused to take your Petr. again And especially on or
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the Ninth Day of this instant May 1764
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went in person to his said Master
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offered a himself to him to this said Master to take your Petr. in or to Employ him
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to have any thing to do with him.
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Therefore your Petr. most humbly Beg's your
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Worships to take his Case into your Consideration and
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Grant him such Relief ask your Worships shall seem meet
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And your Petr. at in Duly found shall
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ever pray
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